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Adobe Flash Player accessible on Smartphones
Adobe unveiled the Flash 10.1 player, which will enable all Adobe Flash content to be accessible on smartphones. This means you’ll be able to play Flash-based games and view Flash-based videos and Web sites. And yes, that includes Hulu. iPhone owners, however, aren’t so lucky. Adobe said that they are still working to make the Flash Player [...]
Continue reading...4. October 2009
Top Android Applications and Games
Top 10 Applications Rank Previous Game Price Developer 1 (1) Advanced Task Manager $0.99 Arron La 2 (3) My Backup Pro $4.99 RerWare 3 (4) Snap Photo Pro $0.99 Bratag 4 (6) Documents to Go $29.99 DataViz 5 (2) Bluex $2.91 Xela AndroSoft 6 (5) Weather Widgets $1.49 Android Apps 7 (9) PicSay Pro $2.85 Shinycore 8 (8) Better Keyboard $2.99 Better Android 9 (7) Power Manager $0.99 X-Phone 10 (NEW) Taskiller Full $1.02 Thibaut Nicola Advanced Task Manager remains the most popular paid application and it shows no signs of slowing down. The developer Arron La recently updated his app to support Android 1.6 and is promising a “major update” [...]
Continue reading...1. October 2009
SAP Making Application With Google Wave
Google’s Wave communication and collaboration platform is getting early interest from enterprise application vendors like Salesforce.com and SAP. Both companies have built prototype applications using Wave, which was released in preview mode for about 100,000 users on Wednesday after being available only to developers. Wave combines a range of technologies such as document sharing and instant [...]
Continue reading...30. September 2009
CNN launches iPhone app
Nielsen has reported that CNN is the number one mobile news provider. That’s why it makes perfect sense that CNN would have their own iPhone application. The app provides a new experience that is multimedia centered including articles with photos and video. For those amateur journalists the application even includes the ability to upload reports to iReport.com [...]
Continue reading...30. September 2009
Google Launches – Google Docs OCR
Google Docs API tests a new feature that lets you perform OCR (optical character recognition) on an image. There’s a live demo that illustrates this feature: you can upload a high-resolution JPG, GIF, or PNG image that has less than 10 MB and Google Docs extracts the text and converts it into a new document. Google mentions that [...]
Continue reading...29. September 2009
Bit.ly is first in URL Shortners List
News Corp (NWS) social network MySpace allowed its users to sync up their status updates with Twitter only a week ago, but the move is already paying off. The evidence? Just seven days into the integration, MySpace’s link shortener lnk.ms is the second most popular on Twitter, according to Twitter link aggregator TweetMeme. (Via TechCrunch.) To be sure, just [...]
Continue reading...28. September 2009
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Can iPhone Be Stopped??
It seems like just the other day when Apple announced its 1 billionth App Store download, and today they have crossed 2 billion. Are there any reasons to buy a smartphone that is not from Apple? I cannot think of too many. And it will be hard for other manufacturers to catch-up. Not with the hardware, perhaps, but [...]
Continue reading...28. September 2009
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Useful Open Source Software Directory
Most Popularly Used Firefox delivers helpful new features to make your online experience more productive. Chose from over a thousand useful add-ons to personalize and make it your own. Miro – free, open source internet tv and video player. Miro gives you [...]
Continue reading...25. September 2009
Google Earth launches climate simulator
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words should we affordGoogle Earth? Hours can be lost skydiving your way towards your favourite locations. Seeing somewhere you know so well from above provides valuable extra servings of knowledge and perspective. It’s pleasing, therefore, to see Google announcing on its official blog that it has developed [...]
Continue reading...24. September 2009
Google Layout 2.1
Now that SketchUp 7.1 is out the door, I thought it’d be a good idea to tell you a little bit more about its 2D, Pro counterpart: LayOut 2.1 is more powerful than ever. We added features that should let you use SketchUp Pro for an even larger chunk of your workflow: Dimensions! LayOut isn’t just for [...]
Continue reading...23. September 2009
Adobe Releases Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows and Mac
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 software available for Windows and Mac, providing automated and intelligent photo-editing technology across both platforms. With the newest version of the No. 1 selling consumer photo-editing software, Adobe continues to make cutting-edge innovation accessible to users who want powerful yet easy-to-use tools to tell compelling stories with their photos. Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 [...]
Continue reading...4. September 2009
Facebook Connect Expands: Next Stop, Mobile Web
Facebook used Nokia World, the mobile conference taking place now in Stuttgart Germany, to make a major announcement about the expansion of their Facebook Connect platform. According to Henri Moissinac, head of Facebook’s mobile operations, the company is launching a new program called “Facebook Connect For Mobile Web.” The Connect platform, which originally launched in 2008, [...]
Continue reading...29. August 2009
Bing vs Google vs Yahoo
In the arena of world-class search, can Bing bring the hurt to Google and Yahoo? Microsoft’s newest search engine comes packed with search tools such as an Explorer Pane for refining searches, Quick Previews for sneaking a peek at a site before visiting it, and Sentiment Extraction for making sense of product reviews. Google and Yahoo, [...]
Continue reading...15. July 2009
Microsoft Office 2010 Features
Microsoft Office 2010, as revealed by the just-released Technical Preview, brings a set of important if incremental improvements to the market-leading office suite. Word 2010 Word 2010, showing the tweaked Ribbon. Note the rectangular Office button in the upper left, which is now obviously an action button rather than a branding logo. Excel 2010 Not much has changed in [...]
Continue reading...10. July 2009
Track Social Media Traffic With Google Analytics
Getting Setup in Google Analytics Google anayltics is tough to beat when it comes to tracking website traffic and goals. Setting up your analytics account to measure social media traffic is actually pretty easy. First, you will need to login to your analytics account. Once logged in, look in the left hand column under “Settings”. Click on [...]
Continue reading...10. July 2009
SEO vs SEM
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of creating or adapting web pages so that they are easily indexible by Search engine spiders. SEO includes “optimizing” factors on the page to help computer programs to identify the content that is contained on the page. SEO includes paying attention to “on-page” factors like text, meta tags, [...]
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5. October 2009
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