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Just after a couple of weeks, everybody’s eyes will be on cricket world cup 2011 ! This time three South Asian courtiers: India, Srilanka and Bangladesh are hosting the tournament. The opening ceremony of the world cup 2011 will be held on Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

There is a good news for cricket lovers. Even when you are in office or attending class and if you have access to internet then you will be able to watch cricket by live streaming on the web without any cost !

There are many sites offering free live cricket streaming but I found this site to be of great help:

Crictime

For World Cup 2011 fixtures and timings download the excel file given below:

2011 Cricket World Cup Tournament Schedule

Yesterday Steve Job’s Apple announced at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference that iCloud service will be available to the public along with release of iOS 5. iCloud will allow users to store music, apps, documents, photos or image and many others on cloud server enabling users to access all the content from any devices including PC. Happy to say that there will be no charge in using iCloud service, you will be getting 5 Gb of free storage.

This is a guest post by Greg Buckskin, when he’s not playing in the great outdoors he is a writer and blogger for Comcast.USDirect.com. If you want to write for bdtechie then check the guest posting guidelines

British musician and composer Paul McCartney (who gained worldwide fame as a member of The Beatles from 1960 to 1970) turned sixty-nine on June 18th. And for those of you who didn’t get the chance to bake a cake in celebration of this day, there are still ways for you to celebrate.

Since McCartney is in fact one of only two surviving band members, what better way to join in the celebration and simply kick back and enjoy some classic Beatles music? And luckily, enjoying the Beatles on your iPod Touch, iPad, or iPhone has never been easier

In the past decade or so, The Beatles have truly gone viral and there are now multiple platforms and forms of media to help you enjoy the Fab Four.

1. Beatles Facebook Quiz

While it is true that Facebook quizzes are a dime a dozen, the Beatles Facebook quiz is one of the best. This quiz helps you determine your true inner Beatle by asking you very profound questions about your dislikes and interests. After Facebook expertly calculates the results, you will finally know whether you are more like a Ringo as you always suspected, or if your personality is more is more George-like.

2. Original Beatles Music on iTunes

Even though iTunes has been around for the better part of the past decade, The Beatles back catalog was not available for download until November 2010. Now that these songs are available, fans should definitely take advantage of the opportunity while it is still available because you never know if the plug will suddenly be pulled. All 13 studio albums (as well as the "Red" and "Blue" collections) are now available in a remastered format. And since you can set your iTunes to encode at 320 kbps, you should really be able to hear the difference in the master versions.

3. Beatles Video Apps

Since the band has been named as one of the most influential rock bands of all time, it is only natural that numerous movies and documentaries have been made on the subject. Only recently have you been able to access them on your phone, however. Some of the best Beatles movies can now be watched right on your iPad, iPhone or iTouch by simply downloading an app or two. The Journey combines documentary footage and stills to follow the rise and fall of the most important rock band ever. The Long and Winding Road is a five-part documentary that details the band’s entire history and Big Beat Box is all about "Beatlemania." There are also video apps depicting the lives of George Harrison and John Lennon.

4. "Love" the App

The Cirque du Soleil production "LOVE" (originally the brainchild of George Harrison and Guy Laliberte) is currently playing at the Mirage in Las Vegas. The show celebrates the music of the Beatles and has been seen by more than 1.5 million people since it opened in 2006. Fortunately, you don’t need to travel to Las Vegas to enjoy the music of "LOVE". You can download it as an iTunes LP or as individual songs. You can also buy it as an in-app purchase in the Beatles Love app. The app lest you watch video clips from the show, interviews , exclusive deals on tickets for the live performance and give you access to "All Together Now," a Grammy-winning documentary that tells the fascinating story behind the collaboration between George Harrison and Guy Laliberte that was ultimately responsible for the production of "LOVE".

5. The Little Black Songbook App

The newest (and possibly best) Beatles app to hit the market is the Little Black Songbook app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. This app comes complete with lyrics and chords to over 160 Beatles classics. Additionally, each song has its own chord library where the user can view enhanced details and play audio samples of chords used in the song.

It looks like the beginning of the end for Facebook may finally be near. Last month was not only the first month in years where the social networking giant didn’t enjoy an increase in active users, but actually lost some (7 million according to some sources). While CEO and de facto Princess of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is quick to assure us that it is perfectly normal for their numbers of users to fluctuate and blame the figures on distorted data from ad companies’ software, Facebook’s refusal to release their own official numbers are definitely not helping in proving their point.

Even if you’re not a member of the small band of resistance that have refused to get a Facebook account, there may be good reason to be excited about an impending collapse of the social networking giant. Last year saw a 12% increase in identity theft cases, much of which was attributed to online scams like spyware and phishing on social networking sites. Facebook, in conjunction with its perpetually mutating privacy settings, has become a breeding ground for not only scammers but even potential burglars.

Even if you are sharp enough to avoid phishing attempts by checking the URL before you enter your login information, you can still be at risk simply because of the information on your page. Even though information obtained online only accounts for about 10% of identity theft cases, a much larger percentage of burglaries are committed with information gained from Facebook profiles. For example, many burglars will create fake accounts and friend you (or simply read your page if you haven’t been keeping up with Mark Zuckerberg’s privacy setting A.D.D.) in order to find out your address, when you work, when you’re going on vacation, etc. Having even the best home alarm system would do virtually nothing to prevent a break-in if the burglar has access to this much information.

If you’re thinking that all of this doesn’t sound too plausible, you should keep in mind that a study done in the UK in 2009 found that out of 200 test subjects, more than 40% accepted a friend request from a person they didn’t know (if you were guessing that that random person was a 21 year old chick, then you are completely correct). So, the question remains: if Facebook’s recent loss of users is a foreshadowing of its impending doom, will we see a coinciding drop in identity theft and burglary rates, or will another social network simply take its place?

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Harnessing my inner-nerd, the second I got a smartphone, my first thought was “How will this change the way I take notes?!” Let me give you a little history first. I’m a chronic note taker, list maker, and documenter of various important (and mundane) ideas and reminders. Before I had a smartphone, I always carried a pen and tiny pocket-sized moleskin. A lot of times I would just use it for phone numbers, grocery lists, or directions. Occasionally I would find myself struck with a rare moment of brilliance in which I actually use it to document a good idea.

After a while though, I would get a little tired of carrying around a pen and notebook and my phone (that didn’t serve as a note-taking device at the time) and my keys and a wallet and whatever else I felt I needed to have with me even though I probably didn’t. Once I started gearing towards a smartphone, I started to realize the vastly convenient potential of having an excellent, multifaceted note-taking device all on one phone, that you take with you everywhere.

Which Note-Taking App to Get?

This is a very good question to ask yourself as you begin transforming your smartphone into a fully fledged notebook. There are a number of great apps you can try out, many of them for free. For the Android, I’ve found Note Everything to be a great utilitarian note-taking app; it gives you the ability to document your usual text and voice notes and even “paint” notes as well, meaning that you can jot things really quickly with the touchscreen if you just want a rough sketch or don’t want to deal with the hassle of a touchscreen keyboard. Note Everything has a Pro version (available for $4.50) which allows you to take photo notes, set reminders and alarms, create checklists, and stick notes in the status bar. Note Everything Pro is a great all-around note-taking tool that can pretty much fit anyone’s needs.

Another great note-taking app is the trusty Evernote, which works on any smartphone. Evernote allows you to record text notes, pictures, voice notes, and upload files. Essentially what makes Evernote different from Note Everything is that it stores all notes in the Evernote cloud website while Note Everything stores locally on the phone. This makes the Evernote app move a bit more slowly than Note Everything (because you have to wait to upload every note), but this also gives you plenty of storage space and allows you to easily access your notes on any computer. So it really depends on how you want to access your notes once you’ve taken them. I recommend at least trying both, if not all the other countless note-taking apps out there, but I’m also a huge note-taking nerd.

How These Apps Can Help Bloggers

A lot of the ideas you get for blogging (or that I get anyway) don’t happen when you’re at your computer ready to type a post. Sure, you can usually remember them once you’re in front of your keyboard, but this is not always the case. In fact, there are many ideas that you’ve probably forgotten, and you simply don’t even realize that you’ve forgotten them.

Let’s say I’m walking down the street, and I see an advertisement for a new tech gadget that I didn’t even realize was coming. I take out my smartphone, snap a picture, and store it in Evernote with the tags “tech” and “blogpost.” Then once I sit down at my computer to write for a technology blog, that idea is there, organized, and waiting for me to use it.