Entries Tagged as 'Free Apps'

Friday, November 7th, 2008

iPhone as Serious Musical Instrument?

There have been a few iPhone apps that suggest where things are heading, not necessarily with the iPhone as musical instrument (it is still a small toy) but with musical instruments of the future. The multi touch, inertia driven interface at larger scale is going to be very interesting as well as the proximity and [...]

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Education Cooking with Google Apps

The NSW Education Department is now among Google’s biggest gmail clients after they recently signed up for the service. A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald reports that the NSW Education deal is one of the biggest deployments of gmail in the world. You can read the article here. Macaquarie University has also reportedly [...]

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

‘Twitters’ beat media in reporting Chinese earthquake

The world had real-time news about China’s massive earthquake as victims dashed out Twitter text messages while it took place, in what has been touted as evidence of micro-blogging outshining mainstream news, claims Newslimited media potral News.com.au.
As the earth shook with tragic consequences, people in the parts of China that felt the quake used their mobile [...]

Monday, March 17th, 2008

The future of Social Networking

There is talk that the features of social networking will gradually absorb into everything we do online or possibly be accessed through bespoke personal portals. This means that future social networking may not be destination dependent and we won’t need to log in to a branded url to connect. Can Facebook, MySpace and Bebo sustain [...]

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Don’t iFob me off!

A few of us LAMP’ers have had iPhones for a few months. Of course they are currently jailbroken 1.1.3’s – for R&D purposes only
One of my favourite applications is ‘installer’ which is like a portal to a vast array of free, cool (we have to use that word in every post) grass roots [...]