Here’s a not so serious take on understanding what type of personality does iPhone users have. The study was candidly conducted by Retervo by asking the general question – “What makes a person attractive to you? [Read more…] about Anatomy of an iPhone User, Sort of
Google Dashboard: how much does your life rely on Google?
How times have changed since Google was a humble search engine. Today, you can edit office documents, share calendars, manage your address book, blog, receive alerts, synchronise your mobile devices, talk online, watch and upload videos, store your web search history, upload edit and share photos, and more.
How do you keep track of how much information the mighty Google has on you?
Simple: take a look at the new Google Dashboard.
It’s a fairly simple concept: as any good dashboard application should, it simply displays which of Google’s services you’re using and makes it easy to access settings, such as privacy control.
Google announces:
Today, the Dashboard covers more than 20 products and services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, Latitude and many more. The scale and level of detail of the Dashboard is unprecedented, and we’re delighted to be the first Internet company to offer this.
Check it out, particularly if you use a lot of Google services. You might be surprised how much you rely on Google!
Fun Tools Grow at the Flickr App Garden
Have you checked out the new Flickr App Garden? It’s a repository of home grown apps created by Flickr members who used the Flickr API. Actually, some of these apps are not really newly developed apps. You might have seen or used it before with your Flickr photos. What Flickr did is to organized previously available apps, added new ones and organized them in one place to come up with the App Garden. [Read more…] about Fun Tools Grow at the Flickr App Garden
PayPal Now Supports 24 Currencies
In the country where I am located, one way for me to receive payments from contacts abroad is through PayPal. But I received payments in dollar and had to open a dollar account to withdraw the payments I got from PayPal in my local currency. But that will change now as PayPal has added 5 new currencies that it supports including – Brazilian Real, Malaysian Ringgit, Philippine Peso, Taiwan New Dollar and Thai Baht. [Read more…] about PayPal Now Supports 24 Currencies
Four iPhone apps for creative writers
Want to get creative while on the move, or check up on how some of your writing buddies are getting on?
The iPhone’s virtual keyboard may not be best suited for cranking out paragraphs of prose, but sometimes you’ve just got to write, regardless of where you are.
Check out these four apps for the iPhone. Click on the title to go to the app on the iTunes Store.
Write from anywhere and automatically synchronise with the My Writing Nook web application, so you can work from your laptop, iPhone, Internet café — anywhere.
Features autosave, word count, dictionary and thesaurus look ups, portrait and landscape modes.
£1.19 / $1.99
Boasts over 300 thought-provoking questions to get those creative writing juices flowing again when the inspiration has dried up.
12 different categories including plot development and dialogue, with the ability to input your own content and characters.
£2.39 / $2.99
If you’re participating in this year’s NaNoWriMo, this app will keep you in touch while on the move.
Keep up-to-date with how your writing buddies are doing, including word counts, avatars, and latest news from HQ.
£0.59 / $0.99
Provides help and assistance for budding poets, including practice and suggestion for eight types of poem. The app can even generate its own poetry.
£1.19 / $1.99
5 iPhone Apps that Let You Read and Download eBooks
A new research found out that book apps have taken over the lead as the most downloaded apps in the iTunes Apps Store over game apps. This means that more iPhone users are using their Apple device to read ebooks. If you would like to the do the same, you will need an eReader app. We got five of the best of these eReader apps for the iPhone listed down.
eReader (free) – This app has been in the Apps Store since 2008, and it could well be the most downloaded ereader app for the iPhone. It has around 100,000 ebooks on its catalog right now. The app has some exciting features as well including – cover flow, thumbnails, speed enhancements, improved access to other ebook sites and definitely more. (Itunes Link)
B&N eReader (free) – Before Barnes & Noble worked on its Nook ereader, there was the B&N eReader for the iPhone. This app works with B&N’s online ebook store, so you could purchase ebooks directly and download it to your iPhone. (iTunes Link)
Stanza (free) – This iPhone ereader gives you access to various sites offering both free and paid ebooks. It supports Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks and other sources of ebooks. It also allows you to purchase ebooks from Fictionwise eReader store and other online bookstores. Stanza has been the most favorited ereader app for the iPhone since its release in March 2009. (iTunes Link)
Classics ($2.99) – Don’t be discouraged by this app’s price because it’s features and the plethora of classic ebooks that it contains are definitely worth the bucks. Classics features 3D flipping of pages, bookmarking and other nifty features that mimics reading of a real-life book. (iTunes Link)
Kindle for iPhone (free) – Amazon’s Kindle iPhone app allows you to read Kindle books on your iPhone. It’s a pretty good app, however you can only purchase Kindle books from your Mac or PC and transfer it later to your iPhone. It has loads of features as well with the pinch feature of the iPhone working while you are browsing pages of ebooks. (iTunes Link)