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Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
Steve Jobs (Steven Paul Jobs), co-founder, chairman of the board, former CEO of Apple, Inc. and industry icon for decades, has died. He was 56 Years old. He was born in San Francisco in 1955, Jobs grew up near Cupertino, Calif. After attending Reed College in Portland for one semester (and auditing classes for free for several more), Jobs took a job at Atari, designing circuit boards. In 1976, Jobs co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak. Ap...
Google Wallet Now available on Nexus S 4G on Sprint
Google announced "Google Wallet" an app that makes your phone your wallet, in May this year. Google finally launched this product on 9/19/2011 in partner ship with Citi, MasterCard, Sprint and First Data. Visa, Discover and American Express have also provided their NFC specifications and their cards will be added into the future versions of Google Wallet. Google team has been testing its new product extensively during past few months, and t...
Youtube Introdeuced Video Editing Feature
In an Official log post, YouTube Software Engineer John Gregg announced this much awaited feature of "Video Editing" on Wednesday September 14, 2011. Until now, when you uploaded to YouTube, you were able to host and share only, but could not change or edit your videos. If you wanted to trim off the end, swap out the soundtrack, or tried to add an effect, you had to edit your video using a separate program offline and upload the edited vide...
Windows 8 Developer Preview Available for Download Now
Microsoft unveiled about Windows 8 Developer Preview during Build Conference at Anaheim, California. The developer preview version of the new OS by Microsoft is now available for download. There are two verions of new OS available for download, a 32-bit version or a 64-bit version for x86 machine. There is a good thing about the Developer Preview version, it does not require to be activated, but it is still far from a final version of the n...
Twitter Introduced Web Analytics
Christopher Golda announced on Tuesday (13-09-2011) about Twitter Web Analytics in an official blog post on twitter blog. Web Analytics is a tool that will help website owners to understand how much traffic they are receiving from Twitter and the effectiveness of Twitter integrations on their sites. Twitter Web Analytics is based on BackType, which twas acquired by Twitter in July. Initially Twitter Web Analytics will be rolled out to a sma...
JPEGmini – Reduce the File Size of your Photos by upto 5x
JPEGmini is a startup, promising to reduce the file size of your photos and images in JPEG format by upto 5x.This new photo compression technology not only reduces the overall size of image file but also it preserves the photo’s quality and resolution. JPEGmini has been developed by ICVT. ICVT is an Israel based startup company located in Tel-Aviv. which is dedicated to optimizing media compression technologies. ICVT is lead by serial ent...
PIGORASS: The robot that can Walk, Jump and even Gallop
Yasunori Yamada a Student of Masters and his engineering team, from the University of Tokyo has developed a musculoskeletal systems of animals called PIGORASS during a robotics study. This robot can walk, jump and even gallop. Galloping is a state where all four feet are not touching the ground at the same time. Team members who worked on PIGORASS robot are Yasunori Yamada, Satoshi Nishikawa, Kazuya Shida and Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the...
Amazone.com Testing A Redesign
Amazon.com has started testing a redesign of its retail website, the testing began last week and will continue to be rolled out to additional customers, but a full launch date is still not announced. These changes are expected to make Amazon's site more easier to use and to navigate on a tablet computer. Seattle based Amazon is expected to introduce a tablet computer in coming weeks. The redesigned Amazon home page, is less cluttered than...
Syma S107 R/C Helicopter: The Coolest Toy for $20
Syma S107 R/C Helicopter is one of the cheapest Toys of its kind for $20 It is, without a doubt, the coolest little gadget for this pricing, It has following qualities; + Very Easy To Fly + All metal chassis, with very good build quality + Chargeable over USB + Its price is below $20! + Replacement parts are equally cheap +/- You’ll only get about 7 minutes of flight per charge, but that’s not really a surmountable issue; cu...
Blogger get New User Interface with Fast Speed
As we have already seen many of Google's products started looking a little different across the web, and Now, Blogger is the next product to get the new UI makeover. For last few years blogger have not changed its interface or look. Now engineers at Google has written the entire editing and management experience from scratch so it’s faster and more efficient for the users. Throughout the design process, Google team conducted user ...
Dash Technology – iPod Touch to help Orthopedic Surgery
Dash Technology developed by orthopedic implant company Smith & Nephew has been used in first commercial non-experimental orthopedic (knee replacement) surgery in Asia with the aid of an iPod Touch by Arun Mullaji. The operation was performed at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, Maharashtra in India. Arun Mullaji is a specialist in computer-aided knee replacement surgery. Arun performed thi knee replacement surgery on 75 years old...
Facebook with Bigger and Faster Photos
Justin Chaffer, Product Manager at Facebook revealed in a blog post about the changes that millions of Facebook users will be experiencing in the next few days. Facebook has changed the photos, Photos are now bigger in size and faster in loading, Facebook will now show photos on a clean white background (it was black previously). Uploaded images will be bigger Now (720 pixels to 960 pixels, they load twice as fast, and they are shown i...
@Irene: Personal Twitter Account of Hurricane Irene
Hurricane Irene now have its personal Twitter account, @Irene. If you Want to know what is happening with Hurricane Irene? Follow her on its personal Twitter account "https://twitter.com/#!/irene" . As the hurricane heads up the coast, its tweets have intensified. But don’t worry, Irene’s Twitter account status meekly declares, “I don’t want to hurt anyone.” Besides giving us a updates of the hurricane’s travel towards the...
NYC Evacuation Zones Help Map for Hurricane Irene
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered a mandatory evacuation in preparation for Hurricane Irene, on Friday afternoon. The official evacuation deadline has been set for 5 p.m. ET Saturday, but residents are being asked to move before New York City transit shuts down at noon Saturday. WYNC started this helping project for the citizens of New York City, If you Want to know, you’re in an evacuation zone or safe? Just Type your add...
Walk to Charge your Cell Phone
Charge your Cell Phones by wearing these special shoes, developed by Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Tom Krupenkin who is a professor of mechanical engineering, describes in an article in Nature Communications paper about the energy-harvesting technology known as "reverse electro-wetting" a phenomenon discovered by the two researchers. Electro-wetting is when “the shape of a liquid droplet sitting o...
