Category: Software

  • The overwhelming appeal of self-creating your own iPhone app (and soon for Android)

    When I heard about AppMakr last week, a website that lets you create your own iPhone app for $199, I thought, wow! This is getting very affordable – anyone can now create an iPhone app in literally a few clicks,…

  • Navigating sat navs, settled for a Navman

    One mobile device that ought to be added to any list of gadgets that epitomizes the Naughties (and there are lots of lists) is the portable satellite navigation device, or sat nav for short. I first used a portable sat…

  • Vegas Vistas

    I spent most of the first week of December in Las Vegas, meeting with all my colleagues in the WeissComm Group. I joined WCG in October so other than a handful of colleagues, I hadn’t met any of them in…

  • Software should be smarter

    Earlier today, I updated a new program I’m trying out – Seesmic for Windows, which I wrote about last week. After the installer had updated the app, I launched it but got an alert from Norton Internet Security 2010. Up…

  • A new Twitter app for Windows users from Seesmic

    In my experience, the best way of interacting with your community on Twitter is by using a third-party application rather than via Twitter’s website. My app of choice on the desktop is TweetDeck, a product I’ve been using since it…