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A quick heads up for all you Pokemon fans out there that there's a new collection of music in iTunes you might be interested in. The folks at Game Freak have published the entire soundtrack to Pokemon Black and Pokemon White for you to download and listen to as much as you like. All 173 tracks, and for just $9.99/£7.99.
What are you waiting for?
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Whether you want to track followers, track links, or queue posts - these are the very best social metric apps for iPhone!
Looking for the best iPhone apps to really up your social networking? Whether you're simply out to engage with more people or if its your job to manage social media for a company large or small, seeing who unfollowed you on Twitter, monitoring user engagement on Facebook, scheduling and automating posting and cross-posting, can be incredibly valuable. Luckily there are a lot of apps on the App Store that can help you out. But which ones are the very best?
IFTTT lets you creation actions they call formulas for pretty much anything you'd like. Authorize it to have access to all the things social and you're good to go. Want photos to automatically upload to your Twitter? No problem. Want every post you make on App.net to feed into Twitter? IFTTT can do that too.
If you want social actions, there's none other than IFTTT.
Buffer lets you queue up posts for App.net, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more. You can share the same post across many networks or just schedule specific ones. It's a great tool for businesses and marketing professionals so they make sure tweets and other kinds of social posts go up at regular intervals.
For bulk scheduling and management, Buffer is a great choice at an extremely reasonable subscription cost.
Hootsuite is a complete social management app that lets you not only schedule tweets and posts to other social networks, you can use their official ow.ly link shortener and track stats and metrics. Hootsuite currently offers support and stats for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Foursquare . You can monitor up to 5 social media accounts for free.
If you post a lot of links and want to monitor them closely, Hootsuite is one of the most convenient options.
Drafts may only be a text editor but it's an extremely powerful one. Not only can you send clippings to almost any note and text editor available for iPhone, you can also post to just about every social network on the planet. Drafts also supports Markdown which makes links much easier to manage and insert. There may not be any integrated metrics but if you're looking for versatility, control, and custom actions, you'll get it with drafts.
For social actions galore combined with a powerful text editor, check out Drafts.
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Fund Unfollowers helps you track not only people that unfollow you, but lets you keep up with new followers as well. If you choose to pay a couple bucks as an in-app purchase you can get even more powerful features in the form of spam filters and easy cleanup tools for Twitter. You can unfollow people based on lots of different criteria such as if they never interact with you, post too often, or have an egg as their profile photo.
If you want a quick and easy way to clean out and manage Twitter, Find Unfollowers is an epic choice.
If you monitor stats and metrics on social accounts, what apps have you find to help you the most and why? Do you use any of the above apps or did you pick something else? Let me know in the comments!
Free roaming within the European Union is a step closer today, after the European parliament voted in favor of laws that would abolish roaming fees between EU member states, as part of a package of telecom reforms. The package, originally proposed by EU lawmaker Neelie Kroes, moves Europe closer to a single market for mobile communication, especially with the recent arrival of 4G LTE roaming agreements between European carriers.
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There have been many proposed alternatives to the spinning propeller blades used on wind turbines installed all over the county, but none as unorthodox as Festo's new DualWingGenerator. Inspired by the company's work on winged flying robots
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Following recent reports that Samsung is hard at work on 8 and 10-inch AMOLED panels for future handheld devices, an article in Korea's ETNews today raises the possibility of such a tablet arriving as early as January. The report claims the device will be a 10.5-inch tablet, potentially making it one of the largest in Samsung's portfolio. Earlier rumblings point to the 10-incher being positioned as a rival to Apple's iPad Air, suggesting the device might well feature a super-high resolution AMOLED panel. ETNews writes that Samsung hopes to sell around ten time as many of these new tablets as its last AMOLED-based slate, the Galaxy Tab 7.7. That device shifted just 500,000 units, the outlet reports.
If Samsung is to unveil a new 10.5-inch AMOLED tablet next month then CES 2014 would be one possible launch venue. Naturally, we'll be on the ground in Las Vegas next month to bring you full coverage of any new Android devices at the show.
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