I love Ubuntu Linux so much that it has become an integral part of my computing life. But let us admit -- Windows is still the OS to install when you want to play some REAL video games with some seriously high-end graphics! Hence, the trouble. But the fact is that it’s totally worth it if you don’t have an app like Polly in Windows :)
I have been using Polly (a Twitter app) since some time back and I have got very much accustomed to updating my 3 different Twitter accounts from a single app. But then came the Harddisk-ocalypse and I found my disk space lowering down to a few GBs. I was forced to reinstall my OS partitions with only a Windows 8 (as opposed to having Windows 7 + Ubuntu 12.04 as before this situation).
Now the problem is that since Twitter changed its former API many of Twitter apps have started failing in a row -- like dominoes. The ones that can handle multi-accounts + new API and other things are not free. So, as obvious I could not find a free Twitter app of the level of Polly for Windows anyways.
So, I installed a copy of Ubuntu 12.04 in Oracle Virtualbox on my Windows 8 and installed Polly in it. The only problem with this method is with the enormous amount of resources the Ubuntu in Virtualbox eats up on my system. But being a blogger I regularly need to update my twitter accounts and a desperate guy will choose any option that gets him closer to what he wants right?
Now if anybody wants to know how to install Polly on Ubuntu. This is the command line for the terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:conscioususer/polly-daily && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install polly
Just answer on the terminal as indicated and it will get installed. The program name is “polly”. On first start it will run a wizard setting up access to your Twitter account. Enjoy tweeting! :)
I have been using Polly (a Twitter app) since some time back and I have got very much accustomed to updating my 3 different Twitter accounts from a single app. But then came the Harddisk-ocalypse and I found my disk space lowering down to a few GBs. I was forced to reinstall my OS partitions with only a Windows 8 (as opposed to having Windows 7 + Ubuntu 12.04 as before this situation).
Now the problem is that since Twitter changed its former API many of Twitter apps have started failing in a row -- like dominoes. The ones that can handle multi-accounts + new API and other things are not free. So, as obvious I could not find a free Twitter app of the level of Polly for Windows anyways.
So, I installed a copy of Ubuntu 12.04 in Oracle Virtualbox on my Windows 8 and installed Polly in it. The only problem with this method is with the enormous amount of resources the Ubuntu in Virtualbox eats up on my system. But being a blogger I regularly need to update my twitter accounts and a desperate guy will choose any option that gets him closer to what he wants right?
Now if anybody wants to know how to install Polly on Ubuntu. This is the command line for the terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:conscioususer/polly-daily && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install polly
Just answer on the terminal as indicated and it will get installed. The program name is “polly”. On first start it will run a wizard setting up access to your Twitter account. Enjoy tweeting! :)
try hootsuite ;)
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