Google Opens Up Android App Inventor for Everyone

Since its announcement in July 2010, Google App Inventor for Android platform has been constantly receiving such positive response that the company has finally decided to open up its Android App toolkit to everyone in an effort to encouraging anyone and everyone to make their own Android app.

The Google App Inventor program for Android platform is built on the idea that you do not need to be a developer to build great mobile applications. Instead of code, Google Android App Inventor allows you to visually design applications and use blocks to specify application logic. In short all it takes to create your App is simply moving building blocks around in the browser.

Though still in Beta, the Google App Inventor for Android platform was open by invitation only but since morning today, Google is accepting every request pouring in from eager Android users at the App Inventor homepage.

“We were delighted (and honestly a bit overwhelmed!) by the interest that our announcement generated. We were even more delighted to hear the stories of what you were doing with App Inventor. All sorts of people (teachers and students, parents and kids, programming hobbyists and programming newbies) were building Android apps that perfectly,” said Google’s Karen Parker, App Inventor Program Manager.

5 Tips for Taking Great Holiday Pictures with iPhone this Holiday Season

With advances in smartphone camera technology, more people than ever before are taking photos of loved ones this holiday season with the iPhone but high quality iPhone and Android phone cameras do not guarantee higher quality prints.

The high resolution camera available these days in Android-powered phones and Apple’s iPhone requires careful using to the best of their ability to ensure that the perfect moment is captured as it happens.

To celebrate Tuesday’s release of their free iPhone App for selecting and ordering professional grade prints for home delivery, Postal Pix, has also released five easy tips to keep in mind when taking pictures this holiday season with the iPhone.

YouTube offers various ways to send interactive greetings this Christmas

YouTube offers various ways to send interactive greetings this Christmas

Google has partnered with some web based services to offer interactive greetings service powered by YouTube platform this holiday season.

The company suggests following methods to make use of their platform:

You can upload and send a personalized video greeting to your friends up uploading and sharing a video using the unlisted option.

Google News makes it easy to bookmark frequently searched keywords

Google News makes it easy to bookmark frequently searched keywords 

Google News has added a new feature that enables you to bookmark frequently searched keywords on their platform.

Any search result would showcase a new follow news button that would add a shortcut to that item on the left bar.

Google News would also add a box with the search results on your personalized Google News homepage.
This is a useful feature for people who use Google News extensively. And it also makes it easy for you to customize your personal homepage.

Google search results would now indicate warnings on potentially compromised web pages

Google search results would now indicate warnings on potentially compromised web pages
Google has shown a warning on web pages appearing on search result pages which contain malware content.
The company has added a new warning message for web pages which they believe have been compromised.
The basic idea is to alert web users that the content on the web page might not be what the publisher had posted there.

It is also a good indication if your own websites have been hacked with junk spammy content.

Daily newspaper for iPad might launch on January 17 2011

Online sources are indicating that News Corporation would launch their exclusive online newspaper named Daily next month.


Daily would be launched on the Apple iPad platform on January 17 next year.

The company was hoping to be the first one to launch an exclusive digital newspaper for tablets but Virgin Media beat them to it with their own edition named Project.

Daily was earlier expected to launch within this month but apparently it has been delayed by a couple of weeks.
The company is hoping to use a new technology to generate revenues from the service by offering payments through iTunes. Customers would be billed automatically through their Apple iTunes account for new editions.

WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts that Work on WordPress Editor

WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts save a lot of time by letting you to perform your actions on the WordPress Editor quickly. Using these keyboard short keys make your job even more easier. The shortcuts listed below work for two different categories in the WordPress Editor Window such as HTML Editor Mode and Visual Editor Mode.

Keyboard Shortcuts that Works on HTML Editor

    Blockquote: Alt+SHIFT+q
    Bold: Alt+SHIFT+b
    Code: Alt+SHIFT+c
    Insert date/time: Alt+SHIFT+s
    Insert IMG URL: ALT-SHIFT-m
    Italics: Alt+SHIFT+i
    Line Break: SHIFT+Enter
    Link: Alt+SHIFT+a
    List Item (li): Alt+SHIFT+l
    Ordered List (ol): Alt+SHIFT+o
    Publish the Post: Alt+SHIFT+p
    Read More: Alt+SHIFT+t
    Redo: CTRL+y
    Strikethrough: Alt+SHIFT+d
    Undo: CTRL+z
    Unordered List (ul): Alt+SHIFT+u

Samsung Wave 2 Price in India – Samsung Wave II Price

Samsung Wave 2 Price in India

The new Samsung Wave II S8530 finally available in India. The Samsung Wave 2 Smartphone is Priced Rs. 18999 at major online retailer Flipkart, no offical launch wording of this smartphone in India from Samsung though.

The Samsung Wave 2 S8530 runs on latest version of Bada OS and powered by a iGHz processor. The Wave 2 sports a 3.7 inch super LCD display, a 5 MP camera for quality video recordings and playback, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HSDPA data, 2GB internal memory, up to 32GB external memory support, FM Radio, 3.5 mm audio jack, and available in Ebony Gray color.