What is Gamification? Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in a non-game context in order to engage users and solve problems. In real-world terms, it means “make a chore into a game and people stay interested longer.” The last few years have seen a growing proliferation of gamified websites. They are designed to create “rewards” ...
Facebook users now has the ability to post emotions with status updates! The can now tell the world what they are doing, and eating – with emoticons! My Facebook account’s news feed has been full with various people sharing their feelings, what they are watching, what they are feeling, what they are listening to with a matching little icon ...
Today, Praboda, a friend and a colleague of mine at showed me a text message in his mobile. Everything was normal except it’s sender, who was me! The message was sent from my mobile number, but the strange thing was that my phone was in my pocket whole time and I don’t think he or someone else was able to ...
Recently I ran into a situation where I had to download hundreds of files linked from a web page. If I were to manually right click on them and save them, it’d have taken ages to download all the files I needed. I use Google Chrome as my browser and I wanted a Google Chrome extension, that would recognize all ...
I recently thought to put my App icons into folder in app drawer on my Android phone, and it has made life easier, and saved me lot of time. I have been using Android for about two years now, and for most of the time I have used launcher replacements that didn’t allow creation of folder in the app drawer. ...
Evan Williams, the co-founder of Blogger and Twitter, has created another place to publish text. Medium – simpler than Blogger and lengthier than Twitter. You will be greeted with a very simple, intuitive, and attractive homepage when you visit Medium.com for the first time. You will be amazed seeing how clutter free it is and how fun is it to ...
Foursquare now automatically creates check-ins for your friends, when you check-in at place a and tell Foursquare they’re with you. I like to use Foursquare to check-in to places I visit, so that I’ll be able to recall how that day was at some point in the future. I was out yesterday going to some shops and I thought ...
We all have faced that moment when we need to add a little more to your last tweet. May be what you have in mind can’t simply fit into that limit, and you need to find a way around to get your whole opinion out there. May be you tweeted something and then you remember you need to add something ...
Yeah, you read the title correct. Yeah yeah, I am a huge fan of Google and I have made fun of people who uses alternatives for Google’s products and services, like when someone uses Bing instead of Google Search, or Yahoo! Mail instead of GMail – the list goes on and on. But ever since the replacement of GTalk with ...
I am no expert in photography, I only shooted photos with my smartphones, and most of them can be found in my Instagram profile. I have taken photos of various events I took part in, and they are stored safely in my external HDD. I am very sure that no one would find them “artistic”. We’re getting ready for the annual ...
Some Background Online Git Hosting vs. Local Bare Repos So you work very well using Git in your own PC and looking to get a couple of people in your local network to join with you in the project? There are couple of options available to you here: you either can initialize a bare Git repository for your project in ...
It is true that all smart phones are not low in price. If you could find one with low price tag, the features are going to be bad. How about a phone with decent features for a low price? I have found one like that and I am going to give you my ideas about it after using it like ...
Face recognition had been a part of Google+ since I can remember – probably the start of it. Now Facebook has it too! Today I was amazed to see one of my favorite features from Google+ in Facebook! As I can remember, Google+ suggested me to tag people in photos whenever I uploaded a new photo to the social ...
I recently posted a question in my other website “Sociolead“, asking people to tell “What is the Single Most Important Thing about Android” for them. I got many a worthy opinions from that forum thread, and I thought I must give my own opinion on what people said there. According to latest reports, Android currently dominates the smartphone world. So ...
I and one of my colleagues at Sanmark Solutions started a little side business couple of weeks ago. We immediately ran into the problem of managing and keeping track of money we put into that business and we spent for various things. Neither of us knew anything about accounting. So we clearly needed the help of a software, that would ...
TP-Link TL-MR3020 is a compact router that allows you to share your mobile 3G connection with more than one WiFi enabled devices. All you have to do is to plug in your HSDPA dongle into this. You can also share a cable or a connection from your ADSL router as WiFi simply by plug-in your ethernet cable into the ...
Identity spoofing is the act of someone or an organization sending messages to one or more people (”victims”), appearing as a third party. This third party is most often a trusted person or an organization to the victims, making the victims believe that the content of the message is true and correct. But most of the time the messages sent ...
Internet Censorship is a big problem in some countries around the world. But if you know how, you can always bypass those barriers. To access a blocked website on your Android device, you would have to install special apps like “Orbot” and bypass restrictions by Internet Service Providers and governments. The app Orbot is a product from “Tor Project“. ...
URGJM74Q3U5P Vine is a (very) short video sharing platform owned by Twitter. It was iPhone only until they launched the Android app on 3rd June 2013. Just like Twitter made it an “art” of composing a message within a limited number of characters, Vine has created an art of telling something within 6 seconds. It is actually a very nice ...
I converted my prepaid account to a postpaid one. The leaflet they gave me left me with some confusions. But their Twitter account helped me with that. If you’re a new comer to the postpaid plans in my favorite mobile telecommunication service provider in Sri Lanka (I like Dialog for their presence and activeness in social media, just like ...
