Tonight you’ll be able to unlock one of the easiest badges we’ve ever seen.  Between the hours of 8pm and 4am, local time, just check in to any venue and get the badge.  This is what you’ll see when you unlock the badge:    “Happy New Year!  Thanks for all your check-ins, tips, photos, comments  and badge unlocks in 2010. Here’s to a happy and healthy 2011 – and a  hangover free tomorrow.”

I like to get screen shots of some of the stuff I do on my Evo 4G, and the best free screen capture app by far, that I’ve found is ShootMe.  It allows you to simply shake your phone a bit while on the screen you want, and it saves a picture of it on your SD card.  From there you can upload to Twitter, WordPress, Facebook, or just send it to a friend as [...]

Posted September 30, 2010 by Jane Wells. Filed under Releases on Wordpress.org’s blog. Attention Apple-gadget-owning WordPress users! Have you been using the WordPress iOS app for iPhone and iPad? Or maybe you tried it a while back and thought it wasn’t for you? Either way, the new release — v2.6 — will knock your socks off. Why? A bunch of reasons: Video. Record, upload, attach, and play videos within the app. Yay for being able to catch [...]

Gentlemen, let’s talk about steez. You know, “style with ease.”  If you’re the kind of dude who rocks a button-down collared shirt — and likes being one of a kind — you need to check out the Blank Label application for the iPad. Blank Label is, in our opinion, a fairly ingenious iPad app that lets you customize the: fabric type, collar, cuff, pocket, shoulders, placket, labeling, monogram and buttons of a button-down, collared shirt. With 40 fabrics, [...]

Nope, it’s not a Facebook “phone,” but it’s probably the closest you’re gonna get to one right now. Skype has just unleashed the no-longer-in-beta version of its 5.0 Windows software, and not only has it drastically tided up the interface, but just like the rumor said, it’s taken advantage of Facebook Connect in a big way. The new version, which will apparently be available for public download within minutes of this post hitting the internet, [...]

I have been using Google Reader for a while now as my main source to read tech blogs, world news, and other news that I am interested in. I find it much easier than going to each web page and scrolling through, and when I want so save something for later, that is simple as well. I have recently moved back to BlackBerry, after some time with the Pre as my main device, and I [...]

  Wow, all this time I’ve been talking about new badges on Foursquare and I haven’t even done a review yet?  Sheesh!  Well, here at EctoCooler, Foursquare has been a hit so far.  A few of the others (I won’t mention any names), have yet to venture into the world of location based social media.  I remember first checking out Foursquare right when it came out and I literally thought to myself, “What a stupid idea.” “Who [...]

A lot of things happening lately with Foursquare, with new badges and all.  A week ago, I reported the Swimmies Badge has made a comeback.  But, after a little more research, I found there are several new badges that have popped up in the last month or so.  One in particular, is getting a ton of news.  MTV’s Get Yourself Tested Badge is all the rage on blogs and news sites lately.  This badge is a [...]

Tether for BlackBerry is an application that does exactly as the title implies, it allows you to tether your BlackBerry to your PC or Mac via USB cable or Bluetooth. A high percentage of BlackBerry users are business people. Business people travel. Along with travel, comes down time. Now most business people that I know own a laptop, and it would be fair to say that less that 80% of those people own a mobile [...]

  Palm’s new webOS is looking pretty sweet since they released the early version of the SDK this week.  webOS is by far one of the coolest OS’ I’ve ever played with and the possibilities are endless, which makes it even more exciting to think about considering the things HP could do with it if they bring their hardware “A” game.  The new version promises to bring some great new features for consumers and developers.  The [...]

The swimmies badge, once a limited-time SXSWbadge, has re-emerged with different text, that suggests you need to check in five times near bodies of water. It is unclear whether there are more specific criteria to unlock the badge as of right now, but if this new-old badge is a sign of things to come, I’m sure more people will be excited to use foursquare more often. This badge seems to have been re-released today, Aug [...]

I get this question a lot.  So, I wanted to post this for those of you that are still in the dark regarding Google Voice.

  So, I finally broke down and decided I was going to enter a blog post from my BlackBerry. What better app to review than the very app I am using for this post. In this case, WordPress for Blackberry. I’ve been wanting to get this up and running lately, so I can enter quick posts on the go if and when we get some breaking news important enough for me to enter it while [...]

  Looks like the legal department over at RIM has made some changes to it’s Vendor Agreement.  The changes are small, but if you look in section 8.2, you will find changes in regard to Privacy and Data Protection.  Looks like they have made these changes due to the heat on privacy right now with Foursquare and Facebook taking some of the “heat” for the risk involved in telling everyone your home is unattended when you [...]

  So, I’ve been using Twitter for almost a full year now, which, makes me a “grandpa” Twitter user over here at EctoCooler.  The guys and I have been tweeting it up quite a bit as of late.  In fact, we’ve been typing out 140-character-or-less micro blog posts so much, our wives and girlfriends are demanding ”more quality” time.  If you’re as geeky as we are about apps and mobile phones, I’m sure you can relate.  In the spirit of all [...]

I have always been looking for an easy app to throw movies into my Netflix Que while out and seeing an advertisement, or watching the preview during another movie. MyQ is that app. Aside from those core functionalities, they also have a very clean interface, ability to reorder both Disc and Instant Que’s on your device, see the filmography for actors and actresses, and search YouTube for trailers. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Pros: [...]

For BlackBerry, the best designed, most fully featured weather app I have yet to find, is BerryWeather. It truly has everything you could ask for from this type of application. From a clean interface, multiple locations to track, background updates, and following your GPS when updating, to homescreen badges, (you can display the current temp in the notifications area at all times) the application icon itself can show you current temp and conditions, and/or you [...]

AccuWeather is a free app for Android, webOS, BlackBerry and iOS.  The name is pretty self explanatory, a weather app that gives you all of the basic things you would desire out of a free weather application.  The application gives either GPS based or user input locations for weather data.  This review focuses specifically on the version for webOS. AccuWeather is a free download which is accessible through the Palm App Catalog.  It is one [...]

Downloading now. Strangely, not the 1.4.5.1 that was previously thought to be posting.

I know there are a ton of apps out there that everyone’s just going nuts over, but I wanted to highlight an app that I use almost daily.  Poynt is a free, local search application which allows you to search for people, businesses, movies and restaurants.  It allows you to search based on your current location or, if you want to search somewhere else, it’s easy to switch to a certain location of your choosing.  It’s [...]

Okay, maybe you’re old fashioned and don’t believe in the “social media” stuff.  Maybe you value the relationships you build face-to-face.  I get that. Maybe you’re trying to find a job, and you want an easier way to keep track of the people and businesses you’re networking with.  Maybe you’re part of one of those businesses that already has a great customer base and are thriving without social media.  Great.  Proud of ya, keep it up. But, maybe, just [...]