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Google Handwrite is now available on touchscreen mobile devices. With this new feature you can just use your finger once you're on Google.com and write using your finger anywhere on the screen. To enter a search term in Google you do not need your keyboard to type in your search query. Just use your your finger to hand-write whatever you want and it will be recognized and entered as a search term in Google. Google Handwrite: How does it work The technology behind this is great but the application is simple. You just need to enable Google Handwrite on your SmartPhone or Tablet, once enabled you will need to use the Handwrite icon   to handwrite your query and it automatically gets entered. You are then displayed all the Google results you are so used to. How to enable Google Handwrite on your Tablet or SmartPhone. 1. On your device go to the Google preferences page . 2. Now under the Handwrite section select enable and then touch save to enable this feature. This feature needs to be...

OS X Mountain Lion is the latest desktop operating system from Apple. One of the key features of the new OS is the ability to start a task on one system and continue it on another - start on a MAC and switch over to the iPhone or iPad. This can be done several times a day and everything works seamlessly. As such the new OS comes with deep Facebook integration and once you sign-in to your Facebook account you will be able to continue your normal work on any of your Apple gadgets and be aware of what your pals are doing on Facebook. Once you sign-in there is a notifications center setup to work with your Facebook. So while doing you normal work on any of your devices you will be able to post to Facebook too.  Facebook Notifications center on your OS is a place to see your FB notifications. This might not be such a huge hit with users and you might find reasons why here . There is also a Facebook Share Sheet - what this does is works like a handy card and shows you content you've been...

If you are one of those people who use the Disqus commenting system on your blog or website, one question you must have over the last couple of days is. Why is there this huge traffic increase coming in from Disqus. This is if you are using Disqus 2012 - does not seem to be happening for people using the old disqus. Traffic from Disqus 2012 seems to be interfering with your analytics and stats because when you login there is this huge increase in traffic and specifically from - disqus.com/next/lounge - when you click on these links however they do not go anywhere. If you try to search online for an explanation there does not seem to be anything available to fully explain this. Disqus knowledge base however has a simple answer and it is explained like this. This is a huge increase in traffic from disqus.com/next/lounge because disqus 2012 is located in an iframe. This iframe is loading from disqus.com domain (http://disqus.com/next/lounge/). As Disqus is an interconnected Disqus platf...

Good news for all webmasters and people who run their own blogs and websites. Behold Behold Google index secrets, revealed! - a feature available in Google Webmaster Tools know as Index Status will help you learn more about your site and pages indexed by Google. The constant question on webmasters minds is always 'Did Google Index my site', 'Google Index Search' and 'How many pages did Google Index'. If you're new to this and want a little more info. When Google sends their Bots to crawl a site, they will try to crawl all pages from a site or blog. Each of these pages are then Indexed by Google and this Index Google will use to send visitors to a site or blog. It is therefore so important to people who run blogs or websites to know how many pages are indexed by Google and out of those pages how many are showing up on Google searches. Google remains the most important place on the internet to send traffic to your blog or site. So if you are a seasoned veteran...

Nokia is the most used mobile platform in the world and is now offering a native Twitter experience for all Nokia Series 40 phones. Series 40 is a software and UI platform used in all Nokia mid-level and some luxury phones. It is the most widely used mobile platform in the world with hundreds of millions of devices running on series 40. With the company announcing in 2012 that 1.5 billion S40 devices have been sold worldwide. So if you own a Nokia phone and till now did not have a Twitter native app for your Twitter enjoyment, well here it comes you can head over to the OVI store of Nokia and get the Official Twitter App for your Nokia phone.  The Official Twitter App for Nokia allows you to read all of your Tweets connect with others and do all the things on Twitter that you normally do on your PC. The Twitter phone experience is something that Nokia phone users were denied till now. Once you land on the App page you can use the Nokia phone selector to see if your device is compatible...

Larry King loves talking to people and so he has got a new show on Hulu and Ora.tv called Larry king Now. He did an IAMA on Reddit and allowed users to ask him anything. So we went through the entire AMA and choose some of the best things you might not have known about Larry King. Yes there were a lot of questions regarding his suspenders and Larry also tells the story about how the well-known avatar came to be. Nerecca : What's the hardest thing you had to do to get into your career? I had to leave New York to head to Miami with 11 dollars in my pocket and start knocking on doors.

Here comes an Infographic that offers you helpful tips on how to keep your social media campaign on track. The Infographic is brought to you by Return On Digital after their successful completion of their webinar - how to keep your social media campaign on track?. The tips cover Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, since these are the three big three when it comes to social media right now. A useful Facebook feature mentioned is to track what posts are most shared from your page this is helful to know what your audience likes and what they share the most. This way you can see what makes your audience tick and bring more of they type of content to your Facebook page.  Twitter receives the best CTR - click through rate, either early in the afternoon or earlier in the week. So if you want the most traction out of your Twitter campaign this is the best time to send out your Tweets. A helpful tip for your LinkedIn campaign is to add products and services to brand pages to prove bran validity. So...

The Google Nexus 7 has already started shipping and is now available for pre-order in the US, Uk, Canada and Australia. many of the pre-orders done when it was first launched have already started shipping and the 7-inch quad-core tablet is in the hands of many geeks. If you order the tablet in the Google Play store you do get $25 of credit to spend on your favorite apps. The device has been made for Google Play and therefore is called AOA Alive on Arrival. As soon as you get it it is up and ready. Being a 7" tablet it is just bigger than your smartphone and small that the larger iPad - making carrying around the device that much more easier. Google has used Asus to make their home-branded tablet and the Google Nexus 7 can also be found in Asus stores in the countries of launch. The device is available for both 8 Gb and 16 GB. So how to buy the Google Nexus 7 1. You can get your Google Nexus 7 at the Google Play Store . Click on the shop now link if you live in the US, Uk, Canada ...

If you look at the pictures below the first thing that will strike you is the eerily resemblance to Steve Jobs for the new movie - Steve Jobs which is a Biopic. The movie plans to adapt Walter Issacson’s biography of Steve Jobs into a film. Now that shooting for the film has begun photo of Ashton Kutcher playing Steve Jobs have started to emerge and his style, mannerisms and look actually resemble Steve Jobs in a real uncanny way. Here are a few pics to help give you a better idea.  Ashton Kutcher dressed as Steve Jobs with Jeans and Sneakers Ashton posing as Steve Jobs Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in Costume Ashton looks like Steve Jobs deep in thought They look like each-other in an uncanny way.  Ashton Kutcher filing Steve Jobs movie at LMU : Source Images Credit and Source: BuzzFeed 1. Steve Jobs on Set 2. Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in Costume .  An original post by Sociolatte

Charlie Sheen talking about why he decided to quit Twitter That's right folks, Charlie in an interview with Extra confessed that he has quiet Twitter even though his follower count was coming up to 8 million. He further said that he felt it was an invasion of security and privacy. He said that the whole Twitter thing reminded him about his past and the words he made famous like Tiger-blood and Winning. Winning still applies he said as that can be seen with his new TV-Show 'Anger Management'. But Twitter kept digging into his past and he also says that he did not make a dime with his Twitter account. Yes, people were approaching him to promote stuff in exchange for $ but he did not do it he says. Some good-old fashion fun is what he likes. The guys who run Twitter did not call him even once to say 'Thanks You'. Thanks for putting us on the map. If he ever returns he would with the S in Sheen changed to $. Kind of like Kardashianville. Make the bucks and to hell with ...

Yes that's right Digg has been acquired by News.com and the guys from News.com say they are rethinking and rebuilding the new Digg. The new version V1 will be available on Aug 1 and you can follow what the developers have to say and add your suggestions. Digg will continue to run under the same name and News.com will remain the same. Identities of the two web apps are not going to change in any way. The developers of the new Digg says that it is being treated like a startup again and that there is still some meaning to be had among all the chaos of internet news. In-between LOLCats and  Kim Kardashian stories there are still individuals who can get together and brake news of real-importance.  There has been a lot of debate on the internet - Did Reddit kill Digg ?. In many ways the develops of the new Digg seem to be comparing themselves to Facebook and Twitter with no mention of Digg in the news. Reddit seemed to be the one that killed Digg and not the other two. Sites that are ded...

This is just a simple tip to ensure you keep your Twitter safe and not loose control of it. When you normally use Twitter and want to reset your password - you will be required to just enter your username login to your account and change your password. All very quick but if you are on a public computer or share a computer it might be advisable to add an extra step before your password can be reset. This is to ensure one extra level of safety, since anyone viewing your profile on Twitter can see your username and might be able to guess your password. This of course if just an assumption - you password might actually be much stronger and difficult to guess. Well, whatever might be the reasons and you want an extra level of security before your password can be reset here is how to do it. You can set Twitter to ask for personal info before a password reset can be done. How to ensure Twitter asks for your email or phone number before resetting your password 1. login to Twitter 2. Click on t...

Every once in a while there is a Tumblr created that gets featured on headlines across the globe. This is one such Tumblr blog, named 'The Rich kids of Instagram'. The blog features rick kids and the things they do - more specifically the fun they have. Like travelling in private jets, drinking expensive liquor, getting expensive cars as gifts. The owner of the Tumblr remains anonymous and therefore no comments have yet been obtained as to why this was created. Tags accompanying the Tumblr however are a good giveaway. 'Cars, Luxury, The One percent, Socialites, mansions, beautiful and drugs'. The One Percent became an internet meme last year. Actually it was called the 99 percent - where people were talking about being part of the 99 percent while the remaining 1 percent lived in luxury. why could not the 1 percent be taxed more. One of the rich kids have responded on television saying that these photos were shared on Instagram just among friends and did not realize th...

Cloud storage is something that has taken off in a very big way. There is DropBox , iCloud , Google Drive and Skydrive to name a few of the more popular ones. What Cloud Storage does it allows you free storage to store all your files in the cloud and make them available on all your devices. Microsoft is moving out SkyDrive with Windows 8, Office 13 and Windows Phone. This would mean that many uses would store all of their files on SkyDrive and some of what is being store might be inappropriate. This is something that needs to be noted - these might be your private files. Even if they are your private files and your using Microsoft Cloud to store them it might get your banned. A dutch user on the forum Tweakers.net who goes by the handle WingsOfFury  reports that he lost access to hos Live account, Hotmail account and XBox account. There are many users who are reporting the same online. In fact Microsoft monitors its cloud servers and takes action when inappropriate content is found ...

Now for those of you who travel a lot and are not able to watch the games on your television or PC. There is an app for you - BBC Olympics. Courtesy of the BBC comes an App for your iPhone, iPad or Android based phone to watch the Olympics on the go. The app offers up to 24 live video streams, video highlights of the action including interviews with the athletes.  Something special being offered by the app is an individual page for every athlete participating in the Olympics, a single page for every country and  a single page for every sport. This is a feature that would be a must have for die-hard-fans of each sport being played in the Olympics. So if you want to follow Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps and see if they live up to his reputations. This app will be able to follow all the do, including each event and all interviews. You can also customize the app and add your favorites to the top bar. You can also share all those stories, wins and moments with your pals on all your favorite s...

Now this is one enhancement that is going to be a delight - the ability to blur faces within your video. many times you upload videos to YouTube and maybe you shot the video on the street or some-other public place or venue. People's faces have accidentally come into your video and for sure no one wants to appear in a video without first, agreeing to do so. There maybe many reasons for wanting to blur out faces in your video. Previously you would have needed some editing software to get the job done. When many YouTube video creators are amateurs with little or no access to costly video editing software this is of great help. YouTube is also the first place for citizen journalism  - these videos are great but the privacy of individuals also need to be respected. Therefore the ability to blur out the faces of people in your video is important. If you're a parent and would like to post a video of you kids game, you could also use this technology if you want to blur out faces of th...

Image Credit: Discovery You know how many times you switch your phone onto silent mode and leave it somewhere in your house or apartment and forget where you left it. There are apps to help you trace your lost phone which we have already written about. How to find your lost iPhone and how to find your lost Android phone . Missing cell phones and mobile phones are always a problem and the site apartment therapy has a simply solution to find your phone it is misplaced somewhere close by. The solution is simple and yet useful - you can use your speakers. You know how, when listening to music on your computer and you get a call, your speakers start to buzz. Finding your lost phone which is on silent can be traced using your speakers. If you still have boombox speakers with long chords. You can walk around your room or apartment with one of those and whenever it gets close to your phone which is ringing it will start to buzz. To start the process you would need to call your phone and then ...

Connecting two major social sites can have its advantages and disadvantages. If you have added Skype to your Facebook account and connected them so that you can chat with our Facebook friends on Skype. It can sometimes get kind of distracting and irritating. It makes a lot of sense to disconnect your Skype from Facebook and use your connections as they were originally meant to be. You also have the problem of people from your Skype wandering ontoyour Facebook account and vise versa.  How to unlink or disconnect your Skype from your Facebook account on Skype. 1. Login to Skype 2. From the top menu click on View 3. From the drop-down click on Skype Home 4. Click on the blue cog icon found on the extreme right 5. Click on 'Disconnect Facebook Friends 6. You're done How to unlink Facebook and Skype using Facebook 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on the down-arrow next to home and choose privacy settings 3. Beside Ads, Apps and Websites click on 'edit Settings' 4. beside Apps ...

Image Credit: BillBoard Jennifer Lopez has announced Friday that she is quitting as an American idol judge after two seasons - Steven Taylor has also made the same announcement. There is a lot of speculation as to who will their replacements be. Mariah Carey has been confirmed as one of the replacements. This was announced on Ryan Seacrest's radio show. Randy is Mariah's manager and since he is bringing her in - things might work out in terms of time management. JLO had an acting career before this and now that she is out, this is a path she can return to. Ryan of course will have to be around for another two years as stipulated by his contract. Randy Jackson will remain the only steady judge on 'Idol'.  Source: ShowBizz411 via Freep An original post by Sociolatte

Twitter did something and also gave it a philosophical annotation 'If you can't Bieb them, join them' - Abraham Lincoln. Well the story about this flashmob is this. Twitter called all of its employees for a hackweek project on July 12th. When employees were in the cafeteria Justin Bieber's song 'baby' is heard over the speakers. A male Twitter employee jumps up on the table to begin his routine and is soon followed by the mob. This flashmod also has a hashtag #flockmob you can also find people speaking about it on Twitter using the hashtag #hackweek. justin Bieber is set to cross 25 million fans in maybe a day and will become the second most followed person on Twitter, only behind Lady Gaga who has 27 million followers. So check the video out below and also let us now your favorite flashmob video on YouTube.  An original post by Sociolatte

Image Source: Chasnote The news that Digg has been sold is all over the news. The popular news-sharing-commenting and voting site Digg which was once valued at close to $200 million has been sold for $500,000. This comes as a shock to many but not to people who have been following the rise and fall of Digg. I for one was not at all shocked at the sale and the valuation. It was common knowledge that Reddit was rising in fame and popularity while the regulars at Digg were on a mass exodus to Reddit. As Forbes points out that this happened once the final version v4 was out. Prior to this Digg had had a few updates which constantly irked users of the site. Reddit was also built on kind of the same concept - to share news and other articles found on the web with users who might find it interesting. Users could then downvote or upvote news, articles, videos and images and bring the same onto the first page. They also had other relative subreddits like IAMA, where people could come and share ...

You might be having multiple Google+ account - with one of them being your preferred account. Google+ now offers its users the ability to transfer circles and connections from one source account to a destination account. This is especially useful for users who have more than one Google account that they use. With the ability to transfer all your circles and connections to one particular account. You then need to only update one account with your status updates and not multiple accounts. With this functionality your contacts and followers once transferred will be merged. So if the contact already exists in the destination account the contact will simple be merged with no headache of multiple accounts for the same person. There are however a few key notes to be considered. You will have a 7 day waiting period from the time you request a transfer. Once you use this service with these accounts you will not be able to do so again for the next 6 months. Once the transfer begins it cannot be ...

Image Source First off let's start with the pronunciation - you can go with with meme which rhymes with 'theme' this seems to be the most accepted pronunciation for the word. An internet meme is something that initially starts as a fascination among a few individuals who then begin to propagate and spread the word. A good example would be planking which started in 2011. The meme became so popular that it spawned other memes like Owling, Tebowing etc. A popular meme that is currently growing strong in 2012 is ' Overly attached girlfriend '. This meme started when Laina Walker posted a video of herself as the 'Overly attached girlfriend' singing Justin Bieber's girlfriend. The video spread quickly around the web and became popular on sites like Reddit. With people taking image macros of the video and posting comments that bring out the creepiness of someone who is overly possessive.  How an Internet Meme begins A meme is on the internet is a image or a vi...

Image Credit. Michelle Obama Michelle Obama joined popular image-sharing site Pinterest. The site being especially popular among woman has helped the President's wife amass over 35,000 followers. She is also following 7 people one of whom is a page called ' Barak Obama '. The page description says 'This page is run by Obama for America, President Obama's 2012 campaign'. The first lady has 4 boards titled 'Recipe Ideas, Around the White House, great memories and family. Among the recipe ideas is a picture from her daughter's godmother - which is a repin from Presidential Cookie Bake-off on Facebook. There are also three other recipes for salads. The Pinboard 'Around the White House' has about 7 pins with some interesting pictures taken at the White House with the First Lady going about her duties. The board great memories have a picture of the Obama's 20 years ago and a picture of their wedding day. There is also a nice family portrait. The b...

Reddit is the place to go to to share and find out what the community feels about any given topic. Reddit user sharkbiteninjafight started a thread to list the funniest YouTube Videos which are less that 15 seconds long. With these videos you get a laugh in under 15 seconds. You might be wondering whether it is possible to have a really funny video that is under 15 seconds long and the answer is yes, Some of them might be able 20 seconds but are really worth the wait. So without any further delay let's dive in and have a hearty laugh. Some are really funny and you don't really want to miss these funniest videos. 1. Bill Gates jumping over a chair like a gangster - totally raw footage. http://youtu.be/KxaCOHT0pmI 2. Lizard jumps on news guy - careful not to fall of your chair laughing. http://youtu.be/WApuXPDR5Q0 3. Gay Mount Everest - Reporter accidentally calls a blind climber gay. http://youtu.be/K1Y6PchDYfw 4. No wonder people are afraid of technology. http://youtu.be/Fc1P-...

Bad Luck Brian is a meme that first appeared on Reddit and has not left. Bad luck Brian is a series of image macros that feature a blond haired boy wearing a plaid sweater vest with braces and a shirt. Accompanied by captions that describe a variety of situations that could lead to a teenage boys embarrassment. These captions seek to capitalize on embarrassing situations which are typically bad luck situations with first world problems. The situations are typically what teenagers face and are usually solved very easily but not with bad luck Brian. The worst-case scenario is usually what is encountered.  Bad Luck Brian Meme origin and history The first submission was made on Quickmeme on Jan 23, 2012 with the caption, 'Takes driving test / gets first DUI'. It slowly gained traction and began to spread. You can find more on reddit/r/adviceanimals, there are also Tumblr blogs dedicated to Bad Luck Brian and Facebook pages dedicated to one of the most hilarious meems of 2012.  Bad...

Here's another reason to get the Google +1 button on your website or blog. Google has been busy working on the usefulness of this button and in the coming weeks. The button is going to get a feature that is simply awesome as well as useful. When visitors hover over the +1 button they will see recommendations for other useful content from your website or blog.  Thus leading to more engagement and content discovery. +1'ing is becoming a fun way to recommend stuff on he internet and let your friends in on what you think is hot. Also all content recommended will be from your domain or subdomains the +1 button is located on. Recommendations are very popular on blogs and every person who owns a blog knows that this is one feature that helps you retain visitors and get them to read more and discover more. If your site or blog already has the +1 button there is nothing you need to do to get this added feature. It will be updated automatically across the web in the next few coming weeks...

The reason for this post is very simple. Ever since Facebook acquired Instagram - privacy concerns have popped up automatically in users heads. The exodus has begun albeit not in large numbers however. Still there are people leaving Instagram and using other services to share their photos. The deletion of accounts did not start until the acquisition and if you are one of those users here are a few things to keep in mind before you delete your Instagram account. Once you delete your account it is permanent. All your photos, comments. likes, friendships - just about everything gets deleted forever. Nothing remains, this is a good thing in regards to privacy because a delete is a full and final thing on Instagram. In fact you will not be able to signup with the same username again. There is also no possibility of reactivating accounts or recovering accounts. So before you decide to delete your account thinks about all these things. When you delete your account all your photos are deleted...