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What’s Happening?

Christiaan Hendriksen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:25:04 +0000

Twitter have stopped asking ‘What are you doing?’ and are now asking ‘What’s Happening?’ instead. Twitter say this reflects the shift in usage of tweets from Personal updates about what you’re doing to updates from websites and companies as well.

Google Translate adds speech and real time translation

Christiaan Hendriksen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:29:52 +0000

Google have added 3 new features to their translation service today; Translate instantly, which translates your text as you type it (as you can see in our image), text to speech, which allows you to listen to any translated phrase and ‘Romanization’, allowing you to read translations in languages with non-roman characters. You can read more about the new features on the Google Blog.

[Google Blog]

Google Chrome adds Feeds

Christiaan Hendriksen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:20:43 +0000

Google Chrome currently lacks any sort of feed detection or handling, but all that is about to change. In the next chrome there will be an install extension for handing of RSS feeds, The extension “adds a button to the URL bar when a page has a feed that can be subscribed to”. When you click on the orange button, the extension previews the feed and it lets you subscribe using a feed reader. The extension is available now on the Chromium Developer Website.

[Google Operating System]

Firefox Personas Updated

Christiaan Hendriksen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:09:25 +0000

Personas has been updated to 1.4 with a set of new features that lets you discover new art, rotate through your favorites, and undo. They have released a Vimeo Video describing some of the new features. Click the image below to read more about Personas 1.4 on the Mozilla Blog and download it!

[Mozilla Blog]

Orange UK adds twitter SMS

Christiaan Hendriksen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:53:00 +0000

Orange have now joined Vodafone and o2 in offering the Twitter SMS service (Try it out texting ‘START’ to 86444, charges may apply). An extra feature that Orange have added however is the ability to send photos to twitter using MMS. This is made possible through Orange’s photo service called Snapshot. They give the following instructions on how to use it:

Take a photo on your Orange mobile phone
Select ‘Send via MMS’ or ‘Send multimedia message’
Send it to 8644

[Twitter Blog]

Wally the wallpaper changer

Christiaan Hendriksen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:23:19 +0000

A wallpaper changing application isnt something you would usually expect to make it onto AppMunch, but Wally is no ordinary wallpaper changer. It can grab images from a huge range of sources including: local and remote folders (via FTP), and popular photo sites like Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug, and Bing. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux, you can get a copy at the Wally website.

Wally Wallpaper Changer

Next Week: AppMunch Wave Invite Giveaway!

Christiaan Hendriksen — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:36:55 +0000

Sometime next week the AppMunch Google Wave Giveaway will begin.. We will be giving away some wave invites every day for a number of days through Twitter, so Follow Us or keep checking our website to make sure you don’t miss out!

Google Wave adds Follow/Unfollow

Christiaan Hendriksen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:25:10 +0000

One of my favourite features of wave, is searching for waves (with : public). The only problem with this is as soon as you click on one of the public waves, your wave account becomes crowded with all the public updates. Google have added a feature to wave however, which allows you to ‘unfollow’ a wave. Google give the following advice…

Here’s how following works: When someone adds you directly to a wave, or if you contribute to a wave, you will automatically be following that wave. When you see a public wave that you would like to get updates on, you can chose to follow it by hitting the follow button in the wave panel toolbar. You can remove these waves from your inbox by hitting the “archive” button, but when there is an update they will pop back in. You can switch between following and unfollowing a wave as much and as often as you like.

[Lifehacker]

Yahoo Messanger says bye to Beta

Christiaan Hendriksen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:45:00 +0000

Yahoo Messenger has this week come out of Beta, releasing version 10. With a lot of new features, and Windows 7 support. Click here to read more at the Yahoo Messenger blog. TIP: Choose ‘Custom’ installation to avoid downloading extras such as the Yahoo Toolbar.

New Yahoo Messenger

[Yahoo Messenger Blog]

Chrome OS to be released within a week

Christiaan Hendriksen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:23:57 +0000

Despite Google’s original release date predicted release date of the second half of 2010, a ‘reliable source’ has told TechCrunch it is likely to be released in the next week. Google has previously said they are working with Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba on the project, but it is currently unknown which devices the new OS will be compatible with. You can read more at the TechCrunch blog here. The image below is one of the more convincing potential Chrome OS ‘leaks’.

[TechCrunch]