Screenr (a.k.a. magical screencasting)

Screenr is a web-based screencasting application. Here’s what they say on their homepage: Instant screencasts for Twitter Now you can create screencasts for your followers as easily as you tweet. Just click the record button and you’ll have your ready-to-tweet screencast in seconds. I first heard of Screenr from a forwarded email and decided to try it out. I had …

Quick Look: Über Twitter really sucks

I installed Über Twitter last night on my BlackBerry and began using it. Pardon me, but it took FOREVER to load all the tweets. I would have gotten them faster if I went to mobile Twitter. Favoriting, mentioning, and replying don’t come in a convenient toolbar at the bottom, instead, they’re crammed into the application menu along with thirty million …

Review: Stellarium 0.10

Stellarium is a great planetarium program available at stellarium.org. In fact, it’s such a good planetarium program that it could be used with planetarium projectors. Of course, planetarium projectors have to get an image onto a dome, but Stellarium has a built-in projection method for doing that. Like the different methods to draw a map, Stellarium has a variety of …