This week, Amazon launched the UK version of their Amazon MP3 store on Android. Amazon MP3 has over 9 million DRM-free songs which are now available on the go.
To get the UK version of Amazon MP3 for Android, just search for Amazon MP3 in the Android Market.
So one night I’m browsing the App Store looking for some interesting to buy with the last 0.69p of my Store Credit, and I came across “Talking Carl”. The icon caught my eye and the text drew me in. So I decided to check it out!
So after a quick download and installation, I fired up Carl for the first time. And nothing happened. So I tapped him – and the fun started! When he started shouting back at me, a small “Woah..” escaped from my mouth, which he happily repeated! And since then, he’s repeated all sorts of words, ranging from “I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay!” to repeating the chorus to Riverside by Sidney Samson 
So what are Carl’s features? You can talk to him, and he’ll repeat it. If you poke him, he’ll shout and shake. If you tickle him he’ll start liking, which I quite like! If you pinch him he’ll start growling, almost like the engine of a car, and if you ignore him he’ll start mumbling and fussing, since he has no attention!
This app has been a pleasure to play with. Thinking about it, it is a simple idea. An app that repeats what you say to it. But with all the little features introduced by the developer, plus the higher pitch Carl replays back in, it’s worth the price of 0.59p.
But since it’s difficult to really describe how fun this app is, I’m gonna have to show you it in action! So yes, there is another screen cast! I’d like to apologies for the low quality. It was recorded by an ancient camera :/
And the icing on the cake – when you press the home button to leave Carl, a little “Bye bye” can be heard in the distance. Excellent 
Download [iTunes]
Developer [Website]
I recently reviewed and spoke to the CEO of Tungle (http://www.tungle.me) who promised support for one of the most used software platforms in business, IBM’s Lotus Notes. Today, Tungle has launched support for Lotus Notes in the form of a limited BETA which you can sign up for at http://lotus.tungle.com.
More information about this is at http://blog.tungle.com
Congrats Tungle!
We listen to music everyday. Apple developed applications like iTunes and devices like the iPod & iPhone to encourage us to listen to more music. Then came the iTunes Store, and Spotify, and more and more music-related products/services. The more you think about it, the more it seems music has integrated itself into our lives, well, that was until the X-Factor came along and humiliated it…
Last.fm is one of the many services that jumps on the musical bandwagon. It’s a free service that “scrobbles” (remembers and lists) the recent songs you’ve listened to, then presents them on your profile page and to top it all of, it compares your music with your friends, giving you compatibility ratings!
When I got introduced to it, I didn’t really see the point. So it remembers my music, and displays them on the site. Big deal. But then when I found friends on Last.fm I realised that I could use this to listen to what my friends like, without buying it and I reckon I could use it to predict what others will like in the future and buy them a newly-released album for their birthday / Christmas etc.
There are may tools that can scrobble your music to Last.fm, the mostly used one being the desktop Scrobbler, which loads automatically with iTunes and scrobbles your music behind the scenes. The desktop version has the ability to read off your iPhone / iPod any songs you’ve listened to, and will automatically scrobble them too!
Here are some pictures of the desktop scrobbler and the online website.
There is also an application for iPhone, Android, Xbox Live, BlackBerry, Logitech, Sonos, Vodafone, 3 and Revo. They’re all found here.
So that’s Last.fm. It’s like that, and that’s the way it is 
I recommend you go and try it, since it’s free, and you’ve got absolutely nothing to lose!
Do you find your self passing emails back and forth trying to schedule meetings with people? Want a easy solution to your scheduling nightmares? Look no further with Tungle. Tungle has all the features to make you a scheduling king or queen. For more information about Tungle go tohttp://www.tungle.com.
I managed to talk to the CEO and Founder of Tungle, Marc Gingras about Tungle and its future.
Why did you create Tungle?
Two startups. Grew to 6-7 people. Was hard to schedule meetings. Went out to try and schedule meetings.
There was only exchange. $500 per a person for exchange. Just sold the company to a buyer.
Started to create a startup, problem scheduling internally also external.
More time to create a meeting than doing it.
How is Tungle differnt from other scheduling websites/software?
1. Tungle helping business people. Also used for personal and friends scheduling .
Tungle targeting business professionals.
2. Targeting progams that they use Outlook, GCal ect.
3. Social Networks – In the environment that it in.
New features coming to Tungle soon…
1. Lotus Notes. Want to support leading business programs
2. Mobile support – Blackberry. iPhone app out already!
3. Tungle becoming more and more social.
Follow Tungle on Twitter: @tunglerocks.
Foursquare is now available everywhere in the world on the iPhone. Android, Blackberry and Palm WebOS devices. More information at http://www.foursquare.com
Once again NORAD are doing “NORAD Track Santa” at http://www.noradsanta.org where you can track Santa on a normal Google Map or in 3D on Google Earth.
Also track Santa on your mobile at http://m.noradsanta.org.
This is great for young children or just for fun.
Starting today, live coverage of the Christmas Apps Offers and Apple’s iTunes’s 12 Days of Downloads in the UK.
Christmas Apps Offers incl. iTunes’s 12 Days of Downloads.
The logo for Tweetie 2
Tweetie 2.1 was a highly-anticipated application. For those of you that don’t use the web service Twitter, then Tweetie is a fairly useless application. But if you are a daily user, then this may be the best Twitter client you come across!
Created by Loren Brichter, the popular Twitter client has been one of many that has been helping Twitter take off and become an extremely popular service. But being Gapps, we are more interested in the app, which it’s precedessor (Tweetie 1.3) won an Apple Design Award in 2009.
Tweetie 2 is considered to be a whole new application, due to the amount of features being built into it which wasn’t in the first app. Therefore, Loren charged $2.99 (the same price as Tweetie 1) on the App Store to all users, new and old. Unusually, and as expected, all the users DID purchase Tweetie 2, since it was such an incredible app to start with, people figured it could only get better!
Some of it’s best features include:
So, lets say you want storage online that syncs with your computer (Windows or Mac), well your in luck! Dropbox is the ultimate online storage solution. I use Dropbox to upload picture and work and share it out. You get 2GB free when you sign up and then if you need for storage after that, there are paid plans.
If you sign up with the link below, you will get 250MB added on top of the 2GB.
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