These apps will really helps you to stay close with your friends in online at anytime. One of the biggest online services - Social Networking is already a famous platform for many internet users to connect with their friends, families within few mouse clicks. There are different Social Media sites with which you can interact with your friends. To use Social Media sites features on your Android device the developers have created some best Social Networking apps which will help you to use your smartphone as a social media device.

1. Facebook App for Android

One of the fastest growing social networking sites is Facebook which is available in the form of an Android app for your smartphones. This app allows you to update your Facebook status directly from your Android device, chat with your friends, share picturesand watch videos, create events or join the events, read your news feed, check yourFacebook message box, share the site links you like the most, etc. It is free of cost and can be downloaded from the Android market. Download link

2. Google+ App for Android

Google+ which is a new comer in the social networking field has already gotten millions of users within a short span of time. Google+ Android app works just same as you use the Google+ web interface. It is used to control Google+ circles, choose the people with whom you want to share things, read the streams on your device. Huddles make messaging faster on our android device. Along with this you can also upload videos and photos into your own album. Download Link 

3. Twitter App for Android

Android app for Twitter allows you to use all the Twitter features right from your androidmobile. It helps you to follow people, see the followers, search your interests and you can directly retweet using this app. What not it contains all the features of the Twitter. Download link

4. Orkut App for Android

Though this is a social networking site created by Google, people are forgetting this site as Google launched Google+. But still some users surf this site to interact with their friends. With Orkut Android app you can use the Orkut features on your android device like reading scraps, sending messages, updating status anduploading pictures. Download link

5. LinkedIn App for Android

LinkedIn is a social networking site for professionals around the world. It has millions of users, thousands of registered companies and their employees. LinkedIn App for Androidallows you to interact with the site features from your device. You can read the latest newsto keep yourself updated; share the contents withyour network, etc. Download link

If you don’t mind your kids getting their hands on an iPad 2, then consider this latest from Crayola. It’s a hefty case that allows the young-lings to mess around with their artistic potential on a tablet. The Trace and Draw is also a serious iPad accessory that lets the holder interact with the iPad like never before. More details after the jump.

The most head scratching part of the Trace And Draw isn’t so much the casing, but the accompanying tracing paper. 50 sheets are provided together with a felt tip marker.

The polycarbonate material on the case guarantees that it’s somewhat tough enough to withstand the rigors of child use. Even better, the casing has its own speakers and headphones jack for an optimum listening experience. Naturally, there’s a free Trace And Draw app to keep the tots preoccupied.

The best part is it only sells for $39.99. Excellent!

Ubuntu 11.10 will have a new properties on the screen appearance of your desktop where you can choose the GTK theme you want by default, the screen and nothing more. So what about the icons? No, you can not change the icons from there, but believe me look at the image, there is another way out there. So here I will show you the way of changing the icon theme in Ubuntu 11.10 . The reason for that is as Linux has given as the freedom of going wild and customizing everything as our needs so why not be wild! If you are not doing it than you are not enjoying Linux and do not know the proper way to use Linux.

How can they see the option to change icons has been left out at least in Ubuntu 11.10, maybe in future versions this is fixed, but meanwhile How do I change the icon theme in Ubuntu 11.10?

The solution is to install dconf-editor a powerful tool to adjust settings in Ubuntu that will serve to put this pack of icons that we love our dear default desktop oneiric.

First install dconf-editor

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Run it with Alt + F2 and typing dconf-editor and see how the next window

There we must go to org/gnome/desktop/interface/icon-theme and put the name of the icon pack default we have in our desktop, for example I chose the icons Faenza , Faenza-Dark would be, to know the exact name of your icon pack you can look in/user/share/icons.

Another option for customizing the desktop is GNOME Tweak Tool. We will discuss about it later.

Actually it’s neither. Instead it’s calculating and ruthless, striking at the precise moment when your sleep is most shallow, thus amplifying the pain. It’s supposed to measure brainwaves, see, then gauge the most opportune moment to wake you. So how does this make it exceptional? Well, because it measures brainwaves during sleep, this alarm clock can pinpoint the best time to nightmarishly jolt you out of slumber. Great idea, no?

Since not even a prototype of this revolutionary device is in existence, seen above is a Defusable Alarm Clock featured last month here at Geeky Gadgets.

Defusable Alarm Clocks aside, experiments at the Jerusalem College of Engineering in India have produced startling results. Since human brains at rest have ‘layers’ of sleep or rain activity (this verges on Inception), electrode connectors allowed the scientist’s test alarm clock to measure when it was best to ring.

It’s positively horrible. Alarm clocks are pestilential devices anyway that jar you awake from otherwise pleasant dreams; and the noise, the noise! Grating on your nerves in the most excruciating way possible.

Thankfully this is still an experimental concept so we can still dream fitfully with our plain boring alarm clocks.

Source Gizmag