Facebook rolling out more new features

Facebook is bringing out more features recently. Since yesterday, I noticed the following new stuff that showed up on my Facebook page:
- the right end of the Facebook bar at the top has been redesigned
- News feed has been redesigned
- Posts with more popularity are shown with a blue bar at the top left corner at the post
- Friend's status updates are shown live at the top section of the new chat panel at the right side of the window.
These are the changes thy catches my eye. Check out future posts for new improvements.

Google+ Opened to all: Get +ed

Google+ , the already famous social network by Google is now open to everyone. Until a few days ago, anyone who wished to join it would have to get an invitation from an already registered member, or in another words, one could only join in an invitation basis.
Now, when you open up google, you will find an arrow pointing to a new tab at the top named You+. Click it and you will know what to do. The invitation based registration has made almost everyone in this world try google+. A different strategy in google's own words to describe how big it can get among the masses. Now, as it is open to all, all we have to do is wait for some statistics to show up and see how it is doing with it's rival , Facebook.

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.

Glassless 3D - The next step or the next leap?

3D was a technology that was lying around for a long time. 3D movies have been around since 1980 but it is until recently that its roaring on top of its feet. Almost every action sic fi flick is coming out in 3D , with some of them gaining popularity just because of the great usage of 3D technology.
In its initial days, the only place where we could enjoy 3D content was in cinemas. But now due to advances in technology, 3D is now available right at our home. We can all play games, watch movies in beautiful 3D. Todays technology has made 3D come right to our hands. Now a days we even have special cameras that can shoot both depth filled photos and videos. We were restricted to view eye popping content only through special glasses. But now we can do more than that. Special glassless 3D tech have emerged that makes it possible to view them straight away. This has made it possible to view 3D content on phones and handheld gaming devices. This is where we are today. But 3D tech for home entertainment systems where quite a rage and before it could reach everyones home, we saw the emergence of the glassless tech. Will something with a much more immersive entertainment experience emerge before everyone can get their hands on this glassless tech, or will it be a runner for a long time as smartphones did for a decade..? Only the future can answer us.

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.

iCloud - Think Cloud

WWDC 2011 is happening right as I blog and after talking about iOS 5, Steve gets on stage and gets his speech on iCloud stirring up people. The word iCloud might make your imagination think that it is something like MobileMe, but it is more than that. You can not restrict yourselves to just mail and contacts, you can take up documents, books and photo streams. The best part is that it is all free. You will have a free 5GB storage for everything except photo streams and books. What about them, photo streams and books are free. So now you can buy a song in you iTunes and you don't need to sync to get it on your iDevice. This is also a part of the iTunes matching service. And with that announcement, the keynote ends up. There wasn't any hard concentration on hardware I guess

Busting New Features of iOS 5 at WWDC 2011

The WWDC is happening at San Fransisco right now as I am blogging now, and I am here to tell you about the new features of the iOS 5 announced at the conference. According to the announcement, the new iOS will contain about more than 200 new features and they have discussed about 10 of them in detail, which include:

1. Notifications: The new iOS will contain a new notification system which will be less ineruptive than the previous notification system i.e. will show messages and other notifications in the top of the screen, not disturbing what you are doing.
2. News stand: You can consider this as the iBooks app for reading newspapers and magazines.
3. Twitter: Twitter on iPhone has made a major remodel for the new iOS, it will be integrated into the basic apps, such as camera, contacts etc.
4. Safari: Safari includes new features such as story mode and better tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing also has quicker tab switching mechanism.
5. Reminders: You know what the name says, a reminder app, which is juiced up to remind you even if you leave a place by setting up a geographic wall, along with lots of other features.
6. Camera: This old time favorite baby now includes automatic enhancements and a load of smart features such as using the volume up button for taking a picture. You can also go the camera app quicker than ever directly from the lock screen.
7. Mail: Mail has recieved more features such as rich text formatting and MIME.
8. Game Center: More game center updates include better way of finding friends and downloading games directly from game center.
9. iMessage: Similar to iChat but far more better iPhone and iPad buddy connecting device.
10. PC-Free: This is one of the most awesome features. They claimed that PC is going out of existence and that people prefer only an iPhone or an iPad in their hand. So, the new iOS is bringing an PC free system. You have no need to setup your iPhone initially. It will be unlocked without even connecting to the PC.

Other new exciting features include a new and improved UI, Airplay mirroring and much awaited WIFI syncing. The iOS 5 will be available for iPhone 3gs and onwards. According to the announcement, it will be available this fall.