Twinity has recently decided to let a few more people into their virtual rendition of real world locations.
If you already know someone who is a member you could get onto them to ask if you can have one of their limited number of invites.
Category: Software
Software
iPhone Apps: 60m In First Month
Steve Jobs has been chatting to the Wall Street Journal about the iPhone, its App Store and the ‘Kill Switch.’
Jobs confirmed that an impressive 60 million iPhone applications have been downloaded in the first month of the iPhone App Store.
Opera Lands O2 Germany Mobile Deal
Opera have been receiving more success in placing their Web browsing software on different platforms, particularly mobile phones.
The latest win is a big one.
iPhone “Kill Switch” Storm
Given the media’s initial blind obsession with the iPhone, writing about it as if it were the third-coming, it’s not surprising that, true to form, they’re now getting overheated with a possible bad news story.
It centers on an apparent “Kill Switch,” that _might_ be used to kill applications on the iPhone.
WordPress 2.6: Upgrade Causes Broken Categories: Fix Here
We’ve been users of WordPress for many years and are huge fans of the free-to-use publishing platform.
Yesterday was the first time that we’ve hit a major problem with it – and it was a significant one.
Background
We use it on many of our publications including VentnorBlog, that covers Isle of Wight News.
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Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Released
Hurtling down the new product chute at high speed is version two of Adobe’s popular photo-editing and organising suite, Photoshop Lightroom.
The company is hoping that with booming sales of high-end SLR cameras, enthusiast snappers will be looking for more sophisticated methods of sorting, categorising, editing and tweaking collections of images scattered over their bulging hard drives.
Beer Toss: Wii Game Released
Find a niche … that’s what everyone says about the technology world … or the world of commerce on a larger scale.
Well JV Games must have been listening because they’ve just come out with Frat Party Games to run on the Nintendo Wii.
PlacesBar Editor: Windows XP Utility Review (85%)
Sometimes it’s the little software utilities that make a pleasing difference to your productivity, and one that’s currently making our workload a little bit lighter every day is Melloware’s PlacesBar Editor.
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Google To Buy Up Digg?
Currently burning up the blogosphere is the hot rumour that search giants Google are in final negotiations to acquire the user-driven, social content website Digg for “around $200 Million.”
Unshredder: Join Together Shredded Documents In Software: Review-ette (20%)
Back in the day, you needed a team of dedicated followers to re-assemble a shredded document, as the Iranians did when the US left their embassy in Tehran in the late 1970s.
These days there’s a darn bit of software to help you do it.
Unsurprisingly it’s called Unshredder and they label it the “first commercial document reconstruction tool in the world!”
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