Twitxr is a Web service that allows users to share pictures and status updates from their mobile phones. In fact, Twitxr was developed by FON, a company which sells WIFI router and with an aim to helps users get free access to over a million WiFi hotspots worldwide.

After you signing up with Twitxr, you can send your pictures to a variety of external services such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa. All you need to do is to enter your own log-in credentials of these aforesaid services, then you can start sharing pictures either from your email client or your mobile phones; currently supports iPhone, Windows Mobile, Nokia and Motorola phones.

For email posting, just send an email message containing a photo, a title (location) and update text as body text to your private Twitxr e-mail address. Then, Twitxr will send out your pictures for you. Additionally, you can post text-only updates, picture-only updates or both by using Twitxr.

I’m a big fan of a beautiful thing called open source software. I’m sure you also fancy of software which is employed free software model, and solve your tasks without paying a single penny. In that spirit, isn’t it a smart move to check out a site which provide you a few alternatives you name it for the software you going to spend on your computer or mobile phone.

As the name suggests, AlternativeTo is a site that suggests you with the list of alternatives for the application you want to replace. For instance, if you want to replace Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 with some paid or free software, that page will wow you with some noteworthy alternatives. For those who has no money to spend on software anymore, you’ll be impressed with the list it provide to you.

At present, AlternativeTo is focusing on the software from two main categories that are Desktop and mobile phone. For each category, you can scroll through the results with the help of some filters such as “Most Views,” Most Likes,” and etc. Of course, to save your time in browsing through the list of application, perhaps you can delve deeper into the main categories and go to the sub-categories such as Windows, Mac, Linux, Online, the sub-category of Desktop for instance.

For now, if you can’t the alternatives for the application you want to replace, you also can sign-in to the site and suggest one for them and then waiting for the community contributors to name the alternatives for you. As long as you found the right alternative to the application you want to replace, I believe it is a right site you want to bookmark with.