Archive for December, 2008
The Independent has dug some of the famous predictions which went wrong. Check out the some of the famous incorrect predictions below:
Google Apps offers strong messaging and collaboration tools which can be accessed from anywhere. There are a number of businesses which use Google Apps in order to enhance their services. On the other hand some businesses have complex IT structure and they prefer to work with the professionals on issues such as data migration and sync. Also they might require some extra features to meet the business requirements. To help sort this out Google Apps partners, which includes developers, system integrators and professional IT consultants, provide information on their services in the Google Solutions Marketplace.
Apple has come up with a new look to its App Store directory. Now the focus is more on the free and top paid applications in each category. Both of these lists appear at the left and right side of the search results. This gives users a chance to see the most popular free and paid applications. An AppleInsider told a developer that the current change indicates that some of the applications will get more exposure among the shoppers of iTunes.
AT&T is now providing their customers a chance to buy the iPhone 3G online and activate it through iTunes at home. The wireless site of AT&T is promoting the online sale of the device for holidays. The offer appears to be only for the new customers. In the U.S., only AT&T is selling the iPhone online, other regions include Hong Kong and U.K. According to Brad Mays, AT&T spokesperson:
PC Magazine has carried out a test on Google Chrome in order to see the improvement on the browser since its launch. The test reveals that the browser has increased its speed and also its compatibility has progressed with popular sites such as Facebook. The speed of the browser in the retest has improved 24% which is similar to the second beta 3.1 of the Firefox. Though the memory consumption of Google Chrome is more than other Firefox and Internet Explorer.
IE7 had a vulnerability and researchers in China admitted to have released a code to exploit it, by mistake. The code had already been available before it was released and had a price tag of around $15,000. The flaw makes XP and Vista users vulnerable to Trojans and various other malware. The release had been made when KnownSec didn’t notice Microsoft’s failure to fix the issue.
Educational and logical games with fun activities have always helped children learn real world problems quickly and develop their brains. But what about the same feature in online virtual games?
JumpStart
, has launched a public beat of it’s new JumpStart Virtual World. This is a browser based games needing only a plug-in to be installed at the consumer end. The best part about this game is that, you can monitor your Childs progress as well via a built in feature which analyses your Childs activity accordingly to make stats.
Story Land (for ages 3-5), but Adventure Land (6-8’s) and Futureland (8-10’s) are three segments within the game itself. The game will be opening up in March or April 2009. When finally released, the game will be a Free to try app, but for full version you have to pay a $7.99 monthly subscription fee.
Writing content with hard efforts is a tough ask to do. And how bad it feels when somebody else cites your hard work without even referencing and while you sit and see ducks, he/she earns bucks.
FairShare now enables you to find out if somebody is monetizing your content so you can take appropriate action .
I always dream about getting new ringtones for my iPhone, sadly I don’t want to pay for them. But today I saw a nice app which could help me create new ringtones without having to pay for them. Aukido is a service which enables you to render ringtones out of your own favorite song and putting some classy effects to make it sound nicer to the ears.
The best part being you can download the composed ringtones in both MP3 and M4R format.
