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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]