Thailand Stories

With Buffer you can add a lot of tweets into your queue of Buffered Tweets, without flooding your followers. The website for Buffer has been out for a while though until recently I never really paid it much attention. The concept is good as it saves you from …

If, like me, you have been using the official Twitter client on your iPhone, you are probably annoyed with the recent upgrade. I loved the simplicity before. The ease of use. And most importantly, the familiarity. Which is the main reason I…

Google+ for mobile makes sharing the right things with the right people a lot simpler. Last night Google finally released their iPhone app for Google+ which can be downloaded for free from the US iTunes store. At this time, it is not available in the Thai store, but it is possible to set up an account in the US…

I have talked before about how to blog with your iPhone using the Blogpress app (see here ). I found that app the easiest way to blog on platforms such as WordPress. However, it was a little time consuming which is why I …

Last week I reviewed an app called Album Manager for Facebook . The version I reviewed is ad-supported. Today I noticed that another one called PhotoLoader for Facebook is at the moment being offered for free from iTunes. It was $1.99 yesterday so be quick before it goes back …

The Album Manager app helps to batch-upload photos to your Facebook photo albums and share your uploaded albums with standard Facebook privacies. As you probably know, I travel a lot and I often share pictures that I am taking on my iPhone on my Twitter feed @RichardBarrow . However, I often take more pictures than…

Smartr’s the fastest way to get your news on Twitter. It turns the links in your twitter feed into beautiful, readable content. One of the main problems with Twitter clients for the iPhone and iPad is that you never know if a link to an article or blog is going to be interesting or not. The only way to…

Every now and then, an app comes out for the iPhone that immediately jumps into your personal top 10. The kind of app that you makes you wonder how you survived without it in the past. Viber is just such an app. It’s very simple in concept. Basically, …

One of the most exciting innovations for the year 2010 is Video Conferencing. Apple introduced it on the iPhone 4 and called it Face Time. I had never tried the front facing camera on the iPhone until today as Skype has finally updated …

One of the features for the official Twitter app for the iPhone that I have missed since the beginning was push notification of new messages. Even when you were inside the app you didn’t know that someone had sent you a private message until you scrolled to that screen. So, …

Do you want the features of iPhone 4 for not much more than 7,000 Baht? Now you can with the release in America of the new iPod Touch. It does practically everything an iPhone 4 handset does without the expensive carrier charges. Even before the iPhone 4 gets an official release in Thailand, we are already being…

Atomic Web Browser is the most advanced and customizable fullscreen web browser to date. Experience desktop features including Adblock, Tabs, MultiTouch Gestures, User Agent Switcher, Passcode Lock, Facebook/Twitter integration, Save Page, and much more. As some of you probably know, I use Twitter a lot and it is important for me to be able tweet to my followers…

I know many Thai people will be happy to hear that MSN is now available to download for the iPhone. I think Windows Live Messenger is the most popular IM software in Thailand. Certainly all the Thai people that I know chat on it all day. Even when they are supposed to be…

Probably the most popular app on the iPhone has been Tweetie which I have been using extensively  during the recent street battles in Bangkok. It enabled me to report from both the frontline and also my office. The company was recently taken over by Twitter and two days ago they …