Sunday, November 27, 2011

Ego... Your Important



If your constantly looking at how many followers you have on Twitter or how many visitors you've had to your website then Ego is definitely the app for you. Ego lets you see an overview of your stats from Twitter, Google Analytics and more. To get started on Ego, you will need to add some of your accounts. You have multiple accounts from the same network, you can see stats for; Twitter, Ember, Feedburner, Google Analytics, Mint, SquareSpace and Vimeo.

The main screen of Ego shows a widget for each of your added accounts, which is coloured depending on the type of account. The three ‘social’ types accounts you can add are Twitter, Vimeo and Ember. Ego is a great app for giving you an overview of your stats in the order you choose. Also, the interface for Ego is beautiful and really shows how apps should be made. Ego, for the most part, is aimed at webmasters, who are notoriously obsessed with stats, but even if you only use one or more of the services on offer (who isn’t on Twitter these days?), Ego is definitely an app worth buying.


Sunday, November 20, 2011

Podcaster!




Getting into Podcasting? Download Podcastert for your iPhone or Droid, this app allows you to become an expert and gain all that is needed to podcast or listen to some of your favorite podcasts! This app allows you to start from scratch, starting with the title. After you have chosen an appealing headline you can start thinking of an exquisite subtitle and a relevant summary. Next choose your podcast description, podcast description should be as concise and explanatory as possible. It is your chance to resume the essence of your podcast for potential subscribers: subject matter, episode schedule, media format and any other info that you consider relevant and alluring.

Podcaster drives you smoothly through the main steps that you have to take when it comes to publishing your podcasts. It also offers you the possibility to play with all sorts of audio and video files, cut and edit them exactly the way you like, in order to help you integrate them in your enhanced podcasts. As you can imagine, there are other ways to do it and iTunes offers you good alternatives, but if you don't want to get into too many technical details and you want to focus more on the creative process than on understanding what a RSS is and how you can manually write the code behind a podcast, you should give Podcaster a try.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Early Editon - RSS Newsfeed

The Early Edition is an RSS reader that combines the digital age of websites with the paper format of newspapers. For all you out there depending on your Google Reader (RSS Feed), dont worry about that You can read the full article in the main pane, and have a full web browser to go to other articles from the web interface view. Switching between articles is relatively easy though you can’t simply swipe back.anymore. You are now able to get all your news that your waiting for laid out right infront of you in a cool online newspaper format. This app supports any RSS feed you can think of.

Why use the Early Editon app? Well for starters it’s a beautiful way to read an RSS feed, especially in comparison to the typical list view that many others offer. It’s also a great app to give you that newspaper feel, but customized with the articles you care about. The app gives you numerous articles at once in a streamlined interface to see the title, and a little blurb to find a specific one that may peek your interest. You can read the full article in the main pane, and have a full web browser to go to other articles from the web interface view. Switching between articles is relatively easy though you can’t simply swipe back.

So stay away from your computers, get the news you want when you want it, presented in a cool way rather than looking at your plain old list of links and stories. Check it out!