Opera stats – Top 10 most visited mobile sites and world’s top 20 handsets of 2011

December 21, 2011 |  by  |  News  |  No Comments

Opera Mini one of the most popular mobile browsers, with 144M unique users monthly worldwide. The company pulled the stats on the top 10 visited mobile sites in 2011, with the data collected spanning November 2010-2011. The world’s most popular websites on Opera Mini 2011 are: #1. google.com #2. facebook.com #3. youtube.com (up 1) #4. vkontakte.ru (down 1) #5. odnoklassniki.ru #6. yandex.ru #7. wikipedia.org (up 4) #8. my.opera.com #9. yahoo.com (down 2) #10. twitter.com (up 2) Check the image below for comparison between November 2010 and November 2011. The world’s top 20 sites In addition to this, Opera picked up on a few interesting mobile browsing trends for 2011: #1 Wikipedia, Blogger and Spaces

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Visual Hashing chrome and firefox extension which stops mistyping your passwords

December 20, 2011 |  by  |  Chrome, Extension, Firefox  |  No Comments

If you regularly mistype your password because it is too complex or you're in a rush, Visual Hashing (free, Firefox, Chrome) will turn your password into a colored hash to you can immediately see whether you've typed it correctly or not. After you install this add-on, you'll be able to see a four-color visual "hash" in password inputs all around the web. The hash will update as you type. You can think of the hash as being your password's "fingerprint." Over time, you'll remember the colors associated with each password, which will prevent you from mistyping your passwords. That way, if

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BrandMyMail – customizing your gmail messages using social media

December 19, 2011 |  by  |  Sites, Video  |  No Comments

Brainchild of Shay Rojansky, Limor Schweitzer and Roberto Varela BrandMyMail a new web-based platform for customizing your email messages using social media. The service is designed mainly for businesses, but can be used by anyone who wants to spice up their email with real-time content, including Twitter feeds, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, blog posts from WordPress and Tumblr, Quora posts, eBay listings and more. Embed signatures, blog posts, Facebook and Twitter updates, pictures, videos and more in your emails, send beautiful, rich emails for business or fun, directly from your Gmail account. BrandMyMail is a service that stands between you and

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Watch all of Wikipedia activity in real-time

December 18, 2011 |  by  |  Sites  |  No Comments

We know that Wikipedia gets additions, edits, and deletions all of the time, but without a visualization we just have to assume that’s the case. With Wikistream, we can see exactly what’s happening on Wikipedia in real-time. The background image on the page updates randomly, and sometimes the stream goes so fast it’s impossible to even see what’s going on. It uses node.js, socket.io and redis to sit in the wikimedia IRC chat rooms (where updates are published), and makes them available on the Web in realtime. You don’t really have an idea of how much content gets tweaked on Wikipedia

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YouHaveDownloaded.com – we know what you downloaded from BitTorrent

December 18, 2011 |  by  |  News, Sites  |  No Comments

Most people know that BitTorrent is far from anonymous, but seeing all your recent downloads listed on a public website is still quite a revelation. This is exactly what Youhavedownloaded.com does. The developers of the site want to make people aware of the public nature of BitTorrent, and are currently working on a more anonymous version of the leading file-sharing technology. The site Youhavedownloaded.com keeps a huge database of millions of IP addresses and the many million files downloaded from these addresses. The site claims that it track about 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloads. People who visit the

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How to add ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ to desktop context menu

December 18, 2011 |  by  |  Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

To safely disconnect a USB connected hardware is to use the ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ option which appears on the system tray whenever a USB storage drive is connected to the machine. Or to use software that lets you manage USB devices. Removing a device prematurely can lead to all sorts of data problems, including out right corruption and lost files! The tiny icon at the bottom of your screen on the system tray is enough but if your find its location inconvenient, you can add this option to the desktop context menu. How, well here we are - #1 Go to

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PocketCloud Explore for Android, enables file searching and viewing across multiple computers

December 16, 2011 |  by  |  android, Apps, Cloud  |  No Comments

A new product has hit the Android Market Wyse PocketCloud Explore mobile cloud app, the app allows users to search for and view files across their PCs and Macs, all without ever needing to surrender data to the cloud. The app also pioneers multi-device search, allowing users to easily access files anywhere on their device or remote computers. For example, if a user wanted to find the folder of photos from a combined business and vacation trip but could not remember whether it was on their home computer, work computer or office server, they could search all the devices at

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Microsoft ‘Tags’ phone-friendly barcodes adds support for QR codes and NFC

December 16, 2011 |  by  |  Microsoft  |  No Comments

"It's the hyperlink in the physical world" says a Microsoft PR man, giving the most succinct definition of what Redmond's Tag initiative is all about. With Microsoft Tag, though, the software maker relies on a cell phone camera rather than a dedicated gadget to scan the bar code. Redmond is looking to resurrect the idea behind the CueCat linking a bar code in printed material to all manner of online content. Microsoft has been working behind the scenes on proliferating the use of these multicolored Tags, which are designed to be snapped by nearby cameraphones. Once the pattern is recognized,

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