Among those alternatives are services that are native to mobile, as well as former desktop clients like AIM and Yahoo!

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Many of the people behind the mobile and desktop clients more people use to access Twitter than Twitter.com itself are very angry with Twitter management right now.

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Don't get me wrong, the iOS version is pretty good and the desktop clients are undeniably awesome, but the widget is what makes this a killer tool for capturing info.

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The new models of desktop thin clients are literally thin, about the width and height of a textbook.

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Google regularly makes user-friendly decisions like allowing people to check GMail using desktop email clients, an option which deprives Google of advertising revenue.

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Earlier this year, Twitter told developers to stop making their own desktop and mobile clients for displaying Twitter timelines.

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I'm a graphic designer who, until recently, used a desktop app called Skitch to quickly share images with clients.

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Remote desktop technology works great for us, as it does for many of our clients and other small businesses.

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And, indeed, in that same six months, these developers created more than 100 apps for the platform, including mobile clients for iOS, Android and even Windows Phone and Symbian, desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux and browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.

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Instead we, like most of our clients, are using these devices to connect into our server via Remote Desktop.

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