Twitter Launches T.co
Twitter has launched T.co, their own URL shortener. They had already been using twt.tl within DM’s to protect users from phishing scams, so this is just taking things a step further. Another issue that they are looking to solve is the fact that there is no native way to shorten links, so less [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Adobe AIR has been a double-edged sword since it was first created. Developers can create beautiful applications quickly and easily distribute them to users. The problem has always been performance and resource usage. With AIR 2, Adobe has decreased memory usage by about 30% across the board and boosted overall performance. This is in addition [...]
At first, I wasn’t sure what was going on. I didn’t notice anything special about the Google homepage because I never actually visit it. I search via Chrome’s location bar. Curious, I jumped over to Google.com and was greated by a very pleasing background image in place of the standard plain white. Everything faded in, [...]
In what may be Apple’s worst security breach, email information from 114,000 iPad owners has been made public. This hack was discovered and exploited by a group calling themselves Goatse Security. It revolves around a simple feature that makes it easier for customers to sign up for their 3G service. By sending the ICC-ID number [...]
PicClick is a search engine that only includes a few sites, but that’s all it needs to make your shopping life easier. It is the first visual shopping interface for eBay and others. It’s a really unique and pretty awesome way to find things you want to get. Whether it be a handmade bag [...]
Sounds like AOL will be doing their part to help the economy this year. They are focused on being able to churn out massive amounts of content all in-house and will be hiring hundreds of new content creators. David Eun, president of AOL’s media and studios division, studied the numbers and came to the conclusion [...]
Caffeine is a complete redesign of Google’s search index. While they reign as the #1 search engine, they have never been known to stop innovating. The web has changed and we have come to expect things to happen immediately. When we search, we want the most relevant and freshest results. When we publish things on [...]
FaceTime is Apple’s new standard for video calling. It comes along with the release of iOS4 and the iPhone 4. At the moment, it only works from iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 and only over WiFi. FaceTime was demoed at the WWDC yesterday by Steve Jobs himself. Even though 570 WiFi base stations in use [...]
While the HTC Evo 4G is a formidable Android phone, it didn’t really have any competition when it was first released. It set the bar pretty high for what a smartphone should be capable of. Now that the iPhone 4 has been announced, the first thing we want to know is how they match up. [...]
At WWDC 2010, Apple brings us iOS4. No, it’s not a completely new Operating System, but they’ve decided to drop the Phone part and make things simpler. According to jobs, this is their “most ambitious release to date.” It sports over 1500 developer APIs and over 100 new user features. The most obvious of these [...]
With the iPhone 4 camera, Apple realizes that one of the most important factors in the quality of your photos is your lighting. Rather than simply focusing on boosting the megapixels of the camera, they took steps to maximize the number of photons it can capture.
The iPhone 4 has taken the camera from 3 to [...]
Apple has once again changed the cell phone game with it’s latest iPhone release at WWDC. It boasts 100 new features over it’s predecessors, including a sleek new design that many are already somewhat familiar with. Steve joked about the iPhone being leaked and many have thought that leak would make the entire WWDC event [...]
Klout, the gold standard as far as measuring influence on Twitter, will begin branching out from Twitter by launching the Facebird experiment later today. Facebird will be available the Klout Labs segment of the site. Klout has come a long way since we first covered it back in 2008. The site is much more polished [...]
Producteev is a task management solution born from the frustrations the team had with other available products and services. Many users trying to get their productivity game on point have run into the same issues. Some interfaces are entirely too complicated. You are limited in how you can access or add tasks. The application doesn’t [...]
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