3 Desktop Tools To Make Your Experience As A Twitch.TV Viewer Easier

Do you want to get more out of your favorite Twitch streams? There’s no denying that Twitch.TV is the place to go on the internet when it comes to entertaining yourself with live streams for speed runs, gaming marathons, LAN parties, huge competitive events, and just casual observing and chatting. Maybe every now and then you’re just feeling a little bored and nostalgic, and you want to watch someone play a bit of Mario Kart. Twitch.TV has you covered for everything, even those games that you’d never expect. While Twitch does blow its competitors out of the water, you or...

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Mozilla Location Services Makes Geolocation Data Public And Gamifies Collection

Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, has launched an experimental pilot project called Mozilla Location Services, which aims to freely provide geolocation data of publicly observable cell towers and Wi-Fi access points. And it’s also come out with an app to make collecting this data into a social game. While there are already commercial players who provide such geolocation data, Mozilla wants to fill the gap of a large public service for this information. The company says that by mapping this data, devices without GPS or those with weaker GPS chips will still be able to find their approximate current position...

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A Little Bit Of Me: 4 Reasons Why You Should Set Up Google Authorship

What would you say if you spent a year writing a novel, only to have someone come along, copy down that entire novel and then republish it as though it’s their own? Not many writers would be very happy about that! Unfortunately, the last decade of Internet growth has been a wild west of writing and publishing. For skilled writers, the environment has been even more difficult. More often than not, unscrupulous website owners would search the Internet for well-written content, copy that content, and then republish it on their own website. Content thieves have been the scourge of the...

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A Little Bit Of Me: 4 Reasons Why You Should Set Up Google Authorship

What would you say if you spent a year writing a novel, only to have someone come along, copy down that entire novel and then republish it as though it’s their own? Not many writers would be very happy about that! Unfortunately, the last decade of Internet growth has been a wild west of writing and publishing. For skilled writers, the environment has been even more difficult. More often than not, unscrupulous website owners would search the Internet for well-written content, copy that content, and then republish it on their own website. Content thieves have been the scourge of the...

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Automatically Change Start Screen Background Color In Windows 8.1

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A couple of weeks ago, we introduced you to a new tool called ColorSync that lets you automatically set Start screen background color as window border and taskbar color in Windows 8.1. The good news is that the developer of this tool has updated the tool and it now can now automatically set the window […]

Now cruise River Thames with Google Streetview

Google Street View will now showcase 360 degrees waterside view of the Thames river. River Thames is the first river to be mapped in Google street view across Europe and UK. Google UK attached its Trekker camera to a Port of London Authority boat which cruised 30 miles of the waterway snapping a picture every 2.5 seconds. The news comes after the Port of London Authority (PLA) approached Google to map the iconic river to offer a new perspective of it to Internet users worldwide. Ed Parsons, Ge [...]

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Tata Sky slashes price of its HD set top box to Rs. 2,000

Tata Sky has announced slashing price of its HD set top box from Rs. 3,100 to Rs. 2,000 – bringing the range closer to the standard definition set top box. "Tata Sky has been a strong believer in the potential of the HD segment in India and has played a pioneering role in growing it. Equating the price of the HD box to an SD box will further accelerate the adoption of HD service,” says Tata Sky, Chief Commercial Officer Vikram Mehra said in a statement. The DTH service prov [...]

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Samsung rules the smartphone market with quarterly shipments of 88 million units

According to a recent report, Samsung Electronics has posted a record 88.4 million smartphone shipments in Q3 2013 increasing the company's market share to more than 35 percent worldwide. Research firm Strategy Analytics stated that Samsung's smartphone shipments in the July-September period surged 55 percent compared to last year. It's market share has increased to 35.2 percent from 32.9 percent in the third quarter of 2012. Apple has reported a third consecutive quarterly decline in earnings [...]

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Sony introduces VPL-VW500ES 4K projector for Rs. 7,99,000

Sony has launched a new 4K home cinema projectors, called the VPL-VW500ES. The projector comes with 4K SXRD panels, which the company claims are capable of delivering DCI based 4096 x 2160 resolution. The project comes with HDMI 2.0 standard. The VPL-VW500ES also comes with a 4K up-scaling algorithm that has been designed for “Mastered in 4K” Blu-ray discs from Sony Pictures Entertainment. The projector features 1,700 ANSI-lumen brightness, 200,000:1 contrast ratio and TRILUMINOS d [...]

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Instagram to arrive on Windows Phone soon

Instagram is one of the most anticipated apps on Windows Phone platform. If Nokia's new teaser image is to believed, the wait for Instagram app on WP is going to be over pretty soon. Nokia has tweeted an image of two Lumia 1020 smartphones, with one of them running Instagram for Windows Phone. Nokia, however, hasn't provided any date of availability for the app, but just says it's “coming soon”. At the company's recent Nokia World event, it confirmed some major apps including the l [...]

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Homeworld: Revisiting the classics

Homeworld tells possibly the greatest story ever told in any game. Yes we know many would give that honour to something like Bioshock but before rushing to the comments to in a rage fit, hear us out. There are things other than the story arc itself that added to the whole experience with Homeworld. The Homeworld franchise not only told a beautiful playable story complete with spectacular visuals, artistic cut-scenes and immersive music, it also introduced players for the first time ever to a tr [...]

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Active mini appears on Benchmark site

Samsung is reportedly working on a mini version of the Galaxy S4, which ended up being quite a success when launched this summer. Identified by its model number GT-I8580, the Active mini will have specifications smaller than its counterpart - the Galaxy S4 mini. Its not as mini as it sounds as it will come with 4.65-inch screen. According to GFXBench benchmark data, the Active mini (GT-I8580) will be powered by a dual-core QualComm Snapdragon processor cloocking at 1.2 GHz. The screen wil [...]

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Spice Android Smart Flo Ivory 2 and Flo Edge budget smartphones available online

Two new Spice smartphones- Spice Smart Flo Ivory 2 and Smart Flo Edge - are now available on Saholic.com for Rs 4,099 and Rs. 3,099 respectively. The smartphones feature Android OS, dual-core processor and dual-sim connectivity. The Spice Smart Flo Ivory 2 (Mi-423) has a 4-inch TFT LCD display with 320x480 pixels resolution. It has a 1GHz dual-core processor and runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The smartphone comes with 256MB of RAM and 512MB of inbuilt storage, expandable via microSD card up to 32 [...]

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Snapdeal launches 'price search on SMS' service

Online marketplace Snapdeal has introduced a new “Price Search on SMS” service. The new initiative allows users in India to search information about any product on Snapdeal before buying them. To avail this service, users need to send a SMS (Standard SMS charges apply) with the name of product they want information about to 92789-92789 and Snapdeal would send them the top results along with their prices and a link for instant purchase. “Furthering Snapdeal’s vision of p [...]

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Indian youth prefers to watch movies, TV serials on mobile phones: Vuclip survey

Vuclip, mobile video and media company, has released its third quarter 2013 Global Video Insights covering over 50,000 people globally, including approximately 8,000 from India. The survey reveals a high consumer appetite for watching full-length movies and television shows on their mobile phones even in areas lacking fast network speeds. According to the survey, 62% of Indian respondents prefer to view movies or TV serials instead of short movie clips on their phones. At 79%, this preference f [...]

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Nokia Lumia 929 hands-on video leaks; reveals 5-inch 1080p display, 20MP camera

Finnish telecom giants Nokia is currently preparing to unveil its second aluminum Windows Phone - Lumia 929, designed to be a substitute for the Lumia 928 in the Verizon wireless lineup. A teaser video has appeared that shows the device in black, sporting a 5-inch 1080p display and support for the three new columns of Live Tiles. There is a high probability of the device being launched in an aluminum frame with black and silver colour variants available in the initial stage. The smartphone will [...]

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Users report system freeze issues with latest MacBook Pro Retina models

Quite a few of those who have purchased the recently launched MacBook Pro Retina versions are reporting system freeze and other issues with their systems. While the issues seem to be largely affecting the Haswell powered Retina MacBooks, some users with the 2012 version are also chipping in with their anguish and frustration. There is now a 30 page long thread on Apple’s Support Communities. Users are reporting system freeze issues, which may include the entire system not responding, or c [...]

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Change Firefox New Tab Page Background Using New Tab Tools Extension

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While more and more PC users are using Google Chrome as their default web browser these days, a significant number of users still prefer Mozilla Firefox over other browsers for a couple of well-known reasons. By default, Mozilla Firefox offers limited number of options to customize the New Tab page that appears when you open […]