Well it’s official. Nielsen's Consumer Market research had confirmed that more and more people are spending their time on Facebook. In fact the research company findings show that people spend almost 4x more of their time on Facebook than YouTube and 3x more than Google. While it’s true that the number may have been pulled up by highly engaging flash games like Texas Holdem Poker (guilty!) and Mafia War, this new reality also underlined the current trend that more and more people ar... Read more »
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Are you on Twitter already?
Posted on 07 March 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate
Do you twitt?If not yet, then I think you are missing the current 'in' thing. Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows you to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. I first encounter Twitter in a particular forum where suddenly every have been posting their twitter accounts and everyone and following each other. Its so viral that in to time most regulars in the forum are ... Read more »
DayLight Saving Time 2009
Posted on 06 March 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate
Its DST once again starting March 8! So its time to move that clock hand one hour forward. Personally, I like to call Daylight saving time as Summer Time - there is just twist of pleasure whenever I see or hear the word 'summer'. People usually have the wrong idea that the purpose of daylight saving time is to give them more time to frolic on summer evenings. Well, I wish our forefathers are such consenting adults to let summer loving people to sunbathe under sun. Nah. The real purpose is to con... Read more »
Spinvox Delivers Handy Talk-to-Text Service
Posted on 29 January 2009 by Muhammad Israr, Affiliate
Toolbars and add-ons bring increased functionality to Web browsers and the computers that run them. UK-based SpinVox does the same thing for cell phone users. The company offers several services that convert voicemail to text messages or e-mail and allow message broadcasting to listed recipients and social networks. SpinVox is just beginning to market these services to U.S. consumers, and all of the company's offerings are not yet available through individual cell phone carriers. [More...] Read more »
Internet sales taxes looming in the horizon
Posted on 13 January 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate
Following suit with the New York State’s local tax legislation on Internet sales taxation, states across the country are taking another hard look at taxing interstate sales completed on the web. Faced with crushing deficits, depressed tax revenues, and a gray outlook for 2009, most of these states are looking to tap on a variety of indirect Internet tax legislation to raise the local government revenue. These indirect Internet taxes are aimed to compensate for the lost sales taxes and to g... Read more »
Is Bill Gates Really Sharing His Fortune?
Posted on 07 January 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate
Today I received, for the nth time, a forwarded email which says that Bill Gates is sharing his fortune. All you need to do is forward the message and you would get hundreds of dollars every time your message has been forwarded. Normally my mind would instinctively intruct my mouse to delete this message as soon as I saw the premise on Subject line. Not this time around. What I find amusing for this particular email is that this time it has come from someone that I have high regard. This mad... Read more »
Fill your home with music! Eos Wireless Speaker System
Posted on 05 January 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate
The iPod altered the landscape for portable audio players. With its iPod’s popularity among the masses, there has been a race of sort to provide additional functionality to this innovative product. One of the most worthwhile auxillary is the iPod speaker docks which changed the way we listen to our iPods. Say hello to Eos. Named for the Greek goddess of dawn, Eos wants to change the way that you listen to your music all over again. How? By allowing you to listen to your music not just in o... Read more »
Blink an LED without a battery!
Posted on 03 August 2008 by Joginder Rana, Affiliate
The battery-less L.E.D. blinkerI came up with this little device because I was looking for something that clearly demonstrates the principal that a magnetic field passing through a conductor produces electricity. While a galvanometer will demonstrate the same principal, the L.E.D. blinker seems to really bring the idea home, especially for younger students. Everyone recognizes L.E.D.s as being an indication of electricity. Construction of the device is simple. All you will need is:1* 3/8" b... Read more »
Get A Free Virtual Resume With VisualCV
Posted on 24 June 2008 by William Lau, Affiliate
While most people don't snail mail their CVs anymore, most of them are typed out in a Word file and emailed to prospective employers along with 10 portfolio attachments. A big mess, and they're not presented in a neat, standard format. Of course there is the Youtube resume, but that only allows you to post a video of yourself, and blogs are a bit cumbersome to configure. Many job search sites have a CV table for you to fill up, but rarely do you get to show off your works or add extra media... Read more »
Yahoo's New Look
Posted on 23 June 2008 by William Lau, Affiliate
Yahoo's release a preview to its new homepage on its australian site today. The new look is simply named Yahoo!7.The new layout offers little more than some minor personalization tweaks such as a Your Stuff box on the lower right hand column with shortcuts to various services like flickr and Answers. Further down, the 'In Your Area' column automatically detects your location and lists restaurant and entertainment options to you. Curiously, it didn't work for us, and the column displayed its nati... Read more »