Archive for July 7th, 2011
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President Barack Obama with with Twitter's co-founder Jack Dorsey, hosted the first ever Twitter Townhall last night. During the event, President Obama made the first live presidential tweet ever on a MacBook Pro. Besides using a Mac, President Obama shared his praise for Apple, but mentioned that he would love to see device parts manufactured
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Blogger's new interface debuted in April this year, is now available to users in Blogger in Draft. And, there is no sign up or activation process required; You can simply visit Draft mode, to start exploring the revamped interface!"Over the last couple of months, we've made significant improvements to our new user interface. We've updated
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On June 29th, Google introduced Social Plugin Tracking in Google Analytics, today the search company has added the ability to "track how users engage with any social plugin such as Google's +1 button and Twitter's Tweet button," announced John Jersin, Google Analytics Team.If you've added +1 buttons to your site and your Analytics implementation is
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Beginning this week, in addition to playing videos within Google Docs -- you can now insert your videos into Google Sites, embed them anywhere on the web, and caption them for your viewers," announced on July 7th, Patrick Lacz, Software Engineer ovet at Google Docs blog.To give it a try, choose Manage caption tracks
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Google established the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship in 2004, awarding scholarships to women who share her passion for technology. Now, Google Australia has announced the 2011 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship in Australia and New Zealand."All citizens, permanent residents, and international students are eligible to apply. Past applicants and finalists are also encouraged to re-apply," noted
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At the Imagine Cup 2011 Worldwide Finals, dozens of student teams showcase software projects that in some cases are already improving disaster relief efforts.From left: Wannapon Suraworachet, Jirapat Yaovatsakul, Kriangkrai Pipatvilaikul, and Tanon Sirawan.When floodwaters swept across northern Thailand last fall, Kriangkrai Pipatvilaikul knew he had to help. He
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Google Toolbar 7 for Internet Explorer with the ability to opt-in to Toolbar Instant was lauched in April this year. Now, starting today, Google will gradually updating all Google Toolbars on IE and turning on Toolbar Instant everywhere that Google Instant is available, announced Allen Huang, Associate Product Manager, Google Toolbar on Inside Search."With Toolbar
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As on July 7th, Two brand-new educational items are available on App Hub for XNA Game Studio game developers, as well as a set of Visual Basic updates to popular Windows Phone Mango educational items, announced XNA Game Studio Team Blog.Here's what you'll find on the Game Development educational page:Compiled Content Format (XNB)This article documents
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In iPhone related news: First, The Journal is reporting that an unnamed sources briefed Apple's future plans, about the next gen iPhone that will undoubtedly be released next year.According to the report "the new thinner iPhone 6, or iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S will operate on Qualcomm Inc.'s wireless chips. Apple's current iPhone 4 uses chips
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On June 26th,diTii reported thata number of Facebook developers when logged into the site greeted with ahorrible news: their applications had suddenly been disabled without warning. The culprit was Facebook's spam-fighting bot.Today, Facebook is rolling out some new features to address the issues. In a blog post announcing the news, Facebook engineer Mike Vernal writes
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Starting today WordPress.com supports a new method of authentication which makes it extremely easy for third party applications to connect with WordPress.com blogs. "This new method uses an open protocol, OAuth2, to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard way. OAuth2 allows applications to access a WordPress.com blog without ever asking for personal details
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Google shared a new Google Labs experimental feature, "Download map area," and also two already exisiting: "Scale bar" and "Measure", today at google mobile blog."To access Labs on your phone, press your phone's menu button once in Google Maps, choose "More" and select Labs. On a tablet, click the menu button in the upper-right corner of
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Released in 2009, Kobi and Ron Shelly's documentary MacHeads has been available from Amazon or iTunes as a $10 purchase or a $3 rental (DVDs available from the official web site). If you're not fond of paying any money to explore "what makes Apple products a "cultural phenomenon", rather than just consumer electronics",
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Kyle McDonald, an artist, created a software that would grab pictures of people's faces using Apple Store display Macs. This software took recordings from two New York-based Apple Stores and sent it to Kyle's computer. This is obviously super-invasive.On three days in June, McDonald's program documented people staring at computers in Apple stores. Since the stores
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