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The fabulous Pomplamoose have compiled their outstanding cover versions into a new album. Many examples of cover versions being better than the originals, particularly their gorgeous take on “Single Ladies”.

This year’s mash-up-mega-mix. Amazing as ever!

According to CNet, three of the top four must-have Android apps are: A file manager, a process killer, and an app uninstaller. Because, as everyone knows, the kids LOVE to kill them processes.

Robin’s novella is now available as a CC-licensed PDF file. I’m about halfway through reading my copy, and proud to have been part of the Kickstarter project that funded it.

Perfect for copying onto your Kindle before you board a flight this festive season!

Chiptunes Christmas album, raising cash for Child’s Play.

I love my new Magic Mouse, but was missing my middle click. This app adds it back. Hooray!

This is now my go-to Flickr photo uploader for the iPhone. Great UI, lets you queue up photos and upload in batches, free. Everything you could want, and nothing more. Ace!

Free car routing app for iPhone, which is using game mechanics (points & leaderboards) to crowd-source maps and traffic info. Initial prodding suggests it’s not ready for prime-time — you’re better off waiting for protonerds to fill up their data banks — but it might be worth watching in the future.

Oh my, this is rather lovely. A distraction-removing full-screen text editor (similar to WriteRoom), with a lovely background and jangly music!

Safari “plug-in” which fixes a bunch of my frustrations since switching from Firefox. This plus ClickToFlash rock my world!

Rather ace Flashgame, now available for the iPhone. Interesting sidenote: Reviews in iTunes are rather overwhelmed by their stupid decision to include a review in the app description containing the word “faggotry”.

Dropbox release a (free!) iPhone app the lets you access all your saved files. I almost feel guilty that I’m still on their free plan — They rock my world massively.

Dead handy ncurses-based browser for git. It makes git diffs and blames much more manageable.

Replace the Apple graphic on OS X boot. Being a traditionalist, I’ve got with an old school Happy Mac.

OS X Safari users: Install this! Blocks Flash until you click on the object in Safari (and other WebKit-based applications). A way to mitigate the risk of the Flash exploit without completely nuking Flash Player from your machine.

Compilation of chiptunes covers of Weezer. Ace!

/me steps on log cabin

Tweetie has been my iPhone Twitter app of choice for some time. The new OS X version seems equally lovely. Not going to tear away folks with seven-column Tweetdeck setups, but it seems to be a good step-up from Twitterrific.

Ooh, this I like. Moves your browser tabs to the left pane, and groups them by the tab that launched them.

Alpha version of a new OS X Twitter client. Still a bit rough around the edges, but has a bit more oomph than Twitterrific (and isn’t as complex and desktop-real-estate-consuming as TweetDeck), so I’m giving it a shot.