The title pretty much describes it all; we at Review of Web took the time to check out some of our favorite Facebooks apps and pick 5 most valuable apps for your Facebook profile. Without further ado, let’s take a look at our picks.
Ayos iShare is definitely one of the best file storage application designed for Facebook. You can use it to store files, documents, videos, even MP3s and post them on your profile page or share it with friends. 2GB of storage is provided for your files, so you wouldn’t have to worry about running out of disk space — it is not as whopping as Google’s 7GB and counting enjoyed by Gmail users, but it is still more than enough. You can easily share brochures and samples to your digital products; great for attracting new customers and spreading the words.
2. SplashCast – Your Very Own Multimedia Channel
SplashCast for Facebook is a platform designed to enable you to post videos, podcasts, and presentations on your personal multimedia Channel. It already has a lot of great multimedia contents, plus you can upload your own and compile them together into an appealing stream of contents that will attract friends and viewers. If you are running tutorial or how-to sites, or if you are selling books about certain topics, you can surely compile a nice preview and redirect viewers to the actual product.
3. 30Boxes Calendar – Events and Schedules on the Spot
If you are already familiar with 30Box amazing features, you can now add similar features to your Facebook profile page. Use it to share events or schedules with your Facebook friends or list your upcoming promotional offers and share it with them.
4. Class Notes – ScanR to the Rescue!
Want to share hardcopy documents with your Facebook friends? Use Class Note to help you without hassle. Use your phone’s camera to take pictures of documents and Class Notes will convert them into PDFs, ready to be shared on your Facebook profile.
5. SlideShare – (Claimed to Be) World’s Largest Presentation Sharing Community
If you are sharing presentations and PDFs on a constant basis, SlideShare for Facebook will be the perfect application for you. You can upload documents and presentations to SlideShare to make it available for sharing with friends or embed them on your profile page.
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A firewall is essential when it comes to preventing malicious software and hackers from gaining access to your computer. With Windows 7, you can actually fine-tune your firewall settings to match your daily usage while still keep your computer well protected. To access the advanced settings and help you get started right away, follow these next few steps.
First of all, you need to disable your Windows firewall to gain access to recommended settings. To do this, go to Control Panel> System and Security > Windows Firewall and then click on the “Change notification settings” link on the left panel. Disable both private and public network firewall and click apply to continue. At the Windows Firewall control panel page you see after clicking OK, you will notice a new button labeled “Use recommended settings” — this is what we are after — so go ahead and click the button.
A popup will ask for your confirmation, and you can safely click Yes to continue. Windows will analyze your current computer state, along with installed applications, and determine the right firewall settings for your computer. After the process is completed, you can continue with fine-tuning the firewall settings to suit your needs.
To access the advanced settings for Windows 7’s firewall, click “Advanced Settings” on the left panel of the Windows Firewall control panel page. You will see a new page with Inbound Rules, Outbound Rules, Connection Security Rules, and Monitoring links on the left panel. You can disable available rules or create new ones — for Inbound and Outbound Rules, this is essentially important and allows you to set the firewall to work according to your needs — and manage monitoring preferences from here.
Accessing your WordPress-powered admin panel from your mobile phones may seem impossible — or at least hard to do — a couple of years ago, but with the help of native WordPress for iPhone apps managing and maintaining your site on-the-go will be as easy as it can possibly get.
IPhone users now enjoy the luxury of being able to maintain their blog on-the-go with the help of Wordpress for iPhone. The latest version (2.1) allows you to create posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog from your iPhone or iPod touch.
The user interface of Wordpress for iPhone is extremely intuitive, allowing you to access features with a few simple touches. Uploading photos, even photo-blogging extensively, will not be a problem at all because the app integrates nicely to iPhone’s camera and multimedia features.
Categories and tags as well as old posts and media will be accessible as well; they are streamed to you as soon as you configure your app. Since the Wordpress for iPhone works for both self-hosted Wordpress platform as well as free Wordpress.com blogs, so you will have no problem at all configuring the app to work with your site. It supports SSL-encrypted connection for streaming data, so you wouldn’t have to worry about security issues at all.
The Wordpress for iPhone 2.1 is now available on iTunes. You can also install the app on your iPod Touch, so get your copy right away.
The gaming industry is on fire! A lot of interesting games will be released in 2010, bringing new developments and whopping tech leaps to the table. Which games are the most anticipated ones? Check them out right here.
Just like 2009, MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) will still be creating headlines in 2010. The two most anticipated MMORPG comes from two of the world’s greatest sci-fi titles: Star Wars and Star Trek. Star Wars: The Old Republic features a superb open-world platform that will enable you to determine every possible aspect of a mission, including making decisions on the outcome of the quest you are having. The graphics are fabulous, and it will surely be one of the best MMORPG game ever released. Star Trek Online gives you the unique mixtures of starship combat and on-foot missions, allowing you to explore the universe along with thousands of other players online.
Several offline games must also be anticipated, promising superb graphical improvements and addictive gameplays to gamers around the world. Mass Effect 2 will be the sequel everybody is waiting for, but the crème de la crème would have to be Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight. This latest installment of the Command & Conquer series guarantees you mind blowing real-time strategy battles that will keep you playing for victory.
My personal favorite? Spec Ops: The Line! This Dubai-set tactical combat shooter may not be the best there is, but it will be more than what you could imagine from this kind of game. 2010 will be an interesting year indeed 
Not all web developers understand search engine optimization. The process is actually easy yet complicated at the same time, but these 3 steps I’m about to tell you will get you started right away.
1. Fill Your Site With Quality Unique Contents
The best thing you can do to prepare your site for search engine optimization is to fill your site with quality contents. Write articles, how-to’s, and other informational contents and post them at your site. Not only you will optimize your site for search engine optimization purposes, you will also entertain visitors and keep them coming back. If your site is an online store, you can still add a blog that discuss products you are selling as part of your site. Remember, the contents have to be unique; if you don’t have time to write them hire freelance content writers to do the job for you instead of going to online article directories and copy stuffs.
2. Update, Update, Update!
One of the key to successful SEO campaign is regular site update. Yes, you still have to cope with maintaining updates according to sets of keywords you are using to keep your site optimized, but you should update regularly. Again, this simple step can also be done with the help of freelancers if you don’t have the time or expertise to do it yourself, and it will keep your visitors entertained while your search engine rankings improve.
3. Use Keyword Phrases In Your Title Tag
This may sounds simple, but pages with keyword phrases in their title tags will enjoy better search engine rankings. Don’t push your efforts too far by spreading keywords all over the content or page; just add it as part of the title tag and present some in the actual content. Don’t worry about keyword placements too much, and keep your contents — and pages — readable to visitors.
Simple, right? Go right ahead and optimize your site for search engine crawlers.
List based drop down menu is one of the most popular site ornaments, and a lot of sites are using it as their primary navigation tool. If you want to use list based menu on your site as well, follow this tutorial I’m about to present to you and create your own with CSS/HTML in a matter of minutes.
Let us start with making the list to work with. Use the following HTML code as your guide.
<div id=”nav”>
<ul>
<li class=”first”><a href=”#”>Home</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Blog</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Services</a>
<ul>
<li><a href=”#”>SEO</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Internet Marketing</a></li>
<li><a href=”#”>Web Contents</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href=”#”>Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
You should notice the “nav” id that will be used in your CSS codes as identifier. Let us continue with setting up some basic CSS codes for your menu. First, set up the basics for #nav to lay down some ground formatting for your list based menu.
*{ margin:0px; padding: 0px; }
#nav {
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
position: relative;
width: 390px;
height:56px;
font-size:14px;
color:#999;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#nav ul {
list-style-type: none;
}
Add the following piece of CSS code to make your list based menu float. This will make integrating the menu to your site a lot easier.
#nav ul li {
float: left
position: relative;
}
Add the following code to your CSS to make the list clickable as a whole — instead of just the text — and add separating borders to the design. Of course, you can change colors and border settings used.
#nav ul li a {
text-align: center;
border-right:1px solid #e9e9e9;
padding:20px;
display:block;
text-decoration:none;
color:#999;
}
The following CSS codes will allow you to format child nodes properly and create a smooth dropdown effect.
#nav ul li ul {
display: none
}
#nav ul li:hover ul {
display: block;
position: absolute;
}
Last but not least, add the following code to your CSS to set the hover state of the nodes.
#nav ul li:hover ul li a {
display:block;
background:#12aeef;
color:#ffffff;
width: 110px;
text-align: center;
border-bottom: 1px solid #f2f2f2;
border-right: none;
}
#nav ul li:hover ul li a:hover {
background:#6dc7ec;
color:#fff;
}
When it comes to integrating the menu to your site, all you have to do is insert the CSS codes into your CSS file and add the HTML list code wherever on the page within a container. The new list based dropdown menu will be a nice addition to your already intuitive design.
Research in Motion has just launched Blackberry Application World, an interface designed to help Blackberry users find apps for their handsets. It is a lot similar to Apple’s App World concept, so this article will review Application World to see if it is a worthy contender.
At its relatively young age, being launched merely weeks ago, BlackBerry Application World is showing great developments. There is no doubt that it can be a serious contender for Apple’s App Store, because the amount of applications being made available for free — or with a one-time charge — within this platform is growing rapidly.
There are different categories of applications such as business, entertainment, finance, games, health, IM and social networking, productivity, news, weather, travel, even news and books. You can easily find compatible applications for your BlackBerry handsets using BlackBerry Application World, and have them downloaded and installed in no time at all.
If you are just browsing around to look for interesting apps, you can also see the latest applications added as well as popular free and paid applications. Believe me when I say the number of applications being made available at the BlackBerry Application World is growing rapidly, and it can soon rival Apple’s App Store for sure. This is because developers are diving into the growing market of BlackBerry users worldwide and see BlackBerry Application World as a great opportunity to reach their potential customer.
If browsing for apps via your BlackBerry handsets seems like too much of a trouble, you can visit BlackBerry Application World from your PC as well.
Is it an attempt to rival Apple’s App Store? Maybe. Is it a good attempt, does it has the chances of winning? Absolutely yes.
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A new trend has been started by DSLR manufacturers; adding HD video recording capabilities to their top DSLRs for enthusiasts has make people thinking about upgrading their cameras for sure. HD video recording capabilities of DSLR cameras are not as good as dedicated video camcorders, but it is more than enough to record moments instantly. There are also limitations as to frame rate and length, but for most people HD video recording capabilities built into a DSLR is more than just enough.
Out of several DSLRs with digital HD video recording, Nikon D90 and Canon EOS 5D MK II are the most favorite ones. Both are targeted for different consumer — we are not making apple-to-apple comparison here — and offer different range of HD video recording features. Nikon D90 records M-JPEG, 720p video and outputs an AVI file, but the time length of the recording is limited due to the excessive heat generated on the sensor while recording HD video; it can only records HD video for a couple of minutes. As Nikon D90 is cheaper, the HD video recording feature can be used to record short clips than a full-length video.
Canon EOS 5D MK II, targeted at a more professional level with more expensive price tag, has better HD video recording capabilities. 5D MK II’s CMOS sensor captures 1920×1080p frames and outputs 1080i H.264 video at 30fps, which is in fact superbly good even against dedicated HD video camcorder. EOS 5D MK II also has microphone jack for stereo microphones as well as built-in monaural microphone, although audio recordings are sampled at CD-quality audio (16-bit, 44.1 kHz). The only limitation is you CompactFlash size, allowing you to record 4GB worth of video at a time; although larger CompactFlash units are available, the size limitation persists.
There are other DSLRs now equipping themselves with HD-Ready or Full-HD video recording. Compact and bridge digital cameras are also enjoying a nice boost with HD video recording capabilities, so we will still see the trend develops in the next couple of years. Who knows, maybe in a year or two all digital cameras can be used to record HD video clips.
Yes, The Observer and Review of Web crews are back for our second part of holiday shopping list. We have 5 items on our list so far, including BlackBerry Bold and Nintendo DSi, and we are going to add 5 more items to the list. Shall we start?
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5. IPEVO Kaleido R7
IPEVO Kaleido R7 is the digital photo frame you would want to get this holiday. Yes, it may be a little expensive, but the sleek design of this product as well as its features makes it worth every penny. Kaleido R7 has exceptional display quality, capable of displaying photos at best quality. Built-in Wi-Fi and 512MB internal memory are also part of the package. I literally spent days trying to find something wrong with this digital photo frame, and the only thing I can find is this product’s slightly premium price tag. |
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4. Garmin Nuvi 265WT
Garmin’s Nuvi 265WT is among the cheapest free-traffic-equipped navigation systems, and it is on our shopping list, definitely, because of its wide 4,3” screen, Bluetooth speakerphone capability, solid design that will make it look good mounted on your dashboard, nice text-to-speech and voice-guided navigation system, and of course its user-friendly touch interface. Priced at sub-$300 — you can even find Nuvi 265WT sold at $150-$200 after discounts and rebates — Garmin Nuvi 265WT holds the highest value-for-money score in its class. |
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3. Sony Bravia XBR9 52-inch LCD HDTV
OK, we know that the XBR10 series is better, especially with LED backlight, but the $5,000++ price tag makes Sony’s top LCD HDTV product rather unsuitable for our holiday shopping list. We don’t just blindly go for features; we calculate value-for-money as well. In this case, we decided to go with Sony’s largest XBR9, the Bravia XBR9 52-inch LCD HDTV. Comes fully-equipped with 240MHz Motion Flow refresh rates, Internet widgets, and an impressive 100,000:1 contrast ratio with all the vibrancy you would expect from Sony, with only $2,000 on its price tag, are what make this product a fabulous living room companion. |
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2. IPod Touch 3rd Generation
IPhone is great, but we personally opted for iPod Touch instead for our holiday shopping list. Why? You’ll see |
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1. Motorola Droid
And for our number one item: Motorola Droid. With Android 2.0 as its operating system, this is the first phone that can actually compete with Apple’s iPhone and has a strong chance of winning. With large — the largest in mobile phones so far — LCD touchscreen, 5-Megapixel camera, and long battery life, this is the dream phone you should get your hands on. |
. With unrivaled bright and crisp screen, and a choice between 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB of internal storage, iPod Touch is a fabulous portable media player indeed.Digital photo frames make great holiday gift. There are so many different digital photo frames currently available, so we’re going to take a closer look at some of the best and most affordable ones in this article.
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Memorex MDF0722-WLDBMemorex 7-inch digital photo frame is definitely one of the best there is. With less than $40 on its price tag, this digital photo frame features a bright 7-inch LCD display with 16:9 aspect ratio, 2 in 1 memory card slot for MMC or SD card, and of course a picture-rotate feature. The outer-frame is trendy and pop, making it suitable for displaying your pictures in a nice way. |
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Coby DP702This Coby 7-inch digital photo frame is also priced at sub-$40, but it packs features found in high-end models with a nice wooden frame touch. It is capable of displaying JPEG Photo Files, as well as playing MP3 and WMA music files, JPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG- MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 (XviD) video files. It has a built-in speaker, native support for USB connection, and a complete set of SD, MMC, MS, xD, and CF card slots. |
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Digital Spectrum MemoryFRAMEThe MemoryFRAME ULTRA MF-801 8.4-Inch Digital Picture Frame has an 8.4-inch LCD screen capable of displaying high resolution pictures at their bests. With its interchangeable faceplates, you can easily fit MemoryFRAME to any 8-inch X 10-inch ready-made frames. It has a built-in 512 MB memory and compatible with external memory cards as well. The price of this device may be higher, but you will surely enjoy its capabilities to display photos and play audio and video in JPEG, BMP, MP3 and MPEG file formats. It has slightly larger screen than other digital photo frames we are reviewing here, but we decided to put it here anyway since it is a great option for holiday gifts. |
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Sony DPF-D70This 7-inch digital photo frame from Sony, priced below $70, is also a nice holiday gift for people you love. The quality of DPF-D70’s LCD screen is virtually unmatched, plus it has 256MB of internal memory, multiple display modes, support for most memory cards, and of course a native USB connection capability. Known also as the S-Frame, DPF-D70 will surely make displaying digital photos in your living room very easy; definitely a fabulous pick. |
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Pandigital PAN7000DWPandigital is known to be one of the leading digital photo frame manufacturers. This 7-Inch digital picture frame. It is one of the highest rated digital photo frames, and users are picking this up as their favorite for sure. Its 1 GB internal memory holds up to 6400 images; I doubt you would need extra storage, but Pandigital provides you with SD/MS/MS-PRO/MMC/XD memory slots just in case. The overall design is cool and simple, making it fits perfectly anywhere you want to place it. |
Well, those are 5 of the best and most affordable digital photo frames available. They would make a fabulous gift pack, so pick one you like now for this year’s holiday gift.
