Gina Trapani
The tech-savvy Barack Obama campaign offers a free iPhone application that prioritises your contacts list by “key battleground states” (so…
If you’re looking to buy a house, it’s always good to know what it (and others in the neighbourhood) sold…
Windows only (for now): When Skype rolled out its first beta 4.0 release back in June, its managed conversation features…
I was at a friend’s wedding recently, and during the after-dinner speeches it emerged that the couple had first met…
Google Labs launches an addictive little webapp called In Quotes, which searches and compares things politicians have said in the…
Social networks are supposed to be friendly places, but sometimes the devil enters into you and causing a little mayhem…
Having recently complained about we can’t all live in a freestanding dwelling these days. Switchover is still scheduled to be…
iPhone only: Considering that voice dialing has been a standard feature of even the cheapest phones for several years, the…
iPhone owners really are keener on browsing the Internet on the go than other people. As I’ve reported at APC,…
While not threatening to overtake ADSL, wireless broadband services are growing in popularity. New data from the Australian Bureau of…
For those writers hoping to hit the big-time with their book ideas, new social publishing company WEbook wants to recreate…
When I posted recently about evident resistance to change on the site was largely superficial, and that if people gave…
Windows/Mac OS X: Free Skype plug-in Yugma Team Collaboration adds a screen sharing feature to Skype. The plug-in is an…
iPhone/iPod touch only: Free streaming radio app FlyCast can grab streams from more than 1,000 digital radio stations, but what’s…
I’m currently at the Cisco Networkers conference in Brisbane, where one of the main features is a demonstration of the…
Jailbroken iPhones only: New iPhone 2.1 jailbreak app, iPhone Modem, promises to tether your iPhone to your laptop or computer…
One of the less pleasant parts of the book publishing industry is the slush pile — the stack of unsolicited…
While it has been quite some time since anyone has placed gilded calling cards into the hands of waiting butlers…
Twitter’s instability is infamous, and in recent weeks it’s seemed like a lottery whether you’ll be able to access the…
The Australian radio industry has been talking up the potential of digital radio — better signal, multiple channels, on-screen information…
Google says it’s bringing history online, one newspaper at a time with a new initiative to digitise millions of newspapers—like…
You can spend a good chunk of time searching the web for an ecard that isn’t annoying, cheesy, ad-ridden, or…
Web site SoundUnwound is Amazon’s new music web site designed to provide comprehensive articles and information on bands, musicians, and…
If you pine for your long-gone computer lab days of using, well, Pine, or just interested in a quick-access, command-line…
Mac OS X only: The popular open-source instant messaging application Adium has released a significant update chock-full of improvements. Most…
Webapp Zapproved helps you mediate group decisions, like where to have the company holiday party, or if everyone likes the…
Although modern webmail clients such as Gmail offer generous file allocations, there are still limits to the size of attachments…
Social networking and recommendation site Docoloco takes one-sentence user comments on shops, cafes and other points of interest, and melds…
Although you may not have noticed if your main television viewing approach is
