Do people still use the old asl abbreviation? I guess they probably do in the chat rooms around cyberspace. They do in the social networking chat application Asl Plz, that's for sure. Here is a place where you can make new friends the digital way and connect with users nearby who also use similar mobile phones. When you locate your new found friends you can unite, chat and find out if they have similar interests to your own. If you want to make friends the digital way the Asl Plz app is a free service for Android, Blackberry, iPhone ... Read more
Dear oh dear, whatever next? I guess I’m getting a bit too old for new crazes in the pubs and bars of the world but just reading the developers blurb for this one gives a strong enough hint that the art of conversation and personal interaction is sadly on the way out. There is obviously a market for something like this as the site points out what we all know already. That is on that many a night out with a group of friends at least half of them will spend more time tapping away at their cell phones than taking part ... Read more
TV seems to have taken over from the movies as the biggest talk around the water cooler these days. The regularity of a series gets into the psyche of the watching public far more effectively. With so many series being highly complicated to follow the viewer is sucked more and more into a maelstrom of information and snippets of information from friends and many other sources. Miss an episode and you have no idea what's going on - just ask fans of "Lost." Fav.tv is a place for TV tragics. It's a place where you can share thoughts and view ... Read more
Hold the front page! All you writers out there who rely on research and interviews to help you create that article or even longer piece of work will know what a grind it is getting all of it together. Getting it all together is one thing. Keeping it all together and putting it in a workable order is another but this one just might make your life a whole lot easier. I know, I’ve been there. You have a file for newspaper and magazine cuttings, you copy and paste useful web content onto a Word document (or print it out and file ... Read more
Let's face it, who doesn't like a good fart joke? It's guaranteed to break the ice at parties, that's for sure. Duck Fart is a fun entertainment application for Android that continues the classy tradition of fart applications like 101 Farts and Whoopee Cushion letting you relieve the tension (no pun intended) in tight situations where you need something to lighten the load. Gee, there were a lot of double entendres in there, weren't there? Read more
You've only got to look at the career of former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is fluent in Mandarin, to realize the respect the Chinese business community has for someone who can be bothered to learn their language. And with the Chinese economy still booming it is important that you put on your best show when dealing with their business people. Far East Business Chinese is a language app for Android that is specifically designed to teach business people the rudimentaries of conversing with Chinese business people in their own language. Far East Business Chinese is aimed at ... Read more
It's got to the point now that everybody in business has a business card and they pretty well all look exactly the same. There have been attempts to radically alter the shape and design by creating 3D triangular business cards and all sorts of other shapes but they are really only gimmicks. Now that we have moved into the digital world with mobiles and apps ruling the roost it might be time to move onto a design more suited to those mediums. App2Card is a new advertising app for mobiles and tablets that creates impressive and unique business cards for ... Read more
If you are serious about your online business you will no doubt adopt several different tools to analyze how your website is performing. The are so many different kinds of analytical tools available out there right now. Tools where you can check your traffic and even tools to work out which parts of your site are working better than others. But two areas that arent often analyzed are how others see you from different countries around the world and how your competitors sites look compared to your own. Proxypic is an analytical tool that gives you a great overview of ... Read more
Well, is this the end for the duodecimal (Ed - he means 'Dewey Decimal' as pointed out by eagle-eyed Phil below) system I ask myself? Somehow, for big libraries I don't think so. But there is another system that would suit the smaller library. Whether it is for personal use or for your business, LibSerra is a very powerful library tool that combines the strengths of the web, the mobile phone, social media and e-commerce. Libserra is a suite of Web 3.0 applications that combine the strengths of web, mobile, social media and e-commerce. These applications have powerful uses in the ... Read more
Fundraising can be an awful lot of hard work if you are not well organized. While you could easily wander the streets of your town with a bucket in your hand and a funny costume to wear it's not the most productive way of maximizing your fundraising ability. Personally I must get two or three phone calls a day from very worthy causes asking me to donate. That's one way of doing it but there are plenty of other avenues to pursue. Social networking sites, Skype, SMS, GTalk, mobile phones, email and other fundraising ideas are all fair game and ... Read more