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Mark

YouTube Jumps into Public Journalism Training

Posted by Mark on June 30th, 2009 Comment »

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YouTube announced the launch of its new channel “The YouTube Reports Center” made to help people become good journalists. People always tend to share videos related to natural disaster, or crime or a political rally on YouTube we have seen allot of them and in one way or another we are journalists sharing stories and our experiences. (more…)

zee

Capture screen or make video tutorials for free using Screen Toaster

Posted by zee on March 24th, 2009 Comment »

Recording video tutorial never got much easier then this one. Screen Toaster is a free web based screen recorder utility designed to capture screen activity in real-time to create and share tutorials, demos, trainings, lectures and more. Fire up the web page your recording studio is ready to go you can also add audio, embed webcam while you record and once you are finished you can even add subtitles, choose thumbnails, add tags to your video share it with friends over social networks with privacy setting allowing you to control the access to the video you made. You can now also automatically upload HD screen casts directly to YouTube from Screen Toaster also you can download videos in .mov format for editing on your desktop. Their beta API allows you to integrate Screen Toaster into your website thus allowing your users to create / share and distribute video tutorials.

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Mark

Top Tools to Monitor your Website Traffic and compare it with your Competitors

Posted by Mark on March 23rd, 2009 2 Comments »

Ever wondered what kind of web traffic your competitors is having, which are the top keywords & which strategy to adopt to increase your website traffic? if yes then we got some great tools to monitor and study web traffic of any website or specially that of your competitors. You have to keep an eye on them. (more…)

Carol

Google Apps Reseller Program Open for all lets make money for Google

Posted by Carol on January 19th, 2009 Comment »

Google is now offering “Google Apps Reseller program” enabling technology solution providers to sell Google Apps to business around the world.  According to Dave Girouard President of Enterprise Google “This program gives IT solution providers an easy way to introduce cloud computing to their service offerings, while helping more businesses make the transition to this new era of technology.”

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So far more then 1 million business & 10 million users benefit from Google Apps, using Gmail™, Google Calendar™, Google Docs™, Google Sites™, Google Talk™, and Google Video™ for their business.

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Mark

Worlds Thinnest LCD Tv LG Trumotion 480 Hz

Posted by Mark on December 30th, 2008 Comment »

LG reveals the worlds thinnest LCD called LG Trumotion 480 Hz the worlds thinnest LCD and its indeed very sexy too.

LG Trumotion 480 Hz is expected to hit the market in the second half of 2009 and is packed with LG Display’s ‘scanning backlight’ technology that enables a backlight to be repeatedly turned on and off to reduce motion blur. The display can refresh 480 images per second. In addition, LG Display’s “Trumotion 480Hz” display boasts an lower motion picture response time (MPRT)of 4ms, eliminating motion blurring for fast moving images and enabling a realistic, crystal clear picture. The display also makes dark images even darker and bright images far brighter — providing unparalleled, vivid picture quality. Moreover, it can reduce energy consumption by adjusting the backlight brightness.

Source : LG

zee

Google Starts Marketing Its Browser Google Chrome via adsense

Posted by zee on December 4th, 2008 Comment »

So now i know why Google pulled the plug with the good old “Support Firefox Buttons” in Google Adsense account where you could make a dollar by convincing your website visitors to switch to Firefox. But then that ad unit ended with no solid reason. Google must be planning for its upcoming browser Chrome so they simply pulled the plug on “Switch to Firefox” and came up with “Faster Web Browser, Download Google Chrome” which appeared on linked in and i just saw there 300px ad unit on my blog served by Adsense.

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Carol

Mozilla’s open-source customizable music player songbird goes live

Posted by Carol on December 4th, 2008 Comment »

Songbird this week finally made its 1.0 release:

What is Song Bird?
Songbird is an opensource music player build on Mozilla technology, VLC Player & SQLite. Purely based on Mozilla’s Gecko engine, the same engine that powers Firefox. Like Firefox, Songbird allows for tabbed browsing, themes and addtions of add-ons to customize the extendibility of your media player. So far packed with more then 90 Add Ons you can customize SongBird as you want.

“Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players” according to Aaron Boodman, Greasemonkey.

SongBird is currently in its early stages but have a very active development teams, this week they released there 1.0 release, powered with an addition in features, performance according to their blog post

  • Drastically Faster Search: Searching in Songbird is now anywhere from 10x faster for small libraries to 1000x for large ones.
  • Reduced RAM Usage: There’s a 70% reduction in RAM usage when importing and using large (100,000 track) libraries.
  • Faster Media Importing: Importing media into Songbird is now 2-4x faster.
  • Reduced Startup Times: Large library users (10,000 tracks or more) will notice that Songbird startup times are now twice as fast.
  • Efficient Scrolling: Scrolling through your library now uses half the amount of CPU.
  • Snappier Sorting: Sorting your library is now 3-4x faster, which adds up to significantly smoother browsing when scrolling and filtering.
  • Optimized DB Size: We’ve optimized the database in Songbird and reduced its size by, on average, 60%. This leads to a variety of performance improvements throughout the application.
  • Fewer Crashers: We’ve worked hard to identify and fix 11 of the most common crashes in Songbird.

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Carol

Review Touchscreen Business Phone – Sony Ericsson XPERIA 1

Posted by Carol on October 20th, 2008 Comment »

Sony Ericsson “XPERIA 1″ the first business phone by Sony Ericsson which uses the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, the phone is ready to hit the market and expected to be released by the end of october. Not only its the first business phone from sony ericsson but it is also the first touchscreen phone with a overlaying Qwerty keypad which emerges when the user slides the touchscreen face upwards.

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zee

Review Blackberry Storm Touch Screen cell phone

Posted by zee on October 8th, 2008 1 Comment »

Verizon Wireless today announce Blackberry Storm, a phone with touch screen and is being called an iPhone competitor.

BASKING RIDGE, NJ, NEWBURY, England, and WATERLOO, Ontario — Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Group (NYSE and LSE: VOD) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry® Storm™ will be available later this fall, exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers in the U.S. and Vodafone customers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Blackberry Storm

Blackberrry Storm features a 3.25-inch touch screen which is responsive just like the iPhone. Unlike iPhone, the touch screen for Blackberry comes with an added feature of confirmation before launching an application or initiating any process during which the full screen becomes a large button that confirms a user’s selecting when pressed, while in iPhone it just swipe or errant tap can launch an application or action.”Consumers and business customers alike will appreciate this unique combination of a large and vibrant screen with a truly tactile touch interface,” said RIM co-chief executive Mike Lazaridis. (more…)

Mark

Nokia’s TouchScreen cellPhone Nokia Tube (5800 XpressMusic)

Posted by Mark on September 27th, 2008 Comment »

As we covered previously after iPhone HTC Diamond was expected to the iPhone competitor but now Nokia has also stepped up and it has been confirmed that this October Nokia will be launching its first touchscreen cell phone named “Nokia 5800 XpressMusic” code named “Tube”.

The touchScreen technology is becoming very common in cell phones and the consumer demand for the technology has also increase massively. Within the last 2 weeks we have seen three new touchscreen phones announced first it was HTC Diamond then Google G1 and now Nokia 5800.

What makes Nokia 5800 so Special

The new Nokia 5800 have a 3.2-inch touchscreen display with 16 Million colors with a 3.2 Mega Pixel auto focus camera with dual LED Flash and 30 FPS VGA recording. The phone will be on a quad-band (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) GSM/EDGE radio with 3G UMTS/HSDPA, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi. (more…)

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