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Absolutely Addictive Free Games for Nokia N8; Part 1

by nmafzal December 9, 2010

Here is a pick of free games for Nokia N8, these are small and easy to play besides being fun for the Symbian 3 based mobile phone. With Christmas season approaching and New Year’s eve around the corner have fun playing these games. Android and iPhone owners might drool over it as the OVI store is offering loads of them.

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How to get Facebook Social Messaging Invitations

by Muzzammil Waheed November 18, 2010

As you know that Facebook’s new Social Messaging feature is currently in invite-only and you will have to wait till someone invites you to try out the new feature. Facebook will roll out this feature to everyone in the coming months “very slowly”. If you cannot wait that long and want to get invitation earlier, the process is pretty simple. Just drop in a request for an invitation at the Facebook website. You can get to the request page using the following URL.

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Facebook mobile becomes the top mobile app in US, 2010

by Sarah October 11, 2010

The rising fever of Facebook has now extended its reach to mobile users. People are accessing facebook from their mobiles to keep in touch with their friends activity, making Facebook mobile the top mobile app in US. The growing addiction is increasing every day now. Flowtown has published a new amazing infographic showing the rise of facebook in 2010. Few facts on the below image are shown below

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Are Facebook and other social sites good for you and your kids?

by Muzzammil Waheed June 2, 2010

People seem to think information they put on the internet is transient – here today, gone tomorrow. Increasingly, we are finding data doesn’t disappear when you delete it. It may be automatically saved by Facebook or Google.

You may think you got rid of something but it can come back to bite you. If you are 18, you don’t think about your 42-year-old self looking for a job or promotion. People don’t consider that long-term risk. I think this could become a serious problem in future. Young people seem very blasé about their privacy, but their opinions may change in years to come.

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Corporate Gaming Tournament 2010, Pakistan

by nauman January 20, 2010

This is happening for this first time in Pakistan I guess. It is officially the first Corporate Gaming Tournament in Pakistan courtesy of Wiredup Gaming. The event is being organized by Wiredup with Dawn News and CityFM 89 are the media partners. Preliminaries are from Feb 5th to 13th and finals are scheduled for Feb [...]

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Try out some Google Chrome extensions.

by nauman December 26, 2009

It’s a Google Google world, that’s for sure. The Google Chrome browser has some very good extensions lined up for users. The various categories are Alerts and Updates, Appearance and Functioning, language & Translators, Music, Videos and Photos, Tabs etc etc. The basic purpose is very similar to that of add-ons in Firefox, making certain [...]

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5 Useful Mozilla Firefox Add-ons

by nauman December 24, 2009

Firefox is not only my favourite browser, millions share this passion with me. This browser since its birth has been growing and attracting attention worldwide. Its small in size, fast and best of all free. Few years back Firefox add-ons started appearing and now there is huge library with thousands of add-ons covering various categories [...]

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A Twitter application for the Zune HD

by nauman December 17, 2009

Nowadays if you are not tweeting then you’re not in the circle. Most of us tweet or retweet using a PC, however, there are other options available as well. One can make use of his/her mobile phone, PDA or smart device. The Zune HD that was hit the markets sometime back created quite a stir. [...]

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New Privacy Settings in Facebook

by nauman December 10, 2009

Just today I logged in to my Facebook account and was presented a with rather odd looking screen. Instincts told me to hit the cancel button, but alas there was none. It was not something optional, instead it was a requirement, off course the option for looking in to it later was also present. Facebook [...]

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Micro blogging; A trend here to stay!

by Muzzammil Waheed November 23, 2009

First there was blogging and now emerges micro blogging concept with emergence of Facebook live feed, twitter and other lightweight/micro blogs where you can quickly log your rants, thoughts, shouts and social blah blah instantly and that to all for free.  These micro blog services enable you to keep in contact with your friends and colleagues on Facebook, twitter, typepad, tumblr, allowing you to post anything like images, videos, audio clips, and above all text. Posting on these micro blogging services is simple, easy and there are multiple ways to do that such as email, mobile applications, and anywhere from the web. Above all these micro blogging services let you customize your micro blog with hundreds of free themes and if you are a design savvy person you might want to cook up your own customized theme.

microblogging

Micro blogging is a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user as described by Wikipedia . Now let’s look at which services are available for free micro blogging and what they offer. There might be lots of them, cropping up everyday but few most popular are these.

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