Tag: APPLICATION

A scam that seems tailor-made for Facebook is worming its way across Twitter. According to Sophos, thousands of Twitter users have already fallen for the scam, which is luring people in with tweets that read: "My profile was viewed ### times JUST TODAY! Click here to see how many views you got! http://tiny.cc/" Clicking on the link will prompt you to grant account access to a rogue ...

The University of Redwood, judging from its website, seems like any other college. The school boasts a full faculty, its campus features plenty of verdant, open spaces, and it even accepts applications online. The only problem, though, is that the University of Redwood doesn't exist. And all those alluring campus photos and accomplished faculty members actually belong to Oregon's Reed College ...

If you come across any Facebook posts about an American guy being stoned to death, ignore them; they're just part of yet another scam. Many of the posts currently circulating around the social network read: "This American GUY must be stoned to De@th for doing this to a GIRL." Others have a more holiday-themed touch: "This American GUY must be Stoned to De@th for doing this to a GIRL on ...

With flying becoming a luxury, folks want to snag the cheapest fares they can grab. But, as is the American way, they don't always want to do the work required to get the deal. According to USA Today, the new FareCompare 'When-to-Fly' free app sends a push notification whenever the price of a preselected flight route drops below the current lowest fare. For U.S. flights, the price needs to drop ...

The mobile version of Dropbox, the popular app that lets users sync files across disparate computers and gadgets, has always been restricted to the iPhone and Android-powered phones. Now, though, BlackBerry users can get in on the action as well, thanks to a newly released beta version of the app. As with the iPhone and Android versions, Dropbox for BlackBerry enables users to open files, stream ...

No longer content to just sit in the background and feed its readers their daily news, the Boston Globe has launched a new mobile scavenger hunt that sends its readers around the city. The 'Boston Globe Trek' uses SCVNGR, a location-based game system that's similar to Foursquare or Gowalla, to challenge users to solve riddles, snap photos of landmarks, and scan unique QR codes. After ...

According to a post on The Mozilla Blog, the company will soon release an iPhone application that syncs with its full-fledged desktop browser, meaning that users will be able to access their browsing history, bookmarks and tabs while on-the-go. Along with those features, there's something called an "Awesome Bar." As far as we can tell, it's a search feature that predicts sites you might like, as ...

Share We all know that there's nothing better than a beautifully lit sexy video to help pass the time spent in front of your office desktop -- except, of course, when said video turns out to be a filthy, disgusting piece of malware. Unfortunately for connoisseurs of libidinous cinema, that's the exact form in which the latest Facebook virus has manifested itself. You can easily identify the ...

It might sound counter-intuitive, but the answer to battling distracted driving could be smartphone apps. Earlier this week, David Pogue wrote about some of the different applications that lock your cell phone while you're driving. The apps he reviewed -- iZup, tXtBlocker, CellSafety and ZoomSafer -- range in price from $0 to $25, and they all require a monthly subscription fee. To determine when ...

Rather than sit back and do nothing while his son struggled to communicate, one British father created a program to help his autistic child communicate. Autism is a difficult disease for both parents and children to manage. According to BBC News, Stephen Lodge's Speaks4Me program allows its user to form sentences by dragging and dropping onscreen images in a particular order. Stephen's ...

In a move we should've seen coming from a mile away, the iTunes App Store now has its very own Facebook page. Everybody is on Facebook these days, so it only makes sense that Apple would join the fray. According to Mashable, the page, which was developed and powered by the social-branding service Vitrue, gives users all the standard options offered by iTunes or the store's iPhone application. You ...

In hopes of competing with Craigslist, eBay unveiled today a revamped classifieds site called eBay Classifieds. It will replace the company's old site, Kijiji, which just couldn't keep up with Craigslist in the U.S. According to The New York Times, Craigslist tallied about 4.5 million visitors in February, while Kijiji had about 2 million visitors. However, Kijiji will remain the same for ...

Share The smiley emoticon, as we've already made clear, is perhaps the most annoyingly ambiguous glyph in our entire digital lexicon. Whether it pops up in texts, e-mails, or IMs, the smiley forces us to go digging for contextual clues that might tell us whether or not the person on the other side was really smiling, or if there was some ulterior, passive aggressive subtext at work. Well, now ...

It's a foodie's dream come true: photos of delicious dishes from restaurants spanning the globe, and maps that lead you to them. Best of all, it's right at your fingertips. 'Foodspotting' is a new iPhone application and Web site that functions as a user-generated travel guide for people who enjoy eating. It's a simple yet wonderful concept that asks you to snap a photo of particularly good grub ...

Everybody knows that technology, particularly social networking, has done nothing more than make hooking-up easier than ever (not that we'd know from personal experience). Still, it usually involved some work. But a new iPhone application does all the heavy-lifting for you by pinpointing your nearest booty call on a map. According to CNET News, the app 'PinPointsX' places the location of ...