Facebook mobile users triple this year
Facebook said that use of its mobile products has tripled since the beginning of the year and the popularity of some features has surprised the company.
Best (free) mobile Twitter apps
Whether you employ Twitter for work, play or a combination of the two, there's a mobile Twitter app that's best for you. Which app that may be depends on your smartphone platform. Check out the following seven mobile Twitter apps for a look at your options.
The 10 best Google Android applications
Late last year, Google announced that it would give $10 million worth in prizes to software development companies to develop innovative and useful applications for their open source mobile Android platform. Roughly nine months later, Google has announced the winners, and the applications it has selected help users do everything from calling their nearest taxi cabs to comparing sale prices at different stores to calculating their carbon footprint.
How to print iPhone text messages
Among Ecamm Networks' $20 PhoneView's many features (including using your iPhone as a storage device when connected to your Mac, copying the iPhone's music, videos, and photos to your computer; and viewing and editing the iPhone's notes) is that it allows you to export the phone's SMS messages as text files, which you can then print.
Cocktail recipe apps for the iPhone
There are 5 cocktail database applications now available at the App Store. The best of the lot allow users to create and manage a list of favorite drinks, e-mail or text message recipes to friends, and feature about 5,500 recipes between them. But all suffer from flaws that the developers would do well to remedy in future releases.
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