iPling for iPhone 3G , best iphone app for Networking
The latest iPhone software to cause a buzz on the 3G version of Apple’s favorite gadget is iPling. While it is definitely a member of the wide group known as iPhone apps, you won’t find this in the same place as a lot of other iPhone apps. It will not appear, for example, in the Apple App store; you can only get iPling straight from the maker’s site.
What does iPling do? Essentially it’s a social networking application designed specifically for use with 3G enabled iPhones. Rather creepily it allows anonymous users to contact and discuss shared interests. Fortunately iPling manages to keep your phone number and email address from the other person: they only find out sensitive information about you if you give it to them.
Like many iPhone apps its use is going to be subject to fads; like any social network it will rely on a critical mass of people who are going to use this before it becomes usable. Other iPhone apps suffer the same problem.
The iPhone is a gadget that targets a particular corner of the market very actively; unfortunately it only corners that section of the market and you’ve got to ask just how successful you think a social networking app will be in that context.
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by admin
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What can be more simple than Ares? Nothing!
I’ve never been very good with technology – I’m of the older generation and I’ve just never been confident in working it – and the whole concept of the Internet is a bit of a mystery to me. When a colleague at work asked me if I had tried filesharing I got a little scared. No of course I haven’t! You should, he told me. Two days later I can sit here and say quite confidently that I agree with him! Here’s how my journey from newbie to geek happened.
My colleague pointed me to OfficialAres.com and this really was an excellent starting point. It has accessible and interesting articles dealing with the technical and social issues surrounding the act of filesharing on the Ares network (which, I now know, is the biggest network for this kind of filesharing). There are also some useful ‘how-to’ articles and FAQs.
So anyway, I chose a version of Ares and started to download it. Within a few simple steps I’d actually managed to install it, too; if you’re surprised then think how astonished I was! This was unprecedented to say the least.
I followed the easy help articles that showed me how to configure the Ares software to work with my system and away I went. Amazing!
Posted on August 1st, 2008 by Laura
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