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If you feel you have been unfairly screened by airport security or maybe called aside due to ethnic profiling there is an app for you to launch a complaint. Developed by the Sikh Coalition who have been subject to more airport security checks since Sep 11, because  of the turbans they wear. Some of them have also been asked to remove their turbans which they wear for religious reasons. The App has been released for both the iPhone and Android phones. The app has been released with clearance from the Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration, both were notified of the app before its launch. The agencies agreed to allow the app to use the agencies' system for submitting complaints. TSA in response to the app have said that they do not profile passengers based on race, ethnicity or religion and are constantly working with various communities, including the Sikh Coalition to help them understand unique passenger needs.  FlyRights: How does it work Once ...

Image Credit: ieatwords There is an interesting trending topic on Twitter today and it's called 'Titanic II'. The topic started trending after news broke that self-made Aussie  mining   billionaire Clive Palmer said the he has commissioned state-owned Chinese company CSC Jinling Shipyard to build the  Titanic II with the same dimensions as its predecessor. Once ready the ship will make its first voyage from England to New York in 2016.   Palmer has also said that Titanic 2 will be every bit as luxurious as the original but with the added benefits of state-of-the-art technology and modern navigation systems. With the Centenary anniversary coming up for the RMS Titanic there seems to be a flurry of activity to remember the doomed ship. There is also a TV episode set to air to bring newer insights and stories that might not have been heard till now.  Mr Palmer also says that hits effort is a way to pay tribute to the spirit of the men and women who built the original ship. He ...

Image Credit: Techreport There is a really interesting report by the NYTimes about how Apple keeps taxes low on $35b in profit. The basic strategy is that they set up small offices around the world to collect and invest the companies profits. The places they choose to do this are countries or states where corporate tax is not as heavy as in other places. A good example would be an office in Reno, Nevada where the corporate tax rate is zero. California’s corporate tax rate is 8.84 percent. Whereas Nevada’s? Zero. Places like these are where Apple creates offices to sidestep taxes legally. Similarly Apple has offices in other countries which are tax heavens like Ireland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the British Virgin Islands. All have low tax rates. The finding by the newspaper actually show how Apple has been industrious and have done it all legally. Apple has responded to this criticism and this is what they have to say. They say that they have created a vast number of jobs over th...

Image Credit: DigitialTrends After the SOPA fiasco where the internet stood still for a day the US congress now wants to push ahead with a bill Called CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act).  This bill like SOPA is causing quiet a stir online. With techdirt stating that 'With this bill the Government is saying that the 4th amendment does not exist for people online. And as long as the US Government can claim that an individual committed a cyber security crime they can do whatever they want with information collected from an someone's online activity.  In a Q&A article Cnet goes on to describe this bill as a way for the US government to spy on its own citizens. it would give the Gov the right to monitor Social Networks and more than that even Internet Service providers. Which would essentially give them the power to monitor all activity of everyone online in the US.  The national.ae also goes on to report that the bill has the support of Facebook and Goog...

Google has another Easter Egg out and it's called 'Zer Rush', taking its name from the real-time game Starcraft. The Zerg race is know to mass produce offensive units in a short span of time. Enabling the player to overpower with the sheer power of numbers creating a 'Rush'.  So what happens when you type 'Zerg Rush' into Google.com You get the normal answers to this query but as you being to go through the search results little O's start dropping form the top and begin to chew away at your results and eat it right out of the page. The only way for you to prevent this is to use your mouse pointer and destroy the little O's or Zerglings. At the end of the game you can share your scores on Google+. Also once the game is over all the little o's form into two big GG- which is gaming slang for good game.  Just type 'Zerg Rush' into Google to play around with this Easter Egg. An original post by Sociolatte

Skype launched a campaign to bring back humanity into our world of social networking. Called 'It's time for Skype', meaning more face to face is better and brings real conversations back into the lives of people. Unlike staying in touch using 140 characters (think Twitter) and upgrade from a wall post to a first grade conversations. As part of this campaign Skype has launched something called humoticons, this is just like emoticons that everyone is used to with one little difference. You can use your own face and create a Humoticon with your own face and personality. This can be shared on a special page on Skype as well as a sharing option. There is a URL attached to every Humoticon you create so you can share it with freinds. Next time you or your pals are chatting they can use your Humoticon while chatting. Some people think this is quiet Bizarre but if you look at some of the Humoticons people are building they are quiet funny and entertaining.  The above pic illustrates...

Facebook have announced something called the Antivirus marketplace or A V Marketplace, brought to you by the Facebook security team. Facebook have tied up with key Antivirus partners - McAfee, Microsoft Security Essentials, Norton AntiVirus, Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition and Trend Micro internet security for PCs and Macs. They hope to bring greater security to Facebook's over 900 million users. These Antivirus software can be downloaded to use free or 6 months or a year depending on what security system you choose to download. Facebook have said that one of the key trade-offs from this entire deal is the sharing of blacklisted URLs between the security partners and themselves. What this means is that - millions of links are being shared on Facebook everyday. Many of these links are actually malicious and are from spammers who are out to get you. There are 1000's of scams being launched constantly on Facebook everyday with hackers and spammers trying to rob and steal yo...

Once of the first things that many professionals who join LinkedIn do, is to find groups that they might like and then join a group. Sometimes however the group does not quiet deliver as promised and can actually become quiet a headache, in the sense that you keep getting updates that are no longer relevant to you. There are many other reasons however as to why you might choose to leave or unsubscribe from a Group. Leaving the membership of the group means you will have to reapply for membership in most groups. Especially groups that are quiet closed. Leaving, unsubscribing or becoming a non-member of a LinkedIn group is quiet easy and you can follow the steps below to get it done ASAP. How to leave a LinkedIn Group 1. Login to LinkedIn 2. Click on Groups and then Your Groups to get the complete list of groups you have joined on LinkedIn 3. Click on the group you want to leave 4. Click on 'More' found as the last tab button beside the heading of the group 5. Click on 'Your...

Yahoo Social Reader has become extremely popular on Facebook and for good reason. You find all the articles your friends read on your news feed and you want to read them too. But do you want all your friends to know about all the articles you read. Some articles might have suggestive titles that might caste you in a different light among your friends. So if you wondering how to bypass or disable Yahoo Social Reader and continue with your reading without letting your friends know all about your reading habits. Follow the instructions below to adjust your yahoo Social Reader Privacy settings. The problem arises when the app keeps posting to your news feed and Timeline and even if you read something on the Yahoo News website it gets posted to your news feed and Timeline on Facebook. There are a couple of ways to ensure the articles you read on Yahoo News is visible only to you. 1. When you click on an article to read, you find a pop-up. 2. Below the question ' Who can see posts this a...

This answers the question that many users have. How do I view Instagram photos if I am not a member ?. The problem arises due to the fact that Instagram does not have a web interface. Which means that if you do not have the iPhone, iPad or Andriod app you are not able to view all the photos and browse Instagram. But thanks to the rich and flexible API offered by Instagram, developers have been able to come up with web apps that let you view photos and browse through Instagram. To browse through all photos using the freely avialble web apps

So if you are surfing the web and find interesting content that you might want to read later on your Kindle there is now an easy way to do so. Available for your Windows and MAC PC - Amazon's Send To Kindle desktop App makes things easy and lets you easily send stuff to your Kindle for easy reading. Once you download the app onto your PC you can then easily use functions like drag-and-drop to send articles or documents to your Kindle. You can also use the print option and choose print and then send to Kindle. Once you do this a PDF version of the webpage or document is then sent to your Kindle reader.  How does it work Once you download the App on your PC or MAC it installs as a virtual printer. So using that virtual printer you can choose to transfer any page to your Kindle by using that printer. Which will then transfer any web page to your kindle in PDF format. Handy if you send a lot of PDF or DOC files to your Kindle. Or You could select the documents you want to transfer by s...

The long awaited cloud storage service from Google is finally here. It is being rolled out in a phased manner and you can still click the 'notify me' link to be notified when your Google Drive is ready. Google Drive will work like other cloud-sync and storage services like DropBox and Microsoft's SkyDrive . Cloud Storage is web based storage that allows you to upload and store files and then share it with other using file synchronization. So once you have Google Drive it will create a single folder on your computer and sync your files with Google's servers and all your other devices that have Google Drive.  Google Drive - How to get started You will need to go to the Google Drive home and then install Google Drive on your PC. The service then gives you 5GB of free storage in which you can upload all your files. You can upload docs, pics, movies etc. Once synced with your other devices. You files will now be available wherever you are. All you need is an internet connec...

Google+ has been growing and is on track to reach 400 million by the end of this year. With such massive numbers you can make the most of it by using something that is known as a hovercard. It works something like a name card of a business card for your Google+ profile. What is a Hovercard When you are going through all your Google+ post on your page and you hover over someone's name. A small pop-up appears with a photo of that person and a tag line. If you have more than one photo uploaded then all those photos will show. The tag line is something people get to read and know more about you when they find either your posts or find your profile on Google+. You can also creatively edit your photos and your cover photo to create an amazing visual display. How to edit your Hovercard 1. Login to Google+ 2. Click on Profile 3. Click on Edit profile 4. Beside 'Works At' click Edit 5. In the Employer name bar fill in your tag line. (Some people have just the name of the employer w...

DropBox has launched a new feature, giving you the ability to create and share a link. This link can be created for all the stuff you have stored in the cloud. So if you have uploaded images of your vacation, Docs and presentations and videos that you have uploaded and stored in the cloud. Once you create a link you can then share it with friends and family and they can view it online in a web viewer by DropBox. The web viewer is quiet neat and aesthetically designed in full browser view for better viewing. Once you share a link with friends and family, they do not need an account to view the same. Whoever has the link can view your content in an open full browser. Since you content is already in the cloud there is no download required and people who you have shared the link with, can view your photos, docs and videos immediately. If you are a DropBox user and someone shares a link with you, you will be able to save that link in your folder. This is also being called DropBox instant s...

Image Credit: iPad Wallpaper 1080p or the shortened form for HD video and is available on the new iPad. High-Definition videos are fun to watch on the new iPad but before you do so you will first need to enable it on the new iPad before you can enjoy your videos in HD. So here's how to toggle 1080p video on your new iPad . 1. Go to iTunes and make sure you have the latest version installed. Tap on iTunes and then on 'Check for updates'. Make sure you have iTunes version 10.6 or higher. 2. In the iTunes menu tap in iTunes > preferences > store  3. Underneath automatic downloads you find 'When Downloading high definition Videos, prefer (720p) click the down arrow and choose 1080p . 4. Click 'Ok' to close window Now whenever you want to download movies or other videos for iTunes. iTunes will know you want only 1080p videos. This is the way to toggle 1080p videos on your iPad. Check the video below for more info and see how it's done. An original post by...

Image Credit: Webpronews HDR or 'high dynamic range' photography is a simple concept. You use your iPhone's camera and enter HDR mode and start shooting. What happens is that every time you take a photo, three images are shot. Low, regular and high - these images are then combined to create one really cool image that seeks to capture the image in as close to reality as possible both in terms of lighting and the mood at that time. The iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S has HDR mode which you can make optimal use of to capture some amazing shots and impress all your friends with your photography skill. This is a brief guide to help you make the most of your iPhone's HDR photo capture mode. of course the most high-quality HDR photos are taken with dSLR cameras and then edited in programs like Photoshop. How to turn on HDR mode on the iPhone Currently available on the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s. Head over to your camera > tap options  >  HDR on. How to capture HDR images on the iPhon...

You know how your Google Reader can fill up with a large number of feed subscriptions that you keep on adding. Sometimes the number of RSS feeds you subscribe to can become overwhelming and many times some of the websites or blogs that you have subscribed to, no more appeal to you. If you are new to Google Reader - well, it is an RSS feed reader which you can use to subscribe to a websites content or use to follow your favorite blogs online. Once you subscribe to a feed it populates itself in Google Reader, and all content is now available to you all in one place. You can then begin your daily reading without having to actually visit each of those sites or blogs online. Which can be quiet tedious, Google Reader is handy and saves a lot on time. All websites and logs have a 'Subscribe' button clicking on this will allow you to add that blogs or websites feed to your reader. If you have added a number of feeds and want to delete those feeds that have become irrelevant or maybe t...

If you have download the Facebook app for your Android device one thing that needs to be fixed is speed. It might take forever to open and leave you staring at a screen as it struggles to load photos, news feed and Timeline. Fast Facebook which is still in beta seeks to do away with all the slowness and promises a much faster Facebook experience. The App has gotten good reviews on the web and has got a rating with an 3.9 average. Comments also praise this  Android App .  Fast Facebook is an Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) inspired app and therefore has an amazing look and feel and the ability to have themes. You can theme your Facebook experience or upload and use your own background images.  The design is based on Android 4.0 and is designed to be streamlined and run much faster that the original Facebook app for Android, which can be downloaded here .  Fast Facebook has the following features that bring out it's highlights - Customizable - It's fast with photos and profiles loading ...

Facebook have released their official desktop messenger client. With this new messaging system there is absolutely no need to be logged into Facebook to see our real-time ticker updates and chat with your friends. This helps in that you can login to Facebook Messenger and not the main site, so you can get on with your work and only reply to people when they ping you. When you install the messenger the desktop app you can continue browsing other sites and still keep up with all your friends activities on Facebook. How to download Facebook Messenger and get started. For starters most of you might have seen the link right inside your chat-box on Facebook. If you have missed it you can go here to download and  install it . Once you download simply click on 'yes' wherever prompted and it should be a quick and easy process.  How to launch the app after downloading The app sits in your system tray after being installed and clicking on it will launch the app. You can also click on you...

Pottermore the social site from J.K Rowling for all her Harry Potter fans is now open to the public. You can sign-up now but your invitation might take a while before it lands in your inbox. Once you sign-up however you will notice that you username is forced on you and you might be stuck with the 5 suggested users-names recommended for you. This might be good in one way because it works to protect your identity and since many of users who sign-up will be below 18 years of age this is one option that might actually be important. Users however are not too happy since they would like to signup with their own choice of a username. Once in however there is a whole lot of mystery for you to explore. All the magic of Harry Potter seems to be flying around the website and a whole lot of magical goodies to be discovered and used. There is a lot of exclusive content for you to click on and get. There are also a lot of collections to discover and keep. If you are used to FarmVille and games like...

MyPermissions is a web app that helps you get one thing done. Shows you all the apps you have approved for all you Social Media and email accounts. So once you open the app and decide to get cleaning, you can click on any icon to get started. So once you click on let's say the Facebook icon. You Facebook apps settings page opens up and from there you might even be surprised as to how many apps you have given permission to. From there you can start cleaning up apps and revoking permission to apps you don't use or need anymore. It works for almost all popular services out there, like Google accounts, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, DropBox, Instagram, Flickr, Yahoo, AOL and FourSqure to name a few.  This webapp is very easy to use and there is no sign-in to be bothered about. All you need to do is to open the app and be signed-in to the service you want to clean. You can then check all the apps you have given permission to on Twitter and if you are a long term users over a period o...

This is a quick guide on how to rearrange Pinterest Boards also known as pinboards on Pinterest . This is especially important if you have a number of boards. Some people I follow have more than 30 boards and in fact this is not an uncommon thing, there are lots an lots of users who have a whole number of boards on Pinterest and with this option you can choose to show your boards in the order you want. With the ones you want to showcase the most appearing on top of your board order.  Can I rearrange the order of pins on a board? The answer is no but the team at Pinterest have said they are working on this.  To rearrange your boards on Pinterest you would need to: 1. login to Pinterest 2.  Click on your name 3. Choose 'Your Boards' 4. All your boards are now displayed 5. Drag and Drop boards 7. You can rearrange your boards in any order your choose. Rearranging boards on Pinterest as as simple as Click on any board - keep pressing down while you drag the board to the place your...

Wow, this is amazing, you can now edit your board cover on Pinterest . Now if you are new to the service what Pinterest helps you do is to create boards on which you can then pin your likes in the form of pictures and videos onto the board. This way other users can see all your special content in the form of pictures and photographs and be thrilled with the visual display. If however you are a seasoned users and have a lot of boards with numerous pins there is a special update from Pinterest. You can now select one of your pictures to become your board cover. This is important because when other users visit your profile they get to see your boards and they will click on a board usually if there is an interesting photo to be viewed. With the new updated you can now choose to display that one special photograph as your board cover image. How to edit and choose your board covers on Pinterest 1.Login to Pinterest 2. Go to your boards 3. Hover over your board and an 'edit board cover...

The Pirate Bay a site that hosts magnet links to content around the web have something called 'The Promo Bay'. If you're wondering what this is well it is a chance web artists to promote themselves on TPB. This is done by the Swedish site as a way to help struggling musicians, film makers and cartoon artists to name few. The Pirate Bay also know an TPB has been criticized by record labels and hollywood as one of the biggest threats to this business. The shutting down on MegaUpload goes to show just how serious Hollywood is about protecting copyright and how far their reach can go. TPB however has a lot of support and comes in at about #65 most visited site on the internet. They have a lot of traffic and have launched The Promo Bay to help bring exposure to artists from around the world. From the time of its launch the promo bay has had more than 5000+ sign-ups by artists from around the world and a majority of who are male. Artists who choose to join need to have something ...

Funny and Creative Facebook cover by Ivan Marino Facebook users who have shifted to the new Timeline know that the old Facebook wall hath disappeared and in its place is the new Timeline. The Timeline replaces the old wall with something that is new totally graphic and not like the old wall which showed posts one below the other. With Timeline it is a whole new kaleidoscope of colors and posts. Where users can choose which posts to highlight and which to hide. With the launch of the new Timeline Facebook really irritated its users who have been changing to the new Timeline but grumbling all the way. This is the future of Facebook and for all its wrongs the Timeline also has it rights.  Like visiting your friend's Timelines can sure be interesting especially if they have not learned how to set it up as yet. We do have a very popular post to set up your Timeline which can be found here . There are mistakes that are bound to happen while users make their way through their choice of Ti...

This is a simple but really helpful video for mastering your iPad, there are some cool tips and tricks you might not have known. If you have had an iPad for sometime then you might already know these tips and tricks. This is especially good for those of you who have just got the ' New iPad '. The video covers a whole lot of helpful tips like how to take screenshots, creating a slideshow, how to erase all data, set a complex password, creating custom shortcuts, multi-touch gestures, punction shortcuts and music player. One of the ways to undo paste is to shake and undo. If you iPad is shared among family members then you can limit the content they can access by enabling restrictions. This way when someone else has access to your iPad you can limit the number of apps they will be able to access when using it. if you're looking for the best apps with the all new retina display you can check out our other post here .  An original post by Sociolatte

If you look at the pictures of the glasses in this post the first question people are asking on the internet is will you wear them. The glasses however are not built for style but more as a utility. It is one of Google's ambitious projects to make technology work for you when you want and then get it out of the way when you don't. So if you see someone with these glasses on you know they are from Google and testing their new sci-fi glasses.  How do the Google Glasses work. For one it is always connected to the internet and integrates with various kinds of services. The UI shows the person in the video below going about his daily business and able to view the weather outside, receive and make voice and video calls, check-in to places and find directions to places. He is able to do all this will simply voice commands and auto-suggestions that seem to pop-up at exactly the right places. Couple of analysts have said the glasses will have 3G and 4G capability to make all this possib...

DropBox the free cloud storage webapp that creates an extra drive on your PC or device to ensure all your files are available to you all the time, now has an incentive to invite your friends to join and install the service. For every friend you invite and who then decides to join and install DropBox, you get 500 MB of extra storage space. This is 500 MB if you have a free account and 1 GB if you have a pro account. You can also use the code provided to invite your Facebook and Twitter friends to make things easier. There is however an upper limit of 16 GB for free accounts and 32 GB for pro accounts.  Once you go to the DropBox referral page you can choose from 3 different options on how you want to invite people. You can choose to  invite via email  - so you can then enter you log-in and password details and invite all your Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo etc mail contacts and share DropBox for free. You can also invite all your Twitter contacts by sending them the automated Tweet already...

Nissan has won the contract to supply the city of New York with its next gen taxis. Nissan won the contract over finalists Ford and Karsan and the contract will last for the next ten years, starting late 2013 while all the older taxis will be off the streets by late 2018. The Nissan  NV200 was unveiled on Tuesday ahead of the New York international auto show. The new Taxi comes with  all the bells and whistles and will replace the Fords and Toyota Siennas currently prowling the city. The new cab will come with features like: Back seat cell phone and USB ports for charging Transparent roof panel Independently controlled rear air-conditioning Carbon lined head-liner to reduce odor Anti-bacterial non-stick surfaces Airbags for rear-seat occupants Lights to inform taxi doors are being opened A new horn light to reduce honking. An original post by Sociolatte

A tornado touches down in Lancaster, Tex., south of Dallas. tearing through the Dallas area Tuesday, peeling away roofs off homes, tossing big-rig trucks (18 wheelers) into the air and leaving flattened tractor-trailers strewn along highways and parking lots. The videos below show some of the action. The first video has been uploaded by YouTuber wesstevens and shows footage of Stevens pulling over to prevent being blown over. You can see the twister approaching his car as the Tornado closes in. The video has also been featured on CBS news. The second video is a Ariel view of the Tornado picking up big-rig trucks and tossing them high into the air. The tornadoes also bring a miracle as there have been no deaths reported. trucks and trailers have been tossed around and roofs of house have been blown off but no one has had to have taken to the hospital.  View more videos at: http://nbcdfw.com . An original post by Sociolatte

Instagram the popular photo-sharing app for the iPhone has now officially released its Android App. Android uses have been waiting forever to get their app on their phone  and make the best use of it. there are many reasons why Instagram is a success - for starters you can take photos on your phone add gorgeous photo effects and breath new life into your mobile photos. All these everyday photos can be made to look amazing and you can then share them with your friends. The quality and beauty of Instagram made it an instant success and the only drawback was that it was available for iOS only. Now Android users can get the app for free. Instagram had opened up a get it on Android  sign-up page and got more and got more than 430,000 Android users on the waiting list.  Now that the app is available for Android -  they can join the community of more than 30 million registered users who contribute more than 5 million photos a day. Consider this only from iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad...

Now that you are on Pinterest and you have been creating boards and adding pins it's time to measure how popular your boards and pins have become. How many followers have you got, how many 'Likes' and how many repins. Put all of this into an analytics dashboard and you can view a comprehensive chat detailing how influential you have becomes and how much clout you wield on  Pinterest. There are a couple of webapps that provide analytics based on your activity and those of people who follow you and those who repin your pins on Pinterest. Some of these webapps are still in beta and you will need to sign-up for an early invitation. 1. PinReach This webapp will help you gauge your success as a pinner on Pinterest by providing you with your Pinterest  influence and analytics. It will also give you an overall score and show the performance of your pins on chats with an overall score. You cna also view trending pins and this will help you analyze what people are doing right.  2. Pi...

Apple has been forced by a court in Italy to give all its products a two year warranty as required by EU law. The company has also been been handed a fine of 900,000 euros for misleading customers. According to EU warranty laws  - companies are required to give a free minimum warranty of at least 2 years on their products. Apple was giving only a one year warranty and were asking customers to sign-up for for their Apple Care Protection Plan which increased the warranty from one to two years.  These changes have been implemented by Apple and can be found on their website . This applies only to EU customers and the rest are still stuck with a one year warranty. This is what Apple have to say about it on their website. " When you purchase Apple products, European Union consumer law provides statutory warranty rights in addition to the coverage you receive from the Apple One-Year Limited Warranty and the optional AppleCare Protection Plan. Non-Apple-branded products purchased from App...

That's the latest in B&W Reddit user weirdalfan16 updated this little bit of information on the TIL (Today I Learned) section. The post had this information to share, that if you were from the past generation of people who grew up watching black and white TV then you dream in Monochrome. Before the invention of color TV 75% of people dreamed in black and white. In fact it says that 12% of people still dream in black and white. Color television changed everything and also changed the way people dream. Black and white dreams where changed to color. The post has drawn a lot of humorous comments like one user saying that maybe they had silent dream from watching silent B&W movies. There are also other users saying that they dream only in black and white and never knew that people had dreams in color. Which leads to the next assumption now that we have HDTVs  and 3D TVs will we now be able to dream in 3D. There are other users who say that everyone dream in B&W but during re...