Obama vs. Zuckerberg: Who Won the Battle of the Buzz?

Internet users had a prime chunk of live programming to tune into online Wednesday afternoon.

At 1 p.m. ET, Facebook aired a live stream of a product announcement from Mark Zuckerberg. At 2 p.m. ET, U.S. President Barack Obama took questions from the Twittersphere during Twitter’s first ever live-streamed town hall.
So when one of the world’s most powerful companies and one of the world’s most powerful countries hold back-to-back Internet events, who gets more attention?
By several web measurements, Zuckerberg out-buzzed Obama yesterday afternoon.

Facebook(Skype) Video Chat vs. Google+ Hangouts

Last week, Google announced Google+, which includes a video chat feature called Hangouts. Yesterday, Facebook unveiled its Skype-powered Video Calling service. So, which one is better?

Google’s Hangouts feature allows up to 10 people to simultaneously engage in a group video chat. The main video feed switches based on who is speaking into the microphone.


Facebook’s Video Calling feature offers one-on-one video chat powered by Skype. The video functionality is available directly in Facebook Chat in over 70 different languages.

Video chat comes to Facebook :)

Earlier today, Facebook and Skype got a little friendlier, making it easy to find your Facebook friends in Skype and -- more importantly -- video chat with your Facebook friends in Facebook, a service powered by -- you got it -- Skype.

How To Move Your Facebook Photos To Picasa (Soon, Google Photos) In A Flash

I’m sure there’s more than one way to easily transfer your Facebook photos and albums to Google’s Picasa service (which will apparently be renamed Google Photos). If you know of a good method for moving from one to the other, do share it in a comment below, but I would like to highlight one thatlaunched very recently.

The aptly named Move2Picasa.com website lets you connect to your Facebook account, after which all your Facebook photos and albums will automatically be migrated over to Google’s Picasa service. Note: sans captions, comments and whatnot.

It admittedly took a couple of hours for me to get my Facebook photos transferred, but for people who don’t mind the wait and would like to move only their photos to Picasa / Google Photos, this is a more than adequate solution.

Evidently, the more photos you (and others) migrate, the longer the wait. Another caveat: it’s all or nothing – you can’t transfer specific photos or albums at this point.

Twitter Acquires Social Analytics Start-up BackType

BackType announced on it’s blog that it has been acquired by Twitter sometime back. BackType is a small social analytics start-up that aims to help brands and companies understand the business impact of social media, analyze the effectiveness and the value of engagement on Twitter.

Go Daddy Enters Into Private Equity Partnership

Go Daddy is getting new partners as the domain registrar and hosting providing is aiming for continued growth.

Privately-held Go Daddy is entering into a strategic partnership with private equity firms KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures. The amount of the equity investment is reported to be approximately $2.25 Billion.

Ubuntu 11.10 Release Schedule Changed, Alpha 2 Delayed

The release schedule for the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system has been modified last week by Canonical. The second Alpha version was supposed to arrive for testing last Thursday, June 30th, but it was rescheduled for July 7th.

For Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), Canonical decided to change the release schedule again, rescheduling Alpha 2 for July 7th. The rest of the dates remain the same. Here is the new release schedule for Ubuntu 11.10:

July 7th, 2011 - Alpha 2 release
August 4th, 2011 - Alpha 3 release
September 1st, 2011 - Beta 1 release
September 22nd, 2011 - Beta 2 release

Samsung will next for Microsoft in Android patent bounty

Wistron? Check. HTC? Double-check. Velocity Micro? Been there. Itronix? Done that. Microsoft has found plenty of corporate entities willing to be wooed with its patent-waving ways, and the compan

Sony caught again teasing with Tablets S1 and S2 (Video)

Sony's S1 and S2 Honeycomb tablets have been very coy in front of the cameras since their initial unveiling. Aside from two visually pleasing short films and a tease of a hands-on, we haven't seen much of them since -- or any specific release details, for that matter.

Ipad owns 1% of world's web browsing

This is surely the sort of thing Apple's Steve Jobs  likes to see and of course why not

New world record for fastest typing on ipad (ipad 2)

15-year-old son of Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia, Eduard Saakashvili, achieved a world record for typing the English alphabets (A-Z) on an Apple iPad in just 5.26 seconds beating the previous world record of 6.61 seconds set by Charlie Joseph McDonnell in 2010. Now, Apple has a reason to award this guy!

“I am very happy” Eduard said in comments broadcast by Georgian television explaining that he had spent months practicing and getting ready for the event.

Google renames picasa and blogger for Google+

If you are an active user of Google’s Picasa photo management tools or their Blogger blogging platform, you should prepare yourself for a change. News has broken that Google intends to drop those names from the products. This move is part of the Google+ service, which seems to be leading to a rebranding of Google’s web based tools.

Blogger and Picasa will not be shut down, however. The two service are among the most popular for the internet giant. They will simply be renamed to “Google Blogs” and “Google Photos” respectively. It is rumored that these two are the first of many services to get the Google rebranding treatment. Sources indicate that YouTube will not be changed.

power consuption comparision:Mac OS X vs. Ubuntu 11.04, Windows 7

Due to hardware availability, this Independence Day benchmarking was just carried out on an Apple Mac Mini with a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 processor, Apple Mac-F22C86C8 motherboard with NVIDIA MCP79 chipset, NVIDIA GeForce 9400 graphics, 1GB of system memory, and 120GB Fujitsu MHZ2120B SATA HDD.

Apple Mac OS X 10.6.8, Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1, and Ubuntu 11.04 were all tested in their 64-bit editions and benchmarked in their stock configurations. The only change to Windows and Ubuntu Linux was installing the proprietary NVIDIA graphics driver.

The Mac Mini's power consumption was monitored using an USB-based Watts Up Pro power meter with the recording being done by the Phoronix Test Suite on an independent system. The test scenarios included:

Boot / Start-Up: For five minutes the power consumption was polled on each system as it performed a cold boot followed by idling at the desktop (automatic log-in) for the remainder of the time.

Install LMMS 0.4.12 In Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal | PPA

LMMS ” Linux MultiMedia Studio ” is a free cross-platform application , LMMS alows you to easily produce music tracks  by creating many melodies and different beats.

 

LMMS ” Linux MultiMedia Studio ” Key features

• Many powerful instruments effects – Plugins.
• Beats – Baseline editor creator.
• Compatible with many standards such as MIDI, VST(i), SoundFont2, GUS Patches, and LADSPA.
• Import MIDI and FLP projects files.
• Includes FX mixe with 64 FX channels and arbitrary number of effects allow you to add unlimited mixing possibilities.
• Easily composing songs with song-editor.

Install Linux MultiMedia Studio “LMMS” 0.4.12 In Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dns/sound

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install lmms

LMMS PPA works in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid

LMMS Video Walkthrough

source.

Install LMMS 0.4.12 In Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal | PPA

LMMS ” Linux MultiMedia Studio ” is a free cross-platform application , LMMS alows you to easily produce music tracks  by creating many melodies and different beats.

 

LMMS ” Linux MultiMedia Studio ” Key features

Science fiction Adventure Game Dead Cyborg now on linux

Dead Cyborg, a new donation based episodic science fiction adventure is coming soon to Linux. The game is based on Blender game engine and is made by one person Endre Barath, who has done all the coding, designing and written the story as well.

Save Battery Drain with Bumblebee

Any laptop would definitely lose its charm if it requires frequent visits to the charging points and this is a fact that most Laptop owners hate in their laptops. Today this scenario is getting more complicated. As laptops are getting faster and as their graphics support increases the charge consumption also increases.

Social Networking Showdown: 8 Facebook Features Google+ Doesn't Have (Yet)

Google's latest foray into social networking, called Google+, is being compared strongly to Facebook. But the two social networking platforms still have a number of differentiating features. We pointed outsix things that Google+ can do that Facebook can't, but it's just as interesting to highlight what Facebook does that Google+ doesn't—so far, that is.

"So far" because Google+ is still in a trial phase, so it's not yet officially live or open to all to join, which means Google could add more features and tweak existing ones between now and when it opens the doors .

6 Things Google+ Can Do That Facebook Can't

Google's new social network Google+ is going head-to-head with the biggest social network of them all, Facebook.

But for Google's new platform to succeed in gaining social marketshare, it has to also entice users by letting them do ne

w things, too, stuff they can't do in Facebook.

After the lackluster reception of Google Buzz and Wave, the Internet giant had to completely rethink its approach to online social interaction before announcing Google+. And it has. Google+, which is still in a trial phase and not yet open to all, steps back from the friend-accumulation game and instead considers how we, as social human creatures, already think about our friends. The outcome is cliques, or what Google is calling Circles. In real life, friends come in mini sub-groups, usually based on how we met.

75 Best iPad Apps -3

Entertainment Apps
ABC Player to Tivo

ABC Player

75 Best iPad Apps -2

Communication
TextNOW to TextPlus

TextNOW

This capable iPad SMS app is priced right, easy to use, and features the very cool ability to send free, unlimited texts, and embedded photos.

75 Best iPad Apps -1

 Considering its impact on the portable computing space, it's amazing to think that the iPad platform has only been around for a little more than a year. Still, in its relatively brief existence, the iPad and iPad 2 have revolutionized the tablet market—not only for its sleek form factor and ease of use, but for the wide variety of appsthat are available for it.

The Apple App Store lets users expand their iPad's abilities with new software that ranges from the business-centric to the highly entertaining. The sheer number of apps, unfortunately, can make it difficult for someone to find the ones worth downloading. Consider this: As of January 2011, there were over 350,000 apps available for download. As a result, it may prove challenging to figure out which iPad apps are the best. So let us provide a helping hand.