This is the production version of Ford’s Focus Electric for the US market, and we got the chance to take it for a proper test drive last week. Don’t fret, though — Engadget hasn’t suddenly turned into a car site. While we’ll be happy to share our driving impressions, we’re mostly interested in how Ford interfaces the vehicle with our favorite mobile devices and social networks — tech that we’re covered before, known as MyFord Mobile
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Ford Focus Electric test drive and MyFord Mobile hands-on (video)
Nearly a year after it debuted and caught our eye as an incredibly well structured Twitter client for the 
Listen up, you BlackBerry users, you: RIM’s just released a new version of its BB app , and though the list of new features is hardly earth-shaking, they should all be welcome additions to those of you who’ve been making do with version 2.0. On board we’ve got automatic link-shortening, for starters, along with BlackBerry Messenger integration (read: the ability to link your Twitter account with BBM). 
You’ll still have to wait a bit longer for a major update to the mobile apps, but Twitter has today rolled out some big changes to TweetDeck for Mac, Windows and Chrome. That includes some added options for lists (including the ability to create and edit lists from within the application), new activity and interactions columns, inline media previews, and a new “Edit & RT” feature in place of the previous “Quote” option. You can get a quick preview of all that in the video after the break, or simply try it out yourself by downloading or updating the application for your platform of choice (it of course remains completely free). 
When Apple dropped the second developer preview of Mountain Lion on Friday it didn’t see fit to include release notes, instead leaving it to us and the rest of the blogosphere to dig up the new features ourselves. The big ones are clearly Twitter alerts in the Notification Center and the introduction of tab syncing in Safari through iCloud . The latter of which should sooth 
The Y Combinator -funded Posterous had its time in the sun and now it’s being absorbed by the biggest player in the microblogging market. The simple sharing service struck a chord with many of Silicon Valley’s elite, but it never managed to make a major dent in a field already dominated by the likes of Tumblr and its now owner, Twitter . The teams from Posterous will simply shift over to products at its new parent company and let their creation die a slow and likely unspectacular death
Love staying connected and using excess paper? Adafruit’s got your back with its latest project. The Internet of Things (IoT) printer goes online via an Ethernet jack, printing up data on 2.5 inch wide receipt paper. 
Shazam today released its first fully new app since the launch of the familiar self-titled music tagging app. The new, simply-named Shazam Player offers up streaming lyrics, YouTube videos, concert dates and lets you make playlists on the go
