No More Facebook Contact Sync for Nexus S Users
Published By Shadowon On Friday, February 25th 2011. Under Google, Mobile, Social Networks Tags: Android, Contacts, Facebook, Gingerbread, Google, Nexus One, Nexus S, Sync
Google said many weeks ago, that Gingerbread would be rolled out via OTA (Over The Air) updates, within weeks. A few days ago, the official Nexus Twitter channel announced that Android 2.3.3 is finally being rolled out to users of Nexus One and Nexus S. However, it will probably take ... Continue Reading
Angry Birds Coming in Full Version for Android
Published By Shadowon On Thursday, February 24th 2011. Under Gaming, Google, Mobile, Videos Tags: Android, Angry Birds, Rovio Mobile
Rovi o Mobile, the developer of Angry Birds, says in a Twitter message that they will release a paid version of Angry Birds for Android, and that the full game probably will be available by the end of next month.
In October last year, Rovio released the first version of the ... Continue Reading
Apple to Reveal iPad 2 at Next Weeks Event?
Published By Shadowon On Thursday, February 24th 2011. Under Mac/Apple Tags: Apple, Event, iPad, iPad 2, iPhone, San Francisco
Apple has announced that an event will be held March 2, and the image sent with the invitation clearly shows that it is about the iPad. And what else could it be than a showcase of the long rumored iPad 2?
According to rumors it will be equipped with better hardware, ... Continue Reading
This is Battlefield 3 (Video)
Published By Shadowon On Thursday, February 24th 2011. Under Gaming, Videos Tags: Battlefield 3, DICE, Electronic Arts, Frostbite Engine, Pre-order, Trailer, Video
DICE and EA has released the first trailer (see below) that includes actual gameplay in Battlefield 3. It's still not a lot to judge by, just a few short clips from selected scenes, but there is little doubt that it looks promising.
Pre-order Battlefield 3 to receive the digital expansion pack ... Continue Reading
Earth 2050: Population 9 Billion
Published By Shadowon On Thursday, February 24th 2011. Under Truthseeker Tags: Agence France-Presse, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Population growth, World population, World Wide Fund for Nature
The earth's population could top nine billion by 2050, leading to an 'unrecognisable' world as people compete for scarcer resources a U.S. science conference heard yesterday.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) heard how the world's population's will increase rapidly in poorer countries resulting in the need to ... Continue Reading
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Available for Download
Published By Shadowon On Wednesday, February 23rd 2011. Under Downloads, Microsoft Tags: Microsoft, Service Pack 1, SP1, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Update
As promised, Microsoft yesterday released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7. Microsoft says that the Service Pack does not contain any new features but only bugfixes and some performance improvements. Some of the most notable improvements in Windows 7 SP1 is:
An update that fixes a problem that causes connected ... Continue Reading
No Release Candidate of Ubuntu 11.04
Published By Shadowon On Wednesday, February 23rd 2011. Under Linux Tags: Beta 2, Canonical, Easter, Kate Stewart, Linux, RC, Release Candidate, Ubuntu
The Ubuntu release team has announced that there has been some minor changes in the release schedule for version 11.04 (Natty Narwhal). According to the original plan, the final release was supposed to be preceded by a Release Candidate on April 21. This is no longer the case.
The Release Candidate ... Continue Reading
Facebook Stress Linked to Number of “Friends”
Published By Shadowon On Wednesday, February 23rd 2011. Under Social Networks Tags: Anxiety, Edinburgh Napier University, Facebook, Friends, Social Networks, Stress
The more Facebook "friends" you have, the more likely you are to feel stressed out by the social networking site, according to a new study by Scottish researchers.
Psychologists from Edinburgh Napier University quizzed around 200 students on their use of the phenomenally successful site, which now has more than 500 ... Continue Reading
Major Update of Google Docs
Published By Shadowon On Wednesday, February 23rd 2011. Under Google Tags: File Types, Formats, Google Docs, LibreOffice, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice
Last friday, Google updated their Office suite, Google Docs, with the support of a wide range of formats and file types. Now you can read documents in the following additional formats:
Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX)
Apple Pages (.PAGES)
Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)
Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
Scalable Vector Graphics ... Continue Reading
Firefox 4 Delayed… Again…
Published By Shadowon On Wednesday, February 23rd 2011. Under Browsers Tags: Google, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox 4
Last Thursday, Christian Legnitto announced that the next test version of Firefox 4 , beta 12, will not be shipped for several days. In a message to a Firefox development mailing list, he says that there are still too many bugs that needs to be fixed first.
Mozilla first planned to ... Continue Reading
Facebook Messenger for iPhone – Call via Facebook
Published By Shadowon On Wednesday, February 23rd 2011. Under Downloads, Mac/Apple, Mobile, Videos Tags: App, Apple, Facebook, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Voice Chat, VoIP
Facebook Messenger is a dedicated chat client for Facebook, but in addition to text chat it also allows you to call your friends for free. At the moment it is available for download from the App Store for $2.99, but it may not be long before Facebook shuts it down.
Main ... Continue Reading
Fedora and openSUSE Stops Unity Project (Updated Feb 22)
Published By Shadowon On Thursday, February 17th 2011. Under Linux Tags: Adam Williamson, Canonical, Fedora, Nelson Marques, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Unity
Unity is a desktop and netbook environment developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Unity will be the desktop environment you will use in Ubuntu 11.04 if you use the default installation.
Fedora and openSUSE, two competing Linux distributions, has spent a lot of time and effort trying to get Unity ... Continue Reading
























