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Android Apps for Google+ and Huddle for Superfast Group Chat

By Prax, on July 4th, 2011

Google+ Instant Upload option in Android App

The web is abuzz about the Google+ and whether or not it is the Facebook Killer. No sooner was the limited field trial of Google+ launched, the Android App too was released by Google swiftly. You can download the Google+ Android App from the Market Place here… . . . → Read More: Android Apps for Google+ and Huddle for Superfast Group Chat

Features that could have made #newtwitter more fun

By Prax, on October 14th, 2010

While Newtwitter is getting rolled out in phases and might change various avatars when it is finally made available for all (meaning there is scope for improvement till we see the final version). Here are some improvements that Twitter can implement to make tweeting seamless and fun:

1. Retweet with comment / editing. Most of us are happy to add various pre-fixes to the tweets than just a plain RT. Anybody +1 ?

2. Auto-Shortening of URL the way Tweetdeck does it using Bit.ly TinyURL, and others (Oh! wait, I know bit.ly might be . . . → Read More: Features that could have made #newtwitter more fun

Movers and Shakers of IndiBlogger Meet, Oct 3rd, Bangalore

By Prax, on October 4th, 2010

GeekStyle Registration HPprint4life for awesome prizes RaghavaSatish for inspiring talk Civil Defense awareness. I am looking forward to enroll for this. Here is the Civil Defense Page A blogger who wanted to setup a site for uploading pics of Polluting vehicles (read Smoke Chimneys) and notifying them to PCB (with Registration numbers), no its not Pak…Cricket Board, its Pollution Control Board. Youngest blogger @ 14yrs Oldest blogger @ 62yrs Hot samosas! Indiblogger Team ROFL tweets JP Fortune Hotel Folks. Great Ambience & Good Location AnshPrat’s Mass Follower tool: http://anshprat.info/twitblr/usersList.php

~~~ BIGGEST of them ALL – . . . → Read More: Movers and Shakers of IndiBlogger Meet, Oct 3rd, Bangalore

How Not to Follow a Fake Profile on Twitter.

By Prax, on March 3rd, 2010

How Not to Follow Fake Profiles on Twitter

Twitter has to be one of the amazing innovations in recent times giving us realtime status of things happening around us. We all love to Follow and be Followed by people we know, like and relate to.

Apart from friends, relatives and colleagues who doesn’t want to follow favorite actors? sports-persons? politicians? etc and be updated on whats going on with them as well?

However, are you sure the Lewis Hamilton or Priyanka Chopra or Shashi Tharoor you are following are real and not fake? Are . . . → Read More: How Not to Follow a Fake Profile on Twitter.

Social Engineering Countermeasures

By Prax, on January 7th, 2010

Tring Tring !!

Sir, I am calling on behalf of Moneywise bank.

You have been selected as the most popular customer in our group at Facebook.com As you can see the prize is US$10000 and we would soon be transferring this amount to your account. In this regards, we would need to validate your credentials….Please provide your name as printed on the card, Date of Expiry, Card number.

Our ‘Mr Social Networker’ is on the cloud seven as he happily reads out the details.

Couple of weeks later he is dumbfounded to find all the hard earned . . . → Read More: Social Engineering Countermeasures