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Yes this world is very cruel and people get fired on Christmas or a day or two before Christmas. . How do we know about this? TWITTER. People are tweeting who got fired a day or two days before the Christmas. There are a bunch of “got fired” tweets including original “got fired” tweets or people talking about their friends got fired. We selected few of the original “got fired” tweets here. You can see the latest tweet stream here on twitter.

So if u got my last tweet I got fired 3 days b4 Christmas I’m a man with a wife and kids meadow creek golf club in dracut ma – @troubleone187

I got fired, two days before Christmas. And I got one week notice… #wtf – @fishf00d

got fired on Christmas eve..amazing. but that flock of deer brightened my day just a little bit ahahaha – @taylormcalister

Officially got fired today for that tab that walked out last week. 5years there. Thankful I got another job already. – @Melissa780

Wow nigga got fired on Christmas Eve, Merry Xmas huh? (not me btw) – @OlieX7

Just got fired. – @mlamar

got nothing to say. merry hellmas got fired yesterday from a shit retail job. and working tonight must remember smiles = tips ulghhhhhhh. – @Tegro1988

On my way to Bk since I got fired I’m going to collect my last check!!!! – @PAGESKING

i got fired =[ – @justinkurtzweil

We wish all of you Merry Christmas and wish you a Happy New year that brings new opportunities in your like.

While everyone was busy in Christmas holidays people at MacRumors.com were busy digging keep into the internet to to find out about Apple’s up coming tablet related information and finally on Christmas eve they did. They figured out that iSlate.com belongs to Apple and the reason what Apple owns this domain because it could be the name of Apple’s up coming product the new table by Apple.

iSlate domain was first registered by some company in 2004 and it was transferred to Apple in 2007. After that Apple also started to buy country domains like iSlate.co.uk.

Apple is rumored to be announcing new product at its event in January  that is “A Tablet by Apple aka iSlate”.

For more on this read the MacRumors post on this.

I remember there were rumors about Google Phone back in 2007 before the launch of Android. At that time Google CEO Eric Schmidt was part of Apple’s board of directors. This news had worried a lot to Apple that Eric Schmidt had cleared it to Apple that Google has no plan of launching a mobile phone in near future.

This year at Google I/O 2009 event Google had a special prize for all the attendees “A mobile phone running Android”‘. It was an HTC manufactured mobile which HTC launched later on. Google gave it away to all the attendees but it wasn’t the “Google phone”. On 12th of December 2009 Google gave away new phones to all of its employee as Christmas gift and called it “dog food”.

These new phones are also manufactured by HTC, running Android 2.1 and people are referring them as Nexus One. If these this phone is also manufactured by HTC then how come it is a “Google Phone”?

Here comes an interesting thing. Dogfood is a term used to indicate when a company gives away its products to employees for using/testing before they are actually launched. So does that mean that Nexus One is aka “Google Phone”  and Google will launch it next year? I don’t think so. Nexus One has new and improved hardware and running latest Android 2.1 on it. It could be mean that Google is just checking performance of their Android software package.

What if it is a real “Google phone”? It will not be fair with other Google partners who are manufacturing mobile phones for Android like Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and bunch of other companies who are going to launch their Android enabled mobile phones next year. If there is already Google phone running Android who will buy other Android running phone?

To conclude this I could be right or I could be wrong but what I think Nexus One is not aka Google Phone. It’s an HTC phone and there are very less chances but Google might launch it as a joint venture with HTC. If it is a “Google Phone” then it’s just a mistake and It will never be an iPhone killer.

Google wave is making a big buzz from last few months. People are literally begging for Google Wave invite but when then get an account they don’t any friend in their Google Wave friend list. Google Wave is nothing without friends. You can’t start a new wave with anyone. So what else you can do with your Google Wave. You can join public waves or If you are on Twitter you can use your Wave to tweet. If you want to find public waves then checkout out last post on how to find public waves?.

There is a twitter bot in Wave with the name of “Tweety”. Here are the following steps to tweet from Wave using Tweety.

i ) Add Tweety to your contacts. Add following address to add Tweety

tweety-wave@appspot.com

ii) Create a new Wave.

iii) Add Tweety to this Wave.

iv) It will ask you to authenticate.

v ) Once you are authenticated you can tweet and see your twitter timeline in Wave.

~ Happy Waving

Google Wave is the most complicated web application of its time. We don’t complain that it’s useless or not user friend. Google Wave is a new way of communication and we are just not used to it yet so we think it’s complicated. Users don’t note one thing while using Wave that it’s only in “Preview” version. Wave is not even in beta version, so in future we are going to see much more stable and open Wave.So let’s go back to topic and let me share few “HOT’ Wave tips.

Hot Tips

i ) If someone invites you to new Wave and there are already bunch of messages the press “Playback” to play Wave from first message to get a sense what’s happening here.

ii) You open a wave after few days and few new unread messages inside a Wave, but how to find those unread messages inside 100+ messages long Wave? Simple every time you press “spacebar” Wave will take you to next unread message (every time you press “tab” Wave will move to next message).

iii) So you want to open two Wave at the same time? Press Command (Mac)/Control (PC) and click on a Wave. It will open Wave in View mode without replacing old opened Wave.

iv) If you think Wave is a closed platform then you are wrong. You can join any public Wave and there are thousands of Waves that you can join. (See next tip on how to search a Wave)

v) To search inside your Waves (write following in search field and click search icon)

with:keyword

vi) To find all the public Waves (and there are many)

with:public

vii) To find interesting public Waves

with:public keyword

Example: If you want to find web designs related public Waves then search for

with:public webdesign

We are giving away 10 Google Wave invitations. If you want invitation then post a comment. Criteria is best comments and first come first serve.

There is a new leaked commercial of iPhone 3G circulating over internet. Now as iPhone 3GS is the latest version of iPhone and iPhone 3G is still available in market. So Apple finds a new target group for iPhone 3G “exes” Yes. Along with iPhone 3G Apple shows a varities of apps, there is an app for almost everything. The tag line of commercial is

“There is an app for your ex”

“If want to know where your ex-GF is then there is an app for…”

Watch the complete commercial yourself.

iPhone apps keep surprising us. iSnort is also one of those crazy and innovative app. iSnort is your virtual addiction of Cocaine, your unlimited supply of ‘Class A’ Virtual Narcotics. The tag line of iSnort is “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Cocaine”. iSnort demo was launched on Youtube few months back when they submitted their app to iPhone apps store for review but Apple rejected their application. Apple doesn’t like Cocaine very much!  You can download the iPhone app from iSnort official website for £10.

Demo of iSnort on Youtube:

Whatever the reason Apple rejected this app you will have to admit iSnort is pretty awesome and Apple should respect these genius developers making wonderful applications for iPhone.

Spotify is a revolutionary online music streaming application that let users play almost any song right away by single click. Spotify offers free music service with ads and ad less premium music service at 9euro per month.

Recently Spotify had  submitted an iPhone app to app store for review. There was  a big discussion if Apple will accept Spotify app or not as it will give competition  to Apple’s iTunes very soon. But today Spotify CEO confirms via a tweet that Apple has approved Spotify iPhone App which was in review process from few weeks. It will be available on the iPhone apps store soon for the download.

@eldsjal : “Yes, I can confirm that Apple has approved the app. We’re happy but have had a great dialogue with Apple all the way. They’ve been great!“

Here is the official demo of Spotify iPhone app.

Update: Gustav Söderström Director of Mobile Apps at Spotify also confirms the news via tweet.

@GustavS: Wohoo! iPhone app approved by Apple! Now need to work double time to lay finishing touches on the mobile backend before we can launch!:D