Facebook yesterday issued a fix affecting the times and dates of events created by third party Facebook apps. The fix means app developers can now specify times for events either in their local time zone or in PST (Pacific Standard Time). Drew Hoskins, a developer at Facebook, said on a Facebook developer blog, “If you [...]

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It’s surprisingly easy to get your Facebook Events to appear in your iPhone Calendar, and much the same method works for other iCAL compatible applications such as Microsoft Outlook. Step 1: Go to you Facebook page and click on “Events” (Green Circle) Go to the bottom of your Events list and click on “Export Events” [...]

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Here in The Hypervisor Labs, we think you don’t need to buy an expensive new TV to get the benefit of HD TV. Rather, it seems its the software in your set top box (STB) that may be the most important factor affecting picture quality. For example, we purchased a Fortec Star Passion+ STB from [...]

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Twitter has changed the way third party applications are allowed to tweet. Starting 31 August, applications must use “OAuth” to access twitter accounts. OAuth is an open standard authentication system (IETF RFC 5849) that enables applications to access Twitter on behalf of account holders with without asking directly for the account holder’s password. The move [...]

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Facebook users today reported problems connecting to the popular social networking site. We recieved reports from several people in the UK, and readers have responded to this article saying the problems are still affecting users in Slovenia and Portugal. The problem is probably affecting Facebook users worldwide. One Facebook user posted this as her status [...]

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Over the last year social networking giant Facebook released new application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow web developers to easily embed Facebook functions in third party sites. The new APIs  may prove to be more popular than anyone could have predicted. A range of commercial and non-profit web sites have added functions such as Facebook [...]

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An increasing number of spammers are using fake Facebook email addresses to bypass spam filters and clog up recipients’ mailboxes. The spammers’ trick works because many mail systems don’t verify the sender’s email address. The Hypervisor estimates that in recent weeks around half the spam hitting our mailboxes claimed to be from Facebook. Of course, [...]

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Later today Microsoft will announce the price of Office 2010 at the CES show in Las Vegas. But while the software giant is ready to announce the price for customers in the USA, it will take a little longer before people in the rest of the world will be told the price for the new [...]

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In September Google announced the availability of its Push email service for iPhone, iPod Touch and Windows Mobile devices. The idea behind the Push service is that notifications of new email messages are sent, or pushed, directly to the phone as soon as an email arrives at the Gmail server. This is in contrast to [...]

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On October 12 The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (Vesi) will release version 1.2 of its free Virtualization EcoShell software. Focussed on helping people running VMware virtualization, the new suite runs on Windows and includes a graphical editor for handling PowerShell scripts. The new Virtualization EcoShell editor adds a new integrated search tool to find free PowerShell [...]

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