DailyApp: Twitter (Windows 8): a Swipe of Twitter on the Tiles!

DailyApp: Twitter (Windows 8): a Swipe of Twitter on the Tiles!

When it comes to apps, Windows 8 has been high on quantity, but relatively more grounded in terms of quality. And one of the apps whose absence seemed particularly glaring and galling in equal measure was the official representative of the microblogging site supreme – Twitter. So there was cheering aplenty when it was announced that an official app for [...]

     
 
 

Who Will Continue Your Digital Legacy?

Who Will Continue Your Digital Legacy?

I have been sick this week, and because of my chicken heart, I thought I won’t be able to get through it. Being a student, I don’t have ample monetary sum to pass onto my family, but what I do have is a lot of online accounts, subscriptions, and a sumptuous amount of data on my several hard drives, as [...]

     
 
 

Daily App: Biologic – Social Networks as Human Cells (iOS)

Daily App: Biologic – Social Networks as Human Cells (iOS)

Whatever our social networks are, they are certainly not static. Nay, mention Facebook or Twitter, and the mental pictures they more often than not conjure up are not those of peaceful outlets of calm but rather cauldrons of activity, bubbling over merrily, full of life. A far cry, in fact, from the relatively peaceful Web pages that represent them. Well, [...]

     
 
 

26 Interesting Facts about The Internet

26 Interesting Facts about The Internet

Do you know that first ever registered domain name was symbolics.com and this happened in March, 1985? This interesting infographic highlights some very interesting facts about the Internet industry that I’m sure most of you weren’t aware of. Join us as we will try to extract the most valuable information provided and share with you details about the domain name [...]

     
 
 

Twitter Follows Google Talk, Inaccessible for Most

Twitter Follows Google Talk, Inaccessible for Most

Twitter has gone down and not working for many users across the world. This follows the GTalk outage earlier in the day. Twitter web and all the third party twitter clients are down. This includes both the web clients as well as mobile apps. Looking at this, we are expecting Twitter to have a serious server related issue. It is [...]

     
 
 

Social Media to Predict Election Winners?

Social Media to Predict Election Winners?

Social media has managed to sneak in every little aspect of our lives. Whether we decide to go for a meal at a favorite restaurant or to look for a book. Or even go for shopping. Every self respecting company has now a Facebook or Twitter account and lots of them have found that it does a world of good [...]

     
 
 

Fetchnotes Organizes Your Life Inside a Community of Notes

Fetchnotes Organizes Your Life Inside a Community of Notes

Tired of hanging post-its all around your house? Bored of worrying they will fall off and you will be left in the dark about what you are supposed to be doing today? Feelings that you have forgotten something important have become annoyingly persistent and you need a way to free yourself from the stress? Well, this new start-up might do [...]

     
 
 

Is Twitter Trying to Kill Tweetdeck?

Is Twitter Trying to Kill Tweetdeck?

Some might think that this is a bit over-the-top-title. But many power users (including me) think Twitter, who bought Tweetdeck in May 2011 for a whopping price of $40 million, is severely cramping up the most popular desktop application by cutting down its unique core features (discussed in detail below) in the name of speed. Out goes Adobe Air! Ever [...]