Every week, ROUNDUP, brings you quick updates on some interesting news and tips from the past week that we didn’t get the time to elaborate.

News

Facebook Notifications on your Mac

Desktop Notifications app brings desktop like Growl notifications to Mac. It brings notifications and status updates from Facebook to your Mac menu bar.

Facebook Lite launches in the US and India

Facebook launched its lightest and fastest Facebook version called Facebook Lite to the users in the US and India. Earlier feedback seems to that it’s much faster and slick and gives you a tiny bit of a different experience.

Bigger Search Box on Google.com

For all these years Google tried its best to keep that slick Google.com page with as minimal updates as it possibly can including the search box. Yes, there were minor feature enhancements like suggestions and such but the search box remained the same for all these years. Finally Google took it to the search box and made it a bit bigger to give you a better search experience.

Washington Post innovates News

Washington Post is working on the next generation tools to track and analyze news, POTUS Tracker, Scene In, Photo Mosaic. POTUS Tracker is much interesting as it gives you a clear perspective of how Obama is spending his time on the issues that are important.

Windows Mobile 6.5 phones to hit the stores on October 6, 2009

If you are in the market for a new mobile phone then I think you would love this news from Microsoft that Windows Mobile 6.5 phones will be available in stores on October 6, 2009.

Facebook App for Android

The official Facebook application is now available for Android mobile phones. Unfortunately there is no messaging capability with the app yet. It can show only the news stream with the ability to post status updates and the ability to take/upload photos to Facebook.

Spotify app is now live on iPhone and Android

If you are a premium subscriber of the streaming music service Spotify and if you use iPhone or Android then there is a good news for you. Spotify has launched its mobile version for iPhone and Android devices. The catch is that the new app is available only for premium subscribers.

Average iPhone users spend $80 on iPhone apps

A survey conducted by AppsFire, iPhone App sharing service, has conducted a survey of 1,200 users and found out that iPhone and iPod Touch users spend on an average $80 on iPhone apps.

10 million Opera 10 downloads in its first week

Opera Software announced that its latest browser Opera 10 has been downloaded an impressive 10 million times just in its first week. That’s quite an achievement for the latest browser.

Tips

Windows 7 Taskbar enhancements on iTunes 9

The latest iTunes version 9 has a good support for the Windows 7 Taskbar along with support for Windows 7 Jump List.

Effectively migrate from Blogger to Wordpress

If you are a long time Blogger user and would like to migrate to Wordpress but don’t want to lose the page ranks that you have for those Blogger pages then this guide from Amit would effectively help.

Easily embed Facebook videos in your web pages

If you liked a video on Facebook and would like to embed it on your website then it can’t get any easier than this.

Windows 7 Background changer

If you liked the way Bing.com changes its background image and would like a similar capability on your Windows 7 logon page then this little software can help you with that.