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I've recently become a Tweetdeck convert. I love that you can setup multiple groups to organize the people you follow and only read what you're really interested in. The problem I ran into is that I use multiple machines. Setting up my groups and assigning people to them on each machine was not something I was really excited about. Tweetdeck doesn't have a built-in export feature (at least not that I've found) but there is a fairly easy way to copy your settings and preferences from one machine to another. There are two files where this information is stored; preferences_username.xml and td_26_username.db (not sure if that number is the same for everyone but you get the idea). All you need to do is copy those files from one machine to the other and voila! The paths to the files are below.

Mac: user/Library/Preferences/TweetDeckFast[bunch of numbers]/Local Store/

Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\TweetDeckFast[bunch of numbers]\Local Store\

It's not ideal, especially if you make a lot of changes to your settings but it's better than nothing.

UPDATE: A reader just informed me that you may need to change the files permissions from 'Read Only' on the DB file before you can update the DB file on the machine you are copying to.

Here's my first crack at augmented reality (AR) with the FLARToolkit. The monster head was created in Lightwave by my boss, brought into Blender and exported to Actionscript. Still lots of things to work out but still a very cool technology.

AR Monster Head

In support of my series on cloud computing here is a brief post and a chart showing the dramatic increase in cloud computing jobs. As the post points out, increases in jobs often precede shifts in the technology.

Cloud Computing Jobs a Leading Indicator