Alternative To is a website that gives you a list of open-source alternatives to every application out there. The sign is well designed, easy to use, and has a great database for all platforms.
The other day I was checking out Soocial, a pretty neat Mac application that allows you to sync a bunch of devices. They have a real neat video to explain what their product can do for you. Do checkout the application also. It can make your life on the Mac a lot easier.
Hassle Free from Soocial on Vimeo.
That’s today’s Samuel F. B. Morse, the man who created the Morse Code. He was born on April 27th, 1791.
Apple shows its pride. Almost 1 billion apps sold at the App Store. Check out how Apple is showing off.
Twitter is great fun and I’ve been using it for a while now. Yet, until today I have not seen the way it can make people jump into action with such incredible speed. #Amazonfail appeared over my Twitter feed. For the folks who are not yet in the know of the matter it was recently discovered that Amazon.com was tampering with the ratings of any material they deemed as gay. There were a number of people in my circle of friends who set things rolling with a link to this piece by author Mark R Probst which describes how Amazon.com have been quietly removing the sales rankings from books with gay content. Writer Craig Seymour notes it happening to a book of his back in February. They claim this is done as part of their policy of removing sales ranking from anything deemed “adult” and is intended to help (ie: protect by blanking) customers who don’t want to see “adult” material turn up in their searches. A number of people I know are boycotting Amazon.com as a matter of principle.
I find it quite hard to believe that in this day and age a company of this size would do something like this. I thought censorship of this level was a thing of the past. Too bad for them I was about to place an order with them for my digital camera.
Hunch helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it. It’s a site that claims to answer any question you ask it, based on algorithm that it uses to analyse your responses to the just-mentioned set of questions. The more you answer, the better it claims to get. Check it out. It’s pretty neat.
Been micro-blogging on Twitter for a while now. Using Twitter as a platform to share anything that’s grabbed my attention of late. Everything from funny news, to sports and entertainment, design, and of course, technology. There’s a whole array of plugins available for my Mac and my iPhone which make the experience of tweeting a lot easier and great fun.
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“Neil Patel is the co-founder of 2 Internet companies: Crazy Egg, and KISSmetrics. Through these 2 companies he has helped large corporations such as AOL, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal.”
Read the rest here. It is really interesting.
