It’s Friday and that means it’s Sites We Like time. Here’s our selection of five great sites we like this week including an easy way to part-own a satellite and do good, ways to make your Advent Vega better and lots of ace little social media tools and ‘ting. Read on and enjoy this week’s guide to time wasting…
Crowdsourcing the purchase of an enormously powerful satellite whose owner has gone bust, with a dream to move it to provide some much needed network coverage in the places that don’t have it. This isn’t about making rural Africa buy swanky smartphones or watch Kittens inspired by Kittens, it’s about creating much needed access to the internet for the 5 billion people who don’t have it.
XDA-Developers is the go to place for all your Android hacks and ROMs, but it’s not the only spot. There’s a bunch of ingenious coders over at MoDaCo, tinkering with Android phones and tablets and Windows Phone 7 handsets. It’s the place to go if you want to unshackle your Advent Vega and add Google apps to it, and there are great discussions going on regardless which platform you favour.
Forgotten that cool link you tweeted last week or just want to know what all your followers have said about a particular TV show? Try this Twitter focused search engine which lets your trawl through your own tweets and those of your followers and friends on the social network
If you’ve got accounts on multiple blogging platforms and services like Flickr and YouTube, Soup is a great way of putting all the content you create or share together in one place. It’s easy to set up and means you only have to point people to one place where all your creations reside.
Got a great app idea? Of course you have. Everyone has. But the acid test is if you can make it look usable. Balsamiq makes it really simple to make convincing mockups of the app you’re planning and share them with people you want to work with.
