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
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
This one has had some reasonably good user ratings and it’s easy to understand why if you’re one of those people that carry around a wallet that resembles a back-pack. Never mind the cash inside it’s usually all of those loyalty and membership cards that bulk it out meaning that you can no longer slip it inside a back pocket and sit in any comfort.Well, you can now regain your posture with this smart little app that enables you to get the information required on most of your loyalty and membership cards transferred onto you mobile phone. Now, instead of fumbling ... 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 planning on continuing your education next year then you are going to have to think about books. Text books. They can be pretty expensive, can't they? So a bit of pre-planning is required to get the books you need and still have enough to eat and pay the rent. SlugBooks could well be the answer to your problems. Find your textbooks now! This rather useful and intelligent education app offers you the chance to tell them which school and classes you are taking so they can not only tell you which books you are going to need ... Read more
Some people are brilliant at picking out presents at Christmas time whilst others...maybe not so. Personally, I tend to need all the help I can get. But it's just a question of doing a bit of research and being well organized about buying presents for your friends and family. Chrift is a gift recommendation tool similar to apps like ChristmasList.com that aim to give the user a much more comprehensive way of determining what gifts they would adore by analyzing their Facebook profile data. 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