Tag: features
Apple iPad 2: Orange and T-Mobile (Everything Everywhere) to sell it, O2 won't…for now
The T-Mobile and Orange networks, now combined under the Everything Everywhere banner, have confirmed that they will be among the first UK carriers of the iPad 2. Launching in the States on March 11th, 26 more countries, including the UK,…
10 bands and artists who use Garageband, and will probably use the iPad 2 app too
Alongside the iPad 2 launch last night, Apple also revealed a handful of new apps ready to be downloaded alongside the new slate. We've written an in-depth guide to the new Garageband app, which you can read by clicking…
Garageband for iPad 2 FAQ: Everything you need to know
Apple launched the iPad 2 last night and with it the news that the Mac computer's legendary music creation tool Garageband will be available as an app too at launch. Totally touch controlled, here's what you need to know about…
Apple iPad 2: Video Round-Up
Amidst the madness of the iPad 2 launch event last night we got some fleeting hands on time with the new tablet, and shot some video in all its Mr-Shaky-Cam-launch-event-hustle-and-bustle glory. From magnetic Smart Cover cases to a quick look…
Apple iPad 2: A guide in pictures
A5-chip-this and Smart-Cover-that. The Apple iPad 2 launch may be loaded with information on the Cupertino king's new tablet, but it can be a bit tough putting all those details together and visualising what it means without actually getting your…
Apple iPad 2 In-Depth Guide: Everything you need to know
To absolutely no-one's surprise last night, Apple lifted the lid on the next generation of their iOS tablet, the iPad 2. "Faster, lighter, thinner" was the mantra of the night, as a relatively healthy-looking Steve Jobs took to the stage…
TweetDeck versus Seesmic: battle of the Twitter apps
TweetDeck and Seesmic are desktop clients designed to make communicating on Twitter and managing your accounts easier.
Here they go, head to head: TweetDeck version 0.26 versus Seesmic version 0.4.
Look & Feel
Both TweetDeck and Seesmic are built using the Adobe AIR platform, and have a similar look and feel.
Seemsic appears to have more subtleties designed to make it easier to decipher tweets from multiple accounts at once, yet neither application is hugely customisable when it comes to the overall look.
If you only run a single Twitter account then seeing how applications handle multiple accounts won’t matter to you, but if you’re a “power user” handling two or more active accounts, you’ll find Seesmic offers more options for handling them.
Both applications let you view columns for each account’s tweets, replies, direct messages and so on, but Seesmic also allows you to view a single stream of messages from all your accounts at once, ordered by the time tweets arrive.
Whether this works for you depends on how you like to view accounts, but at least you have the option. TweetDeck (currently) doesn’t offer this.
UK Satellite TV Comparison Guide: Sky versus Freesat
Two services that require you to stick a satellite dish to the side of your house.
One has been around for two decades, the other has just celebrated its first birthday.
Both will demand an upfront payment: one will continue to drain money from your bank account each month.
So which is best? Read our comparison guide to see if you should go with coming-of-age Sky or new-kid-on-the-block Freesat.
Read on to find out…
Google launches "Similar Images" search and News Timeline
It’s been, ooo, at least a week since we’ve had something new from Google, and the company’s making up for lost time by announcing two new products at once. There’s Similar Images, and News Timeline.
Let’s start with the former. This is a new option for image search that lets you scan for images that look a bit like other images. For example, in the pic above you can see that a search for Jaguar brings up both animals and cars. If you click on ‘similar images’ below the picture, though, then just animals, or just cars, will appear.
News Timeline does pretty much what it says on the tin. It organizes news information chronologically, and allows you to define a date range to search for news within. It could be seen as a response to Twitter’s growing strength in the news market but in reality it’s probably just a rollout of existing search tech over to the news section.
Lastly, Google’s also putting more prominence to its labs features by moving them to their own domain. You can visit www.googlelabs.com to try out all of Google’s latest experiments.
(via Google Blog)
New INQ phone will have Twitter built in
The problem with building an entire device around one service is that when the service becomes obsolete, so does the device. Not that I’m saying Facebook, and therefore the INQ phone, is obsolete, but it’s important to keep things updated.
With that in mind, last night Electric Pig got a nugget of information out of INQ’s CEO, Frank Meehan, about the next device they’ll be releasing. When asked if Twitter would feature in the next INQ, Frank replied: “I think we’d be stupid if we didn’t”. So there you go.
(via Electric Pig)
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