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)
Twitter introduces public and private lists
If you’re a Twitter fan and still use 
the web interface a lot, you may be interested in the new “lists” feature that’s being rolled out across accounts.
The concept is very similar to the sort of contact management you’ll find in many third-party Twitter applications, except with the added feature that you can make lists public, so other people can follow those people all in one go.
For the uninitiated, lists are useful when you have a lot of contacts but would like to separate them into more manageable sets.
Say you follow family members, work colleagues, celebrities, some bloggers, and then others you’ve had some kind of conversation with online. Instead of having to wade through a single feed with everyone’s tweets on, you can select to view just the tweets of a particular group, by putting all of those people in a list.
Lists can be made private, if you don’t want others to see them, or public.
I still think for power Twitter users, using a desktop client for reading and tweeting is the best option, but for keen Twitter users who like the web interface, lists can add just a little bit of clarity to an otherwise cluttered tweet space.
What do you think of Twitter lists?
Amazon Rolls Out PayPhrase Online Shopping Tool
In a bid to make our online shopping chores easier Amazon has rolled out PayPhrase, a easy-to-remember shortcut to shipping and payment information for our Amazon account. Amazon PayPhrase can be used for Amazon’s Express Checkout system as well as across various online stores which are Amazon’s merchant partners. [Read more…] about Amazon Rolls Out PayPhrase Online Shopping Tool
Google partners with MySpace, links to music from search
Music is a hugely popular search topic, with two of the top 10 queries in the US being about music, which is probably why Google has partnered with MySpace to make it easier for those searches to link to actual music.
Entering the name of a song, album or artist into a Google search will now include links to audio previews on MySpace (via iLike) or Lala. Naturally there are links to purchase the music too.
As Google’s expertise is in search, simply entering a portion of the lyrics will also bring up relevant music tracks.
In addition, Google has partnered with Pandora, imam and Rhapsody to provide more ways of discovering related music.
As per usual with Google’s new rollouts, it’s US only at present, but hopefully this will be pushed out to other countries in due course.