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Android’s gaining a head of steam as it heads towards release — Google just posted up some details on the upstart OS’s app distribution system, Android Market. Just like Apple’s iPhone App Store, Android Market will run on Android phones like the HTC Dream and allow users to browse and install apps, as well as comment on and rate apps they’ve already purchased. (Somewhat terrifyingly, Google describes the rating and comment-system as “similar to YouTube,” but we’re hoping the reference is to user-generated ratings in general and not the grammar and language catastrophe that is YouTube comments.) Unlike Apple’s store, however, Android Market will be open to all — Google wants devs to “have an open and unobstructed environment” for their apps, and it’ll only take three steps (register, upload, describe) to put content on the service. The first Android handsets will come with a beta version of Market that supports free downloads only, but a version that has app sales, versioning, and other features will arrive soon after launch — given the number of mediocre apps that have somehow passed Apple’s vetting process, it’ll be interesting to see what shows up in Google’s store with no filters at all. More screenshots after the break.

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DryIcons.com has released 20 EURO 2008 icon set contains 20 high quality free icons in the sizes of: 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px;
You can also grab this cool icon set in 32-bit transparency PNG, ICO and ICNS file formats.
Not only flags of EURO 2008 championship represented countries, there are also several icons related to a soccer game if you need them too.
Football fans, celebrate the most popular sport with this EURO 2008 icon set by visiting DryIcons.com now!

Z pewnoscia nie raz, nie dwa przeszukiwales zasoby internetu w poszukiwaniu hostingu pod forum. Szukales, szukales i wreszcie znalazles, ale to nie spelnilo Twoich oczekiwan.
Wciaz szukasz dobrego miejsca na swoje forum. Wreszcie trafiasz w dziesiatke. Odnalazles witryne forumok.org na ktorej za darmo mozesz utwozyc i bez limitow prowadzic wlasne forum.
Forumek.org to usluga pozwalajaca zakladac forum dyskusyjne na silniku SMF. Jest on ciekawszy i lepszy od popularnego skryptu for phpbb. SMF daje Ci wiele mozliwosci, sprawdz sam/sama!
Pierwszy kontakt z forum na skrypcie SMF daje na mieszane odczucia, ale jak tylko troche sie pokrecimy po panelu administracyjnym, od razu zauwazymy wiele ciekawych przydatnych funkcji. Zyczymy wielu odwiedzin z forumek.org – Darmowe Forum

Many free online image editors have emerged in past of couple of months but none of them offer the simplicity that Pixlr does.

Pixlr is a very basic, simple and easy to use free online image editor which allows you to edit, adjust, filter and manipulate three of the very basic image formats i.e. .JPG .GIF and .PNG

The reason I like Pixlr more as compared to other free online image editing tools like Photoshop Express and Phoenix is because Pixlr does not ask you to regsiter to start using the online app and the GUI is amazingly simple and smooth.

Unlike other online image editor apps based on Adobe Flex, Pixlr takes a very little time to load and the interface is not laggy or choppy.

If you are looking for a clean and simple online image editor app then Pixlr is the right choice for you. Get started with Pixlr app.

Since Twitter has shut-down the Jabber service, users can no longer update their Twitter status through Google Talk in Pidgin and have to unwillingly use Twitter Clients for Ubuntu for this purpose.

Though such clients are good and useful but updating Twitter status through Pidgin has its own ease and fun.

IceHot shares a very useful plugin for Pidgin known as Pidgin-Microblog which allows user to post updates to Twitter even without using the Jabber service. This way you can stay connected to your followers anywhere, anytime on Ubuntu.

The plugin also works for Pidgin on Windows. To download and install for Ubuntu Linux, simply use the deb package.

Recently Microsoft released the final version of its long-in-beta web app called Photosynth.

Photosynth gives users the ability to view and create 3D Panoramas and virtual tours. Basically it takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs the scene or object in a 3-D environment.

Photosynth is potent mixture of two independent breakthroughs: the ability to reconstruct the scene or object from a bunch of flat photographs, and the technology to bring that experience to virtually anyone over the Internet.

The Photosynth viewer allows user to zoom in/out, view in 3D/2D and circle through next and previous frames. Below you can see some screenshots of 3D panoramas of Taj Mahal, Smith Tower and the Sphinx.

View Taj Mahal

View Smith Tower

View Sphinx

Apart from providing a library of 3D Panoramas for users to explore, Photosynth lets users create their own Synth and upload them for others to view in 3D.

It is a Microsoft Labs product so don’t expect it to bug-you-not. To get started with viewing or creating your own 3D Panoramas, hop on to Photosynth and enjoy the tour.

It is currently available only to Windows users.

http://photosynth.net/

At a press release recently, Yahoo! and Intel both have shown interest to partner together and open a new world of entertainment by bringing Internet to TV in the form of dynamic web widgets.Yahoo! has already invaded the Internet and next-generation mobile devices like iPhone by providing dynamic and stylish web widgets, and with the new Yahoo! Connected TV initiative it won’t be long since web widgets become a common place for home TVs too.

The basic deal between Yahoo! and Intel is to bring web applications to electronic devices based on Intel Architecture by making use of Widget Channel which is a television application framework optimized for TV.

Developers will be able to use XHTML, JAVASCRIPT and FLASH technologies to write TV applications for the platform, extending the power and compatibility of PC application developer programs to TV and related consumer electronics devices.

Moreover, users will be able to interact with the widgets visually.

So now if you wonder how you can get or download widgets for your TV, Keep your fingers crossed as Yahoo! and Intel are already working hard on it and it will be made public anytime soon.

http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/

Rumors hit the Internet two weeks ago when leaked pictures of the Palm Treo Pro started surfacing around forums and though not an iPhone-Killer, this new phone is definitely a big match for all the PocketPC devices currently available in the market.

The Palm Treo Pro sports a 2.5 inches TFT touchscreen with a resolution of 320 x 320 pixels. It is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 and has all features of a standard phone such as Bluetooth, Infrared port, USB, WiFi, MicroSD slot etc and most surprisingly a built-in GPS. A 2 Megapixel camera is also there to add more to the disappointment.

It will hit the market somewhere in September 2008 with an estimated price of $550. Thanks Arena.

Many of my fellow bloggers from India are impatiently waiting for the official launch of iPhone by AirTel and Vodafone on August 22 but some of them have already lost hope looking at the high price tags.

Nirmal has posted some details about the official prices of the iPhone 3G by Vodafone and I can definitely say that this will make a lot of people change their mind about buying the iPhone 3G.

According to the price details unveiled by Vodafone, the iPhone 3G will be available at a price of 31,000 INR for 8GB and 36,100 INR for 16GB (Thats $700 for 8GB and $820 for 16GB). These prices are extremely high as compared to the iPhone 3G price in US i.e. $199 for 8GB and $299 for 16 GB.

The ironic part is that though iPhone 3G is being launched in India, no major region of the country operates on 3G networks and most of it still survives on 2G Edge connections.

For more details about how to place an order for an iPhone 3G through Vodafone in India, please visit the Official iPhone 3G Website

So is anyone still planning to buy an iPhone 3G in India?

Twitch is just another cross-platform Twitter client for Windows and Mac built on Adobe AIR runtime.

To be honest, it is not much different to Twhirl except for the fact that Twitch is very clean, simple and low on features.

Twitch currently only allows you to update your Twitter status, view friend’s timeline, reply to tweets and view highlighted replies which makes it a perfect client for new Twitter users who do not want to play with the complicated features such as the ones provided by Twhirl.

Moreover it even supports embedding of URLs using the TinyURL system.

To install Twitch, simply download the latest version of Adobe Air from here and install the Twitch Air File.