January 2011
@cyberspaceapp hmm… I lost all my bookmarks when installing the new beta.. The scratchpad works again on iphone though. http://svrt.se/dXWZBL
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Smartr api - a free api to build apps like Smartr,...
The developer of my favorite Twitter app Smartr has released an API for creating these cool apps like Smartr, Flipboard, TweetMag and Lazyscope.
See what I’ve posted about Smartr here: http://svartling.amplify.com/?s=smartr
cc. @smartrmobiAmplify’d from smartrmobi.blogspot.comApplications like Flipboard, Lazyscope, and Smartr.mobi are all built using backend technology that prefetches web...
Everyshare Shares Files Between IOS Devices
Getting a photo from your iPhone to your iPad can be a tricky process, but a new app makes it a little easier to build a file sharing bridge between your iOS devices. Everyshare allows users to share supported files-including pictures, documents, songs, and movies-between the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, so long as the devices are connected via Blu ..read more.. - sounds useful but there are...
The iPad's ripple effect
As we approach the iPad’s first birthday, much has already been written about how the iPad is a game-changing device. But the iPad’s success goes beyond the hardware — it’s also opened the tablet market and ushered in new forms of applications and media. Pete Meyers (@petermeyers), author of “Best iPad Apps,” discusses these shifts in the followin ..read more.. ...
Adobe's Packager to be updated for iPad support
and will launch it in a new version of the popular Adobe Creative Suite bundle. Packager for iPhone is a utility included in Adobe Flash Professional CS5 and the Adobe AIR SDK that lets developers export their Flash-based applications to the iOS platform. The updated version of Packager for iPhone is rumored to include improved support for the iPad ..read more.. Then we probably will see more...
Smartr is a must have app on the iPhone for me now...
The more I use Smartr, the more I like it. It’s so easy to read and share from the app. It’s a great for sharing posts to Amplify for example. just choose share by email and add your own note to an already perfectly formatted post with a paragraph of text, image and a link back to the source. Smartr is an excellent Tweet Reader (like Flipboard) with awesome sharing features. I...
Mac App Store: Developers Make App Free, Gain...
Todolicious is a neat todo app for the Mac we originally previewed ahead of the Mac App Store launch. The app was priced at $4.99 and, since the new Store’s grand opening, has been selling hundreds of copies, slowly sliding to lower sales numbers due to new apps taking over the Top Paid and Category charts. That’s what usually happens after the ..read more.. - impressive. I think the apps in...
Dell Venue Pro coming your way on February 2nd
Dell’s maiden foray into the world of Windows Phone 7 comes in the form of the Venue Pro, where it is tipped to arrive in the UK via online retailer Expansys on February 2nd. It will retail for £440, and it is a good thing that already includes VAT and delivery, which means the device is just a wee bit more affordable than the HTC 7 Pro and Sony ..read more.. This is a quite interesting WP7...
Quora Backlash Slams Head First Into Quora...
That includes both people who love it and people who hate it. And that dichotomy is important, because it will keep people talking about it. And that will keep people signing up. And it will keep those that already signed up going back. And that’s important because Quora is a service that takes a bit longer than others to get into. Anyway, the pas ..read more.. Yes Quora will probably big but...
LG G-Slate caught on video
LG hasn’t put up any official pictures of the Android-powered G-Slate yet, but a K-Pop artist was given the chance to fiddle with the device before this and now another video of the device has surfaced on YouTube, though the rear of the device looks slightly different. From what we can see, there is a very noticeable metallic strip on the back of ..read more.. Another Android tablet that is on...
Note & Share - perfect iOS Blog editor app for...
I blogged about that I learned MarkDown markup language this weekend to blog easier and faster on my iPhone and iPad. And I must say that it worked better than I hoped for. Markdown is a natural fit for mobile blogging. I blogged a lot on Amplify with Markdown this weekend and the posts looks beautifully. I already had some apps that supports MarkDown but when searching in the app store I...
Expo Notes: OmniOutliner Coming to IPad
On the MacWorld expo Omni Group announces that they will release OmniOutliner for iPad. It will be a quite useful app for the iPad. Exactly a year ago, Omni Group CEO Ken Case boldly announced that his company would bring all five of its apps to the iPad. Three of those apps made it to the platform in 2010, and now the next one is on the way: OmniOutliner. The organizational tool has seemed...
@jessegrosjean it would be cool if Plaintext would support Markdown with Preview. It already has support for Textexpander Touch so it would be very easy to type & blog in Plaintext if it had Markdown support too. Plaintext is already the most beautiful editor out there, it’s a joy writing in it, so why not support the most beautiful markup language too? http://svrt.se/e2psd8
@egoldstein why isn’t emailed blog posts expandable in the stream? My latest handwritten blog posts emailed to amplify is not expandable. http://svrt.se/ien8r6
Great comment about Quora by @webhat
My friend @webhat has posted a comment on a post about Quora by Robert Scoble. I think it was a very interesting comment so I quote it here: I’ve found Quora a place to get comments and quotes from technology insiders on subjects that I blog about, something that they would often not devote an entire post to. I like Quorafor the questions I follow and read all the opinions, whether...
Textastic is one of the most brilliant &...
Textastic is one of the most brilliant and professional apps I’ve seen in the app store. Too bad it’s a bit pricey though. And I would like a version that worked on the iPhone too. Here is a brief explanation about the app: Textastic is an advanced plain text editor for iPad with rich support for syntax highlighting. Versatile Highlights more than 80 different types of files while...
informatory: The Power of the Platform at Apple -... →
informatory: The Power of the Platform at Apple - New York Times http://goo.gl/fb/aZBYL http://j.mp/iAPPLE
Camlistore from the guys behind PubSubHubbub
The guys behind PubSubHubbub is back with a new cool project called Camlistore: So what is Camlistore? As the team’s first bullet point notes, it’s “a way to store, sync, share, model and back up content”. Farther down, they also call it your “home directory for the web”. Naturally (from these guys), it’s also entirely open source. So it sounds like it could be a potential competitor for a...
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Learning MarkDown for easier & more beautiful...
This weekend I am studying and learning Markdown. Markdown is a lightweight [markup language][4] very useful for blogging in a form of natural language.
Many apps both on iOS devices and on the Mac supports Markdown, so it is very useful to learn typing in that language. When you have learned it, you will type with formatting, linking and everything really fast and easy.
And the best thing is...
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Markdown test
This is a test using Markdown when posting to Tumblr
This is a link in Markdown
test1
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Looks quite good
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Notational Velocity Update: Horizontal Layout, Tag...
One very useful app that I use a lot on my Mac is Notational Velocity. It’s a great note editor that can sync to Simplenote and Dropbox so that you have the same notes on all devices, iphone, ipad and Mac.
Via Tech Informatory: http://j.mp/iTECHAmplify’d from www.macstories.netNotational Velocity[1] is a free and open source text editor for the Mac that can read text files from anywhere on...
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Omni Groups Huge 2011: OmniFocus 2, New OmniPlan,...
Omni Groups makes really great productive and professional apps.
I really would like to have OmniOutliner on my iPad.
Via Apple Informatory: http://goo.gl/fb/C26NZAmplify’d from www.macstories.netStronger than ever thanks to an incredibly successful launch of OmniFocus for iPad[1], the constantly increasing OmniFocus userbase on all platforms and the hype surrounding all their products, Omni...
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Blekko Takes Curated Search Mobile With iPhone &...
Looks cool. My own curated search engine clipotech is older though. Try it here: http://www.cipotech.com/
Here is a search for Blekko with it: http://k.clipotech.com/blekko
Via Apple Informatory: http://goo.gl/fb/EWo13Amplify’d from techcrunch.comBlekko[1], the search engine that is fighting the good fight[2] against web spam with human editors, is joining biggies Google and Bing in the mobile...
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Is the iPad a personal computer? - yes to me it is
Definitely. It can replace a “normal” computer for me. I can do everything I do on a computer on it. There is nothing that I can’t do on my iPad.
Via Apple Informatory: http://j.mp/iAPPLEAmplify’d from www.mercurynews.comIs the iPad a personal computer?Palo Alto industry researcher Canalys this week insisted that it is — and that it helped push global PC sales 19 percent...
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Portal - Full Screen iPhone Browser
Here is another web browser for iPhone. There is a lot of them out there now. My favorite at the moment in Cyberspace because of the awesome sharing features.
Find what I’ve been posted about Cyberspace here: http://svartling.amplify.com/?s=cyberspace
Via Tech Informatory: http://goo.gl/fb/q6hG0Amplify’d from itunes.apple.comThe ultimate full screen web browser for iPhone. We have...
informatory: Apples Retina Display is Perfect,... →
informatory: Apples Retina Display is Perfect, Stop Trying to Beat it! http://bit.ly/g4a5w5 Via Apple… http://goo.gl/fb/CPn8f
I see some changes at Amplify now. Re-Amplify feature is removed and notes, comments is now above the title in the stream, but still no comments in the main feed (Latest posts)? cc. @egoldstein http://svrt.se/hIedVc
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Top 10 iPad Financial Apps
Here is a great list with financial apps for the ipad.Amplify’d from www.money.co.ukApple’s iPad has taken the tech world by storm - released in April of last year, the company shifted 3 million units in less than three months and almost instantly snatched a 95% share of the tablet market.
With Christmas just past, a new wave of consumers have been getting their paws on the must-have...
My Appstore review: Smartr is an excellent Tweet...
This is what I wrote as a review in the app store about my favorite Tweet reader Smartr: Smartr is like a better version of Flipboard, but for iphone. It makes it very easy to read news, and very fast too. The sharing features is excellent. It would have got 5 stars from me if I could share with note, open link in Safari mobile (or why not Cyberspace?), more settings and choose to have a twitter...
pingmicro: Is OpenLeaks WikiLeaks 2.0?... →
pingmicro: Is OpenLeaks WikiLeaks 2.0? http://goo.gl/fb/HdHk3 http://j.mp/iTECH
RT @askmanny: 10 Ways To Clean Up Your Twitter Feed http://bit.ly/eAYTA5 - thank you for mentioning me! http://svrt.se/ikj9Cq
Twitter Connections attempts to reinvent the wheel
Twitter has just introduced their latest addition known as “Connections” to further enhance the usability of their micro-blogging service, where it enables folks to find people they know and with mutual friends. Hmmm, sounds pretty familiar, doesn’t it? Didn’t social networks of the past (and present) implement the idea of six degrees of sep ..read more.. - ok, let’s see if this will be...
Rise of the eBooks: Kindle Books Now Outsell...
Here’s an interesting factoid dropped by Amazon during their quarterly call: since the beginning of the year, Amazon has sold 115 Kindle eBooks for every 100 paperback books purchases on its site. Are we finally witnessing a momentum shift here? Last summer it was reported that Kindle eBooks were already outselling hardcovers on Amazon (143 to 100), ..read more.. - I can understand that....
Google Translate Answers What Most Googlers Won’t
What is that name of that one company that Google fears hates the most? No Google executive would be willing to answer that question but you can get a quick hint from an easter egg that’s hidden somewhere inside Google Translate. Go to Google Translate, put the phrase “WE REALLY HATE THIS COMPANY” in the translate box, set the translation lang ..read more.. - Oh my! :) I guess Facebook has...
Starting From Scratch: My Top 10 Desert Island...
The life of a technomad cyclist (that’s me) can be hard on an iPhone and a couple weeks back, my phone had had enough. With the case coming apart at the seams and the on/off button no longer functioning, I trod to the Apple store in search of a quick fix. Luckily, I’d only had the device for one month shy of a year, so the nice folks at Apple prompt ..read more.. - it was not many...
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Gets A Hands-On Preview
by After all the rumours and the leaks, the Playstation Phone is in fact a real device and Engadget got an exclusive full hands-on preview on this Android running gaming phone. Xperia Play is the official name and it’s running Android 2.3 Gingerbread with an improved Xperia skin on a 854×480 LCD multitouch 4″ display. 1GHz processor, Adreno 205 ..read more.. - personally I think this will...
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Gets A Hands-On Preview
by After all the rumours and the leaks, the Playstation Phone is in fact a real device and Engadget got an exclusive full hands-on preview on this Android running gaming phone. Xperia Play is the official name and it’s running Android 2.3 Gingerbread with an improved Xperia skin on a 854×480 LCD multitouch 4″ display.
1GHz processor, Adreno 205 ..read more.. via #smartr - Brilliant news...
pingmicro: PicPlz Adds Dropbox Support To... →
pingmicro: PicPlz Adds Dropbox Support To Preemptively Cure Filter Regret http://goo.gl/fb/6mEmT http://j.mp/iTECH
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Social Questions: Quora Gets An – Unofficial –...
Good to know that they working on an official app.
Haven’t tried this unofficial app yet.
Via Apple Informatory: http://goo.gl/fb/vN3phAmplify’d from techcrunch.comSocial Q&A startup Quora recently hired an iOS developer, so chances are we’ll soon see an official iPhone (and iPad?) application emerge, even if its website already functions quite well on smartphones.While you await...
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Final Draft coming for iPhone & iPad in Spring...
One more professional tool for iOS devices.
Via Apple Informatory: http://j.mp/iAPPLEAmplify’d from www.tuaw.comPopular screenwriting tool Final Draft is finally making its way to the iPhone and iPad. The company confirmed last year that it was working on a companion iPad and iPhone application and that app is now close to being finished. While the company has not announced an exact date for...
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Clearing out the Clutter: Streamline Your Blogging...
Good post.
Via Tech Informatory: http://j.mp/iTECHAmplify’d from www.bruceclay.comWho says writers can’t be organized? Nowadays, creative people have to be business savvy to stay ahead of the game. So, this blog post goes out to all the bloggers and communications professionals who are looking to get their editorial process streamlined in 2011.Setting Goals, Knowing How to Reach ThemFirst things...
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How Google & Apple turned from love to hate?
Lets hope they can be friends again.
Via Gadgets Informatory: http://j.mp/iGADGETSAmplify’d from www.tipb.comBloomberg has a profile up on Larry Page’s Google 3.0 and it highlights how Google and Apple may have gone from sweethearts who shared the original iPhone introductory stage to bitter rivals in the smartphone space:
[Google VP Vic] Gundotra has also sparred with Apple behind the scenes....
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News Corp. & Apple ready to intro The Daily on...
Let’s see if this new News platform will be a success or not. Personally I will not pay for news. News should be free and ad supported instead.
Via Tech Informatory: http://j.mp/iTECHAmplify’d from arstechnica.comNews Corp. and Apple have finally scheduled the announcement of The Daily, which is expected to be the long-rumored iPad subscription system for periodicals. The event will take...
Tweetdeck to unveil Deck.ly, its new platform to...
Tweetdeck announced its latest product today, unveiling Deck.ly, a feature that will allow users to post Tweets longer than 140 characters and could turn Tweetdeck into a righteous network in its own right. In a recent FTtechhub article, Iain Dodsworth, founder and chief executive, says “users have been very vocal in demanding this heretical feature.” “From day one [of Tweetdeck], it was one of...
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Tapu: iPad Browser That Looks Like Chrome, Plugs...
Another iOS web browser. I don’t care much about Facebook sharing built-in to the browser so I don’t care much about this one.
Via Apple Informatory: http://goo.gl/fb/q5EitAmplify’d from www.macstories.netTapu, a new $0.99 app I bought on the App Store last night, is the new kid on the block that tries to bring new functionalities to the platform by offering three key things in its...
Motorola is worried about apple's iphone 4
The firm urged caution as it expects a tough time ahead. The firm missed its fourth quarter sales targets for smartphones, which was hardly a surprise as the company seemed to disappear for the second half of 2010 while its competitors were releasing bigger and better units, but it is about to face even stronger competition.
Motorola has enjoyed a close relationship with the US mobile operator...
Square Enix Releases Crystal Defenders Android...
Crystal Defenders, one of Square Enix’s most popular tower defense game for the iPhone has just landed on the Android Market. And just like its iPhone counterpart, Crystal Defenders for Android brings in all the great features of the game with deep gameplay, stunning graphics, and of course the nice storyline of the original game which incidentall ..read more.. via #smartr - Brilliant news...
