A few days I found an awesome article over at Lifehacker that introduced some new neat features to do with Launchy. It uses curl, which is a neat program that interacts with applications on the web. Basically, you can set up a short batch script that uses curl to communicate with the twitter server. If you’ve added the different services as “friends” on twitter, this will act as sending a direct message to the service via twitter. As it turns out, I’ve mentioned the lovely integration of these different services — Remember the Milk and Google Calendar with Twitter, in the past. If you want to set any of this stuff up, feel free to ask me and I can help you it. It was fairly straightforward, although the actual Twitter interface is not as easy to interact with as it would seem.

The fact that you can do so much with Launchy is really awesome and exciting. There’s a link at the end of the article for even more things that you can use it for, although this application seemed the most useful for my personal purposes. Being able to abstract away from the web interface at whatever level a user desires, be it the command line in Launchy, SMS text messages, or Instant Messaging, is very neat, and something that more sites are starting to offer. In my opinion, this is starting to redefine ways in which people can manage their lives and productivity.