Instagram has been around since 2010, available only to iOS devices. Android users have been waiting patiently, with repeated promises of an Android version arriving soon. While we knew the Android version of Instagram was coming sooner rather than later, with the release being teased just last month at South by Southwest Interactive, the exact release date wasn’t clear. Well, the day has finally arrived. With more than 430,000 Android users on the waiting list, Instagram is now available in Google Play. The app carries with it the same features (except tilt-shift/blur) and a similar user [...]

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Before you’ve even sipped your morning brew, a regional German court has delivered yet another stern judgement affecting a multinational organization. This time it’s Facebook back in the dock over the Friend Finder feature, which uploads a user’s contact list to Zuckerberg’s bunker without proper warning. Another offense involves the ownership of data — any original photo or music track uploaded to Facebook supposedly belongs to the company and can be used however it likes, which has now been deemed to breach data protection laws. Someone ought to add this to [...]

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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has instructed telecommunications operators in the country to filter SMS (Short Message Service) messages that include words that it considers objectionable, drawing criticism from civil rights groups in the country. “The filters infringe several basic human and fundamental rights enshrined in our constitution, and we think will end up curbing political discourse in the country,” Shahzad Ahmad, country coordinator for Bytes for All, Pakistan, a human rights organization focused on Internet freedom, said on Monday. The PTA is protecting moral [...]

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For three weeks now, Android fans have been fidgeting impatiently. Specifically, ever since ASUS chairman Jonney Shih took the stage at last month’s AsiaD conference and teased the next-gen Transformer tablet. Though he only gave us a quick glimpse, he recited a laundry list of specs: a 10.1-inch display, 8.3mm-thick body, mini-HDMI output, microSD slot and an update to Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of the year, if not sooner. Not to mention, it’ll be the first tablet packing NVIDIA’s hot-off-the-presses Tegra 3 SoC, making it the first-ever quad-core tablet. We knew this: we’d [...]

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A user is confronted with many questions before choosing a laptop that is economical in price as well as equipped with quality and latest features. With the increasing number of laptops and minor price/specification differences a user turns dubious about which laptop to choose?. Top 10 Laptops Ranking 2011 The Top 10 Laptops Ranking 2011 provides the user with guidance about the latest laptops in 2011 that have good quality, reasonable price, latest features and are trendy. Below is a list of top ten laptops to watch out in 2011. 01- Apple Mac Book Pro (2.7 GHz, Core i7, 13 inch) The Apple Mac [...]

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Some of you may or may not be familiar with chroot, for those who are familiar with chroot good job and for those that aren’t shame on you. Just kidding please read this for some more info about chroot. Now that we all know what chroot is, maybe it could be fun to create an chroot environment, and to make it more exciting we are not creating an x86 but an arm processor environment There are tons of ways of doing this but this is how I am doing it. You can use this method on any ubuntu from 9.04 and higher, but keep in mind I am using 10.04 so if you get error’s try to blame it on that instead [...]

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In previous lists we have looked at amazing holiday destinations – today we are looking at the bottom ten; these are ten places you don’t want to visit! Having said that, maybe the curious would get a thrill from visiting some of these strange and dangerous places, but for most of us, reading about it is quite enough. Feel free to mention any other contenders for the list in the comments. 10.Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Pacific Ocean The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly [...]

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The number of Android devices officially compatible with the Netflix streaming app has more than doubled in v2.3, growing from 9 to 24. Last night the description was updated with a new list of devices but the actual updated APK only started pushing this afternoon, bringing Netflix not only to the Lenovo tablet announced last night but also to the Droid 3, HTC Thunderbolt, Motorola Atrix, several Galaxy S phones including the Epic 4G and Fascinate and more. Fragmentation is clearly still an issue for DRM’d apps like this and Hulu Plus, but at least now there’s a growing number of recent [...]

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Soon the Christmas time will come, and winter related designs will become more and more popular – I am hoping these brushes will help You to create all those winter season works. There are pine, ice, snowflake, snow and many different Christmas brushes for every taste in this list. Also these brushes are great inspiration to remind You the most popular Christmas symbols. Put these brushes in good use or just bookmark them for later use! Remember soon these brushes will become handy! Feel free to share [...]

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It has been a very busy day with new features being uncovered in Google+. After tons of other Google+ tricks, we now have something for those who like to highlight and format their text while updating status. This trick is very simple and works in the same way as in Google Talk. The list to bold, underline and italicize your text is given below.   How to Use Rich-Text Formatting Features in Google+ You can type in bold, strike or italics in Google+. Awesome, eh? Use the following to write you text in that way. Write your text between * * for bold. Write your text between – – for [...]

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