YouTube

The number one video sharing site, YouTube, just got a little better, especially for those with hearing problems, as it has been added a feature that provides automatic captions for posted clips. Captions have been in YouTube for quite a while now, and although they have proven very useful, the massive amount of video that’s uploaded every day makes it harder and harder for people to find captioned content.

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Reviews

CPU & Motherboard

- ASUS Maximus III Formula LGA1156 Motherboard @ Hardware Canucks
- MSI NF750-G55 Motherboard @ bit-tech
- ASUS P7P55D Pro @ Techgage

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Dell

Getting its ninja on once more, Dell has stealthy added multi-touch capabilities to its Studio 17 laptop. Available for orders here, the Windows 7 Home Premium-loaded machine has a 17.3-inch touchscreen with a maximum resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels, and can be equipped with an Intel Pentium or Core 2 Duo CPU, up to 8GB of RAM, up to 1TB of storage, GMA 4500MHD integrated graphics or an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570/HD 4650 discrete graphics card, and a DVD or Blu-Ray drive.

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Twitter

No, don’t jump to any conclusion, Twitter still cares about you and everyone else that tweets, it just won’t be displaying the ‘What are you doing?’ question on its page anymore. Why is that? Basically, Twitter got big, it’s used by a lot of regular people and companies that want/like to share with the world a heap of things, not just their ’status’, which is good, but also makes the ‘What are you doing?’ question ‘limited.

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Facebook

After going through the views of a rather small number of users who commented on its new, proposed privacy policy, social network Facebook has decided to go ahead and adopt the document which is supposed to be more open, transparent and easier to understand. “In the coming weeks and months, we plan to build on the progress we’ve already made in making the document more accessible by also adding definitions of key terms, screen shots of important pages and informational “learn more” videos.

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Google

The Google Labs team has just rolled out a new project which is aimed at making image search more fun by bringing together technologies used for Similar Images and Picasa Face Recognition.

Dubbed Image Swirl, the experimental image search tool puts together similar images in groups, and each group is shown on the results page as a thumbnail.

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Reviews

CPU & Motherboard

- Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R @ X-bit labs
- Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard @ Hardware Secrets
- Asus Sabertooth 55i TUF P55 Motherboard @ OC3D

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