AOL sell’s Bebo

Two years ago, AOL tried to redeem their social networking efforts when they bought Bebo. It was announced that they paid $850 million for it.

Bebo started to fail from the day it started being used. It had a mere 5 million users in February. Which was nothing compared to the huge 210 million users on the social networking giant, FaceBook.

AOL recognized how much of a fail their website was and in they April announced that they were going to either sell or shut down the site.

The company that is buying the site is Criterion Capital Partners. But it hasn’t  yet been announced how much they will be buying it for. I would think it is a fraction of the $850 million paid two years ago.

In my opinion this isn’t great for the FaceBook community because Bebo houses the younger teenager community with user names such as Robbie Boiiii 2kAii10 or xXxXxXxiiTz Yur BabexXxXxXxX. If FaceBook starts getting users with these kind of user names, I will most likely be looking for a different social networking site.

Until next time,

Eoin

Xbox 360 New Slim Version

So that Microsoft will actually sell their new  Xbox 360 Slim they have dropped the prices of the older Xbox360 consoles.

So Microsoft ended E3 2010 with a bang! Just when everyone thought the show was over, Microsoft decide its time to unveil the new Xbox360 Slim. It’s alot nicer looking than the original Xbox360. Its smaller, sleeker and all of those sharp edges give it a sexy look.

If you buy this console it is black as standard. Its very shiny. Microsoft claim that it is very quiet, however that could not be decided by anyone attending well, because its a conference with thousands of people there.  The new console will have built in Wi-Fi for ease of connectivity. It has a huge 250GB hard drive as standard. The price tag on this brand new console is $299. The same as the older 360 console.

What blew everyone away was that Microsoft announced they would start shipping that console today.

Thanks for reading my blog.

Until next time,

Eoin

Why wouldn’t you want an iPhone 4?

Who wouldn’t want something this nice? I mean its beautiful, the looks of this phone makes you want it without even looking at the the features of it. Hmm, what features? Lets get into that now.

So the new iPhone 4 is going to be epic. Its list of features is endless. There are 3 main features of the new device according to Apple.

One of the most anticipated is MultiTasking: This lets you run apps in the background of whatever app is open on the foreground. Steve Jobs did a great example of the multitasking at WWDC 2010. He opened his mail app, which had a link in it. Normally without the multitasking, after you click the link the phone would open up a Safari webpage displaying the contents of the link. This was great, but if you wanted to go into your mail again you would have to go to your home screen then open your mail app and go back to where you were before tapping the link. What Steve Jobs did was tapped the link, which as it would normally would opened a Safari web page displaying the content. But, once he wanted to go back to his mail all he had to do was double tap the home button which opened a small display on the bottom of the screen. This was the list of all of the open apps at that time on the iPhone. So all Jobs had to do was tap his mail icon and the phone brought him straight back to mail app in the very same state it was before he opened the link in Safari. Also the new multitasking allows you to do a lot more media and entertainment wise too. Again at WWDC 2010 Steve Jobs wanted to be able to listen to his Pandora live radio streaming app while he was doing something else. This is easy with the new multitasking. He just opened Pandora then pressed his home button and chose what ever app he wanted with his music still streaming in the background. Overall, the new multitasking looks amazing. It seems that Apple spent a great deal of time perfecting it.

The next feature is FaceTime: There have been many devices brought out with front facing cameras for video calling but none of them were successful in any way. Maybe some people tested it just to see if it worked, but that was about it. The main reason for no one ever using the video call features on their devices is because they were never given enough information about it. Apple are changing this and creating a lot of hype about the front facing camera and its video calling capabilities. The front facing camera has the perfect field of view and focal length according to Apple so that it will always present the best possible light. Using it is should be simple. Just go over the desired contact and if they have an iPhone 4 also, you can press the FaceTime button and an invitation will pop up on his/her iPhone asking if they would like to accept and connect the front facing camera for a clear video call. You can also use the back camera to broadcast what you can see at the minute. Just one tap of the button and it connects the back camera beside the LED flash. That way you can do a live stream of your surroundings at that time. Overall I think the FaceTime will be used alot by iPhone users just because its so easily accessible.

Now one of my favorite new features of the iPhone 4. The Retina Display: This looks amazing. Well rightly so, its producing more pixels per inch that the human retina can physically see. Yep thats right, the iPhone is giving a display so good that its inhumane. This display will look amazing for viewing almost anything, whether its looking at a YouTube video or viewing a webpage or sharing photo’s or even just watching a movie, the Retina Display will make it a very good experience. To add to the Retina Display’s awesomeness there have been great improvements in the glass used on the iPhone. It is the same materials used in the windscreen’s of helicopters and high-speed trains. The glass has chemicals on it to make it harder, more scratch  resistant and twice as durable as the 3gs. There is LED backlighting on the Retina Display and the auto brightness setting is more advanced with a high quality ambient light sensor. Battery life is saved when calling because when the phone is put close to an ear the proximity sensor turns off the display to save battery and also so that the heat off your ear doesn’t accidentally dial a number.

Once I get the phone myself, whatever date that will be when it is released in Ireland. I will do a full HD unboxing video and then I will do a video review also.

Until next time,

Eoin

My first post.

Hey everyone/anyone.

My name is Eoin. Im 17 and I’m from Ireland. I am very interested in technology and anything to do with it. On my blog I will be writing my thoughts on some of the newest technology, I will be posting links to any of my new YouTube videos, which will consist of Photoshop Tutorials, Vlogs, Gaming videos, Unboxing’s and much more. I should be getting very active on my YouTube once my exams are over. I’m very new to this blogging scene by myself. So I will slowly build this up. Much love to anyone that reads this. 🙂

My YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/OhiiN

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My Twitter: @OhiNxD

Email me: smurphy.eoin@gmail.com

(more networks coming soon, I havent get around to setting them up yet)

Thanks everyone,

Eoin.