While at one side web companies are rushing to convert their iPhone-optimized websites into native iPhone apps, Flickr on the other hand just doesn’t seem to care at all about the iPhone hype.

Flickr remains the only popular social network to not have a native iPhone app whereas other social networks like Facebook, MySpace are already on the lead.

Recently Flickr redesigned the mobile version of its website to provide better UI for the iPhone users.

Users can point Safari to http://m.flickr.com on their iPhone and enjoy the new ajax-based interface to explore new and recently uploaded photos from their contacts.

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Research in Motion’s plans for responding iPhone’s App Center and Google’s Android Market are shaken with the launch of an unaffiliated online application store for blackberry devices called BerryStore.

And even worse for ‘Blackberry Application Center’, BerryStore offers applications that work across both old and new Blackberry handsets alike and across carriers; while official App Center will serve carrier specified applications for different carriers and for Blackberry Storm only.

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Today, I came across TubePopper. It’s for all those creative people out there who can give YouTube videos more colors.

It lets you cartoonize any YouTube video by giving you the ability to add speech bubbles, thought bubbles and subtitles etc.  All you need to do is register on their website, search the video you want to edit and click “Pop that video”.  From that point, you can start editing that video by customizing it with bubbles,  subtitle size, color, transparency, text size/color etc.

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Everyone in the tech world is desperate enough to get their hands on the new G1 Phone by T-Mobile which was unveiled last month. What makes the G1 Phone so interesting is the that it fact runs on Google Android, which is one of the most powerful mobile operating systems ever created.

Other factors such as being powered by Google and posing a threat to the iPhone just add up more to its spice. The G1 hits the store somewhere near the end of this month, it will be SIM locked with T-Mobile and can only be purchased by signing a 2-year contract with T-mobile.

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Touchscreen now seems to be a usual and essential feature for every phone, as every handset coming now a days includes the touchscreen feature. Blackberry, which is popular for its business class communicator, has recently announced its touchscreen smartphone named as Blackberry Storm 9530.

This time Blackberry has not just come up with a typical business class set but it includes entertainment factor also by taking in multimedia and social networking support, which will surely attract normal cell phone users, rather than just a business community. (more…)

The Google Chrome hype seems to live on despite it received mixed reactions from the industry. We praised it for its blazing speeds and a responsive UI, while others called it a total failure. We also highlighted some of the security issues of the browser, and hoped that it would improve in the future. Apparently, the guys at the Chromium Project are hard at work just trying to deliver that.

Google Chrome got its first major update late last night. This is the first time the minor version changed from 0.2 to 0.3. The update brings some bug fixes as well as enhancements to the overall user interface. But the major focus of the update was to resolve issues with various plugins.

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StumbleUpon has just launched its Web-Toolbar, which means you no longer have to download the toolbar software and install it on your browser. Though I won’t switch to the Web-toolbar from the browser plugin, I certainly think web toolbar is a great feature to have. It makes stumbling so much more easier without the browser toolbar. StumbleUpon is the best source of information and thats exactly why I spend most of my time on it (Stumble Profile: TNerd).

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General purpose GPUs (GGPU) powered by DirectX 11 could arrive as early as 2009, said ATI, owned by AMD announced at the Ceatec trade-show in Japan.

ATI also expects to complete its transition of its GPU manufacturing process to 40nm and GDDR5 memory by that time. These upgrades would unlock a new breed of eye candy and mind blowing graphics in games.

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The world has officially seen the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic a.k.a the Tube. It would be the first mainstream touchscreen phone by Nokia running the legendary Symbian S60 platform. But the world wasn’t too impressed with that, and neither were we.

So where does Nokia go from here? Well, meet the new communicator.

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Do you need to check email very often and find it very annoying to login to your mailbox each time just to do this?

Well another easy way to check your mail repeatedly is to use a desktop mail client like Windows Live Mail. However, if you keep surfing the web most of the time using Firefox, WebMail Notifier will do the job for you.

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