Hashtags in Twitter is a convention by Twitter user to tag topics to tweets. Hashtags is widely used in Twittersphere and is never official until now. Twitter has started giving hashtags the same treatment as @follows by hyperlinking hashtags. The link will bring you to Twitter’s search page for the hashtag. This feature has been available for quite sometime in many third party Twitter clients.
GMail label is the tool in GMail to help you to organize your inbox, as there is no concept of folder in GMail. Label is akin to tagging or categorizing your emails, and Google wants you to use more of it as they introduced new label features in GMail.
We realized that if you didn’t know about labels, it would be easy to assume Gmail had no way to organize your mail. Not only were “labels” unfamiliar, they were kind of hidden. So, we set out to make labels more accessible, as well as more powerful. Most of the changes have been in Gmail for a while, but we’re adding some new features today. We thought you’d enjoy a peek at the method to our madness.
The new GMail label features are:
Labels are now given prominent location on the left column, above chat list and grouped together with system labels such as Inbox and Drafts.
GMail now automatically shows only labels you use the most and hides the rest. A “more” link gets you the rest of the labels. You can show or hide a label by clicking on the down-arrow to the left of the label.
Source: GMail Blog Post
Reports has been appearing last week that the new iPhone 3GS could be prone to overheating. It remains to be seen if it is due to incorrect usage by users, a design defect on Apple’s part or a common problem to all smartphone devices.
Apple actually posted a support article last modified June 25 that offers tips on how to keep iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS within acceptable operating temperatures.
Operate iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in a place where the temperature is between 0º and 35º C (32º to 95º F). Low- or high-temperature conditions might temporarily shorten battery life or cause the device to temporarily stop working properly. Store iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in a place where the temperature is between -20º and 45º C (-4º to 113º F). Don’t leave the device in your car, because temperatures in parked cars can exceed this range.
Here is our first iPhone wallpaper collection. All photos are in 320×480 resolution to fit the screen of iPhone and iPod touch. Photos are all original by Sanziro.
To use it as iPhone wallpaper, browse this site using Safari browser on iPhone. Tap and hold the photo, and select “Save Image” to save the photo into iPhone’s camera roll. You can then set the photo as your wallpaper from Settings>Wallpaper.
Microsoft starts to embrace Twitter by integrating Twitter data into Bing search. For starter, Bing will only include tweets from more prominent and prolific Twitter users.
When you enter those famous people and do a Bing search for example “Kara Swisher Twitter” or “Kara Swisher Tweets” or even “@karaswisher”, the result will include the latest tweet from the user, together with a link to more tweets from the user.
We did a trial using the search examples “Kara Swisher Twitter”,“Kara Swisher Tweets” and “@karaswisher” provided in Bing’s blog post, but none returns the above result format. Maybe Bing is fine-tuning this feature at the moment.
And now you can follow Microsoft on Twitter. This Twitter account is run by four members of Microsoft’s corporate communications team. There is no verified account logo on the page but it should be the real thing.
So far there are only 3 tweets, with the first tweet being a Xbox promo: “Anyone can make games now, Kodu is available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace http://bit.ly/3wlWKo #microsoft #xboxlive #kodu”.
Compare this first tweet with the stylish first tweet by Google back in February. Do you see a winner already?
Flickr has added support to allow you to tweet your Flickr photos using its Flickr2Twitter feature. The Flickr photo’s address will appear in your tweets with a “flic.kr” shortening URL.
Here’s How-To:
Select the option “Set up your blog”.
Beside better JavaScript rendering for faster browsing and the support for HTML5 standard, one other major feature in the new Firefox 3.5 is private browsing mode (Safari 4, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 are the other browsers currently support private browsing). Mozilla has provided a detail instruction and guide on the private browsing feature:
Skype has released the first update to Skype for iPhone since its debut on the App Store on March 31.
New in this release:
send low cost SMS messages using Skype credit
ability to access Skype voicemail from your iPhone
improved dialing help when making call
additional localization languages: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish and Traditional Chinese.
If you are still running Windows 7 Beta and use it actively, be warned that this build will begin bi-hourly shutdown starting today July 01.
Upgrade to Windows 7 RC (Release Candidate), which will have the same treatment starting March 01, 2010. This expiry date for the RC version is more than 4 months after the October 22 launch date of Windows 7, which Microsoft hope is sufficient time for you to decide if you want to pay them.
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5 web browser to the general public. Get it from:
Watch the worldwide real-time statistics of downloads per sec for Firefox 3.5.
Firefox 3.5 is a major release from the previous version 3.0.x which was released over a year ago. The major changes in Firefox 3.5 are:
New JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey for faster JavaScript rendering
A private browsing mode which allows surfing without saving your personal data.
Support HTML5: offline data access, enhanced web graphics and multimedia plaback without plugins.
Firefox has the second largest web browser market share of between 20 to 25 percent. It lags behind Microsoft Internet Explorer which has about 65 to 70 percent share of the browser market.
