March 4, 2009
Back in 2007 Google rolled out a revolutionary feature – Universal Search – that blended listings in its search interface from general “plain” search and video, news, images, local and book search. To explain it clearer, Google tries to guess what other type of information the surfer would also like see based on his or [...]
March 2, 2009
With the advancement in mobile technology, it is very easy for anyone to take nice quality photos and videos on their mobile phone. The problem is: how can I upload and share my well-taken photos with all my friends on the various social networks at the same time without much hassle? Shozu seems to be [...]
February 27, 2009
For your iPhone, there are plenty of apps in the App Store that enables you to get connected with your favorite social networks easily. There is Twitterific to access Twitter, the Facebook app to receive/send notifications from friends, the Youtube app to watch Youtube videos and NetNewsWire to read all your favorite RSS feeds. Note [...]
January 28, 2009
Back in August, I showed you how to backup your mobile contacts and sync events to iCal using Address Book and iSync. Personally, I find it easier to edit contact information in Address Book then sync it over rather than filling in the fields on the mobile phone. One field in particular is very prominent: [...]
January 4, 2009
I recently counted all my email accounts, and I have close to 50. Of course I don’t use them all, but I certainly have more than one active account. The fact is, most people do, and it can be frustrating to manage all those emails and logins – not to mention social networks, a form [...]
January 1, 2009
File-sharing is a complicated beast. Some files are too big to send in emails; some need to be seen by a lot of people; some need to be private; some should be public. There are a ton of different applications that want to be the host for all of your files, but drop.io stands ahead [...]
December 2, 2008
Oosah is a Web 2.0 content hosting service for digital media files, such as photos, videos, music and general audio files. Currently, Oosah offers one Terabyte of storage space. The platform is very intuitive to use, but also offers interesting features for advanced users. Since it is web-based, it should work with any operating system. [...]
November 28, 2008
When you think about it, this is really going against the grain. But if turn of events are taking software to the “˜clouds’ a.k.a cloud computing, this shouldn’t be beyond reason (or reach). So prepare to be surprised by Scrapboy, a desktop client for some of the popular social networks like Facebook, Orkut, and MySpace. [...]
November 26, 2008
This week, NASA installs its urine converter and Facebook is awarded hundreds of millions from a spammer. The podcast is available through iTunes so don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast if you have an iPod, or in another podcatcher if you have a different MP3 player. NASA’s space cup (see video below) Facebook wins [...]
November 19, 2008
It seems that the world and his dog now have a Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku or Plurk account. Some of us see these services as an extension of our mobile phone or our blog, some as a way to get into internet communications. Whatever you like to call it, microblogging has propelled itself into the internet [...]
