uMap: Show Your uTorrent Peers in Google Maps uMap is a new App that allows uTorrent users to display all the peers they are connected to on Google Maps. While the App provides a good visualization of global BitTorrent swarms, it also demonstrates that anonymity is hard to find for the regular torrenter.
Camera Software Lets You See Into the Past Computational rephotography is a fancy name for photos taken from the exact same viewpoint as an old photograph. Actually, that’s just rephotography. The “computational” part is when software helps out.
Download Droid X One Click Root Application One click jailbreak is not new to iPhone world, but the situation is not the same in Android community. Until now, we had to follow numerous steps to get the root access of Android phones, which were really difficult to remember and implement each time.
The 7 Coolest Wikipedia Plugins for Your Browser Wikipedia is one of the foremost sources of information online and there is no limit to how the site can be used for both research and for contributing information. Check out these great browser plugins to make it more useful.
5 Nseries apps to help you feel like a pro cyclist If you’ve been watching the Tour de France, you’re likely in awe of the cyclists' athleticism. We sure are, but rather than feel inadequate, we've discovered 5 ways your Nseries can help you feel like a yellow jersey winning cyclist too.
Foursquare Wants to Check-In to Search Engine Results Foursquare is in talks with search engine providers including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo about including data from the location-sharing service into their results. In an interview with the Telegraph, Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley says that trending data from Foursquare could enrich search results.
How your cell phone's autocorrect software works Autocorrect gets no respect. Every day, you dash off dozens of messages on your mobile phone, and most of the time, you do it wrong -- you mistype, misspell, or make some other kind of error that's bound to cause you great embarrassment. In the vast majority of cases, your phone steps in to save the day.
FaceTime Video Call Works on Airplane's In-Flight Wi-Fi While Aircell's Gogo in-flight WiFi service has been blocking VoIP calling services (Skype being the most obvious example) from day one, it's apparently not throwing the same brick wall in the face of Apple's new standard. Check out this great in flight video.
Google App Inventor: Now Anyone Can Create an Android App Google is launching a new tool on Monday that lets anyone create an app for Android phones. Google App Inventor claims to enable non-coders to develop complete, working Android apps by connecting a series of “blocks”. Google has been testing App Inventor in schools for a year, reports the NYTimes.
Run Android Apps on Your Windows PC You don't need an Android phone to run apps designed for the platform; with a few software downloads and a couple of tweaks, you can explore them on your PC.
Testing Suites Show Firefox 4 Not Quite Caught Up in Speed We ran our own Mac-based performance tests last week with Firefox's pre-beta release candidate, and found Firefox 4 an improvement, but not quite catching up to other browsers in raw speed.
SleepServer Takes Drowsy Computing to New Level of Laziness Researchers at U.C. San Diego have developed a new software program that uses lightweight virtual images of sleeping PCs to provide simple functionality while cutting energy use by 60 to 75 percent. The program, SleepServer, helps buildings with heavy IT-loads reach net-zero energy use so that these buildings effectively become carbon neutral.
4 Powerful Things You Can Do With An E-mail Writing and sending emails is a daily routine for most. You type up your message, add a file, plug in your contact's address, and hit send. But some are getting more creative with emails and are getting more things done. Believe it or not, you can do some pretty cool things with an e-mail that go beyond the usual message.
Digg v4 hands-on: A better Digg, but is it enough? Given a tumultuous past few months for the company, which has seen a leadership shake-up at its very highest levels, and what insiders have described as an "exodus" of key employees, version four is more than just a redesign--it's effectively a reboot of the Digg brand.
First Look at the Improved and Redesigned Firefox 4 Windows/Mac/Linux: Mozilla today released the first beta build of Firefox 4, complete with a new look, new features, and support for more HTML5 specs. Here's a quick screenshot tour of how it's shaping up:
Google Planning Android 3.0 and Music Service for Q4 (PhysOrg.com) -- Google Android 3.0 aka Gingerbread, will appear around mid-October with the first headsets shipping in November/December time frame, according to Mobile-review.com's Eldar Murtazin. This information was obtained from Russian blogger Stasys Bielinis in a June 30th podcast that was conducted ...
History Promotes Foursquare in New 30-Second TV Spot [VIDEO] Tomorrow HISTORY — otherwise known as the epoch-chronicling network, the History Channel — will starting promoting its Foursquare presence with a new spot. The ad in question puts Foursquare front-and-center and will be getting major airplay throughout daily programming.
Waze Taps More Social Elements into Geo to Go Along the Ride When it comes to mapping applications, Waze is probably the most fun one out there. It turns turn-by-turn navigation into a social experience, and a game (think: Pac-Man). It also happens to be free. And a few new features rolling out in the updated iPhone app today make it even more interesting.The biggest new feature is the use of geolocated
Mass. Official Aims To Shame Library Porn Viewers A city councilor in Massachusetts thinks he's come up with a way to stop people looking at pornography on public library computers - name them and shame them.