Cooliris - A complete 3D & Colourful Photo Browsing Experience !

So, if you have used Cooliris on Mozilla Firefox, you know how cool it is to browse photos with a 3D touch. If you haven't yet, you are missing something ! We all love to see photos and photos flowing, don't you ? With all your pictures on a infinite 3D wall, Cooliris take you to next level of 'Picture Browsing' !

Cooliris is a browser plugin which enables you to scroll through images and videos across web and even from your computer ! Forget page to page jump for viewing photos. Switch to Cooliris and browse photos with a 3D touch ! It works in rhythm with websites like Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Youtube etc. With Google Images Search integrated, searching images across web is more fun now ! Turn your complete display screen into an infinite 3D wall with maximize button.   

Cooliris is available on both Mozilla Firefox [as Add on] and Google Chrome [as Extension] now. Already 20+ million Firefox users are using Cooliris ! It is relatively new to Google Chrome, yet 200k+ users are enjoying this addictive extension.  Click here to add Cooliris to your Google Chrome or Click here to add Cooliris to your Firefox. If you are using Mac, Please click here to enjoy the new way of photo browsing :)

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Nokia 500 - New SmartPhone by Nokia

Nokia has started August by rolling out a new SmartPhone named Nokia 500. Featuring Symbian Anna Operating System and 1 GHz processor, Nokia 500 is a fast and fully functional smartphone available at affordable price !

Nokia 500 has a 3.2 inch full touch screen with a screen resolution of 640x360 pixels. It also features a 5 mega pixel camera for better quality photos. The inbuilt storage memory is 2 GB, expandable up to 32 GB through microSD card slot. With Symbian Anna OS, experience a refreshed user interface. It features split screen messaging, better browser, and pre installed Nokia Maps. Moreover, it is highly personalizable and social updates reach your home screen straight !

Nokia 500 allows you to access Internet radio from around the world. It offers pentaband radio coverage to keep world travellers in touch. 3G data can flow up to HSUPA speeds, that is about 6 Mbps ! As all smartphones do, Nokia 500 also has Bluetooth 2.1 and Wi-Fi b/g. Weighing just 93 grams, Nokia 500 is the lightest Symbian^3 phone ever produced !

One of the most demanding feature of Smartphones is its battery life. Despite of its fast processor, Nokia 500 provides a good battery life. Battery runs for 5-7 hours talk time and 450+ hours in standby mode. If you are a music junkie, don't worry, it also offers music playback up to 35 hours !

Forgot to mention, Nokia 500's back covers are changeable ! Currently it comes with three different coloured back covers in box. And soon purple, azure blue, pink, coral red, orange and dark silver will be added to the list, so that you can change colours as your mood swings !

Nokia 500 would cost around $200 excluding local taxes. But to hold this smartphone in your hand, you still have to wait for few more weeks, maybe another 5 ;)

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Apple's Mac now with OS X Lion & Thunderbolt I/O !

Apple has now introduced new MacBook Air and Mac mini with OS X Lion ! With over 250 new features, Apple is about to set a new trend. Another speciality about these new Mac computers is, they feature Thunderbolt I/O Technology!

It is really difficult to mention all those 250 features here, but it is even more difficult to choose only few features to mention here as every new feature is exceptional in their own way! Yet, I'm going to mention top seven features that I liked the most in OS X lion.

*  AirDrop - Simplest way to share files wirelessly with other Mac users around you with no network connection. Just drag and drop files to share. No setup or special configuration required. OS X Lion automatically discover Mac users around you. Files are encrypted using TLS and firewall protection helps you keep the connection secure. Your privacy is important, so you can turn off finder window easily or cancel transfer with a click.

*  FaceTime - Why just hear voice when you can see them in high definition ? Now you can make video calls to other Intel based Mac computers, iPad 2, iPhone 4, or even latest iPod Touch ! With built-in FaceTime HD camera, video clarity is just the best you can get than reality ! Automatic switching between landscape and portrait depending on the mobile device you are calling. You can turn off FaceTime at anytime.

*  FileVault 2 - Now entire drive of your Mac is encrypted by Filevault 2 which uses XTS-AES 128 encryption to keep your data secured ! All this happens at blazing speed and you can continue working as the drive gets encrypted. It also supports encryption of external USB and FireWire drives.

*  Multi-Touch Gestures - Your every finger gesture finds a meaning in your new Mac. Tap, Pinch, Swipe and do more. Fluid animations make you feel your gestures more responsive, as like your fingers are on screen!

*  Windows Migration - Migrate all information on your old windows PC to new Mac. All your contacts, emails accounts, photos in Picasa, are transfered  with no pain and put to work with appropriate applications.

*  Screen Sharing - This awesome feature lets you log in remotely to any account on your Mac without interuppting someone else using it under different log in ! Take your screen sharing applications full screen for better view and control.

*  Resume Apps or even System - Now when you launch apps, they will be resumed as you had left them., even the cursor position and highlighted text comes back ! Do the same with System when you restart and everything you had left comes live, so you can start working immediately. You can choose to clean start after restart for fresh desktop.

Now let me tell something about Thunderbolt I/O and Apple Thunderbolt Display.

Thunderbolt Technology lets you move data between device and your computer at unimaginable speed. With two channels of 10 Gbps throughput in both directions, data transfer takes place 20 times faster than USB 2.0 or 12 times faster than FireWire 800 ! You can connect upto six devices through a single compact port built right into your display !

With In-Plane Switching technology, Thunderbolt display looks brilliant from every angle ! Thunderbolt is not just about videos, it also delivers a supreme audio too. With built-in sub woofers, Games, Movies and Music comes live! Ambient Light Sensor adjust Thunderbolt display brightness intelligently. Choose the viewing angle from -5 degrees to 25 degrees that suits you the best.

Transform your new Mac notebook into a complete desktop workstation with Apple Thunderbolt Display! This 27 inch widescreen display with LED backlight technology gives you a panoramic viewing experience. This display comes with an astonishing resolution of 2560x1440 ! Built-in FaceTime HD camera and microphone let you make video calls by connecting your new Mac, open or closed ! Or just take few snapshots using Photo Booth.

If you have purchased Mac after 6th June 2011 without OS X Lion, you can upgrade to Lion for free ! See Apple website if your Mac qualify for the free upgrade or not. And note that this offer ends on 19th of August 2011. So hurry up !!    

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Electro Man - Indian super human immune to electricity !

Some People have ability to do more than what a normal human being can do. As normal human beings, we are limited in what we can do, but there are some people, who can do extra-ordinary things, which always put us in wonder. Such people are rightly called as 'Super Humans' and here is a man whose body is immune to high voltage electricity !

While thousands of people around the world die because of electric accidents, Raj Mohan Nair, an Indian super human, can withstand large currents of electricity with no harms caused ! Normally, a fraction of one ampere could kill an average man, but Raj Mohan can conduct 10 ampere of current through his body !

His body is said to be ten times more resistant to electricity than normal human being's body. There is a story behind how he found out this super power inside him. When his mom died, Raj Mohan broke down and decided to die. So he went to hold a high tension wire of an active transformer. On holding the live wire, nothing happened in real! He himself was shocked by this incident and came to know about his resistance power.

He wraps exposed wires around his body, and electricity flows from main plug, through his body, to electric bulbs, iron plates, mixer grinders etc, but he suffer no electric shock. 

This kind of things happen rarely and not everyone can do this. Raj Mohan's body has a high resistance power which, no normal human posses. So please don't try this at home, 'cause your Life is precious :) 

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Smart Search - Awesome Feature of Google Chrome!

There are many awesome features that makes Google Chrome the best web browser available. But one feature that makes Google Chrome a smart browser is its 'Smart Search' ! Wonder what is so smart about search feature of Chrome ? It is not just about searching from Address bar, but searching your favorite site from Address bar !

This is a less known feature of Chrome and only a few users know about this cool and awesome feature. I called it 'Smart Search' because your Chrome browser learn what you teach ! Wonder how ? Just go to your favorite website and search for anything. That's it, next time you don't need to visit that website for searching purpose, Chrome lets you search directly from its Address bar !

Let me explain this clearly with an example. Think you have to search for a linkin park music video on youtube. Visit youtube.com and search for the desired video, say 'Linkin park Crawling'. Next time when you want to search for videos on youtube, just type youtube.com [if you have enabled instant search, no need to type youtube.com completely] in Address bar, press tab or space, enter your search query, and press Enter. That's all, search results for linkin park videos on youtube are in front of your eyes !

This works on almost all websites like, Facebook, Flickr, Amazon, Bing, Google, Wikipedia, ebay, etc ! So, whether you want to search for a facebook friend, flickr photo, stuff on Amazon, or music on last.fm, search it all from your Address bar! All you have to do is just search directly from the website for the first time. From the very next time, Google Chrome takes care of everything.

Isn't that Smart about Google Chrome ? ;)

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Use tinyURL's Preview Feature to secure your Twitter Account !

Link shortners are now used extensively on web. They are good for websites with character limit, like Twitter. They are even useful outside twitter. But spammers and hackers are using this useful tool to trap novice users on social networking sites.

As I have seen, TinyURL is the most used link shortner by spammers and hackers. There is a strong reason for this! Have you ever noticed that, link shortend using TinyURL don't expand to original site on hovering your mouse cursor on it, but most of the other services do ?!

Yes, TinyURLs won't expand to original site on hovering mouse cursor, which helps hackers to hide the evil URLs from users ! Without knowledge, if you click on those links, you are inviting danger! After getting infamous for this cause, TinyURL has now taken steps to avoid this.

Now you can preview URL (or let us call it Web Address) of original site before going to that site. All you have to do is, go to tinyurl.com, click on 'preview feature' [found on left sidebar of the homepage] and click on 'click here to enable previews'. That's it, now, everytime when you click on a TinyURL link, you will be taken to TinyURL website and original link will be revealed. First of all, your browser cookies must be enabled.

Even though this doesn't secure your twitter account completely, it allows you to decide whether to go to the original website or not, thus reducing possible traps :)

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Booming Internet !

With the rapid development in Technology, Internet is becoming a basic need for human life. Internet has immensely helped Globalization. Over a decade, Internet users around the world have increased by nearly 5 times ! There are around 2.1 billion Internet users in the World by the end of may, 2011.

So here is a list of top 10 countries with highest number of Internet users*:

1.  People's Republic of China                               477,000,000

2.  United States of America                                245,000,000

3.  India                                                           100,001,000

4.  Japan                                                           99,144,000

5.  Brazil                                                            75,944,000

6.  Germany                                                       65,124,000

7.  Russia                                                           59,700,000

8.  United Kingdom                                              51,422,000

9.  France                                                          45,262,000

10. Nigeria                                                         43,982,000


Here is a list of top 10 countries with high penetration [% of  Population] of Internet** :


1.  Netherlands                                                  88.3%

2.  United Kingdom                                            82.0%

3.  South Korea                                                  80.9%

4.  Germany                                                      79.9%

5.  Canada                                                        79.2%

6.  Japan                                                          78.4%

7.  Australia                                                      78.3%

8.  United States of America                                78.2%

9.  Taiwan                                                        70.0%

10. France                                                        69.5%

Source: InternetWorldStats
* List is based on the statistics provided by InternetWorldStats for the first quarter of 2011.
** Only Countries with more than 10 million users are considered for the list.

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