Screenshot of iPhone Majikal App

Discover Events:

Information about events is widely distributed across web and other offline resources. It is very difficult to keep up with fragmented information and discover interesting events happening near your location. Majikal sources its roster of local events from various channels across web and social networks to bring you a comprehensive list of events. Majikal lets you find amazing events for every occasion!

Make Events More Social:

Being SOCIAL always meant to attend events and interact with people offline. Very surprisingly the online experience of attending events is not as social and we at Majikal are on a mission to change that experience. Every event you attend via Majikal will eventually become a time capsule preserving your memories and stories forever.

Complete Experience for Events:

Majikal app is not just made to discover events but it is built to provide a complete social experience around events. Majikal lets you see the people attending the event, virtually see what is happening at the event, buy tickets and share your experience at the event with your existing social networks and friends.

Majikal team is currently working on lots of cooler features for the app and promises a fun filled ride for its users. Also, currently Majikal platform has US only events data and is working to get more events worldwide. Stay tuned to learn more!

Download Majikal iPhone app from here.

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Other Screenshots of iPhone Majikal App

iPhone 4 owner,

I installed the program (link above) and ordered my case. All option are shown below:

The new iPhone OS4 has more than 100 new feature but the most prominent features are below:

• Multitasking: Now you can run your favorite third-party apps — and switch between them instantly — without slowing down the performance of the foreground app or draining the battery unnecessarily.
• Folders: Organize apps into folders with drag-and-drop simplicity. Get faster access to your favorites and browse and manage up to 2160 apps.
• Even better Mail: See messages from all your accounts in a unified inbox, organize messages by threads, open attachments in third-party apps, and more.
• iBooks: More than a great ebook reader, iBooks is also an amazing place to browse and shop for books, day or night.
• Create playlists: Create custom playlists right on your iPhone.
• 5x digital zoom: Get closer to your subjects by zooming in up to 5x.
• Tap to focus video: While shooting video, tap the display to choose where to focus.
• Faces and Places in Photos: View photos based on who’s in them and where they were taken.
• Home screen wallpaper: Change the background wallpaper on your Home screen.
• Gift apps: Send apps as gifts to your friends or family.
• Spell checking: A built-in dictionary automatically suggests words and corrects spelling. It works in Mail, Notes, and other apps.
• Wireless keyboard support: Pair a keyboard based on Bluetooth wireless technology with your iPhone.

The new iPhone 4

This innovative campaign of donation combined with viral spread of campaign through various social-media networks such as Twitter, Facebook, etc  has been very successful and donations are growing exponentially.

So, what are you waiting for? If you haven’t donated, just simply text “Haiti” to 90999.

YouTube is getting ready for early sping cleaning this year. By cleaning they mean to enhance site design and user experience. In past few years YouTube has released quite a few features on the site and will now remove the feature which weren’t a success. Also, YouTube is making a “to do” list and is looking for user vote here.

From YouTube blog:

What will this mean to you? Well, it means you’ll see some things about the site design evolving to be more consistent across the site. And some things that haven’t worked as smoothly as we would have liked them to will get the attention they deserve. Lastly, we may determine that some things we tried out just didn’t fly and remove them from the site.

We’ll be using a number of inputs to build our “to do” list: usage data that shows the things you use the most versus things that very few people use; usability testing that can help us understand what’s broken that needs fixing; and, last but not least, we’d like to hear from you directly…

Google's Nexus One Phone

The key features of Nexus One are:

• Manufactured by HTC.
• The Nexus One features dynamic noise suppression from Audience, Inc.
• A large 3.7″ OLED display for deep contrast and brilliant colors.
• GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon™ chipset for blazing speeds.
• Running on Android 2.1, the newest version of Eclair
• The software includes innovations like a voice-enabled keyboard so you can speak into any text field
• Fun Live Wallpapers
• A 3D photo gallery for richer media experiences and lots more.
• Of course, it also comes with a host of popular Google applications, including Gmail, Google Voice and Google Maps Navigation.

Google's Nexus One Phone

Google announced the launch of its new generation of super-phones starting with  Nexus One.

Along-with the announcement of the phone Google has adapted a new strategy for selling phones i.e. through its online Google Store. Currently the phone is being offered as unlocked phone for $529.00 (Buy the phone without service and insert your own SIM card) and you can also buy a subsidized phone from T-mobile for $179.00 (You must be eligible for service and accept a new two year contract to qualify for this pricing. Existing T-Mobile customers may qualify for upgrade pricing). Also, Google plan to add more phones and operators in future. The best part of this strategy is that the phone is not tied with one mobile operator unlike its main competitor Apple’s iPhone.

As per Google’s release:

“Well, today we’re pleased to announce a new way for consumers to purchase a mobile phone through a Google hosted web store. The goal of this new consumer channel is to provide an efficient way to connect Google’s online users with selected Android devices. We also want to make the overall user experience simple: a simple purchasing process, simple service plans from operators, simple and worry-free delivery and start-up.

The first phone we’ll be selling through this new web store is the Nexus One — a convergence point for mobile technology, apps and the Internet. Nexus One is an exemplar of what’s possible on mobile devices through Android — when cool apps meet a fast, bright and connected computer that fits in your pocket. The Nexus One belongs in the emerging class of devices which we call “superphones.” It’s the first in what we expect to be a series of products which we will bring to market with our operator and hardware partners and sell through our online store.”

Only time can tell whether this strategy will work or not in US market but I definitely believe it is the right way for a phone manufacturer to go i.e. let the device be independent of service provider and consumers make the ultimate choice of operator. Just like you buy a TV and then choose your cable operator independently.

Read the reviews and more details about Google Nexus here.

Google's Nexus One Phone

Google has launched its own phone Nexus One.

The reviews across the web have been mixed:

Techcrunch says:

Overall the Android is a superior mobile device, particularly when paired with Google Voice. Google is calling this the first of the Super Phones. And they may not be exaggerating all that much.

The Nexus One is an important milestone in the smartphone market. This is a software company, frustrated with making compromises with hardware manufacturers, that has taken the product bull by the horns. HTC makes the phone, but the branding is mostly Google and it’s clear that they directed every aspect of the development of this phone. It’s Google’s vision of the perfect Android device, from the huge and beautiful screen and massively fast Snapdragon processor to the software elegance of Google Navigation, Live Wallpaper and the Voice Keyboard. When combined with Google Voice there is no phone on the market today that can touch the Nexus One.

Unlike previous Android phones, and I’ve used most of them, the Nexus One has no obvious flaws or compromises. The phone is the state of the art in mobile, and I will use it happily. Until, as I always say, something better comes along.

Mashable says:

Overall, it’s what we expected: a slick, fast Android smartphone meant to be a true competitor to the Apple iPhone. It provides some new features (the voice technology is especially impressive) and is fast, but we’ll have to wait to see whether or not this is the phone that will give Apple a run for its money.

Wall Street Journal says:

The Nexus One finally has the right combination of hardware and software to give Android a champion that might attract more people away from their iconic iPhones and BlackBerrys. It has a larger screen than Apple’s phone, and is a bit thinner, narrower and lighter—if a tad longer. And it boasts a better camera and longer talk time between battery charges.

Finally, the iPhone is still a better apps platform. Not only are there more apps, but, in my experience, iPhone apps are generally more polished and come in more varieties.

But, with its fresh phone and bold business model, Google is taking Android to a new level, and that should ramp up the competition in the super-smart-phone space.

Engadget Review says:

Industry politics aside, though, the Nexus One is at its core just another Android smartphone. It’s a particularly good one, don’t get us wrong — certainly up there with the best of its breed — but it’s not in any way the Earth-shattering, paradigm-skewing device the media and community cheerleaders have built it up to be. It’s a good Android phone, but not the last word — in fact, if we had to choose between this phone or the Droid right now, we would lean towards the latter.

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Watch Nexus One Official YouTube video:

Google Blog (Picture courtesy: Google Blog)

Google has been blogging for more than five years now. Their first post was in April 2004 and since then 423 post have been published and last year they were read by more than 14,493,472 readers.

Google released their blog’s top 10 posts of 2009, by unique pageviews:

1. Introducing the Google Chrome OS – 2,591,794 unique pageviews (more than 12 percent of the year’s total). The announcement of our open source operating system received more than 4x the views of any other post.
2. Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave – 639,225. Wave-mania struck after we introduced a new product for collaboration and communication at our Google I/O conference.
3. Here comes Google Voice – 357,084. We released a preview of this application to help you better manage your voice communications.
4. “This site may harm your computer” on every search result?!?! – 320,435. A short-lived error affecting Google search results led to confusion and concern; this post cleared it up.
5. Email in Indian languages – 224,052. A transliteration feature in Gmail that makes it easier to type in Indian languages was a hit. More than one million readers of the blog in 2009 were from India — a 53 percent increase over 2008.
6. Releasing the Chromium OS open source project – 217,424. A few months after announcing our operating system project, we open-sourced it as Chromium OS.
7. Now you see it, now you don’t – 165,329. We introduced a new, clean version of our classic homepage.
8. Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really) – 164,319. Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk all lost their beta tags (in Gmail’s case, after five years!).
9. Now S-U-P-E-R-sized! – 155,196. A “small” change increasing the size of the Google search box got a lot of attention.
10. Introducing Google Public DNS – 143,122. We launched our public DNS resolver, which converts domain names into unique Internet Protocol (IP) numbers.

1. A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity.  www.whorepresents.com
2. Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at www.expertsexchange.com
3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at www.penisland.net
4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at www.therapistfinder.com
5. The Italian Power Generator company: www.powergenitalia.com
6. The Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales: www.molestationnursery.com
7. Welcome to the First Cumming Methodist Church: www.cummingfirst.com
8. Art designers, and their whacky website: www.speedofart.com