Hey Mac people, if you love yourself some Twitter, you’ve got to try out the free Nambu client application. It’s hot. This app requires the most recent update to Leopard (10.5.8). If you have that, read on. If you follow any Lists, this app becomes super handy.

1. First, download the app from their homepage: nambu.com.

2. Install it & set up your Twitter account.

The app should look something like this after installation. (Bling!)

3. Next, toggle the view style in the top left corner of the window. I prefer the view below.

Alternate view (Nambu for Mac)

4. If you subscribe or follow any lists, click Lists in the left menu. Above the tweets you’ll see a handy dropdown menu to follow a particular list

You can follow Lists quite handily in the Nambu app for Mac.

The app’s most unique offering is its mute feature. Right click any person to put them on mute. You can also mute specific hashtags like #worldcup or #USA, if for some reason you’re not into sports.

If you’d like to beautify Firefox to look like other browsers (Camino, Safari), you should download this handy little add-on called Foxdie (Mozilla link). The add-on allows you to instantaneously change the browser’s buttons, color and tab settings (no app restart required) from the (web-based) settings menu. After having piloted it for about a month now, I’d also say it has relatively no footprint or interference with browsing speed.

Grant Blakeman is a freelance designer and developer living in Boulder, Colorado. His clients include Carbonmade.com and The Autumn Film. He has posted a lot of incredible creative and tech content on his blog recently. The blog is one of my top reads, so you absolutely must add him to your weekly reading.

I’d like to call-out a few recent items from Grant:

1. A prototype for an HTML5-based Video player. It’s great to think that we’re only a year or so away from offering video without the use of Flash or Silverlight plugins. On a related note, at the end of January Google announced that they would no longer support IE 6 for Google Docs or Google Sites.

2. Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain’s design work. Jesse did some top-notch work for the redesign of Campaign Monitor in 2008-09.

3. The CGI work of Alex Roman (via IS050)

Grant is featured on my “Best of” list on Twitter — that list is always evolving, but I will quickly say that he would be the last person I’d remove from the list. Lastly, after all of the linkage above, you will more than likely appreciate his office space.

Grant Blakeman's office (photo by Grant)