The whole toy camera – fake lomo – vintage looking photo craze is now on the web. Those who familiar with the little iPhone application ‘Instagr.am‘ or ‘Hipstamatic‘ know what I am talking about. Those are toy camera apps for the iPhone and iPad that takes an average quality photo yet with available ‘photo effects’ the photo magically turns into a piece of art work. Well now you could do that right on your web browser too. Read more

Well it seems that there is ‘plus one more button’ to put on your website and/or blog. Yes pun intended. Google have been experimenting with what they call the +1 one button a while back and they had recently released for everyone. This is of course a response to the ever popular Facebook ‘like’ button. Read more

Tumblr have always been this niche weird part of the web. It is not MySpace but you see lots of profile with animated gifs on it. It is not 4chan but the whole Tumblr network is basically full with viral web memes. Its most hardcore users seem to think that they are somewhat better than the average Facebook users. It has an almost cult like following that addresses the website founder David Karp as, ‘Daddy’. Read more

BoingBoing has this interesting post of about how a guy gets his stolen MacBook back. Joshua Kaufman’s laptop was stolen, but what the thief didn’t know is that he has an app call Hidden. It is an app that takes photos and screenshots of your Mac, and in this case is the photos of the MacBook thief. Read more

Before we all started to poke our friends and post stuff on their wall, we used to leave ‘testimonials’ on our friend’s page. Friendster was one of the first social networking website. No, the founder did not got an interview in CBS’ 60 Minutes. When Friendster changed its layout design, it didn’t made it to CNN news story. No there were no award wining blockbuster movie made about the website’s early days. People still at least make fun of MySpace, but Friendster, nobody remembers Friendster. Read more

Statistic shows that most long distance relationship don’t work. Many decades ago, long distance couples send letters to each other. Then the telephone was invented, you can hear your partner through series of wires across the globe. Read more

Edelman Digital released this interesting infographic of social media usage in the Asia region. The infographic shows the percentage of Internet penetration in a country and putting it up with the percentage of reading & writing blog, video watching, photo sharing and social networking. Read more

Starting from 27th May 2011, smart phone Maxis customers will be able to get a customize Opera Mini mobile browser for free. No data charge for downloading the browser. Opera Mini is available in various smart phone platform, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Symbian, and there is also a Java version. Read more

Just when you thought Yahoo! was going to quietly disappear from the web scene, they are back on our radar. It seems that today they are finally rolling out they new email calling it ‘the best email ever.’ Read more

We are used to getting all of our entertainment needs – music, movies and podcast through the Internet. Apple made it easy with iTunes, the all in one media gathering and playing software. In iTunes you could, buy and download music, movies and podcast shows. It is a media hub that syncs with your ‘iDevices’, the iPod, iPad and iPhone. Miro 4 seems to be doing what iTunes does and even more. Read more