Archive for November, 2010

The definition of the word 'SmartPhone' is fast changing. Mobile Phones are getting smarter by the day. How smart you ask? The phones will soon be able to diagnose sexually transmitted diseases like herpes, chlamydia and gonorrhoea! According to The Guardian,
People who suspect been infected will be able to put urine or saliva on to a computer chip about the size of a USB chip, plug it into their phone or computer and receive a diagnosis within minutes, telling them which, if any, sexually transmitted infection (STI) they've.
std-test If all goes according to plan, the device will retail for under $2 USD, and will be available in vending machines, pharmacies, nightclubs, nursing homes and anywhere else people go to hook up. This must come as a rude shock for many who still see those Fart apps as a taboo! If the test is positive, the app will be able to direct you to the nearest office where you can get treatment. Now with Facebook wanting to be on all phones, all the time, you can just hope that the app won't update your Facebook status automatically! On a serious note, this simply proves how portable technology...
The Indian online market is huge and with the current broadband revolution, online shopping has just taken off. There are lot of web based business models coming up, which promise easy, reliable and customized shopping experience. Today, we have a look at Online Business cards printing services, specifically in India. Let us start by having a look at what things to keep in mind before choosing an online printing service.

Business card printing - Things to look for in a printing service

  • Availability of templates - The printing service must provide sufficient and varied templates which can be easily edited by the user as per his requirements. Not everybody would want to hire a designer, so this is a mandatory requirement.
  • Option to upload the design - Most of the online printing services have this option these days, but some don't. A few of them even provide free/paid service to alter the design to suit the current standards.
  • Multiple sizes - Though the business card sizes are standardized, some people might like to experiment. If you are one, make sure you look for a service which is flexible when it comes to choosing the size of the business card.
  • Quick support - It is always better...
Guest Post by Nitin. Utilizing article submission is one of the most important methods to improve your online ranking and boost traffic. But many people don’t pay attention to the strategy of article submission. What really matters here is the popularity of trusted sites – those are the ones that produce the most traffic and can help raise your recognition level. Link popularity is the key factor in determining how high your site will rank and this is determined by the number of sites that link back to you. The method for increasing this number, link building, is undoubtedly one of the most complicated SEO tasks. Nonetheless, an extensive set of back links is crucial to outranking your competitors. One way to accomplish high value links is from article directories; they can provide a fairly speedy way of obtaining back links and can generate quick results in the search engines. But here’s the question -- do you opt for the bulk submission from these trusted sites, which most webbies do, or should you be more selective, and focus on niche directories? Well, it’s without doubt that the more links back to your website the quicker you’ll move up in the search engine rankings. But,...

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If you are not on Facebook or Twitter, you must be living in a cave. This is the age of social media and social networking. To spruce up your social life, here is a social browser too. Meet RockMelt, the social 'Facebook browser'. From the developer blog -
RockMelt does more than just navigate Web pages. It makes it easy for you to do the things you do every single day on the Web: share and keep up with your friends, stay up-to-date on news and information, and search.
RockMelt is backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and has entered a private beta today. It lives in the cloud and uses Facebook authentication to synchronize a user’s browsing experience across machines. Your settings, bookmarks, etc., are all backed up online. RockMelt is built on Chromium, the open source project behind Google’s browser. However, as a Chrome user, you will notice three biggest changes to the browser as RockMelt is built around friends, feeds, and search results. The left rail is for friends. The right rail is for sites. And the top rail is for search.

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RockMelt is now in limited beta...

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Conan O'Brien returns to television with the premiere of "Conan" on TBS. Conan is an upcoming American late-night talk show, scheduled to premiere November 8, 2010. On TBS, Conan will air Mondays through Thursdays beginning at 11:00 p.m., and will be immediately followed by comedian George Lopez on his talk show, Lopez Tonight. Conan's exact format is unknown, but it is expected to be somewhat similar to that of his Tonight Show and Late Night programs. Each episode of Conan will be 60 minutes long with commercials. Conan's hour-long 11pm timeslot will directly compete with Comedy Central's The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, as well as the first 25 minutes of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and CBS' Late Show with David Letterman.

Conan Season 1 Episodes

Watch Conan S01E01 - Seth Rogen, Lea Michele, Jack White Watch Conan S01E02 - Tom Hanks, Jack McBrayer, Soundgarden Watch Conan S01E03 - Jon Hamm, Charlyne Yi, Fistful of Mercy Watch Conan S01E04 - Michael Cera, Julie Bowen, Jon Dore Watch Conan S01E05 - LL Cool J, B. J. Novak, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Watch Conan S01E06 - Harrison Ford, Rosario Dawson, Reggie Watts Watch Conan S01E07 - Russell Brand, Susan...
Just like Hulu & Pandora (which are restricted to users from US), services like BBC iPlayer and Spotify are restricted to the users from UK. So, even those UK users, who are on vacation in other countries will also not be able to enjoy these services, since they accept only UK based IP addresses. It is true that we have several free vpn services to bypass such restrictions, but Expat Shield is a new vpn service from AnchorFree, maker of the popular HotSpot Shield, that enables users to create VPN connection to servers located in the United Kingdom, and thereby access all services which are region locked to the UK, such as BBC iPlayer, ITV player, Channel 4, Spotify and others.

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Expat Shield also enables user to remain anonymous, and offers protection from packet sniffers, such as Firesheep, by way of encrypted (HTTPS) connection.

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Expat Shield is available as a web based installer for Windows. The program installs a VPN client using which users can quickly connect and disconnect from the VPN server. The program is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Do you want to watch live TV broadcasts in high definition on your iPad, iPod touch, or iPhone without installing a hardware like Boxee or Slingbox? Live sports, live network shows, live news and even live movie streaming. That is what FilmOn provides for your iOS device.

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Watch Live TV on iPad with FilmOn

FilmOn is a free, high-quality TV streaming service that works on computers, iPads & iPhones (for now). You can go and watch high-quality, live streams from the major networks (Fox, NBC, etc.), CNN International, Bloomberg, Russia Today, Dubai Sports, and even some adult content! TV Piracy isn't new at all. But what makes FilmOn different is that it is backed by a billionaire businessmen, Alki David, who claims the service to be completely legal! Here’s how FilmOn works. The company is rebroadcasting local TV channels from Los Angeles. That includes the local affiliate stations for ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC. The TV networks have already taken note of FilmOn, so expect the company to get sued to the oblivion soon. But that is not the intent of the post. The intent is to showcase the technology...
If you’re targeting your site or your advertising campaign to the mobile market, it can be difficult to know which stores/services to target and what keywords to use to reach them. With the mobile market being as fluid as it is, it is important to know which brands or keywords are worth looking at and which you can just pass over.

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So, after looking at the past nine months of data from Google on various, specific searches, here’s the latest trends and shifts in the mobile app search market.

Android Market is Big and Growing

Searches for “Android Market” far outpace all other similar searches. With an average monthly search volume of 246,000 the term has seen phenomenal growth over the past nine months, starting out at only 135,000 searches in November 2009 and growing to some 550,000 visitors in July and August, the latest months data was available for. Other Android-related terms also performed well too. “Android Apps” saw an average search volume of 135,000 over the nine months and has seen similar growth.

iPhone, At Least in Search, is Behind

"iPhone App Store", the best performing keyword for Apple’s app store, lagged...
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