Archive for January, 2010
Apple Neuters OrbLive, After Users Pay For It
Update: As of today, February 24, 2010, I’m seeing an update in the App store that restores 3G functionality. This is about 2 weeks after Apple allowed Sling to include 3G functionality in the SlingPlayer app.
We’ve previously written about Apple’s capricious App Store review process, which has caused great frustration for users of Google [...]
Social Follow: All Social Networks in One Highly Configurable Button
Earlier this week, we covered a tool that helps you increase the followers of your blog. Now let’s look at it from another angle: What about increasing the followers of -you-? If you think about it, you are a probably member of a score or three social networks by now, many of which attract [...]
Be Productive With Your Voice, using Dial2Do
On our Posterous site, we previously discussed ReQall, a task manager and reminder system that allows you to record tasks with your voice, using some pretty impressive voice transcription. But why stop with tasks, calendaring, and reminders? What if you could use your voice to do much more, such as to send email and [...]
Increase Blog Traffic and Find More to Read with Redanyway
Redanyway is a very easy and apparently quite effective way to increase blog traffic and create a direct line of interaction with your readers — as long as they also have a Redanyway account, of course. That’s the nature of the social network beast though, so it is not a surprise. The difference here, [...]
Threadsy: Facebook, Twitter and Email All in One Happy Place
Remember, back in the day, when email was one-dimensional? The good ol’ days when all you had to do was remember one contact list and deal with one inbox? Well, those days are long gone, buddy. Today, we are in a world of social media: connecting and sharing with the planet at large in as [...]
Gdgt: Social Networking for Gadget Lovers
The name may be short on some vowels, but gdgt is not short on fun if you’re a gadget hound. As Wikipedia describes it, gdgt is a social networking website that specializes in consumer electronics. Think of gdgt as Facebook for gadget lovers, rolled together with an interactive inventory list of tech items that [...]
Keep Your Contacts in Sync Across Platforms with Soocial
If you’re like me, you use many different services for communication. From Outlook, to Gmail, to my iPhone, I have multiple ways to stay in touch. The problem? Until recently, I had my contacts spread out among those platforms, in no coherent fashion. I had no problem keeping my frequent contacts consistent among those [...]
Backupify: 2 Weeks Left to Get a Free, Unlimited, Account for Life
We’ve written extensively about backup solutions for your computer here on 40Tech — well, Evan has written extensively about it — but what about backing up your online life? With cloud services beginning to dominate our computer use, we continue to sign up for more and more services in which to post our photos, share [...]
Tweak Everything with Windows 7 God Mode
We tech geeks love to discover hidden features in our tech toys. And we love it even more those hidden features are actually useful. An Easter egg that has been making the rounds among Windows 7 users is Windows 7 "God Mode." At its simplest level, what Windows 7 God Mode does is simple [...]
The Impending Death of Apple’s App Store?
Apple’s App Store has been a smashing success. Last week, Apple announced that more than three billion apps had been downloaded from the App Store since its inception 18 months ago. It’s almost hard to imagine the time when there were no third-party apps. But have Apples’ actions, coupled with web technologies, threatened the [...]
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