Monthly Archive:: August 2011

Shotwell is a photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from your camera, view and edit them, and share them with others. Features : New Saved Search options Hierarchical tags Support for RAW+JPEG and selectable RAW developer Switched from GConf to GSettings “Hide Photos Already Imported” is now persistent Mimics no longer stored in home directory Added support for BMP format Many, many bugfixes How to Install : Open the terminal and run the following commands : sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install shotwell References : http://yorba.org/shotwell

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Symbian ,Flagship Mobile OS from Nokia gets a new version named as Symbian Belle.The new operating system includes UI improvements and new features that will be available on new  Nokia 700, 701 and 600 phones and as upgrade for Nokia N8, Nokia C7, Nokia C6-01 and Nokia E7 mobile phones. New features in Symbian Belle does remind me the Android UI: 1.Home screens: You can add upto six home screens   2.Live Widgets 3.Pull down notification Menu (like android) 4.New Navigation   5.Visual Multitasking   6.NFC Near field communications is now integrated into the operating system.     Nokia belle was big bet for Nokia before it releases some Windows phone 7 Phones. Will Nokia gain market share with this update? Share your comments on [&hellip

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Samsung,The Korean mobile phone manufacturer announced the new line up of its popular Galaxy smartphones.According to the press release,Samsung has created new naming system for its galaxy phones that helps people understand the category of the phone.   New Naming system is to create a simplified way of categorizing different galaxy phones tailor made for specific audiences. Galaxy S – Super smart phones – High end flagship device Galaxy R – Royal/Refined – Premium model – Power+performance+productivity Galaxy W – Wonder – Decent quality mobile – Style+performance Galaxy M – Magical – Economical Galaxy Y – Young – For young generation Class Indicators: Apart from this name a class indicator would additionally say you the type of phone with just knowing the name.For example if [&hellip

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Other than just a social network Google plus have many other uses that are discovered in the recent days,But Google plus itself hasn’t become a mainstream social network since Facebook and twitter play a dominant role.Moreover people will choose a network that have most of their friends are using (which is Facebook obviously).So every new user to Google plus will already be having an account in Facebook and twitter,so it will be difficult for them to update multiple social networks.   This idea of updating  different social networks while staying on one had led crossrider to develop extensions that help people to update Facebook and twitter while using Google plus. (cool) For accessing Facebook on Google plus you need to be install this extension.After installing [&hellip

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