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Ali Gajani · August 3, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

The business value of social media sites like Twitter is, to some people, still something of a gray area. Despite the years these sites have been around and the hundreds of millions of people who use them every day, there's still a problem when it comes to getting people interested in your brand

Henry Conrad · July 22, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Global shipments of smart connected devices -- a product category that includes PCs, smartphones and tablets -- will exceed 1.7 billion units by next year, according to a report issued recently by the International Data Corporation (IDC).  Roughly a billion of these devices will be delivered to

Ali Gajani · July 7, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Your cell phone starts beeping. You just received a text message. The message says that your child has left school and gives you a link to track his or her current location. This is just one of the many new applications available thanks to geofencing—the creation of virtual fences which alert you

Jeremy Andrews · July 5, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

The World Wide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) is an annual event staged by Apple which allows them to speak directly to their community of developers. Without loyal developers there would be no apps, so Apple has to make them happy! At the same time, considering the huge amount of media hype around

Ali Gajani · July 5, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Java is a powerful programming language with an array of features. \"Write once, run anywhere\" is truly a testament to the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) which allows Java code to function cross platform. Without getting into the details, today, we are going to use Java to read and write Excel (.xls)

Ali Gajani · June 22, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

A friend of mine had built a customized Wordpress site on her localhost. But she had a problem? The process of migrating or moving her Wordpress site from localhost to a live web server seemed quite trivial. I was called in to help and learnt quite a lot. Today's tutorial draws on my experience

Ali Gajani · June 21, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Earlier in the week, we wrote about the stunning new iOS 7 Beta 1, only available to people with Apple iOS Developer accounts at the moment. You can check out the article on iOS 7 Beta 1 here. But the question many have asked us is: \"What's the iOS 7 Beta 2 release date?\". We have an answer.  iOS 7

Ali Gajani · June 16, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Research from LSE has shown that people who sleep late tend to have higher IQs. The study reveals that that intelligent individuals are more likely to be nocturnal. Human beings used to be all day-oriented and that the act of sleeping late is an evolutionary novel preference made by people who

Ali Gajani · June 14, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

iOS 7 was released to developers at WWDC 2013, on June the 10th. Without a doubt, iOS 7 is a great leap from its predecessors in many ways. The User Interface and the User Experience combine to deliver an entirely new look-and-feel to one of the world's most popular mobile operating systems. The

David Amerland · June 8, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

I get really tired of explaining search these days. I enter corporate halls where wide-eyed junior execs expect it to be a Holy Grail, the thing that’ll help them create the plan that’ll increase sales and boost their careers. And I talk to SMEs, guys huddled around a desk, in the office,

Ali Gajani · June 5, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Canadian Astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield has returned from space since weeks. If you have seen a guy posting beautiful pictures from the International Space Station, then that guy is none other than Chris. He's has around 385,000 fans on Facebook as of now, which makes him very popular. Let's talk

Ali Gajani · June 2, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Facebook is the world's largest social network, with over a billion users and around 800 million active monthly users. Since you use it quite a lot everyday, there are a few things you might want to know. Perhaps a few cool tricks? 1. How to view a high resolution version of a target's profile

Ali Gajani · May 29, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

A week ago, Yahoo!'s CEO Marissa Mayer confirmed that the rumors were true: Yahoo! had in fact purchased the microblogging site Tumblr for the tidy sum of $1.1 billion. The acquisition is the next strike in the perennial arms race between Google and Yahoo! (though neither company will admit to being

Ali Gajani · May 28, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Despite all the incredible technology mankind has invented, for some reason we still haven't figured out a reliable way to manage our time. If anything, modern life has just made the problem worse—there are so many more things to do, but each day still stubbornly refuses to last longer than 24

Ali Gajani · May 28, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

If you are looking for a bed that can give you more than something to sleep on then this list of 5 hi-tech beds may give you some ideas.  The Starry Night Bed The starry night is a brilliant technology bed made by a company called Leggett and Platt. This bed does come with a hefty price tag of

Ali Gajani · May 27, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Bootstrap is a highly popular front-end framework built by ex-Twitter engineers @mdo and @fat. If you have been on Mr. Geek before, you know that it is a very popular source for Bootstrap. You can check them all out over here: tutorials. Bootstap 3.0 is going to be a mobile-first front-end

Ali Gajani · May 22, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Earlier this week, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, the long awaited succesor to the Xbox 360. In terms of console development, this installment has been a long time coming—the 360 debuted in 2005, eight long anticipation-filled years ago (if you want to feel old, that's enough time to go through

Henry Conrad · May 14, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Ever caught wind of the possible “budget” version of the iPhone 5? Rumors are quickly spreading around the web about the possible release of a downgraded version of the latest Apple smartphone, scaling down on some of its components while retaining the performance. This is apart from the next

Ali Gajani · May 13, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, is just few days away. It begins on Wednesday, May 15 and ends on Friday, May 17. In the mean time let's have a look at what to expect from the geeky guys at Google. 5. Nexus Q We might see a new Nexus Q, still in the shape of Ball but with

Henry Conrad · April 30, 2013 · Originally from Mr. Geek

This article discusses the idea that the ancient human impulse to learn and take risks is still at the core of technological progress as we know it today. The anthropologist and writer, Loren Eiseley, tells us that somewhere in the caves of Choukoutien, in what is now modern day China, archeologists