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Nik's Favourite iPhone Apps: TwitterrificToday

Filed under: Web services, Commercial, Shareware, Freeware, iPhone, web 2.0

Here at Download Squad, we know that a fair number of our readers are avid Twitter users [much like ourselves]. There's been no shortage of Twitter clients thanks to Twitter's readily-available API: and the AppStore is little different.

Twitterrific, if you're not already in the know, is the ubiquitous Mac OS X Twitter client (now at version 3 on the desktop) - and possibly one of the most anticipated applications in Twitter-circles when the iPhone SDK was earlier this year. Winner of a prestigious

Nik's Favourite iPhone Apps: ExposureToday

Filed under: Fun, Photo, Web services, Commercial, iPhone, web 2.0

When the iPhone launched almost all possible web services, whether officially or via a third-party, gained an iPhone-specific portal. However Yahoo!-owned Flickr only recently (October 1st) gained a well-designed web version. With the iPhone SDK on the block however, a number of iPhone-native Flickr clients are available for both Flickr browsing and uploading.

AirMe does a plethora of tricks when uploading to Flickr (as well as other services including Facebook) by using the iPhone's location-awareness to name, tag and geo-tag the image with your location. For browsi

Zoho Mail now online - and offline thanks to Google GearsToday

Filed under: E-mail, Web services, web 2.0, Web

Online productivity app makers Zoho have publicly rolled out Zoho Mail, a webmail application that's been in private beta up until today. While the world may not really need yet another webmail app, there are a few things that make Zoho Mail a notable challenger to offerings from Google, Yaho!, Microsoft, and AOL.

First and foremost, Zoho Mail offers an offline mode thanks to Google Gears. If you have Gears installed for Internet Explorer or Firefox, you can configure Zoho to download your most recent email messages and attachments so you can catch up on your email when you're stranded somewhere without an internet connection. Yahoo! offers a similar feature, but despite the fact that Zoho Mail's offline access is powered by Google Gears, Google's Gmail does not have an

Yahoo! unveils new, improved, kinda awesome beta web calendarOctober 8

Filed under: E-mail, Productivity, Web services, Yahoo!, web 2.0

Yahoo! is rolling out the first major overhaul of its web-based calendar application in 10 years. But while there are 278-million Yahoo! Mail users, only about 8 million people use the calendar.

The new Yahoo! Calendar beta looks pretty nice. It has a slick interface that lets you zoom in on any particular date for a close-up even when you're using the month view. The calendar also features Flickr integration, so that random Creative Commons-licensed images can be pulled in to make the calendar look pretty. Eventually users will be able to add images from their own Flickr accounts.

The updates aren't just cosmetic. You ca

Mufin launches new music discovery engine beta, Download Squad readers are invitedOctober 8

Filed under: Audio, Internet, Features, Web services, web 2.0

As a music lover, one of my favorite innovations of the last five years or so has come in the form of music discovery services. Services like Last.fm, Pandora, Rhapsody and iTunes 8 have made it easy to find artists or songs that are similar to your musical tastes and preferences. The only problem with these services, is that they are based on limited databases (like the iTunes Music Store, for iTunes's Genius Mode), reviews or ratings by other users and overall popularity. That means that the music discovered might indeed be similar, but it really limits results to mainsream songs and generic genre distinctions. This is great for an automatic playlist, but not so great for real