I like to try out new services as frequently as possible and see if they’re a good compliment to Splashtop. After all, particular applications are better suited for Splashtop given their purpose. kwiry is a great example of a well suited Splashtop complimentary web application.

Last week I briefly mentioned Jott, an easy way to have voice-based messages translated to text and left for your contacts or yourself. Jott makes it easy to send an email to others while you’re in the car.

kwiry plays in the same general space but has their own set of killer features. kwiry’s strength lies in their ability to allow for SMS-based self-messaging. In other words, you’re in the coffee shop and you hear this great song. You ask the Barista, “who are you playing right now?” She answers, “the Black Keys.” Ten times out of ten I would get my coffee and then forget the name of the artist. Later in the day I would be thinking, “the Black…something. It’s not the Black Crowes. Who was it again?” kwiry solves this problem by allowing you to text yourself “the Black Keys” and then be reminded about it once you power on your PC.

Make kwiry a bookmark in your Splashtop browser and you can get to those reminders instantly. kwiry takes it even further by giving context to your reminders. When you get back to your PC and see “the Black Keys” you’ll get options to listen, purchase, find reviews and even tour dates for the Black Keys. This, of course, works with many different things you might text yourself - not just the Black Keys.

There are other things you can do with kwiry including friending people and seeing their kwiry’s. This can be really interesting as you can see what your friends are thinking about. This feature is similar to Twitter but the content is very different because kwiry is much more reminder-based, not as much micro-blog oriented. Give kwiry a try and let me know what you think.

**Update: For those of you who signed up for Jott last week, I spoke to the guys at kwiry and they actually just launched Jott compatibility yesterday. They’ve got instructions on how to integrate kwiry and Jott so you can send in reminders with Jott and have them go to your kwiry inbox (complete with search results). We like things that play well together : )

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