Free Applications for iPhones

Apple amazes everyone, mainly the gizmo freaks owing to its superb features and iphone apps which are fairly easy to install. The huge demand for the iPhones arises owing to its well integrated set of applications. The free iPhone applications can be found across wide categories namely news, entertainment, utilities and social networking etc. What … Read more →

Facebook sets a new Photo upload record

Randi Zuckerberg (Mark’s sister) who leads Facebook’s consumer marketing team, wrote in a tweet that 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook during the New Years Eve weekend. The previous record was during Halloween 2010. In July 2010, Facebook said more than 100 million photos are uploaded to their site – each day! It’s unknown … Read more →

Photography: What’s drawing the eye (visual mass)?

If you like taking pictures, then you’d probably prefer taking pictures that people like to look at as well. Sometimes we get lucky and capture a great shot, but often it takes a little bit of thought or planning to get it just right. Remember, don’t just take pictures – make them! One thing you, … Read more →

Facebook launches “e-mail” service: Facebook Messages

As rumored yesterday, Facebook would be announcing a new web based “e-mail” service soon – and now they have. They call it Facebook Messages. Actually, it’s not really like the e-mail we know and use every day. Here’s how Facebook put it on their blog: We are also providing an @facebook.com email address to every … Read more →

Facebook to launch webmail service? Would you trust them?

Facebook has been working secretly on a project known as Project Titan which the public first heard something about in February. According to TechCrunch, Facebook will announce the project on Monday. But TechCrunch knows more than that – they claim that according to reliable sources, Facebook is about to launch a webmail client, a “Gmail … Read more →

HTC Desire HD vs HTC Mozart – Froyo vs WP7

High Tech Computer Corp, commonly known as HTC, is one of the top smartphone brands in the world. Even the iconic Nexus One had been developed by this company, for Google. Both Google and HTC have shared a very steady relationship since the birth of the Android platform. The HTC Dream, was in fact the … Read more →

Facebook: Even bigger photos for even better viewing

Facebook last increased photo sizes from 604 pixels to 720 pixels back in March 2010. Despite being a 20% increase, 720 pixels photos are not just that big here in 2010. Apparently, Facebook agrees. Facebook is now increasing sizes even more, from the 720 pixels to 2048 pixels. Much better – good job, Facebook! They’re … Read more →

Friday Flick Find: “Don’t be evil?” – Eric Schmidt parody

Consumer Watchdog in the United States is behind this cartoon parody video of Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt. The video makes it clear that nothing is free and even though the kids does get “free” ice cream, they’re actually paying by giving up information about themselves. Sound familiar…? The video also features the well-known comment from … Read more →

Samsung Epic 4G: A Super Multimedia Phone [review]

The Samsung Epic 4G is very much unlike its Galaxy S siblings as it has a physical keyboard and a front-facing camera.  This is currently the second phone that runs on Sprint’s 4G network and as of August 20, 2010, it is priced at $250 along with a two-year contract from Sprint.  The question now … Read more →

iTunes 10: Left navigation gray and dull, close/minimize/maximize buttons vertical?! [How-to fix]

iTunes 10 was announced and launched yesterday at the Apple music event and I’ve been playing around with it a little bit for today. The first thing I noticed was how the left navigation sidebar now looks gray and dull. The colored icons are gone and replaced with color-less gray icons. Next after, I noticed … Read more →

Open Source Facebook Competitor, Diaspora*, Launches in Two Weeks

Diaspora* is an open source project that was launched a few months ago where they initially tried to raise just $10,000 via Kickstarter.com so that these four guys could develop their Facebook competitor. They ended up getting around $180,000 instead – including some money (apparently) from Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg. The deal with Diaspora is … Read more →

Facebook Doubles Size of Data Center in Oregon

Facebook first told us about their plans for building a data center in Oregon back in January this year, a data center more than 13,000 square meters big. They have now decided to add another 14,000 square meters to it, according to IDG News Service. First part of the construction is scheduled to be finished … Read more →

Facebook Makes Another Move Into the Search Engine Market

Facebok has begun testing a new feature, Questions, where you can ask questions to the 500 million users of Facebook. At first, Questions is only available to a small group of users but Facebook plans on releasing it to all their users at a later time. Questions is supposed to be a competitor to services … Read more →

Recommended: Flipboard – iPad Social Media Magazine & RSS Feeds

Robert Scoble (scobleizer) calls Flipboard a “killer app” for the iPad. I think killer app is relative. What may be a killer app for him and some thousands of other users, might be pretty boring to users like, say, my mum. Never the less, I gave Flipboard a chance, partly because it’s free and still … Read more →