Category: Best Of

  • Search Your Favourite App across all Platforms at one place

    Are you an owner of a smartphone? Are you frustrated with trying the right Mobile App for your device? Do you develop Apps and want to know the contenders of your idea? Discover the world of Mobile using Mimvi.     Mimvi enables you to quickly discover Mobile Apps, Mobile Content and Mobile Products across all…

  • How To Test a Website On Different Screen Sizes, Platforms and Browsers

    The first part of this tutorial explains how to test a website at the screen size of different devices like iPhone, iPad, Tablets, Android phones etc. Different mobile devices have different resolutions for their screen – for example, Apple iPad has 768 x 1024 or 1024 x 768px screen size in different mode and Google…

  • Ballmer: Windows 8 Will Be The Riskiest Product Bet [Video]

    Windows 7 has been a powerful success for Microsoft. As an evolutionary upgrade to Vista, it patched almost all of Vista’s glaring holes: broken driver support, sluggish performance and the horribly annoying User-Account Control. It sold more than 240 million licenses in one year. Asked about the riskiest product bet the Redmond crew is currently…

  • Facebook introduced new version of Groups and two more new features.

    Last night, I’ve covered live updates of Facebook event in cosmoGeek’s Facebook fan page and as well as on my Twitter account. To summarize, Facebook yesterday revealed 3 new features – a new version of Groups, an option to download your information locally, new dashboard for apps you use. 1.   New Facebook Groups Until now,…

  • Shocker! Android Logo Has Been Stolen from Atari Game “Gauntlet”

    The discovery of a similar looking character in an arcade-style action game of 90s by Atari titled, Gauntlet: The Third Encounter has caused much stir in the blogosphere today. Google’s Android logo has turned out to be a look alike of one of the characters of the game. Surprisingly, even the name of the character…

  • Happy Sys Admin Appreciation Day!

    Friday, July 30, 2010 (Last Friday of July) is the System Administrator Appreciation Day. Yes, today marks the 11th annual celebration of systems administrators everywhere. It’s a day when you should stop and appreciate the people that keep those servers running and those backups fresh, not shake your fist at them for your poor 99.9%…

  • Apple admits iPhone 4 Reception Problems as ‘Incorrect Signal Display’

    According to a press release issued by the company, Apple admits iPhone 4 reception problems as ‘Incorrect Signal Display’. The iPhone 4 doesn’t have a hardware design flaw – it has a software bug.“We were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally…

  • Windows 8 Plans Leaked: Many Details Revealed

    The Italian Windows site “Windowsette” got a hold of some super secret squirrel Microsoft presentations laying around on the Internet somewhere. The original leak comes from the Microsoft Journal, an enthusiast blog written by Francisco Martin, who lists himself as a Microsoft VIP Tester. Key points from the presentation: Facial recognition: A Windows computer will…

  • What are Hash Tags (#) in Twitter?

    What is this – “#” sign doing in a lot of Twitter tweets? Why do most of the webmaster and bloggers use this hash symbol in their tweets? In simple little words – it’s just categorizing or grouping your tweets like you categorize/group your blog posts in categories. Here is how Twitter defines it –…

  • The 11 Companies That Tried To Buy Facebook

    Facebook isn’t just popular with its 500 million or so users. According to the copy of The Facebook Effect, Fortune editor David Kirkpatrick’s brilliantly-reported new book about the company’s founding, Facebook has also always been very popular with the M&A suits. Below is the list of all the companies that swung and missed–   1.…