Download Squad http://www.downloadsquad.com Download Squad http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.downloadsquad.com/media/feedlogo.gif Download Squad http://www.downloadsquad.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[iPhone App Review: Pandora for iPhone and iPod touch]]>http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/12/iphone-app-review-pandora-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/12/iphone-app-review-pandora-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/12/iphone-app-review-pandora-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

Friday amidst the fury new iPhone application releases, Pandora released an application for iPhone and iPod touch that allows users to take their personalized radio stations with them. Existing Pandora users can download the free app and instantly have access to all their current radio stations as well as add new ones. If you're not already a Pandora user then the process is slightly more difficult to get started and involves authorizing your mobile device on Pandora's web page.

Pandora for the iPhone offers the same features as traditional Pandora for your PC. Stations can be easily created around a particular artist or song that you enjoy. As you're listening to a song you can give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down to help customize the station to your preferences. Songs can be skipped if you really don't like them, bookmarked if you do, or immediately purchased through the iTunes store if you can't live without them a moment longer. The app also has an information button where you can read about why a particular song was selected to play on your radio station.

We gave the app a little test drive last night. We were really impressed with the app's interface and love that looks a lot like traditional Iphone music player, complete with full screen cover art. If you're still rocking a first gen iPhone and live somewhere where your EDGE data tends to be a little hit or miss, then so is your Pandora. We drove around town and had a few instances where the music would skip, or in some cases stop entirely which is no fun when you're trying to rock out. Most of the issues seemed to happen in-between songs so the app may be designed to work a little ahead of itself to compensate for passing through areas that aren't EDGE friendly.

iPhone App Review: Pandora for iPhone and iPod touch originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Memeo's new Share application is designed to make the process of sending high-resolution photos a little easier, by sending them directly to another users desktop or putting them in an RSS feed they can look at in iPhoto.

The application, which is currently in beta, isn't meant to be a substitute for any photo sharing application you might currently be using, although photos shared using Memeo Share can also automatically upload photos to your Facebook account. Share is instead designed for sharing high-resolution photos and video with small groups or family and friends without having to send individual emails containing each item due to their size. Those who receive your photos can then decide what photos they want, and print out pictures they like at a quality resolution.

Memeo Share is offering a free lifetime use for the first 1,000 people to sign up for the beta with the public preview limited to 10,000 total sign ups. Get yours here.

Memeo makes it easy to send photos to grandma originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>photo sharingPhotoSharingpicturesThu, 03 Jul 2008 10:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Let TripIt help plan your next adventure]]>http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/25/let-tripit-help-plan-your-next-adventure/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/25/let-tripit-help-plan-your-next-adventure/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/25/let-tripit-help-plan-your-next-adventure/#commentsFiled under: , ,

TripItAll of us could use a personal assistant every now and then, especially when it comes to planning your itinerary for a trip where you have to put together reservations for restaurants, entertainment, and rental cars into something you can follow once you reach your destination.

TripIt is a site designed to take confusion out of trying to organize all your reservations by doing it for you. The service takes all the plans you've made for your trip such as plane reservations, rental cars, and restaurant reservations and organizes them, adding important things like directions to get to where you're going and a projected weather forecast for your trip. Your TripIt itinerary can then be printed out and taken with you as well as forwarded to friends in email, synced with your personal calender, or viewed on your mobile device.

TripIt allows you to add information to your trips manually or if you schedule events with one of TripIts supported websites you can just forward your reservations to the site via email and have them added to your itinerary for you. Currently TripIt supports a slew of airline websites, restaurant reservations through OpenTable.com, and they just added support for a variety of event sites such as Ticketmaster.

Let TripIt help plan your next adventure originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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meOwns is a site designed to allow you to showcase the stuff you own. You can list items that you actually own, or items that you would like to own on the site and add photos to those lists so people can see what you're talking about. The lists you create on meOwns can then be put into a widget that you can embed on your website or MySpace profile, or you can add a Facebook widget to display your items for your Facebook friends.

According to the site, the idea is is to bring people together through "the one thing that connects us all - the yearn to own!" While we're not so sure any normal person anyone would want to upload all the stuff they own to the site, the site could have some use in getting rid of the stuff you already own and don't want anymore. The widget could be an easy way to showcase your old movies, CDs, computer monitors, clothing, etc. for your friends, and mention things that they might own you'd be interested in taking off their hands in exchange.

One huge downside is that right now the site requires you to upload photos from your computer for each item you add. It would be nice to see them add automatic photos for things like DVDs and CDs that are going to always look the same so you don't have to upload a new picture for each individual item which gets annoying pretty quickly particularly if you have that crazy "yearn to own" they were talking about.

Showcase your stuff with meOwns originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A few years ago a ton of sites started popping up for you to review local businesses and services in your area. The idea behind the sites such as JudysBook was that reviews were written by average everyday people like you, therefore they could be trusted more than a review you read on another site. Sites allowed you to create a profile, upload a picture, and invite all your friends to join as well so you can share information.

GigPark works under the same principle, except the company assumes to some extent that the people you're friends with on the site are your actual friends, not just people who happened to find you on the site. You can import addresses from your yahoo, hotmail, or gmail account onto the site to find people you know who are already using the service, and invite those who are not.

GigPark also has a Facebook application, so you could pose questions like "Who know a great eye doctor" on facebook and solicit responses from your friends directly on Facebook. Of course your friends would also have to add the application in order for all this magic to happen, which given the multitude of annoying facebook applications kicking around these days, is probably unlikely. You can make your recommendations public however, so even without adding the application your friends can read how excited you are about your new plumber.

What do you think about sites like this? Would you use it to solicit recommendations, or would you rather just call a friend and ask?

Get a little help from your friends with GigPark originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you need a minute to relax from some stress at work, Music Catch is the game for you. The idea behind the game is pretty simple: catch the flying shapes while some relaxing piano music plays.

Most of the shapes in the game are blue and teal in color. In addition to the blue and teal shapes there are yellow shapes that you can collect that make your man larger and multiply your score, red shapes that take away the bonus you earned with the yellow, and purple shapes that give you "Purple Power" which sucks in everything around you.

The whole thing is pretty simple. There's only one level that takes about 5 minutes to play. With top scores over a million point however, it can be just as addictive as it is relaxing.

Time Waster: Music Catch originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you're looking to work on your garden this weekend but don't really know where to start, then Plantwire may be the site for you.

Plantwire allows you to search for plants by their name, by tag, or by a particular color you're interested in. Once you find a particular plant in their database you're then given some information of where the plant will probably grow best, as well as some basic instructions on how to successfully grow the plant at home. Each plants page also includes pictures of the plant taken from Flickr (that have been licensed for use under Creative Commons) so you can get a good look at what the plant will look like.

Most of the tag searches we did on the site were pretty much a bust, and chances are if you knew the plant name of what you were looking for then you wouldn't have much use for Plantwire. The color search on the site however is very functional and could be extremely useful if you're looking to color coordinate your garden and need "the perfect red plant" to compliment what you already have. Searches by color bring up a page full of thumbnails of plants matching that color with their names that you can quickly look through to find the perfect one.

The site is currently in public beta, so their data base of plants is limited right now to around 300 with more plants expected to be added soon.

[via EmilyChang]

Color coordinate your garden with Plantwire originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 25 May 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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BooRah searches the web for mentions of restaurants in blogs and websites and analyzes the languages in the post to determine whether the reviewer was giving the restaurant a thumbs down (boo) or a thumbs up (Rah). The amount of Boo's and Rah's a restaurant gets are tallied up on the site and then the restaurant is given an overall score. BooRah users can add their own tags to a particular restaurants page, and can weigh in by giving a particular place a Boo or Rah directly on the site.

Currently the service is limited to just 20 large metro areas, with more expected to be rolled out later on. If you're fortunate enough to live in one of those areas you can search for restaurants by your particular neighborhood, and sign up for an RSS feed for your area so you always know about the latest place in town.

[via EmilyChang]

Decide where to eat tonight with BooRah originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 07 May 2008 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For those of us who have just managed to get over our Blockles obsession, the guys over at iminlikewithyou have another game to soak up hours upon hours of the day: Dinglepop. The principle behind the game is pretty simple. Use the canon to shoot a colored ball at the other colored balls already on the screen. Whenever three or more balls of the same color come together they'll drop. The goal of the game is to keep the dingles from reaching the bottom the screen.

The fun in this game really comes in the fact that you're playing it against anywhere from two and seven other people. As you're shooting "dingles" you can collect different items that you can use to hurt your opponents, or help improve your game. Some of the items will lower or raise the top wall on a board, others will scramble all the dingles on a board, or help colorize it. All of the items you collect are stored on the right hand side of your board and you can either decide to use them on yourself or select what opponent you want to attack with them.

Iminlikewithyou has also added a leaderboard to Dinglepop (and to Blockles) that allows you to collect medals for your wins and see where you rank against other users on the site. There's also a widget on the homescreen that lets you see exactly how much times you've wasted on the game over time and a leaderboard for the biggest time wasters.

Dinglepop- Today's Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In the game Bloons, your goal is to pop all of the balloons on the screen by throwing darts at them. In each of the games 50 levels the balloons are arranged in a different order. With each level you are given a specific amount of darts to throw at the balloons (sometimes just one) and a target number of balloons you'll have to pop to move on to the next level.

Levels get progressively harder as you go on and start adding things like a bouncing wall, and walls you have to break through to get to the balloons. You also encounter "special balloons" which start effects such as giving you a boomerang rater than a dart to throw, or giving you the ability to throw three darts at once.

Bloons - Today's Time-Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kindo is a site that allows you to create your family tree online. Adding members to the tree is fairly simple, and you can invite family members to Kindo to fill in people in your tree you might have missed. Kindo also allows you to create a pretty detailed profiles for members of you tree that include a picture, as well as their email address, regular address, phone number, birthday, website, and AIM information.

Assuming everyone in your family makes it onto the tree it could be a great way to keep up with contact information and keep in touch with family members. Trees are only accessible to members of your family to view and have the potential to get quite large if everyone in your family participates.

Another similar site is One Family.

[via Digital Inspiration]

Create your family tree online with Kindo originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kollecta is a social networking site designed for collectors of all shapes and sizes. The site is currently in beta and has a database of "over a million collectible items" and allows you to check off what you currently have in your collection, what you'd like to add, and what you're willing to sell to someone else.

Once you've created a profile with all of your stuff you can join a group and share that list with other collectors on the site. Users in the group can talk about their passion for coins, stamps, smurfs, or whatever else it is you're collecting, rate items value, share collecting tips, and arrange to buy, sell, or trade items with others.

Providing what you collect is in Kollecta's database, the site could be a good place to keep track of your collection and connect with people who can help you add to it. If what you collect isn't in their database, or there isn't a group for it yet Kollecta provides you tools to add them.

Kollecta is currently free, with mention on the site of a potential cost later down the road. A similar site for collectors is iTaggit.

[via EmilyChang]

Share your collection with Kollecta originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Amazon has launched a trial of a new program called Product Ads. The program allows retailers to purchase ad space on Amazon without selling their products on the site. When a user clicks on the ad rather than being taken to a product within Amazon, the customer will instead be sent to the companies 3rd party site to make a purchase.

Product Ads will show a 3rd party competitor, along with the price they're offering an item at right on the same page as the Amazon item. Reminiscent of PriceGrabber, different sites and their price for a particular item are listed below the item and description on Amazon. Users can see all the prices at the same time and make a decision whether to continue with their purchase on Amazon, or click over to the 3rd party website to make a purchase.

Much like other advertising programs advertisers only pay for their ad when a user clicks on an ad and is taken to the advertisers site. Both Google Product Search and Shopping.com run similar programs, but neither is the selling powerhouse that Amazon is. By combining advertising along with their extensive product catalog Amazon is setting themselves up to be even more of a leader in the online shopping arena.

The new program also forces Amazon to stay extremely competitive in its pricing in order to make users want to purchase items from them, however it also gives them the ability to make money off users who do choose to shop somewhere else. It will be interesting to see if the program survives. No doubt the program is great for shoppers, but how do you think Amazon will do with Product Ads? Do you think it will make it through the trial?

[via VentureBeat]

Amazon sends shoppers away with Product Ads originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Having trouble coming up with what to cook for dinner tonight? Maybe SuperCook can help.

SuperCook is a search engine designed to find recipes based on the ingredients you have in your kitchen. On the site you enter what you have, and then SuperCook will tell you what you can make. Recipes are divided by Starters, Entrees, and Desserts and list any additional items you might need beside their name so you don't waste time reading an entire recipe only to find you're missing a key ingredient. As you enter items the site starts to list "Recommended items" that will open the doors to more dishes. if you're headed out to the store anyway, SuperCook can also give you a recommended shopping list of items that will work well with what you have at home.

We tried the site out, and were a little let down. We put in two ingredients: cheddar cheese, and green beans. The site immediately returned 2000 recipes we could make with those two ingredients but most of them called for BLACK beans rather than green ones which isn't exactly the same thing. Somehow we think nachos with green beans wouldn't be all that tasty.

The site did come back with some good results for other searches, and if we had those black beans we were given tons of recipes that we might have otherwise not thought of. It's definitely not perfect, but it could be a good place to start if you're looking to be adventurous in the kitchen.

SuperCook helps you with tonight's dinner originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Recently launched e-card site Carded allows you to send personalized video e-cards to your friends and family. Unlike your traditional e-cards that are sent for things like Birthdays, Holidays and special events Carded aims to focus on "life's other occasions." The site has cards for things like birthdays and Valentines Day, but also has cards wishing you well in your extramarital affair, and wishing you well on your MySpace date.

All of the cards feature a short video clip and can be personalized with a voice saying both your and your recipients name. Carded has a pretty substantial database of names built into the system. If your name isn't available you can send them a note and they promise to add it. Currently all the video cards on Carded feature the same four characters. Users are also invited to submit their own video cards to Carded and have them added to the site.

For more e-cards check out this list of best non-annoying e-card sites.

Send unique video e-cards with Carded originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Meaningful URL is a website designed under the same general principle of popular website Tiny URL. While Tiny URL just allows you to take a long URL and turn it into a short one, Meaningful URL takes the idea one step further and allows you to turn any URL into a short AND meaningful one.

Meaningful URL has a variety of tags to choose from for your URL with options ranging from "say.iloveyou.to" to "vote.to." After your tag selection you can put your recipients name or any other text you choose to personalize and finish your URL. Free Meaningful URLs expire 5 days after they are created with premium URLs available for $2-$3 a month.

Give your URLs meaning with Meaningful URL originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Have you ever wanted to show someone 5 seconds of a video off YouTube, but have had to make them watch the entire 3 minute video clip to get to that important 5 seconds?

SceneMaker is designed to allow you to select a portion of a video off of YouTube, Metacafe, Google, or DailyMotion and share just that portion of the video with your friends without having to show them to the entire original video.

Creating your own scenes is fairly easy. You upload a video to the site using the original videos URL, and then select an in ands out point for your scene by pressing a start and stop button within SceneMaker while the video is playing. Once a video clip is created you are prompted to name the clip, and add tags and a description of the video. You can create multiple clips from one piece of video and you can email a link to those clips to friends or embed them on your website.

SceneMaker could be great for those funny video clips that you have to sit through 2 and a half minutes of un-funny to get to, or for sharing a small part of an interview or speech with a friend without making them sit through the entire thing.

Share snippits of YouTube videos with SceneMaker originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Are you tired of watching all the election coverage on the news? Do you wish the candidates would just fight it out old school style in a no holds bar fight to the death rather than drop out entirely ? Your dreams can come true (sort-of) with the game Kung-Fu Election.

In the game you get to select your favorite candidate, and then put them head to head in a Kung-Fu fight for the presidency. Choices of characters include Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Richardson, Giuliani, Huckabee, Romney, and McCain. All come equipped with their own weapons, and there's a training mode so you can get acquainted with your candidate before making a run for the white house.

Kung-Fu Election - Today's Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>election 08Election08flash gamesFlashGameskung fu electionKungFuElectionpresidencyWed, 30 Jan 2008 11:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Twitter100 - 100 tweets on one page]]>http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/29/twitter100-100-tweets-on-one-page/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/29/twitter100-100-tweets-on-one-page/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/29/twitter100-100-tweets-on-one-page/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Twitter100
The Twitter 100 is an easy way to keep track of all the people you're following on twitter (or 100 of them at least) at once. To use Twitter 100 you just enter your Twitter user ID and are then taken to a page with 100 of the people you're following and their most recent tweet. You can set the refresh rate at every 3 minutes, 10 minutes, or every half hour.

Twitter 100 would be a lot better if you were able to update your own Twitter page from the Twitter 100 page. As it stands you'll still have to do your own tweeting from another source. If you're away from Twitter for a while (you know for that sleeping thing) it can however be an excellent way to quickly catch up on everything you've missed while you were away.

For more great Twitter tools check out Twitter tips-tools for your tweets.

Twitter100 - 100 tweets on one page originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Have you ever wished a particular website would be attacked by ailens? Cut in half by a chainsaw? NetDisaster is a site deisgned to allow you to wreak havoc on your favorite (or least favorite) website in a variety of different ways.

You can choose from natural disasters like floods and meteors to attacks by dinosaurs or even Led Zeppelin. There's close to fifty different attacks to choose from and you can decide whether you want to control them yourself or have the attacks take place all on their own. The site allows you let the site repair itself, or you can go for massive destruction mode where a site can't come back from oblivion.

If you select a particular mode of destruction and are let down by your choice you can also select a new one from a in browser tool bar rather than go back to the site and re-enter all the website info. If you're really proud of your attack, finished disasters can be shared via email or a link on your website.

Destroy the web with NetDisaster - Today's Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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