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With a Francophile name, mobile Twitter app Touiteur may come across as a stylistic ploy. But it's one of the good guys in the tweetosphere, with its stylish design, convenient slide-away bars for posting status updates and responding to tweets. It handles retweeting, file uploading, search, lists, and trends. Plus, it handily pops up @username options when you type.

The premium version ($2.41) is a more complete option overall, opening the door to multiple Twitter accounts, home screen widgets, URL shortening, an internal browser, and the Twitlonger service. There are other free Twitter apps that provide link shortening … Read more

The official Facebook for Android app is undoubtedly the best way to view Facebook on your Android, but that's hardly saying much. The free app is limited, but simple to operate. You can update your status from the app and read your newsfeed; take and upload a photo; and comment and like a status message.

A long press on a status message gets you quick links to view a contact's wall message and see user info, but you're unable to do much more--like see pictures and access invites and birthday reminders--without going to Facebook's mobile Web … Read more

Dolphin Browser was quite the find when it first broke the surface, pretty much pioneering alternative browsers on the Android platform. Since then, alt-browsers have become plentiful and sophisticated, and the Dolphin team has responded with a "high def," redesigned version of its app, meant for version 2.0 and higher of the Android operating system.

Dolphin's feature set is definitely its strength. In addition to tabbed browsing, bookmarking (that syncs to Google bookmarks), and multitouch zooming, it can also flag sites to read later as well as a tie-in to Delicious. You can search content within … Read more

The explosion of free BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) software has given users a powerful downloading tool that makes a joke out of older file-sharing technologies, but even with the fastest connection, slimmest clients, and most optimized configurations, there's room for improvement. Sharest's SpeedLord is to P2P clients what nitrous oxide is to racing cars: a kick in the seat. It's a free, automatic acceleration patch utility that can either help you dramatically boost your download speeds by sorting out an inadequate connection or help you extract every last bit of bandwidth from a fast pipe. It claims the … Read more

Hard disk maker Seagate's SeaTools for Windows scans your disk drives for driver corruption, broken master boot records, viruses and Trojans, spyware, and any hardware conflicts. You'll have to take its word that it's working, though, because it doesn't offer any scan details.

SeaTools' user interface is extremely stark: basic menu items line the top of a plain window, with detected drives are listed below. It detected our only drive, along with its serial number, model number, firmware revision, and drive and test status. We went through each test that the program offered, starting with the … Read more

We've reviewed a lot of games for Download.com, but we can't say that we've ever seen anything quite like Mevo and the Grooveriders. We really, really wanted to like it, and for the most part we did, but the game seems to have some functional problems that hinder its fun.

We're not totally sure we can even describe the premise of Mevo and the Grooveriders. Apparently the evil Silence has come along and robbed the world of music, and it's up to you, a weird little dude named Mevo, to rescue your bandmates and … Read more

E-mail clients use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send messages to mail servers, which use SMTP to talk to each other. Babu's eMailer is an easy-to-use SMTP e-mail client that works with your preferred email program. It lets you send email to any recipient over any network directly from your computer. It supports password and user name logons for outbound connections, Send/Error acknowledgement, and remote and local server connections. It can even retrieve e-mail addresses from various sources, including text files, SQL databases, and Microsoft Outlook.

A Windows-style installer simplifies eMailer's setup, and a Wizard-based … Read more

Biorhythms blend physiological science with alternative philosophies, some new, other ancient, to yield insights into one's personal development, relationships, and even future. Adherents believe that studying biorhythms can help you prepare for bad days and be ready for your best days. BinaryMark's BioRhythms Calculator 2010 is an interesting piece of software that can help you monitor, track, and analyze your biorhythms and use the results to improve your life. It can apply biorhythm readings for you or your friends and family to 15 built-in rhythms ranging from the traditional Chinese I Ching patterns to Primary, Secondary, Intuitive, and … Read more

Online videos used to be pretty rare, unless you were prepared to spend a big chunk of time waiting for video files to download. With the advent of high-speed Internet and Flash, it's now hard to imagine life on the Internet without video; it's become a pretty significant part of our online experience. OnLine TV Live is one of many programs that attempt to organize and provide quick access to online video content. Unfortunately, we didn't find much to like about this application.

OnLine TV Live's interface somehow manages to be both visually sleek and somewhat … Read more