Flipboard adds audio features to its social magazine app
May 17, 2012 – 11:41 | No Comment
Flipboard adds audio features to its social magazine app

iOS app Flipboard has already earned itself something of a name as a great way to aggregate multiple social networks and news media into a single, more easily managed stream. The latest version of the iPhone …

Software roundup: 36 essential downloads and updates from this week’s releases
April 28, 2012 – 05:17 | No Comment
Software roundup: 36 essential downloads and updates from this week’s releases

The big new this week has been in the cloud, and there have been various developments in the world of online storage. After what seems like years of waiting, Google Drive 1.0 has finally been released, …

MetroTwit 1.0 adds support for multiple Twitter accounts, ‘undo tweet’ and much more
March 27, 2012 – 16:57 | No Comment
MetroTwit 1.0 adds support for multiple Twitter accounts, ‘undo tweet’ and much more

Inspired by the look of Windows Metro, MetroTwit is a unique-looking, clean Twitter client that oozes style and simplicity. The app has just hit version 1.0 having already proved itself to be worthy of note …

Trillian for Mac updated with improved support for Twitter and much more
March 13, 2012 – 09:03 | No Comment
Trillian for Mac updated with improved support for Twitter and much more

It used to be that there were numerous chat clients to choose from – the likes of AIM, MSN and Yahoo! – but nowadays there are also social networks to consider. Trillian has always been …

Turn web sites into desktop app with Pokki
January 17, 2012 – 07:31 | No Comment
Turn web sites into desktop app with Pokki

You have undoubtedly noticed that an ever-increasing amount of the time you spend using your computer is spent online. The same is true of your phone, and when you’re out and about it is quite …

Zimbra Desktop integrates your email, Facebook and Twitter accounts into a single interface
January 13, 2012 – 13:02 | No Comment
Zimbra Desktop integrates your email, Facebook and Twitter accounts into a single interface

Managing even just the day-to-day basics of your online life can be a challenge, these days, with work and personal email accounts to monitor, Facebook and Twitter to check, calendars, task lists and more to …

Roundup: 20 software releases you may have missed in the second week of December
December 9, 2011 – 15:12 | No Comment
Roundup: 20 software releases you may have missed in the second week of December

It may only be the second week of December, but the Christmas feeling has already taken over. Software publishers are still releasing software throughout the festive season and we’ve collected together twenty of the biggest …

TweetDeck 1.0 leaves beta, Adobe AIR, and some disgruntled users behind
December 9, 2011 – 12:16 | No Comment
TweetDeck 1.0 leaves beta, Adobe AIR, and some disgruntled users behind

Twitter has released the first stable release of TweetDeck 1.0, its recently acquired, multi-columned Twitter client. TweetDeck 1.0, which runs on both Mac and Windows, is the first release to be written in native code as …

Trillian 5.1 for Windows plugs into Skype with new release
November 9, 2011 – 11:02 | No Comment
Trillian 5.1 for Windows plugs into Skype with new release

Cerulean Studios has updated its Windows cross-network IM chat tool, Trillian for Windows, to version 5.1. The major new addition to this multi-platform social-networking tool is support for Skype, which joins other notable networks such …

Quick Review: Postbox 3.0
November 4, 2011 – 08:25 | No Comment
Quick Review: Postbox 3.0

A dedicated email client is not something that is seen as being quite as essential as it used to be, largely thanks to the fact that most web based email services have dramatically improved. However, …

Taptu brings your social networks and newsfeeds into one handy timeline mash-up
October 14, 2011 – 13:17 | No Comment
Taptu brings your social networks and newsfeeds into one handy timeline mash-up

With a range of social networks to choose from, each with their own timeline or news feed available, coupled with blogs and news web sites, many internet users have a huge amount of information to …