Regular readers might have already spotted a new feature that I have just enabled. The comment form now lists a Twitter ID field next to the standard username, website and email fields that existed before. Ghacks commenters who add their Twitter username to the Twitter ID field in the comment form will have their comment [...]

Categories: ghacks

Where would we be today without social networking? I have heard many tales how a social tool has saved a life or joined two lives together. Just recently a friend of mine found our her son was wounded in war not by the Red Cross, but on Facebook. These tools have become an integral part [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Software

Have you ever wondered what the trends of tomorrow will be? What people will be talking about? You can now get a headstart with Zoofs, a brand new service that scans Twitter for video links and aggregates them into a most popular listing on their website. According to information posted on the service’s website more [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

So called url shortening services such as tinyurl or bit.ly turn a lengthy url into a smaller one that redirects to the original destination. This is handy in several situations but especially when text is either limited (like on Twitter) or difficulty to enter. The main problem of these services is that the user cannot [...]

Categories: Browsing

One of the many problems of using different communication programs and services is the syncing of contacts. Computer users have contacts in online services like Facebook, MySpace and Gmail but also desktop software like Microsoft Outlook, Skype or Mozilla Thunderbird. Keeping all those contacts in sync can be a time consuming task. Enter Mozilla Contacts, [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Twitter has been targeted by users with malicious intents ever since it started to become increasingly popular. One of the biggest problems up to yesterday were direct messages which one Twitter user could send to another. Links posted in those direct messages were not scanned by Twitter before they were send out, only after they [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

One of the nice, but somewhat hidden, features of the upcoming Ubuntu 10.4 release is that you can access chatting, tweeting, and social network all from a simple panel applet. Now I will warn you, this feature is not production-worthy. In other words, it will crash on you. But to see what is in store [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Facebook, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Location based services can be helpful to the user, no question about that. They are most often implemented and used in mobile devices who are able to return the location of the owner to the network where these information can get utilized in several ways from locating the nearest post office, restaurant or atm to [...]

Categories: Security

Google Buzz has been announced publicly just a few days ago. It basically allows Gmail users to use social networking features that are similar to those offered on Twitter. Gmail users can follow others, write status notifications, post images or videos and read messages that are posted by their contacts. And the way those contact [...]

Categories: Google