This one is funny and interesting at the same time. The founder of the social network, Mark Zuckerberg, is currently the number one user of the new social network from the big G, Google+. Google+ (Google “Plus”) is a new social network that has very similair features as Facebook and is aimed to be a direct competitor to the worlds most used social network facebook.

Google has just launched this and Mark Zuckerberg himself is already the one using it most. How about spying on the new competition

http://socialstatistics.com/?number=50&kind=user-circles&start_number=0

This is not a Photoshop art. It is an actual plane bulit by the NASA, and yes it is flying.

Your eyes are not deceiving you: The wing of this plane is oblique, turned 60-degrees across its fuselage. It’s name is the AD-1 and it’s the weirdest plane ever created by NASA. But why did they make it this way?

The AD-1 Oblique Wing Research Aircraft was designed and made at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center—located in Edwards, California, in the western Mojave Desert—in the mid-1970s. Engineers were curious about the aerodynamic characteristics of such a plane, as well as the control laws required to govern it. Their objective? Better fuel economy: Wind tunnels at NASA Ames showed that an oblique wing design will use half the fuel at supersonic speeds, thanks to superior aerodynamic qualities.

http://gizmodo.com/5737721/the-weirdest-plane-ever-created-by-nasa

Well the future seems to be finally here. What has been seen in futuristic sci-fi movies for centuries finally seems to find its way into the office and home of todays generation. Gizmodo wrote a great Review of the new Lenovo Thinkpad that supports 4 fingers on the touch screen. The notebook is said to be the first multitouch hardware that acually holds what it promises.

Yeah, it’s more than freaking cool, but what the hell are you really going to use that for? Beyond the picture and games I showed you, the answer is “not much right now.” Lenovo will remind you that there are more programs like Space Claim coming soon, which lets designers use multiple fingers to move around objects (you can see the app in action here). But those programs are going to be few and far between until multitouch starts to take off on PCs.

Read more at Gizmodo.

One of the reasons Facebook is very popular is because of it’s chat feature. You can chat with your friends on the website. But there it’s quite touch to ignore people on Facebook chat as there is no option to put a busy or not available status, there is not even a invisible option like in other messengers.

But you can do one thing to solve that problem. You can be offline for a specific group of people.

• Create a new list of Friends and name it anything, I name it Show Offline as I will be offline to them.

• You can see in the 2nd image that there is a list where you can drag your friends to from the other list.

• When you are done dragging all the Friends you want to be shown offline to. Click on Go Offline. You will be offline for them and you can enjoy chatting with the ones you want.

• If you want to add or remove a few friends from the list then just go online and drag friends in and out of the list

by techtip.org

A giant clock on a skyscraper in Islam’s holiest city Mecca began ticking on Wednesday at the start of the fasting month of Ramadan, amid hopes by Saudi Arabia it will become the Muslim world’s official timekeeper.

Facts :

The Mecca Clock, which Riyadh says is the world’s largest, has four faces measuring 43 metres in diameter.

The clock will dwarf London’s Big Ben, once the largest four-faced clock in the world, with dials more than five times greater in area.

The around 130 foot (40 meter) diameter Saudi clock dials are also bigger than the current world champion at the Cevahir Mall clock in Istanbul, which has a 36 meter face set in the transparent roof of the shopping complex.

Over 90 million pieces of coloured glass mosaic embellish the sides of the clock, which has four faces each bearing a large inscription of the name “Allah”. It is visible from all corners of the city, the state news agency said.

Each face will be inscribed with “God is greatest” in Arabic and fitted with thousands of colored lights. The clock will be visible from more than 16 miles (25 kilometers).

A huge golden crescent moon, 75 feet (23 meters) in diameter, will eventually rise above the clock on a 200 foot (61 meter) spire, from which some 15 beams will shoot up into the sky. The entire clock, from the base up to the crescent, itself will be 820 feet (251 meters) high.

At 151 feet in diameter, the four clock faces on the Mecca Royal Clock Hotel Tower is just about as wide as an American 160-foot-wide football field, and absolutely dwarfs the world’s most famous tower clock faces, Big Ben’s 23-footers. It also takes advantage of modern technology, as its four faces will light up the sky with two million LEDs.

German and Swiss engineers designed the clock and according to the Ministry of Religious Endowments, the entire project will cost $800 million.

The seven tower complex is being built by developer Saudi Binladen Group, the press agency reported.

Quoted from below sources :

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/594707-worlds-biggest-clock-starts-functioning-in-mecca

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=184413

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100811/tsc-oukoe-uk-saudi-mecca-clock-011ccfa.html

http://www.constructionweekonline.com/pics-9202-in-pictures-world-largest-clock-in-makkah/0

Today, Google has enabled the option to display a Bing like  homepage background image on it’s homepage. You can choose an image from a collection of images provided by Google or choose an image or photo from your computer,  or from your own Picasa Web Album.

To change the Google homepage Background Image,  click the homepage link “Change background image” located at the bottom left corner.

I see this feature has not been enabled for some of the locals such as  google.lk, google.ae etc. But you can still access this feature by visiting Google.com.

Apple CEO, Steve Jobs introduces iPhone 4 at the company’s World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Features include a new glass and steel design, a built in antenna and a higher resolution screen.

Demo Fail…

As he tries to show off features of the new iPhone 4, Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ Wi-Fi connection fails twice, bringing his World Wide Developers Conference keynote to an uncomfortable standstill.

Google is starting to roll out a new feature today which allows users to upload images from their computers or a Picasa Web album to personalize the search homepage. Call it Bing-envy, or just a case of Google loosening up its design strictures.

This new feature will be available to users in the U.S. over the next few days., according to google.

Today, we’re introducing a new feature that brings a whole new level of personalization to Google by letting you add a favorite photo or image to the background of the Google homepage. You can choose a photo from your computer, your own Picasa Web Album or a public gallery hosted by Picasa which includes a selection of beautiful photos. – Google Blog

Whether you choose a photo of a loved one, a picture of your favorite vacation destination or even a design you created yourself, Google.com is now yours to customize. For those of you who want to enjoy the clean, simple look of Google as well as your personalized view, we’ve made it easy to switch between your customized search page and classic Google.

We are beginning to roll out this new feature to users in the U.S. over the next few days, so if you don’t see a link in the lower left-hand corner of Google.com now, check back soon. For those of you outside of the U.S., you can expect to see this new feature in the coming days as we roll it out internationally to offer similar, consistent experiences globally.

via techcrunch | Google Blog

GoDaddy steps beyond their normal operations of a registrar and has launched a video sharing website at Video.me, a YouTube competitor but with an emphasis on being able to share your videos with limited people if you want. Among the features GoDaddy says Video.me has that YouTube doesn’t: ability to password protect videos, no ads, ability for videos to be over 10 minutes, phone support, and the ability to download your original non-compressed videos.

Videos can be any length, there is just an overall weekly storage limit of 500MB – Godaddy

via domainnamewire

According to the world’s leading domain aftermarket place Sedo, it has sold the domain name MonaLisa.com for $200,000.

Below is the top Domain name sales list in 2010 according dotweekly.com

1. Poker.org $1,000,000
2. Credit.fr $851,875
3. Guns.com $800,000
4. Files.com $725,000
5. PartySupplies.com $360,000
6. ScreenSavers.com $335,000
7. Pilot.com $300,000
8. MusicVideos.com $250,000
9. Biking.com $250,000
10. Boating.com $250,000