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Injunction delivery, courtesy of Twitter

by nauman October 2, 2009

In what can be described as the first case of its kind the British High Court has served injunction to an anonymous twitter user who was using a fake Id of a lawyer named Donal Blaney to spread conservative news. Now this is a strange case where the identity of the defendant was not known [...]

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CNN’s iPhone application, is this the beginning of the end of print media?

by nauman October 2, 2009

Reading news over the web is a pastime and hobby most of us enjoy, primarily because leading news channels/agencies around the world offer free news via their websites. Have a look at BBC, CNN or even Fox ( if you want the contorted view of news), all these and more have dedicated websites offering traditional [...]

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To kill or nor to kill (Obama) that is the question

by nauman October 1, 2009

Big brother is always watching and so it happened on Facebook, a poll generated by one user “Should Obama be killed” invited other users to join in the discussion which ultimately invited the attention of the feds. People it is said responded with “yes”, “no” and “yes if he cuts my healthcare”. The total count [...]

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Web page translation by Google

by nauman October 1, 2009

Google has been providing website translation for quite sometime now, but now thanks to a newer feature web publishers or website owners will be able to provide translation service to the visitors based on their native language. The tool is being provided by Google for free as usual, and can be tested here. Presently multinational [...]

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Want to see Global Warning Effects, checkout Google Earth new Plug-in

by Muzzammil Waheed September 28, 2009

Are you a concerned world citizen and want to see how the Global Warming is going to effect the world and especially your country in future, tap into the new Google Earth Plug-in ”Google Earth climate change 3D”. This plug-in loads new layers on top of Google Earth maps displaying the range of expected temperature and precipitation changes under different global emission scenario, possible throughout the century. This tools generates prediction of results for such scenarios for next 90 years based on the data provided by internal governmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Twends: a Twitter explorer utility providing insight into tweeters sentiments

by Muzzammil Waheed September 26, 2009

Twends-twitter-explorer If you are interested in seeing what are the hot topics, keywords active on twitter, and what are the sentiments of people who are twittering about them, then I have the perfect twitter explorer utility for you. Twends lets you first of all search and then highlight the twitter tweets,conversations, sentiments and trends based on topics of your interest, then visualize the sentimental trends.

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Real time web services development, objective of Friendfeed and Tornado by Facebook.

by Muzzammil Waheed September 26, 2009

If you are a real time, streaming content provider such as real time web services, then Facebook latest open source “Tornado” is right platform for you and FriendFeed is based on Tornado. Basically what it does it let you publish your content in real time to subscribers, since subscribers are connected to FriendFeed all the time.

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Ubuntu in your pen/flash/usb drive, the easy way

by nauman September 25, 2009

Before I write anything about stuffing Ubuntu in a pen drive for creating a Live Ubuntu USB let us first discuss why do we need to do this in the first place? I mean what is the big advantage of loading a USB with Ubuntu when it is already there on a CD/DVD? To make [...]

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Archos 5/7 , an Internet Tablet, Gaming device, music player or a NetBook?

by nauman September 23, 2009

What exactly is the ultimate gadget that one can dream of? Personally I would like to carry one slim not too fat, energy efficient gadget that would allow me to make phone calls, surf the Internet at will (without straining my eyes), play games (well once in a while), listen to music, watch movies, take [...]

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Video messaging via iPhone 3GS

by nauman September 23, 2009

iPhone 3GS owners will now be able to make 12 seconds long videos and send them to other iPhone 3GS owners as well as to their contacts on FaceBook and Twitter followers. 12mail a new iPhone application, by 12seconds.tv makes this possible. However, a 12seconds.tv account is not required to make use of this application, [...]

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