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 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
Read MoreFinding a job is difficult, Identified a new service that wants to help you build a professional network on the back of the social network you already use: Facebook. The recently launched professional search service uses your Facebook information to build a professional profile for you, give you a numerical score which can be improved by providing more data, connect you with businesses that your friends and personal network already work for.In simple words technology for ranking people on a scale of 0 to 100, aiming to bring better results for job seekers and recruiters. What Facebook has built for
Read MoreA time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of
Read MoreWhatWasThere (free, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) becomes a portable portal into the past. How does it work, well you dig up ancient photos (few generations prior, or few decades ago) scan them in, photos can be uploaded through the WhatWasHere website or via an iPhone app, and tag them to their rightful place on Google Maps with two straightforward tags to provide context: Location and Year. Thereafter visit the WhatWasHere app the app will detect where you are and show you any historic photographs that were captured nearby plotted on a map. Moreover switch into Camera view for an augmented
Read MoreSomeone who enjoys shopping online — there’s a decent chance that you have items sitting in shopping carts at the websites of half-a-dozen retailers at any given time. It can be difficult to remember what and where you shopped, and many things you were about to buy are forgotten by the time the items in your cart have expired. Founded by Kimberly Skelton and Carla Holtze Have to Have - The startup which offers a bookmarklet tool (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari) that lets you keep track of everything you’re shopping for on the web. When you’ve arrived at
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