Facebook App for iPhone.iPad gets updated

Yes, it is finally out, the Facebook app for the iPad is finally out, along with a heavily updated version of the iPhone app. This by far is the best looking social network app ever. The design looks soft and sexy, the new update includes a new sidebar that peeks out and shows the options that one would find in the left pane of the Facebook page. This looks nice despite the one that goes back and forth in the previous apps. Whats cool is that video is also now viewable on the iPhone/iPad. The sidebar also has options for apps, which might now be able work together with apps on the iOS device. This major upgrade has almost brought all the stuff that you could do on your computer to your mobile phone, I have my doubts whether I would be logging into my Facebook account from my laptop!

MTS MBLAZE Data Card - Crashing on Mac

If you have a MacBook or a Pro, and you are using the MTS Mblaze data card to connect to the Internet, you might have faced the problem of your mac crashing in the few minutes of your data card being connected to the Internet. This is because your mac might be in the 64 bit OS mode and this causes problem with the MTS card which works well on the 32 bit mode. This doesn't seem to be a problem with the 64 bit and 32  bit windows, but the mac catches cold here. To make the card work properly you need to boot your mac in a 32 bit mode. To do this just simply hold the buttons "3" and "2" together when the grey screen comes up until the desktop loads. This helps in clearing the cold. If you have a problem in checking your balance as the software crashes when you hit "check my balance", try installing the older software that is available on the MTS MBlaze website. Comment about the other problems that you have experienced.

Facebook's new smart lists

Google+ has really stirred up Facebook to bring new advancements to keep itself in the market as a tough competitor. We had got video calling and improved privacy features. The next cannon ball that Facebook throws is smart lists. In other words the circle's competitors and you know whose circle I am talking about. Smart list automatically organizes lists of friends based on current work/study information and also location information. You can also organize close friends and acquaintances and also organize whose news feed shows up on your feed page. Pretty cool? or Pretty same? Let us know what you think about it in the comments.

Bloggers new look

It has been a long time since I had logged into my blogger profile and it is today that I have noticed that blogger had changed its look and feel. It seems great to use, but people with a slower internet connections would have to wait for a few seconds or even a few minutes for the interface to load. If this had a HTML view just as gmail had, they would feel a little relaxed.
There a few new settings such as location that is available at the sidebar of the posting page. We will have to see if these new changes bring blogger back up to its feet or make it a good competitor of wordpress.

Know the founders

Do you know who founded facebook? No....?? Then you are already lagging and unfit for a job in the IT industry. Here is a list of founders/CEOs and other important personnel that you would need to know:

• Facebook -  Mark Zuckerberg (Founder)
• Twitter - Jack Dorsey (Founder)
• Foursquare - Dennis Crowley (Founder)
• LinkedIn - Reid Hoffman (Founder/Greylock partner)
• Orkut - Google Inc.(Owner) ,  Orkut Büyükkökten (Creator) 
• Flickr - Ludicorp (Creator), Yahoo! Inc. (Current Owner)
• Microsoft - Bill Gates, Paul Allen (Founders)
• Current Key personnel:
• Steve Ballmer (CEO)
• Bill Gates (Chairman)
• Apple Inc. - Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne (Founders)
• Current Key Personnel:
• Steve Jobs (Co-founder, Chairman, CEO)
• Tim Cook (COO)

HTML 5

The Internet is all on rage about HTML 5. Every one might have at least heard this name once. So, what is this and what makes it special, read on to learn.
HTML 5 is the latest standard for webpage markup language. The previous version was HTML 4.01. HTML 5 really packs up large and exciting improvements than the previous standards. The following are the new features that it provides:

• This is one of the two most exciting feature: support for video playback. Previous versions needed a plug-in like flash player to play videos in websites such as youtube and others. HTML 5 doesn't need these plug-ins, it can directly play videos. This feature becomes a plus in cases of smart phones that don't support flash.
• The next and the second most exciting feature is the ability to render 2-D and 3-D graphics on your browser: This feature called canvas and it allows users to interact with graphical elements. This can also lead to better graphics in games.
• It supports Drag and Drop feature that can be used for better data input with a enhanced visual style.
• Another great feature is improved offline storage.
• HTML 5 also supports geotagging, which can be used with GPS devices, such as mobile phones.
• Improved protocols.

Remember, I have only given the most exciting features in HTML 5, there is more to it than what is given here. Coming to browser support, Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+,Opera 10+,Google Chrome have already started to support most of the features of HTML 5, where Safari 4 supports most of the features. It looks like Internet Explorer ( current version: 8) needs the next version even to support some of the basic features. If you want to check your browser's score for HTML 5 support, visit www.HTML5test.com .

New Mozilla Firefox 3.6

The latest version of mozilla firefox , version 3.6 is out. It has more enhanced security features than the previous versions. It also allows us to use more personas than before. For those of you who dont know what a persona is, read the last line. The new firefox also uses Gecko 1.9.2 rendering which makes rendering more faster. This version is also available in more than 70 languages. The browser also provides more stability than ever. As usual this version is available for Widnows, Mac and Linux.

To download this version , click here.

Persona:-Persona is like the dress that you can wear for Firefox. It is nothing more than a theme for your Firefox browser.

Do you know about torrents?

Torrent is a way for sharing file online. The basic strategy is by creating a peer to peer network to establish a connection between the file holder and the user who wishes to download the file. So, one person has the original file with him and when another person requests the file, it gets transferred through the peer to peer network that gets established.For those who don't know what a peer to peer network is, here it is- The peer to peer network is computer network in which there is no central server or a master, everyone in the network are equal. Who establishes this peer to peer network? What takes control of this file transfer? The answer is a small software known as torrent client. The most famous torrent clients are "Bit torrent" and "Micro torrent". (Click to visit the pages.). Once you have a torrent client in your computer, you can search for a file that you want to download using a torrent search engine. The files in the torrent network are generally referred to as torrents.

The person who maintains the original file is called a "seed". Once another person downloads the complete file, he is also called a seed. So, totally there will be two seeds and when another person starts to download this file, he will be downloading from both the seeds. The files transmitted will be split into various pieces and then sent. When a person has the original file, he is called a seed only when he shares the file with others. If you do not share it, then you are called a "leecher". The health of the torrent is dependent upon the number of seeders and leechers. It is important to note that the more you share a file, the more speed you will gain. If you think stopping the  upload of the file will increase the download speed, you are in for a surprise. The torrent network maintains a direct hash table, which stores the tracker address and share ratio. If you upload less then what you download speed will greatly decrease.

Thats it for the basic of torrents, for more news keep in touch!!!!!!!

Google is coming up

Google is really coming up with brilliant ideas and turning into the largest rivalry that microsoft ever had. Google has announced various services which include the google accounts that give you access ot gmail,blogger etc. It has also announced a web browser called google chrome. Chrome has many features that are very interactive to use. For example the interactive homepage, full screen view and many other. Other great programs are google calendar and google docs. Google docs is really great as it gives an office suite to use online and free with just a gmail account. Click here to visit Google Docs. Google calendar helps you reduce the burden of remembering various events by making you access the calender wherever you are. Try out google calendar by clicking here.

The next biggest addition to the google family is going to be the Chrome OS. I will be filling detailed information about this in the near future, be sure to keep in touch.

Who are the top internet surfers?

Who do you think would be the top internet surfers? Kids, teens or adults. Well I think all might agree that teens are the top surfers. But recent surveys shows a very different result. The poll conducted by wikipedia showed that UK women are the toppers of using the most of their leisure time on the internet. Especially British housewives have found to spend 47% of their leisure time on the internet. Its competitor was the Chinese who found to spend 44% on average time on the internet.

Considering the average for people under 25 years, it was found that all countries had an average of 36% but China alone had 50% of their time spent on the internet.
Also across all countries every individual on average had 17 online friends and 60% of all have had first person encounters. 40% of Chinese have already met their online friends in person. But the toppers who have met their online friends in person are the Germans with about 75% of them having done so.