Sunday, April 6, 2008

7 Facebook Apps that are crap

Remember when Facebook was the more professional alternative to MySpace? Now that the gates have opened for people to create applications, Facebook profiles have become cluttered catastrophes of html. Here's 7 popular ones that take up valuable Scrabulous room.

7- Super Poke

Screw the Pillsbury Dough Boy; poking is not fun. On the Internet, it's even a bigger bother, as these little pokes can be annoying and evoke neurosis. You have to ask yourself: "To poke, or not to poke?" "What if you poke and you don't get poked back?" "And, if you poke one, should you poke them all?" You may not be as neurotic, or have as much time on your hands as, say, an Internet list writer, but you know you've have poke debates in your head before.

6- Friends for Sale

There is no doubt that most people would sell their friends out for what's in between Bill Gates' couch cushions. It's just crazy that over 670 thousand people would do it for fake money! Yes, over 11 percent of Facebook users want to buy, sell and trade their friends like tickets on Stubhub for nothing more than the good feeling of killing an hour of their life.

5- Compare People

Your friends already have low self-esteem, now they have to hear it from you that they aren't as attractive as Billy Joe Blow? As if telling your friends they suck in real-life wasn't embarrassing enough. Talk about an assault on our personal relationships. This is going to make the next bowling night awkward.

4. Dr. Phil's Personality Test

Ok, anything with Dr. Phil's name attached to it deserves to be attacked, but this takes the cake. Over 11 thousand people trust Dr. Phil's automated quiz to tell them what type of personality they are? Have they ever watched him on TV for even a minute. You're not even getting that moron; instead it's a virtual representation of a self-help hack. This is just as bad as asking the guy who pumps your gas what your purpose in life is if you choose Premium over Regular.

3. Would You Do Me?

This application poses a simple question: Would you fuck your friends? Sure, meaningless trysts and self-exploitation kick ass, but this is just as shocking and disgusting as the Gene Simmons Sex Tape. Yuck. Think about this: over 16 thousand people are asking close friends, relatives, and co-workers if they are "doable." Here's a tip: All you need is a dark bar and $100 worth of tequila.

2. Take. Premium Quizzes

Everyone's taken at least one of those ridiculous personality tests in their lifetime. That's why it's not surprising that Take. Premium Quizzes is so prolific in its attacks on America's eyeballs. With over 107 quizzes like "How Many Kids Will You Have" prove that six questions, including "what sexual positions do you prefer" will tell you how many children you'll have. And quizzes like "What Underwear Are You" will tell you if you're a thong or a boy short. This application is totally Granny Panties.

1. Vampires/ Zombies/ WereWolves/ Slayers

These applications have evoked a unanimous sentiment of disgust with their virtual bites and attacks. They've been grouped into one entry because, they are basically one application with four different characters. With a collective 353,538 daily users, these viral creatures have been terrorizing our FaceBook pages for too long. And we posit that none of this virtual zombie warfare will prepare us for the eventual rise of the undead.

Winter Trees: Seeing Beauty In An Orange Peel [PICS]

Sometimes a simple object shown in a different light can completely change its meaning...

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Imaginations Thus Displayed


PrimeTimeRewind.TV provides one click access for consumers to watch the latest episode of their favorite Prime Time TV Shows (assuming the underlying TV Network has made the show available for free online viewing.)

The 2007/2008 television season is the first one in which each of the major US based TV and Cable networks embraced the Internet since the start of the TV season by offering complete episodes of most of their prime-time programs for free to people located in the USA. While this is an exciting development for USA based consumers (access to the online TV content is restricted by geography by each of the respective TV Networks), the discovery and viewing experience on each individual site continues to be rather challenging. Until today, there has not been any single platform available for watching all of the otherwise available Prime Time TV programs; each network requires visiting and hunting through a very different site and different user experience.

By providing one site where people know they can go to and find any available prime time television show, PrimeTimeRewind.TV is removing the barriers and helping to improve the online TV viewing experience. Now, if you’ve missed the latest episode of your favorite prime time program, you can go to primetimerewind.tv and quickly and easily watch it at your convenience.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Revolution


Revolution: Mobile telephony at “Skype“ prices! 23.01.2008

An English start-up is aiming to revolutionise the world of mobile telephony, has managed to transport Skype’s appealing cost structure to the cell phone and is now launching the beta phase 2. What makes it all especially attractive is that it takes just one text message to initiate a double call-back. The savings? Up to 90 percent!

Modern mobile telephones can do just about everything these days: play music, take pictures, make short films, surf the web and even in certain areas communicate via Skype. But there is one area where all these wonderful things turned out to be woefully disappointing – the costs. Especially phone calls made abroad but also those made into other networks domestically can turn out to be real nightmarish cost traps – and that’s not even including cell phone calls made from abroad. There have been some attempts already to apply “Skype“ to cell phone but all these projects had had their pitfalls. To avoid jumping from the frying pan of the phone call cost problems to the fire of data transfer fees you previously would have needed a WLAN connection. But be honest: not even the experts would want to go through the hassle of getting into one wireless network before then strolling out of that connection zone a few minutes later into another area. On top of all that there are only a few phones capable of doing that and in any case special software was needed.

A well-travelled German-Czech-Austrian trio of frequent callers is now presenting a system with “Hype“ (www.hypecall.com) that has transferred the cost-structure of Skype to cell phones. The truly revolutionary part of it all is that it works with every cell phone, in every country in the world, in every network and doesn’t require any special software. By just sending one text message a call-back system is initiated through the so called Skype Out account and within ten seconds the two parties are connected. And that’s where you can start to see the enormous potential for savings. The Hype user does not place the call him- or herself, but instead is called back. He or she only pays the cost of a text message as well as the minimal Skype fee. The service Hype is completely free and users are only required to pay for the Skype Out fees that are due.

Ales Sobotka (33) from the Czech Republic and Stefan Aufschnaiter (44) from Austria together with a German colleague have spent more than a year developing and testing the system. During a first phase 10000 users will be activated and granted a free starting bonus for a trial use.

PHOTO CAPTION: “Hype“-Girl Julia describes in www.hypecall.com in seven different languages how easy it can be to save money while making cell phone calls.


THE TICK TECH CORPORATION


TICK TECK CORPORATION

New Tich Tech Corporation allows you to share information, harness expertise, and exchange best practices with your colleagues within the company. Standard applications and file formats make file sharing easier. Scheduling meetings is simplified by common messaging and calendaring tools. And centralized software distribution via the network makes it possible to get the latest applications and updates to all staffs promptly.

Software installation Restriction by end user
Standardization of computing environment across the company is projected to achieve a reduction of average desktop total cost of ownership. Standardization also allows further improvements to IT services provisioning. Limiting the changes an individual can make it easier to pinpoint and r3esolve problems quickly.
As part of IT policy to maintain a standard desktop environment, users are not allowed to install any applications to company desktop to protect the Tick Tech desktop and network from malice’s programmers and virus.
Avoid saving to local disks.

It is confirmed that you have save any data to your local disk since it is not included as part of routine corporate-wide backups [performed by IT Department. As part of the policy you’re my documents is redirected to your home drive, it also means that you data will be backed up regularly, as it is stored in your network drive instead of on you local hard drive. And if your hard drive is crashed, data recovery is simple matter of replacing your hard disk since very littlie, of any data is lost as it resides on your network.

PASSWORD SELECTION POLICY
In order to protect you valuable data, your password
SHOULD CONTAIN
· Lower case characters
· Alpha numerical
· At least one uppercase character
· One wild character

STANDARD LOOK AND FEEL OF THE DESKTOP

MS Windows Vista
Office tools (MS word, PowerPoint, Excel)
MS Outlook
Internet Explorer 6.0
McAfee Virus Scan
WinZip
SMS Remote Assistance Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0
Pacer, E-Business Suit, Questionnaire



STANDARD CORPORATE WALLPAPER AND SCREENSAVER

All new tick Teck will have a standard screensaver and wallpaper Individuals does not be able to change this.

USER PROFILE
On the new desktopenviro0nment, user could maintain a certain profile which determines how he wants to use his desktop.

USER PROFILES

On the new desktop environment, user could maintain a certain profile which determines how he wants to use his desktop. A typical profile can control your desktop; you personalized settings such as e-mail settings and favorites etc.


EMAIL ATTACHMENT SIZE FROM 5MB TO 2MB

MY DOCUMENTS BE REDIRECTED TO USERS HOME DRIVE

As part of policy, you’re my documents is redirected to your home drive, it also means that your data will be backed up regularly, as it is stored in your network drive instead of on your local hard drive.

Enhanced mobile users features
Off-line Folders
Web Mail


Enhanced Support Features
Helpdesk Remote Control

In the new helpd3esk, Helpdesk can remotely access tour workstations for troubleshooting or assist you in your work.


Centralized software Distribution
This using Microsoft SMS 2003Enable us to install new software applications and updates t6hroughout the company, eliminate the need to visit your PC.

Ever-greening
Software update management is the process oaf keeping computers and servers that are running Microsoft Operating system updated with security updates.

Centralized Anti-Virus Management

Enhanced Infrastructure Management