Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Web services, Beta, web 2.0, Microblogging
Echofon (neé TwitterFon) heads to OS X
by Nik Fletcher Sep 29th 2009 at 4:00PM
One of my favourite features in the application is the inclusion of highlights - the ability to receive notifications based on search phrases - and if you're a big user of the iPhone version then you can also sync the read / unread status of tweets between the two Echofon applications. The desktop version of the Mac has all the bells and whistles you'd expect - multi-account support, Photo uploading - and certainly pretty stable despite being just a beta.
Echofon will, upon its release later this year, be a paid-for product - however it remains free in beta from the Echofon website.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
