Best Advice 7 Tech Idols Ever Received

The most successful people in every industry, including technology have received a piece of precious advice, at some point in their life from someone, which turned the course of their life and made them what they are today.

 
Richard Parsons, Former chairman of Citigroup considers the advice from Steve Ross, former CEO of Time Warner as his life changing one: "Just remember, it's a small business and a long life. You are going to see all these people again."

 
Business Insider compiled a list of such best tips the executives ever received and shared over the years. Here are some of the lessons received by the tech icons like Bill Gates to new world tech stars like Ben Silberman of Pinterest.

 

Marissa Mayer, VP,Google

 
“My friend Andre said to me, ‘you know, Marissa, you are putting a lot of pressure on yourself to pick the right choice, and I have got to be honest: That is not what I see here. I see a bunch of good choices, and there is the one that you pick and make great’. I think that is one of the best pieces of advice I have ever gotten.”

 
-From an interview with Social Times

 

Eric Schmidt, Google -->

Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google

“Find a way to say yes to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learn something new. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids."

-From the book “The Best Advice I Ever Got” by Katie Couric.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook -->

Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook

When Sandberg was thinking she would not accept an offer to be Google’s general manager, Eric Schmidt told her, “Stop being an idiot; all that matters is growth.” She says that is the best advice she ever got.

Larry Page, Google -->

Larry Page, Co-founder, Google

"In graduate school at Stanford University, I had about ten different ideas of things I wanted to do, and one of them was to look at the link structure of the web. My advisor, Terry Winograd, picked that one out and said, 'Well, that one seems like a really good idea.' So I give him credit for that."

-From an interview with CNN Money

Bill Gates, Microsoft -->

Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft

"Warren Buffett has taught me a lot of things, but he got me thinking very early on that at some point I'd have the opportunity and responsibility to give the wealth back. And so, literally decades before the foundation got started I was reading about philanthropists from the past … what they'd done and how it worked."

Ben Silberman, Pinterest -->

Ben Silberman, Co-founder, Pinterest

"Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give - with a few exceptions - generalize whatever they did. ...Every company carves its own path, and (founders) are under pressure to make their startups look like the last successful company everyone remembers."

Richard Branson, Virgin Group -->

Richard Branson, founder and chairman, Virgin Group

 
"My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing. The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me. I have fun running ALL the Virgin businesses — so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve."

 
-Taken from an interview with The Good Entrepreneur.

Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

 
Berkshire Hathaway director Thomas Murphy once told “the legendary investor”:

 
"Never forget Warren, you can tell a guy to go to hell tomorrow - you don't give up the right. So just keep your mouth shut today, and see if you feel the same way tomorrow."

 
-From an interview with Yahoo

How to Open Facebook at School and Office

These days most academic institutions and corporate offices block popular social networking websites like Twitter, Facebook and Orkut so that students/employees don’t waste their time chatting with their buddies or checking their status updates and focus on being more productive instead. However if you are addicted to Facebook but are unable to access it due to Facebook being blocked at school, college or office, here are some methods that will let you open Facebook and access it without any hassles:

1. Change the DNS Server

Most sites including Facebook are usually blocked at schools, colleges and offices by blocking it in the DNS server itself. But you can easily bypass it by switching to some other DNS such as OpenDNS or Google Public DNS. Only a while back some websites including Youtube & torrent sites were not opening up in my PC. No matter how many settings I tweaked, I was unable to access these websites. I had heard of OpenDNS, so I decided to change my DNS settings to those of OpenDNS. Right after I did that, I was able to access all of those websites without any problems. Fortunately, you can do the same since changing your Internet’s DNS setting is quite easy. If you are using Windows, go to Control Panel > Network Connections and select the connection that you are currently using. Right click on it and click on Properties. Then choose Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).

Click on the Properties tab and check the “Use the following DNS server addresses” option. Now enter the following values in Preferred DNS Serverand Alternate DNS Server respectively (OpenDNS):

• 208.67.222.222


• 208.67.220.220

2. Using Gmail

Since Gmail can never be blocked by any institution or office, you can use it safely for accessing Facebook indirectly. All you have to do is to add a gadget by going to Gmail Settings > Labs and looking up the ‘Add any gadget by URL‘ option. Click on “Save changes” button.



Return to the Settings page and you will see that a tab called ‘Gadgets‘ has been added. Click on it and enter the following URL in the ‘Add a gadget by its URL’ field and click add. Here’s the URL:

http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/104971404861070329537/facebook.xml



After adding this gadget, a Facebook gadget will appear at the bottom-left of your screen, just below the Chat. Click on expand and login to your FB account. When you first login to your account, a ‘request for confirmation’ screen will appear. Simply click on the Allow button. Once logged in, you can easily update your status and read all recent status updates by your friends.

3. Using Opera Mini

Another method to open blocked Facebook is by using the web version of opera mini browser. Just download Opera mini simulator that functions exactly as the Opera mini browser would do on any mobile phone. In order to access Facebook, you will have to use the mobile version of Facebook –http://m.facebook.com.

4. Edit the Hosts File

Here’s a simple trick you can use to unblock Facebook on the computer you using.




Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

Right click on hosts file and open it with notepad

Add these 4 lines at the end of the file:

125.252.224.88 facebook.com

125.252.224.88 www.facebook.com

69.63.181.12 apps.facebook.com

153.16.15.71 upload.facebook.com

153.16.15.71 login.facebook.com

Now save the file.

5. ScrapBoy

Scrapboy is a desktop application that allows you to manage Facebook, Myspace and Orkut from your desktop. Just enter your Facebook login details andaccess Facebook directly from your desktop. You can change notification options from the Notifications tab in the Preferences window of Scrapboy.



Do you know of any other methods to open blocked Facebook? Share them with us.

You Might See Facebook Browser & Dead Opera – Soon!

The rumor is spreading like fire, that Facebook is looking to buy Opera Software. If it turns out to be true then we will probably see a new web browser, Facebook brand.



Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer just got a new competitor few days ago, namely Yahoo Axis, but it looks like they will have to make room for another one. If the said deal confirms, most probably we will see a brand new Facebook browser. If you don’t know about Yahoo Axis yet, it’s a web browser (of course) which has many new features, but the one it’s bragging about is – thumbnails. It has replaced the standard search results page and address bar suggestions with thumbnails, which shows a quick preview of the web page. Know more about Yahoo Axis.

We are saying this because, a few weeks ago the social networking giant bought Instagram and after a while launched a camera app very much similar to Instagram and apparently, Facebook is serious about developing its mobile services and make its own space in mobile sector – Acquisition of Opera Software is a very good move for this purpose. Also, it has plenty of money as it just went public, in figures its more than 16 billion dollars.




Opera claims to have 200 million users worldwide. Undoubtedly, the mobile browsers by the entity are very good and recommended by many people. Even I recommend it for mobile devices, but when it comes to desktop… I’d rather use Firefox or Chrome. Opera recently launched its very own browser for Android and Linus based TVs. We can only imagine what will happen when the growing and innovative company will get support of social networking giant and its huge public funds.

We can also expect some integration of the said browser with the social network to increase the engagement of its users and may be some exclusive features, similar to desktop notifications of Gmail which are only available in Chrome. To check the authenticity of the rumors, when Mashable contacted the PR team they replied, “Thanks for checking in, but Facebook isn’t commenting on this.” Well, what can we conclude out of that?

What do you say about this? Will you use Facebook browser instead of Chrome or Firefox?

These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

This infographic created by Jason at Frugal Dad shows that almost all media comes from the same six sources.

That's consolidated from 50 companies back in 1983.

NOTE: This infographic is from last year and is missing some key transactions. GE does not own NBC (or Comcast or any media) anymore. So that 6th company is now Comcast. And Time Warner doesn't own AOL, so Huffington Post isn't affiliated with them.

But the fact that a few companies own everything demonstrates "the illusion of choice," Frugal Dad says. While some big sites, like Digg and Reddit aren't owned by any of the corporations, Time Warner owns news sites read by millions of Americans every year.

Here's the graphic:

6 Wild New Patents: The Future Of Tech

New is always better, says Barney Stinson. We agree. New developments in technologies keep making our lives better and convenient. Tech giants keep filing patents for discoveries made by their R&D teams and are constantly involved in patent infringement lawsuits. This shows how competitive the market has become. We bring you a list of 6 wild patents filed by leading tech companies that will pleasantly surprise you.

 
1. Diary Free Calorimeter
Company: Microsoft

How would you like to have a device which could act as your dietician and trainer? This might soon turn into a reality as Microsoft has files its patent for a device which is your quintessential calorimeter.

The device will estimates nutritional caloric intake by periodically monitoring weight and sensing physical exercise, which can then be used in a calorimetric model derived from regression analysis of a population.

The device will be a wrist strap on which will sense heart rate, body temperature, skin resistance, motion/acceleration and velocity. This device is a super intelligent trainer and dietician combined.

 

2. Nose Bridge Sensor

 

Company: Google

Google glasses sound like one hell of a gadget if we go by the patents that Google has filed for it. The latest one is the nose bridge sensor.

Google glasses need to have a number of sensors which will work better if placed in a forward facing part of the device. Hence the nose bridge is the ideal spot for a video camera, a sonar sensor, an ultrasonic or possibly a microphone.

This technology could also be used to switch the device on when the presence of the nose is sensed between the nose bridges. The possibilities sound very interesting and we can’t wait to see how it turns out.

 

3. WiFi and GSM Landmarks and Neighborhoods for Location Based Services

 

Company: Microsoft

Every other location today has some form of wireless landmark information such as a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi access point. This new patent by Microsoft will capture and then send the information from these landmarks to mobile devices.

This new technology will create a complete map of the area for a mobile device based on the information provided through the visible access points.

4. Method, System, and Apparatus for Patient Controlled Access of Medical Records
Company: IBM

IBM’s patent will allow different platforms to access controlled medical information for patients, the information will be provided only when permission is granted by the patients.

The information stored in networks shall be shared with hospitals, pharmacies, research institutes, emergency services, laboratories, physicians and insurance companies. This technology can help save lives in case of emergencies and mishaps.

 

 

5. Method and Program Product for Preventing Distribution of an E-Mail Message
Company: IBM
This latest patent will surely come in handy for all the corporate and for people running them. Using this technology a user receiving mails will not be able to forward it to unintentional users. The mail will be received only by the recipient and will not be sent or forwarded to a third party.

 

 
6. Automatically Generating Nodes and Edges in an Integrated Social graph
Company: Facebook

Facebook has recently files two patents and one of them is a method for maintaining a data store for nodes and edges. This technology will be used to understand what information from a user is shared.

The technology will make it easier for Facebook to understand concepts Facebook users use to connect to other users. Because of this technology making recommendations will become easier.

6 Secrets Of Facebook-Apple Relationship

The two have shared an on and off relationship for the last few years. Apple’s latest announcement about deep Facebook integration in all its platforms confirms their deep bond. Together they will take the world by a storm. We bring you their rocky love story from when they met in 2006 to when they made it public in 2012.
1. Apple And Facebook Meet:

The year was 2006 and Facebook was facing stiff competition from MySpace. The social network was nowhere as big as it is today. It had 8.3 million users and was the 7^th most visited website in the US. Facebook made friends with Apple by signing a deal with Apple to give away 10 million free iTunes samplers to Facebook users.

This was the first time Facebook and Apple had an association. Apple had also launched the Apple Student group on Facebook. It was a runaway success with 450,000 people joining the group in a short time.

2. iOS4 Designed With Facebook Integration But…

The setting changed and it was 2010. Facebook had become the biggest social networking site and was a force to reckon with. Apple was just about to launch its iPhone 4 and iTunes10. Media reports were ripe with reports of Apple and Facebook working together.

According to an Apple employee, “Apple had fully integrated Facebook into the iPhone and iPad’s operating system, and was ready to launch...…” Apple had also come up with Ping which was a social media for iTune users. That was supposed to have Facebook integration as well.
The video demonstrated by Apple for iPhone4 also showed Facebook integration. Then something terrible happened.

3. Ping Causes Rift Between Apple And Facebook

Apple was all set to launch its iPhone4 and iTunes 10 with Facebook integration but the deal just fell through. Apparently Facebook and Apple could not reach an agreement on certain terms. According to Jobs the terms offered by Mark were ‘onerous’.

Apple anyways tried to launch its new products with Facebook integration without the social network’s consent. When Facebook got to know this they sealed their API.

4. Facebook App For iPad Causes More Problems:
In 2010, Jobs visited Mark to discuss about Facebook iPad application. Zuckerberg had promised to create their first tablet app with iPad.
An apple employee says, “Roughly three months ago, Steve Jobs — then the Apple CEO — paid a visit to Facebook to discuss a Facebook for iPad application with CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg promised Jobs that the social network would release its first ever tablet application for iPad.”.

Jobs later got to know that Facebook had already developed an app for HP’s TouchPad, Apple’s rival. Needless to say Jobs was furious. Mark then tried to pacify the situation by asking Jon Rubinstein at HP to remove the FB app. HP refused to comply and Mark ended up freezing HP’s access to FB’s API.

5. Facebook Apple Kiss And Makeup:

After the HP debacle Facebook and Apple became friends again. In fact both the companies were working closely.

“Not only are the pair finally aligned on the Facebook for iPad application, but they’ve been working together closely on Facebook’s HTML 5 mobile app platform. This is the closest Apple and Facebook have been to creating something meaningful together, one source says. They’re partnering because they share a common enemy: Google.” reveals a close aid of the company.

6. Facebook And Apple Change Relationship Status To Committed:
After all these years and several talks about working together, their union became a reality in June2012. On Monday, Apple unveiled their latest version of iOS and its new Mountain Lion for Macs. The relationship seems to have been strengthened because of a common enemy Google.
Apple announced that the latest version of iOS will have deep Facebook integration. This will include a ‘like’ function for Apple’s App and iTunes store and integration with Siri will also be seen. Apple will also have a public API for third party app developers to be able to better integrate the feature into their app. Apple also announced Facebook integration into Mountain Lion for Macs.
Users around the world must be rejoicing because of this union. The world’s two most admired and loved companies have come together. Finally!

Researchers Find Online Photos are Worth Much More than 1,000 Words

The next time you pull out your smartphone and snap a photo of a landmark to upload to Facebook, think about the broader implications: Not only are you sharing your experience with your friends, but you’re contributing a small piece of data that could one day build a model of the world.

Researchers David Crandall of Indiana University and Noah Snavely of Cornell University are developing algorithms to create models of patterns based on the vast troves of photographs uploaded to Facebook, Flickr and other photo-sharing websites each day. Not only can their models be used to build 3D representations of a place, but they can also shed light on the people who visit those places.

“This analysis can also generate statistics about places, such as ranking landmarks by their popularity or studying which kinds of users visit which sites,” Crandall and Snavely wrote in an article that was published last month in the academic journal ACMQueue. “At a more local level, we can use automatic techniques from computer vision to produce strikingly accurate 3D models of a landmark, given a large number of 2D photos taken by many different users from many different vantage points."

Crandall and Snavely suggest that photo-sharing sites can be used to model human behavior at given points in time and history. The implications are huge for marketers and could offer an explanation as to why Facebook has made a recent push into expanding its photo and mobile offerings.

There are, of course, limitations to the techniques, which will likely be overcome in time. Photo collections have an extreme scale and an unstructured nature, the researchers said; many different people take photos with many different cameras from largely unknown viewpoints, which complicates the ability to build the models.

Building 3D Models

The paper demonstrates how Crandall and Snavely were able to use 6,500 photos publicly shared on Flickr to build a computer-simulated reconstruction of Old Town of Dubrovnik in Croatia.



The advantages of using social media are clear: Such models can be built at a relatively low cost and don’t require costly site visits or surveys. The problem faced by the researchers is in developing algorithms that can extract useful data from the “noisy data” that flows through the typical API stream.

Mapping the World

Most photo-sharing sites allow users to share more information than just the photo; the time and date a photo was shot, the location and even the type of camera used can be collected. Already, the researchers have been able to put together a list of the most-photographed places in the world (New York, London, San Francisco, Paris and Los Angeles round out the top five) and the five most-photographed landmarks (the Eiffel Tower, Trafalgar Square, Tate Modern, Big Ben and Notre Dame).

But the data can reveal so much more, including what types of people visit those places. Beyond that, algorithms are being developed that can effectively map how people travel through highly photographed places like Manhattan:



“We can infer a user’s social network with startling accuracy based only on such patterns,” the researchers wrote. “After observing that two people were at about the same place at about the same time on five distinct occasions, for example, the probability that they are friends is nearly 60%.”

To entice people to take more photos in places that aren’t photographed as frequently as, say, New York or Paris, the researchers have been experimenting with gamification. One such effort known as PhotoCity allowed them to collect 100,000 photos of the Cornell and University of Washington campuses by offering points to players who took photos at specific places.

“Imagine all of the world’s photos as coming from a ‘distributed camera,’ continually capturing images all around the world. Can this camera be calibrated to estimate the place and time each of these photos was taken?” the researchers concluded. “If so, we could start building a new kind of image search and analysis tool - one that would, for example, allow a scientist to find all images of Central Park over time in order to study changes in flowering times from year to year, or that would allow an engineer to find all available photos of a particular bridge online to determine why it collapsed. Gaining true understanding of the world from the sea of photos online could have a truly transformative impact.”

 

Dateline

A subtle replacement for having the date shown on the Menu bar, Dateline gives you a linear calendar on your desktop within a transparent window. One very useful feature is that it has direct access to iCal when double clicking on a day.



The background and text colors are fully customizable along with transparency to make it blend seamlessly with your current desktop. This application requires Mac OS X 10.5 and higher.

Facebook camera app vs Instagram

Facebook's new camera appmakes sharing photos on the social media site a breeze. It's an improvement on posting photos using its main mobile app.

But other camera apps such as Instagram and Hipstamatic still reign supreme. Facebook Camera doesn't have the same level of addictiveness or the range of tools for sprucing up images.

Many people were perplexed when Facebook released its own camera app late last month, just weeks after snapping up the popular Instagram photo-sharing app for $1 billion.

The two apps, both free, have some similar features. Both have a scrollable feed of photos posted by your friends and other people you choose to follow. They also have a set of tools, or filters, which let you adjust contrast, color and other attributes.

But they are different enough that Facebook's camera app is more of a complement to the main Facebook app than a challenge to Instagram. Facebook's camera app is only available for Appledevices, while Instagram recently came out with a version that works on Android phones and tablet computers.

The app is easy to use with intuitive taps and swipes.

When you open it, you see a scroll of your friend's photos - the ones you would see if you clicked the photo tab in the Facebook app or on Facebook's website for regular computers. Tap on a photo to see a larger version, optimized on your phone.

Above that is a bar that shows you the most recent pictures in your device's camera library - all the photos you have stored on the iPhone or iPad. You can swipe down the feed of your friends' Facebook photos to see more of your own pictures, which you can then choose to post on Facebook.

You can comment, tag and 'like' photos, just as you can with the main app or website. You simply tap icons that hover over the photos. Change your mind? Just swipe away the comment box, and it disappears.

It is kind of a shock to suddenly see your whole photo library within a Facebook app. Before I got comfortable with the navigation, I was slightly paranoid I would accidently post a photo on Facebook without meaning to. But once I got used to the easy navigation within the app, that was less of a worry.

Once you select a photo from your library (or take one within the app by tapping the camera icon), Facebook Camera gives you much better editing options than the main site or app. You can crop the photo to any dimension, or straighten it slightly - something I almost always need to do. You can tweak images with 14 filters that have such names as "Cool" "Light" and "Rouge."

For people used to the dramatic filters of Instagram and the wacky lenses and film-like options of Hipstamatic, the filters on the Facebook Camera are underwhelming. They didn't make a dramatic difference on photos I used them on, and I doubt I would use them before using Facebook Camera to post a photo.

For those who like a lot of editing control, Facebook Camera lacks the full-featured photo-adjustment capabilities available in PhotoToaster or Snapseed (which is usually $4.99 in the app store but is free until Friday, so snap it up!).

But I was pleased with the ease with which I could post photos to Facebook with its camera app. I will probably use it whenever I post a photo to the site now. Unlike the regular app, Facebook Camera makes posting multiple photos easy as well, although there's no ability to create albums on Facebook without going to the main site.

Still, it's not going to replace Instagram for me. I follow an assortment of people on Instagram based solely on the quality of their photos, ranging from gorgeous landscapes to gritty street scenes. I'm always excited to check out new pics.

I friend people on Facebook for different reasons - and it's not because of the quality of their photos. As a result, the stream on the Facebook Camera app has a random feel.

It also has a bit of a dilutive quality when I check the main Facebook app at work (ahem, not that I ever do that) or at home. Since I've already seen most of the photos, the main Facebook news stream feels less "new."

So think of Facebook Camera less as competition for other camera apps, and more of a complement - like Facebook's other standalone apps, for messaging and for managing business brand pages - to the main Facebook site.

8 Big Changes Geeks Expect from Apple in June Conference

Some people are hard to please. Such is the case with these new age techies who want Apple to bring in changes in their already existing line of awesome products. Ranging from retina display to better application development tools, their list is long. Here is a list compiled by Business Insider of the 8 changes that developers want Apple to announce in its big WWDC conference in June.

 
1. Next line of Mac should have High Resolution Retina Displays:

 
The geeks want their screens to come to life. "We're really hoping Apple begins introducing Macs with high resolution retina displays," said Dustin MacDonald, a designer and engineer for Acrylic Software.

 
There are rumors afloat in the market that Mac will have high resolution displays similar to the ones iPhone and iPad. There have been reports which quote sources who claim to have seen a prototype of the new MacBook Pro, which has 'jaw-dropping' Retina display.

 
The high resolution displays will make the iMacs much more expensive but we don’t hear anyone complaining.

2. A simpler way to coordinate and share information between apps:

 
Android and Windows platforms provide users a simple method to integrate information between apps. Developers want apple to come up with something similar. "I'd love to see Apple give us a better way to coordinate and share between apps," said Josh Abernathy, a developer at GitHub and founder of Maybe Apps to Business Insider.

 
They want something similar to the Charms Bar on Windows 8 which allows users to perform a same action with several applications at once. A change on these lines will surely end up saving a lot of time and hassle for coders worldwide.

3. Siri should be integrated with other apps:

 
Siri has been a disappointment so far. But that can change if Apple makes changes to integrate Siri with other iOS applications. It would be very interesting if other applications could develop their own verb set for Siri.

 
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could ask Siri to read the latest status updates on Facebook for you? If Apple does this, it would let "other apps get to extend themselves with Siri in whatever way they choose.” says Kevin Fox, a former designer with Google and Mozilla. Apple should really try to make siri a better application or be ready to face the backlash.

4. Data sharing should be made easier on iCloud:

 
It is much more difficult for users to share data with friends and family on iCloud as compared to DropBox. Developers expect apple to make data sharing easier on their cloud platform.

 
"While having the ability to sync all your data across a variety of devices is essential, one of the biggest missing features is the ability to seamlessly share iCloud data (not just publish a URL)," said Milen Dzhumerov, co-founder of The Cosmic Machine and one of the developers behind EventBox.

5. Update the existing application development tools so they don't crash every single day:

 
Developers complain that every new version of Xcode has bugs that make it crash every day. "The current development tools which exist, Xcode and Instruments, have been rapidly changing over the past two years. However, every release of Xcode is very buggy.” Ash Furrow, the lead iOS developer for 500px says. "It crashes on me more than once a day and, after speaking with other developers, this is pretty typical.”

 
The simple request to Apple is to develop coding tools that do not crash several times a day.

6. Deeper integration between Facebook and most iPhone apps:

 
Techies are getting hooked on to networking sites, making them a common activity throughout the day. It would do them good if apple brought about a deeper integration between Facebook and other apps.

 
Apple had introduced a deeper integration of iOS 5 with Twitter last year. Geeks want Apple to develop something similar for iOS6 and Facebook. "Facebook sign-on is still a pain on all mobile platforms - having Facebook be integrated with iOS6 would be a huge win!" says Akshay Kothari co-founder of the Pulse news reader app.

7. Open up the API to enable push notifications for more apps:

 
Apple is very strict about protecting its API. Developers are not open to some APIs which makes it impossible to integrate features like push notifications for more applications. "We would love to see Apple open the background API also known as the VOIP privilege for more selected apps," said Dominique Leca, co-founder of Sparrow.

 
Sparrow is an email client which is available to users of Mac and iOS. They had to charge users to get push notifications which highlight new emails because Apple refused Sparrow access to their server.

 
Apple refused to change their attitude even after users signed a petition to bring about the change.Let’s hope that Apple relaxes its policies in the future.

8. An OS X update that would enable multi-screen support when applications are in full screen mode:

 
Mac users cannot have multiple applications running on the full screen mode. The problem is not huge but it makes multitasking difficult for developers most of whom use multi-screens.

 
It would make working much better if apple could develop an update which will allow multi-screen support even if applications are in full screen mode.

Guilty or Not? The 10 Most Ridiculous Things Blamed On Google

“Search-” the first thing comes to our mind when we think Google. But, the Universal search giant has always been dragged into many cases, which are not even related to any of its business and was forced to serve as a scapegoat for a number of bad incidents happened across the globe.
Even the situations have gone to an extend which made Eric Schimdt ,former GoogleCEO, admit that, “Google had become accustomed to taking blame for almost everything- Terrorist attacks, Child pornography, market share drops, stolen property and a lot more.”
Let’s have a look at the 10 most ridiculous things blamed on the search giant compiled by Complextech.
# 10 Rupert Murdoch Blames Google for Newspaper Decline
 Date: April 11, 2010
The company, entirely responsible for the downfall of news paper industry was turned out to be Google, at least for Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation founder. He accused the tech giant for taking the content from his media empire and other publishers, without giving any royalties. Google, the believer of “open web,” replied by saying that it has pushed the traffic to all the sites of News Corp. Murdoch in turn implemented a new paying system for readers to access the contents of his site like the Wall Street Journal.

# 09 Google Maps Error Lead to Costa Rican Invasion
Date: November 5, 2010
In 2010, Nicaraguan troops Commander Eden Pastora lead his troops and invaded a part of Costa Rica, which he thought belongs to Nicaragua. He even took down the Costa Rican flag and raised a Nicaraguan one. Later Pastora and the government officials blamed Google for the error in Google maps which lead them to the accidental invasion. Google in turn blamed U.S. state department for providing faulty border data.

#8 Zuckerberg Blamed Google for Bad Facebook Android App
Date: November 3, 2010
Mark Zuckerberg was the next one blaming Google for releasing the Facebook app for Android, which he found unpolished and bug filled. He even called Google “obnoxious” for hiring an outside developer to make the app. “obviously, it was not a huge deal. But it definitely set us back for a while,” he said. “The Facebook’s in-house development team could have done that work,” he added.

#7 Porn Companies Blame Google for Underage Porn Viewers
Date: February 15, 2008
Steven Hirsch, the co-chairman of Vivid Entertainment blamed Google for not updating its porn filters and age verification tools, thereby making children to be exposed, to materials intended only for adults. This porn Kingpin even offered his hand to work with the companies to make it difficult for children to be more exposed to porn content. He said Google and Yahoo to erect “strong barriers” for this.

#6 Google Played for 700 MHz Spectrum Auction Shortfall
Date: April 15, 2008
Republicans Cliff Stearns and John Shimkus, along with Democrat Eliot Engel accused Google for deliberately manipulating the outcome of the FCC's (Federal Communications Commission) 700 MHz spectrum auction. The company is accused for discouraging the candidates from placing bids and causing a $10 billion lose to the FCC.

#5 Yahoo Blames Google for Market Share Dip
Date: October 14, 2010
Yahoo failed to perform well in last year’s ComScore report on market share value, and Sashi Seth, the Senior VP of Yahoo! search and marketplaces could find only one reason for that- Google. He accused Google of giving the research firm misleading figures and manipulating the search counts with its new automated search results format, Google Instant. OK, leave all that, what about the 200 million less queries Yahoo generated compared to Google at that time? Atleast he did not blame Google for that too.

#4 Entertainment Industry Calls Google “Enabler of Piracy”
Date: December 9, 2010
Taylor Hackford, the keynote speaker at Entertainment Content Protection Summit called Google an “Enabler,” who facilitate the illegal activity by allowing people to download pirated content from the torrent sites and thereby making money from it. Some days later, the British Pornographic Industry shared the same view of Taylor Hackford and suggested that Google should sensor the search results by listing accredited sites at the top.

#3 Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
Date: December 9, 2009
One of the captured terrorist in the Mumbai attack admitted to using Google earth as an aid, which in turn forced the Indian officials to send a petition to the court for banning the virtual map system from Google, claiming that the company has “no controls or limit access to prevent the misuse of the service.” John Haske, the Google earth VP defended by saying that “Google is not responsible and evilness is in the desires and philosophies of those who want to do evil, with every tool they get in hand.”

#2 The Unrest in Egypt
Date: February 22, 2011
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Russian deputy prime minister and energy minister blamed Google for unrest in Egypt, accusing the search giant of "manipulations of the energy of the people". He found Google responsible for everything happening with Hosni Mubarak. "Look what they have done in Egypt, those highly-placed managers of Google, what manipulations of the energy of the people took place there," he said in the interview.

#1 Milkman’s Bike Stolen by Google Street View Thieves
Gordon Rayner, a milkman from Brackendale Parade has accused Google’s street view website, claiming that it helped the burglars to steal his mountain bike from his garage, after they spot the door open through the online service. He said referring the photograph appeared in Street View, "When you look at the photograph, my face is blacked out, the windows of my house are blacked out but because the garage door was left open, you can clearly see everything in there.”