I have seen many BlackBerry Twitter clients in my day, but I found what I feel to believe to be the best so far. I’ve used TinyTwitter, TwitterBerry, Uber Twitter and then back to TwitterBerry, but now I think I am going to begin using YATCA. YATCA stands for Yet Another Twitter Client Application. The name kind of sucks, but everything else is great!

If you don’t have OS 4.6 then you won’t be able to use this wonderful Twitter client.

I’ve been using TwitterBerry for a long time and have really, genuinely loved it, even over the newly redeemed Uber Twitter that people are recently jumping on the bandwagon for since UberTwitter went from a really crappy client to something finally functional, inculdung GPS. I don’t particularly enjoy my location being posted on the internet via GPS.

YATCA has some great features and a beautifully attractive user interface that puts most other applications to shame.

Things that make YATCA great:

-You can choose which photo storage services to use between img.ly, Pikchur, TweetPhoto, Twitgoo, TwitPic and yfrog — I use TwitPic, personally.

-It has push capabilities. You will receive a “message” in your inbox of all the tweets including a notification icon on your homescreen and also the ability to easily mark all the tweets as read and delete all read tweets so that your inbox can remain clean and organized… because we all know I’m an organizational freak.

-It has the option to automatically check for mentions of you.

-The ability to use geotagging, which I have turned off for obvious reasons.

-You can forward someone’s tweet via retweeting, SMS or email.

-Easily upload a photo right from your phone or take one to upload.

Visit the YATCA site here.

Download YATC via OTA here.

Enjoy some of these screen shots from my very own Bold.

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We’ve been living in our beautiful new home for about 2 weeks now and we absolutely love it! It was a very stressful process, very time consuming and hair pulling, but it was well worth the time, stress and investment.

Our house ended up being appraised at $20k more than we actually paid for it, which, in other words, means that just by signing the contracts, we’ve already made $20k and we hadn’t even moved in yet. The builders also said that our house is one of the better looking ones they’ve built in the subdivision. After looking at already built houses before deciding to build this one, we had seen some houses where people had very terrible design sense. I just don’t know what some people are thinking when they design a room as ugly as some of the ones we’ve seen.

It took us about 3 days to move in because between Chris and I, we had that much time off work and we didn’t really see it necessary to have a moving truck to only go 3 miles, unlike when we sold our house in North Carolina, we only had one trip we could make. It’s amazing how little room we had in our apartment and now that we’re moved in to our house, it seems like we hardly have enough things to fill a room. It’s a nice feeling, but it’s time to do some hardcore decor.

So far, we’ve installed a garage door opener which I have linked up to my car with the HomeLink and I love it. We’ve made a few minor changes, like the front door handle and a new, lighted, better looking doorbell that looks so much better than the rectangular, unlit, cheap looking one that came on the house. I’ve added a great, awesome new mirror to the powder room that is so charming and modern and it looks great.

Sean has his bedroom and an entire room where we have his ball pit, igloo tent and tunnels set up where he can run free and play. We’ve closed up the electrical plugs and put his baby gate up and he can run free in have fun in a room all for him about the same size as our master bedroom. Such a spoiled kid! I’m just looking to find him a slide but haven’t had a lot of luck coming across one… which is strange.

The plant shelf in the living room going along the stairs has big things in store for it. I’m looking for a large, oversize clock with just the right look to put there but I just can’t find many that I really like.

I haven’t really taken many pictures since we’ve moved in, but I do have two pictures of the kitchen that were taken on my BlackBerry, so the quality isn’t the best but it definitely gives you an idea of what you’re looking at. I have a great theme in mind for the kitchen, which I won’t be sharing with anyone at this time yet. It’s a surprise. I’ve had a lot of difficulty trying to find decor for this particular theme I want which is good an bad at the same time.

I love the stainless steel refrigerator, but yes, like you’ve probably heard before, it is very hard to keep clean! But, I absolutely do love my ceramic top stove! I hate the smell of a burner burning particles of previous meals when you turn it on, but I don’t have to worry about that anymore. It’s great! I’m just looking to get a new microwave, a stainless steel one to match the rest of the kitchen.

Some upcoming changes: Painting, which is going to be hard, mainly because I want to find just the right paint colors and color schemes but also because in the living room we have vaulted ceilings and I am really, really not looking forward to painting that. I almost want to pay someone to do that for me.

I’m going to get a desk and bookcase to turn the loft into an office type area for our stationary and computer items.

My organizational skills are going to kick in full force once we get shelving put into the garage to get things off of the floor and provide more space for other things and for Chris’ work area.

Landscaping, I plan to add a lot in the back of the house especially around the privacy fence. Bricks, bushes, flowers, etc. We’ve even been having talks of add a hot tub, but that’s a stretch.

I’ve been waiting a long time to be able to park my steed (my car) in the garage! It’s a wonderful thing to not have to cool out my car before I leave for work and I’m thrilled to know that once winter comes, I won’t need to scrape any snow of my baby!

I have so much more to blog about and decorate that you will surely see my progress on my blog so keep up. I know some of you just can’t stay away, so please enjoy the progress and the evolution of our house into a home.

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I’ve always wondered how my Netflix movies were distributed. Thanks to Facebook’s Netflix Fan Page, now I know… and knowing is… HALF THE BATTLE!

With 10.3 million members, there’s a whole lot of mail-sorting done every day at all of 58 Netflix distribution centers.

Here’s a peek at the envelope sorting process. Netflix ships approximately 2.2 million DVDs on a typical day.

Quality control: The Netflix team works hard to make sure scratched or damaged discs are removed from the inventory

Netflix sleeve labels are carefully applied by hand. 89 million DVDs in inventory …

And off they go … on their way to you! Netflix Ships more than 95 percent of its inventory every 3 months.

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I’ll be the first to say that some of my Facebook friends come up with some of the dumbest and yet so amusing and entertaining statuses ever. I love it. It’s a great thing to break up the minutes of my otherwise tedious days at work.

The video above is pretty much an example of just how stupidly fun something as simple as a Facebook status can be. This may also be why I love Twitter so much. Mostly, my Facebook statuses are about stupid things that no one ever cares about but usually gets a giggle… therefore, mission accomplished!

For example, this is my current Facebook status. Quite honestly, I needed to change it from a Father’s Day status to something more current. I had nothing at the time, so I came up with this:

Whod’a thunk that two people would ‘like’ it and I’d get a comment? Not me!

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iPhone Theme : OTA Download Link

Zip Download

Courtesy of PocketBerry

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I stumbled across this wonderful website called Videos4BlackBerry where you can download episodes and sometimes full seasons of shows and some movies in .3gp format to play right on your BlackBerry. Ever since my days of my Pearl, I’ve had an episode of Sex and the City on my Micro SD card for those times when I’m bored out of my mind.

Another cool thing is that you can also just download these videos and watch them on your computer just the same.

Warning: Do not attempt to do without an SD card, there really isn’t any point if you don’t have one.

I’m definitely going to be getting The Office and True Blood… gotta get my vampire on!

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Chococat Theme: OTA Download Link

Courtesy of PocketBerry.com

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This marks my first ever blog entry from my phone. I much prefer a full size keyboard because by now I could have typed out 5 paragraphs!

We have officially closed on our house and are now the proud owners of a beautiful, newly built home! It was actually appraised for $20k more than what we paid for it. On another note, moving is a bitch and I hate everything about it! I’m sore all over and on that note, I’m going to bed!

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I came across this website called Swap Tree and have to share it with everyone because it is a wonderful website. Basically, you join this site, list the things you want and the things you’re willing to trade and make a mutual decision with another random stranger to trade these two items.

I’ve just completed my first trade on there. I am trading a book for a DVD — ‘World War Z’ for ‘Dodgeball’. Everything ranges from brand new items still in their packaging to gently used items to more than gently used. The particular copy of ‘Dodgeball’ I’m getting is still in it’s packaging so I feel like I’m getting a pretty good deal.

Trade anything between four categories — DVDs, Music, Books and Games.

Check it out! www.swaptree.com

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I don’t really think this video needs an introduction, but it is definitely one of the coolest time lapse photography videos I have ever seen!

This is the core of the Milky Way passing over the night sky at the Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. Photographed by William Castleman.

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