Windows Phone 7 Birthday

Happy first birthday, Windows Phone 7! One year on, and the fledgling mobile operating system has 36,000 active developers in its AppHub community, 1.5 million downloads of its Developer Tools, and 11,500 apps in its Marketplace.
Microsoft is quick to take a couple shots at competitors' app stores, beating its chest about not re-counting tanslations of an app or "lite" apps, "increasing tonnage" by supporting apps from other mobile platforms, and not listing wallpapers as a category.
That's all fine and dandy, but we spend a lot of time sifting through WP7 app feeds -- and we're still not seeing a lot of awesome apps on the platform. Few marquee apps would've made a pretty nice first birthday present -- along with a much smoother update process for WP7 on HTC HD7 user.

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Facebook launches Two Mobile Site

Facebook has announced that its two mobile sites -- m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com, have been unified, bringing a simpler mobile experience to Facebook users. And there are a lot of those -- a quarter billion, according to Facebook.

Smartphone users won't be losing any functionality because of the consolidation. If your phone supported the enhacned features offered by touch.facebook.com, the new site will automatically flip the switch when you visit.

Rolling the sites together helps simplify things for Facebook's developer team. Now changes can be pushed to a single site instead of two separate sites, which makes it easier to ensure that all mobile users receive a nearly identical experience regardless of the device they're using.

The new Facebook mobile can also check to see if your phone supports geolocation. If it doesn't, you won't be seeing much of Facebook Places -- which obviously relies heavily on geolocation. Images can also be optimized on the fly to keep page performance from suffering on less powerful devices. You can see the three different versions of the share button below, courtesy our friends at TechCrunch.

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Download Quickoffice Pro HD Android Honeycomb Tablets

Quickoffice has launched a version of its mobile office suite that's custom specifically for Android Honeycomb tablets. Quickoffice Pro HD was designed from the ground up for tablet apply, and as such features a user interface that's meant to take advantage of the extra screen real estate tablets have equated to smartphones.

Quickoffice Pro HD for Android Tablets provides you to create, view and edit Microsoft Office files, accepting Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. The cloud storage supporting that's baked into Quickoffice for Android smartphones has also made it into Quickoffice Pro HD, allowing you to remotely access files from your Dropbox, Google Docs, Box.net, Huddle, SugarSync, and MobileMe accounts. Quickoffice Pro HD also comes with a built-in file manager that lets you easily access files stored on your SD card, as well as an integrated PDF viewer.

Text can be copied and pasted within the same Quickoffice app, or between different apps (from the word processor to the spreadsheet, for example). Most user actions can be undone or redone. You can insert images into documents and presentations, either directly from the camera, or from the Gallery. The app also has text-to-speech support alongside voice input dictation. Files can be shared via email, Bluetooth, SMS, and cloud services, and you can move and resize text boxes, images and shapes.

Specific to the spreadsheet app is support for advanced formulas and charts, the ability to add, delete and rename worksheets, and to apply formulas to multiple cells by tapping and dragging. You can get Download Quickoffice Pro HD Android Honeycomb Tablets at Android Market

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Canon Rebel T3 DSLR review

Canon Rebel T3 DSLR. Are you a true contrarian looking for a camera that befits your nonconformist lifestyle? Well, Canon's latest entry-level DSLR may not be the most unruly camera out, but at least it sports a moniker that fits the bill. The Canon T3 Rebel, also known as the EOS 1100D, is a 12.2-megapixel affair designed with the DSLR newbie in mind, and according to a review over at PhotographyBlog, it doesn't sacrifice image quality for ease of use. Touted as a successor to the Rebel XS, the T3 actually carries over some useful features from its more sophisticated sibling, the T3i, including a user-friendly control layout, but lacks the camera's Scene Intelligent auto mode and extensive list of creative filters. Aside from that, the reviewer found T3's grips too slick and its diminutive LCD screen a minor setback, but was quick to point out that none of these is a deal-breaker. In fact, aside from a bit of noise encountered at the highest ISO setting, the camera delivers high quality photographs even in low light. All things considered, it looks like the Rebel T3 is a "responsive and intuitive DSLR" for the novice photog, and at $600, it's got at least some of the competition beat. Now, we won't tell you what to do, but if we were you, we'd click the source link to see how the T3 stacks up.
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Atrix 4G's 4.1.57 update spruces up a few things, patches known root methods

Atrix 4G's 4.1.57 update. The HSUPA-enabling update? No, not yet. The voice call quality fix? In the pipeline. The mission-critical Bluetooth multimedia experience improvements? Oh yes, we've got those right here! Motorola is preparing to deliver an imminent OTA update to its Atrix 4G super phone, which will fix up battery performance, overall software stability, and car dock, headphone jack, and fingerprint reader performance, but will regrettably leave the two major drawbacks to the AT&T-riding phone untouched. Alas, if you've rooted your Atrix, you'll have to pay a dear price to benefit from these upgrades as users over at xda-developers, who've obtained the pre-release build, report the new 4.1.57 update disables their previous superuser privileges.
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Samsung Series 9 (NP900X3A) laptop review

Samsung Series 9 (NP900X3A) laptop. Back at CES, Samsung pulled out quite a few surprises, and no, we're not referring to its Zoll-infused press conference, although, that performance still gives us the willies. Of all the Korean company's announcements at the show, which we'll remind you included an impressive new LTE phone and range of SmartTVs, it was its Series 9 laptop that left us the most stunned. And well, a glance at that picture above should explain why we found ourselves counting down the days until its March launch date.
The 2.8-pound system is a complete and total 180 from Samsung's typical bulky mainstream systems, yet its 0.64-inch thick chassis still crams in quite a bit of horsepower with a Core i5-2537M processor, a 128GB SSD, and 4GB of RAM. It's also built from some of the toughest stuff on earth, has a backlit keyboard, and an incredibly high quality 400 nit LCD. You see, the $1,699 machine teeters on having the absolute perfect balance of beauty and brawn, and certainty has the core ingredients to compete with that other extremely popular and super thin ultraportable.

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