Archive for November, 2009

My Top iPhone Productivity Applications

I’ve had my iPhone 3GS now for nearly 6 months and although I miss the qwerty keyboard a bit from my Sony Ericsson X1, I’m very happy with it.  What I love about my iPhone is that when I’m away from my home PC I’m still able to perform most functions and keep my little [...]

The Dirtiest Websites of 2009

Symantec have compiled a list of the dirtiest websites of the year, virus and trojan-wise anyway and, no, they’re not sharing the addresses.  There are some interesting things that have come out of this however and when the UK’s GetSafeOnline.org chaps got in touch with me about this, I thought you might want to know [...]

Adobe Photoshop CS5 To Take Creativity To Unforeseen Levels

Adobe Photo-shop is considered as the de-facto image editing tool by professional imaging artists and amateur photographers alike since its inception in the 1990s. Over the years many rival applications appeared in the horizon but none of them could overthrow Adobe’s Reigning image editor from the numero uno spot. With each version Adobe has implemented [...]

Tips On Avoiding Phishing Attacks

Sometimes phishing attacks are easy to spot, especially the ones from an African dictator who wants to send you millions and will pay you a fee for doing so.  However, many others are harder to spot particular ones that seem to come from ebay or paypal trying to get you to give over your paypal [...]

Firefox Introduces Better Tab Handling And A Lot Of Innovative Features In 3.6 Beta

The launch and enormous success of Google Chrome has prompted browser makers to revamp their existing products to retain their user base. Microsoft has given the IE8 a good makeover and Apple has also redesigned Safari from ground up. Firefox don’t want to be left behind, and the newly released 3.6 Beta of Firefox includes an [...]

Beta Testing Orange’s New ON Service

I’ve been selected to be part of the private beta for a new mobile application service from Orange called ON. I’m not allowed to say much about the ON service until it launches on the 9th December as I’ve signed an NDA, but the service definitely looks exciting and solves a lot of problems that [...]

The Diversifying Android

Alright, so now that the Chrome OS is finally out, we can see how different they are. We also are reading about the many ways it can come together with Android. But while that might happen in the near future, Android is embarking on a journey where most mobile platforms have not gone before.

Android has [...]

Nokia To Shift To Maemo Full Time?

No, there is no evidence that suggests this and Symbian is far too large to drop altogether. Still, there are several factors that might push Maemo into the future and Symbian into the past.

First of all, it is true that Nokia has admitted that they want to make their high-end Maemo-only in the coming years. [...]

Batman: Arkham Asylum, Comicbook Combat Tale Presented With Awesome Visuals

A lot of kids love reading Batman Comics along with the adult fans but apart from the few Batman movies they did not have much chance of seeing their hero in action earlier. However, the newly released PC game named Batman: Arkham Asylum, gives them a chance to play the role of their idol in [...]

Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood, Ubisoft’s New Offering For The FPS Lovers

Ubisoft’s FPS offering for hardcore game aficionados, Call of Juarez proved to be extremely popular when it was released almost two years back. This year the company has released prequel to the original game titled ‘Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood’. It is a FPS with a gripping story-line and stunning graphics that makes the [...]

ReTweet This! Twitter To Charge For Reading Tweets

This is something that might come as a shock to general twitter users — Twitter Japan has declared that they will be introducing paid account in twitter. No, you don’t have to pay to use an account but you can choose to charge your followers.

Yes, in something that seems slightly counter-intuitive at the beginning but [...]

Feeling Zapped? Raise the Shields

Connectedinternet is all about gadgets. If you’re reading this, you probably have at least 3 on you right now. Your laptop, your iphone and your bluetooth enabled doodad. It’s great to have gadgets. These simplify life, enhance connectivity and just plain make things more fun. But did you know they can also wreak havoc on [...]

Apple Issues Guidelines For Users Of Its Newly Launched 27 Inch iMac

Owners of the newly launched 27 inch iMac are probably aware that the model can be used as a display for their other computers and gadgets like DVD players. While the procedure is not actually complicated and it can be done by connecting another laptop or desktop computer to the new iMac’s Mini DisplayPort, one [...]

We’re Giving Away Over $7K In Prizes Next Month!

I’ve always wanted to do a big prize giveaway and this year over on Windows 7 that I run with Martin from gHacks we will be giving away $300 in prizes everyday between Dec 1st and Dec 24th – that’s over $7k in total in prizes!!
Some of the great offers we already have confirmed are:

$300 [...]

GammaTech: Roughness In a Note

Went rock climbing with your notebook in tow? Chances are it didn’t survive. But don’t fret. GammaTech’s Durabook D14RM is the solution for craggy explorers of craggy outdoors. It’s a portable note clad in black magnesium-alloy case and sporting black rubberized corners. It not only looks tougher than your average bouncer, it will survive [...]

Dear Santa: My Holiday 2009 Wish List

I’ve been Christmas shopping since the middle of October. The upside of that is that I am almost finished. The downside is that I keep finding cool new stuff or really great deals and I am spending more on Christmas than I really should. That’s ok, a guy could have worse problems than spending too [...]

Intel’s Six Core Gulftown Chip Promises Major Performance Boost

Over the past few years the leading computer processor makers, namely AMD and Intel have been engaged in the battle of producing more powerful and efficient multi core CPUs. Both companies have met with mixed results and efforts are on to produce more power efficient and performance oriented products. The first generation Pentium D CPUs [...]