Facebook galleries now store 200 photos each

For those of you continually perplexed by Facebook's insistence that 60 photos is all an online photo gallery needs, prepare to rejoice: You can now store a full 200 photos in each of your Facebook galleries.

By letting users upload three times as many photos, expect Facebook's photo stats to skyrocket to even more astronomical levels.

Right now, the site gets 850 million photos uploaded to it by users every month. It stores 15 billion user photos, which uses up 1.5 petabytes--that's over 1,500 terabytes, or 1.5 million gigabytes--of storage, and 25TB of additional storage is required each week for new photos alone.

Facebook vs. Flickr
It's interesting that despite photos being just one element of Facebook, it is now the largest photo-sharing site on the planet. It beats Flickr, which at last count hosted less than a quarter the number of photos Facebook does.
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Rock Band 2 world record? Broken

A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine, worried that her little brother played too many video games, asked if there was a way to make money while gaming. When I told her about e-sports, she returned quite the guffaw at the concept.

I suggested she tell her brother about it, and she refused, saying that she didn't want to lose him forever to the virtual world. Money aside, if I'd told her just how much fame he could amass as a pro gamer, maybe she would have had a different reaction. To wit, at a worldwide gaming tournament in New York Saturday, Robert "ProdigyX" Paz set the official Guinness world record for "Highest Aggregate Score in all 84 Songs of Rock Band 2."

Paz--a 22-year-old pro gamer from the Bronx who already owns four other world gaming records and took second place in SciFi Channel's Ultimate Gamer show--played his ion drums for over six consecutive hours, earning more than 10.5 million points. The achievement will be chronicled in the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition.
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Gmail offers on-the-fly message translation

An experimental new feature in Google's Gmail service crept out into the icy glow of the moon last night. It's a message translation service that detects whether an email is in a foreign language and automatically translates it for you within Gmail..

You'll need to activate it under the Labs section of Gmail's options page. We gave it a spin this morning and emailed ourselves a pile of French words (originally an English article by Rich Trenholm, which Google kindly Frenched up beforehand).

When our French email showed up, so did a little translation bar. "Translate message to English?" it asked kindly. One almighty click later and Rich was back in his native tongue, talking about movies or something.
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Microsoft expands mouse, Webcam families

Microsoft's hardware division made a few new announcements, bringing to light a handful of new mice and a new Webcam all set to debut in June.


The Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000 is probably the most exciting product in the group. For S$59.90 (US$42.68), this ambidextrous, wireless mouse brings Microsoft's impressive BlueTrack sensor technology down to its most affordable price point. Unlike the Microsoft Explorer Mouse that debuted BlueTrack last year, the Wireless Mouse 5000 doesn't have rechargeable batteries, and its design looks a bit simpler, but the Explorer also costs quite a bit more. We commend Microsoft for bringing its accurate, surface-flexible BlueTrack sensor to an affordable price so quickly. You'll also find the Wireless Mouse 5000 in a new mouse-and-keyboard set, the Wireless Desktop 3000.
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Card-shaped USB drive to attack your wallet

Duality indeed exists in me. Just the other day I complained about membership cards and the hassle of having to carry them. Now I am about to rave about something that takes the shape of a card just so that you can carry it around easily.

It is a USB thumb (or I should say "card") drive from TopTech Products called a Slim Data USB Card. This is a really slim USB drive housed in a case that has the same physical shape as a regular credit card, but is just a tad thicker. When you want to use the drive, you just fold the card in half to reveal the USB connector.

Though original and with obvious practical intention, the device's design, I think, fails to optimize its purpose. As the actual USB drive is so much smaller than the whole device, it would make more sense to put more than one in a package and link them together to increase the storage capacity. Or just make the package smaller; there's no need to make the device with the exact shape and size of a regular credit card just so that you can call it a USB card.
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