Facebook Has Hit 1 Trillion Page Views Officially

Facebook has officially hit 1 trillion page views, according to figures released for web traffic in June, Time magazine’s TechLand column reports.According to Time, those 870 million visitors are around 120 million greater than Facebook's reported total number of registered users. The discrepancy may be due to non-Facebook members visiting the site from other social media links or through search engine traffic.After Facebook, the next most popular site is YouTube, which has only one-tenth of the page views, but matches 90% of Facebook's unique visitors for the same time periodThe data compiled by the Google-owned Double Click Adplanner show that throughout the month of June Facebook received more than 1 trillion page views and was visited by more than 870 million unique users -- an average of 1,149.42 page views per user.

My Apple Story

I was never a True Believer. In fact, probably the opposite.I’m not one of those guys who discovered the joy of computing with an Apple II or an original Mac, and then faithfully bought macs throughout his life. One of the fellowship of fans who kept Apple above water through the 90s. I was a PC all the way.My grandfather, a huge computer guy, discovered computing through work and was thus a PC fan, and so I had a PC as a kid, and grew up in a PC world. I discovered computing through the DOS command line. Whenever an Apple product was mentioned in my house (quite rarely), it was to dismiss them as overpriced toys.

As a teenage geek, the joy of computers for me was the ability to open a big beige box and be able to swap out any parts I didn’t like for something else. It was about playing graphics-intensive games. (Half-Life 2!) But, in a way, that makes me the story of Apple’s revival. I generally disliked Apple products. I disliked the pastel designs. I disliked the underpowered, overpriced iBooks......

Samsung Launches 4 New Android Phones

Samsung has announced four new Galaxy Android-based devices and revised the naming strategy for its whole phone lineup. The four new phones, the Galaxy W, Galaxy M Pro, Galaxy Y and Galaxy Y Pro, are the first to sport the new naming convention and all run on Android 2.3 Gingerbread.Samsung says the new naming system is easier to understand and it’s meant to accommodate the growing variety of devices it manufactures. From now on, Samsung Galaxy phones using the S (for Super Smart) in the name will be the flagship top-of-the-line devices, R (for Royal or Refined) will designate its premium models, working down to mid-range W (for Wonder) and to the lower end with M (for Magical) and Y (Young).

Apple Issues Update For Epson 2.8 printer driver

The updated driver provides updated support for Epson’s entire line of printers, scanners, fax machines, and multi-function machinery when connecting to a Mac running OS X 10.6 or later—hence the update’s rather large 962MB download size from Apple’s Support website. Of course, if you're just updating via Software Update, it'll be much smaller.You can check to see whether your device in question has driver support using Apple’s comprehensive list.If you love your Epson hardware, treat it right. How? With Apple’s 2.8 Epson driver update, released Tuesday.

Motion FX will use Lion to add video effects

Motion FX uses Autodesk’s Maya animation software to offer 80 visual effect filters—including smoke, fire, and “rainbow plasma”—all designed to react in real time to your on-camera movements. Users can set the application to apply the effects using motion, face, or color detection. Animated thumbnails allow you to preview effects before using them.

Android Apps now on BlackBerry Phones

New BlackBerry phones will switch to QNX by Q1 2012, by most reports. The current BlackBerry 7 phones will not be able to upgrade to QNX.The BlackBerry Play Book already runs on QNX.
RIM said the PlayBook would get Android apps this summer, but that is looking less likely.
In order for QNX devices to run android apps, they need a separate "Android player." The Android Player will come pre-installed on QNX BlackBerry phones.

Blue Sky Introduced Android-Based Watch

Blue Sky is currently accepting pre-orders of the I’m Watch and expects the watches to ship in around November, even though it has but to obtain previous prototype phase. The wrist watch functions are:

• 1.54-inch display
• 64MB of memory
• 4GB flash memory 
• a headphone jack
• Runs on Android 1.6

Kiano 4: iPhone Keyboard

The Kiano 4 is a slide out keyboard choices that can be connected to an iPhone. This distinctive keyboard can rest on the rear panel with the iPhone and provides only a half-inch thickness for your iPhone. It connects by way of Bluetooth and arrives having a Li-Ion battery that may provide energy for up to five hours of continuous typing or 30 hours on standby. The Kiano 4 is accessible at iNature for US$100.