You will not believe quite how many requests I’ve had since the arrival of my current favorite gadget. Essentially, people have been asking me exactly how I have been taking screenshots of my iPod touch, rather than taking a photo with my camera. The answer’s actually surprisingly simple, and can be found quite easily by anyone playing around with their iPhone.
To take the screenshot, hold the Home Button (the square symbol printed upon a physical button at the bottom of the iPod/iPhone) and press the Sleep/Wake button on the top …
I know hundreds of keen Twitter users. We’ve been there since the start, and loved it all the way. However, it seems that now the huge media boom surrounding it, and other social networking systems, it’s struggling to keep up. Constantly being bombarded with excuses, errors and more does not help its user-count.
It’s a classic case of the developers doing the business-man’s job. Having received over $80 million in funding, and still unable to afford scalable servers is quite frankly a scare.
Twitter’s always been built on Ruby, from the …
I know many people on the internet, and surprisingly, many of them still aren’t aware of what the term viral means. I will take this opportunity to remind you that this phrase has no relation to physical health, and if you have such a condition, you have my condolences. Anyway, I wrote this article to explain the term to those unfamiliar with internet marketing, or simply don’t waste their time on the internet surfing around the most pointless websites.
So what is it?
Thanks to the Google dictionary for the following definitions:
Viral …
Okay. So we all know YouTube has been playing around with the layouts. Lots of people in the twittersphere (and no, I don’t only write about twitter events) have a strong viewpoint on these changes, but this article is about the latest ‘beta’ update. Google has never been known for its amazing design taste, but this takes the biscuit (irritating English expression demonstrating the most extreme instance of the context - you know you love it really):
At the bottom of most videos is a new button, labelled *new* YouTube Player …
As promised, here’s a few silly YouTube posts doing the impossible - linking Mr. Bean and Apple. Just watch them and you’ll see what I mean.
I’m sure you’ll agree, that one’s been thought out very well. I admit the next one hasn’t quite been edited together with the same quality as before, but it’s still pretty amusing watching Mr Bean dancing to the Spice Girls.
I promise - I didn’t edit these things… jerrry13157 and coaxial343 did.
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