Instagre.at For all the buzz and excitement around Instagram, it still doesn’t have one seemingly basic thing: an official Website from which one can view its content on more than a one-off basis. Since their API became available, a number of Web-based apps have sprung up. One of the more attractive-looking ones is Instagre.at....
The R Programming book on Wikibooks is seeking contributors. If you’re an R programmer looking for a way to give back to the community, this could be a good project for you. Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/SkoFvpz2pWo/r-programming-wikibook-project.php
What would you do if Flickr shut down some day? Do you think that photo services like Instagram might be just the beginning of what could be possible in terms of social photo innovation? Is Facebook Photos just a place the share and forget, leaving a big demand remaining for archival storage of all...
Microsoft’s online file storage service, Windows Live SkyDrive, has been a teeth-gnashing flail ever since its introduction. It looks like a bunch of file folders sitting on a hard drive — but you can’t drag and drop files and folders into one another or right click them to copy and paste or do any...
Apple has released an official application for its iTunes Festival 2011 event. The festival features 31 evenings of live performance by major iTunes bands such as Paul Simon, Moby, the Foo Fighters and Coldplay. The application provides a schedule and information about each band in the line up, and allows you to watch live...
It looks like rumors of display advertising’s death were greatly exaggerated. Nearly all the tech industry’s biggest players — AOL, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo– are expected to report growth in their display ad businesses for 2011, according to a report released today from research outfit eMarketer. And these display ad businesses aren’t just...
Apple’s announcements at WWDC included a large array of improvements to iOS, including beefier AirPlay support, wireless syncing with iTunes and iCloud backups. Fraser Speirs, the Head of IT at Cedars School of Excellence in Greenock, Scotland, recently took a look at what those new features mean for an educator using iPads in the...
Alta Devices has garnered high-profile investors (Kleiner, NEA, GE, Dow Chemical), but it’s been fairly quiet about the technology it’s developed to bring in those investors, as well as its plans for commercializing that tech. But after chatting with the Silicon Valley startup’s CEO, Christopher Norris, on Monday, we have a lot better idea...
As what exactly the Google +1 Button does continues to mystify some users, security researcher Ashkan Soltani and Brian Kennish, former Googler and the mind behind Facebook Disconnect, have decided to kill two buttons with one browser extension, creating Like +1. Unlike the +Like extension, which allowed you to Facebook Like Google search results, Like...
This morning a post on Pastebin outlined a serious security issue that was spotted at Dropbox: for a brief period of time, the service allowed users to log into accounts using any password. In other words, you could log into someone’s account simply by typing in their email address. Given that many people entrust Dropbox...