Description : Twhirl is a twitter client, with a number of themes and the ability to deal with multiple accounts, while making tweeting and interaction easy!

This post is testing a new idea on Appaholic, the 3 minute review!

www.screenjelly.com/watch/AHbCva23Pvc

Looking forward to feedback on this!

Your thoughts?

Conclusion : I’m @relequestual, You have been watching the first 3 minute review on Appaholic. Twhirl seems like my twitter client of choice for now!

Website : www.twhirl.org
Download : For best results, go to the URL above and click on install. Easy.
Size : 1.57 MB + Adobe Air

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Version Tested :

Description : IrfanView is a speedy image viewing application, which also plays some audio and video. It supports a crazy number of image formats, has many plugins to customize its function, and also supports batch conversion. My image viewer of choice, IrfanView is a must for all. 1.3 MB of genius.

The original image viewer on XP, was basically, not very good. I found IrfanView when searching for a way to do batch image conversion, and it happened to be a super fast image viewer that supports many many MANY formats. I don’t actually know of an image viewer that supports more formats, which is probably due to IrfanView’s plugin system, with a default pack of plugins you can easily download and install, allowing you to open pretty much any image format you can find.

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Code Sector is home to many awesome bits of software from TeraCopy to Direct Folders, both of which are my personal favourites! Jeff works for Code Sector full time developing software in Russia, and has been working in software development for over 10 years now. He has also recently started developing for Android too, so look out for Code Sector on the android market! There are freeware and paid versions of most of the Code Sector’s applications, so if you like the software, I would really encourage you to be buying!

1. What inspires you to create the applications you have so far?

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There may be some down time over the next few days (11th - 14th June 2009), however it should be minimal.

The domain name will be transferred first, and then the site. Hopefully it will be painless and easy!

We’re still looking for a new site design at AppAholic, so if you have any ideas or suggestions, do comment!

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Its been a while since there’s been any new posts on AppAholic, so I thought I’d give you a bit of an update as to what’s going on! Long time subscriber? Please read for ending questions.

As some of you may or may not know, I’m a university student, and I have exams coming up very soon! I have spent a lot of time over the last month with revision, getting ready for my exams, and meeting up with people from home over the Easter holiday. I have also taken some time out of the site to work on the development of a few ideas, which hopefully you will see here eventually.

Another reason for the lack of posts, is due to a lack of content ideas! Previously, I’ve normally had some idea of what the next review could be. I have a few stock ideas, but nothing really compelling like usual for me. Spotify, my last review, has proven to be one of the most successful new freeware in the market I’ve seen! I just feel its hard to match the quality!

If anyone has any ideas of freeware, I’d be more than glad to hear from you, especially if you write your own freeware, and haven’t yet got any media coverage. (Even if you have, still contact me!). Fancy yourself as a reviewer? You could write a guest article for the site. I’ll post the email address at the end of this post.

In other areas, I have also started doing more on CrossLoop, a remote computer help service. If you have any computer problems or issues, or even just questions, feel free to chat with me live here (http://crossloop.com/relequestual). I charge very little compared to other “experts” on the site. No fix, no fee, and always free estimates.

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Version Tested :

Description : Spotify has an iTunes-like interface without the annoying slowness of iTunes. It uses an online catalogue of music, bigger than Amazon’s, with instant playback and no buffering (of course, that’s subjective, as I’m running on a University internet connection which, of course, is fairly fast!). Spotify also has a real easy sharing feature; drag and drop creates a URL tailored to point Spotify to a track, album or playlist.  Requires an internet connection, and you cant put the tracks on your MP3 player or iPod, but it sure is a hell of a lot of free music! Sorry you folks in the US, this is not currently for you. Spotify just came to the UK, so hopefully soon it will be with you!

I recently was told about Spotify via twitter about a week ago, and only looked into it about 3 days ago. I can really see this spreading like wildfire across the internet, and really cutting down illegal downloads of music. Spotify is such a simple concept, and is, in my opinion, possibly the best service for streaming music to date. It works on the same basis as radio, putting in a few 30 second adverts here and there, but hey, fair enough.

Setting up an account was easy. Visit the website, enter some information, and you’re away. Downloading the application was fast, as its only a few MB! The login window looks nice (I’m being very critical), even down to the slight drop shadow (Yeah, I like drop shadow, get over it).

Spotify only became invite free to the UK on 10th February 2009. Spotify has actually been in development since way before 2008! How it’s managed to stay hidden for so long, I’m not quite sure, but it has. I’ve only been using Spotify for a few days now, and I can’t remember the last time I found some new freeware which fitted so nicely to my ideals.

So, will track x or y be on there? Well, since the Spotify blog has updates of newly added music and labels, the answer is probably yes. Already they have EMI, Universal, Sony, Warner Music, AMG and Merlin. Those are some rather big names, especially Sony with its history of illegal DRM on music CDs and the like.

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Version Tested :

Description : Sorting desktop icons used to be a pain before Fences came to light. It’s not a replacement, however more like an add-on to your desktop. It allows you to group desktop icons into “fences”, which can be moved, scrolled, and hidden with a double click on your desktop. Possible desktop icon revolution in the making!

I’ve always been a bit sceptical of anything that claims to help with desktop icons organisations. Fences however is different to what I expected. I had the idea for something practically the same as Fences, but lacked the ability to create such an application.

It’s a real simple concept, but I really see this being something that could take off. This is the second product from StarDock which I really really like, first of which being Object Dock, which I use on a daily basis. Now Fences comes along, and makes it into my favourite applications list.

Fences allows you to group your desktop icons into what is termed a fence. You can then move these fences around as you please. You can also resize the fences, and any icons which do not fit in the fence, will make the fence scrollable.

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Version Tested :

Description : WOSB is a brilliant way to save energy or allow your computer to be turned on from hibernation or standby at pre defined times. You can furthermore set it to run a particular file, application or web page. With various timing options and a few settings, you can make WOSB standby, hibernate, shutdown log off or simply wait once the application has finished running.

I cant remember when or where I found WOSB, but I do remember, I was very impressed with it when I tested it. I didn’t expect it to work, didn’t understand how it could, but I was proved wrong.

This application wont work with every computer mind you, ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) compatible hardware is required. Exactly how you know if your hardware supports this or not, I don’t know, but I had a quick look in my motherboard’s manual, and there it was.

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Version Tested :

Description : File syncing application which just works, and nicely too! Up to 5GB FREE online storage and sync, with both a web based and desktop based GUI, both equally as easy to use, this application far serpasses all others of its type.

A brilliant intuitive GUI, matched with functionality and simplicity that users want, makes this app, a shining example of how all software should be developed. I was given a link to this app completely by chance a few weeks ago by a friend. We were talking about dropbox and windows live mesh (Two syncing applications I had been using up till now), and the windows one, was eating a TON of cpu. He said find an alterative. I hadn’t looked in ages, being a dropbox user. I thought dropbox was good. My WORD was I in for a surprise!

When I install a new application, the first thing I usually do, is go to the settings window, see what I can mess with. The GUI in Syncplicity is, refreshingly different. No toolbar menu drop down nonsense. One sidebar, with seemingly limited options. However I was rather surprised with the way the menu system worked and how the system tray icon menu is crafted.

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Happy Christmas to all the readers of AppAholic!

I’m sure today, lots of people will be getting new computers and laptops and notebooks. I have some hard disks under the tree I believe. Anyway, I’d like to give a special gift to all of you, my readers, this Christmas! Free Tech Support!

I will be offering free tech support via a service called crossloop. You will be able to chat, and even show me your screen and allow my to remote control your screen if you allow.

Link is here http://www.crossloop.com/Relequestual

I can’t say I will be on 24 7, however I will be on for quite a bit over the next few week, as I have finished my Christmas temp work. The temp work has also been the reason I haven’t made any posts lately. I have quite a few posts queued up now, so in the new year, you can expect some real awesome freeware!

So, what did everyone get for Christmas?

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