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. So YouTube plan to help out on this with YouTube Reports centers where they would feature some of the top journalists sharing instructional videos & tips for better reporting. Things to keep in mind for preparing for an interview, or how to be an investigative reporter.

In addition, you can also learn practical and ethical tips, like how to fact check your stories, avoid breaking the law while reporting, and adhere to journalistic principles. Check out the Reporters’ Center to see all the videos or sample.

Screen Toaster is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X and Linux and is optimized to run on Firefox 2 +, Internet Explorer 7 +, Chrome, Opera 9 and Safari. Though it uses java applet so sometimes it might take a while to open on slow internet connection.

A great app indeed … check it out.

1- Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends

So first on the list is Google trends which can help you compare & study keywords / topics that are mostly searched in Google. You can enter up to 5 keywords or topics and Google trends will present you with data regarding how often they have been searched for, which geographical location the keywords are most important & a time line on the relevancy of the keyword / topic with past time. Located beneath the Search Volume Index graph is there News reference volume graph. This graph shows you the number of times your topic appeared in Google News stories. When Google Trends detects a spike in the volume of news stories for a particular search term, it labels the graph and displays the headline of an automatically selected Google News story written near the time of that spike.

Google trends also gives you a snapshot of the fastest rising searches for different points of time, you can see todays top 100 rising search queries with geographically targeted locations or you can see top keywords of the previous year.

2- Link Popularity Check
http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/

Link popularity check is one of the best ways to quantifiable and independently measure your website’s online awareness and overall visibility. Simply put, link popularity refers to the total number of links or “votes” that a search engine has found for your website.

3- Attention Meter
http://attentionmeter.com/

Attention meter is a simple tracking tool with which a user can have a measure of the traffic on his website. The user simply has to enter the URL’s of five websites with which he has to perform a comparison of the web traffic. The next step shows the status of his website in terms of traffic.

4- Popuri
http://popuri.us/
Popuri is an application which reveals the status web traffic for a website after two simple steps. Initially the user has to enter his website URL and then the URL’s of various search engines on which he has to perform a rating check. The next step reveals the position of the user’s website in terms of web traffic. This is a freeware and does not require the user to sign up.

5- Seo digger
http://seodigger.com/
This tool is a superb creation for search engine optimization and web marketing. How? I will tell you. With Seo digger the user can extract the key words which the top rated websites on search engines have used. This application is great assistance for web professional and traffic monitors. The website offers a free account which does not require registration. There is also an option available for a paid account

6- Quant cast
http://www.quantcast.com/
This application tracks web traffic and website users by entering the profiles of other websites. Quant cast co ordinates with legitimate publishers who provide a correct measure of the web traffic. This process is conducted with the help of a feature named Quantified Publisher. Quant cast is a facility for both advertisers and publishers. It is a freeware but the user is required to register for an account.
7- Spy Fu
http://www.spyfu.com/
Spy Fu allows a user to get a complete detail about his competitors in terms of web traffic. This detail includes all the key works which are used from marketing purposes and SEO techniques. It is not a freeware, how ever the facilities offered make the application worth purchasing so lets glance at a few of them. Spy provides a complete insight about the web traffic with respect to the key words but also according to the corporate category in which the particular company is listed.
8- Traffic Estimate
http://www.trafficestimate.com/
This application provides a user with an analysis of the web traffic a user gets on a search engine by entering a URL. The user simply needs to enter the URL of the web site and click the “estimate button’. After this simple twp step process the user gets an estimate of the web traffic. This is a freeware and does not require the user to register.

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.

What are Google Apps

Google Apps is a business service from Google that enables business to use custom domain for using Google products. It provides features to use Gmail, Google Calendar, Gtalk, Google Docs & Google Sites on your own domain name with your own branding option. Though they still don’t allow you to customize its themes as per your preferences but i hope to see that feature soon.

The Standard edition is free and offers some amount of storage while the Premier edition offer a 25Gb of e-mail and documents storage for $50 USD. The service is also free for Education and Organizations if you have a .edu or .org domain names. Many web hosts have already started to offer Google Apps to take the load off there servers and convince users to switch to Google Apps that offer 99% up time.

What is Google Apps Reseller Program

Google Apps Resellers Program, will offers resellers with training, support & tools for sales and marketing of Google Apps. Along with that they will also provide access to tools for integrating Google Apps into their customers business operations. Resellers who sign up will bill their customers directly and can also bundle additional services and support with Google Apps.  Seems like a great way to make sales for Google while making a cut for your self as well.

So far many local & small business have already shifted to Google Apps free edition but convincing them to shift to a Premier edition wont be difficult due to the quality of services.

Who can use this program

The Google Apps Reseller Program is open for all firms around the world, you can simply sign up but the approval of your application will depend on relevant experience & credit worthiness.  If you run on are an SaaS orientated business model and would like to build around providing value added services & solutions then the program is for you.

According to Google Authorized resellers will be able to begin selling Apps by the end of March.

More Information

• Google Apps Reseller Programe Sign Up
• Google Apps
• Google Press Release On Google Apps Resellers

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

Google Advertising Chrome

Well whats the harm in starting a controvercy did you notice that there is a repeated increase in crash rate of Firefox and sluggish performance by 3.0 release after the launch of Google Chrome well i am not blaming any one but some time the brain wonders.

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.

Features of SongBird:

• Mashtapes > Discover Flickr photos, YouTube videos, last.fm biographies, Google news (and more) for the currently playing artist.
• Last.fm scrobbling > Integrated Last.fm support allows you to scrobble, love, and ban your tracks
• Concert Tickets >Discover upcoming shows in your area based on the artists in your library. Event listings powered by Songkick.
• Shoutcast Radio >?Stream music using the integrated SHOUTcast Radio directory.
• Add On’s >Enhance Songbird with community contributed add-ons like MediaFlow or build one of your own.
• Media Importing, add media to songbird by importing from your files , system or iTunes
• Play MP3, FLAC, Vorbis on all platforms, WMP or WMA DRM on windows and AAC and Fairplay on windows or mac
• Create dynamic playlista that automatically update based on criteria you set
• Browse the web with Songbird as it comes with an integrated web browser
• Works on Windows, Linux & Mac
• Multi Language support with over 25 completed languages and growing
• Browse organize and sort and search your media
  

Download Songbird and try it out, also let us know what you think.

Releavent Links:

• SongBird
• Add Ons Songbird
• Why Apple Should be worried about Songbird
• Download.com Songbird
• Wikipedia Songbird

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA 1  was first presented at the 2008 Mobile Word Congress and was considered a star of the show, the phone is expected to be released in the last quarter of 2008. Xperia X1 has a 3 inch touch screen with 65,536-color TFT WVGA display. A screen resolution of 800 x 400 with a 3.2 Mega Pixel digital camera which records video at thrity framers per second at a 640×480 VGA quality.

The most exciting part of the phone is that its powered by Qualcomm’s ARM MSM7200A CPU which runs at 528 MHz, and has a device’s memory of 256MB ram, which does talk allot about its performance.

Technical Features:

• Size : 110.5 x 52.6 x 17.0 mm / 4.4 x 2.1 x 0.7 inches
• Weight : 158.0 gr / 5.6 oz
• Available Colors : Solid Black Steel Silver
• Screen 800 X 480 65,536 color TFT
• Memory : Up to 400 MB Phone Memory MicroSD support Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configuration
• Networks : GSM 850 GSM 900 GSM 1800 GSM 1900 EDGE UMTS tri-band HSPA
• Talk Time : 10 hours talk time & 500 hours of standby time

Exciting Multimedia / Business Features

1. XPERIA™ Touch Screen panel interface
   Enjoy access to different experiences – Web, multimedia, applications – from your desktop. Navigate with the tip of your finger. Configure and have your XPERIA™ panels just the way you want them.
2. Multiple navigation
   XPERIA™ X1 lets you interact via numerous intuitive ways. Touch, full QWERTY, 4-way key and optical joystick – you switch seamlessly between operation modes.
3. 3G
   Quick and easy access to broadband Internet. Say hello to video calls, audio and video streaming, internet surfing, multimedia messaging and email on the go.
4. Push email
   Instant email on your mobile phone, just like on your home computer. Messages are sent directly to your phone as soon as they arrive.
5. Capture the action
   Video clips are ideal for those unexpected great moments that happen when you’re out there, enjoying life.
6. Handwriting Recognition
   Text input using stylus on touchscreen: write a character as you would with a pen and it transforms it into the corresponding letter on a keyboard.
7. Links you like
   Forget cables – wireless is the way forward. Connect to other devices with Bluetooth™ to sync, share and send.
8. Arc slider design
   The arc design gives XPERIA™ X1 a distinctive and unique look. Slide the screen upwards to reveal the wide-pitch QWERTY keyboard.
9. Video call
   See who’s talking with your 3G phone. During a video call, you see a live video stream of the person you’re talking to and they can see you.
10. Integrated camera
    Built-in digital camera with screen viewfinder, dedicated menus and direct interaction with in-phone imaging and messaging features.
11. RSS feeds
    Use your phone to view up-to-the-minute news and other content from selected Web sites and blogs. Just subscribe to the feed and let it come to you.
12. Web wherever
    Truly mobile internet lets you enjoy browsing the Web and effectively manage your email from the convenience of your phone, wherever you are.
13. The Wi-Fi alternative
    For a fast Internet connection in hotspots, your phone has Wi-Fi support.

Video Sony Ericsson XPERIA 1

Other Reviews

• Sony Ericsson XPERIA 1 Website
• GSM Marina Review
• Wikipedia Sony Ericsson XPERIA 1

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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.

Blackberry Storm comes with a full HTML browser, GPS, a music and video player, a motion-sensing accelerometer, and a menu that responds to swipes and taps for panning and zooming. It will soon offer a VZ App Zone that will sell established BlackBerry applications and, in the future, applications built specifically for the Storm using a software developer kit released today. It has a removable battery, a 3.2-megapixel camera with video capture, stereo Bluetooth, cut-and-paste editing features and built-in picture messaging. In addition to handling two bands of EVDO Rev A high-speed service, it supports four bands of Edge and one band of HSPA, making it available to users in more than 200 countries.

Rich Garwood, a Verizon Wireless regional president, said that mix of consumer and corporate functionality should make the Storm a big seller with a wide range of customers. “When you look at the design and high-tech and multimedia features, we think this will appeal to consumers,” Garwood said. “But we’re also getting a huge response from enterprise customers, people who have used BlackBerry in the past and are comfortable with the security and e-mail of BlackBerry.”

Quick Smart Features

1. Touch Screen:
   With the BlackBerry Storm smartphone, select and type using touch technology—the screen is the keyboard. Typing is easy—highlight the letter on the touch screen and press the screen to make it appear in your message or document. And navigation is a breeze. Like a mouse, your fingertip moves the cursor across the screen.
2. Multitask Processing:
   BlackBerry Storm smartphone’s 528-MHz processor combine to support your need to multitask. Designed to provide access to voice and data services at the same time. Take phone calls while sending and responding to email or browsing the Internet, Maintain GPS-based directions or maps on your display even while taking a call, Snap the perfect picture and send it out even when you’re already on the phone.
3. Communication:
   Wireless email for your personal/web-based and business accounts, voice activated dialing, conference calling, speakerphone and voicemail attachment playback4, Instant messaging and text messaging (SMS and MMS), Access social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
4. Multimedia
   At 3.2 megapixels with auto focus and auto flash, 1 GB of built-in memory—add up to 16 GB more using microSD cards6* Sync your desktop iTunes music files using BlackBerry Media Sync7,8,9,10* Use Roxio Media Manager to help create your own personal juke box
5. Global Position System & Maps
   The BlackBerry Storm smartphone features built-in Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities. Designed to work with BlackBerry Maps and other location-based software, use it to help determine where you are and how to get to where you need to be.3,11,12 Enjoy large, clear maps on the HVGA touch screen.Stay in the know even when you’re on the go with access to the mobile versions of news, television and other media sites. Interested in a funny clip from YouTube or the incredible play from last night’s game? The built-in mobile streaming capabilities on the BlackBerry Storm smartphone are designed so that you can watch online clips like these or even listen to streamed music broadcasts.13

Specifications

Features Available

• Wireless email
• Organizer
• Browser
• Phone
• Camera (3.2 MP)
• Video Recording
• BlackBerry® Maps
• Media Player
• Built-in GPS
• Corporate data access
• SMS
• MMS

Size and Weight

• 4.43″/112.5mm (Length)
• 2.45″/62.2mm (Width)
• 0.55″/13.95mm (Depth)
• 5.5 oz/155g (Weight)

Data Input/Navigation

• Touch Screen Navigation, with ClickThrough for user selection
• On screen keyboard: portrait SureType® and Multi-tap, QWERTY landscape

Voice Input/Output

• 3.5mm stereo headset capable
• Integrated earpiece/ microphone
• Built-in speakerphone
• Mono/stereo headset, hands-free, phone book access profile and serial port profile supported (Bluetooth® technology)

Media Player

• Video format support: MPEG4 H.263, MPEG4 Part 2 Simple Profile, H.264, WMV
• Audio format support: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WMA ProPlus

Display

• High resolution 480 x 360 pixel color display
• Transmissive TFT LCD
• Font size (user selectable)
• Light sensing screen

Notification

• Polyphonic/MIDI ringtones
• MP3 ringtones
• Vibrate mode
• LED indicator

Approximate Battery Life

• 15 days (Standby time)
• 5.5 hours (Talk time)

Memory

• Expandable memory – support for microSD™ card
• 1GB onboard memory
• 128 MB Flash (flash memory)

Modem

• RIM® wireless modem
• Tethered modem capability

Email Integrations

• Works with BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange
• Works with BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino
• Works with BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Novell GroupWise
• Integrates with an existing enterprise email account
• Integrates with existing personal email account
• Integrates with optional new device account

Device Security

• Password protection and screen lock
• Sleep mode
• Support for AES or Triple DES encryption when integrated with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server
• Optional support for S/MIME

Wireless Network

• UMTS/HSPA: 2100 MHz
• North America: 850 MHz GSM®/GPRS networks
• North America: 1900MHz GSM/GPRS networks
• Europe/Asia Pacific: 1800MHz GSM/GPRS networks
• Europe/Asia Pacific: 900MHz GSM/GPRS networks
• Dual-Band: 800/1900 MHz CDMA/Ev-DO networks

Video Blackberry Storm

Other Reviews & Posts.

• Press Release by Verizon Wireless
• Blackberry Storm First Hands On
• Guardian Blackberry Storm

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.

The specification so far released of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will include:

• High resolution 16:9 touchscreen range between 3 inch to 3.5 inch
• 3.2″ 640×360px, 16M color touchscreen display
• finger touch operation will provide vibration feedback function
• Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900), UMTS 2100, GSM/Edge, HSDPA connectivity
• Symbian S60 Taco 5 OS
• 3.2mpx autofocus camera with dual LED flash and 30 FPS VGA recording
• Built-in A-GPS and Wi-Fi
• USB 2.0 and  Bluetooth 2.0
• 3.5mm headphone jack, TV-Out port
• 150MB of User memory
• microSDHC memory card slot (up to 16GB, 8GB memory card in a box)
• 140MB on-board storage
• Measurements: 111 × 52 × 14.5 mm, and weighs only 104 grams.
• Dual LED flash
• 3.5 mm Headset interface
• TV-out interface
• BL-5J 1150mah Battery
• Built-in GPS
• 140 MB RAM

Compare Nokia 5800 vs iPhone

If i have to compare in terms of design, i don’t think Nokia can come to that level, product design is something that Apple is best at and it would be very difficult for other companies to compete with it, even HTC Diamond was not as good as iPhone. In terms of features yes Nokia 5800 might have taken a few leaps ahead but not that far either.

So here are some basic feature difference when iPhone 3G compared with Nokia 5800:

• iPhone >> 3.5-inch (diagonal) wide screen Multi-Touch display 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
• Nokia  >> 3.2″ 640×360px, 16M color touchscreen display
• iPhone >> 2.0 megapixel
• Nokia  >> 3.2mpx auto focus camera with dual LED flash and 30 FPS VGA recording
• iPhone >> weight 133 grams
• Nokia >> weight 104 grams