Peeking with Ping.fm
Do you find it a hassle to keep up with your many social networking services? From Facebook to LinkedIn to Twitter, you’re likely to spend half of your life on the computer instead of living it!
That’s where Peek and Ping.fm come in. Ping.fm is a super easy to use web service that connects all of your social networking accounts into one neat bundle. You’re outfitted with a secret XXXXXXXX@ping.fm email address that allows you to email status updates on the go with your Peek. Ping.fm instantly posts your status to all of your social networking sites.
You can even blog on the go via Peek, when you connect your Ping.fm account to your Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress or TypePad blog.
Learn how to use Ping.fm with Peek in this post by Peekster Ben
Don’t forget you can also receive your Facebook friend status updates via PeekFeed!
Nifty Ways to Use TwitterPeek
We’ve been getting loads of interesting questions about our TwitterPeek, so we’re using our blog to share our answers with everyone. (Read our first Q&A about who TwitterPeek is for HERE).
Today: How best to use TwitterPeek. One of the cool things about TwitterPeek is that we’ve designed it to be used in different ways depending on what sort of tweeter you are.
Picky Tweeter – Scroll Wheel recommended
You’re selective with the tweets you want to read (you’re a busy person, after all!). With TwitterPeek’s nifty scroll wheel, you can quickly scan and skip to the tweets you most want to read. Hen peck your way through your Twitter feed — just press the Enter key to view the selected tweet.
Omni Tweeter – Keyboard Shortcuts recommended
You’re a tweeter who is determined to read every single tweet you receive. Nothing gets past you, because you’re always in-the-know. TwitterPeek’s handy shortcuts were made for you: “N” (next) and “P” (previous) allow you to pummel through 100’s of full tweets in consecutive order — all with the touch of a single key.
You can find more handy keyboard shortcuts in the Quick Start Guide that comes with TwitterPeek and on the TwitterPeek FAQ page.
Foursquare + Peek Maps
Ever wish you could share your GPS location with a friend?
Peek Maps is a nifty website that does just that — anytime you send an email from your Peek, Peek Maps will pinpoint your location within 1,000 meters.
You can even cut and paste Peek Maps’ handy map widget into any website (like your blog), so readers can see where you are.
Peek Maps and Foursquare, a new (and addictive) social networking game, have teamed up, so if you have a Foursquare account, all of your latest “Check-ins” will appear on your Peek Map, too!
Both services are entirely free, so get signed up at www.peekmaps.com or www.playfoursquare.com!
Posterous giveaway
Posterous recently conducted a giveaway where 5 of their lucky users won a Peek Pronto. The rules were pretty simple – tell us why you need a Peek. The judging was tough but after much deliberation, here are the 5 winners:
http://tuyennhatvo.com/i-need-a-peek-because-i-need-a
http://aviraj.com/i-need-a-peek-because-15
http://ditisrooi.posterous.com/i-need-a-peek-because-1
http://danica_eric.posterous.com/i-need-a-peek-pronto-pronto
http://chris-nash.posterous.com/i-need-a-peek-because-well-ema
Congrats guys – your Peek Prontos are on the way.
PS – Everyone go check out Posterous. It’s a super simple (dead simple in fact) way to create a blog and post anything (text, mp3, pictures, etc.) to it using email. Oh yeah, it works brilliantly with Peek. We’re big fans and use Posterous on a daily basis so give ‘em some love!
Peek & Zenbe
Our friends over at Zenbe have recently rolled out a business version of their product. Perfect for all you Peek for Business users out there.
What is Zenbe you might ask? It’s a super slick web interface for the email address you already have. It adds an online calendar, lists, file sharing and team collaboration and even works with Facebook and Twitter.
And the best part about it – Peek & Zenbe work beautifully together. Zenbe improves on the way you interact with email when you’re sitting in-front of your computer. And Peek offers the smartest, and now fastest, way to stay connected to your email while you’re on the go. Match made in email heaven!
Email, it’s essential!
It’s hard for me to go too many minutes without tracking my email and messages. Minutes! It’s easy with my Peek of course but if the gap gets too large…I start wondering if my Peek is working right. We are always laboring away to keep all the Peeks working 100%.
So I chuckle with understanding as the various big services bump and scrape from time to time. In the last month, 100s of millions of Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, and other service users have gone down at some stage.
Twitter is one of the few to have a charming icon for their outage woes.
But everybody hurts, sometimes.
We even saw hiccups on Yahoo’s mail servers over the last 24 hours.
Oh well…there’s always smoke signals!
Funny, though, how the more you use something the lower your tolerance gets.
Your Peek, by the way, can check multiple email accounts for you. So you can have a diversified portfolio.
Got code?
The nifty little hacker contest we’re co-hosting w/ Xtify is live. Build an interesting app using location data and email. Win money, fame and a Peek for life. Check out all the details over at contest.geekypeek.com.
Tips and tricks
Dear Peeksters,
Every week we get emails from Peeksters asking how to do various things ranging from “How do I view an image on my Peek?” to “Can I update my Facebook status from my Peek?” So today I thought it would be helpful if I sent everyone an email jam packed with cool tips and tricks.
If you’re too busy to read this email now, you might want to save it for later. Just choose “Save email” from the main menu and when you want to check up on a tip you’ll be able to find it in your “Saved folder.”
Hope you find these helpful — Happy Peeking!
Amol
Peekster-in-Chief
- Want to view an image? If there is an image file in one of your emails, “View image” will appear as a menu option. Just click on that and the image will load.
- Need to move to a specific part of an email you are writing? Just hold down the “SHIFT” button and use the scroll wheel to move left and right through your email.
- Want to send a text message from your Peek? Just compose a new email and instead of an email address, type in your friend’s 10 digit cell phone number (don’t use any spaces, hyphens etc). Remember text messages can only be 140 characters.
- Want to select multiple emails at once? Just hold down the “SHIFT” button and use the scroll wheel to highlight up to 50 emails. This is a fast way to delete a lot of emails, or mark them as read (or unread).
- Want to open an email faster? You don’t have to select “Open email” from the menu — you can just hit the Return button (that’s the one that looks like an arrow below the Backspace button) and the email will open immediately.
- You can use the same trick to immediately delete an email — just hit the Backspace button instead of using the “Delete email” option in the menu.
- Find it annoying to delete emails? You don’t have to! Peek will clean itself up if it gets too full.
- Want to avoid having to type in email addresses? If you use GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail or AOL you can download your online address book onto your Peek. Just go to “Contacts” and then select “Download Contacts” from the menu.
- Did you know that whenever you send an email the recipient’s address is automatically added as a new contact?
- Need to quickly go to the top of your Inbox? Just press the “T” button and you’ll go straight there. There is also a shortcut for going straight to the bottom of your Inbox — just hit the “B” button.
- Want to change the appearance of your Peek or the sounds it makes when you get an email? Go to “Peek Manager” and click on “Themes” to change the color of your screen or click on “Sounds & Alerts” to change your ring volume.
- Not sure you are getting emails? If you turn your Peek off and then on again this will guarantee that if there is a network connection available you’ll get them.
- Going to be away from your Peek for a few days and don’t want to be overwhelmed by old emails when you return? Simply delete your email account from “Peek Manager” and then set it up again when you return.
- Writing an email and can’t find a symbol like the “+” sign? Just select “Insert symbol” from the menu and you’ll find all sorts nifty ones.
- Want to personalize messages sent from your Peek? In “Peek Manager” go to “Email Accounts” and select “Edit Account” from the menu to put a personal touch on your signature.
- Want to know the weather? Send an email to weather–at–getpeek.net with your zip code in the subject line.
- Need a common question answered? Just send an email with the information request in the subject line to ask–at–snapask.com. For example if you want to know the status of Continental Flight 14 you would just write in the subject line “flight continental 14.” This service works for common questions such as stocks, traffic, wikipedia, sports scores, and movie times. If you have a more unusual question you can ask the Mosio community by sending an email to ask–at–mosio.com
- Want to update your social network from your Peek? Just go to Ping.fm and they’ll give you a special email address that you can use to update almost any social network including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace and many many more.
- Want the latest software for your Peek? Our Geeky Peeks are constantly working on improving Peek’s software. There are three ways to get the latest software. If you are pretty techy you can order an upgrade cable from the Peek Boutique and do the upgrade yourself. You could also just send your Peek to our NY office and we’ll flash it for you. The third — and definitely the coolest — way to upgrade is to visit a local Peekster who has the cable. A number of Peeksters who have mastered the art of upgrading have offered to upgrade other Peeksters in their area. Check here to see if there is a Super Peekster close to you Peekster upgrade locations
- Last but not least…. If you need help outside of regular Customer Care hours (9am-9pm ET Mon-Fri) just send an email to feedback–at–getpeek.com. If one of us is awake we will get back to you as soon as we can. It won’t be instantaneous, but we’ll do our best. You can also post your question on our Discussion Boards — there are loads of Peeksters out there who are even faster at answering questions than we are and are eager to help!
Peek & Ping.fm – a perfect match
We wrote about this a week or so ago but the news is official – Peek & Ping.fm are the perfect match … just in time for Valentine’s Day! Ping.fm is a super easy way to Twitter, post an entry on your blog, update your Facebook status, and on and on. They give you an email address where you send updates to (from your Peek obviously) and then your update is published to all the networks you’ve registered with them. So Peeksters, run over to Ping.fm, sign up for an account and update your social networks all on-the-go. Cool.
Your email on the subway?
In New York, it seems like everyone is using some kind of gadget when you ride the subway. Listening to music, playing a game… and if you are a Peekster, you can be catching up on what’s important.
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