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Free Blackberry WordPress Blogging Apps is Amazing!

After several futile attempts to install TypePad Blackberry Application - as during final installation, the screen would stare at me with a message 'some files are missing' - I decided to use WordPress for my latest blog Fighting Soul, a couple of weeks ago -- coinciding with it's BB application launch.

Well, I downloaded the apps from here, and after installation it took me just a few minutes to get used to it. Wow, it's amazing, and no better way to express my satisfaction.

With all essential functions neatly  integrated into mobile application, wordPress has re-defined the concept of a full-fledged mobile blogging.

Sadly, what surprises me the most is, TypePad's complete silence over the failure of its blackberry mobile application. Despite several complaints floating all over internet, how a progressive company like 'Six Apart' is ignoring this issue, so conveniently?

If you are running a WordPress blog and also own a blackberry, grab this application immediately and start blogging on the go -- in real sense!

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Car that Drives Herself!

The design and development of the robotic car 'Shelley,' that doesn't require a driver, is a landmark development in automobile technology. Stanford scientists have done a remarkable job. Congratulations! Continue reading

Blogs are Growing at Lightning Speed - Study Reveals

According to a report released by Verisign, the internet has added 11 million new domains in the 4th quarter of 2009 to a already crowded (.) space. Continue reading

Do You Project Your True-Self on Social Media Sites?

A widely held assumption is: Most of the People  like to project what they consider themselves to be; not what they actually are -- as perceived by others. So, social media platforms offer  an opportunity to project idealized-self. Continue reading

Are Car Manufacturers Going the Bankers' Way?

Well, what's bothering me: That these are real cars, not toys, and while traveling at high speed even a minor defect may cause a fatal accident -- what we've seen in case of Toyota. Continue reading

How to Avoid Unwanted Calls on Your Blackberry

Quite often you are bombarded with unwanted calls from a certain group of people and tele-marketers. Some of them even bothering you during an important meeting or presentation. That's a real headache and there must be some ways to avoid this embarrassment.

The easiest solution is to switch your phone off but it's not workable, simply for the reason that your near and dear ones may find it difficult to reach you during an emergency. So what to do? I mean, there must be some ways to filter out unwanted call while keeping  your Blackberry on.

Addressing  this serious issue, Zenconsult has designed a wonderful application called BlackBall, that blocks unwanted calls when you don't wish to be disturbed by a group of people -- keeping you available to others.

The important features of this application as mentioned in the website of Zenconsult are as follows

• Actively rejects calls on your block list

• Will block incoming calls even if you are already on the phone

• Select specific contacts to block directly from your Phone Book

• Select a number to block from your list of Missed Calls

• Easily add a number to block by typing it in directly

• Disable BlackBall when you want to begin receiving all calls once more

• Get a list of calls blocked and when they were blocked

• Flexible bulk blocking options include: Block All Calls, Block Unknown Calls, Block Private Calls or  Block Callers not in your Phone Book

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Amazing Free iPhone Application

Siri is a free iPhone application that leverages speech-to-text technology while executing assigned tasks on iphone. You just say what you want and let Siri do it for you. Suppose, you are traveling from place 'A' to Place 'B' and need to check flights availability; just say it, and watch Siri getting relevant information on the screen. Watch these two videos for a better understanding of this application that claims to make your life a bit easier! Read more about it on Siri Blog and download from Apple iTune Store

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Is Social Media Killing Search Engines?

"According to Web measurement firm Compete Inc., Facebook has passed search-engine giant Google to become the top source for traffic to major portals like Yahoo and MSN, and is among the leaders for other types of sites. This trend is shifting the way Web site operators approach online marketing, even as Google takes steps to move into the social-media world. Some experts say social media could become the Internet's next search engine."People are spending less time navigating the Internet on their own and are now navigating the Internet based on their friends' recommendations or their friends' activities," said Dave Yovanno, chief executive of Gigya Inc., a Palo Alto firm that offers social-media services. "That's one of the big trends we started picking up on probably four or five months ago."

via www.sfgate.com

The news of facebook directing more users to other sites, than google, is certainly the beginning of a new trend - that started a couple of months ago - as quoted in this posting. So, watch out!!! How this trend is likely to impact the huge SEO industry -- a million dollar question.

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Amazing FireFox Addon: A Must for Serious Bloggers

If you are are a serious blogger; having a clear idea about your Blog's latest status, in terms of SEO, is very important. In fact, you should also know about the site statistics of some of the blogs falling in your own category: Competitors.

For that purpose, nothing can beat this amazing Firefox addon: Web Rank Info. It  works as a tool bar, delivering instant information on several SEO parameters of the sites you visit - including your own - on Firefox browser: Google PR, Alexa Rating, Compete rank, Quantcast Rank and total number of pages indexed by Google, Bing and Yahoo.

Well, Google PR doesn't change often, but Alexa Rank - which defines site's popularity, in terms of no of unique visitors and total page views - is a dynamic assessment tool that changes frequently, and a serious blogger must keep a close watch on that and take corrective action -- at the earliest. Try it out and let me know.

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How to Buzz out off GMail!

So much is being written about Google Buzz: Most of them; however, are negative remarks.

I think, what's bothering people about this Buzz business is, its automatic disclosure of the information that they never intend to share publicly.

However, I didn't find anything wrong with it during my initial encounter for few minutes. And also, Google has provided - in fact, updated a couple of hours ago - several privacy options for maintaining various levels of confidentiality, as indicated here.

Anyways, you may go through the guideline, suggested by Jessica Dolcourt, on, how to disable Buzz!-- for silencing the Buzz, forever!

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Fusion of Internet and Telephone for Creating Legally Bound Contracts

Researchers have recently developed a new technology for internet telephony, ensuring legally binding archiving of calls. Interesting development!

The fusion of telephone and Internet is also resulting in new business forms and services that must be secure against tapping and manipulation. For example, the possibility of concluding or changing contracts by telephone. With this in mind, the security experts at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT in Darmstadt have developed software that provides legally-binding archiving of VoIP telephone calls. Reports Science Daily

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Apple's Tablet Computer being Unveiled at 'Latest Creation' Event..

Apple, Apple and Apple: Nothing else, in the tech world, today. What's that all about? Continue reading

Tips for Making Money from Your Blogs

I have been running this blog for more than 6 months by now, and a herculean effort to generate a decent sum - for compensating the time I am spending on it - has not paid off anything substantial, so far. But, it's increasing.. Continue reading

Google's Smartphone Nexus One the iPhone Killer is Unveiled

 

Just read on CNN that Google has unveiled the latest mobile sensation named nexus one widely rumored to be an iPhone killer, and ZDNet in it's announcement highlighting the technical specifications of Nexus One, is projecting this 'web meets phone' as a superphone.

Adding fuel to the speculation, PCWorld expert author Ian Paul has explained clearly "how Google's Nexus One Can Beat Apple's iPhone," and in an innovative marketing initiative Google is offering an online demonstration of the applications available on nexus One -- helping consumers clearly understand the power of the device. 

Now that you have a clear idea about this highly publicized superphone, would you like to buy one ?

Update/6.1.10: However, not all are so enthusiastic about this development as highlighted in a Fast Company article, pointing out the absence of  Sergei & Larry during the launch. Well,  that could be another marketing strategy, because Google is too smart to mess up such an important event!

Looking at this development from business point of view, Elizabeth Woyke on Forbes has nice pointed out -- who are likely to benefit from Google's latest move and and who aren't. Thanks Elizabeth!

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Could Solar Powered Engines be Fossil Fuel's Alternative ?

Not long ago, I expressed deep concern about fast disappearing fossil fuel and the urgent need to find out an economically viable alternative, on this blog, through the article Space Based Solar Power: Only Option After Fossil Fuels Disappear.

And today I read about an encouraging development in Scientific American that Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. (SES), a pioneer in the design and development of Concentrated Solar Power solutions is providing 60 sun-powered engines, which are about to begin generating electricity outside Phoenix, Ariz., for the first time.

No doubt the success of 1.5 megawatt (MW) demonstration site at Maricopa Solar, which is likely to begin operations in January 2010 would confirm that the new technology may work --  offering an excellent opportunity for developing a commercially viable alternative source of energy in future. Image Source

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A Paradigm Shift: Music Management in the Next Decade

Nothing is unimaginable: a decade ago writers used to be a rare breed, and today almost everyone has a blog or social networking identity expressing their thoughts and ideas.

The world is changing fast in terms of technological innovations, social interactions, career promotions, information management, to name a few, and all of them revolving around what we call internet -- the cloud.

Great predictions by by Matt Rosoff: how technology is going to change the way we access the vast resources of music - paid, free and our own - in the next decade, on any device and from anywhere in the world -- with an internet connection. Image source

"Bill Gates has said that prognosticators often overestimate the amount of technological change that will happen in a year, but underestimate the changes that will take place over a decade. With the Zeroes coming to an end this week, and Steve Guttenberg's recent column questioning the viability of recorded music in 2020 as inspiration, here's my pick of 10 trends in music and technology that will shape the next decade." Read Matt's Predictions HERE

A Glimpses of the Mobile World 2009

Mobility is on fast track with an exponential growth not sparing any related segments, and consumers are going more and more mobile for both voice communications and data access over the net, irrespective of whether on the move or not.

Nielsen has recently released a report highlighting the trend in 2009, indicating the top 10 mobile devices used by US customers - Jan 2009 to Oct 2009 - along with the list of top 10 websites accessed over mobile phones and also the top 10 brands. Read Complete Report HERE

10 Great Concepts for Gaining Huge Polpularity on Twitter

Another great article by Gracie, and this time on the twisting tweets: crazy tweets, actually!

Obviously, these out-of-the-box thinking - in tweeting - have brought some out-of -the-world popularity to those great thinkers.

Why don't you scratch your head and come out with similar ideas ?

"Ivy Bean is 104, she lives in Bradford, West York and she is probably the coolest grandma on earth. This lovely woman, who has a Facebook profile already, has become a Twitter sensation –with over 50,000 followers- by posting her updates on the micro-blogging site."  Image Source

Pl, Go through Gracie's posting HERE

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Is Google's Android Emerging Winner in Smartphone ?

 
Could be, as indicated by Comscore's latest release highlighting Androids new found popularity. This in fact, I predicted recently while writing the post 'What is Google's Hidden Agenda.'

"So much media coverage of Google on proposed launch of it's mobile device! I would love to meet the brain behind this successful marketing strategy, creating a high-pitch confusion - well coordinated rumor management - through social media platforms, like twitter facebook  etc.' Read More HERE

Looking at the above chart you can easoly make out that the strategy paid off, and Android has started drawing mobile users attention to the extent that it's only 3% behind iPhone - 17% against 20% for iPhone - in terms of American consumers preference for a new device in next three months. Read Comscore's complete report HERE   Image Source

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Free iPhone Applications: eBook Reader

 
Yesterday I wrote this on free blackberry ebook readers:

"Now that digital reading is becoming popular and experts' recommendations for an appropriate eBook reader not very encouraging as pointed out in one of my recent article - 'However, not all are anticipating a good show -- at least, in near future. The pant-down article by Zeson parlow on ZDNet Blog, dissecting the popular e-book readers, is no less evidential than the remark by Walter Mossberg  on WSJ  that 'Nook is not fully baked yet.'( Read It HERE) - why don't you download a free blackberry eBook reader application and accelerate your pursuit of knowledge, on the go ?"

Obviously, same applies to iPhone also and the application here is called Stanza with following features - a snapshot from its website

Get it from HERE and enjoy digital reading on your iphone. Image Source

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