Showing posts with label useful applications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label useful applications. Show all posts

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.



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.

Collecta: Real-Time Search Engine to Launch Soon

Collecta is building up as a real-time search engine. The site is currently not available for people to do searches of but they can see the real time updates for some trending topics like Obama or Swine flu just a sample.

On these sample pages, you can see the related items from Blogs, Twitter, Flickr and also the comments containing the given term in real time. The site is is set to be open for everyone this month and it will come with an API as well.

Currently, the results that are displayed are the ones just containing the term despite much relevancy. There isn't a link-indexing system in place and just a steady stream of data that may be in some way related to the search term. The website states about Collecta saying, "the web's most powerful real time search engine" remains to be seen. We'll be staying tuned for the full launch later this month.

Collecta's team includes CEO Gerry Campbell, formerly president of search and content technologies for Reuters, SVP of search for AOL, and AltaVista strategist.

Get Friendfeed updates on your desktop

Social media and network aggregator, Friendfeed has just released an application for displaying updates on Friendfeed right on your desktop. The alerts will be shown on your desktop and you won’t need to visit the site to see your friends’ updates. Friendfeed already has a service letting you see the real-time notifications over IM also letting you add quick comments and other stuff via short commands.

friendfeed desktop application With the desktop application, you can choose your friends and groups the updates of whom you’d love to see on your desktop. You can also set up a Friendfeed group containing your dearest ones and receive updates whenever they comment or post something.

This desktop application also allows you to comment on your friends but makes the task a bit cheesy as it opens up a new browser window to do so. If you have a lot of friends who are active on social networks, blogs etc, you will have to scroll down a heck of a lot to see all those updates. It would be better if there would be an option for filtering out updates only in some preferred criteria.

Anyway this desktop widget is a cool one and will save your time and make you at ease to some extent.

$4.5 million raised for turning mobile phones to Servers

A Swedish mobile company Conveneer raised an amount of $4.5 million for turning Mobile phones to servers. The company previously raised money from the founders and Teknoseed.

mikz-logo The mobile platform Mikz that Conveneer is building will be able to assign a URL to mobile phones, making the content on phones accessible on the Web. Like if your phone has a URL like http://mymobile.me.uk, other Web applications and services can access the data that is present in your phone. Mikz can pull vital information from your phone like your contacts, photos, ringtones, music and other files. It creates a Web interface for your phone.

The company is convincing both handset manufacturers mobile service providers to add the service in new phones. Carriers can provide all customers their own mobile URL. But carriers are likely to charge extra for this service.

A few weeks ago, an iPhone application called ServersMan@iPhone was launched which could turn your iPhone to a webserver.

Google Toolbar 6 for internet explorer

Google Toolbar 6 for Internet Explorer, has been released as a beta version. It doesn't have too many new features.The Google Notebook functionality has been removed, the "new tab" page from Google Chrome is displayed when you open a new tab. The Quick Search Box which is a component of Google Toolbar 6 is already available for iPhone and Mac. But some unrelated items have been bundled.

Google explains this way,"Sometimes, multi-tasking on the computer can be a maddening process if you have to constantly switch between different programs and files. Try using the Quick Search Box: it lets you easily search both your computer and the Web from a slick-looking search box that comes up only when you need it,"

The new application can be launched by clicking on the Google logo on the taskbar. If you love keyboard shortcuts, you can also do it by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Space. the program launcher is actually a very good and useful feature.

Quick Search Box is similar to the homonymous feature from Google Desktop, which only shows results from your computer. The Quick Search Box should have been better if bundled with Google Desktop and it is likely to confuse Google Desktop users. This Quick Search Box doesn't offer enough functionality and is unmatched with Windows Vista's search box.