Earlier today, Twitter released its Top 10 Twitter Trends of 2010. In order to identify the top trends of the year, the Twitter team analyzed a staggering 25 billion Tweets – the total number of Tweets sent this year. Additional data was taken from the top categories: News Events, People, Movies, Television, Technology, World Cup, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 10, 2010
Came across an article in the NY Times a while back about how Adam Savage, one of the hosts of the popular science tv show “MythBusters” revealed the actual location of his house by posting a picture of his Toyota Land Cruiser on Twitter. How did it happen? Because of the geotag information embedded in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 13, 2010
Ever wanted to have an iPhone but you’re stuck with an iPod Touch? I know you can use VoIP on the iPod Touch but what happens when you don’t have a WiFi access? With about $60, you can turn your iPod Touch into an iPhone. How? With the help of an Infineon baseband chip-powered adapter [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 5, 2010
The iPhone Dev-Team recently released a new version of their carrier unlocking tool called Ultrasn0w for US based iPhone users who have the problem of being stuck with one network – AT&T. The latest version, Ultrasn0w 1.0-1 can perform a carrier unlock on iPhone 4 units running iOS 4.0.1 with a 01.59.00 baseband. It also [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 22, 2010
So far, Apple has sold more than 3 million units of the iPhone 4 and from the looks of it, they would continue to sell more in months to come inspite of the antenna problem that many users are experiencing and complaining about. To address the “antenna problem”, Steve Jobs announced during the recent iPhone [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 16, 2010
This is a guest post by the Silicon Valley Blogger of The Digerati Life. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. In a world where Apple rules the consumer gadgets market, churning out drool-worthy gadget after drool-worthy gadget, how does the consumer respond? Does he run and hide [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 24, 2010
Love it or hate it, Zynga’s insanely popular social game FarmVille is here to stay. The virtual farming game that has about 100 million total users (64 million active users/month) on Facebook is now available on the Apple App Store. The announcement was made in the Zynga website earlier today just in time for the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 22, 2010
As promised, Apple released the much awaited iOS 4 yesterday morning, around 11 AM US Pacific Time. The Apple iOS 4 which will ship with the iPhone 4 on June 24th was released for download a couple days earlier for iPod Touch, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS owners. Multitasking, folders, unified inbox, iBooks, custom playlists, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 8, 2010
In case you missed it, Apple released the new iPhone 4 yesterday at the 2010 WWDC. Steve Jobs himself presented Apple’s newest “revolutionary” device. Yes, that’s right. It’s called the iPhone 4, not iPhone 4G or iPhone HD like most people in the Internet were speculating. The design isn’t a surprise thanks to the prototype [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 2, 2010
Do you develop apps for the iPhone and/or iPad? Are you an Android app developer, web developer or maybe a WordPress theme developer? Then you’re gonna love this cool set of icons that I’m gonna share with you today from Glyphish – great icons for great apps. The Glyphish iPhone/iPad app icon set is used [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 22, 2010
Android and .Net developer David Wong aka “planetbeing” on the Internet has managed to port the Google Android mobile OS onto a first-generation Apple iPhone. The hack which he demonstrated via video shows the hacked iPhone making phone calls via a Rogers prepaid SIM card, receive text messages (SMS), browse the Web via WiFi and [...]
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Monday, December 13, 2010
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