Kiwi: The best Mac Twitter client yet

by Ian Betteridge on February 8, 2010

Kiwi Twitter client

As you’ll know if you follow me or this blog on Twitter, I’me a voracious Twitterer. I also can’t stand Adobe Air applications, which means that my options for Twitter applications are somewhat limited.

There’s a few around, of course. Tweetie is good, but hasn’t been developed for a little while and lacks support for “modern” Twitter features like lists and native retweet. Echofon has a lot going for it, but its support for multiple accounts is limited and, I find, a bit frustrating. And Socialite frustrates me, as it often seems to make my Mac show the beach ball of doom. [click to continue…]

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Sync your Mac with an LG phone with FoneSync

February 8, 2010
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Shocking as this might sound, not everyone wants an iPhone. And if you have a phone from LG, you might want to check out FoneSync, a new application from Novamedia which lets you sync contacts and calendar information from your Mac to a variety of LG phones.
At present, only three phones are compatible: The HB620T, [...]

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HTC Bravo head-to-head with Google Nexus One?

February 8, 2010
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When I predicted that Google wouldn’t launch its own phone, one of the reasons I believed it was unlikely was that everything pointed to it being a rebadged HTC Bravo (otherwise known as the HTC Passion). While I was wrong about Google launching its own phone, I was right about the rebadge job – and [...]

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Worst iPad reporting ever

February 4, 2010

This article by Jonathan Zittrain is why it’s wise not to let law professors write about technology:
If Apple is the gatekeeper to a device’s uses, the governments of the world need knock on the door of only one office in Cupertino, California – Apple’s headquarters – to demand changes to code or content . Users [...]

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CrunchGear catches the TechCrunch bullshit bug

February 1, 2010

Apparently, Apple is now responsible for via killing hardware innovation throughout the industry, at least according to John Biggs.
Remember when Apple bought up all the Flash memory? Well, Apple has also cornered the market in touchscreens. A few months ago I spoke to one inventor who had a horrible time trying to grab capitative touchscreens [...]

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Guardian CEO says charging for specialist content an option

February 1, 2010

The Guardian may still be considering a paywall, at least for specialist content:
[Chief Executive of Guardian Media Group Carolyn] McCall added that the Guardian, like the New York Times, had looked at six different pay models including a complete a complete “pay wall”. She said that introducing pay barriers would restrict the Guardian’s journalism.
I’m sure [...]

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Nokia app store passes one million downloads a day mark

February 1, 2010

Brand Republic:
Nokia’s Ovi application store is now attracting one million downloads a day around the world, the company has claimed.The store was launched in May last year, allowing the handset manufacturer to join the progress in apps being made by rivals such as Apple and by Google’s open source Android platform. Ovi Apps include Ovi [...]

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Amazon caves in to Macmillan, pouts and sulks

January 31, 2010

Macmillan E-books – kindle Discussion Forum:
We want you to know that ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan’s terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books.
Someone should tell them that companies [...]

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Danny’s “jet plane emotions” on the iPad

January 31, 2010

My deputy-nemesis Danny O’Brien on the iPad, openness, and hacking stuff:
“It’s easy to see the iPad as the final tragedy in a long history of openness and tinkerability in general purpose computing. But the truth is, the cyclical fight against locked-in systems has been the recurring theme of computing since the mainframes. Our open systems [...]

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Andy Ihnatko sums up the difference between iPad and Android

January 31, 2010

Otherwise, the release of the iPad marks a classic battle between two philosophies:
Is it better to have a device that is loaded with bullet-pointable features?
Or is it better to have a device that has a shorter list of specs … but which does everything right? [...]

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