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Blu - Twitter Client for Windows [HD Installation]

2009-08-24
hey whats up guys its marques Brownlee here from mkbhd and welcome to another HD tutorial and in this video I'll be showing all of you guys a new windows Twitter client that I've actually come across thanks to the folks at the comp you geeks and that their YouTube channel link will be in the description they actually showed me blue which is actually a sort of arrival to tweet deck which I've shut down for this tutorial a tutorial of this is available at 13 23 calm and I actually do a lot of things there at that website so I'll go ahead and throw that link in the description as well where you can go ahead and check out blue now the description does say the Vista Twitter client however this will wor work with windows XP Windows Vista and Windows 7 so if you're willing to try this out and I'm probably going to do a comparison between this and maybe tweetdeck and maybe one other twitter client depending on what I find and you know we'll see how that turns out so go ahead and hit the download now button and this is just going to be my first impressions and first looks to show you guys who are interested in the new Twitter client what it'll look like so it's only 10.7 kilobytes to start very very light just go ahead and hit open and wanting to exit Safari behind that and once the blue dot application has actually opened up you can exit the Downloads window so there it is it's launching the application and verifying all the requirements which are you know a small bit of RAM you know enough hard drive space the appropriate operating system etc so let's just go ahead and wait for this to finish and it says do you want to install this from 1323 calm go ahead and hit the install button and it'll begin downloading so I'll exit out the safari window so here it is it's an overall very small download quite light a little bit lighter than tweetdeck at ten point four megabytes so it weighs in pretty lightly and once it opens up you guys will be able to see you know what it first looks like when you open it up how to login etc so let's just wait for that to pull up alright so once you finish downloading and blue everything has gone through the installation process if it doesn't open up automatically go to your Start menu type in BL you which is how you spell it and go ahead and click blue under programs and it'll go ahead and open up and obviously it won't be signed in the first time so I'll just go ahead and sign in for you on my mkbhd Twitter account there you go that was a nice little animation there they have on the first boot so mkbhd and go ahead and put my password and go ahead and say remember me just so you don't have to do this every time you login hit go and all these cool little animations that it does as it's working just to keep you entertained it's a very smooth application as you'll notice on it kind of flows in with the windows 7 background if you haven't noticed that also very very nice so also if these is these legs if these sort of a animations blur a little bitter if they are a little bit choppy I don't worry about that because they're not so bad in real life so I'm basically i'll probably be comparing this to tweetdeck you guys can see there is a faves button a home button you can go ahead and check your at replies there they are you can check your direct messages and once you click them there will be removed from here and you can go ahead and check all the updates and a few if you want to update you can see this little bubble right here and the 140 in the background that's how many characters your have left so I'm just going to go ahead and send out a sample tweet testing out blue hit enter or go ahead and hit the check and it'll show up on the home screen see that little one just popped up go back to the home screen there it is testing out blue so I mean this is a really smooth tutor client guys you can just grab hold of an update and drag it and they all kind of slide down I mean it seems almost like an iphone application if you think about it and I'll obviously go over the the options and everything like that in the review video if you guys want to see it so thank you for checking out this installation video of blue a pretty nice-looking twitter client for windows XP Vista and Windows 7 and shout out to I guess all the people who are on the screen right now a comp helper kid 10 96 tech tech man I belux and of course myself thank you for watching guys peace you
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