Vlingo launches voice-command iPhone app
Vlingo has launched a voice-based iPhone application that allows users to speak basic commands to call contacts, search the web, find maps, or send status updates to Facebook and Twitter. Yahoo and Google searches can be initiated simply by stating the command and search terms, such as "web search: concert tickets in Boston," for example. Users can mention a specific location, and Vlingo will prov...
published yesterday, 17 hours 19 minutes ago, macintosh-news-network
TheAppleBlog On Twitter!
Well it took long enough! Your favorite blog has finally got its act together and jumped on the social bandwagon! You can now follow TheAppleBlog on Twitter! We won’t be doing anything lame like just streaming our articles directly to our Twitter account…there’s a real, live human being handling this. So, delay no more and give TheAppleBlog a follow!
published on Wednesday, the 19. November 2008, apple-blog
iPhone apps: Ziibii, Q Contacts, Glue
Ziibii (free) blends together Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, plus any other favorite web content into one app. Users will find two different views, River and List. The river turns all of the stories into "rafts" that will float across the iPhones screen on a river. The speed and direction of the story "rafts" can be adjusted by using swipe gestures. The list view provides a more traditiona...
published on Wednesday, the 19. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Call the bit.ly URL shortener for the current site
I use bit.ly as my URL shortening service, mainly because I like the way that it links to Twitter and tracks statistics on shortened URLs that I send folks. I am, however, lazy and I don't like to do any more clicking, copying, or pasting than I have to.So I created a bookmark on my bookmarks bar in Safari which opens bit.ly in a new window and passes the current page I am on as a parameter. The net effect is that most of the work is done for me when the window opens. The JavaScript bookmark is:javascript:window.open('http://bit.ly/?url='+location.href);This approach will probably work with other shorteners as well, and the above shortcut should work in any browser.
published on Tuesday, the 18. November 2008, macosxhints
Twittelator Pro 1.5 supports alternate services
Stone Design says it has released the v1.5 update to Twittelator Pro, its high-end Twitter client for the iPhone and iPod touch. The software simplifies the process of posting tweets from a handheld, by means of features like streamlined views, multiple accounts, and the ability to paste images, links and text. Version 1.5 of the app introduces support for another microblogging service, identi.c...
published on Friday, the 14. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
iPhone tethering coming "soon," says AT&T exec
Users will "soon" be able to tether their iPhones to their computers and share the data connection on an officially-sanctioned basis, according to AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega. This, combined with Steve Jobs' past comments, has users all atwitter.Read More...
published on Thursday, the 6. November 2008, ars-technica
Remember The Milk for iPhone arrives in App Store
Remember The Milk, a popular web-based task management app that integrates with everything from Gmail to Twitter, is now on the iPhone.Read More...
published on Wednesday, the 5. November 2008, ars-technica
JournalLogger 1.6.2
JournalLogger is a script to automate a running log or diary. It creates a daily (date-stamped) entry each day and adds time-stamped entries to it sequentially, not unlike Twitter's tweets, but not size-limited.
published on Sunday, the 19. October 2008, scriptbuilders
Flock 2.0 brings in MySpace, media RSS feeds
The developers of Flock have announced v2.0 of the browser, which is launching today across multiple platforms. Flock is oriented towards social networking sites, and thus has built-in functions for sites such as Digg, Flickr and Twitter. The second edition adds support for MySpace through the MySpace Data Availability platform, which lets users track contacts via the People Sidebar, and browse ...
published on Wednesday, the 15. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
Set iChat/Adium status line to latest Twitter message
Expand the reach of your Twitter status updates by making them propagate to your instant messaging accounts in iChat or Adium. Here's a Ruby script that grabs your latest Tweet and sets it as the status for iChat and Adium, if they're running. Add it to your crontab to run it regularly and keep in sync.Instructions: Save the following code to ~/Library/Scripts, and name it sync-status-with-twitter.rb: #!/usr/bin/env ruby## Update iChat/Adium status from Twitter## Michael Tyson # http://michael.tyson.id.au# Set Twitter username hereUsername = 'MyUserName'require 'net/http'require 'rexml/document'# Download timeline XML and extract latest entryurl = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/" + U...
published on Monday, the 13. October 2008, macosxhints