Android

• Google Listen: Podcast manager, search engine for Android
  Another high-quality application from Google. Allows to download podcasts and offline listening and offers podcast search directly from within application

Other

• Digital Photography Review: Canon EOS 550D / Rebel T2i , previewed with samples
  New camera from Canon has 18 megapixel sensor, able to shoot Full HD video with 30 fps and lots of other improvements

Science

• BBC – Earth News – Giant bizarre deep sea fish filmed in Gulf of Mexico
  Amazing video to watch
• Moscow’s stray dogs
  Social behaviour studies done by scientists amoung stray dogs in Moscow (I’m not joking)

Software

• Data Crow Is A Cross-Platform Manager Of All Your Media
  Manage your photos, videos and other media
• Wordpress SEO: The Only Guide You Need
  Explains how to improve your search rankings of your Wordpress blog by tweaking its settings

Software development

• This Car Runs on Code : Discovery News
  Complexity of software running in your car is growing. How does it affect safety?
• Understanding The Significance Of Weak Ties In Your Professional Life.

Web

• 10 free ways to keep track of changes to any website, without an RSS reader
  Waiting page updates? Use the following tools to make it automatically
• Dispostable: Provides Throwaway Email Addresses
  Need a single use e-mail address? Here it is. How about single use phone number and credit card number?
• Lifehacker Australia: Is The Mobile Broadband Bubble Going To Burst?
  Is it still a profitable business to run mobile data network?

Android

• How the Nexus One Was Created
  Google has launched a series of videos on its official Nexus One YouTube channel, documenting various details on how one of the world’s best Android phones was created.
• Mozilla Shows Off First Screenshots of Firefox for Android
  Mozilla just announced that it is also making good progress on an Android version of Firefox. According to Firefox developer Vladimir Vukićević, development of Android for Firefox is progressing quickly. While there are no plans for the release of an official alpha version just yet, Vukićević has already managed to compile and install an early version of Firefox for Android.
• PCWorld Apple Bans the Word ‘Android’ From App Store
  What makes them different from Chinese government?

Mobile devices

• Number of Location-Aware Apps Keeps Growing Rapidly – But Very Few are Cross-Platform

Other

• Blogging: Not for the young?
  Blogging is no longer the pastime of the young and has instead risen in popularity among older adults. Younger generation prefers Twitter?
• The War on the Young
  Young people today will most likely become the first generation in US history not to surpass their parents’ living standards.

Science

• Reading cuts stress levels by 68%
  New research by consultancy Mindlab International at the University of Sussex says reading works better and faster than other methods to calm frazzled nerves such as listening to music, going for a walk or settling down with a cup of tea. Even six minutes can be enough to reduce the stress levels by more than two thirds or 68%
• Science and Engineering Indicators 2010
  Provides a broad base of quantitative information on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise. Measures how good is general public in scientific terms. Makes an interesting read…
• Surprising Facts about HIV/AIDS in 2010
• Warning, Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous To Your Health
  Just like tobacco manufacturers, mobile phone manufactures and network operators do not want the public to be informed on relationship between number of tumours and heavy mobile phone usage by some business people. So investing some money into hands free for your phone could potentially save your life in addition to convenience.

Software development

• How to Create Bulletproof Backups for MySQL
  Simplify backup process for your MySQL databases
• Toyota’s lesson: Software can be unsafe at any speed
  Security holes in Internet banking is not a worst thing. How about some buggy software running in your car is crashing while you drive at 100 km/h?

Web

• Femtoo: Track Changes on a Website or Part of a Webpage
• Google Earth Adds WWII-Era Maps
• Top 10 Web Widgets
• w3schools: Chrome Has Surpassed Ten Percent Share
  The web developer-focused w3schools releases browser statistics every month. Recently, they published their figures for January. Fueled by the movement of Chrome 4 into a stable version along with the increased media coverage of Chrome OS and Google’s competition with the other tech titans, Chrome has moved past the ten percent share mark, registering a 10.8% share which is up a solid point from December, at 9.8%.

Free “A Online Radio” application available from Android Market turn your phone into portable radio which plays thousands of live radio streams.

Features include:

• Searchable directory of live streams
• Ability to add your streams using URL
• Add stream to favourites
• View song lyrics

Work both via WiFi or via 3G connection (keep an eye on traffic amouts if your data plan has limited capacity)

A “must have” item for “Hello Kitty” fans:

In Tula, Russia you can buy shoes sold under trademark “Fart”. I wonder, if company has any plans to export their products to English speaking countries?

For curious ones: in Russian word fart means “luck”

Taken from Exler blog

These days you can send a picture from almost any place on earth using your computer or mobile phone. But how about sending photos directly from space? That exactly what one of the residents of International Space Station is doing. Have a look at some magnoficient photos taken by him and placed on Twitpic

South Africa’s Kulula airlines recently repainted their airplanes and decided to inform passengers how each part of airplane is called, where is a “blackbox” and, just in case you don’t know, where are the pilot sitting.

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It’s really impressive…

From Wikipedia

The aquarium is a part of the Ocean Expo Commemorative National Government Park located in Motobu, Okinawa. The aquarium is made up of four-floors which hold attractions of deep sea creatures, sharks, coral and other tropical fish. The aquarium is set on 19,000 m² of land, holds a total of 77 tanks with 10,000 m³ of water. Water for the saltwater exhibits is pumped into the aquarium from 350m offshore 24 hours a day.

The main tank called the ‘Kuroshio Sea’ holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water and features the world’s second largest acrylic glass panel, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimeters.[2] Whale sharks and manta rays are kept amongst many other fish species in the main tank.

.NET software development

• What happens behind the scenes: NHibernate, Linq to SQL, Entity Framework scenario analysis
  Check the SQL code generated by ORM frameworks

Android

• Android Online Radio
  Streaming plaler for Android supports MP3, AAC and AAC+ audio streaming. Also includes comprehensive directory of worls radio stations.

Linux

• How to use Mac fonts on Linux
  Install Mac fonts just by running four commands from shell

Mobile devices

• What are mobile web users doing? Social networking
  A new mobile metrics company called GroundTruth has just posted a statistic on their blog showing that well over half (61%) of mobile online page views are to social networking sites.

Science

• Depression link to internet use: study

Software

• Symbian OS goes free and open-source
  Biggest switch in software history?

Software development

• Branch-Per-Feature: How I Manage Subversion With Git Branches
  br Derick Bailey
• C# From a Java Developer’s Perspective

Web

• Jaw-dropping and life-changing details about Chinese attacks on Google emerge
  Wired has just published a stunning article detailing a really scary report from computer forensic firm Mandiant. The story brings to light some disturbing truths about the always-connected, always-on world we live in.
• Mobile Ticketing Taking Off: 15 Billion Sold by 2014
• SpiderPic
  Stock photography pricing comparison engine that compiles search results from multiple stock photo websites providers to help you find the best price quickly

Android

• Did Google Just Multi-Punch Apple In The Face?
  Google enable multitouch functionality in its software update as battle with Apple heats up
• Google pushes software update for Nexus One
  Google Goggles added as standard application, Google Maps and 3G connectivity improvements
• WordPress Launches on Android
  Application allows you to edit your blog from Andoid phone

Other

• ATM Skimmers, Part II — Krebs on Security
• Passing JSON serialized objects to a WCF service with jQuery
• Rich-Text Editors for 2010 and Beyond
• Time: A Brief History of the Computer

Science

• "Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic

Software

• WordPress Foundation Launched

Web

• 85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In January
• The 10 Coolest Experiments from Google Labs