Out of whim, I enabled SMS alert of Google Calendar simply because I have this meetings every now and then and I can’t forgive myself if I’d ever miss one of those for the reason that I have forgotten about them.

I tried creating a meeting invite from MS Outlook and sent invite to my gmail account. Aside from that, I forwarded an invited I got yesterday to the same gmail account and both are there in my calendar with SMS enabled.

And… I received my first reminder from Google:

It is deliberately stated on TweetDeck’s website that it works on Linux via Adobe Air.

Although I already tried installing Adobe Air for Multiply AutoUploader on a debian based OS in which I didn’t succeed, I did not hesitate to do it again, but this time, on Fedora 10.

I browsed TweeterDeck’s website for the easy download stage. And as expected, nothing happened when I clicked the download button, hehehe.

I didn’t lose hope.

The easiest way may have failed me but there must be a work around to it.

I first downloaded Adobe Air from http://get.adobe.com/air/

It will take a while to show the download link cause it’s checking the system requirements.

Then, I chmod +x the AdobeAIRInstaller.bin (by default it’s not an executable file, makes me wonder).

After that, download TweetDeck*manual.air from http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

Step four (yes, we’re on the fourth already, hehe), run in command line:

root@localhost ~]# /usr/bin/Adobe\ AIR\ Application\ Installer

This will ask for the installer package, in this case what we want to install is TweetDeck.

Lo and behold!

TweetDeck at your service!!

**If you’re having difficulty in downloading TweetDeck’s installer package (that’s what happened to me), don’t hesitate to ask me for a copy, I’d gladly share it you.