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Grooveshark is one of the worlds most popular music streaming services, but recently they have been having a lot of issues with EMI and now Universal music. All this drama has not stopped them from releasing their own music streaming applications for Android, Blackberry and soon iPhone.
The Grooveshark mobile applications are free to download, but you can only use them if you pay for a premium solution, eg. $3 per month. All of the applications are very feature rich and have great designs just like the main Grooveshark site.
If you arent able to use Spotify and want to listen to your music from the cloud, then Grooveshark is the service for you!
It seems like having an App store is the new thing! Wordpress has now released a new application directory which highlights the best applications for Wordpress and also other services.
Whether you’re blogging from your desktop, browser or on the go, make sure to check out these other ways to post to your WordPress blog.
You can find some of the most popular applications for WordPress like HootSuite, ScribeFire, WordPress for iPhone and etc…
All the main news sites and aggregators are developing apps to keep their readers informed on the go. This is turning out to be a lucrative moneymaking opportunity via advertising as mobile web usage doubled in 2009. So why can’t you or I get in on the action, promote our blog, gain readers and look pretty darn cool at the same time? Well for $199, you can!
You see, most of the apps which blogs release are nothing more than glorified RSS readers. Pretty simple when it all boils down to it. So you could easily release your own by using AppMakr – basically the bare bones of an RSS App. This will take your blogs feed, enable you to add some images, alter the interface design, change buttons and rearrange your app and then publish it live; all in less than 30 minute if you’re taking it slow.
There are two price models. Here’s what they say on their website:
$199 – The Easy Way: AppMakr Publishes Your App
Submit your app in minutes, with AppMakr as the publisher. Skip the difficult parts of making an iPhone app, like having to work with Xcode and figuring out the app certification and provisional process. You can even insert your own ads in the app. Apps built with this option will have a small AppMakr logo on the app splash screen.
$499 – You’re In Control: Publish Under Your Own Brand
Take control of the app building process by creating an Apple Developer Account and loading your certificates into AppMakr. We’ll take care of the rest, including the provisioning, building and management of your apps. You’ll also be able to test apps on your own phone with Ad Hoc builds.
Pretty cool, no? Check it out at AppMakr
With the new year having just rolled around it’s that time of year again when gym memberships are at an all-time high as people promise themselves they’ll loose weight and get in shape for the new year. No better time then to join a new fitness community called Phitter which claims to have “given phittness a phacelife”.
The service is similar to Twitter in that users are encouraged to post their daily exercise news, tips, advice and benchmarks. Also, you can post to your stream via the traditional web route or from mobile services such as SMS.
In a press release, the company said Phitter.com is a “phitness phocused community that encourages members to talk, or “Phit,” about fitness, weight loss, working out, dieting, exercising, and healthy living while making new “Phriends” and having “Phun!”
I think this is a great idea. Twitter has proven itself to be one of the most engaging of the social networks. Furthermore, lack of companionship and encouragement is the number one reason why people quit exercise programs. Phitter overcomes that problem by creating a real-time community for those getting fit, something forums and networks have failed to do in the past.
If you post “Feeling down, not in the mood for a run” you’ll be bombarded with inspiration and encouragement to get out there and get Phit!
Are My Sites Up is a new website monitoring service which lets you know when your blog or website is down. Currently the free version of this software allows you to track 5 websites and monitored in 60 minute or less intervals. Are My Sites Up has also released a desktop application based on Adobe Air which helps you check the status right from your desktop. This application will sync with your Are My Sites Up account and retrieve all the accounts.
GrooveMaker is a new Electro and Drum and Bass app that helps musicians to create their own music. The interface itself is pretty impressive and looks much like your portable DJ Box, with 8 stereo loop tracks and a huge library of numerous drum beats, effects and lines to make your remix ever more groovy. This application seems great for the average person who wants to have a little fun and make some cool beats, but this app just isnt professional enough to actually be used as a commercial tool.
Over a year after a third-party app was released for Yammer users with an Android, Yammer have decided it’s time to release their own official app to compliment their service which enables people working within a company or group to send updates as to what they’re doing which is fed into a constant stream, like Twitter.
The app can be ran in the background while you use the phone on a day to day basis. It will vibrate or make a noise when the stream is updated by a colleague answering the boilerplate Yammer question, ‘What are you doing?’
The pre-release version is still reported to contain many bugs and I doubt it will be ready until late Spring of next year.
I think that this app will make switching from the iPhone to cheaper android devices much easier. Many people depend on Apple’s device purely because of the apps – now with many alternatives in the hands of the competitors, the iPhone could be in trouble. Expect a price drop in early 2010.
Metaio is a very interesting company that has started to develop some great augmented reality iPhone applications.
Metaio has just announced a new social network called Junaio which is based around augmented reality.
The newest version of the mobile augmented reality platform includes new and improved features such as:
1) Enhanced live overlay and local search: powered using Google Local Search, now you can visually search for points of interest like restaurants, cafes, or anything in your location
2) New social features: Ability to rate, comment on others scenes, publish your own augmented reality to social networks like Facebook and Twitter
3) Improved user interface and enhancements: greater usability and fast download speed
To me this seems to be a very weird yet interesting mix between the real world and social networking online.
Over the past week, Yelp and Google have been in heated debates concerning Google acquiring the service which was founded by two former PayPal employees and allows users to submit reviews of their local services. After days of deliberation both parties had agreed on a price – half a billion dollars. It seemed that everyone was quite happy with the deal until the CEO of Yelp Jeremy Stoppleman notified Google over the weekend that the deal was off.
What happened?
Well nobody knows for sure but it must have taken something big for Yelp to walk away from half a billion dollars and pressure from internet giant Google. My guess is that another offer has been tabled. Obviously, Yelp wan to keep their cards close to their chest should this deal fall through and need to go back to Google. Perhaps one of Google’s rivals such as Microsoft or Apple have decided they want Yelp?
Shout’Em is a start from Croatia that lets users create their own microblogging network. Shout’Em has launched their own iPhone app that will make it a lot easier for people to use their platform and also push to Twitter.
The iPhone app has all the usual microblogging features, letting you update your status, add photos as well as add your location. The most important feature, however, is the support for multiple microblogging networks: Shout’Em, Twitter and StatusNet. For users that use two or more of these networks, the iPhone application could prove to be very useful.
If you’re looking for a Twitter application that covers all the essentials, the Shout’Em app’s price (free) is unbeatable.
My Movies 3 is a free plugin for Windows Media Center aimed to help manage and play all of your favourite moviews within Windows Media Center. My Movies 3 adds rich metadata for your movie collection, including cast, trailers, DVD art and more.
Whether you rip your DVDs to your hard drive or you still prefer using the discs each time you watch a movie, My Movies 3 is a must-have. My Moview 3 is a free plugin that is also supported by Windows 7 and you can download it for free here.
