So Twitter lists launched last week and over the weekend we all the the chance to take a look see, make a few lists and figure out just what it was all for. As it happens it’s a pretty cool feature which connects you with more people of the same interests giving Twitter even more of a social feel without taking away from the whole ‘Get it off your chest aspect’.
Now, the weekend has come and gone and the Twitter developers have plopped a Lists Widget into our laps for us to play with on our sites and blogs. Here’s what it looks like.
Basically, it works in the same way as other Twitter widgets except instead of showing the tweets of just one person is shows the tweets of everyone who is in that list. I can see this being a massive hit in the blogosphere because building community and adding new features to blogs are two of the most important things for a blogger to consider – well the list widget hits the nail on the head.
I tested it out and while it looks good and gets the job done the widget can be a little slow or sluggish but that’s to be expected seeing as it’s only out a single day. I’m sure the developers are on to it – they’ve had enough practice to know what to do when something is down, broken, sluggish or ‘over capacity’.
Get the Twitter lists widget for your blog right here.
Well all know about the new lists feature that Twitter has released. Here at Crenk we thought we would add a few Twitter lists of our own and categories them so everyone can keep up to date with what is happening in the following areas:
Crenk Team – http://twitter.com/crenk/team
Top Technology News Sources – http://twitter.com/crenk/toptechnews
Tech Talk (Top Analysis from Leading Minds in Technology) – http://twitter.com/crenk/techtalk
Bittorrent News – http://twitter.com/crenk/bittorrent
Google Wave has not been a big hit so far – everyone though it would be…but it hasn’t. The interface is complicated, buggy and unpractical. People aren’t staying long enough to build a community and worst of all – nobody is quite sure what exactly it’s for yet. However the development team are still making strides.
They have just opened up Wave to third party companies by releasing an API package. This allows companies to host their own Wave like services on their own servers and interact with other companies API Waves. This is currently only in sandbox testing and isn’t live on the internet as of yet.
One thing which concerns me is that this could mean the start of SPAM on Wave. Since its launch people have been confined to specific waves but now we’re seeing a growth in access. Although this growth isn’t enough to start a spamming campaign it could be the start of it. I’m pretty sure that soon the hackers and spammers will descend on Google Wave – then it’s up to Google to stop them on a platform which will supposedly be more open than e-mail.
This new application for the iPhone brings back a lot of old memories. Doom has to be one of the most legendary shoot em up games ever made.
Doom is now available in Apples App store and includes the original three episodes as well as Episode Four, Thy Flesh Consumed, spread across 36 levels of non-stop carnage and action.
You can choose from customizable control schemes, all designed by id Software co-founder and industry legend, John Carmack.
In DOOM Classic, multiplayer action is reborn! With a wireless connection, battle up to four players in Deathmatch mode, or work together cooperatively and fight back against the demons of Hell.
It will set you back a measly $6.99 and you can download it from here.
The way we add a new contact to our phones hasn’t changed since mobiles became popular in the late 90s. Just type in their name, number, e-mail address and all their other info and hit ‘Save’. Tried and tested.
Well for the iPhone, a new app has been released which can pretty much do the job for you. It’s a business card reader so when a new client, solicitor, plumber or a pompous friends gives you their card all you have to do is take a snap of it. Then, this app will scan the card using its text recognition abilities and all of the contact info on the card will be uploaded to your address book under a new contact which the app also automatically creates.
Very handy.
The business card reader is really only recommended for the mobile networker who’ll be handed several cards in one outing. It costs $5.99 from the app store and is available right here.
The team over at Iconshock and HongKiat have released a new Twitter icon set called Blitter.
Download Blitter (256×256, 512×512), PNG format
Download Blitter source Ilustrator .AI format
Download Blitter full set (Icons + source)
“Come on now Dean. Ryan was nice enough to share it with you. The least you can do is share it with the loyal Crenk readers!” – said the little angel on my shoulder.
“Feck ‘em! Sure can’t they find it themselves, boy? Arrr ark ark ark” said the little devil on my opposing shoulder. (For some reason he’s an Irish pirate). I flicked him away… I hate pirates.
Okay, so I’m going to share with you guys the great WP theme that a colleague of mine directed me to for my new blog. This theme incorporates the minimalistic feel while still having all the functionality of a highly strung WP theme packed with plug ins.
Her name is Arthemia.
As you can see from the screenshot below she’s a beaut. Great menu bar across the top, followed by a headline section with a scrolling ‘Featured’ slot to the right. Below this there is a categories bar with cool animation when you hover your cursor over a category.
Then, below all of this magic we have the posting area with a sidebar to the right. Amidst all of this there are two premium ad placements; one square in the sidebar and another to the right of the title.
It’s available for free (although there is a slightly pimped out premium version available) right here. Seriously, for any WP user who has been finding it difficult to locate the right theme for their blog that says “I don’t take myself too seriously, but my blog? That I do.” – it has to be Arthemia.
Let us know your thoughts and opinions about the theme in the comments!
Online gaming is gaining very high popularity across the globe nowadays. So if u want to compete with the beat gamers of the planet u need to have the best gaming laptop in ur hands. Laptops with high graphics quality, high speed with sufficiently high RAM is mostly preferable by most gamers. Points to remember when choosing laptops for gaming are given below.
Graphics & Graphics
More gamers give prime importance to graphics. So u should be equipped with the fast and the latest graphics available in the market. Some of the well rated graphics chipsets rated by majority of gamers across the world includes ATi mobility Raedon 9700, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX. Also ATi Mobility FireGL V3200 is a high quality graphic card giving u high performance at lower power levels, saving battery. Some of more available chipsets are STMicro, 3D Labs, Matrox and many more…
Huge RAM
The higher RAM u can have the better it is because it is the RAM which determines how much graphics ur notebook computer can handle. Specially prefer Video RAM because this RAM is exclusively dedicated for handling graphics and visuals on your laptop. For even better visual performance there is a special Video RAM known as Windows RAM(WRAM) available.
High Speed
Once again the higher the speed ,the better it is. So instead of going for 4200rpm Hard drives go for 7200rpm hard drive which is 33% farter. Select Serial ATA Harddrives because it uses less power and is ideal for laptop specially if it is exclusively used for gaming. Core 2 Extreme Quad QX9300; 8GB RAM; two 500GB drives; 17-inch display (1,920×1,200); dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M (2GB); 12.7 pounds
Some of the best Gaming Laptops in the market
Till now the fastest gaming laptop available is Alienware M17x having Intel 2.53GHz core 2 extreme quad QX9300 processor, 8GB of RAM, two exclusive 500GB harddisks, 17” display with NVIDIA GeForce GTX280M(2GB).
Some other best laptops are Alienware Area51M-15x ,Sony Vaio NW180J/S, iBuypower M865TU, Asus G51Vx-Rx05 having a minimum of 2GB Intel core 2 duo processor ,4GB of RAM which is very much high, minimum of 400GB hard drive with 15.5” display, minimum 512 MB above mentioned Graphics card installed which make them among top 5 gaming laptops preferred across the world.
This guest article was written by Amit Bhawani who writes different Laptops Guides at Laptops Next
This article was just written over at TheNextWeb. I didnt want to just rewrite the article for everyone so here is what they said. I was wondering if anyone has any answers, mainly because this is a Gmail account and could affect millions of people.
BBC Watchdog is British TV program that investigates viewers’ reports of problematic experiences with traders, retailers, and other companies around the UK. A recent investigation has discovered that wi-fi hot spots across the country are not secure – leaving tens of thousands of users at risk of fraud.
In this particular case they reveal how easy it is to hack into someones GMail account over Wifi, sending emails and changing their password. According to Danny Sullivan who shared the link on Twitter, if he’d signed via secure https, he’d probably have been safe – can anyone verify?
If you can’t see the video below, watch it here.
Here at Crenk we have noticed that our page rank has gone up to a PR 5, and a lot of other people have also been writing about the update. However, does anyone still actually care about Page Rank? or is it now all about building a brand and hitting the long tail keywords?
Ever wanted to be a presenter on Sports Center. Probably not. I mean really; how often does that dream cross your mind. However you may just be in with a shot of fulfilling the dream (whether or not you have it) with StarCommentator.com. Basically it’s a collaboration between ESPN and the popular video calling service Skype. Users use a video record function embedded on the site and their webcam to record a quick audition specific to the sport they want to present on the show.
Users must first go to www.starcommentator.com and click ‘Audition’. Then you choose from tonnes of different sports such as Football, Formula One and cricket. When auditioning, you read a small script about the sport from an online tele-prompter above the video recording screen. The contest organizers will then review the submissions. And even if you suck you might as well still enter because they’re giving away a tuck load of booty as seen below.
Check it out at www.starcommentator.com
Roku is a new startup in the USA who has been making a lot of waves with their HD streaming media players. Roku lets Netflix and Amazon Video on Demand users stream HD videos on the cheap, with millions of titles.
Roku has now released two new models, the $130 Roku HD-XR that adds faster 802.11n Wi-Fi, and the cheap Roku SD, playing standard definition video at a rock-bottom price of $80.
That lower-end Roku SD is an excellent value, especially because most of Netflix’s and Amazon’s current offerings only stream in standard definition. You’ll also sacrifice an HDMI connector and optical audio in that Roku SD player, which might not make much difference, given that there’s no HD playback involved.
On the higher end, the Roku HD-XR offers another tantalizing feature in addition to its faster wireless-N Wi-Fi capability: there’s a USB port on the back, but currently it does nothing. Roku says as soon as the unit’s firmware is updated, that port will allow you to play video files from an external hard disk. This we gotta see. Let’s hope Roku includes support for lots of video types.
So Twitter lists launched last week and over the weekend we all the the chance to take a look see, make a few lists and figure out just what it was all for. As it happens it’s a pretty cool feature which connects you with more people of the same interests giving Twitter even more of a social feel without taking away from the whole ‘Get it off your chest aspect’.
