Eight Useful Websites You May Not Know

Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube — these are only three of the most well-known and trusted websites. But aside from these giants, there are also a lot of online sites that offer services, which are somehow new, unique, and innovative. Continue reading after the break and discover eight of the most useful yet unfamiliar websites to date.

PayPal UK’s Twitter Account — Hacked

Tweets posted on Tuesday criticized eBay’s subsidiary – PayPal – for its poor security, and provided links to an anti-PayPal website — PayPal Sucks. Based on IDG News, some of the tweets were claiming that PayPal freezes user accounts for no reason.

In relation to this, PayPal confirmed that its UK Twitter account was hacked. However, the account runs separate from the PayPal UK site, so no user data was affected. The hack attack on PayPal UK’s Twitter account comes in, just days after Fox News’ account was breached.

On the other hand, Twitter made no official response in relation to the recent attacks on two high-profile accounts. Still, pundits believe that these incidents could raise doubts on the security of the micro-blogging site as a means of communication.

What You Need to Know About iOS 5 — Final Part

At long last! GADG is here to bring the last part of our feature preview for iOS 5. In this article, we will talk about the rumored voice features, the split keyboard, accessibility front and other features that users must anticipate.

More answers on your even more burning questions are posted after the jump.

Get in the Know with Banjo

Location services are the greatest way to let users share their whereabouts, and connect the digital and physical realms. However, all-important physical links are often missed in real world when it matters most. Thus Damien Patton started up Banjo, a location-based mobile application that can rule them all.

Launched for iPhone and Android last Wednesday, Banjo aggregates all location-based social updates. It is created for both social-mobile-local early adopters and newbies alike. Banjo want to help users prevent missed opportunities.

Lightbox, a New Photo App for Androids

Lightbox is a new camera application created for Androids. It is somewhat similar to the features of an Instagram and iCloud, in which you can beam the photos that you had captured through your phone into your web browser in no time.

New App Makes Facebook Hacking Easier

The FaceNiff is an app which requires root access on the user’s Android smartphone. Since it is very easy to use, it becomes more dangerous than Firesheep — a Firefox extension that lets users hijack Facebook and Twitter sessions over Wi-Fi networks. Aside from that, FaceNiff also works on WPA-encrypted Wi-Fi networks which Firesheep doesn’t support.

This means that Internet users should be extra careful when connecting to a free public Wi-Fi network. On the other hand, using FaceNiff could be a big no-no, as hacking someone’s account can be illegal depending on where you live.

Aside from Facebook and Twitter, the latest version of the app may also be used with YouTube, Amazon and even Polish social network — Nasza-Klasa.

Twitter Rolls out the Follow Button

Twitter has begun offering an embeddable button called Follow Button. The Follow Button enables one-click subscription to a Twitter account associated with any website. Before this, a website owner can link their Twitter profile page offsite. However, users have to visit the associated profile in order to follow it. People who are interested in subscribing to updates from a website itself can still do so through RSS feeds.

But Twitter power user, Kevin Marks, said that it would be nice if the Follow Button includes rel=”me” in the code. That will help outside parties to analyze the world wide social graph based on its program. Have you added Twitter’s Follow Button on your site already? What is your opinion about this new social plug-in?

Twitter, to Launch its Own Photo Sharing Service

According to multiple sources, Twitter will be announcing its own built in Twitpic competitor soon. This makes perfect sense, as photo sharing is the next logical step of Twitter to expand its in-app experience. After spending $40 million to purchase Tweetdeck, it’s only natural that they would spend more resources on photo sharing.

No more further details like what the photo sharing URL shortener will be or what the Twitter for Photos product will look like. What GADG only knows is that it is coming soon.

See the World in Different Angle with the New Twitter Feature

Twitter just recently released its new feature that allows users the view the world in another perspective. Just like its scrapped With Friend attribute two years ago, the new feature enables users see their friends’ recent tweets from users they’re following. Simply Put, users can view Twitter the way their tweeps sees it.

Seeing the online world through other people’s perspective is an uncommon way of garnering news. And while Facebook does a great job in connecting people around the world, its different privacy foundation hinders its users to the see the world through other people’s eyes. That is where Twitter is well positioned to do.

As a fascinating public stream of half-structured data, Twitter’s new feature showcases another alley to slice and dice real-time social information. But this may have a very interesting consequence though. Do you think this new Twitter feature poses a user advantage? Leave your opinions at the comments below.

New Update for Twitter For BlackBerry

Check out the BlackBerry App World and grab the newest version for Twitter for Blackberry: v2.0.0.8. It is the perfect time for RIM to end the beta testing phase and join the wagon of other Twitter clients.
The fresh version of the Twitter for BlackBerry has an improved user interface and simplified navigation. There’s also a search bar, revamped navigation bar and easy ‘compose new tweet’ button. The search button is now capable of locating tweets, people, events and trends.