Windows 7 Tip: 
Wanns add Twitter as the Sidebar Gadget in your windows 7 and Windows Vista PC. Than you have to try the new App Tweetz. Like other sidebar gadgets, Tweetz docks comfortably in the sidebar. TweetZ works much like other Twitter clients. You can tweet and reply as expected. Click on the “What are you doing” button and the editing window pops up.
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You can shorten links easily. Simply compose your tweet, complete with the long versions of your links and then click “shorten”. Tweetz will convert links that it finds into their short versions using the services of http://is.gd.
Download TweetZ Sidebar Gadget here
Very very interesting. This is pretty cool. Cheers for the blog on this.