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Pomodroido: Time Management 2.0

Time management isn’t a new field, with hundreds of books published over the last 50 or so years (and the rest), each professing to hold the secrets behind turning unmotivated workers into Überarbeiten – the basic premise being that by utilizing a few simple techniques (normally based on small promises you make to yourself) you’ll get more done with less effort.

Posted April 21, 2011 8:59 am by Oliver 0 Comments

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Two in five Twitter posts made by mobile

Over 40% of all Twitter posts are made via a mobile phone, according to the company’s CEO Dick Costolo. This rise from 25% 12 months ago is seen largely down to the release of the official Twitter app across Apple, Android and Blackberry platforms.

Posted January 12, 2011 3:55 pm by Oliver 0 Comments

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Recognizr: social facial recognition

A next logical step in the ensuing construction of the semantic web, Recognizer is a (currently) Android only app that , upon pointing your (android device of choice’s) camera at another persons face, informs you just exactly who they are. Now here’s the cool part – as soon as this happens, a series of augmented reality spinning icons appear in midair around the subject’s face -  each one a link to a social networking service that they’ve signed up for – and simply pressing one of them immediately takes you to their profile page (security settings notwithstanding). As of right now, it’s only working with people who’ve signed up with the Recognizr application, but it’s easy to imagine a future where adding contacts to all your social media sites is as simple as pointing and clicking.

Posted May 25, 2010 2:45 pm by Oliver 0 Comments

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Spotify goes mobile for Google’s G1

  We want this. Real real bad. The offline syncing is particularly rad, though we wonder if you’ll have to be a premium user (£9.99 a month) to make use

Posted May 28, 2009 4:33 pm by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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