Social Media News IOS app now available for download
Social Media News has been bringing us local Australian content since May 2010 and today, David Cowling and his team from Social Media News Australia announced their brand new shiny IOS app – ready to download via iTunes. Not only are you getting awesome Australian Social Media Content, you get to keep up to date with all their latest news, you can share all stories via Facebook, Twitter or email them to a friend / colleague, get push notifications so your aware of all new content as it happens and it is compatible on all IOS devices like iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch (IOS 5 or later).
Soon, the Social Media News app will be getting the iPhone 5 update – more to come on that!
Now just to make this even sweeter, the new app from Social Media News is also free, so there is no excuse not to download it and keep up to date with all things happening in the social media world!
Get it today by clicking on the link below, visit their website and why not join their social media groups
SoundGecko (www.SoundGecko.com) is a new app for the iPhone, it takes any website and converts the text to speech. It’s a great app for when you are out walking or driving to work and you don’t want to read a lot of text, so why not convert it to speech!
You can convert the website text to speech in two easy ways. Email the Link or use the Chrome Applet, Heres how to convert it:
Email the link:
Locate the webpage you are wanting to read,
Copy the URL (web address – e.g. www.domain-name.com/page.html) into a new email,
Email receipts can be sent to you to confirm your recordings, these will be sent to the account which you have signed up with. You can turn this service on or off within the preferences tab on the SoundGecko website.
SoundGecko does a really great job at encoding text to speech and sounds quiet natural too.
From reading the SoundGecko website, the service is currently free at the moment but they are developing more functions and later on, this will turn into a paid service. Even if it was a paid service, i would look at paying for it. I wish i had something which was this easy for me to use when i was at university, all those websites i had to read over and over to study for exams, this site would have come in handy. Now, i am always surfing the net as part of my job, this is going to make my job a lot easier!
SoundGeck just announce an update with the following details:
NEW: Added a popular tab to see trending articles which other customers are listening too.
NEW: playlists items are grouped by days
FIXED: iPad now correctly shows main screen
FIXED: Playlist being cut off at the bottom
FIXED: Listen state’s not being remembered if you refresh during playback
CHANGED: When re-opening the app after inactivity, we now only refresh if its been an hour or longer (instead of 5 minutes). You can “pull to refresh” the table to reload immediately.
CHANGED: You no longer need an account to start using the application (by trying the Popular articles section)
CHANGED: Cache link icons across application restarts
CHANGED: Gracefully handle connection failures by clearing loading screens on the UI and allowing the user to re-try a refresh when connectivity is available
CHANGED: Whiten and underline the “Find out more / Register” links found on the Login / Get Started screen
CHANGED: After a network playback error, don’t automatically move to the next item in the list
CHANGED: Adjusted the toolbar header colour to match the SoundGecko colour swatch
and guess what, SoundGEcko are listening to customer suggestions… so if you want to improve it, let them know, email them at go@soundgecko.com or Follow @soundgecko
So we all need email address’ for our social media apps and platforms and Hotmail is one free email platform which has been out for years. Microsoft has rebranded their Hotmail product to the new Outlook.com.
If you have a hotmail address, why not roll it over to Outlook.com as there are some very nice features which Microsoft developed, such as:
Take your appointments with you, sync calendar on all devices.
Instagram is a fun and beautiful way to share your photos with friends and new friends. Photo’s taken can be your raw and untouched image or you can use one of the many filters to add vibrant effects to your creations. Filters included in the app are:
Normal,
Amaro,
Rise,
Hudson,
X-Pro11,
Sierra,
Lo II,
Earlybird,
Sutro,
Toaster,
Brannan,
Inkwell,
Walden,
Hefe,
Velencia,
Nashville,
1977
Kelvin.
Tilt-shift can be added to create an additional effect, as well as adding different frames to the image and brightness.When uploading the image to Instagram, you can hash tag (# hastag) your images so they will turn up on other users searches, add a location to the image and also share via various social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Email, Tumblr, Fousquare, and Flickr
