Microsoft releases official Windows Live Messenger app for iPod touch & iPhone

The Official WLM App now available in the Apple Store

If you have checked the App Store today you will have noticed Microsoft have entered with their official Windows Live Messenger application. There have been several unofficial applications such as eBuddy and Pidgin, to name a couple.

But will this really become a successful application? What's the point when you have all these others which can handle multiple Facebook, AIM and MSN accounts - all at the same time?

What do you think about the official application? Let me know in the comments.

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iPod touch Giveaway (Thomas Hayden & David Di Franco)

Hello everyone!

Thomas Hayden here, bringing you an awesome giveaway in collaboration with David Di Franco, aka "thecreativeone". This has been my first post to the Social Blog in a few months. I have been super busy with school, work, and business projects. Now, I'm back in action and really looking forward to increasing my activity with the Social Blog, my YouTube account, etc. What better way to kick things off than with a giveaway for you guys, David's subscribers. An iPod touch (8GB) 2nd Gen giveaway to be exact.

The giveaway will take place Saturday, June 26th at 8:00pm during David's live stream. A winner will be randomly chosen by a chat bot which David has provided.

These are the giveaway rules:

1 - Must be a U.S. citizen

2 - Must be subscribed to both Thomas and David on YouTube:

Thomas Hayden

David Di Franco

3 - Must be present in the chat during the giveaway

Here is the link to the live-stream where you can have a chance to win!

http://www.thecreativeone.tv/broadcast/

Remember! Saturday, June 26th at 8:00pm EDT

I'm looking forward to seeing many of you there, and it should be a very fun stream! Thanks again to David for helping collaborate this, and thanks to all of you who make the tech community a little more fun and friendly! Best wishes! 

-Thomas Hayden

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My Long Wait For The iPad

The iPad obviously came out April 3, 2010, now dubbed iPad Day and over 300,00 people purchased them at Apple Store nation wide. I was not one of the lucky 300,000, why? To start, I am a huge Apple fan, not to be mistaken as a fan boy, because I have many issues with Apple yet still love them. Now, Apple products are high on the pricing list which I have no issue with minus the fact that my wallet is being emptied, the iPad however is quite cheap in my opinion. I could easily purchase a 32GB iPad with no 3G, but I didn’t because I am planning on purchasing the iPhone 4G or whatever Apple names it. I will be waiting till September, or next April to get an iPad that is quite the long wait. It may be rewarding though, by the time I get an iPad there will be a camera, and many more since it will be the second generation model and it will be much more faster despite it’s already blazing speed. I have a friend who has an insider at Apple who says that the iPad 64GB model may come down to $499 sometime this year. So, waiting is a good thing, only issue is the torture of hearing and watching people play with the amazing apps, spend hours on the toilet and all the other wonderful things the Magic Pad can bring!

Tour of My Tech Setup

Today I'm going to be sharing a video of my set up with you. I don't have much to write for this article because most of it will be covered in the video. But, for the written part of this post, I will break down the tech. part of my setup into four different categories: Computers, Video Games, TVs and iPods. 

Computers: 

iMac 20 inch (2008 is the year I purchased it) 

MacBook Pro 13 inch (2009 is the year I purchased it) 

Video Games: 

Nintendo Wii 

Xbox 360 (yes I do have Xbox Live) 

TVs: 

Samsung 40 inch (Purchased in late 2005) 

Sharp 26 inch (Purchased late 2007) 

iPods: 

8 GB iPod Touch (2nd Generation) 

2 GB iPod Shuffle (3rd Generation) 

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Mashable iPhone App is WIN

It takes a lot for an iPhone app to make it to my dock on my iPhone. Hardly do I ever add a third party app down there, but Mashable hit the nail on the head. And it is the first version of their app. They know what they are doing. They know how to make an app, and make it right the first time. Other developers need to take notes.

Besides the fact that the interface of the app is gorgeous, yet simple, the functionality is what wins me over on this app. I have a small following of 700+ people on Twitter that look forward to my tech tweets. I am a middle man, a referrer, a source that points people to latest in tech. And with this Mashable iPhone app, it just made my job a lot easier, especially on-the-go.

The Twitter integration is downright easy. Mashable will ask what Twitter app on your iPhone you would like to use with their app. I am a fan of Twitterific, so I chose that.

What this does is when I want to share a story I like on the Mashable app, I hit the Twitter button within the app, and it automatically launches the Twitterific app. It automatically shortens the URL, and writes the tweet, so all I have to do is press enter. And just like that, the tweet is posted and all my followers are happy. If you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch, this is a MUST app. I can not stress that enough.