Wikipedia is one of the most amazing knowledge resources on the Internet, featuring millions of articles and images, but it sorely lacks a certain (very important) type of content – video. For this reason the Open Video Alliance is launching a mass campaign to bring video to Wikipedia. The central site for the project …

We’re used to Google and other search engines decorating their homepages for special occasions, and this St Patrick’s Day is no different with various doodles, graphics and costumes marking the holiday around the web. Google, Bing, Ask and Yahoo are all hyping the craic in honor of the …

If you’re a user of Opera Mini, chances are you’ve already switched from Opera Mini 4.2 to Opera Mini 5 , beta tag be damned. The new version brought many improvements (tabs and speed dial probably being the most important) that made its predecessor look pale in comparison. Same goes for Opera…

If the choice between a 3G vs. Wi-Fi-only iPad has been keeping you up at night, how about a third solution that makes the price difference pale in comparison: a diamond-encrusted iPad . According to the company that sells it, Mervis, the “diamond-studded iPad features 11.43 carats of diamonds, hand-set…

Exactly 25 years ago, computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc, registered the first .com web domain ever: symbolics.com. By today’s design standards, and considering how websites looked back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, it’s quite decent , although a bit short on content. However, its content and even the…

Opera Mini 5 Beta was first introduced about 5 months ago, but owners of Android-based smartphones had to wait until now to get their hands on Opera’s nifty mobile browser. This version is nearly identical to the Opera Mini 5 Beta for other handsets; biggest improvements are speed dial, tabbed browsing, password…

Last week, an App Store error got the latest version of Foursquare for the iPhone into a few users hands a little bit early. That hiccup resulted in the app briefly disappearing from the App Store before finally returning early yesterday . Now the newly designed version of the app is in the App …

Tumblr , one of the simplest blogging platforms around, is doing really well. Situated between WordPress , which requires a bit more effort to create and organize content, and Twitter , which requires almost no effort but also doesn’t offer many features, Tumblr is the perfect tool for users who want to have a blog with…

About one year ago Twitter reached a huge milestone: one billion tweets. Four months ago, 5 billion tweets were served. And now, in about one day, Twitter should reach another very important milestone: 10 billion tweets . Notice the trend? Although Twitter has been somewhat struggling with traffic (compared to its earlier immense…

The debate about web browser speed never ends. When it came out, Firefox was considered speedy, but then Opera and Google Chrome kept recapturing the “speediest browser” title and the race hasn’t ended to this day. Still, Opera is the browser that has been focusing on speed the most, partly due…