A More Beautiful View of Photos on Facebook
Now when you click Photos at the top of your timeline, you’ll see larger pictures that fill up the page. You can use the menu to find shots you’re tagged in, pictures you’ve shared and albums you’ve created.
So this is what Mike Matas has been working on? I’m sure there’s more.
OS X Mountain Lion Downloaded 3 Million Times in 4 Days
Launched via the Mac App Store at $19.99, this makes it the most successful OS X release in the company’s history. As pointed out by Viticci, OS X Lion was downloaded 1 million times in just 24 hours, but reached the 6 million mark 76 days later.
TRAI Directs ISPs To Provide Information About FUP
According to the directive, telecom service providers should now provide enough information to its customers about the various existing plans and its Fair usage policy (FUP). It had also mandated service providers to ensure that the connection speed doesn’t go below the minimum specified speed and alert its customers whenever their data usage reaches 80% and 100% of the data usage limit allowed in their respective plans.
We’re half way through 2012, why we still consider 256kbps as “Broadband” is beyond me.
NYT: Apple Considering an Investment in Twitter
Apple has considered an investment in the hundreds of millions of dollars, one that could value Twitter at more than $10 billion, up from an $8.4 billion valuation last year, these people said. They declined to be named because the discussions were private.
Analyzing the London 2012 Games
The Olympic games are set to begin tomorrow and the team at GoSquared has put together this awesome infographic site that lays down some interesting trivia and numbers related to the games.
Early iPhone concept shows Sony design influence
A recent court filing by Samsung reveals that in 2006 Apple industrial designer Shin Nishibori was directed to design an iPhone prototype inspired by Sony’s aesthetics after Tony Fadell internally circulated an interview with a designer from the company. An assortment of renders reveal his design, complete with a Sony logo — save for one where the logo has been modified to read “Jony,” presumably in honor of Apple’s Jony Ive.
Yeowza!
$120/m for Gigabit Internet + TV or $70/m for just the Gigabit Internet with no data caps. Alternatively, you can get free internet for 7 years if you pay $300 (or 12 monthly payments of $25).
On July 23, 2011, nine-year-old Rachel Beckwith was killed in a tragic car accident on highway I-90 near Seattle, Washington. After her death, thousands of people all around the world started donating to her mycharity: water fundraising page, and over the course of a month, raised over $1.2 million in Rachel’s honor. That money is now helping 60,000 people get access to clean water.
What this little girl has made possible is truly remarkable.