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Video demonstration comparing BlackBerry PlayBook and iPad tablets in terms of browser speed, Adobe Flash support and HTML5 performance. An original post by Sociolatte

Just when you thought the holidays were through, Dec. 31 crept up right around the corner, bringing yet another set of   FrontierVille  Goals with it. Well, at least in the world of Facebook it did. Soon enough, pioneers everywhere will find a letter on their homestead reading that Frontier Jack's niece, Bess, is headed West for the New Year.   In the New Years Party Goals, players will have to prepare their homestead for the ultimate party to ring in the New Year for Bess. The preparations will span five new Goals wherein players will earn RSVPs, increasing their guest list to epic proportions in time for the party's end come Jan. 14. There's also a brand new item to be built in this series of Goals, the New Years Dance Floor.   Join us behind the break for a detailed guide on how to finish all five News Years Party Goals. In the first Goal of the New Year, "PartyVille," it's your job to make some room for that Dance Floor, buy it from the Market and randomly...

FrontierVille wishes all people on the frontier a happy new year and you are invited to the New Year's part. You now get a chance to have a bash on your homestead and invite all your friends to check your new dance moves. So prepare for the New Year's Part and make sure you throw a huge party and get all your friends excited. Happy New Year Everyone! Happy New Year Pardners! It's time to ring in the New Year on the old Homestead and we got some celebratin' to do! Invite all your friends to your party and show off them fancy moves on this here dance floor. Word has it Hank thinks he can dance, I'm thinkin' you fine folks will show him what's what tho! Here's whatcha gotta do to get ready for the bash: Build a Dance Floor! Complete 5 New Missions! Invite your friends to the party! Collect New Year's RSVP's that you can redeem for Limited Edition prizes! Prizes will be available to redeem after the New Year, and RSVP's will be deducted from your...

Skype has just announced that users can now use their iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch to make video calls. This way users can now use their iPhone 4 with the front and rear view camera to make calls to friends and relatives and share exactly what they are seeing in front of them. With this users can now make free voice and video calls over 3G and WiFi. Share video calls on Skype with people who are on the iPhone, PC or Mac. Talk face to face or show what you're seeing with front and rear facing cameras. Skype's technology allows users to now make video calls between two PCs. Smartphones or TVs. This App has been rushed in time for New Year's Eve the most important day of the year. Skype Video Calling is not available on Android Devices. Download the App for iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch now Download the App from iTunes An original post by Sociolatte

If you are one of those people who do not want any and everyone to send you invites. FB has a provision for you. The idea is that you allow only friends of friends to invite you. The idea is that for a person to invite you they would already need to be associated with a friend of yours. This way you control who can contact you. So, a perfect stranger will be unable to send you an invite. There are many people who need this and the reasons are varied. Maybe they look like some celebrity or have the same name. maybe a pretty face and the reasons go on and on and there are many people that just seem to get get too many invites from perfect strangers. The best way to control this is to allow only friends of friends to invite you. You may however loose on the old friend who will find it all the more difficult to add you as a friend. To allow only friends of friends to invite you. 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on Account 3. Click on privacy settings 4. Click on view settings under choose you...

List are useful when you want to follow a select group of people. So, if you want to keep a tab on what your family is saying simply create a list and be undated when tweets come from that list. This is a good way to follow people who are into something specific you want to keep your eyes on. Lists are a great way to follow and tweet with your buddies or co-workers or old school friends. Whatever be the need, everyone has their own need for a list and reasons would be too large to even comprehend. Please find below a guide to Twitter lists on the New Twitter. This had everything you need to know about lists on #NewTwitter. Twitter users can organize others into groups, or “lists”. When you click to view a list, you'll see a stream of Tweets from all the users included in that group. This article will help you get started with some lists basics. Note: you don't need to follow another user to add them to a list; if you want to read a user's Tweets but not see their messages i...

This guide is part of the  official  guides released by FarmVille.The New Year is right around the corner, and what better way to celebrate it than with your friends and neighbors in FarmVille? We’re providing you a way to do just that with our New Years Ball Drop and Party Barn. It’s party time in FarmVille and you’re all invited! The Party Barn is where you’ll be hosting your party—just build it up, then invite your neighbors over for the big party. The more neighbors you invite, the better the prizes you get (there’s no redeeming for this shindig, you automatically get the prize). Then on New Years the ball drops! Party Prep Work You’ll get the frame for the Party Barn for free the first time you play FarmVille after the update, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Party Barn frame on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later. You can be any level to place the Party Barn. The New Years Ball Party Barn is a const...

Limited Edition New Years Items: New Year Horse – 22 Farm Cash Party House – 25 Farm Cash Gold Party Dress – 10 Farm Cash Purple Party Dress – 10 Farm Cash Silver Party Dress – 10 Farm Cash Silver Tuxedo – 10 Farm Cash New Year Band – 20 Farm Cash Cider Fountain – 15 Farm Cash Happy New Year – 4,800 Coins Black Tiara – 5 Farm Cash Silver Tiara – 5 Farm Cash Black Top Hat – 5 Farm Cash Silver Top Hat – 5 Farm Cash Confetti Tree – 5 Farm Cash Mystery Game: A new Mystery Game is now available in the Market! There is a new animal, building, and a set of new decorations available to purchase, and we have all of the information about these new items here for your browsing pleasure. All together, these items are mostly Farm Cash items that will set you back a pretty penny (or virtual Farm Cash) if you choose to purchase them all, but there is one item for those that would rather stay clear of spending premium currency. Meet us behind the break to find out what it is. First off, the new animal...

FB's data team put together a lot of information and have come out with charts and info on how to become popular on the site. There are a lot of explanations given on what makes some users popular, has to do with updates of course. To analyze a person's status updates popularity about 1 million updates were pulled and analyzed. All updates were from US English speaking users. They started with a correlation between age and popularity. Younger people tend to have more negativity and older users updates were longer and also used more presuppositions and articles. Timing was also looked at the data team found that there seemed to be more positive updates in the morning. Well, comes as no surprise. Here comes the important part, your popularity depends on what your friends like. If a user updates his status with something that is liked by friends, then there are more likes on that status and bring in more readers, since friends of friends will also read the update. " Birds of ...

We know how trends work on Twitter it is now Google's turn to do the same and offer topics that are trending on their search engine. For those who want to know whats hot and happening on the world's largest search engine, comes Google Trends. With Google Trends you are able to view hot topics, Google insight for search, trends for specific websites and search for the latest hot topics. With Google trends for websites all you need to do is to enter a websites address and you get a complete map on how many visitors the website gets and their geographic location. Which is really helpful if you want to know a websites popularity.  You can also follow hot topics and hot searches and find out from where the queries originate and where visitors go after that search. Visiting Google Trends allows you know to know whats hot and happening as and when its taking place. So how does Google Trends work? If you want to know a certain topics popularity or a certain events popularity on Google ...

Tis the season of giving and receiving on FrontierVille! The Toy Factory is now available on your homestead where you can collect and redeem toys. Don't forget your neighbors need toys too, you don't want to be a scrooge. Share the spirit of the holidays You will see a yellow arrow and a Toy Factory building off to the right side of your homestead. Click the arrow and start growing your toy factory! Click on the toy factory to see this window: You can acquire Pioneer Toys by: Tending to your homestead, visiting neighbors, and collecting daily bonuses from your buildings. Requesting a Pioneer Toy from your neighbors directly (by clicking on the “Ask for Toys” button). Receive a Pioneer Toy bundle from a neighbor who uses the Free Gifts page. Purchase 5, 10, or 20 Pioneer Toys by clicking on the “Buy More Toys” button (for Horseshoes). Click on a Toy Bundle-related feed where you can receive a Toy Bundle. Note: We are rolling out this feature today and some of you m...

FrontierVille continues to celebrate the holidays and now players have a chance to build a gingerbread house. The Gingerbread house guide is part of the official guides from FrontierVille. You will have to complete the following tasks to complete the ginger bread house. Once you have completed the mission in CityVille you will see the horseshoe icon on the left side to claim your reward. Upon clicking it you will need to click on the green button to claim your reward. Please use the below links if you are having issues with the ones in the gingerbread house. Source [ FrontierVille Forums ] An original post by Sociolatte

You will have to complete the following tasks to complete the ginger bread house. Once you have completed the mission in CityVille you will see the horseshoe icon on the left side to claim your reward. Upon clicking it you will need to click on the green button to claim your reward. Please use the below links if you are having issues with the ones in the gingerbread house.

Contrary to rumors being circulated delicious is not being shut down. In fact Yahoo on their company blog have announced that delicious is not being shut down but will need to find a home outside the company. Delicious does have a lot of loyal and faithful users who have used this service to store all their bookmarks on the net. The panic created from the rumor that delicious is bing shut down has sent users scurrying to find an alternate service and try to export their bookmarks. People are actively discussing the situation on Twitter and many users have started to panic. Which is not the case since the service is not actually being shut down. This is what yahoo had to say about the whole thing What’s Next for Delicious? Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We’re genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can’t answer each of your questions individually, we wanted to address what w...

FarmVille Podcast - Dec 17th: Hey Farmers, and welcome to this week’s installment of the Official FarmVille Podcast! My name is Lexilicious, and I am here to bring you all of the latest news and information about FarmVille from Zynga. This week, we will be discussing our latest releases, I will be giving you guys information on some of our new community events and everyone will be getting a sneak peek of things coming to FarmVille in the near future. Now, The FarmVille team has seen some pretty creative farms popping up since the release of our Limited Edition Winter Holiday items, and we figure it’s only fair that the jolliest Farms get the recognition they deserve.   That’s right folks, it’s time for you to show us your decorating skills once again. This holiday season we want to see your farms at their merriest! Submit photos of your winter themed farms from Dec. 16th - Dec. 31st for a chance to win 500 Farm Cash and 500,000 coins in our Winter Holiday Decorating Contest! If you are...

Winter is here and snow is on the ground in big giant heaps! What better way to make use of this special time of the year by engaging in two of our favorite traditional snowy activities: snowball fights and snowman building? In FarmVille for a limited time you can now do both. Read on for the details! Blast ‘em with a Snowball A snowball fight isn’t much fun by yourself—you need to get your neighbors involved (perhaps unwittingly). You can start the fight simply by visiting your neighbor’s farm. You’ll see a pop-up window asking if you want to throw a snowball at them. To do this, simply click on the “Share” button: You’ll be prompted to post a snowball fight notice to their feed. You’ll see an on-screen animation of a snowball hitting them… or does it? There’s a chance you could miss your neighbor and hit someone else by accident.   Whenever someone gets hit, they have the option to throw a snowball back by clicking on the “Retaliate” button on the feed post: You’ll then be shown a ne...

Winter is here and snow is on the ground in big giant heaps! What better way to make use of this special time of the year by engaging in two of our favorite traditional snowy activities: snowball fights and snowman building? In FarmVille for a limited time you can now do both. Read on for the details! Blast ‘em with a Snowball A snowball fight isn’t much fun by yourself—you need to get your neighbors involved (perhaps unwittingly). You can start the fight simply by visiting your neighbor’s farm. You’ll see a pop-up window asking if you want to throw a snowball at them. To do this, simply click on the “Share” button: You’ll be prompted to post a snowball fight notice to their feed. You’ll see an on-screen animation of a snowball hitting them… or does it? There’s a chance you could miss your neighbor and hit someone else by accident. Whenever someone gets hit, they have the option to throw a snowball back by clicking on the “Retaliate” button on the feed post: You’ll then be shown a new ...

Yes, it's up and running you can now switch your profile to the whole new design. You can now share your profile like never before of Facebook. For those who do not wish to do so, they can stick to the old profile. With the new profile people will be able to share more and find and network with others who have similar interests. So once you choose to use the new profile layout and design it starts with a snapshot of yourself. You can then choose to share some of the activities you are into. Giving you a chance to share your experiences.You can also share your interests and highlight your meaningful relationships. Like when people find you on FB they will also be able to see people you went to college with etc. Many users have already started using the new profile design. Many others will not shift since a lot of personal stuff gets highlighted. You can also share how you connect with friends.  Motorcycling with Drew Hamlin and 2 others We go on rides through the bay every Sunda...

The Winter Holiday Design-a-Stocking Contest is on. Get ready to see a lot of Xmas themed contests on PetVille and other Zynga games on Facebook. Christmas is already in the air and you can now feel it on the games you play. The Rules: One design entry per person. You may submit up to 3 images of your single design in a single post. You must post your entry to this thread. Please see this guide on how to post images . You can submit your designs as a digital image that you created using paint or other design program, a scanned or digital photo of a home made stocking or even ASCII art. The submitted design must be owned and created by you. "Borrowing" other people's designs is grounds for disqualification. Copywritten characters are NOT allowed under any circumstances. Disqualified entries may be removed from the submission thread. No insulting or making negative comments about other contest entries, this will not be allowed and may result in the disqualification...

If you are reading this you are probably a bit stuck with figuring out how to take and upload a screenshot. This tutorial will provide you with step by step instructions using windows 7 (a tutorial using an earlier version of windows can be found   here ), however a quick guide for those using Mac OS is also included. This tutorial is using CityVille in the example, but it can be applied to any game you are playing. Taking a screenshot. Step 1: For best results, go into full screen by clicking on the "Full Screen" button. (click the image to play the video) Step 2: Press the print screen button on your keyboard: If you were in full screen hit Esc on your keyboard or click on the "Full Screen" button again, otherwise go to the next step. Step 3: Click on the windows start button, go to programs, accessories, then select "Paint". (click the image to play the video). ] Step 4: Once the program is up on your screen go to edit, then select "paste". (c...