Native Facebook for iPad app is finally here

 Technology  1 Response »
Oct 112011
 

See that? That’s right. It’s finally here. The official native Facebook for iPad app is finally here.

Get it here - http://itunes.apple.com/app/facebook/id284882215

Here’s what it can do:

Facebook for iPad
With high-res photos, games, chat and more, now you can get the best of Facebook – on your iPad.

  • Enjoy bigger, better photos: Your photos are high-res and easy to flip through, like a real photo album
  • Navigate anywhere, fast: Just tap, slide or pinch to move from one screen to another
  • Play games on the go: Access your favorite Facebook apps and games, wherever you are
  • Focus on what matters: Zoom in on your friends’ photos, updates and stories
  • Never lose your place: Share a photo, update your status or send a message without leaving News Feed
  • See who’s nearby: Check out the Nearby map to see what your friends are up to
 Posted by triplez at 11:30  Tagged with: , ,

If This Then That (ifttt.com) – Creating Automated Tasks for your Internet Life

 Technology  2 Responses »
Oct 112011
 

If This Than That is probably one of the most interesting sites that help automated simple tasks on the internet using the basic conditional logic, where a trigger happens, an action takes place.

There are many pre-existing channels you can use like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox just to name a few, to link a channel’s trigger to another channel’s action, you can pretty much create practically any automated tasks of your life on the internet.

It is simple enough, you don’t need any programming background at all. Just basic conditional logic to define what you want to achieve.

Check it out at http://ifttt.com.

 Posted by triplez at 11:00  Tagged with: , , , ,

Facebook F8 Developer Conference Live Streaming Date and Time

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Sep 232011
 

That’s right. Facebook F8 Developer Conference is going live soon at the following timings:

  • 22nd September at 10am PST
  • 22nd September at 1pm EST
  • 23rd September at 1am Singapore Time

Live streaming after the break: Continue reading »

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New Mobile Printing Solutions and Content Services for HP Printers

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Sep 192011
 

HP has introduced new mobile printing solutions, which allows for increased control and broader capabilities that contribute to an enhanced printing experience.

  • The HP Printer Control mobile app transforms the screen on a mobile device into the HP printer display to provide wireless control over printing, copying and scanning.
  • The new HP ePrint Home & Biz mobile app is a free tool for Android, iOS, and Symbian  smartphones, making it easy to locate a printer and print from anywhere in the world.
  • With Social ID, new and existing customers can now customize their ePrint email addresses, making it as much a part of their “social ID” as their email addresses.

About 100 print apps are now available in the Asia Pacific region, with a quarter of them offering local content. Users can easily program for Scheduled Delivery of selected content to their Web-connected printers.

HP continues to grow its suite of local print apps to provide content that matters to our users and announces today its partnership with five new content providers in Asia Pacific. Anyschool (Korea), Magic Hanja (Korea) and Modern Educational Research Society, Ltd. (Hong Kong) will provide educational print-outs for young children, alongside Sesame Street which will provide local content for users in China. Meishi China will also offer recipes for users in China. In addition, HP announced the development of the HP Go Family China print app that will provide family gifts-greeting cards, wrapping paper, and calendars for special occasions.

Notably is the new Facebook app which will allow you to print your photos directly from Facebook.

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DBS Places – First Regional Facebook Places and Check-in Deals Campaign (How To Participate)

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Aug 292011
 

DBS Bank recently created a new campaign called “DBS Places” – the very first regional campaign that makes use of Facebook Places and Check-in Deals – to continually evolve the way in which DBS bank interacts with its customers and merchant partners. There are altogether 5 cities available for you to check-in from – Hong Kong, Taipei, Mumbai, Singapore and Jakarta.

Here’s what you need to do:

  1. Like DBS Facebook fan page to get started (http://www.facebook.com/dbs).
  2. Register yourself with the DBS Places app (http://www.facebook.com/dbs?sk=app_224458777596784)
  3. Use a mobile phone to check in to the various DBS Places in order to gain points to win. Use the Facebook app or the web browser, as long as it supports Facebook Places.
  4. While checking-in, you can check out the deals of the place and redeem them.

Here’s how you check in:

When you go into the iPhone app, head to the Places and Check-In. For DBS Places to show up, you need to search for “DBS Places” in order for the places to turn up.

Select the place you want to check-in and check in. Several DBS Places with the “yellow notepad” will give you an offer. Once you’ve checked in, just click on “Claim your deal” and show the deal on your phone to the staff and you’ll be able to claim it, as seen below.

This campaign ends on 5th September, and the highest point earner of each country will earn a three day two night vacation of their choosing to Singapore, Hong Kong, China, India, Indonesia or Taiwan.

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Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman Available in Singapore from Q4

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Aug 232011
 

Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman is an Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) smartphone that delivers a unique social music experience. A dedicated Walkman™ hardware button provides instant access to the music player and consumers can also like, share and discover content through a deep Facebook integration while the infinite button allows consumers to connect to friends, photos, music and videos.

With an attractive curved design, a glossy finish and a mineral glass display, the Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman has a 3.2” screen and a powerful 1Ghz processor. A front facing camera is enabled for Skype video calling, while a 5MP AF camera can capture 720p HD video recording, together with Sony’s xLOUD™ enhances audio output.

A perfect combination of social networking and music entertainment:

  • Deep Facebook™ integration: Allows users to instantly access Facebook through the most used areas of the phone such as the picture gallery, music player, phonebook and calendar.
  • Media Discovery Application: A dynamic application placing the world of music and videos at consumer’s fingertips including Facebook™ recommendations from their friends.
  • Infinite button: Tapping it within the media player enables consumers to have instant access to new content about their favourite artist, such as music videos, artist information and lyrics search.
  • Sony’s xLOUD™ technology: Enhances audio output of the inbuilt speakers at high levels.
  • TrackID™: Identifies the music track you are listening to within the FM radio and music player. The track can then instantly be shared or downloaded.

Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman will be available in Singapore from Q4 2011.

First thoughts:

  • Those who love the walkman brand but doesn’t want that bulky phone form factor will really like this. Especially if you can hang out around your neck, or strap it around your arm while exercising.
  • Focusing on music, if they have the lock screen show the album art and allow music controls, I think they have a winner in the music/phone category.

Photos and Specifications after the break: Continue reading »

 Posted by triplez at 10:43  Tagged with: ,

Using Facebook to Recognize You and Getting Your Information

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Aug 152011
 

Alessandro Acquisti from Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University presented a research on how they could essentially get every private data about you from just your face, with the help of Facebook’s database of images.

The research called “Faces of Facebook: Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality“, shows how the lack of privacy on Facebook (and other social networks), or rather the lack of awareness and privacy management, can allow anyone including yourself find out about their names, where they live, cell numbers, birthdays, monikers, sexual orientation, credit ratings, social security numbers (or NRICs), even inferring various information – basically everything about you in an instant by just your face.

Combine that with your phone’s camera, Augmented Reality, and cloud computing to crunch and data-mine those data, and I can walk down the street, flash my phone at you and I will know everything about you.

Scary? It’s becoming a reality. It’s only a matter of time.

Find out more about the research, experiments, and capabilities - http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/face-recognition-study-FAQ/

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Kleekbots, FaceCars, ToyCloud – Combining Physical Toys with the Internet

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Aug 122011
 

MakeAffinity is launching Kleekbots and sneak preview of FaceCars at the Singapore Toy, Game and Comic Convention (STGCC).

Kleekbots is a website that lets owners of the Lego Mindstorms NXT robotics kit view and control their robot with their iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, iPad and other devices instantly. With Kleekbots, Lego Mindstorms owners can share control of the robot with their friends by sending it through email. The service requires a PC with Internet connection. The setup process involves 3 simple steps: Sign up to the service at the Kleekbots website; download and run the Kleekbots application on the PC; and connect the robot and a webcam (optional) to the PC. Mobile devices control and view the robot through a web app via the devices’ web browser.

Kleekbots is a service with free and paid plans starting from 99 cents.

FaceCars is a new kind of radio controlled car. It comes with a remote controller that has a USB connection for connecting to a PC. This allows the RC car to be controlled from an iPhone, Android, iPod Touch, iPad, and other smart devices as well as from a PC and even over Facebook.

Exact FaceCars pricing has not been announced, but it is hinted to be between $50 to $100.

MakeAffinity will also be launching a business to business service to help toy makers create social toy sites for their toys. The ToyCloud service helps toy makers to increase the value of their toys by integrating them with Facebook, YouTube and mobile devices such as the iPhone, Android, iPod Touch and iPad in as little as 30 days.

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November 5th 2011 is Doomsday for Facebook

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Aug 102011
 

A message from Anonymous, the hacker group that rose to fame by bringing down Sony PSN and other major industry players, is being distributed around stating their next target is Facebook, dubbed Operation Facebook. The reason is to fight for choice and informed consent, which Facebook only provides a false sense of privacy and security.

Do you agree with them and their actions?

You can find out more:
https://twitter.com/OP_Facebook
http://piratepad.net/YCPcpwrl09
Irc.Anonops.Li #OpFaceBook

Update: Apparently not the entire collective of Anonymous is behind this operation, based on 2 of the many twitter accounts Anonymous has, GroupAnon and AnonOps. It still remains to be seen if it is a hoax or if it will be an actual attack. Mark November 9th on your calendars, because you should be watching closely.

 Posted by triplez at 13:27  Tagged with: ,

Winners of the SiTF Awards 2011

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Aug 032011
 

The Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) announced the winners of this year’s SiTF Awards, the most coveted local infocommunications technology (ICT) industry awards today, which aim to promote and to recognize innovations developed in Singapore. This year, thirteen teams triumphed in their respective categories to clinch the top awards, out of the 177 entries received. The outstanding applications which emerged as winners this year are able to utilize ICT to improve processes and even help to save lives in exciting categories like Cloud Technology, Interactive Ideas, Mobile applications and more.

The full list of winners of the 2011 SiTF Awards is as follows:

# Award Categories Name of Organisation Name of Product/ Application Description
1. Cloud Technology m9 Tech Solutions Pte Ltd Oystor Leveraging on cloud technology, Oystor makes sharing, securing, and managing files easy and accessible, which results in boosting productivity.
2. Digital Media SingTel Idea Factory Pte Ltd De!ite SingTel’s De!ite is an e-magazine app that promotes interaction by letting users perform keyword searches, make side notes, bookmark articles and sync to Facebook and Twitter.
3. E-Enterprise SMRT Corporation Ltd Vehicle Damage Assessment System Using wireless technology, users can connect to the system while at the workshop via mobile devices, letting them capture vehicle repair information in real time.
4. E-Government Integrated Health Information Systems Pte Ltd Closed-Loop Medication Management System Leveraging on automation, human error is now reduced while ward efficiency improved with two-factor authentication. National University Hospital (NUH) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) were the first two hospitals in Asia Pacific to fully implement this electronic end-to-end closed-loop inpatient medication management system.
5. Emerging Technology Argentra Pte Ltd Print Access Management (PAM) An innovative solution that gives full control and visibility on every print job, including its content, increasing security and authenticity.
6. Interactive Ideas Dr. Dana Elliott Srither CROWDSAV – Mass Collaboration in Resuscitation This smartphone app will enable anyone to provide effective chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on cardiac arrest victims.
7. Mobile Applications Multimedia Centre, Singapore Press Holdings STOMP* An iPhone app that empowers the citizen journalist to contribute material, view STOMP content and interact with other members.
8. Start-up YFind Technologies Pte Ltd Indoor Positioning Solution Tapping on existing WiFi wireless networks, this indoor positioning system that works as a mobile app, provides customers with accurate, affordable and hassle-free indoor localization solutions.
9. Primary Student Tampines Primary School Interactive Game on Global Warming These innovative solutions range from computer games that educate about environmental awareness, to mobile apps that promote easy learning through an accessible and simplified school portal, right up to an integrated system for civil defense agencies that can determine what an entire rescue operation requires.
10. Secondary Student Crescent Girls School iPortal: Improving Communication and Learning in School
11. Tertiary Student Singapore Polytechnic, School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology Silver Radar
12. ICT Team Excellence – Technical Support Tata Consultancy Services Singapore The use of technology in business processes has enabled companies to improve the technical support resolution duration by 10 times. In marketing, it has also shortened the time to market and provided the ability to reach out to the right user at right time and place.
13. ICT Team Excellence – Marketing Smoov Pte Ltd

*Denotes the Judges’ Choice

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