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Foamee “is a free service that helps track who you owe beers or coffee to (and vice versa) suing the popular messaging service, Twitter”.
Basically, you simply follow ioubeer and/or ioucoffee, and then send your I.O.U. to “a deserving recipient” using the format:
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@ioubeer @twitterscreenname “REASON”
For example:
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@ioubeer @coryobrien for writing about Foamee.
Want to send a beer/coffee to someone without a Twitter account?
No problem; just put their name in square brackets and Foamee will figure out the rest.
Then, once your friend redeems that beer/coffee, you simply send a tweet to Foamee formatted as follows:
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D ioubeer redeem “Drink ID Number”
and Foamee will mark that drink as received and redeemed.
Now drink up!
[Foamee]
Misu is a new iPod music transfer utility for Macs that makes it easy to transfer music between two iPods.
Simply select the source and the destination and let Misu go to work. It then compares the two iPods, figures out what’s missing, and syncs them together.
Currently it’s only in super-secret private beta mode, but courtesy of TUAW, the super-secret code that you’ll need to get a copy is 48372.
Plus, if you try out Misu during the beta phase, they’ll give you a free and licensed copy of the final version as a thank you. (This code is only good for today, but if you miss out, you can still get a free copy of Misu by becoming a fan of the Misu Facebook Page by the end of March.)
Cool.
[Misu]
[Via: TUAW]
Speakerdog Paper Toys is a site filled with free paper toys that use two sheets of A4 paper and a bit of patience to make.
The designs were created by Ben the Illustrator and “a wonderful family of graphic designers, graffiti artists and illustrators from around the world” so there should be a design or two for everyone.
(If you like these, then you should also check out Cubeecraft.)
Kitsune Noir wants to go beyond everyday blogging, and has begun a project called The Desktop Wallpaper Project to do so.
Each Wednesday, one new desktop wallpaper from a collection of artists and designers will be released, and it will be free to download in a multitude of monitor sizes, as well as iPhone and PSP versions.
So far, over 60 artists are involved, and some have submitted multiple works, so if you’re a fan of creative wallpapers, then check stop by on Wednesdays and see what’s new.
Battlefield Heroes is a cartoon-style shooter from the people behind the Battlefield series, and will be a Play 4 Free game when it launches in Summer of ’08.
Though to me it looks like a simple version of The Orange Box’s Team Fortress 2 (Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, since any game that achieves even 50% of TF2’s awesomeness is still going to be awesome.) Battlefield Heroes has some definite possibility, and it’s always hard to be the price of free.
[Via: UberReview]
After NetNewsWire decided to stop selling its program and to instead just give it away, NewsFire must have gotten jealous, because they’ve just announced that their program will be free as well.
Since NewsFire has no online component, and thus, cannot use your data in any way (NNW went free in exchange for your attention data) I’m not exactly sure how NF plans to make money, but where there’s a will, there’s a way, right?
Either way, there are now two fantastic players in the free desktop RSS reader game, and that’s fantastic!
[NewsFire]
As a frequent user of both NetNewsWire and FeedDemon, I was excited to read that NewsGator has decided to give away its entire suite of award-winning RSS readers for free to individual users, including NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, NewsGator Inbox, and NewsGator Go!
One of the key benefits to using NewsGator products is that they can be set them up so that they automatically synchronize with each other, meaning you can run multiple programs on multiple computers, and if you read a story on one, it will automatically be marked as read on all of the others.
Very GTD.
If you haven’t already, then now is a better time than any to join the RSS revolution.
On December 19, Jackass 2.5, the half-sequel to the rather popular Jackass movie series, will officially become the “first broadband movie ever distributed by a major studio”.
For two weeks, anyone will be able to view the hour-long film in its entirety for free, with a pre and post-roll the only intrusion into their Jackass pleasure.
After the free preview, the film will be available on DVD, through iTunes, on Amazon, and anywhere else Paramount Pictures can make a buck off of the pain of others.
If it works, there could be a swing towards using this method of distribution in the future, so check it out, because free is hard to beat.
[Via: Mashable]
