Twitter Apps for Android Round Up
If you are still wondering which is the best Twitter Application for your Android, Richard from Engadget has a detailed comparison of 8 Twitter Apps.
Twitter’s official app may be one of the better looking ones but it still lacks other neat and commonly used features found on 3rd party apps. In the end, beauty is only skin deep and Engadget lists its top 3 favourite apps with breakdown comparison of tweeting features of each app.
Some nifty non-standard features include replying to all mentions, saved timeline position, ability to post videos and more.
Head on to engadget to read more about it.
In case you missed it, Mashable also has its own comparison too.
Apple iPad International release on May 28 with 9 Countries
More than a month since its launched, Apple is releasing the iPad for international release on May 28th with 9 countries. Sadly Malaysia isn’t one of them.
The 9 countries that will be getting are:
- Australia
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- Spain
- Switzerland
- UK
According to Apple, the next 9 countries set to International release would be:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Hong Kong
- Ireland
- Luxembourg
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Singapore
Pricing will be announced at a later date and we are still wondering when is Malaysia scheduled for Malaysia release.
Despite that, we are still seeing a steady number of iPad users in Malaysia which bought through grey market/proxy from the US.
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Your smartphone always running out of juice?
Here’s a way cooler alternative to a battery pack or car charger. The nPower PEG (Personal Energy Generator).
The PEG is a small, lightweight device that allows you to create renewable energy while you walk or run. It generates and stores electricity created by kinetic energy from your movement. The more you move around the more energy the PEG generates.
The PEG even has a smart circuitry system that adjust and adapts to generate the maximum amount of power from the type of movement.
Just place the PEG in your backpack, briefcase, or handbag and walk. As you move, the PEG harvests the kinetic energy that you’re already generating and converts it into usable power for recharging your smartphone or whatever device you might be using.
We gotta say, Google makes the coolest apps for Android and now it adds a new feature to one of its coolest Android app – translation for Google Goggles.
With Google Goggles, you can can now translate foreign languages in just a snap.
Here’s how it works:
- Point your phone at a word or phrase. Use the region of interest button to draw a box around specific words
- Press the shutter button
- If Goggles recognizes the text, it will give you the option to translate
- Press the translate button to select the source and destination languages.
Head on over to after the jump to scan the QRCode to download Google Goggles on your Android phone.
Want to try out the Xperia X10? Here’s a nifty simulation
Thought of getting Sony Ericsson’s flagship Android phone?
Here’s a nifty simulation that let’s you try out the phone before you buy. Sorta. We emphasize that it is just a simulation.
We’ve heard that the skinned Android in the X10 is very laggy…wonder if the simulation is simulating that.
What’s Apple on about? The Ellen spoof is pretty funny
Ellen made a spoof iPhone ad and we though that it was pretty funny, but Apple seems to think otherwise.
After the spoof was aired earlier this week, the Apple people contacted Ellen and told her that they didn’t think it was funny. Instead, the spoof, Apple said, made the iPhone look like it’s difficult to use.
Apple was so offended by the spoof that it made Ellen apologise on her show. “Everybody at Apple, Steve Jobs, Mr Macintosh, I apologise. I’m sorry,” she said.
Oh come one. Everyone knows the iPhone is not difficult to use but the Ellen’s spoof is kind of what’s really happening. We know heaps of iPhone users who accidentally sent the wrong text because of the over eager auto correct robot. It happens to us at least a couple of times in a day. How about you?
This is not the first time Apple products where made the butt of talk show jokes. David Letterman made the iPad look like it is almost impossible to use on his show and the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart called Apple appholes. With Ellen’s apology to Apple will it spell the end of Apple spoofs?
It’s no big deal Apple. Jobs, you’ll still be selling the new one by the millions. Let up a bit will ya.
Check out the spoof after the jump. You’d better hurry, it might not be there long due to copyright and whatever.
What kind of world are we living in? People texting during sex, women jealous at smartphones!
Looks like the gadget junkie’s affinity towards gadget is going to take a toll on his performance on the saddle.
A survey done by Bayer in the UK indicates that smartphones like the iPhone and Blackberry are ruining women’s sex lives because their partners are too distracted in the bedroom.
More than a quarter of women surveyed (28 per cent) claim that email and internet are disrupting their love lives, with hand-held devices particularly to blame.
Other factors which prevent couples enjoying intimacy include long working hours (cited by 55 per cent of women), tiredness (83 per cent) azd being too busy (74 per cent).
It that’s not weird enough for ya. Another survey done in the US reveals one in 10 of under-25s text during sex.
Ok, whoever that’s doing all this, you seriously got to put your phone down!
Over a million iPads sold in under a month is a freakishly impressive sales figure but then again it may not be that much of a surprise for the Apple people.
And with a huge demand for the iPad there’s definitely going to be a huge third-party market for iPad accessories, casses and keyboards. And as far as iPad casses go, this is one of the best we’ve seen so far.
The ClamCase is a three in one case for the iPad that functions as a stand, a bluetooth keyboard add on and a protective case.
No indication on pricing yet but it sure does look good.
Our take: by the looks of it, it certainly looks like an awesome add on for the iPad. Heck, we’d get one! Now we wish there’s one for the iPhone too.
ClamCase promo video for your viewing pleasure after the jump.