Are you there God? It’s me, Margret’s channel… In the era of instant feedback via various social sites, here’s a disturbing new twist on old phenomenon: today’s teen girls are turning to YouTube to get an instant verdict on their beauty or lack thereof.

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Apple just released the next OS X upgrade. There’s a new cat on the block: It’s called Mountain Lion. What new things does it bring? Basically a lot of the things we love about iOS5, with a few extras. Check it out now.
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Love to “monkey” around with your iPhone? We came across this great piece of “Gorilla” reporting: Recently, during a trip to his local zoo, YouTube user Mark Rober discovered he could use iPhone’s front-facing “FaceTime” mirror-camera to attract monkeys and simultaneously capture footage of them admiring themselves. However, as the iPhone’s camera is offset from the main screen, in his first batch of footage, the monkeys weren’t looking directly at the screen. So, as a solution he rigged a mirror frame for his iPhone to sit in and took his iPhone back to the zoo for another shoot.

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What You Should Know:  YouTube for Nonprofits Update

Good news for do-gooders:  You Tube for non profits has just been outfitted for 2012 with new features and resources to help maximize that all-important message.  So what’s new?  Two small but very beneficial touches: (more…)

Facebook announced its music sharing service on Facebook. This music service on Facebook allows users to listen along with their friends whatever they are listening to at the same time. And a group of friends are able to listen to the same music together with one of them being the DJ.

The music sharing service is pretty easy to operate at. Take a look at the music note in the chat sidebar to see which of your friends are listening to the music. Whenever they are listening to the music, the music note could appear by their name. Hover over the name and click the Listen With (more…)

On December 21^st, Amazon updated the Kindle app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, making it possible for users to access periodic subscribed newspaper and magazine that were previously only available to hardware Kindle. And additionally, this time the app Kindle for iPhone/iPad/iPod is upgraded to support PDF eBooks.

Several new features were added to the free Kindle app in version 2.9. But the most amazing one could be, iOS users now can get easy access to the 400 magazines and newspapers, like Martha Stewart Living, Cosmopolitan, Popular (more…)

Parents and teachers rejoice!  No more endless sifting through content to find something
appropriate for a lesson in class.  Google has just launched YouTube for Schools, a new site that
provides safe access to over 450,000  educational videos on YouTube EDU.  It also filters out all the “distracting” stuff, so students can browse thousands of educational videos without burning brain cells viewing empty viral fluff like “Baby Eating Watermelon”.

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On December 6th, Foxit, a PDF solution provider, officially announced Amazon.com, Inc. has made an investment in the company. And they will work together to promote better experience in PDF reading on Kindle devices and free Kindle reading apps.

As a matter of fact, Kindles have been developed to support reading PDF file for a long  time. However, reading PDF eBook on Kindle  never  be a good experience. The layout of PDF makes it hard to fit on Kindle with a proper font size. Many people have complained about it. And when people compare Kindle with iPad, iPad always wins people’s heart for its good compatibility with .pdf format.  And this might be the the biggest sore point for Amazon, which results in the investment.

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