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. ...

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. This information tells the app how the user is looking at the display. The app updates the perspective of the 3D scene accordingly, giving the user the illusion that he looks at a small window. The objects on the screen will change their position creating a 3D like effect on a 2D screen. ...

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. All devices are in Android 2.2 club. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. If once people gave Biblical names and that was the icon, then today this is one of the most famous icons in the world, he said, joking that the name could be seen as a modern version of the traditional Jewish name Ahuva, which means “beloved.” ...

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. ...

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 400,000 new Android devices activated every day 200,000 free and paid applications available in Android Market 4.5 billion applications installed from Android Market The event went on with the announcement of Honeycomb 3.1 upgrade for Tablets with new features like re sizable widgets, Android USB host functionality, holographic user interface, more multitasking, etc. The team also stated that Google TV is getting newer version with Market, Apps for Google TV. Also, they talked about the next version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. Ice Cream Sandwich goal is to deliver one operating system that works everywhere, regardless of device - One OS Everywhere! This release is set for Q4 launch. Google also launched Music Beta, a new service that lets you upload your personal music collection to the cloud for streaming to your computer and Android devices. With the new service, your music and playlists are automatically kept in sync, so if you create a new playlist on your phone, it’s instantly available on your computer or tablet. You can even listen to music when you’re offline. The service is launching in beta today to U.S. users and is available by invitation via http://music.google.com Google also introduced Movies for rent to Android Market. This update will be available to Android 2.2 and above devices in next few weeks. Finally, Google mentioned that it developed Android Open Accessory to help developers start building new hardware accessories that will work across all Android devices. It previewed an initiative called Android@Home, which allows Android apps to discover, connect and communicate with appliances and devices in your home. You can watch full video here - ...

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. A small subset of Blogger users (we estimate 0.16%) may have encountered additional problems specific to their accounts. ...

Even with dedicated IT departments, businesses and schools struggle with the complex, costly, insecure computers. Staging, imaging, updating and repairing software problems are some of the daily activities - a typical IT department is responsible for. Crashes, long boot times, application conflicts, endless updates, viruses, security issues and obsolete hardware all frustrate IT managers and end users - and most users don’t need or want the complexity and annoyance of their current PCs. On the second day of Google I/O 2011 event, May 11, Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, announced the first set Chromebooks. These are not typical notebooks. ...