New YouTube tools make anyone an animator

We feel a surge of viral videos in the making! YouTube puts animation controls at your fingertips with newly integrated apps. There’s a camera included on just about electronic device these days, so we’re not sure who exactly doesn’t have access to one. But if you don’t and want to upload (mostly) self-created content to YouTube, the site is offering users some new tools. GoAnimate, Stupeflix Video Maker, and Xtranormal Movie Maker are all now integrated into YouTube and you need nothing more than a Google account to use the programs. These are pre-existing apps that YouTubers have already been using to create animated content for the site,...

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Real-life flying ‘Up’ house goes airborne

Some things belong only in the world of animated movies, but if you believed a floating house tied to balloons was one them, you’d be wrong. National Geographic decided to try its hand at recreating the balloon house from Pixar’s Up, and used hundreds of eight foot tall weather balloons to take a 2,000 pound brick house (complete with passengers) skyward. The experiment wasn’t for whimsy alone. The project was part of National Geographic’s coming series How Hard Can it Be? and also earned its participants (which included the likes of balloon pilots, scientists, and engineers) the new world record for “largest balloon cluster flight ever...

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Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga attacks from above with a gameplay trailer

Originally released as the games Divinity II: Ego Draconis and the expansion pack Divinity II: Flames of Vengeance, The Dragon Knight Saga combines the two into one special edition package. RPG fans looking for something a little bit different might want to take a look at the upcoming collection, Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga, which offers a full game, a lengthy expansion, and pre-orders even get the soundtrack. If the name Divinity II sounds familiar, that is because it was already released on both PC and the Xbox 360. The PC version was met with moderate critical and commercial success, while the 360 port was criticized for numerous...

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Facebook revamps and reintroduces Questions

After an initial test run last year, Facebook's making an official go with its Questions application. Facebook has relaunched its Questions application and turned it into a succinct, sleek, poll-taking machine. There’s nothing Quora-like about this feature: Facebook doesn’t want your personal diatribes about anything. Instead the application works like an addition to the user status and lets you ask your network their opinion and force them to vote for an answer or provide their own. “We wanted to make questions easier and faster to answer. With the updated Questions you can agree with an existing answer with a single click, or you can...

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Call of Duty: Black Ops is the best selling game in US of all time

Call of Duty series has been popular since its first game, and speaking of Call of Duty games, it seems that the latest game from Call of Duty series has now achieved one amazing milestone. Call of Duty: Black Ops might be a highly controversial game due to its terrorist related content, but it’s also the best-selling game in the United States according to the National Purchase Diary. In just five months, Activision has managed to sell 13.7 million copies of Black Ops across all platforms. That’s a huge success for Activision and the Call of Duty franchise, but it seems that critics aren’t pleased with Activision’s tactics saying that Activision...

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PS3 firmware 3.6 jailbroken?

Sony has put a lot of effort into keeping its PlayStation 3 free from hackers and jailbreak tools, but no matter how hard they have tried, hackers always find a solution to hack the latest firmware. Although the latest firmware is relatively new, hackers have found a way to jailbreak it. As you know, in case of jailbraking, hackers and jailbreakers would face bans, arrests, or even the legal charges, but that doesn’t stop people from jailbraking the PS3. Hacker known as ThatBoringHacker has recently posted a video on YouTube that shows him running the homebrew software on 3.6 firmware. It seems that ThatBoringHacker has managed to hack the...

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HTC EVO 3D smartphone announced

HTC has also entered the 3D world after announcing its latest 3D Gingerbread Android – HTC EVO 3D. It allows you to view 3D contents without wearing any 3D glasses. Images will pop out of it and you can experience the 3D effect. It has a 4.3-inch capacitive touch screen that packs a QHD resolution of 540 x 960 pixels. It runs on speedy 1.2 GHz dual core processor and has an internal storage of 1 GB. Its RAM is 1 GB and you can expand it further using the microSD card slot. As it is a 3D smartphone, it has 3 cameras, 2 on its back (five megapixel each) and 1 in the front (1.3 megapixel). It also boasts a number of sensors like gyroscope, accelerometer,...

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Latest ViewSonic ViewPad 10, a dual-booting Windows 7 / Android 1.6 tablet

ViewSonic ViewPad 10 is a tablet with two operating systems, Windows 7 and Android 1.6, organised in a dual-boot configuration on an Intel x86 processor platform. Under its pretty design is hidden an Intel Atom N455 at 1.66GHz, single-core model with HyperThreading Technology, 2GB RAM and a 16GB SSD for hosting the two operating systems. Fortunately, the limited capacity of internal memory can be extended only with microSD memory card slot, or resorting to external storage devices connected via USB 2.0. On the media side we have a mini-HDMI connector, a 3.5 mm headphone jack and a 1.3 MP webcam for video conferencing applications. At first...

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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 9

As promised, Microsoft has released the latest version of its popular browser, Internet Explorer 9, so after a long time, the final version of Internet Explorer 9 is finally here. Folks from Microsoft are proud of their latest update to IE, and according to them, Internet Explorer 9 has a lot to offer when it comes to graphics handling, security and privacy features. For the first time, Internet Explorer is ready to compete with other major browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. Microsoft is especially proud of tools that keep Internet Explorer 9 users from being tracked as they go through various web pages. With this feature,...

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Google gives birth to Androids x30 faster than man to babies

Here’s an interesting find of the day, apparently Google activates way more Androids compared to humans with a current pace of 350.000 activations per day. Check out the video below for a clever infographic-like take on how Android is quickly becoming the preferred mobile OS around the world. The funny part is, if everybody in California (the mother land of Apple) was buying an Android device exclusively the whole state would be saturated in about 4 months from now. Did you know that only a mere 1% uses the latest greatest Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS – that is surely a statement which Google should do something abo...

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Google uses kill switch to remove 260,000 installed apps worldwide

It appears that Google is experiencing some problems with the Android Market, and due to these problems, it seems that Google has to use its infamous kill switch as a last resort. According to latest news, 58 apps on Android Market were found sending personal information from Android devices and were installing security holes, so Google had to remove them from the Android Market. However damage has already been done, and according to reports, these apps got about 260,000 downloads which means that there were 260,000 victims out there. Therefore, it’s no wonder that Google had to resort to drastic measures such as pulling the kill switch. In...

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Android Honeycomb 3.0 ported onto HTC HD2

There are lots of exciting stuff that the developers are doing all day, especially when they are XDA developers (Windows and Android developers). They keep on tweaking things each day and try trying new versions on different prototypes. In this latest tweak / hack, they have worked out how to get Android Honeycomb OS 3.0 on to HTC HD2. HTC HD2 runs Windows Mobile but the XDA developers have successfully ported the latest tablet dedicated Google Android Honeycomb OS onto the high-spec smartphone. Though it doesn’t look perfect on the HD2 and moreover many features are lagging when it runs, it does run basic functions effectively....

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Veho Mimi is one bulky all-in-one wireless input device

Wireless input devices have been present for a while, but we never got a chance to experience the combination of all input devices into one, until now. Today we have hybrid controller that comes from Veho and this controller combines everything that you need. This controller is a combination of keyboard, mouse, and a joystick so it’s perfect for almost all your needs. Besides keyboard and joystick functionality, the Veho Mimi Wireless Gamepad Keyboard can be used as a 3D mouse thanks to the built-in gyroscope. Since this is wireless device, battery life is an important issue, and with its 1100mAh Li-Polymer rechargeable battery, this device...

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Giant 3D loom weaves parts for supercar

It's a sports car few people will be able to get their hands on. In production since last December, only 500 Lexus LFAs will be produced and they were already sold out in early June 2010 (see photo below). But it's not just its top speed of 325 kilometres per hour that's attracting buyers. The car is being used as a test bed for newly-designed parts made from carbon fibre and plastic. Compared to steel or aluminium, it makes the car stronger and lighter but producing these components is much more time-consuming: only one car is currently being assembled per day. One of the key technologies being used is a high-tech circular loom, guided by lasers,...

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VIA Eden X2 – Dual Core processors on energy diet

Taiwanese company VIA is preparing to release a dual core version of its low-power processor called Eden. It will be built on 40 nanometer architecture and will have two 64-bit cores. The Eden X2 processor will be optimised for multi-tasking and multimedia content processing. VIA Officials boasts that the Eden X2 processor will be the most efficient X2 dual core processor in terms of energy consumption in the world. The Eden X2 has been specifically designed to work without the need for additional cooling from well-known fans that we all have fitted on our processors. The Eden X2 will support Windows Embedded 7 operating systems, Linux and...

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Google fixes Gmail issues

Despite Gmail being the most popular webmail service, it doesn’t mean that we don’t see issues with it. In fact, recent Gmail issues have affected up to 200 000 users, but we’re glad to inform you that Google has fixed those problems. According to Google, they have managed to fix broken Gmail accounts and to restore all of the deleted emails for affected users. So far, we don’t know whether Google fixed all of the accounts, but in case that anybody else is still experiencing problems they can contact Google for assistance. Anyhow, Google says that the problem has been resolved and it apologises for this inconvenience. We’re glad to hear...

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5 Reasons for getting to the Apple Store early on March 11th for an iPad 2

Apple has been producing amazing products since the beginning and in the last few years the release of the MacBook Air and the iPad have been game changers. And yet here comes another excellent revision of an already awesome product; the iPad. Now that we’ve all gotten over the lack of cut and paste functionality of the iPhone, we’ve downloaded a million apps, and we’ve worn through countless lithium polymer batteries in the process, what more can Apple do to keep us shelling out cash for their latest and greatest? I was so excited that on the 2nd I went down to the Apple Store in Phoenix, Arizona to see what all the fuss was about and talk...

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Unofficial Gingerbread update for Samsung Galaxy S released

Google made Android 3.0 Honeycomb fully optimising it for perfect use in tablets like the Motorolla Xoom, while we don’t know when Google may be rolling out an update for smartphones. Here in the meantime is an unofficial Gingerbread update for the Samsung Galaxy S which has been offered by XDA developers. This release does however come from a leaked Samsung source where it has been given the TouchWiz 3, Swype capability and GPS navigation support and a functional Android Market. Currently, Samsung Galaxy S comes cruising with Android 2.2 Froyo out of the box and if you’ve been eager for an update, you should check out this DIY upgra...

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A Neurochip That Can Communicate With Brain

The University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine scientists who proved it is possible to cultivate a network of brain cells that reconnect on a silicon chip—or the brain on a microchip—have developed new technology that monitors brain cell activity at a resolution never achieved before. Developed with the National Research Council Canada (NRC), the new silicon chips are also simpler to use, which will help future understanding of how brain cells work under normal conditions and permit drug discoveries for a variety of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Naweed Syed's lab cultivated brain cells on a microchip. Naweed...

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Get a recording studio in your iPad with GarageBand

Latest GarageBand for Apple iPad is perhaps the perfect solution to opening up your own recording studio. It offers eight track recording and over 250 loops. Moreover it also has touch instruments like piano, synths, guitars which will get you making your music on the go. Even if you do not know how to play instruments, a feature called Smart Instruments will help you get the instrument in tune and play as you want. It doesn’t matter whether you have the iPad or will be getting the iPad 2 soon, GarageBand also has drum instruments, the accelerometer will help you get the required sound of the beat. For example, if you tap the drum harder,...

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New Trojan can take control over your Mac OS X and Windows

We know that there are all sorts of viruses that attack PCs, but what about Mac computers? We believe that Mac is generally safe from viruses, however, a new threat has been discovered that potentially maybe harmful to Mac users. Security firm called Sophos has discovered a new Trojan that can affect both PC and Mac users. This new Trojan is a modified variant of the darkComet Trojan. For those that aren’t familiar with darkComet, it’s a well-known Remote Access Trojan that can be used to control computers. This virus is capable of placing text files on your desktop, restarting the computer, shutting it down or going to sleep, running random...

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Fujitsu is prepared to launch Fujitsu Stylistic Q550, which is a high spec tablet loaded with impressive features, aiming to attract business users. The tablet is powered by Windows 7 and the new Intel Atom chip processor that carries the code name “Oak Trail”. With an elegant design, this 10.1-inch touchscreen Fujitsu Q550 is able to recognize both multi-touch and stylus’s work. Other features of the Stylistic Q550 includes 8 hours battery life, 30GB to 62GB Hard Disk and a data security technology called Advanced Anti-Theft Protection. This is a powerful security solution that aims to protect data stored on the tablet. Fujitsu Q550 also...

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