There have been plenty of times when I've said to a Twittere friend "Have you read any Jonathan Carroll books?" Of course, they've generally never heard of him so I offer to send them something so they can see if they like his writing. That's where it gets a little tricky. I could just go out and buy a copy of "Sleeping In Flames" and post it off but that takes time. I could use a file sharing site but, let's face it, that's a bit of a hassle. Twtebook is a PDF book share tool for Twitter that let's ... Read more
While Facebook users have begun to realize that there is great way of advertising through the social network the same isn't really the same with Twitter. Up till now, that is. Boxrockit is a very simple Twitter ecommerce tool that allows creative users to market, sell and track their digitally downloadable products on Twitter and schedule their advertising tweets to best effect. Boxrockit is a social commerce application that allows users to sell digital products on Twitter. It allows creatives and other digital nomads to sell eBooks, videos, digital art, photography, fonts, software and other downloadable products simply and ... Read more
You won't be able to miss Juicer when you see it in the app store for free. It's the one with the huge luscious red strawberry on the front. With summer not so far away we'll all be racing down the mall pretty soon to get our delicious and refreshing juice mixes. With Juicer there aren't any more trips down the mall. This food and drink tool for your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Android gives you a super new juicing recipe each day and let's you share photos and postings on your favorite social networking sites. Juicer, The ... Read more
If you are a regular Twitter user you'll know how difficult it is to actually follow and make a meaningful conversation sometimes. There is such a plethora of comments coming from everyone around the world that it would be nice to be able to isolate your friends and concentration them alone. Threadir is a Twitter tool that helps you keep track of your friends' conversations so you can actually have what seems like a one to one discourse. Twitter is an incredibly rich source of conversation material but few clients can actually manage conversations well. If you use Twitter ... Read more
It's easy enough to set up a competition or a vote on your Twitter account. it's not quite so easy to gather up and analyze your data and return tweets to judge the results. Interactwive is a contest and game tool for Twitter that gets you creating in seconds and analyzing the results as soon as they start to come in. If you want to run a competition or a vote on Twitter but Interactwive gets you set up to go in seconds. It’s your contest, and you can set it up how you want. Just input the specifications ... Read more
We all know The International Movie Data Base (IMBb) and know it's reputation as the bee-all and end-all of movie related information on the Internet. What you mustn't do is get it mixed up with this movie directory tool called themoviedb (TMDb.) Whereas many think IMDB is a little cold but filled with information, TMDb is a film site totally controlled by movie fans like yourself. themoviedb.org is a free and open movie database and is completely user driven by it's contributors - the general public. TMDb is currently used by millions of people every month and with a ... Read more
To keep up with the current music scene you really have to know what's going on overseas as much as you do domestically. What's big in the US, UK and on the iTunes music charts is probably going to be the next big thing where you are too. MPlayr is an innovative music streamer that let's you hear exactly what is big in music all around the world. And it's completely free. MPlayr is an internationally available music share streaming tool for popular music charts that you can easily share with your social networking sites. You can listen to ... Read more
If you manually update your tweets on specific holidays and special events over the year you will know what a pain it is. You feel such a fool when you forget one. eggtweeter is a Twitter tool that is truly an egg-timer for your tweets. If you have to send a time sensitive tweet or want to set up your greeting tweet for all the national holidays for the year - you can do it with eggtweeter. eggtweeter is a scheduled tweet web app that currently is in a free open beta. It enables you to set up all ... Read more
Well it used to be called Pingvine but it's now known as PowerShell from PowerFM but that's beside the point. We'll call it Pingvine for convenience sake. It's a free service that takes an RSS feed from your website or blog and posts it on your Twitter account easily and error free. PingVine is a free Twitter and RSS tool that takes an Atom or RSS feed from your blog, lifestream or favorite website and posts it to Twitter, Ping.fm or Identi.ca. It does this with a simple drag and drop technique and manages to reduce any errors (human ... Read more
Now here's a social networking tool that takes the spirit of the community quite seriously. LocalHero is an iPhone tool that connects you with friends and local people who have the skills you may need to help you out in a crisis. Or maybe you are just looking for people around you who have similar interests to you. LocalHero can put you together with them too. We live such busy lives these days that you can often overlook a friend who has a special skill. Maybe one is a wallpaperer...one might own a horse. Maybe you need someone to ... Read more