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 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 [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]