500 New Features in Windows Phone 7 Mango

Microsoft yesterday provided the first look of the next release of Windows Phone code named “Mango” bringing 500 new features. This update will be available to all WP7 devices starting from Fall and the Redmond based firm also announced that new devices from Acer, Fujitsu, ZTE and Nokia (?) will come preloaded with Mango later this year. Some of the major features announced at the event include - Messaging threads, which integrate text, Facebook chat, and Windows Live Messenger within the same conversation...

May 25, 2011

Today is Geek Pride Day! List of Rights and Responsibilities

Do you know what today is? Its Geek Pride Day! Yay!! Today was declared Geek Pride Day to commemorate the release of the first Star Wars film on May 25th, 1977. But according to Wikipedia, this day wasn’t officially acknowledged until 2008/2009 when it started to grow mass appeal and grabbed the attention of bloggers locally in New York, others around the world, and then eventually the main stream media....

May 25, 2011

View 3D Images On Your iPhone 4 and iPad 2 Without Glasses

Have you ever imagined of viewing 3D images on your iPhone 4 without glasses? Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay, two researchers from the Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble at the EHCI Research Group in France, have created an unbelievable technology for viewing 3D images on iOS devices without glasses. i3D (Free App) which is developed by the University Joseph Fourier uses Head-Coupled Perspective (HCP) which uses the front camera of the device to track the face of the user in real time....

May 24, 2011

5 Best Android 2.2 Phones below Rs. 10,000 in India

I remember many guys asking me for an Android handset within a budget of Rs. 10,000. Why Android created this fuss? Yes, its Android everywhere! When comes to Indian market, Nokia still retains 60% of market share, while Android started creating buzz. If you are searching for good cheap Android handset in India with a budget below Rs. 10,000, then this post might be useful to you. The prices mentioned below are taken from Flipcart and it may be slightly high or less in your region....

May 23, 2011

How To Create Pivot Tables in Google Docs

Google has rolled out a new feature of creating pivot tables in Docs starting from 17th of this month to all its users. Pivot tables make it easy to process and summarize large data sets in seconds. It allows you to “pivot” or rotate data, thus looking at it from different angles and seeing a variety of patterns which may not be immediately obvious. Read more about Pivot Table from Wikipedia here....

May 23, 2011

Google Rolls Out Controversial Social Search Feature

Google announced on its official blog that it is rolling out controversial Social Search feature in over next few days. This experimental feature which is launched in 2009 combines regular Google search results with publicly available data created by your friends’ social network activities. For example, if you’re looking for information about low-light photography and your friend has written a blog post about it, that post may show up higher in your results with a clear annotation and picture of your friend....

May 19, 2011

Two Parents Name Their Child "Like" As In Facebook "Like"

Have you ever imagined a baby girl’s name as “Like”? Well, its real now! More recently, a family in Israel decided to name their child “Like” after the Facebook button. The social networking site Facebook provided the inspiration for the couple – Lior and Vardit Adler. She could be all cute and precious, but how idiotic is to name ‘Like’? They explain it differently - To me it is important to give my children names that are not used anywhere else, at least not in Israel....

May 18, 2011

Do Not Click “First Exposure: Apple iPhone 5” Facebook Links

Facebook is always in news for its spams, click hijacks, like hijacks. rumours. cosmoGeek instantly alerted its users in the past to get rid from these accidental clicks. Now, a new scam is making the rounds, asking victims with promises of news about Apple’s iPhone 5. This typical link clicking is known as ‘clickjacking’ and it is not as dangerous as a virus or scam, but still it acts on your behalf without your consent....

May 14, 2011

Google I/O 2011 Day 1 Highlights - Android Everywhere!

Its about Android everywhere! On May 10th, the Day 1 of the Google I/O 2011 event, Android team shared some updates about Android momentum, future, and lots more. The keynote started with Vic Gundotra, Sr. Vice President, Engineering team stating about the importance of Google I/O events. Later, Hugo Barra, Product Management Director of Android shared some updates about Android’s growth. Now, there are - 100 million activated Android devices...

May 14, 2011

What happened to Blogger yesterday?

What a frustrating day for all those Bloggers around the globe using Google’s Blogger service. Bloggers were unable to publish the posts for the past 20.5 hours and comments were also temporarily removed. The service interruption happened after a scheduled maintenance work Wednesday night. Blogger experienced some data corruption that impacted Blogger’s behaviour. Since then, bloggers and readers may have experienced a variety of anomalies including intermittent outages, disappearing posts, and arriving at unintended blogs or error pages....

May 14, 2011