Google Nexus One has been launched on ebay, and now the official Google Phone is ready to take on the Iphone 3GS. Will the android phone ever make it to the top 10 phones of all time? This is something, we have to wait about. Here is a short review by our Weboobie Experts.
How it feels
The Nexus One is slightly thinner than the iPhone 3GS, and slightly lighter. No hard specs were thrown around, unfortunately, since Google didn’t even let people who they gave the phone to know that. The …

‘Hot’, pink,’ ‘black’, beige. The latest fad to take over Facebook and Twitter this week was the Bra Colour Meme. A quick internet search stumbled on to a couple of suggestions that the women were stating the colours of their bras. There were also Digg posts, and articles from the Google News that showed up.
A momentary fad swept Facebook Thursday in which female users updated their status with the color of their bras.

This mass campaign started in Detroit, during the breast cancer awareness month of October, but took off last …

Facebook has changed the way we communicate and broadcast our messages. Staying in touch was never so easy. Come 2010, and the word social networking is no longer confined to a lousy site filled with only profiles, fans and scraps.
Real Time Live Search Results have not only made the New Feed more interactive, but also more effective during crisis and topics of worldwide interest.
‘Are you on facebook’ has become the new ‘Can I have your cell number?’
That leaves us with one question, why is facebook called as Facebook, I think …

Google has been into clever ticks lately, and the I’m Feeling Lucky Button Counter is another way of getting the buzz all around.
Contrary to what people believe, it is actually not the countdown to the release date of Google Chrome, but a countdown to New Year in seconds. Quite Awesome ! I must say.
Wishing a happy new year to all the readers of Weboobie.
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I got my hands on Samsung Omnia during the first week of it’s launch. PRO B7320 appears to be a European version of the existing Samsung i637 Jack phone, available on AT&T Wireless. In truth, the Omnia name really doesn’t fit here. Sure, the B7320 has GPS(read as Google Maps), but …

Do you love free wifi? Article Explains how to ethically hack a wifi wireless internet connection using free hacking softwares, tools and commonly used default passwords.
Whenever I am travelling or move into a new vicinity I expect the usual hassles of living without a net connection. Mobile gprs can be quite crappy and slow at times, but then this is when where the genius inside me begins to start thinking. So here is a blog post explaining how to break into secured wifi networks with common sense.

How to …

It’s been a few months, since Weboobie was launched. We redefined the web 2.0 world with some great blogs.I am so glad to say that weboobie has the innate quality that makes men hone in on her like bees to roses. ;-) Thanks for all the visitors and RSS followers who kept abreast of the latest buzz via weboobie. Finally the time has come to spill the beans. We are moving over to beta and working on a new Social development project which will also use Silverlight 3 Technology.
Another news …

Microsoft Popfly built on SIliverlight technology let’s you create cool mashup’s in less than 5 mins. The best thing about Popfly is that it does not need any additonal software, and can be completely made on the website. The popfly blocks leverage the web2.0 services like Facebook, Digg, Twitter & Virtual Earth. So if you are in a mood to create an interesting web service, popfly might be the thing you are looking for.
Steps for creating your first popfly application:
1.) Go to http://www.popfly.com
2.) Sign in with your Windows Live ID
3.) …

Imagine having coffee in your table, and transferring content from your tabletop surface to your mobile. Sounds unreal, think again. Welcome to the Star Trek Era. Surface computing is a new way of working with computers that moves beyond the traditional mouse-and-keyboard experience. It is a natural user interface that allows people to interact with digital content the same way they have interacted with everyday items such as photos and music their entire life: with their fingertips.
I just happen to see the live demo of Microsoft Surface at a promotional …

Wix is an online application

that you can use to create and publish Flash-based websites without any programming knowledge. I was very curious to see what they are offering and when I came to know that the site is finally public beta, I immediately took the plunge.
The Wix Editor is a flash based drag and drop tool which makes it easier for anyone to add, remove and arrange objects in the webpage project. Adding a page element like buttons and borders can be done in just a couple of clicks. …

Thumbtack is the latest innovation from the live labs. I used it for 10 minutes, and I am in love with this product. It makes it so easy to organize my web life. You can now save links, photos, and text that from different Web sites to a single place.  Just Grab the stuff you want  by selecting and copying it, drag it into a Thumbtack collection, then get to it from anywhere you can get online.  Share it with your friends, or just keep it for yourself. It’s way …

One of the most exciting events of Microsoft’s marquee contest - The Imagine Cup’09, Egypt is the IT Challenge.
Students are challenged to develop, deploy, and maintain IT systems that are elegant, functional, robust and secure. This demanding competition requires engineering students and those from the field of science to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in the science of servers and networks like Windows Server 2003/2008, IIS 7.0,VPN, ISA 2006 ADS & Hyper V & Client technologies like Windows Vista & Windows Movile. They canow their analytical abilities …

I just came across MashUp while registering for the Microsoft Imagine Cup’09. Mashup is an individual entry for this year’s Imagine Cup to be held in Egypt.  MashUp has made a big impact in the world of web 2.0 and has become a popular in recent years due to an increasing number of companies and social networks making some of their data available through the use of programming interfaces and RSS feeds. The fact that it has been featured this year in the world’s premier student technlogy competition like Imagine …

From Wikipedia to Web Gaming, Social Networks to Portals, rich interactive & highly emerging internet applications known the world over as web 2.0 is changing the way we surf the net today.  Masoom Tulsiani tries to get some facts about Web 2.0 and why is it dominating the World Wide Web.
Web 2.0 is actually the second generation of web-based communities and services among end users.  We are actually unaware that we are making use of so many cutting edge technologies in our day to day life.
You can even get behind …