Are you an AppSumo Junkie like me? Feb 28, 2012
Twitter + Television = Twelevision May 8, 2011
Watch Lynda.com on the Boxee Box Feb 28, 2011
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Have you set up your Facebook Video Chat yet? Simply surf on over to https://www.facebook.com/videocalling and follow the simple directions and within a minute you can be video chatting with your Facebook friends.
All you need to do is to download a plugin via Facebook (around about 500kb) after it has been installed, you can then go to your list of friends that are online via the chat console, select a friend, and select the little video camera icon “start a video chat”. If your friend hasn’t set it up, it will automatically go through the same process for you friend.
Do you jump onto twitter and follow everyone who is tweeting about a live television show? If so, you should give “Twelevision” a crack!
Download the Twelevision app from iTunes (price – Free for a limited time) and log on in with your twitter account. It will ask you to pick your state and area (in Australia) and bobs your uncle.
It will hook into the Australian tv guides and will have the channel listing on the left hand side. Simply pick a channel and a show and watch everyone tweeting about it… You can also join in on the fun and tweet too.
**UPDATE**
So after using Twelevision over the last 24 hours, i found some nice hidden bits which i didnt discover the night before. So i thought i would tell you about them!
If you click on a channel/show to tweet about and select someones tweet, the screen slides across, you can then preview the selected tweet, reply to it or simply retweet. You are also able to give someone a “sticker”, Twelevision define a sticker as “No need to type your opinions, there is a suite of emotion-charged Response Stickers you can slap on any tweet with one touch.” You select one of the 8 stickers for a quick responce to someones tweet which is a nice way to let someone know how you feel without having to waste time thinking of something to respond with, that makes it nice and easy! Some of the other features are, you can view the persons Twitter profile, view their latest Tweet(s), see who they are following, you can also add their followers to your Twitter account, see what they are watching PLUS see if they have earned any Twelevision badges.
Speaking of badges, similar to other social networking applications such as FourSquare, users who utilise Twelevision can earn badges the more they use the app. Some of the badges you can earn are “Drama Queens, Couch potato, Rookie and Night Owl”. This gives the user a bit of a goal when using the app and we all want those badges!
Other advanced options are customising your channel listing, so here you can turn on or off what channels to view on your TV guide and just like Twitter itself, you can view your “mentions” and “recent tweets“.
The more i use Twelevision, the more i am loving it, this app is really catered to the avid fan who likes tweeting about live TV shows, if that sounds like you, get yourself a copy today!
Twelevision is available for iPad and now iPhone.
For more information on the app, visit their website at www.twelevision.com.au
Need a logo created? Want an itinerary done for a city you are visiting? Do you collect postcards from around the world? Or something crazy like have someone wear a t-shirt for the day with a message on it? Well You have come to the right place! Simply head over to fiverr.com, sign up and have someone else do the tasks for you.
The categories that you can choose from are:
Gifts
Graphics
Video
Social Marketing
Travel
Writing
Postcards
Advertising
Music & Audio
Fun & Bizarre
Tips & Advice
Business
Technology
Programming
Other ( it’s real miscellaneous!)
Not only can you purchase services but if you have a special skill, you too can offer it to the Fiverr audience.
When you read someone’s profile and find out what service they offer, you can also read the reviews on this task to see if the seller is legit and does what he/she says.
If you are happy for this seller to perform the task, click on over to the “Order Now” button and it will take you to paypal to pay for the transaction. Below the “Order Now” button it advises you how many other people are waiting for their task to be done by this seller. It will give you a rough idea on how long you are going to wait.
Once you order the product/task and the transaction has been paid for, the seller will give you more instructions on what happens next and then you receive the end product some time after that.
Once you receive your order, you can then rate the seller and write a review on them so other buyers get a good idea if the product is worth while.
It’s a great service and one in which I have used a few times now with no issue from the seller (so far!) so check out Fiverr.com today.
You like Flipboard? Try another app called Zite.
Zite lets you add your twitter feed or GoogleReader to your magazine, you can choose from a long list of subjects to add to your feed or if you want to really drill it down to a specific subject, you can type your subject manually in.
Once the magazine is started up, it looks for feeds on the subjects you selected, it will provide you with personalised news, blogs, videos etc.
Once you are reading your stories, you can “thumbs up or thumbs down” on the stories so it learns on what you are reading about, the more you vote, the smarter it gets and produces the content you want to read about.
So you want to use flash on your iPad, well you can now and it’s simple!
Simply download a new app from the app store called iSwifter. It’s a browser which can handle flash for the iPad.
When you first use it, after 30 seconds it will ask you to purchase the app. You can either purchase it or press cancel. If you press cancel, the browser will close and then open it up and continue to use it, otherwise purchase it for more
Try playing some flash games or view a your favourite flash site… It’s not a bad app!
Are you new to Boxee? Why not check out a new app within Boxee called “Butterscotch”,its full of Boxee tutorials.
If you navigate (from the main screen) to APPS > scroll through all the apps and look for Butterscotch > click on it and scroll through the latest entries, there are many tutorials on “how to use Boxee”.
Check it out!
If you use twitter and you want to keep track of your tweets, check this service out.
Twistory or TWItter hiSTORY.
You can use their free account but the pro account is well worth the big US$1 per month.
So what Twistory will do, it will download your tweets into your iCal, Outlook or google calendar, you can set it to download multiple times per day and it places all your tweeting into you calendar, so you can see on this day, i tweeted “blaaaaa….” It’s great for backing up your tweet’s and making a diary of them.
Get it today…. Twistory.
In top place is the FACEBOOK app (http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/facebook/id284882215?mt=8)
Event though there are still a few bugs in this app, it gets a huge amount of attention from me. Not only does it keep me up to date with what all my friends are doing, I always use this to post photos straight into my online profile so everyone knows where & what i’m doing… i’m a bit into the exhibitionist thing here!
In Second place is my favourite Twitter App, Twittelator Pro (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=288963578&mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6). Now if anyone can tell me of anything better, im all ears but I just love this app. It has so many awesome features for a twitter app. I also have the iPad version too which also rocks! Some of the features it has post to Facebook wall, create audio and video tweets, drafts and offline tweeting, create lists and view other users lists, nearby tweets, handles many accounts, oh and the list goes on and on, so get this app folks! Twittelator also comes in a free version, but why not upgrade and pay for the full version, it’s much better!
In Third place is the TWiT app. (http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/twit/id299663499?mt=8)
I use this app daily, while i’m driving to work, when i’m at work and via my Boxee Box (and Boxee app for Mac, Windows and Apple TV). I love the how Leo and the team have developed this app so we are able to watch the live feed. I have my iPhone in the car cradle and stream the podcast while i’m driving or while I am being driven around. Even though it is irresponsible to have this streaming, i dont watch it, i just need to know it’s there! It’s a great app for anyone techie – keeps you informed and updated with all things technology and beyond! You can also sign into their IRC and be part of the live chat, even interact with Leo and the team while they are live to air. You can listen to the live audio podcast or view any of the past video/audio podcasts. So do yourself a favour and spend the AU$1.19 and grab this app.
Number 4 would be the original FourSquare app (http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/foursquare/id306934924?mt=8), what better price… FREE! I had a good crack at Gowalla but I was forever adding places to Gowalla. If I was in another place like the US, i’m sure I wouldn’t have to add as many places but for where I live, I was forever adding them. So FourSquare, you got my attention! So my non-iPhone, non-techie friends would ask “what is it?”. I always stumble on this one and say “umm it’s like you check-in, like a hotel, but you let all you friends know where you check in, it could be a cafe, a shopping centre, a park or even checking into your apartment”, but why would you want to tell your friends you are home? When you check-in you can become the “Mayor” of that place and people can take your mayorship off you if you don’t check into that place often enough. You also get badges, you can share photos, receive comments, you can also get freebies and discounts via this app and earn point. When I go travelling, I like to have a competition with my friends, to see how many points & check-ins each of us can get while we travel around. But that just me!
Lucky Last is my GPS. I am currently using Sygic (http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/mobile-maps-australia-new/id319361043?mt=8) Wow, currently its only $29.99 (this weekend – 26/02/11), When I paid for it, it was discounted to $60 and I thought that was good. So when I moved to Melbourne a few years ago, I had my Navman, which was a lifesaver, then my iPhone came along and the Navman has sat in my glovebox since then. With Sygic, you get map updates for free which is why Navman is still sitting in my glovebox, if only they learnt that people don’t like to keep forking out money after you have bought something… one day hey! I must be honest, I have found this app to be very reliable. Some of the features it has are:
So, thats it! Top 5 daily used apps! If you have any apps worth me trying out… let me know… So what do you use…let me know!
NOTE: Twittelator Pro had a free update today, it includes:
I came across this awesome site today, Designrfix, im sure i have been following these guys for a few days on twitter but i decided to check out their site, oh, im gonna be stuck on their site for quiet some time, it’s full of all sorts of goodies to keep me entertained!
If you like design, why don’t you check it out.
Are you an AppSumo Junkie like me? Feb 28, 2012
Twitter + Television = Twelevision May 8, 2011
Watch Lynda.com on the Boxee Box Feb 28, 2011
