May 20, 2012

Make a Screen Protector for your Cell Phone

Though Apple has officially stopped selling screen protector films for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, you may still want to have them in order to protect the screen of your expensive mobile device from scratches, dirt or even your own fingerprints.
Screen protectors are easily available for all popular mobile devices and they are pretty [...]

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Make a Screen Protector for your Cell Phone

Why Obama Used Multiple Pens to Write a Single Signature?

Here are some pictures of President Barack Obama signing the historic healthcare bill at the White House. What may surprise you is the fact that Obama used not one, or two, but 22 different pens (see the top picture) to sign this history bill.
TIME magazine explains the rationale behind multi-pen signatures:
The pen used to sign [...]

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Twitter Business Lessons from Justin Bieber

If you’re not familiar with Justin Bieber (you’re excused if you’re not a 12-year-old girl), he is 16-year -old singer, who was discovered by his manager on YouTube, apparently after his mom uploaded videos of his performances so his loved ones could see them.
According to What the Trend, Justin Bieber is popular right now because, [...]

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Google: Location a "Hugely Important" Signal

Google made a couple of interesting comments at a mobile marketing and advertising event in Vegas. Michael at Mobile Marketing Watch reports that Diana Pouliot – Director of Mobile Advertising at Google says a third of all Google searches via the mobile web pertain to some aspect of the searcher’s local environment.
In addition, Google [...]

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TripAdvisor Moves Mobile Site Out Of Beta

Travel review site TripAdvisor said today it has officially launched its mobile website.
The TripAdvisor mobile website is now available in 17 countries and 11 different languages. The beta version of the mobile site attracted more than one million unique monthly visitors.
On TripAdvisor’s mobile site, users can find nearby restaurants, hotels, attractions and directions to them [...]

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Google’s Aussie Filter Protest Makes More Waves

About one month ago, Google and Yahoo joined the Australian Library and Information Association and the Inspire Foundation in protesting an Internet filter that’s meant to affect all of Australia.  Now, the country’s government has processed their submissions, and the situation has started to receive a lot more attention.
The Sydney Morning Herald published an article [...]

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ABC News Expands Online Health Offerings

ABC News Digital said today it is working with Healthline Networks to provide users with interactive medical and health tools on it broadcast website.
The improved health site will feature advanced search technology and content to help users find the information they need to manage their health and wellness.
“Healthline now provides a growing suite of advanced [...]

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Americans Increase Use Of Internet And TV Together

Americans upped their overall media usage and multitasking in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to Nielsen’s latest Three Screen Report.
In the last quarter of 2009, simultaneous use of the Internet while watching TV reached three and a half hours a month, up 35 percent from the previous quarter. Nearly 60 percent of TV viewers [...]

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A new approach to China: an update

On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights activists connected with [...]

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Google.cn (2005-2010) R.I.P.

Update: Google.cn is no more. Google is now redirecting google.cn to google.com.hk which is hosted in Hong Kong.
You may want to capture a screenshot image of google.cn and preserve it as a record for your future generations because, if these reports are true, Google may announce as early as “today” that they are retreating from [...]

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Twitter Tip: Send a Direct Message to Yourself

You can send direct messages in Twitter to @anyone who is following you on Twitter. Once you hit the Send button, the DM will instantly appear in the recipient’s email inbox and, depending on the settings, as a text SMS on their mobile phone.
Twitter DMs vs Email
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Google search now supports Haitian Kreyòl

Last week we added Haitian Kreyòl as a language to Google search. Visitors to our Haitian homepage can now use search in English, French and Kreyòl.
Haitian Kreyòl is spoken by more than 10 million people in Haiti and in the Haitian diaspora in the Bahamas, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, France, French Guiana, Puerto Rico [...]

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The Apple iPad and Wireless Reading

Charis Tsevis, who you probably know for his photo-mosaic posters of Steve Jobs, has created another brilliant set of illustrations for RAM, a Greek magazine.

Charis’ latest illustrations are about the Apple iPad and wireless reading. They feature young people reading newspapers and magazines through the iPad wirelessly though they themselves are tangled in a mess [...]

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eBay And The NRF Go After Organized Retail Crime

eBay has partnered with the National Retail Federation (NRF), the trade association for the retail industry, to fight organized retail crime.
The partnership between eBay and the NRF will receive support from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as part of an effort to halt crime in which items are stolen from physical stores and then sold [...]

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Go Green! Use Internet on your Mobile Phone

Using Internet on a mobile phone is obviously more eco-friendly than surfing with a desktop computer but ever wondered how much energy do you save in the process?

How eco-friendly is Mobile Internet
Nokia says that updating your Facebook status from a mobile phone consumes about 100 times less energy than if you were to do the [...]

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