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Hundreds of thousands of users are joining Twitter everyday. The number of registered users on Twitter has crossed the 100 million mark. Many celebrities and media icons have also taken interest in Twitter and are signing up for an account. Twitter has created a graphical tree that houses some of the notable personages who started using Twitter in 2010.
Google’s Chrome Notebook is doing the rounds on Internet these days. A video showing the usability of Chrome Notebooks and how data remains safe with it was shown on the Chrome Event on 7th December 2010. In this video, Chrome UX designer Glen Murphy shows some of the advantages of using chrome notebook. 25 computers were destroyed in the making of this video but no data from any system was lost.
Gamification adds a new scope to applications with a game-like approach to things that typically aren’t considered a game. Gamification wiki aims at cataloging all sorts of information on Gamification.
Children are the best asset of parents. Parents cherish and try never to forget even the little things of their offspring’s childhood. When even the subtlest things from the childhood of your children are remembered, they twist up your lips into a smile. But it is rather difficult to store all such moments properly. MomentGarden is a service that was created with a purpose of helping parents collect and share and save the precious moments of their children with the people that matter most.
With modern data storage technologies, thousands of books could be contained within a mere computer chip. Today, E-readers are growing in popularity – produced and sold by companies such as Sony, Apple, and Amazon. Here are 10 interesting facts about electronic paper you maybe never knew before.
Google’s Doodles are famous on the Internet and most of the times their doodles are a tribute to some great personalities. Google’s Facebook page has a Google Doodle Tab introduced that shows some of the most popular Google Doodles.
Now Microsoft is working on something more powerful than the Microsoft Surface, the LightSpace. LightSpace is a combination of elements of surface computing and augmented reality research to create a space whose surfaces would be to interactive to hand gestures and motions.
How often do you travel places? If you are a traveler you must have had experiences of looking for hotels of your type. There are a lot of sites on the web where you can look for hotels appropriate for yourself. But Funnelscope is one of its kind as it lets you search hotels based on the data from social networks.
What do you use Excel for; creating spreadsheets, graphs, charts and all? Microsoft Excel is used by people in various ways. But can you imagine a video created in Microsoft Excel? The video for the song “Rock and Roll Train” by the legendary Rock Band AC/DC was created entirely in Microsoft Excel.
You must have seen slow motion scenes on movies where an action taking place very fast is shown in slow motion. Slow motion techniques are employed in movies off and on. Actually in a slow motion video, a bunch of images are captured very fast—at least 120 images per second, and often 300 or more and then played back at the speed that your eye can grasp. Here’s a cool 1 Million FPS slow motion video showing a bullet impact.
The Twitter Fail Whale, that is employed by Twitter when it is overcapacity is very popular. It is a garphic created by Yiying Lu which shows a whale being held up by a flock of birds in an ocean. Such a scenario isn’t conceivable in the real world but a photograph taken under the sea featuring a frail turtle swimming over a reef and a couple of fishes hovering around it is very similar to the Twitter Fail whale.
The chat box on Facebook had recently started showing thumbnails instead of names. As evident from the new features rollout today, the changes in chat box was a beacon for the New group chat feature, an added treat to the New Facebook Groups. Other options like Advanced Privacy settings and downloading all your data uploaded to Facebook have been added.
Facebook has undergone a lot of changes since its establishment. They bring new designs and adds components time to time on Facebook. Facebook could be rolling out a new design very soon as evident from the small changes being seen in Facebok. And it sure is likely that many users will protest the redesign.
Samy Kamkar has used the undocumented Google Maps API to map a web browser to GPS coordinates via router XSS and Google’s Location based services i.e. using this, one can find the location of any person from their MAC address. The application is called MapXSS.
Facebook, the state of the art social networking website has been made into a movie now. The movie entitled, “The Social Networks” was directed by David Fincher and was released yesterday. The screenplay was adapted from Ben Mezrick’s non-fiction novel, The Accidental Billionaires. No members of the Facebook family including Mark Zuckerberg were involved in the project.
Every Twitter user must have come across the Twitter fail whale when Twitter datacenter is over capacity. This whale landing on your screen means that you’ll be deprived of using Twitter for a couple of seconds or even minutes. The image also known as “Lifting up a Dreamer” actually comprises of a giant white whale, ten small birds and a blue sea with orange waves. The twitter whale was ubiquitous during the World Cup 2010 when the football fans where busy tweeting regarding the great football festival. The fail whale is immensely popular among Twitter fans and it has been sculpted into various forms.
Yesterday I felt elated upon logging in to Techattitude’s Twitter account to find that the account had been activated for the New Twitter. Techattitude doesn’t have many followers as of now so I was thinking that the New Twitter would be activated for Techattitude only after it crosses a certain followers threshold. But the New Twitter for my account totally left me amazed and I later thought that maybe it was activated for all users. I also have another (kind of personal) Twitter account that I use off and on. So, I logged in to that but to my despair, it wasn’t yet enabled for the New Twitter. So, I wondered what kept it on the waiting list. Maybe it was the incomplete profile information.
What is the corporate color of your company? Well Colour Lovers has assembled a list of the corporate colors of the most powerful brands. The colors of the Top 100 web brands shows that most of the companies have their logos in tints of blue or red.
Well have you thought about light painting in the air? Making future Magic is the communication strategy from Dentsu Networks London. The Dentsu Networks and Berg London together have created a video showing what the future of the media might be and how it is changing. They have tried to interpret the magical version of the future media by exploring how the screens would look and work in the world. They did this by using an iPad.
Ever wondered about time travelling, and time machine? This won’t take you back to the past but you’’ll get to see videos from the olden days. Youtube Time Travel(YTTM) helps you cherish your memories of the past. Youtube Time Machine(YTTM) randomly lets you see the videos from the past.