D’oh! Can you believe it’s been 20 years since Homer, Marge, Maggie, Lisa and Bart first entered our lives? Some of you reading Neonpunch were probably little kids when the yellow-colored family hit the airwaves in 1990 and dug the show for its basic Bart awesomeness. As you grew and as the show gained popularity, its in-jokes and adult comedy shone through to make it the most sucessful animated TV series of all time.
So, to celebrate 20 years, here is a desktop app that takes The Simpsons to a new level in awesome. Play digital tricks on your friends and invite them to compete with you to see who becomes the Prince O’Pranks. Have Homer keep you virtual company on your desktop while you work or play. Get updates on the latest and greatest episodes and info from your favorite TV show.
Your whole desktop becomes a Simpsons interface with Homer walking around showing you pranks you can play on your Facebook friends. Add your friends in and, while they have the Simpsons interface up, you can attack them with Duff Beer Bombs, Itchy and Scratchy bombs, Radiation sticks, baby bottles and more.
You’ll need Adobe Air and a Facebook account and you’re all ready to go!
If you haven’t already, get ready to trash your NowTV box forever.
Tired of watching old shows on your NowTV? Wait, you still have your NowTV box? Ok, we know the Apple TV is a bit expensive, but here comes the Boxee Box to the rescue.
Stop flipping from your TV to your laptop to your favorite mobile device to watch music videos, current TV shows, movies and all your favorite YouTube clips! The Boxbee Box helps to put all your entertainment in one place so that it’s always accessible and easy-to-share through social networking sites. It’s entertainment without limits.
Hook D-Link’s Boxee Box to your high definition TV and you can start enjoying all your favorite shows and clips, plus a whole lot more. The Box comes ready-to-work with a vast Internet library of lectures, presentations, online videos and lots more. You can even add your saved RSS and XML feeds to get the content you want as soon as it’s published.
This robotic penguin reads and connects to the web and Facebook.
Tiny and yeah, ok, pretty cute, Pingo is a tiny robotic penguin and the first official mydeskfriend, launching today at www.mydeskfriend.com. We first reported about this Facebook-talking robot back in July, and now it’s finally here.
Pingo integrates into its owners’ Facebook account via a Facebook application that allows users to give their device its own name, profile and personality, as well as nurture its moods and manage its daily life. The interactive playmate can zoom around desktops, express moods, respond to voice commands, sing songs and read aloud email messages, headlines, stock quotes and even the weather!
You can set mydeskfriend up to read RSS newsfeeds, spoil it with food and vitamins from a Facebook gift page, and lull it to sleep by gently rocking it in your hands. Pingo can follow fingers around a desktop, while sensory devices ensure that it never falls off a desk when moving around on its own.
Microsoft Hong Kong brings your social network to your Xbox 360.
Hong Kong Xbox360 owners can now keep up with their Facebook posts and tweets from Twitter without having to put down their controllers.
You can share real-time status updates and photos with your friends, as well as your favorite gaming moments from television to Facebook. Gamers can also show off their gaming prowess by posting updates to Facebook about the latest achievements they’ve earned!
Gamers can also stay connected to their friends and family by posting and reading Tweets from the comfort of their living room via Xbox LIVE. Xbox 360 owners can tell friends about the new game demo they’ve downloaded from Marketplace, or announce that they are about to host a multiplayer match without even having to get off their couch and walk to their PC! Gamers can also read, reply and post tweets to Twitter through Xbox LIVE.
Another ‘augmented reality’ iPhone app, but this one has dinosaurs!
Available for free in the iTunes App Store is the new augmented reality app called Junaio from Metaio.
What makes this one different from the dozens of others is that Junaio lets you add in 3D objects (like a Tyrannosaurus Rex) into our reality, and you can send those images (and other things you put in the augmented reality) via Twitter or post on Facebook to share with your friends.
You have to see it to believe it, so here’s the video below (get past the strange musical choice and concentrate on the visuals):
An updated look for one of mobile’s killer applications.
Just in case, like us, your iPhone didn’t automatically update you to the current version of the Facebook app for your iPhone you can download it here right now. Or just manually update it directly on your iPhone.
You’ll find the native application is much faster than the website, giving you more reliable access to your Friends, photos, and inbox, and it brings one important new feature to the iPhone: Facebook Chat.
Facebook 3.0 is already one of the most useful apps on the iPhone to date. Some of the new 3.0 app features include:
Full News Feed Interaction (with Likes and Comments)
Full Support for Facebook Pages
New Home Page Navigation
See Upcoming Events and RSVP
Video Uploading, Complete Photo Management
Write and Read Your Friends’ Notes
If you are still reading this, that means you’re not sure if you should upgrade (it is free BTW) then have a look at this 59-second video that should get you clicking over to the iTunes App store now:
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