Ever since the camera was invented, it has been a great chronicler of life. People relish flipping through their albums, refreshing their memories of the joyous moments and the past. Cameras are the obvious companion on a picnic, family gathering or a trekking. If you are planning to buy a digital SLR, I will tell you why not to buy one.

What do you need the camera for?
The answer to this question will be the key to making correct decision while choosing a camera.  If you need a camera for clicking friends and family, weekend bash, college party or a weekend trip, a compact digital camera should be most of the time as good as a digital SLR, or DSLR, camera. Also, it will be less hassle clicking photos.

Have you lost someone to one of the several farm games on Facebook? Many of my Facebook friends are compulsive FarmVille players. The game is designed to keep users engage to the highest level possible. It demands lot of time and care from the users. Some would stay glued to their computers, working on their virtual farms—sowing, harvesting, erecting fences, going to the marketplace, etc.

Facebook reached the landmark of 300 million users on 16 September. It must have been a thing to celebrate for its creator Mark Zuckerberg but not for those who have lost their loved ones to this addictive social networking site. And to make sure that their woes don't end any soon, the website says it has started generating enough revenues to keep it operational. Sigh. Here's a story of three close friends who realized the power of Facebook.

A few days ago Google launched its online news reader Fast Flip. The Internet giant launched the product to make reading news online as comfortable and faster as flipping through the pages of a print magazine, at least the official GoogleBlog says so.

Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting.

When I got the news (coincidentally through Google News) I headed straight to get a first-hand experience. Yes, the page loads fast, but does it allow you to flip through the various news pages like a newspaper or a magazine? At present, no. It actually gives you screenshots of the news pages on a single page, allowing you to scan through several pages--only if you have an eye sight that allows you to read tiny prints. The screenshots of the pages are what will grab the attention of your eyes but they fail miserably to let you see the headlines and other details as the pages are squeezed into 200px by 220px images. You end up taking help of the secondary element on the Fast Flip page--the text headlines below the screenshots--which obstructs the normal flow of eyes.

Till recently, I was not on Facebook. Many of you would wonder how I managed to survive for ages without being a part of the world's one of the most popular social networking site? I won't give any details about why I avoided Facebook for a long time, instead I would like to discuss what has hooked me to Facebook and what makes the site such a success.