“Facebook Messaging” - The Next Generation Email System and Email Killer

This is not an “Email Killer” – Mark Zuckerberg emphasized at the Massive Messaging Facebook event, which is happening now. Today, Facebook announced the next evolution of messaging system. Facebook is going to launch this revolutionary messaging and email addresses gradually in next few months. Once you receive an invitation, you’ll be able to get started and also invite your friends to join you. So, do you think this is a “Gmail Killer”?...

November 15, 2010

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 devices and platforms, including - Apple’s iPhone, Google Android, Blackberry, Windows and Nokia devices – all at one single place!...

November 3, 2010

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 Nexus One has 480 x 800 screen pixel size. Now, if you want to see your website on these screen sizes, here is a website to resize any browser to some preset value at single click....

October 30, 2010

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 developing, the answer is not Windows Phone 7 or Bing or even Office Web Apps - its fearless leader Steve Ballmer took no time in answering “the next release of Windows....

October 24, 2010

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, Facebook has made it easy to share with all of your friends or with everyone, but there hasn’t been a simple way to create and maintain a space for sharing with the small communities of people in your life, like your roommates, classmates, co-workers and family...

October 7, 2010

From 'Pretty' to 'Professional'

On the occasion of cosmoGeek’s 180 days completion, I am proud to announce its brand new so called ‘Professional’ look today. Exclusive features of this new theme - Top link bar – Posts are now broadly categorized Fast Page load Brand new custom ‘cosmoGeek’ Logo JScript ‘Slider’ with featured posts New social plugins Facebook Fan Page got a new Welcome page More features to come - Breadcrumb Related posts Google custom search box Social ‘Share’ buttons Twitter feed box Facebook comments box There is a lot of hard work behind this new look and suggestions are most welcome....

September 12, 2010

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 (“Android”) is same, among others namely Wizard, Valkyrie, Samurai, Gunfighter, Pirate, Punk Rocker, and Nerd. Developed and published by Atari Games in the 1990 for the Atari Lynx, Gauntlet is considered as one of the most popular multiplayer arcade role-playing game of that time....

September 3, 2010

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% uptime. On this special day, I would like to advice to employees on the proper use of the System Administrator’s valuable time!...

July 30, 2010

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 wrong,” says Apple. “Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength....

July 2, 2010

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 know who is using it based on facial recognition technology. Fast start time: One of the great things about smartphones and the iPad is that it’s always on an ready to go....

June 29, 2010