Flickr Mobile updated to add enhanced video support

Web Services December 5th, 2008

Flickr Mobile updated to add enhanced video support
Yahoo has updated their Flickr service. This update is related to the mobile edition of Flickr.
This update would expand the availability of mobile video on more mobile devices.
Currently only iPhone or iPod Touch users could run the videos hosted on the service.
Flickr would add support for devices [...]

Apple App Store now has 10,000+ Apps

Mobile Applications December 5th, 2008

Apple App Store now has 10,000+ Apps
Apple has passed a new milestone with their Apple App Store.
The mobile application store from the company now host more than 10,000 apps.
This is an incredible achievement considering the store was launched just months ago.
Sources say that Adventoozle was the 10,000th application on the App Store.
Apple App [...]

Jokes.com relaunched as an online destination for stand up comedy

Web Services December 4th, 2008

Jokes.com relaunched as an online destination for stand up comedy
Comedy Central has relaunched Jokes.com.
They are now operating it as an online destination for stand-up comedy.
The site for now is showcasing around 5,000 video clips from hundreds of stand-up performances.
Artists include Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis and Sarah Silverman.
It also hosts over 12,000 text-based [...]

Wikipedia to improve editing UI to attract more contributors

Web Services December 4th, 2008

Wikipedia to improve editing UI to attract more contributors
Wikipedia has stated that they have received a $890,000 grant to make it easier for new users to make edits to the open source encyclopedia easily.
The editing interface of the MediaWiki application which powers the Wikipedia uses technical syntaxes which are somewhat complicated for the users [...]

Songbird 1.0 is out

Music Utilities December 3rd, 2008

Songbird 1.0 is out
The developers behind the open source music application Songbird have released the first stable edition.
Songbird 1.0 is now available for download. Free.
The developers said in a blog post:
We set out to build an open, customizable music player. Today, we’re launching with dozens of integrated services, hundreds of add-ons, and [...]

Apple encourages Mac OS X users to use antivirus software

Mac OS X December 3rd, 2008

Apple encourages Mac OS X users to use antivirus software
Apple might claim that their Mac OS X operating system is much more secure compared to Windows operating system.
There are few known viruses for the Mac OS X but the company is still recommending the users to install antivirus software on their Apple Macs.
Apple states [...]

Google Chrome would indeed have extensions

Web Browsers December 2nd, 2008

Google Chrome would indeed have extensions
Google Chrome web browser has been well received by the web users. It might not have touched impressive heights in terms of market share but people who have used it are impressed.
A lot of users have said that they would shift to it if it has support for third party [...]

In.com mail is out of beta

Press Releases, Web Services, Webmail Service November 27th, 2008

In.com mail is out of beta
The developers behind the In.com webmail service have announced that the service has now moved out of beta.
The company claims that the service had as many as 3 million users during the beta period. Of course a lot of these accounts were not used on a regular basis (we blocked [...]

People buying older machines just to get Windows XP licenses!

Windows Vista, Windows XP November 27th, 2008

People buying older machines just to get Windows XP licenses!
Sources are indicating that people are now buying older machines not for the hardware but just to get their hands on the connected Windows XP license.
Microsoft stopped issuing new licenses for the Windows XP operating system as they want the customers to move to the Windows [...]

Google Chrome 0.4.154.25 released

Web Browsers November 25th, 2008

Google Chrome 0.4.154.25 released
The developers behind the Google Chrome web browser have released the latest beta edition.
Google Chrome is in version 0.4.154.25 now.
All the users of this web browser would get the latest updates automatically.
This include the features previously available in the dev channel releases. They have fixed some of the bugs in the [...]