Category Goin’ to Town

The expansion of local news

Our community has enjoyed a local news website since the fall of 2006 – MonticelloLive.com. Several months after its birth, the local weekly started a site called MyMonticelloNews.net in an attempt to compete. In spite of having a large staff…

iPhone 2.0 officially jailbroken

With a nice little message of “Thanks for waiting,” the iPhone Dev Team posted the new tool that will unlock, jailbreak and activate iPhone firmware 2.0 this afternoon! The website iphoneunlockstatus.com provided this handy-dandy overview to know what you’re getting…

Review: Swurl

Wow. I think I’m more impressed with Swurl than MobileMe right now. Of course, they’re totally unrelated, but Swurl “just works” whereas MobileMe has stumbled out of the gate and almost had me cussing this evening. I myself stumbled over…

Loopt vs. Whrrl

Loopt or Whrrl? Which will become the premier location microblog? Will one or the other trump Twitter? Both are fascinating and dumbfounding. How in the heck do these things work? Check them both out and let me know which one…