Everybody loves the opportunity to send messages from their phone for free and PingChat! has been providing that opportunity to iPhone users since October last year. As long as your recipient has PingChat! on their device, you can send instant messages that appear like regular SMS notifications on the iPhone homescreen. PingChat! developer Gary Fung has now joined Enflick Inc where development of the app has continued with a larger team that includes John Lerner and Derek Ting, known for TextNow and Mail Notifier. These extra resources and the backing of Enflick have lead to the imminent release of PingChat! 2.0 with an impressive feature set.

Expected in a matter of days, PingChat! 2.0 will add the following:

-Multi-platform communication (Adds Blackberry and Android)
-Media messaging (pictures and video)
-Group messaging
-Voice Notes
-New User interface
-Location messaging (send locations via Google Maps)
-New servers and infrastructure to improve reliability

While we wait for this exciting update, heres a video of the new app in action.

$0.99

PingChat!

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2009-09-24 :: Category: Social Networking

[ Great New Features In PingChat! 2.0 Coming Soon is a post from 148Apps ]

Great Career feels like the opening day of career development at both my high school and my University. It provides a questionnaire based on many of the leading personality tests on the market, and provides assessments of those answers in the form of qualities that you exhibit professionally. Based on those qualifications, lists of possible careers that meet those strengths are provided to help get you started on a career path.

Additional features for Great Career include a build your village option which boils down to a networking assistant application. Through a set of questions, build your village helps to construct professional emails that can be sent out through the email client in your iDevice to ask for assistance, or provide interest, for various career specific questions or requests. There is additional find resource option which helps identify challenges the individual is having, and iron out solutions for those challenges.

Ive taken a lot of these career development courses, and even helped to run one or two. This app does help someone identify their strengths and weaknesses, and even lays out some possible career opportunities, but Ive never been a fan of the cookie cutter application of standardized criteria for job placement. Users of this app need to be weary to follow this as a how to guide for career placement, and need to follow their own aspirations, even if this app can be a guide to those aspirations. I dont believe this is a $4.99 poorly spent, I just warn people that this shouldnt be the end all to their career searching.

[ Great Career Review is a post from 148Apps ]