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  • Top 10 Geekiest Marriage Proposals

    1. Super Mario This sweet geek used FuSoYa’s Lunar Magic Super Mario hack to pose a proposal to his girlfriend spelling out “Lisa… will you marry me?” in gold coins. That’s one way to get the princess!   2. iPhone App LinkedIn employee Bryan Haggerty developed an entire treasure hunt iPhone app for his elaborate…

  • 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…

  • Tweets from Steve Jobs on iPhone 4 Incorrect Signal Reception Issues

    In the past few days, Steve Jobs tweeted on all the signal reception issues occurring in iPhone 4 devices – in his own way –   The best way to fix the weak signal on the new iPhone? Buy a $29.00 Bumper case, only from Apple. The new iPhone has a few tricks hidden up…

  • 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 –…

  • Oh, by the way: iOS 4 is now available

    In the off chance that you’re not already running the new iPhone firmware update, Apple has released iOS4 to the public for free download. iPhone iOS 4.0 is now officially live and free to download for iPhone 3G, 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch devices. Currently iOS 4.0 can be downloaded via iTunes 9.2 only…

  • Facebook 3.1.3 for iPhone Goes Live – Play Facebook Videos now!

    Facebook version 3.1.3 app for iPhone and iPod touch is out and it brings the long awaited feature of playing facebook videos, along with ability to view and write on the event walls, photo uploads of up to 720px wide, and tons of bug fixes. New features in this version: – You can now watch…

  • Microsoft Needs To Cut 30,000-40,000 Employees, Says Ex-Microsoftie

    In our never ending quest to learn more about Microsoft and what it’s like inside the company, we spent a half hour chatting with a former high level employee at the company yesterday. There’s two basic problems at the company, according to this ex-Microsoftie. The management style is all screwed up, and there’s just too…

  • iPhone 4 Keynote Video by Steve Jobs on YouTube

    For those of you who couldn’t find enough information of Steve Job’s keynote at WWDC 2010 on iPhone4 – Apple has uploaded the entire keynote address on both their official website, and on their YouTube channel.

  • Microsoft Shutters Bing Cashback

    Microsoft has shut down Bing Cashback, according to a blog post.  Bing Cashback, which is a program that allows users to save money when they purchase items found using Bing search, will be shut down on July 30, 2010. Bing team tweeeted just now (25min ago at the time of writing this post) – http://twitter.com/bing/status/15431895368…

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