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Today, 26 April 2011, Google celebrated the 226th birthday of John James Audubon by displaying a special Google Doodle on its homepage. He was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. Audubon developed his own methods for drawing birds. First,…
The PlayStation Network is down. This has been confirmed and acknowledged by Sony’s PlayStation website. “While we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before…
On Sunday, NASA Astronaut Ron Garan sent a tweet, the first ever TwitPic from space. The tweet photo shows the blue earth in its splendor. Garan also said “My 1st @Twitpic #FromSpace. Anyone know where in the world this is?”
Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd birthday gets a special Google doodle – a black-and-white video feature on Google homepage. Kudos to the Google team for the 2-minute silent-film. The funny actor and director died on Christmas day in 1977. Watch:
Finally, CyanogenMod posted the update: CyanogenMod 7.0 Released! Read the posting below and get ready to download the version. After over 4 months of work, many sleepless nights, and contributions from people all around the world, I am proud to…
Google marked the 119th anniversary of the first officially documented Ice Cream Sundae through its Google Doodle. The first Sundae called as Cherry Sunday was created by John M. Scott and Chester Platt in Ithaca on Sunday, April 3, 1892….
Believe it or not, but you can now use body movements to write your emails, at least using Gmail. Google launches its new feature, the Gmail Motion. Now you can control Gmail with your body. Video. [shhh, April Fool’s day]
YouTube picked the year 1911 for its April Fools Day feature. The video-sharing site time-traveled to 1911 to look at what the site would look like in that year had the internet existed back then. Watch the promotional prank video:
Google launched +1 button. It is much like Facebook “Like” button. You press +1 if you like links you found on Google search and your friends can see that you have +1’d them. The beauty of +1’s is their relevance—you…
The Amazon App Store now opens for Android application. Smartphone users in the U.S. can now buy apps for their phones with Google’s operating system. On Tuesday, the top five paid applications were Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds…