To celebrate Social Media Week in September 2011, Nokia created one of the world's first Foursquare-enabled vending machines. Nokia at Skypark in Glasgow for the city's Social Media Week with the help of 1000heads dubbed the "Nokia Gift Machine," it allows event attendees to obtain one free gift per day including candy, Nokia accessories and even smartphones for a lucky few. All it takes is a quick FourSquare check-in with #NokiaConnects followed by a share over Twitter, and a goodie-filled tube will be yours for the taking. It'll only be in place until the 23rd The instruction manual is quite simple: 1.
Read MoreAt times you might need a tool which lets you transfer your installed programs from one Windows PC to another Windows PC. PickMeApp (free, Windows) is a portable tool that lets to capture and transfer installed programs and its settings from one Windows-based computer to another Windows computer. You can use it while upgrading from an earlier Windows version like Windows Vista or Windows XP to Windows 7, for repairing or backing up programs. - Transfer all your programs from one PC to another - Use PickMeApp to Backup and Restore your PC - Use PickMeApp as a software management tool - Run PickMeApp
Read MoreWhich county has the world’s fastest Internet service? Well it is about South Korea. That’s according to a new study from content delivery service Pando Networks that sampled some 35 petabytes of data from 27 million downloads and 224 countries. The service found that South Korea is top in the world in terms of download speed, averaging 17.62 Mbps.
Amazon addicts and people who obsessively track packages may know this already, but pasting the tracking number into Google and hitting search will bring up a link to go directly to the package status page on whichever carrier has the package, saving you the hassle of figuring out which carrier has your package, visiting their site, and then pasting in the tracking number there. This trick works for USPS, UPS, FedEx, On-Trac, and a few other national carriers, but if your package is in the hands of a small company or a courier service, your mileage may vary. It's particularly useful
Read MoreShape the Future - Today at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, Microsoft Corp. launched a three-year program to ensure that 1 million students from low-income families in the United States receive reduced-cost software and hardware and discounted broadband Internet service. The commitment is focused on filling the gap in home access to technology and helps give students in digitally excluded homes the skills training they need to compete in the global market, increase employment opportunities and contribute to their community's economic recovery. Today's announcement extends Microsoft's global Shape the Future program, which has provided technology and access to over 10
Read MoreFacebook have redesiged its home page’s news feed to combine the Top News and Most Recent feeds. Rather than having to choose between tabs, users will automatically see Top News content first if highly relevant updates have been published since they last checked Facebook, and see Most Recent content first if they’ve been visiting frequently. A Ticker in the right sidebar will display a firehose of real-time updates that users can click to expand and engage with. When users return to the redesigned home page, they won’t simply see the same feed they were last viewing. Instead, they’ll see a Top
Read MoreParkbud ($1.99, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) is a high-end, immersive Car Locator and Parking App that combines functionality with thoughtfully engineered sound, animation & design. It'll help you find spots, refill the meter, remember where you left your car, and more. Parkbud will set off an alarm when it’s time to add money to your meter, give you instant walking directions back to your spot, and it can also help you find parking with suggestions and nearby garages. If you need a visual reminder of where your car is you can take a picture. You can also put a note in
Read MoreOur phone has become such a fixture in our day-to-day activities that we can sometimes feel naked without it. You must have heard stories from users who have lost their phones everywhere – from at a bar, in a mall, and even in a taxi cab in a foreign country! Whether you can’t seem to find it in your purse or you forgot it at home when you left for work, being without your phone can be a stressful experience. If you have ever lost your phone or had it stolen, you know how horrible it feels. You not
Read MoreAs reported by TechCrunch Facebook is going to launch something big at its developer conference f8 this week. Facebook is planning for ways to surface personal content better. Facebook will introduce new buttons on the wall that will begin introducing some granularity to the “Like” concept. These new buttons are “Read,” “Listened,” “Watched.” The network will also soon launch new social commerce buttons like “Want” following the introductions of the aforementioned buttons. Facebook users will be able to click Read, Listened, Watched on content in their news feed. - Read: Facebook is assumed to be partnering with large online publishers
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