Category Archives: software

Top Twitter Mobile Phone Applications

Apr
21
2007

Twitter goes Mobile

Well Twitter is well over a year old now and pushing the edges of the G2G universe (thank you Bronwen of Perth Norg ). As expected people have found a use for this technology, from social chat, help desk functions, news broadcast, micro blogging, and storytelling. It almost seems now when you get geeks together; twitter will be topic of conversion, out come the mobile phones and the twittering begins. Point in case the Perth Webloggers Meetup this month (April 2007).

Adobe CS3 Comparative Pricing

Apr
6
2007

Two lollipops

There has been some discussion since Adobe announced their new products on the differences in pricing for non-US countries. Adobe tells us that the pricing models for countries outside of the US are controlled by the local Adobe office to a degree.

Now I have nothing against the new Creative Suite itself. From what I have seen in the previews and demonstrations, it seems to be worth the United States upgrade price. But how does this compare to previous upgrades? How do the prices in Australia compare to the prices in the US. Are Australian’s being ripped off by Adobe Australia? This is what I’m going to be examining here in detail.

Twitter Tools and Widgets

Jan
19
2007

We all know about twitter, the online social networking/IRC thing. (got its own wiki now too). Well it’s been around for a while now (it’s been operational since March 2006). So with something as mature as this you would expect an extension of the API onto the desktop and generally outside the browser.

And so there are a range of desktop tools that allow you to access Twitter outside of the browser. What are they like? Some good some not so good. Is there a perfect one? Sadly there isn’t. They all lack in some point or another. Here’s a short overview:

Microformats goes up a notch

Jan
1
2007

Mozilla labs in mid Dec 2006 released the next step of solid integration of a detection tool into a browser platform with the release of the Firefox extension Operator.

Previous to this there was only the Firefox extension Tails. Good as it was, it effectively stopped development with the release of Firefox 2.x. Tails was just a microformats detection and browsing tool.