Facebook has begun rolling out a major redesign of its social networking site this week with a cleaner and less cluttered user interface. The new design will gradually become available to Facebook’s more than 80 million users over few days.

In the new design, Facebook removed the leftmost column that contains the ‘Search’ and ‘Applications’, and moved the search box and applications menu to the main menu on the top. The site content width has also being expanded by about an inch. These two design changes give a less boxed-up feel to the whole site.

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There are many quality free applications on Mac OS X that Mac users use them on a daily basis. List here are what we considered the 21 essential free downloads for the Mac, chosen from a variety of application category. We provide the URL link to the software, making this checklist handy for your new Mac or when you are doing a clean install of Mac OS X.

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You can now watch YouTube videos on Tivo digital video recorder (DVR). Available for users of broadband-connected TiVo HD and Tivo Series3 DVR models, the service allows Tivo subscribers to search for YouTube videos by keyword or browse videos by filters such as ‘Featured’, ‘Most recent’, ‘Top favorites’, ‘Most viewed’ and ‘Top rated’.

YouTube videos are streamed on-demand to the Tivo DVR, they are not stored on DVR, do not use any available recording space and do not appear on the Now Playing List. For mature contents on YouTube, Tivo advised subscribers to restrict the access using TiVo DVR’s built-in KidZone feature.

Tivo has posted a detailed instructions and videos on How to browse YouTube videos on your TiVo DVR.

Google posted in its GMail blog that an update to GMail this week will give users more control over the contact list auto-added feature. This is in response to users’ complains that auto-added contacts by Gmail, which can not be turned off, clutter their contact list.

Previously, GMail automatically added all new e-mail addresses to your main contact list, designed so that email address can be auto-complete as you type when composing a new message, saving times from needing to look up in the contact list.

Google has now created a new “Suggested Contacts” list in addition to “My Contacts”. Any e-mail address which you sent out will appear under the “Suggested Contacts” list. If the address has been e-mailed five or more times, GMail’s default setting will automatically add the address to the “My Contacts” list. You however have the option to turn off this count based auto-added feature.

By having this tweaks, Google has managed to help the users reduce their contact list clutter, and at the same times preserve the auto-complete feature.

Via The Official GMail Blog

Apple, in an email to all MobileMe subscribers, apologizes for the many snags users encountered since the launch last week. In it, Apple mentioned they ‘have worked through those problems and the web apps are now up and running’. Apple is giving all subscribers a 30-day extension to their MobileMe subscription free of charge.

We have recently completed the transition from .Mac to MobileMe. Unfortunately, it was a lot rockier than we had hoped.

Although core services such as Mail, iDisk, Sync, Back to My Mac, and Gallery went relatively smoothly, the new MobileMe web applications had lots of problems initially. Fortunately we have worked through those problems and the web apps are now up and running.

Another snag we have run into is our use of the word “push” in describing everything under the MobileMe umbrella. While all email, contact or calendar changes on the iPhone and the web apps are immediately synced to and from the MobileMe “cloud,” changes made on a PC or Mac take up to 15 minutes to sync with the cloud and your other devices. So even though things are indeed instantly pushed to and from your iPhone and the web apps today, we are going to stop using the word “push” until it is near-instant on PCs and Macs, too.

We want to apologize to our loyal customers and express our appreciation for their patience by giving all current subscribers an automatic 30-day extension to their MobileMe subscription free of charge. Your extension will be reflected in your account settings within the next few weeks.

We hope you enjoy your new suite of web applications at me.com, in addition to keeping your iPhone and iPod touch wirelessly in sync with these new web applications and your Mac or PC.

Thank you,

The MobileMe Team

Intel on Monday launched the much delayed Centrino 2, its latest mobile platform. Centrino 2 was originally scheduled to launch in June, but problems with the integrated graphics and paperwork issues involving the wireless antenna forced Intel to delay the release. Code-named Montevina, this is the first major upgrade since Intel’s Centrino brand mobile chipset platform was launched in 2003.

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Stop reading if you are sick and tired of all things iPhone 3G. We are highlighting two video clips that are doing ‘damages’ to iPhone 3G.

          <p><a href="http://www.blendtec.com/">Blentec</a>, which manufactures real blenders, took the 'Will It Blend?' test on iPhone 3G. In this commercial clip of the 'Will It Blend?' series, you can see the host Tom Dickson stood in line at AT&amp;T store. Needless to say we all know the answer, but it still pains to see the current hot tech toy crushed under the blades. </p>

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Apple has released the iPhone 2.0 Software for first-generation iPhone and iPod touch, allowing these devices to upgrade to use the iPhone 3G software features and access to the new App Store.

          <p>First-generation iPhone users will be prompted to install the upgrade when they connect their iPhone to iTunes. The upgrade will wipe out all data in the iPhone and temporary reactivate the device. Once the Phone 2.0 Software is installed, iTunes will connect to Apple servers to reactivate the device for use, using the same activation mechanism as the new iPhone 3G. Apple activation servers were down on July 11 morning due to the overwhelming load during the iPhone 3G launch day. The service has since been put back online but the the load is expected to be high for the next few days. </p>

iPod touch users will have to purchase the firmware upgrade from iTunes Store for $9.95. Apple has put up on iPod touch website information on ‘iPod touch App Store’ with a firmware update link to the iTunes Store. This latest update for iPod touch includes Mail, Stocks, Weather, Maps and Notes, as well as all the changes in the January update.

Browser is one of the most common application and it pays to master the software to get the most out of it. Listed below are 18 essential shortcuts and tips for Safari 3 that can save you time and become more proficient in using Safari. These shortcuts and tips are for the Mac version of Apple Safari 3.

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Apple’s App Store is now live with over 500 native applications for iPhone 3G, iPhone and iPod Touch. These applications however require iPhone 2.0 Software, which is not released yet. iPhone 3G which will be on sale tomorrow will have iPhone 2.0 Software as default. Existing original iPhone and iPod touch will need to upgrade to iPhone 2.0 Software to run these software.

You can access the App Store now via iTunes Store with the new iTunes 7.7 release. You can also access AppStore directly on your iPhone 3G, and on your original iPhone/iPod touch with the iPhone 2.0 Software installed. Over 125 of the applications are free download, and most pay apps cost less than $10 with the most expensive being ForeFlight Mobile at $69.99. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has mentioned that 90 percent of the pay applications will cost just $9.99 or less.

Some of the free applications include Apple Remote for iTunes, AIM instant messaging, Twitterrific client for Twitter and Google Mobile. Example pay applications include Sega’s Super Monkey Ball, Apple’s Texas Hold’em, Pangea’s Enigmo, Pangea’s Cro-Mag Rally and Freeze Tag’s Etch A Sketch.