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Music WithMe tries syncing iTunes on BlackBerry

There are easier ways of getting your iTunes playlists onto your BlackBerry than plugging in your USB cable and transferring songs in a block.

Music WithMe offers one common solution that follows in the footsteps of Simplify Music, before Google acquired parent company Simplify Media to fold the service into its own music strategy.

As did Simplify Music (an iPhone app,) Music WithMe's dual-part system has a desktop component for Windows computers that scans your iTunes library, as well a BlackBerry app from which you can pick the songs to play.

Unfortunately, Music WithMe didn't pan out as … Read more

Wi-Fi Withings scale partners with Gym Technik

The Withings scale, already breaking waves as the first Wi-Fi body scale that uploads weight and body mass data to personal online accounts, announces this week a new partnership with Gym Technik, enabling much easier tracking via pretty much any smartphone on the market.

Via Gym Technik, users can set up workout routines online, track daily progress via their smartphones, peruse an exercise library for workout tips, and upload before/after photos. Synching this with the Withings scale now allows users to instantly track their weight, body fat percentage, and BMI stats just by standing on it.

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Crave giveaway of the week: Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale

For this week's installment of the weekly Crave giveaway, we're offering a high-tech health accessory, Withings' Wi-Fi Body Scale.

This thing not only automatically tracks and charts your weight (and the weights of up to seven other people in your household), but it records your lean and fat mass, and calculates body mass index (BMI). Plus, you can access your data (it's secure, of course) from any Web browser or Withings' iPhone app, WiScale. Better yet, you can even have the scale Tweet your weight loss (or gain) to all your Twitter followers. How awesome is that? … Read more

Webware 100 winner: WordPress.com (with WordPress platform)

Site: WordPress.com / WordPress.org Category: Social & Publishing

WordPress is a free blogging platform available to everyone. WordPress has two components, one is a free, Web-based blog-hosting service called WordPress.com. The other is WordPress.org, which provides users with software to run a more feature-rich version of the blogging tool on their own servers.

Both services offer a very easy way to blog, with administrative options to work collaboratively on one or several blogs using the same log-in. Bloggers can write their posts in a WYSIWYG editor, or switch over to a code view on the fly.

The … Read more