iphone, twitter

- Wednesday, December 09, 2009 - 0 comments

New Iphone App by My6Sense

My6sense has a new version of an application that can automatically highlight the most relevant tweets from the users you follow. The mytweetsense feature of the software learns the things that interests the user the most and then searches for tweets from the people he/she follows. MyTweetsense works best for tweets that include links. So, it can also pull pictures or vidoes from the links.

The default view in the app displays all the recent tweets you received according to relevancy. But you can view your tweets according to the timeline. My6sense keeps an eye on your interests and what you share on social networks and then it automatically tries to show you the things in your area of interest. It takes a little bit of training, but if our experience with the my6sense RSS reader is any indication, the results are surprisingly good. Not only this, My6sense also looks at the content of your Twitter stream and it also gives you an option to turn on the relevancy system for tweets that do not contain links.

with growing number of Twitter users and tweets everyday, it is a bit difficult to keep up with the tweets. But this useful iPhone app can be of real help!

It's a great tool to catch up on your tweets if you have been offline for a few days.
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internet life, internet tools, useful applications

- Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 0 comments

Tweetcraft-Twitter client dedicated to World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft the most popular MMORPG game fans can now enjoy a new Twitter client that integrates with the Warcraft.Tweetcraft is an in-game Twitter client for WoW that lets you send and receive Tweets within a game. If you want to take a rest in the middle of a match, you can just send out Tweets it’s more convenient.

The client also lets you upload some screenshots from the game using Twitpic. TwitPic and will then send the tweet automatically when you log in, enter an instance or get an achievement. Tweetcraft also caught the attention of Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. He has written a post regarding this. Well watch this video to know more.
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internet tools, softwares, useful applications

- Friday, June 26, 2009 - 0 comments

Cooliris's Small Change Has a Big Impact on Usability

cooliris opens in tabCooliris, one of the coolest browser based extension that lets a person see 3D visual search for images and other stuff has just updated their application. Well they call it just a minor upgrade but don't snub it anyway. This little change is actually gonna make your lives much easier.

Now, Cooliris will no longer launch into a full-screen 3D browser when activated. Instead, Cooliris will launch into a separate browser tab. This is actually very useful because, users had to sacrifice web browsing to view images with Cooliris. Now the change makes it easy for people to switch between Cooliris and other open tabs and also the applications running on the computer.

The 3d surfing interface of Cooliris is really unmatched any other thing. This is one of the leaders in the visual search engine realm. Cooliris, that was previously just meant for searching images from a handful of sites now lets users to search through all of favorite sites like flickr, YouTube, Facebook, deviantart, google image search and much more. And they have a nifty iPhone application, too.

The Cooliris after its launch would hide the whole desktop that was in one way a demerit of the application. Now with this major but nifty update, would make it much easier for users who love multitasking. So, download the latest version of Cooliris and forget those days when it used to engulf whole of your desktop.
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mobile applications, news and events

- Monday, June 15, 2009 - 0 comments

Mapquest launches Application for iPhone

MapQuest is one of the most popular online mapping services. It is one of the best sites to search for maps and directions online. Though it is not comparable to Google maps, it still is good. MapQuest has released ts first iPhone app. MapQuest 4 and it is a challenger for the iPhone's built-in mapping application. Not to forget, the default application on iPhone uses Google Maps.

The iPhone app for Mapquest focuses on finding local businesses and directions. One of the best features of the app is that it lets you save your maps and routes on the online account of Mapquest. You can have the saved map anytime anywhere on your phone. For example, you can click on the gas station icon and you’ll get a list of gas stations in and around the area.
MapQuest 4 Mobile has a number of useful features. You can also add stops to your maps. The app is not a fully dedicated GPS application but it really performs well when held in landscape mode.

MapQuest must be planning for a better version for iPhone 3.0. These will include push notifications and the ability to provide. Hopefully one would be able to use push notifications and send out alerts based on a user's location.
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Facebook, news and events

- Saturday, June 13, 2009 - 0 comments

Facebook hires Greg Badros of Google

Facebook has hired Greg Badros, who is a Google Senior Director of Engineering.Badros has been a vital part of Google and he joined it in early 2003. He has already led the Google Calendar, Google Reader and Gmail team. He is the in charge of the Adsense Engineering team since 2004. He will be holding the title of “Director of Engineering” in Facebook.

Since March 2009, he has led the Application Platform group in Google. It seems like Facebook is planning to tremendously monetize its services. Badros will report to Mike Schroepfer who is a VP of Engineering (he too was hired from Mozilla by Facebook).

Before Google, Badros used to work at Go2Net which was later acquired by InfoSpace. He continued working there and so has served as the Chief Technical Architect at both companies. Here is Facebook’s official statement statement on Greg Badros:

“Greg Badros has joined Facebook as a director of engineering, reporting to Mike Schroepfer. Greg is one of the most accomplished engineering talents at Google, and it’s wonderful that he has decided to bring these talents to Facebook and take on numerous responsibilities across the engineering organization.”
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mobile applications, mobile phones

- Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 1 comments

iSamurai iPhone app for playing Samurai

Have you ever wanted to play Samurai on your IPhone? Well now you can and that too in a very cool way. iSamurai is a two-player app for iPhone that recreates real Samurai sword fighting without getting hurt. The app is based on the iPhone’s built-in motion sensor and accelerometer. It produces the sounds that make you feel like you are really playing Samurai. It connects to another player’s iPhone with peer-to-peer networking. When you play the game, it would be much like fighting with another person witha n invisible sword. So, it may take you some time to master the skills. You can buy it and play with your friend. The app comes just for 99 cents.

Here’s a video showing how iSamurai is played.


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online applications

- Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 0 comments

Snapstream shows trending topics on TV

Snapstream, has launched its trending topics site for TV. The site is very interactive and lets you see the hot tags or keywords, i.e. the ones that are being mentioned and searched the most and also the cold words that are losing popularity on the television channels. Whats more interesting is that, you can also enter a maximum of 5 keywords into TV Trends and you’ll get a illustrative graph that compares their frequency and popularity of mentions. It actually analyses the mentions on popular news channels like FOX, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN.

Snapstream crawls closed-captioning text for programs that they record. Snapstream filters out local programming, sitcoms, and sports and then cleans-up and indexes data for the trends. When you visualize a trendy keyword, the site will give show you the excerpts of stories at selected points along the curve and also lets you filter the results by network i.e. the channels they appear on. For example, you can chart trends of the mention of “New York” on CNN alone. The site also lets you embed the stats of the TV trends on your site. The gadget is powered by Google. Anyway Snapstrem provides a really good comparision chart for the TV Trends.


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