Sony CyberShot TX55 – thinnest camera ever

Everybody is counting down the days until September, when the thinnest camera , CyberShot TX55 , we have ever seen will be launched!
Sony CyberShot TX55 is smashing the market having only 12.2mm (this is a bit thicker than a pencil!). But when it comes to resolution, zoom quality and keeping performance – the size is not an issue. Sony is using brand new technologies to fulfill our expectations:

- By Pixel Super Resolution: the 5X optical zoom range is doubled with this innovating technology, so it can reach 10X optical zoom without any quality or sharp loose .
- Picture Effect: it eliminates the use of other photo-editing programs on taken pictures, as it allows everybody to express his / hers artistic ideas using the built in camera’s effects.

Features:

- Image stabilizer for shooting even while walking (so it corrects possible vertical or horizontal handshakes)
- 3D pictures
- Detailed 42.9 MP 3D panorama shooting ability
- Large touchscreen display of 3.3”
- High Resolution images of 16.2 MP
- 1080i AVCHD video, 60 fps, full HD function
- Flash memory and card slot compatible with M2 and micro SD / SDHC (up to 16 GB for ideal media) – the cards offered by Sony have free downloadable PC software
- You can take a 12 MP picture while recording, without interrupting your full HD video
- Styled new look, four colors available: black, silver, red and purple.
The rumored price is 350$, but it’s worth every penny if the camera performs as it is told.

10 Fantastic iPhone Apps That Use Facebook Connect

1. PhoneBook (Free)

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You’ve got Facebook friends, and you’ve got iPhone contacts, and there’s likely overlap, so PhoneBook brings the two together. The free app from Somo Enterprises lets you sync your Facebook account with your iPhone, and create a visual phonebook of your Facebook friends using your friends’ photos. Whenever you want to call or text message one of your friends, you can just load up the application and click on your friend’s picture.

The application can also tell you how many minutes or text messages you have left in the current month on your calling plan, but unfortunately, it currently only works for AT&T customers in the US.

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2. iFightU ($0.99)

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iFightU is a really innovative iPhone game, not because of the gameplay — that’s just classic side-scroller fighting game fare (think Street Fighter), and not all that impressive — but because it puts your friends in the game. Using Facebook Connect, iFightU lets you grab photos of your friends and attach their faces to the characters that fight in the game, which makes everything a lot more fun.

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3. Scramble (Free)

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Scramble is a great word game from Zynga. It plays a lot like the classic board game Boggle, in which you search for words in a grid of letters, but takes advantage of the iPhone’s touch screen beautifully letting you swipe over letters to form words. Scramble also lets users connect to their Facebook accounts to challenge their friends over the social network.

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4. Top Friends (Free)

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Slide’s Top Friends app, which essentially allows users on Facebook to designate a handful of users as their best friends (yes, like you can on MySpace), was one of the first big applications on Facebook and remains extremely popular with over 12 million monthly active users. The free iPhone edition lets you connect with Facebook to view your Top Friends on the go on an interactive map, SuperPoke them, and email, SMS, or call them.

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5. Scrabble ($4.99)

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Scrabble maker Hasbro made waves last year when it asked Facebook to remove fan favorite Scrabulous — a very well made Scrabble clone game that had become hugely popular on the social network. Since Scrabulous shut down, Hasbro has been trying to make amends with fans by releasing not only a slick Facebook game, but also a great iPhone version that connects to Facebook so you can challenge your friends wherever theyplay.

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6. LuckyCal (Free)

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LuckyCal helps you find your Facebook friends and fun stuff to do while you’re on the road. Simply login to Facebook via the app’s Facebook Connect integration, then let LuckyCal access your social graph and find friends who are nearby. The app will also suggest events happening in the area that match your interests.

Because the app uses the iPhone 3.0 GPS, you never need to tell it where you are.

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7. Find My Friend ($0.99)

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It can be difficult to find someone at a place you’ve never been or in a large crowd. We’ve all heard something like this before, “I’m sitting next to the woman in the blue tank top and to the left of the second big tree.” Say what? Find My Friend is a new application that attempts to solve this problem using both Facebook Connect and the new iPhone 3.0 Maps and GPS features.

Once you connect to Facebook, you can invite your friends to link up with you. If they accept, the app goes to work using the iPhone’s GPS and Google Maps functions to guide you to your friend. Of course, this app will only be as accurate as the iPhone’s built in global positioning system, but still, it’s a neat idea and a cool use of Facebook Connect.

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8. Trapster (Free)

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Trapster uses the power of crowdsourcing to alert drivers to speed traps, police cameras, and check points. While the ethics of using an app to help you drive faster than the law allows is up for debate, the application is undeniably popular with over 600,000 users on the iPhone alone.

And now the app has Facebook Connect integration, so you can publish traps you see to your Facebook mini-feed to alert your friends. You can also publish trips you take to Facebook, so your friends can see what you’re up to and where you’re traveling.

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9. iNapkin ($2.99)

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Everyone has heard stories about famous discoveries, songs, policies, and ideas for companies scribbled on the backs of cocktail napkins. It’s hard to say how many of those stories are true — maybe none of them, but the back of a napkin idea has a certain cultural cachet nonetheless.

iNapkin is a neat note-taking application for the iPhone that brings cocktail napkin scribbles into the digital age. The application uses Facebook Connect to let you share your notes, doodles, and brilliant ideas with your Facebook friends.

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10. ThisMoment (Free)

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ThisMoment is a unique application that lets users author “moments,” which are mashups of text, photos, and videos drawn from Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and elsewhere. The site utilizes Facebook Connect for sign up, and the ThisMoment iPhone application allows you to create moments using local iPhone assets and then share them back out to your friends using Facebook Connect.

Top 10 Best Twitter Client Apps For Your iPhone.

There is no doubt that, the social media is one of the best and easiest ways to express your thoughts and being connected to your friends and family. And also we are now getting more social and it is a social world that we are living in right now.

As you know since the Smartphone’s and gadgets are getting very common so the social integration with such devices are more profitable to the producer. The gadget developers are getting more open to social media apps and spending more time to design / introduce something special in their gadgets so that, it would stand out of the crowd.
Social networking websites such as Facebook governing our daily lives, social media has definitely changed the way we communicate. Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of the micro-messaging service Twitter. When it comes to Twitter, iDevice owners are quite spoiled as they have a whole slew of options to choose from. If you own an iPhone and you love Twitter, and somehow you don’t like the official app, then you should definitely check out these Twitter alternative clients.

1. Twittelator Pro

If what you are looking for a Twitter client are all about the features, then Twittelator Pro should be right down your alley. This particular Twitter client boasts over 200 features such as theming, advanced searching, finding nearby tweets, friend list, drafting and offline tweeting, multiple account support, ability to upload to WordPress and Posterous and many more. Even though it is packed with features the interface remains simple and intuitive. Highly recommended to power tweeters.
Buy Twittelator Pro App from the iTunes App Store for $4.99.

2. Echofon

Echofon is a free full-featured Twitter client which has a nice looking clean interface and support for push notifications. Push notifications are displayed when you get a @mention, direct message, reply or if you have gained a follower. Another notable feature of Echofon is that it gives you the ability to mute users, clients and hashtags. This is a universal app which means you can use it both for the iPhone and iPad. Upgrading to Pro will remove all the ads from the app.
Get Echofon App from the iTunes App Store for FREE. $4.99 for Pro.

3. Twitterrific

Twitterrific has the distinction of being the first ever Twitter client that was made available in the App Store? So does it still hold up? At one point, the developers packed this Twitter app with loads of feature making it much more complex than necessary with every update. But the developers decided to strip it out of its bloated features and came up with a full-featured and highly usable Twitter client with a great looking user interface. But don’t get us wrong, it is still packed with useful features such as tweet translator, timeline filters for tweets and supports URL shortening. Going Pro for $4.99 lets you manage multiple accounts.
Get Twitterrific app from the iTunes App Store for FREE. $4.99 for Pro.

4. TweetDeck

If you love both Facebook and Twitter, then you’ll find lots to love about TweetDeck. For starters, this neat Twitter client lets you update both your Facebook and Twitter accounts directly from a single app. With TweetDeck you can update your timeline, post to multiple accounts, geo-tag tweets, create groups, share files and pretty much everything that you can do while Twittering on a desktop computer. The iOS app can also be synced with the desktop version.
Get TweetDeck app from the iTunes App Store for FREE.

5. Tweetbot

As the developer claims: “Tweetbot is a full-featured iPhone (and iPod touch) Twitter client with a lot of personality.” Well I don’t exactly what that means, but what we have here is solid Twitter client with a clean interface and is feature packed. You can enjoy features such as multiple timelines, smart gestures, customizable navigation, push notifications via Boxcar, drafting, list management as many more. For your most basic needs, Tweetbot should be a great app to have.
Buy Tweetbot app from the iTunes App Store for $2.99.

6. TwitBird

TwitBird is a fast Twitter application with lots of unique features and a very usable interface. For a free Twitter client it sure does pack a lot of features such as multiple accounts (up to 16 in the Pro version), theming, geo-tagging tweets, advanced nearby tweet searching, push notifications and so on. Twitbird is available in three “exciting flavours”: Free (ad-supported, maximum of 2 accounts), Premium (no ads, maximum of 2 accounts) and Pro (ad-free, maximum of 16 accounts).
Get TwitBird app from the iTunes App Store for FREE.

7. Osfoora

Another feature packed Twitter client for you with a nice elegant and efficient UI which should appeal to most users. Due to its numerous features, Osfoora is one of best Twitter clients in terms of flexibility. Twitter users should love features such as multiple account support, tweet manager, Twitlonger support, draft manager, Geo-tagging tweets, tweet translator, advanced searching, URL shortener support and many more. Overall, a rock-solid Twitter app.
Buy Osfoora app from the iTunes App Store for $2.99.

8. TweetList Pro

Tweetlist separates itself from other Twitter client as it offers a great way for you to view and quickly switch between your Twitter lists. The app itself is especially snappy with a highly usable clean interface. Aside from the Twitter lists, it also offer features such as VoiceOver accessibility, Push notifications via Boxcar, full conversation view, Twitlonger support, multiple account support, ReadItLater, Instapaper and Mobilizer support and many more.
Buy TweetList Pro app from the iTunes App Store for $2.99.

9. HootSuite

Here’s another free Twitter app that you should check out. In addition to sending Twitter updates, Hootsuite also allows sending of Facebook and Foursquare updates. Pretty neat if you like managing your many different social networking accounts. Hootsuite has a column approach which is quite similar to TweetDeck which enables the users to easily and quickly switch lists and feed types. For a free Twitter client, we’d go as far as saying that it is definitely one of the best.
Get HootSuite app from the iTunes App Store for FREE.

10. Tweetings

If you prefer a Twitter client that’s free from clutter, then why don’t you check out Tweetings? It might have a simple, clean interface but it doesn’t skimp on the features. Using Augmented Reality, this app lets you use an advanced search feature that lets you find out who’s trending or who’s nearby. Other features includes mute function, push notifications support, inline photo viewing, search timeline, GeoLocation support, tweet scheduler, TwitLonger & Twtmore support and so on.
Buy Tweetings app from the iTunes App Store for $2.99.

Mozilla hopes to help Web apps match phone apps.

What if, when you fired up your mobile phone's browser, it showed a list of the same basic apps your phone does today? And what if a developer who wanted an app to span iPhones, Android phones, and Windows phones only had to write one Web application to do that?

That's the vision that Mozilla, developer of the Firefox Web browser, wants to enable through a project called WebAPI that's designed to make Web-based applications compete better with native apps. And Mozilla has begun hiring programmers for it as part of a plan to build the necessary plumbing by next February, CNET has learned.

Web apps have grown steadily in maturity and sophistication over the years, but they still can't do all of what software written to run natively on a computing device can do. And with the arrival of newly powerful mobile devices--those using Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating systems in particular--native app programming has experienced a renaissance.

Mozilla, though, wants the Web to catch up--at least as far as mobile phones. The WebAPI effort aims to provide HTML-based software with the necessary application programming interfaces (APIs).

"We are aiming at providing all the necessary APIs to build a basic HTML5 phone experience within the next 3 to 6 months," the Mozilla wiki page on WebAPI said. Among the interfaces planned are those to interact with a phone's dialer, address book, contacts list, and camera.

If Mozilla succeeds in the effort, the project could ease the lives of developers who today must decide whether to allocate resources for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and other operating systems. And, given that Firefox is front and center in the project, it could help Mozilla address its competitive weakness in the mobile market compared to the iOS and Android browser that both are based on the WebKit project.

Mozilla need not start from scratch. Some related work has been under way already through a group called the Device API, a project that browser maker Opera has pushed. In addition, some of the abilities are present in Adobe Systems' Flash technology, though that hasn't spread widely through the mobile device market.

Mozilla is hiring
Mozilla's Jonas Sicking revealed the WebAPI project on a mailing list yesterday and said Mozilla is hiring several full-time programmers to support the effort.

"We invite our community to work with our newly formed WebAPI team on closing the device API gap that exists today between the open Web platform and native APIs," Sicking said. "As with all other additions that we make to the Web platform, the goal is for them to be available in all browsers. We believe that Web developers should have a consistent and reliable platform to build on."

Mozilla hopes to standardize the new WebAPI interfaces--and significantly, it plans to do so through the World Wide Web Consortium. Years earlier, the W3C lost some HTML standardization initiative to a browser group called Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). The W3C, though, re-engaged with HTML standardization and now is working to speed its standardization process to match the pace of Web development better.

Web programming is growing by leaps and bounds for many reasons. Among them: the arrival of mobile phones with capable browsers and higher-speed Net connections; the surging performance of JavaScript, the programming language used for Web applications; the embrace of cloud computing, in which applications live on a server on the Internet and can be accessed from any device with a browser; and the competition among Microsoft, Apple, Google, Opera, and Mozilla to advance their browsers with competitive new features.

Nonetheless, it's native programming for mobile devices that's arguably the hottest new area. It's a market without dominant incumbent companies, flush with new customers and well integrated with payment mechanisms to deliver money to coders. The fact that Google's Chrome OS has strong internal competition from Android shows just how big a challenge Mozilla has in bringing its Web app programming vision to reality.

Linking with B2G
The Mozilla project dovetails with Mozilla's Boot to Gecko (B2G) effort. Its goal is "building a complete, standalone operating system for the open Web," all with a mobile device focus, such that opening your browser is the functional equivalent of turning on your phone.

In that regard, WebAPI also helps Mozilla match Google's Chrome OS, a browser-based operating system project that in recent months has arrived on lower-end laptops called Chromebooks. While the Mozilla and Google efforts compete to an extent, fundamentally they share a common goal in making the Web suited for advanced apps, not just basic ones. Right now programming something complex like Google Docs requires herculian abilities, and even that can't yet do basic things such as store data when the network goes down.

One more project of note, from the company that arguably has the most to lose from Web applications: Microsoft. Windows 8 will use Internet Explorer 10 for "tailored mode" applications, giving Web programming another big shot in the arm and, in all likelihood, significantly advancing the programming tools available to developers.

It's a somewhat ironic move, given Microsoft's fear in the 1990s that Netscape's effort to make the browser and the Web into something of a replacement for Windows. That fear led Microsoft into aggressive actions that ultimately led to the expensive, drawn-out antitrust lawsuit that took some of the wind out of Microsoft's sails.

What's not yet clear is how universal applications written for these foundations will be. Google has its Chrome Web Store, for example, for distributing Web apps that work with Chrome; some of those are Web apps that work on other browsers, too, but browser incompatibilities can interfere with that--particularly with new, immature Web interfaces. In addition, the Chrome Web store comes with payment and permission mechanisms that won't necessarily carry over beyond the Chrome realm. Windows 8, though it's using the same basic ingredients such as HTML and JavaScript, could come with other constraints. However, Microsoft hasn't detailed plans yet.

Web Intents
Chrome OS and Mozilla's B2G also are embarked in parallel on efforts to mirror a technology on Android phones called "intents." The intents system lets applications register to be mechanisms to handle certain actions that can be performed with certain types of data. For example, the intents system can hand off a photo in the photo gallery to the Facebook app for posting when a user taps the "share" button.

To this end, Google is working on a project called Web Intents that does the same thing, but Web applications are registered to perform the actions and the browser hands off the content. Mozilla's parallel is called Web Activities, part of its experimental OpenWebApps add-on.

Mozilla is tackling other uncertainties, too: should its interfaces be high-level ones such as one for the camera, or low-level ones such as one for communicating over USB? And what's the best way to constrain the APIs so they don't cause security problems?

The work, combined with the rapid development of browsers themselves, means Web apps have a vibrant future. It means a certain amount of chaos for Web programmers, but the confusion of active projects is a better alternative to the stagnant waters of dormant or dying environments.