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Facebook working on brand New Homepage !

arifnezami — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:33:56 +0000

Facebook is working on a new homepage for it’s users. Currently a very little numbers of users having the opportunity to see it first. If you see the screenshots provided by a FB user, you can see there is lots of differences between the older and the new one. It has a new searching interface. Sending messeges will be easier in this new FB. If you see the images carefully, you’ll be able to notice that , In this version there will be more places to provide ads. So it will bring more money to FB’s pocket undoubtedly.

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Post to Facebook , Twitter or Anywhere with single SMS !

arifnezami — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:52:23 +0000

Everybody likes to be with friends through the Social Networking sites all day long. But in countries like India, or Bangladesh you can’t have the internet connection all day long. And it’s a boring task to update your status to all the sites by log-in them one by one. But don’t worry. ping.fm is now here ! Now you can Update your status to all the Social Networking sites and more with Ping.fm . It also enables you to post status from SMS , WAP , email, or anything you like ! Good thing is you can post your updates to all your social networking profile with just a single SMS ! Isn’t it cool ?

What to do ?

1. Go to Ping.fm and open an new Account.

2. Now you can see a list of available Networks here.

3. Click on “Add Network” to add an account of that network. Adding account process is very easy. Log in to your Twitter , Frienfeed or Facebook account before doing this.

4. After Adding all your account click on Dashboard.

5. From Dashboard click on “SMS / Text Messaging”.

6. Then click on “Not in the US or Canada? Click here!”

7. A new page will open and click on “click this link” from there.

8. A code will be shown on your monitor. SMS that code to +447786208201 . For example: Type 1234 and send that to +447786208201 .

If you have done all the steps correctly , you can post status from your phone from now on. To check you can do it or not go to http://ping.fm/sms/intl/ , if you see your phone number there you are done , or wait for sometime and check again.

To update status, Type Your Status and send it to +447786208201 . Enjoy !

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*ping.fm is an third party app, use it at your own risk.

First LIVE Tweet Arrived from the Space

arifnezami — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:24:53 +0000

Yes, The first ever tweet from outside of the world has just arrived ! The man who tweet this, is Timothy J Creamer, an astronauts of USA working in the ISS.
He tweets:

Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! More soon, send your ?s

This was possible after NASA provides a special software to International Space Station(ISS) earlier this week. NASA makes that possible with “ultimate wireless connection”. This personal Web access, called the Crew Support LAN, uses the existing communication links to and from the station for giving astronauts the ability to surf the Web.

To know more on that read this News Release.

Microsoft Released New IE Patch

arifnezami — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:06:09 +0000

Microsoft has released a new patch for it’s popular browser Internet Explorer(IE). This patch will increase security system and close any security hole exist in IE. The patch will work on all IE versions(from 5.01 to 8). Microsoft has going to released that on February 9, 2010. But it forced to release it before time due to French, German and Australian governments advised them to do so.

Recently, Gmail was almost hacked by Chinese hackers. Google said that IE’s security hole was used to do that. After than all users of IE around the world raise their voice to get rid of this problem. So now Microsoft’s this patch will protect users from being hacked. If you are an IE user, just download it and install to be safe from hackers.

Microsoft’s Senior security program manager , Jerry Bryant has written a brief discussion on this patch in his blog. You can read it from here.

Download IE’s new patch MS10-002.

Blogger Brings “Page” Feature

arifnezami — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:37:40 +0000

Google’s blogging tool , blogger.com has bring adding pages feature in the service. This will allow bloggers to add pages in their blogs which was not possible before. But this is still available Draft version of blogger.com rather than the original one. Bloggers can add pages upto 10 for each of their blogs.

Pages features is very wished feature of the blogger. Bloggers are asking for the features for many days. Another blogging tool WordPrees has this feature since a long. Now blooger.com has it. So the bloggers will be able to add pages like About Me, Contact Me or Advertise in their blogs easily.

Go get that feature logon to Blogger’s Draft version. Then navigate to the blog whice you like to add pages. Then find the “edit pages” tab from the posting menu. Click on “edit pages” then click on “New Page” to add a new one. Then you can edit pages from their. You can also put a pages menu on your blog if you wish to.

UPDATE: This Feature is still not available for all bloggers. We hope it will out soon.

YouTube will broadcast IPL Live

arifnezami — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:56:33 +0000

This year YouTube will broadcast 60 IPL matches Live in a dedicated channel. Both parties recently signed an agreement to make that possible. With this Google gets 2 years long authority of displaying IPL online. The streaming will be free of charge for the viewers. It will be available all over the world except USA. Both parties will share revenues from advertisement. This will be a big step for both the parties. And it adds another dimension to online broadcasting services. Now even UK viewers also enjoy IPL with their internet connection which is not available in their TV services.

The good thing is viewers can pause, Fast forward, rewind the live feed if they wish to do that. They will also be able to watch replays all day long, which is not possible in TV.

Microsoft introduced Windows Mobile 6.5.3

arifnezami — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:35:13 +0000

Microsoft displayed new edition of it’s mobile OS Windows Mobile 6.5.3. Although their is a very little difference between this and the older versions, Microsoft believes now it can solve the interface problem issue.

In the older versions the Start menu was in the upper side of the monitor. But in Windows Mobile 6.5.3 the Start menu is in the bottom of the screen. It will be much easier for touch screen users to use it. In CES 2010 Microsoft displayed the version with Toshiba TG01 mobile phone running it.

VLC developers working on VideoLAN Movie Creator

arifnezami — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:26:37 +0000

The VideoLan developers are now woring on thier new project VideoLAN Movie Creator after a very successful software VLC Player. This tool is also Open source. It also will be available for multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, and Ubuntu. Another good news is, It will have easy interface so that anyone can use it and perform their task easily than other software. But It is not ready yet. They are trying heart and soul to bring the best to the customers.

You can join them fixing bug or helping by anything. Just go their website and register.

Grameen Phone brings Mobile API service "Aloashbei"

arifnezami — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:10:57 +0000

The largest mobile phone operator Grameen phone, brings Mobile API service to the developers in Bangladesh. This will bring golden opportunities to new developers out there. With this service developers can introduced new services in Bangladesh’s market. Grameen Phone gets Microsoft with them in the project. Currently it’s in beta testing. To be a prt of this, you have to register first. Go to www.aloashbei.com to register. There are plenty of tutorials in the site to be familiar with this kinds of Mobile API applications. If you are a developer don’t miss the chance.

CES 2010: Panasonic Brings Portable Blu-ray Player

arifnezami — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:39:25 +0000

Panasonic announced some new product in CES 2010. One of them is Portable blu-ray Player. This slim portable device comes with a high resolution screen. The main feature of this device is , it can be integrated with TV sets so you can also integrate other VIERA devices with it. Panasonic also featured a WiFi photo frame with a built in CD player and an iPod dock.