HP Pre 3 Hitting AT&T And Verizon In July With Skype Integration?

While all the hoopla this summer has been about the iPhone 5, HTC EVO 3D, the Motorola Droid Bionic, the HTC Sensation 4G, and others, there is another phone that is going to be headed our way with an operating system not called iOS or Android. Or Windows Phone 7 for that matter. Yes, you may recall HP’s Pre 3, announced back in February with the HP TouchPad. Well, it seems that it will be arriving in the U.S. next month on Verizon and AT&T.

PreCentral has scored a series of leaks that starts with this. The Pre 3 will apparently be rocking webOS 2.2. What that means is that it’s like to have full Skype Synergy integration. That’s huge for those that use the chat service and are looking forward to using the Pre 3?s front facing camera for video chatting purposes.
Next, and just as juicy, are some specifics in regards to a release. It appears that the Pre 3 might end up on Verizon toward the latter half of July with July 21st surfacing as a possible release date. It also will apparently hit AT&T however a specific date with Ma Bell remains unknown although a release around the same time as Verizon seems likely.
So, there you have it. HP’s flagship phone will likely be hitting the United States next month (and at the beginning of July in the UK apparently) and it’s likely going to be headed to two of the U.S. biggest service providers.
Who’s excited to get their hands on a Palm, ahem, HP Pre 3?

8 IPhone Camera Apps To Take Your Photos To The Next Level

The iPhone 4 camera is one of the best smartphone cameras available, and set to get better in iOS 5, but if you want to start taking better pictures right now, you need to check out these 8 amazing iPhone camera apps.
iOS 5 will improve the camera app adding things like composition grid lines, pinch to zoom, autofocus, auto exposure locks, and some built-in editing features, but these features are not going to be available till the fall unless you can get access to the beta. These iPhone camera apps will tide you over until iOS 5 arrives, and several will be useful after the new version of iOS drops.

Take Better Pictures

Camera+ – $.99

Camera+ is arguably the best iPhone camera app replacement available. While the app has a controversial past, it managed to get around Apple restrictions to deliver a feature rich iPhone camera experience. With this incredibly affordable app you can choose from a variety of filters, edit your photos and then save them locally or online.

The app can be used in simple ways or with more advanced features. One of my favorites is the ability to set it to take a picture when the iPhone is stable. It uses the accelerometer and gyroscope to sense when the phone is perfectly still. Then it snaps the photo. This helps the photographer avoid blurred photos due to camera shake.
The app developers asked former model turned photographer Lisa Bettany (picture above) to help them come up with a great app, and they succeeded. She also helped them get word out about the app, which saw over 2 million downloads.
Camera+ is easily the best buck I’ve ever spent for a photo app.
Instagram and Postagram- Both Free
Instagram brings photo filters and social networking together in a fun app for photo enthusiasts who also want to see the work of others. First, the built-in filters are really nice. I have taken some pretty ho-hum shots that I turned into something worth printing or sharing with others using the filters in Instagram. The app lets you take a shot from within the app or grab one from the iPhone camera roll in case you want to grab a photo you already took with Camera+ or the built-in iPhone camera app.

Once you’ve taken a shot and doctored it up to look like a photographic masterpiece, you can share it on Instagram and other places like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and others.
Next, install the companion app Postagram which lets you share your photos the old fashioned way, by sending a post card with the picture printed on it for just $1. I personally hate sending snail mail, but with Postagram and Instagram I don’t have to. I just take a shot I like, add a message and send it via the app.

In addition to sharing your images via postcard with Postagram and with the sharing sites mentioned, Instagram has a great social network of photographers. Just like you follow people on Twitter, you can follow them on Instagram and view their photos. It is a great way to learn how to take cool shots, find ideas for your pictures, and enjoy the amazing things people are doing with their iPhone cameras.

Panoramas, Time Lapse And 3D

AutoStitch Panorama – $1.99

AutoStitch Panorama allows you to take a bunch of shots and it will automatically stitch them together to form one large panorama of picturesque scenes. The app will work with will work with anywhere from two to twenty images and you can manually crop the results or have the app do it for you. After your panorama is stitched together, you can share it right to Twitter.

Below is a sample image I took with this app a long time ago from atop Mt. Mitchell here in NC.

This shot is two images stitched together with the app and then later cropped in Photoshop.

Photosynth – Free

Photosynth is a Microsoft app for the iPhone that makes a fully 3D “image” of your environment by letting you take a bunch of overlapping photos with your iPhone camera. The app synthesizes them together allowing you to take a “3D” like look around you. You don’t have to take a full collection of photos to use the app; you could just take enough pictures to get a wide landscape panoramic view and then crop it to have a traditional panorama.

The app isn’t perfect, as the overlapping parts of the various images sometimes look little skewed, but the overall effect is cool. This could be useful for people who are showing off their home, museums that want to give a sneak peak of a new exhibit, or businesses that want to show off their wares.

Gorillacam – Free

The Gorilla Pod is the useful tripod that looks like three legs of connected marbles. The result is a tripod with legs that can be bent and contorted to hold onto a fence, doorknob, car door or just rest on an uneven surface so you can take steady shots with your camera. The manufacturer also has an app that helps iPhone photographers with features like the following:

• Anti-shake – snaps the pic when the iPhone is completely still using the built-in accelerometer
• Selectable Image Size – lets you adjust how big or small in MPs the pictures are so that you can choose between higher quality or faster capture speeds
• Time-Lapse – will take a photo at programmed intervals from 1 second to longer which is useful for capturing the movement of objects without snapping multiple shots
• Press Anywhere – take a picture just by tapping anywhere on the screen, not just the shutter button
• 3 Shot Burst – takes three quick snapshots useful in action photography
• Bubble level – waits till the image is perfectly level and steady before it takes the picture

These are just some of the features of this useful app. You don’t even need a Gorillapod to use it.

Touching Up And Backing Up

Photogene For IPhone – $1.99

Once you’ve shot all of your masterpiece photos with the various apps above, you may wish to doctor them up on your iPhone before sharing them and Photogene is just what you need. This app includes a number of simple editing tools that can work magic on your pictures.

The photo editing tools include:

• Cropping and straightening
• Color and exposure correction
• Add filters
• Artistic frames
• Geotagging

Below is a before and after example of what Photogene can do.

As you can see, our fast edit turned a photo worthy of deletion into something worth sharing.
Photogene also allows you to share pictures to various sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, FTP or email.

DropPhox – $1.99

Now that you’ve taken great pictures and edited them on your iPhone you need to back them up. If you have a free Dropbox account you need to get the DropPhox app which will automatically upload your pictures to your Dropbox account and sync them to your computer.

If you are not online, DropPhox will wait until you have a network connection to begin uploading photos. It uploads the images in parallel taking full advantage of all the bandwidth you have available for faster uploads. If you want, you can save photos to the local camera roll instead of uploading to Dropbox.
The latest update allows you to choose which folder you want pictures uploaded to, what size you want your photos to upload as and allows you to geotag your pictures.

Samsung Epic 4G Gingerbread Update Inches Closer To Release

Samsung Epic 4G owners can be found on almost every Gingerbread update post on the internet. They are rabid creatures, hellbent on being the first Galaxy S device in the United States to get the illustrious Android 2.3 update. And while it’s currently competing with AT&T’s Samsung Captivate, Sprint’s Epic 4G has made some progress today as a leaked Gingerbread build has made it to the web.

The build, EF02, looks to be a pretty stable release but as of this writing, it’s unknown whether or not it can be rooted and feedback is only now starting to trickle in. Of course, because this isn’t official, you’ll need to have Odin handy to guide you to the promise land.
If this sounds like something up your alley, head here to XDA to get the goods and remember to closely follow the instructions. We wouldn’t want your phone to get bricked and we imagine you don’t want that to happen either.
As for the rest of you, unwilling to take the plunge, this is a sign that Sprint and Samsung are getting closer to releasing this software officially and it could be a matter of weeks before we see it arrive.
Be patient but above all, be excited.

Samsung Epic 4G Gingerbread Update Inches Closer To Release

Samsung Epic 4G owners can be found on almost every Gingerbread update post on the internet. They are rabid creatures, hellbent on being the first Galaxy S device in the United States to get the illustrious Android 2.3 update. And while it’s currently competing with AT&T’s Samsung Captivate, Sprint’s Epic 4G has made some progress today as a leaked Gingerbread build has made it to the web.

The build, EF02, looks to be a pretty stable release but as of this writing, it’s unknown whether or not it can be rooted and feedback is only now starting to trickle in. Of course, because this isn’t official, you’ll need to have Odin handy to guide you to the promise land.
If this sounds like something up your alley, head here to XDA to get the goods and remember to closely follow the instructions. We wouldn’t want your phone to get bricked and we imagine you don’t want that to happen either.
As for the rest of you, unwilling to take the plunge, this is a sign that Sprint and Samsung are getting closer to releasing this software officially and it could be a matter of weeks before we see it arrive.
Be patient but above all, be excited.

Automatically Share Google Plus Posts On Facebook Account

It has been one week since Google Plus was released on a field trials basis. But the sad thing about Google Plus is that there is no support for third party apps and API’, so users are unable to share Google Plus posts on Facebook and Twitter accounts.
If you have a Google Plus profile and you want to post updates from Google Plus to Facebook, you have to do it manually. Regardless of whether you share status messages, links or quotes on your Google Plus profile, you have to follow the classic copy paste convention so that your Facebook friends who haven’t joined Google Plus yet, can see your status updates posted in Google Plus.
Previously, we told you about a browser extension which can be used to share Google Plus posts on Facebook and Twitter. The extension works in Google Chrome but here is another seamless and automatic way to sync Google Plus updates to your Facebook account, without having to install any browser plugin or using any third party application at all.

Automatically Share Google Plus Updates On Facebook

Facebook has an interesting mobile updates feature similar to YouTube, Twitter and other social sites) which allows you to post updates to your Facebook account using a secret email address.
The idea here is that you will have to add your Facebook secret email address as a friend or contact in any of your Google Plus circle. Next, whenever you want to share a post from Google Plus to Facebook, simply add that email to the share box and it should work just as fine.
Here are the steps that needs to be done:
1. Go to Facebook mobile setup page, sign in with your Facebook account and you should see a unique email address at the bottom of the page.

2. This is your personalized upload email address which can be used to post status updates, upload photos and videos straight to your Facebook profile, without having to open Facebook.com. Keep this email address secret and don’t share it with anyone.
3. Open your Google Plus profile, go to the circles tab and add the Facebook secret email address as a contact to your Google Plus circles.
It would be better if you create a unique circle for this email address only and name it “Facebook”. That way, you don’t have to remember the email address and you can simply type in the name of the circle to cross post an update from Google Plus to Facebook. also read: import your Facebook friends on Google Plus
4. While composing an update on your Google Plus account, be sure to enter the name of the circle in the “Sharing options” field.

5. You can add multiple circles so remember that choosing only the “Facebook” circle won’t allow your Google Plus friends to see the update. To make sure all your Google plus friends as well as your Facebook friends see a specific post, remember to choose both the “Facebook” and “Your circles” option, as shown above.
6. All done!
It will take some time until the post appears on your Facebook wall. This is because Google Plus will send an email to your Facebook secret email address which needs to be authenticated first. I have tested this method and it works just as fine.
Please bear in mind that your post on Google Plus should be 50 characters or less, anything bigger and it will be automatically truncated by Facebook email upload system.
You can try the same method from your mobile too. Simply open your Google Plus account, and share the post with the Facebook circle, it will be automatically posted on your Facebook wall within a couple of minutes.
Here is one more Google Plus tip which we think you will enjoy: Get Google Plus notifications without opening Google Plus.
At the end of the day, it is really very difficult to manage so many social sites and keep your social timeline updated. I also recommend using selective tweets, another nifty Facebook app which lets you cross post updates from your Twitter account to your Facebook profile, automatically.

Automatically Share Google Plus Posts On Facebook Account

It has been one week since Google Plus was released on a field trials basis. But the sad thing about Google Plus is that there is no support for third party apps and API’, so users are unable to share Google Plus posts on Facebook and Twitter accounts.
If you have a Google Plus profile and you want to post updates from Google Plus to Facebook, you have to do it manually. Regardless of whether you share status messages, links or quotes on your Google Plus profile, you have to follow the classic copy paste convention so that your Facebook friends who haven’t joined Google Plus yet, can see your status updates posted in Google Plus.
Previously, we told you about a browser extension which can be used to share Google Plus posts on Facebook and Twitter. The extension works in Google Chrome but here is another seamless and automatic way to sync Google Plus updates to your Facebook account, without having to install any browser plugin or using any third party application at all.

Automatically Share Google Plus Updates On Facebook

Facebook has an interesting mobile updates feature similar to YouTube, Twitter and other social sites) which allows you to post updates to your Facebook account using a secret email address.
The idea here is that you will have to add your Facebook secret email address as a friend or contact in any of your Google Plus circle. Next, whenever you want to share a post from Google Plus to Facebook, simply add that email to the share box and it should work just as fine.
Here are the steps that needs to be done:
1. Go to Facebook mobile setup page, sign in with your Facebook account and you should see a unique email address at the bottom of the page.

2. This is your personalized upload email address which can be used to post status updates, upload photos and videos straight to your Facebook profile, without having to open Facebook.com. Keep this email address secret and don’t share it with anyone.
3. Open your Google Plus profile, go to the circles tab and add the Facebook secret email address as a contact to your Google Plus circles.
It would be better if you create a unique circle for this email address only and name it “Facebook”. That way, you don’t have to remember the email address and you can simply type in the name of the circle to cross post an update from Google Plus to Facebook. also read: import your Facebook friends on Google Plus
4. While composing an update on your Google Plus account, be sure to enter the name of the circle in the “Sharing options” field.

5. You can add multiple circles so remember that choosing only the “Facebook” circle won’t allow your Google Plus friends to see the update. To make sure all your Google plus friends as well as your Facebook friends see a specific post, remember to choose both the “Facebook” and “Your circles” option, as shown above.
6. All done!
It will take some time until the post appears on your Facebook wall. This is because Google Plus will send an email to your Facebook secret email address which needs to be authenticated first. I have tested this method and it works just as fine.
Please bear in mind that your post on Google Plus should be 50 characters or less, anything bigger and it will be automatically truncated by Facebook email upload system.
You can try the same method from your mobile too. Simply open your Google Plus account, and share the post with the Facebook circle, it will be automatically posted on your Facebook wall within a couple of minutes.
Here is one more Google Plus tip which we think you will enjoy: Get Google Plus notifications without opening Google Plus.
At the end of the day, it is really very difficult to manage so many social sites and keep your social timeline updated. I also recommend using selective tweets, another nifty Facebook app which lets you cross post updates from your Twitter account to your Facebook profile, automatically.

Top 2 Methods to Make Your Windows XP Genuine

if your Window XP is not genuine and you want to make it genuine then there is a simple tip for you. This is free and no need to pay a single penny for making your Window XP genuine. Use the features of a full version and enjoy a genuine windows for free.
follow the below steps to make windows XP genuine.
How to Make Windows XP Genuine

1:- Open NotePad from Start Menu and paste the following code in your notepad program.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersion]
“CurrentBuild”=”1.511.1 () (Obsolete data – do not use)”
“ProductId”=”55274-640-1011873-23081?
“DigitalProductId”=hex:a4,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,35,35,32,37,34,2d,36,34,30,2d,
31,30,31,31,38,37,33,2d,32,33,30,38,31,00,2e,00,00,00,41,32,32,2d,30,30,30,
30,31,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,86,56,4e,4c,21,1b,2b,6a,a3,78,8e,8f,98,5c,00,00,
00,00,00,00,dd,da,47,41,cc,6b,06,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,38,31,30,32,36,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,b5,16,
00,00,83,83,1f,38,f8,01,00,00,f5,1c,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,66,e5,70,f3
“LicenseInfo”=hex:33,b7,21,c1,e5,e7,cd,4b,fd,7c,c6,35,51,fd,52,57,17,86,3e,18,
d3,f4,8c,8e,35,32,7b,d1,43,8d,61,38,60,a4,ca,55,c9,9a,35,17,46,7a,4f,91,fc,
4a,d9,db,64,5c,c4,e2,0f,34,f3,ea
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWPAEvents]
“OOBETimer”=hex:ff,d5,71,d6,8b,6a,8d,6f,d5,33,93,fd

2. Now save the file on the name of Genuine.reg (Make sure to save it with .reg extension.)
3. Guys your Windows XP is now genuine. Believe me it is genuine now. If you don’t believe then check it now.

Second Method

If you are not lucky and the above method is not working for you then don’t worry you can try this one.
1. Download this file
2. Extract it and open the file.
3. Now go to genuine microsoft software and click on the button “Validate Windows”
4. Done
Now your Windows XP is Genuine.

Facebook Launches Free Mobile Apps For 2,500 Java Phones

as i always says facebook users mostly use to check their updates on their phones.
With more than 250 million mobile users, Facebook knows that it has to be on every mobile phone in the planet to keep riding the social wave as the web becomes more mobile. And that means more than just being on iPhone and Android phones.
Today, Facebook is addressing the 2,500 feature phones out there that can download Java apps with a new app called Facebook for Every Phone. It includes a lightweight News Feed, an inbox for your Facebook Messages, and a way to upload and share photos directly from your phone. You can download it at m.facebook.com or mobile app stores like GetJar, Appia, and Mobile Weaver.
To get people to try it, Facebook will pay for the first 90 days worth of data the app uses. (Facebook designed it to be data efficient).
The new app looks like a direct byproduct of Facebook’s acquisition of Snaptu back in March. It is in keeping with Facebook’s other projects to make sure Facebook is accessible and fast on all devices across the world such as Facebook Zero (for text-only access on mobile phones) or itsnow-defunct Facebook Lite experiment.

Facebook Launches Free Mobile Apps For 2,500 Java Phones

as i always says facebook users mostly use to check their updates on their phones.
With more than 250 million mobile users, Facebook knows that it has to be on every mobile phone in the planet to keep riding the social wave as the web becomes more mobile. And that means more than just being on iPhone and Android phones.
Today, Facebook is addressing the 2,500 feature phones out there that can download Java apps with a new app called Facebook for Every Phone. It includes a lightweight News Feed, an inbox for your Facebook Messages, and a way to upload and share photos directly from your phone. You can download it at m.facebook.com or mobile app stores like GetJar, Appia, and Mobile Weaver.
To get people to try it, Facebook will pay for the first 90 days worth of data the app uses. (Facebook designed it to be data efficient).
The new app looks like a direct byproduct of Facebook’s acquisition of Snaptu back in March. It is in keeping with Facebook’s other projects to make sure Facebook is accessible and fast on all devices across the world such as Facebook Zero (for text-only access on mobile phones) or itsnow-defunct Facebook Lite experiment.

Nokia Kinetic -Concept Phone(phone that raises itself up into a standing position when a call comes in. Huh?)

The Nokia Kinetic isn’t just a sleek concept phone. It’s a sleek concept phone that raises itself up into a standing position when a call comes in. Huh?  Inside the Kinetic is an electromagnet that can shift weights in the curved base, causing the phone to tilt upright on cue, that cue being an incoming call. Telemarketer again? Tap the phone to decline the call and it’ll fall back down. It’s intended to be a playful feature, though I can see it being useful in a quiet office where even vibrating phones are sometimes an irritant to others. More images after the break…

The Kinetic’s pretty clever, though designer Jeremy Innes-Hopkins will have to do some serious convincing if anyone’s going to go for the bulbous form factor of this thing.