Complete Guide to Maximizing Your Android Phone’s Battery Life

You’re no doubt reading this article because you’ve got a shiny new Android phone, but there’s just one problem: you’re so addicted that the battery runs out on a daily basis. Instead of putting the phone down, let’s maximize the battery life.

75 Awesome Free and Premium Portfolio Themes for WordPress

Showcasing creative work online is very important for designers, photographers etc. to build reputation and attract new customers. It turns out that WordPress even though it initially was designed for bloggers have become the number one and most popular platform for building portfolio sites. The ease of use of WordPress, the high number of excellent portfolio style themes and plugins available for building a professional portfolio web site makes the decision easy.

Design for Mobile: The One Billion Dollar iPhone App

In her talk on Designing a billion dollar user experience at Design for Mobile in Chicago IL, Karlyn Neel talked about eBay's success in mobile e-commerce and provided a number of tips for creating great transactional mobile applications.

Read more at LukeW.com

Designing the iPhone User Experience

Any company that claims their product will change my life is greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism. Sure, several purchases have had a significant impact on my life over the years, but only a few were life-changing. My first car gave me the freedom to explore my suburban community without my parents knowing my every move.

The Importance Of Wireframes In Web Design And 9 Tools To Create Wireframes

Designing wireframes the right way the first time costs no more than doing it the wrong way. Creating a paper prototype adds no cost either; simply print out the wireframe diagrams for the pages a visitor will use to complete the tasks most closely related to achieving his goals and meeting the site's business objectives.

Survey: Android's Future Bright, iOS Interest Still Strong

Makers of mobile apps think that Google's Android operating system has a better long-term outlook than Apple's iOS, according to a survey conducted by Appcelerator of the developers that use its app-building tools. But the news isn't exactly grim for Apple, as developers polled by Appcelerator continue to be heavily interested in creating apps that run on the iPhone and iPad.

Sony Ericsson Preps Micro Display for Android

Sony Ericsson has unveiled a remote control with a 1.3-inch screen that will allow Android smartphone users to view Facebook and Twitter updates and control their phone's music player.

With Kindle App, Amazon Buys the Blackberry PlayBook Hype

Amazon is picking winners and losers in smartphones and tablets, and it's already deemed the Blackberry PlayBook a winner by promising a Kindle app.

Google Labs: 5 New Tools to Try Now

Google Labs--the area Google reserves for applications and tools not yet ready for primetime--is constantly dishing up new features for all of us to try.

The BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet: 10 Things You Need to Know

The BlackBerry tablet is here, and it looks astoundingly nice. Nicer than anybody expected it to be. Here's what you need to know about the PlayBook, in 10 easy steps.

BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Targets Business Users

RIM confirmed rumors of a tablet by introducing the BlackBerry PlayBook, a powerful 7-inch device that will offer a dual-core 1GHz processor, full HTML 5 browser, Flash 10.1 with video acceleration, 1 GB of RAM, 1080p playback with HDMI output and two HD cameras, all built atop the QNX operating system.

Infographic: History of classroom technology, from the writing slate to the electronic tablet

Check out an interesting infographic at NYTimes that lets you explore how classroom technology has evolved over a period of time in history.

RIM Unveils PlayBook Tablet as BlackBerry Maker Chases IPad

Research In Motion Ltd., whose BlackBerry smartphone rose to prominence on Wall Street, is now targeting business customers with a tablet computer to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPad and add a fresh source of revenue.

How To: Solve A Rubik’s Cube In Under A Minutes

Rubik’s Cubes are a huge deal in my house. My son and I each have several and we work on them on and off all the time. I’ve never before been able to completely solve a Rubik’s cube and since I don’t give up when I can’t figure something out… well… let’s just say I’ve been working on my original Rubik’s Cube for years and years.

App Inventor for Android

You can build many different types of apps with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like MoleMash or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.

Ready to ditch paper? Here are the 10 best e-readers

According to Amazon, ebook sales have already surpassed hardback book sales and will surpass paperbacks sometime in 2011, and then both hardback and paperback combined sometime shortly thereafter. That’s a much faster timeline than most of us expected and it speaks to how fast the e-reader market is accelerating.

Facebook, Twitter ask consumers to protect themeselves

Want to socialize and bank safely online? Be prepared to be your own best bodyguard.

With self-replicating spamming worms proliferating on popular social sites, officials at Facebook and Twitter say they've come to rely heavily on users to help them police postings. This follows a trend set by the banking industry, which now relies heavily on customers to keep themselves safe while banking online.

Five Best Presentation Creation Tools

Gone are the days when presentations are limited to poster boards you can haul into the conference room, and you've also got more options than the de facto office suite provides. Here's a look five of the most popular presentation creation tools.

8 Things You Didn't Know About Mark Zuckerburg

We all know the story of the nerdy billionaire who allegedly screwed over his real friends on the way to making about 500 million new “friends.” But The New Yorker has recently published an incredibly in depth article on Mark Zuckerberg just before movie producer Kevin Spacey can tell his side of the story.

Here are 8 Things You Didn’t Know About Mark Zuckerburg…"

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15 Reasons To Love Twitter!

When I started to use Twitter in 2008, it was not as popular as it is today. Just imagine in my country it is now no. 5 in terms of popularity. Back in 2008, no one really knew that it would grow so big. People thought that it was just a fad that would soon die down. Now, in 2010, it is still growing and at a much faster rate.

Facebook Now Worth More Than Dell, eBay, Yahoo or Starbucks... on Paper

Did you know that Facebook is worth more than Research in Motion, Starbucks, Dell, Yahoo, Adobe, Intuit or eBay? That’s according to a wide variety of investments and valuations that have shot Facebook’s stock into the stratosphere.

Facebook Gives A Post-Mortem On Worst Downtime In Four Years

Facebook’s had a rough day. In fact, it’s had its worst day performance-wise in over four years, with 2.5 hours of downtime that resulted in countless complaints from users. Perhaps more important, it also had a bevy API problems, and its Like buttons — which are embedded on over 350,000 sites across the web — were apparently busted too. When Facebook goes down, it’s a big deal.

Apple readying production of smaller, lighter 11.6-inch MacBook Airs?

Apple is destined to revamp its super-slim, but soft-selling MacBook Air as early as this fall, wrapping the new model around an LED-backlit display that's nearly two inches smaller than the model available today, according to sources in Taiwan.

5 Ways to Use Google Voice for Your Business

Google Voice, which the search giant introduced in 2009, recently became freely available to everyone in the United States. Even though the service hasn't dramatically changed since then, it's still very useful to those that run small businesses, because it can give them an extra edge and make professional life much easier -- at least, it can if you know how to use it.

10 Best Features of iPhone

iPhone has several best features present in it that can make the users happy. iPhone is certainly not the first touch screen phone or the first smart phone in the market. But it is one of the best executed ones up to date. It has been a revolutionary phone having attracted users from all parts of the world. A lot of new features have been added in the latest version of the iPhone, which is the iPhone 4. Out of the ‘many’ features present in the iPhone, let us see about a few of them in this post.

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AIType: Fixes Your English As You Type, Helps You Write Gooder

Writing is hard. Just ask anyone. Stringing words together, spelling them right, and ensuring you follow rules of grammar and propriety are the blue-collar labor of the intelligentsia. So say you want to send an email to someone who speaks a language other than the one you speak? Do you go out and spend years to learn that language and then report back, ready to splatter out idiom and tricks of usage like an old pro? Absolutely not. You use something like AIType.

Surprising Facts About Online Education

Online education is quickly becoming a prominent and important piece of the education pie in the United States. The explosive growth of this segment of education, even during a recession, is nothing short of spectacular. It is becoming clear that there is a fundamental shift in how Americans are being educated after high school. The flexibility, lower cost, and variety of choice are just some of the reasons that online education is growing at its current pace. The following infographic will give you a better idea of the scope, impact, and future of online education. Enjoy! Read more at DegreeScout.com

Side-by-side: Flip UltraHD vs. iPhone 4: Video

Is the iPhone 4 a Flip killer? That’s a question we’ve been asking ourselves ever since Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the latest iPhone generation with HD recoding capability in June. Well, it looks like Cisco’s line of consumer camcorders isn’t going down without a fight. The company has just released an update to its device lineup, and its top-of-the-line camcorders now feature 720p HD recording at 60 frames per second, as well as image stabilization. The iPhone 4 on the other hand allows recording of 720p at 30 fps.

Technology Review India: Why Google Went Instant

Last week, Google rolled out a major change to its search engine's interface. American users, and some users in other countries, began to see the results for their Google searches appear onscreen while they were still typing. For example, if you type 'b' into Google's search box, you might see the results of a Google search for 'bank of america' appear below the box, along with a sponsored link from Bank of America. Keep typing until you have 'bat' in the search box, and the results could suddenly change to match a search for 'batman.'

Facebook Has Quietly Implemented A De-Facto Follow Feature

A few days ago, Facebook made what seemed to be a small tweak to its Friend Requests area. As first noted by Inside Facebook, the social network changed the way friend rejections work. Previously, you could either Confirm or Ignore (deny) a request. Now, Ignore has been replaced by “Not Now”. This new option takes some of the pressure of you having to reject people as it instead moves them into a state of limbo, where they’re neither accepted nor rejected. But it actually does a lot more as well.

paper.li – read Twitter as a daily newspaper

paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag.

A great way to stay on top of all that is shared by the people you follow - even if you are not connected 24/7 !

Checkout my paper at http://paper.li/manojwadhwa

Google Fights Censorship with Transparency Report

Google has launched Transparency Report, a set of tools including an interactive map that shows which governments have asked for information about users or requested Google to censor or take down content in a certain time frame.

Facebook Launches ‘Check-In’ Service to Connect People in Real Space

Facebook announced a new Places product Wednesday evening that will let users check-in from a mobile device, see who is around them, let friends or the public know where they are, and find interesting, new places.

Nokia E5 Review | Mobile Phones | CNET UK

Like the cheaper C3, the Nokia E5 is an attempt by the Finnish veteran company to encroach on BlackBerry's territory.

Apple Talk: Why Steve Jobs made a Flash U-turn | Page 2 | CIO Insights | silicon.com

COMMENT ...have been deployed to the marketplace, there have been over 6.5 billion downloads and Apple has handed out over $1bn to developers in app revenues. Apple has also shifted a fair few iOS devices.

Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game

Microsoft today released the first beta of Internet Explorer 9. Coming after four developer-oriented preview releases, the new browser brings a streamlined user interface and a core that is more standards-compliant—and orders of magnitude faster—than any previous version of Internet Explorer.

Flowella: Easily Create Design & Interaction Prototypes

Flowella is an easy to use tool that enables designers and developers to create design and interaction prototypes — without writing a line of code.

Get Company Intelligence from Workstreamer : Business Collaboration News

We’re all being inundated with information. Tools that help us filter that mass of data can be useful, and those that filter well can become indispensable. Workstreamer, an app currently in public beta, is a “social CRM” tool that can help you keep track of significant news and social media mentions of your customers, prospects, suppliers, and vendors, as well as your own company. Unlike Gist, a tool that we’ve blogged about in the past, Workstreamer focuses on providing information about companies, not individuals.

Useful Google Bookmarklets

I've always been a fan of bookmarklets, small pieces of JavaScript code saved as bookmarks in your browser. Often they provide features only available if you install a plug-in and they're pretty easy to backup.

Apple lifts restrictions on Flash development for iPhone

Months after rewriting its iPhone developer agreement to effectively ban cross-compiler translation tools like Adobe Systems' Flash Professional CS5, Apple said it (NASDAQ:AAPL) will ease restrictions on the creation of iOS-based applications. 'We are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code,'

The HTML5 test - How well does your browser support HTML5?

The HTML5 test score is only an indication of how well your browser supports the upcoming HTML5 standard and related specifications. It does not try to test all of the new features offered by HTML5, nor does it try to test the functionality of each feature it does detect.

Dell's Atom-powered Inspiron Duo: 10-inch netbook / tablet hybrid

Boy, did Dell show just off the craziest device on stage at Intel's IDF 2010 day two keynote. What started as a tablet device converted to a netbook just by opening to the keyboard and literally swiveling the screen from within the frame.

Reserve Your About.me Page

About.me is a new place where you can create splash-page style one-page websites for your online profile. Your about.me page can have your picture, your bio and links to your various social profiles and your websites /blogs.

Embedr: Create Video Playlists and Embed Them Anywhere

Embedr is a free service that lets anyone create a custom playlist of videos from the top video sites on the web. Now start building that playlist of gameplay videos from the IGN top 100 games that are spread throughout YouTube, MySpace, Vimeo, DailyMotion and more.

Top 5 OSes to Leverage Cloud Computing

Due to cloud computing, anyone can perform routine computer tasks anywhere, at any time, without installing applications. All users need a computer with operating system installed, connection to the internet and a compatible web browser; available at just about any coffee shop, library or other public places.