Facebook launching Web Email Client?

Is Facebook launching a web-based Email Client? According to TechCrunch, Facebook may introduce it on its Monday’s special event. This full featured webmail product is a secret project from Facebook known as Titan. This is unofficially and over-enthusiastically known as Gmail Killer. It could just a UI refresh for Facebook’s existing messaging service with POP access tacked on. Hang on for more updates and do not miss your desired personal @facebook.com username if this biggy is true. ...

November 12, 2010

iPad Developer gets a call from Steve Jobs

Developers have felt the pain of the App Store process for quite some time now. This is quite know when somebody do not follow app submission rules. For one developer, however, the breaking of those rules has led to a phone call from none other than Mr. Jobs himself! Frustrated by Apple’s rejection of his iPad app, Seattle developer Ram Arumugam e-mailed Chief Executive Steve Jobs. Two hours later, he picked up a phone call and heard: “Ram, this is Steve.” Jobs was on the other end. ...

November 11, 2010

iPhone Users Are Girls [Comic]

This comic is the creation work of C-Section Comics, and it offers a giddily sobering view of the emotional schizophrenia surrounding each smartphone and all just for fun! And where are the days of old Nokia?

November 6, 2010

SkyFire Pulled out From Apple Store within 5 hours

As I mentioned earlier, Flash on iPhone or iPod touches and similar iOS devices is possible through world’s hottest mobile browser – SkyFire. The beauty of SkyFire is you can watch videos including Flash while browsing your favourite sites. It has private browsing and user agent switching modes too. Apple took 2 months to approve SkyFire in App Store – but only took them a few hours to pull the plug on this app that converts Flash content to HTML5. Why do you think SkyFire was taken down? According to SkyFire blog, the popularity of the app is costing them a fortune in bandwidth, which is necessary to convert the videos from Flash to HTML5. ...

November 4, 2010

Facebook “Unlike” Button comes to Pages Feed

This is not the “Unlike” button you are waiting for status updates! Rather, Facebook added an “Unlike Page” button for Pages feed.It has made dramatically easier to Unlike Pages and Open Graph objects. Clicking on the small “X” button next to any update from a Facebook Page will list the regular options, “Hide this post,” “Hide all by [page],” “Hide all by [app]” and “Mark as spam,” but also a new “Unlike Page” option. ...

November 3, 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

Search Facebook in Real-Time using ‘FbInstant’

We already know how Google changed the search experience using Google Instant where you type keywords on your search and you get the results displayed while you type. Close on the heels of Google Instant, many third party developers came with YouTube Instant, Twitter Instant etc.. Now, lets see Facebook Instant - Fbinstant is a real-time search engine that allows you to browse public and media content of Facebook instantly without breaking the privacy settings of Facebook users. ...

October 31, 2010

Apple sues Motorola over Multi-Touch

After Motorola recently sued Apple over eighteen infringed-upon patents, Apple has delivered a serious counter-punch in the form of two lawsuits over six multi-touch patents which Motorola is infringing upon in nine different handsets relating to Multi-Touch.

October 30, 2010

Farmville and Foursquare Among 50 Worst Inventions

According to TIME’s list, Farmville and Foursquare are among the world’s 50 worst inventions. The list of “the world’s bright ideas that just didn’t work out” included both the location-based social game Foursquare and Zynga’s Farmville. Farmville is the most addictive of Facebook games is hardly even a game — it’s more a series of mindless chores on a digital farm, requiring the endless clicking of a mouse to plant and harvest crops. And yet Zynga, the evil genius behind this bizarre digital addiction, says more than 10% of Americans have logged in to create online homesteads. ...

October 30, 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