http://crenk.com Web Apps, Mobile Apps and Reviews Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:40:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The PogoPlug, reviewed earlier this year, is a simple no-fuss NAS solution. PogoPlug offers a lot of bang for the buck, costing only $129. Features include: Four USB ports New address book feature Gloabl search across all drives Plus all the PogoPlugs associated with a single account Here’s the full press release, for your enjoyment: Second Generation ... http://crenk.com/pogoplug-version-2-lets-you-access-all-your-media-files-worldwide/ Sony has announced that they are planning on launching their own Apple iTunes competitor which will be an online store selling music, movies, and books as well as other downloadable applications for mobile products. This does sound very familiar, as Sony has already tried to compete with iTunes on the ... http://crenk.com/sony-unveils-its-apple-itunes-competitor/ Google Image Search is used by most of us when we want to find an image for our blogs our websites – or even our desktop wallpapers. I’d like to introduce to you a new type of image search (currently in Google Labs) called Image Swirl. It’s a new way ... http://crenk.com/google-images-has-a-new-search-product-called-image-swirl/ Cross Fire is a completely free online multiplayer First Person Shooting game. Gameplay: It is very clear that the developers have aimed to just build a normal game that everyone will want to play. No photon lasers, No energy fields, Just some blood and guts. Due to the developers spending less time on ... http://crenk.com/cross-fire-free-online-multiplayer-shooting-game/ We thought we would let everyone know what our favourite five blackberry applications are. Facebook For Blackberry Everyone knows what Facebook is! Facebook lets people share pictures, messages and online applications with their friends. Facebook seems to be everywhere and they even have a Facebook application for the Blackberry. A really neat ... http://crenk.com/top-5-free-blackberry-applications/ Last week I did a post about how the Internet was getting all decked out in preparation for Black Friday. Well this morning when I checked my e-mail I had a newsletter from Amazon Affiliates who I occasionally use on my blog. They were pretty much telling me that if ... http://crenk.com/amazon-affiliates-prepare-for-black-friday/ So much has happened in the last few months with regards to Skype. eBay which bought Skype for $2.6 million back in 2005 has finally settled its litigation with Skype's founders, and now the sale and restructure has been finalised. The result: Skype now owns all of its technology, the founders ... http://crenk.com/skype-deal-finally-completed-and-worth-2-75-billion/ Twitter have just announced the official release of a French version of the popular micro-blogging service. Over the past couple of months they have been aiming to release the service in Spanish, French, German and Italian. So far, they got Spanish completed and now they got the French version ... http://crenk.com/twitter-au-francais/ Yesterday, Google released public information about its new Chrome OS at the official press event. They showed videos of the OS and gave real-time demonstrations to reporters. It looks a lot like the popular browser of the same name. It uses tabs like those in the browser instead of buttons in ... http://crenk.com/new-chrome-os-screenshots-and-video/ There's a lot of sites out there that offer collaboration tools. From the simplified office collaboration tools like Google Documents and Zoho Writer, to the more sophisticated like Basecamp. In the end each of them appeal to different markets, different segments of the industry and each of them function differently. ... http://crenk.com/wipsace-ignites-online-collaboration/ It's not uncommon for us here at Crenk to come across web applications that do the same thing, the only differences are that some might do it better or worse than another. In this case, the team has come across a very interesting music listening application called TubeRadio. Once again for ... http://crenk.com/tuberadio-redefines-online-music-listening/ Traffic analysis is one of the most important parts of understanding your sites and its readers. Im a firm believer that sites and blogs need to really get to know their audience and offer them whatever they want. GoSquared has launched their new LiveStats product in which they are trying to ... http://crenk.com/go-squared-release-their-new-live-stats-platform-in-closed-beta/ Vevo has to be one of the most anticipated launches of the year and it is all set to go live on December 8th. The source is the Vevo twitter account. The announcement comes a day after Hulu said it too would make a foray into the music video space, ... http://crenk.com/music-video-site-vevo-to-launch-on-december-8th/ It has now been confirmed that Myspace has closed on its acquisition of Imeem, the music streaming service. It is paying a fire sale price of $1 million, sources familiar with the situation tell me, and could pay up to $7 million to $9 million in earnouts for key employees, ... http://crenk.com/myspace-acquires-imeem-music-streaming-service-for-only-8-million/ ReTweeting is the pretty much the equivalent of digging something multiple time – only with Tweets. When most uses see a retweet it must be from somebody that they are connected with. Now however, Twitter are testing a new Beta program which changes how retweeting works. Basically,when a person who ... http://crenk.com/new-twitter-retweet-beta/ NEC is a company that's been around for a while, and chances are if you've worked in anything related to tech from design to IT, then perhaps you've come across an NEC product. Known for innovation, they've really outdone themselves with the creation of the NEC CRV43. Rather than struggle with ... http://crenk.com/nec-flat-screen-perfects-dual-monitors/ It has been reported that Apple plans to postpone the launch of their much anticipated tablet PC from an original March 2010 launch to late 2010. Sources also indicated that in addition to Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), Quanta Computer and Pegatron Technology are expected to be manufacturing partners for ... http://crenk.com/apple-tablet-has-been-delayed-till-late-2010/ Microsoft Office 2010 has just entered its public Beta phase in the early hours of yesterday morning and is now available for download from the Microsoft website. I suggest you head over there now and get a copy of the anticipated program. Nobody is too sure how long the public ... http://crenk.com/microsoft-office-2010-public-beta-open/ Some of you may remember that last week we posted a screenshot which was supposedly from the PS3 website but had been leaked unintentionally. It depicted a Facebook logo on the PS3 Home screen indicating that Facebook was coming to the popular gaming console. Now, we can confirm that ... http://crenk.com/facebook-definitely-coming-to-the-ps3/ There's nothing like finding that application that helps get you through your day. Whether it's a productivity application, or a business appliation, or a creative application, whether the need, it's nice to know that there are alternatives to the costly pay versions. Sometimes freeware or shareware is just as good ... http://crenk.com/safe-internet-downloads-on-softonic/ Real estate, whether it's hot or not, one this is true, it's all about the location. With that in mind, for those of us that are seeking a place to hang our hat, to call our home, there's lots of apps out there that can help us find that dwelling. ... http://crenk.com/online-real-estate-app/ The new Google Android phone on the market is the Acer Liquid A1. Instead of waiting a few months for Google Android 2.0 it has decided to move forward with 1.6 and get this great phone into market. The Acer Liquid A1 is scheduled to be released in the next few ... http://crenk.com/acer-liquid-a1-released-to-uk-customers-before-end-of-november/ The vacuum, long an instrument for chasing cats, has now been turned against its own. What better use for automatic home appliances than to have them chase each other in classic video game style? Five Roomba vacuum robots and a software, originally developed to control unmanned aerial systems is all some ... http://crenk.com/roomba-pac-man-robot-pac-man-game/ Here at Crenk we have been lucky enough to have access to the new Seesmic for Windows. Seesmic is a Twitter and Facebook client that lets you track and update you streams from one simple location and via multiple accounts. At the Microsoft PDC09 conference yesterday, Seesmic announced their new native ... http://crenk.com/seesmic-for-windows-best-new-twitter-client-optimised-for-windows-7/ SnailMailr is a cool web app that basically allows you to send normal postage mail via the internet. It works by you filling out details such as your address, the address you want the letter posted to and writing your letter. You can send a letter with four pages for ... http://crenk.com/snailmailr-send-snail-mail-online/