5,000 friends club for FACEBOOK

VIRTUAL FRIENDS
Facebook is a place to find old friends and make new ones. But there is a catch to it. You can't get too friendly, because Facebook will force you to press the brakes around the 5,000-friends mark. The world's largest social networking website recently announced that it has over 500 million users and only a fraction of the half-a-billion actually have 5,000 friends.

While Facebook suggests that such popular people should open a fan page (that don't have a limit on followers), many have gone and opened another profile, ready for their next 5,000 friends. Interestingly, many of those who have hit the 5,000-friend ceiling aren't celebrities. We dug through Facebook to come up with a few members of this select club.

Faizah Ghadban- Kanda: This mother of six and grandmother of six from Ottawa, Canada has crossed the 5,000-friends mark. She asks her friends not to write to her in Arabic as she can understand only English.

Sarathbabu Elumalai: This IIM-Ahmedabad graduate created quite a buzz when he refused a plum job offer to start his own catering service. He had also contested as an independent candidate from the South Chennai seat in the 2009 general elections and also intends to contest in the 2011 Tamil Nadu assembly polls.

Sree Latha Nair: Employed as a manager with Perma Shipping Line, this mother-of-three hails from Johor Bahru in Malayasia.

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Bluetooth Technology – Discover The Best Photo Printers, Mobile Printers And Gadgets

Bluetooth technology is becoming Increasingly popular in the world of electronics, BOTH for the home and office environments, and even on the road. Bluetooth technology Can Be found not only in hands-free headset for your cell phone devices, But also in printers, computers, laptops, entertainment systems and more. With the Increase in electronic and technology products we use in Our Daily Lives, It Is No wonder we all would like freedom from wires.
Bluetooth technology is one That does just that. Bluetooth technology works by Transmitting low-powered radio signals in the 2.4 GHz range. Bluetooth wireless technology Can penetrate solid objects, and Unlike other technologies, it is omni-directional. This means That the technology does not require line-of sight positioning of connected devices and Can Communicate with Other Devices and Beyond extend doors, walls and even Different levels of the building. As long as the devices are in range, Can They interact. This enables us to setup a personal-area network (PAN), Which translate into the weight-bearing ability to own devices That Can detect and interact with one another They Come Within the range of one another.
How Close Do They Need To Be you ask? That depends on the class of the Bluetooth device. There are two classes of Bluetooth. The first class, the weaker of the two, can transmit signals over the 33 foot range. The second class, the stronger of the two, can send and receive signals as far as 328 feet away.
In most cases you only Truly Need To Be 10 to 20 feet or so away from These devices, as is the case with bluetooth printers. For the typical home user, You Will Likely Be in the room with the printer or in a room close by to the printer WHERE reside. The advantage of These devices Is That You Can print from far away sans wires. This technology is at the heart of innovations such as wireless printers and mobile printers. If you are on the go, Who Wants Them to lug with a nest of wires to connect Their Their printer to laptop – Heaven forbid you forget to bring the wires and then are left up the creek without a paddle. Allows the Bluetooth laptop and printer to Communicate effortlessly with one another, assuming BOTH Bluetooth is built into devices, or if your laptop Has the Bluetooth adapter card. Luckily this feature comes standard on today’s generation of devices.
A great example of a Bluetooth printer is the HP Photosmart C5580 All in One Inkjet Printer. This printer, like most HP wireless printers, can print directly from Bluetooth devices and Can print up to 34 pages per minute. Also the device copies, scans and includes features such as automatic paper-type ITS sensing. HP printers are a popular choice for Consumers in the all in one printer and photo categories.
The best photo printers come with Bluetooth technology so you Can wirelessly, and Rapidly, Communicate and send photos from your digital camera to your wireless printer. Bluetooth Can transmit data at a rate of up to 3 Mbps, Which is very fast. Bluetooth enables you to Quickly and Efficiently send digital photos to your printer, then where you Can Instantly make photo prints. In addition to HP printers, canon printers are Also best-in-class is photo printers including Canon’s line of canon pixma printers. The Canon PIXMA MP610 Photo Printer comes equipped with Bluetooth technology, 2.5 “TFT display and previewing spectacular 4800 x 9600 color dpi results.
If there’s one drawback to Bluetooth it is the level of security. Because Bluetooth Can connect devices to networks so Easily, then it Might Be Possible for someone to eavesdrop on you using another Bluetooth device. Bluetooth security is in the hands of electronics manufacturers produce devices Who Can That Are secure or unsecure. So shop wisely and use the best , most trustworthy of brands.

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Latest Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 2 has ‘app tabs’

There are many interesting and amazing web browsers on the market and each company behind its browser tries to bring some new improvements to its users. Although we’re waiting for Internet Explorer 9 with anticipation that doesn’t mean that other companies are standing still with development of its browsers. Therefore Mozilla has recently released Beta

2 of its popular web browser Firefox.

As you know, Firefox is the second most used web browser in the world, right after Internet Explorer and in order to keep that position Firefox must bring all sorts of improvements to its users. Therefore we’ve got Firefox 4 Beta 2 that has some interesting features to offer.
New Beta introduces us to an App Tab feature that allows us to minimize our tabs and save them for later use. This is extremely helpful if you have many opened tabs or if you simply want to keep your most visited sites available at all times. App Tabs feature resembles to Google Chrome’s Pin Tabs feature that shrinks your tab and sends it to the far left. In Firefox 4 Beta 2 you just have to right click your tab and choose “Make into an App Tab” and you’ll create App Tabs with a single click. Besides App Tabs Firefox Beta 2 has improved startup time and it supports CSS 3 transition effects.

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iWatch - Apple Concept Hours

Design studios ADR (Italy), A rare concept for a sober look and the ability to offer innovation. Watches have a beautiful name iWatch. They are enclosed in an aluminum housing supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. All of these opportunities they need to communicate and, apparently, synchronize data with iPad or iPhone. The clock can display RSS-feeds and weather forecasts, Internet access either through their own Wi-Fi, or by using Bluetooth-connection. Idea equipped hours 16 gigabytes of internal memory. Via creep.ru...More images after the break...

EyeMove PC Concept with Multi-Function Wireless Controller

The change of PC happen new always, and it has gotten into trouble that gladden that see designing different or change for the future

 

 

 

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Apple investigating issues with iOS 4 upgrade on iPhone 3G

Back when we outlined the iOS 4 features missing from iPhone 3G, we forgot one key bullet point: performance. As more and more two-year veterans of Apple's phones have taken the plunge and upgraded to the latest firmware, slowdown and battery drain issues have become a common complaint, which is even more irksome when you think of just how little the update really adds to the UI. The Wall Street Journal reports speaking to an Apple spokesperson who said the company is looking into the matter. That doesn't necessarily mean a fix is coming anytime soon, but hey, at least you can hold the darn thing however you want.

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Apple launches Magic TrackPad [Multitouch]

Apple desktops now have touchpads too. The new Magic Trackpad from Apple brings the Macbook Pro features to  Mac Pro and iMac owners like multitouch, gestures, over bluetooth.
Basically, Magic Trackpad is a MacBook Pro touchpad on steriods. With 80% more surface area for all those nasty gestures, it’s  a possible mouse replacement that itself acts like a one big button. Some of the popular gestures would include: two-finger scrolling, pinch to zoom, fingertip rotation, and three- and four-finger swipes, all of which can be enabled or disabled in Preferences.

 

Wireless

The bluetooth functionality allows you to operate the it from up to 33 feet away.
Magic Trackpad runs on two AA battteries, which comes with six AA batteries accompanied with charger, which Apple claims to be the Greenest Charger. The AA batteries that ship along with are designed to last for hundreds of charges.
Suits your Design
The Magic Trackpad gives you the same feel as of Apple’s wireless keyboard — same design and angles as Apple’s wireless keyboard.

Magic TrackPad Pricing
It’s available now at $69, worth the price, provided you appreciate the value it adds.

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Latest gadgets: Cideko wireless media keyboard

While there isn’t yet any official info with regards to specs or pricing, it looks from the pictures a rather small keyboard set. What’s special is that the new Cideko wireless media keyboard also sports a mouse that you can operate in mid air, Cideko are quite good at making odd things happen.

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Starcraft II: Best-Selling Game of All Time After 12 Years, Could Hit 7 Million Sales

It's worth the wait, which even bring StarCraft II into limelight of ultimately most anticipated game after the real-time-strategy instant classic, Starcraft release in 1998, that's 12 years not counting expansion packs. As one of the notable games ever released it can also one of the best-selling games of all time and also marks one of the longest periods of time in between two franchise releases.

According to Fudzilla reports, industry sources claims that StarCraft II is expected to hit six to seven million of copies sales, that is $171 million in profit and a total of $350 million in sales. That's totally far from 9.5 million copies of the original StarCraft sold.

But we want to set an expectation that StarCraft II could be bigger than estimated seven million, considering it's one of the biggest game in the history of PC gaming. A proof in South Korea, it is played as a sport with stadiums full of fans coming out to watch professional gamers duke it out as Terran, Protoss or Zerg.

So what can we expect? Starcraft II has three chapters, the first of which "Wings of Liberty" will release July 27, then later on two more expansion packs which still no words on release dates with "Heart of the Swarm" and "Legacy of the Void".

The good news, technically, it won't need high-end rigs for StarCraft II to run smoothly, though it's much impressive while running heavy-duty gaming PCs. The advance game's graphic engine seemed to great job on handling multiple units onscreen at once, so things won't slow down when the action picks up.

You can grab your copy now at Amazon for $59.99, but be warned you need to hurry checking it out before it hits out of stock.

Check out also some of the screenshots from CNET:

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Samsung Pixon the 8.0 megapixel camera phone

Alright that day was just pre-announced in Russia, today Samsung has officially announced its Samsung Pixon 8 megapixel camera phone. The pixon has been claimed as the slimmest full-touch 8.0-megapixel camera phone. Measuring 13.8mm slim, and the 8.0-megapixel camera boasts 16x digital zoom, auto-focus, fast-shutter, face detection and geo-tagging. It will be available first in France in the mid-October and soon to most of European countries and Asian countries. Check out the specs after the break and more pictures.

Specifications:

• Network: GSM/GPRS/ EDGE Quad Band (850/ 900/1800/1900 MHz)
• HSDPA 7.2 Mbps (2100 MHz)
• Display: 3.2″ 240×400 262K WQVGA TFT LCD
• Camera: 8-megapixel camera with Auto focus
• Dual Power LED Flasho ASR (Advanced Shake Reduction) WDR (Wide Dynamic Range)
• Face Detection, Smile Shot, Face Link (face tagging), Geo-tagging, Auto Panorama Shot, Photo memo
• Photo Browser (Accelerometer Sensor, Tilt and flip, Sorting by Face/Time/Color/Folder)
• Online Widget (News, weather, stock, etc)
• Video recording & playing (MPEG4, WMV, DivX, XviD)
• 30 fps D1 (720 x 480) & 120 fps(QGVA) high quality video recording
• SRS (Surround Sound System) Virtual 5.1CH
• Music Player (MP3, AAC, e-AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA)
• FM Radio with RDS• DNSe (Digital Natural Sound engine)
• Bluetooth v.2.0 / USB 2.0 HS
• TV Out connection
• Internal Memory: 200MB External Memory: Micro SD
• Size: 107.9 x 54.6 x 13.8 mm, 121g
• Battery: 1000 mAh
• Talk time: 3h 40min
• Standby time: 290h

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Samsung Gloss U440 aka Cleo

Samsung has released its latest clamshell phone, the Gloss U440 also known as the Samsung Cleo in Canada. It is now available in the US thtrough U.S Cellular. This fashionable handset comes with 2.2-inch TFT internal display, an external display, a 1.3MP camera, a full QWERTY keyboard, a music player, easyedge Service, a microSDHC card slot and Stereo Bluetooth connectivity. Choose from charcoal and pink. No word on pricing. More pictures after the break.

 

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Bang & Olufsen Serenata Music Phone Official Released

The Samsung Bang & Olufsen Serenata music phone has been released today. Yes, the phone without number pads but a silver navigation wheel. It has a 4GB of storage for music, 2.4” LCD sensi-touch display and integrated HiFi speakers. I’m sure this gonna go pricey, price of an iPhone? More pictures after the jump.

 

 

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Samsung introduced two 12-megapixel ultrazoom

Samsung has unveiled the HZ35W and HZ30W compact superzooms. The new image-stabilized cameras increase their zoom ranges to 15x, starting at a very useful 24mm equivalent. The new image-stabilized cameras increase their zoom ranges to 15x, starting at a very useful 24mm equivalent. (A worlds first in a camera so slim) The HZ35W (WB650 in Europe) includes built-in GPS and a 3.0" AMOLED display while the HZ30W (WB600) has neither, instead featuring a 3.0" LCD. (A worlds first in a camera so slim) The HZ35W (WB650 in Europe) includes built-in GPS and a 3.0 "AMOLED display while the HZ30W (WB600) has neither, instead featuring a 3.0" LCD. Both cameras feature 12.2MP sensors and 720p HD video recording using H.264 compression. Both cameras feature 12.2MP sensors and 720p HD video recording using H.264 compression. They succeed the TL320 (WB) and HZ15W (WB). They succeed the TL320 (WB) and HZ15W (WB). More images after the break...

 

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