CartoMobile, Best Mobile GIS App for the iPad? You decide…

Something in the GIS world caught my attention today and I think you GIS folks should hear this. It seems that some GIS professionals believe that CartoMobile is the best mobile GIS app for the iPad!
The bold statement can be found in a press release recently released by CartoMobile to announce the launch of CartoMobile 1.1, an iOS app that is designed for the iPhone and the iPad. It was

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720p HD Video Sunglasses! Perfect for Christmas gifts!

I stumbled upon this cool gadget couple of minutes ago and I wanna share my discovery with you folks today because I think the gadget is somewhat perfect for Christmas gifts.

It’s a slick looking sunglasses that can capture videos in high-definition! It can shoot videos (along with audio) in 720p. Yes, videos with 1280x720 resolutions in full vivid colors and clarity. A few different types and

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KneeBouncers releases Free Android, iPad & the iPhone Gaming App for… Babies and Toddlers!?

Here’s something that will interest (geeky?) parents with babies and toddlers ‘armed’ with Android and the iPhone. Looks like you folks have one more ‘armament’ coming your way.

KneeBouncers is running some kind of a campaign called ‘Bounce, Play and Learn’ and it comes with some great offers (limited time only?) and I’m just gonna mention one here. The offer comes in the form of a free (

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CSS3 Text Effects that you can use in your Blogger blog posts: Deliver your killer expressions/phrases in style?

CSS3 has been around for a very long time and popular browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Safari had already shown more and more support for CSS3 in the recent years but unfortunately bloggers especially those using Blogger have failed to capitalize on CSS3’s delightful effects.

Perhaps they were ignorant, they were probably thinking that CSS3 is a toy designed only for the designers but the

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Text-to-Speech-based Custom Ringtones? Do they sound cool enough for Android and the iPhone? You decide…

I borrowed somebody’s (My cute neighbor... Bwah ha ha...) Android phone (yes, I’m still using Nokia... So what?) earlier today and I have been downloading and testing a few Android apps in the last few hours when I stumbled upon a paid app over at the Android Market that lets Android users create custom ringtones with a little help from Text-to-Speech technology.

The Android app is called

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Standard, Custom Avatar for Anonymous & OpenID: Silly Blogger CSS hacks that you SHOULD NOT use

Blogger’s comment system has seen a lot of improvements in the last few years and the introduction of profile images alongside comments way back in September 17th 2009 was one of its most welcomed new features.
Yeah, it was really cool for the first couple of months. After a while, bloggers begin to question Blogger’s decision to use a blank avatar for anonymous comments. Some even condemns the

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Awesome 3D Foosball League for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Mind blowing!

When was the last time you play foosball?

It has been years, at least for me. Foosball (table football) was my top past-time game when I was young and naughty (bwah ha ha..) but I think I might be able to have some fun with foosball once again one day since my 5-year old son is beginning to show signs of interest in foosball. ;)

If you still love foosball but no longer have the time to take a

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Google AdSense’s required Advertisements/Sponsored Links labels above ads: Do not use plain text!

In order to get more from Google AdSense, many publishers feel that placing ads under headings, titles, headlines and labels are the best way to get more clicks. This is one of the reasons why you see a lot of sites and blogs with ads under their headings, titles, headlines and labels.

Placing ads directly under headings, titles, headlines and labels is of course frowned upon by Google. Google

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Idolian TurboTab 8 Android Tablet looks great! Affordable too!

Here’s a newly launched Android tablet that caught my attention today.

It has an 8” capacitive display screen that supports multi-touch and runs on a 1GHZ Samsung Cortex A8 processor. It is powered by Android 2.2 and comes with a generous 512MB of RAM. It also has a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, supports WiFi and HDMI. It also offers 4GB of internal storage and users can expand that up to

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Facebook Marketing explained in simple terms, in one blog post!

I had a chat with somebody who voiced his interest in marketing some stuffs on Facebook yesterday and our discussion more or less left me wondering about the marketing techniques marketers are currently using on the world’s biggest social network.

Honestly speaking, I simply have no idea since I have never done it before. I can talk about marketing, selling stuffs on eStores, I can talk about

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ChatStage: Free Full HD Video Chat with Stereo Voice Conferencing client released! Completely free! No kidding!

Here is something that should interest those who spends a lot time of chatting and conferencing on video.

ChatStage has just released ChatStage Alpha 6.1 and their new chat client now offers full HD video chat and Stereo Voice conferencing capabilities. The wonderful news is the whole package comes completely free and ChatStage even said that their services will always be 100% free!

ChatStage

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geOps OpenLayers Editor source code released! Under FreeBSD!

Here’s a little good news for GIS developers.

geOps has released the full source code of their cute little geospatial editor called OpenLayers Editor under the FreeBSD license!

OpenLayers Editor is really cute and it comes with a toolbar that has some basic tools to help users edit and manipulate geodata right from their browsers. You may digitize lines, polygons and even place points with

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Facebook Like/Send/Share Get-Description Blogger Hacks: Do not put META Tags in the body of your post

In order to help Facebook grab the right description for each post shared on Facebook, bloggers (using Blogger) have came up with many cool, nifty tips and tricks in the last few years. However, some of their tips and tricks are dangerous because it might give search engines the impression that whoever that is using such techniques is trying to show off his or her spamming skills. Today I’m going

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DISQUS’s ‘display:none’ visibility properties are mating calls for Google Pandas

We have some problems, big problems with DISQUS and I believe these problems are giving search engines especially Google the wrong kind of signals. The problems have something to do with DISQUS’s use of ‘display:none’ visibility properties for their ‘disqus_post_title’ and ‘disqus_post_message’ div tags.

For some unfathomable reasons, DISQUS feels that there is a need to repost the title of your

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