Microsoft has an early beta of a new product called Vine. Currently available for beta testers in Seattle, it’s a location-aware social networking application focused on being a robust means of local communication that’ll work even in times of emergency. It’s a desktop client (available for Windows only), and you can also post to it [...]
Appnr is a solution that is geared towards Ubuntu users. In essence, it will let them learn all about the different Ubuntu applications that have surfaced and the ones that keep on being released. Not only that, but it will also empower anybody to download and install any of these applications with a minimum of [...]
ImageShack is known best for being a simple service for uploading and sharing photos. But now the company is moving into new territory with the launch of Tweetero, an open source Twitter application for iPhone. Read on Mashable
TweeterTags is a Twitter application that was created in order to give you the chance to tag yourself and find others sharing similar tags. This is a very simple and easy-to-understand service. You can tag yourself with words that are accurately related to your personal and professional interests. In addition to this, you can also [...]
If you often send emails to multiple recipients, a new feature in Gmail Labs will now help you to ensure that you don’t inadvertently forget a recipient you typically include in your group emails. After you activate it, this new feature, “Suggest more Recipients,” kicks in after you add at least two recipients to your [...]
Anand Agarawala has launched BumpTop for Windows (Mac version coming soon), a gorgeous desktop application that transforms the desktop from a cold, vertical interface into a dynamic 3-dimensional room that makes not only organizing files easy, but browsing images, writing notes, and even updating your Twitter, Facebook, and email. Read on Mashable
Google reviews has added a seemingly small but quite important option to its image search interface: color filter. It’s not yet enabled for everyone, but if it is, you’ll find it after you do an image search, right next to the “All Content” dropdown box. This option was actually there before, but you had to [...]
Google App Engine turned one year old today – they launched the service, which lets developers build web applications on Google’s infrastructure, on April 7 2008. And it has been a good year. Despite the fact that App Engine only supports Python applications, 150,000 developers have flocked to the service, says Google. They’ve launched 50,000 [...]
Internet calling companies such as eBay (EBAY.O) unit Skype have called on European policymakers to adopt policies that let consumers access their services through smart phones on any public network. The Voice on the Net (VON) coalition Europe, which also includes Google Inc (GOOG.O), Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Intel Corp (INTC.O), argues carriers are blocking [...]
Mozilla Labs is debuting new personas – extensions that add lightweight themed skins to your Firefox browser – enabling you to personalize your user experience according to your mood without interrupting your browsing sessions. The Personas for Firefox add-on was first introduced in late 2007, but has now expanded to include hundreds of artist-created designs [...]
