Rowi is releasing their new version today – bringing 2.0 to Windows Phone handsets. There are a lot of new features since the last revision many months ago and Rowi fans should be excited. Setting the Stage I have an affinity for Twitter applications. In fact, on my Nokia Lumia 800 (and on my Mac…
Tout is a new application that I can finally talk about. I’ve been trying the application for the last week or two via an iPod Touch. Tout starts their press release (available below) as being the Twitter for the video crows, but I think it’s much more. Tout has a simple proposition – via your…
In the last 6 or so months, we’ve been shown the importance of being safe while surfing the web. A Firefox plugin called Firesheep debuted last year that showed us how easy it is to assume the identity of anyone signed into a website while surfing on an unsecured website. That is, if you’re signed…
TechCrunch posted an intersting article today regarding a new startup called Yobongo. In a few words, Yobongo is a group messaging app that allows you to stay up to date with a group of folks while on the go. Think of the power of text messaging, but with a group of folks in the same…
Wapedia is a largely popular wiki client on the mobile platform.’a0 Taptu publishes Wapedia, and the website/app has a fantastic following in the Android, iPhone, Palm and mobile web communities. Wapedia started out as a WikiPedia client, but now includes dozens of wikis on all sorts of topics. To better engage with our Wapedia community,…
I have been using a Nokia N900 regularly for about 1 month now. I’m finding new uses for it every day and it is really coming a part of my must-have daily routine where technology is concerned. One facet of the N900 that I love is the messaging and IM capabilities. You see, on the…
Since the rise of Twitter and the associated “real-time web”, much attention has been paid to how real-time search could perhaps pass conventional search results in usability and relativity.’a0 I’ll leave this debate to the blogosphere and social media anthropologists, but I do want point out one fact: searching Twitter on the mobile platform leaves…
Ever use BrightKite, Shizzow, Fire Eagle, trying to find out where your friends are and how you can meet up with them, only to feel a little let down with the quality of these applications? Personally, I’ve always longed for a Twitter-like map view that gave me presence information on where my friends are and…
Adobe has released a public beta of Adobe AIR for Linux. What is AIR? It stands for Adobe Integrated Runtime and allows an HTML/JavaScript environment for developers to make awesome applications that look great and run on Windows, Mac OS X, and now Linux. The applications developed in AIR also have the same look and…
I deleted my Pownce account today. I’m on twitter and jaiku, and a crapload of other sites. I have forgotten about my Pownce account, except for the emails I get whenever someone in my pownce circle sends out a message. I have become saturated with requests for my time and I just don’t have time…