Facebook Crashed

Early Friday morning in the Philippines, users who accessed Facebook got an error message indicating that the site "may be temporarily down" or "may have moved permanently to a new address."

"Service Unavailable - DNS failure ... The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later," read a message that greeted other users who tried to log in.

Facebook appeared back to normal as of 6 a.m. Friday (Manila time).

In its Twitter account, Facebook acknowledged the site may be "slow or unavailable" for some people "because of site issues."

"We're working to fix this quickly," it said.

But at 6 a.m., it said it "resolved the tech issues that caused the site to be unavailable to some people" and that "everyone should now have access."

Social-digital media news site Mashable.com quoted Facebook as saying the issue is with a "third-party networking provider."

"We are experiencing an issue with a third party networking provider that is causing problems for some people trying to connect to Facebook," Mashable quoted Facebook as saying.

"We are in contact with this provider in order to explore what can be done to resolve the issue. In the meantime, we are working on deploying changes to bypass the affected connections," Facebook administrators added.

Fisheye Macro Lenses For Mobiles

Camera phones have come a long way in terms of resolution, but the pocket-sized form factor doesn't leave all that much room for improvement when it comes to lenses. These add-on Fisheye and Macro/Wide Angle lenses inject a little versatility into the equation by transforming your standard flat phone photos into wide and up-close images. The diminutive lenses are designed to attach to any phone and promise a "sturdy, shake-free hold" using a magnetic ring with adhesive on one side that you stick around the existing lens (though we can see potential hiccups here if the surface around the lens on your particular phone isn't flat or is close to the edge). The wide-angle lens is bound to be useful for capturing large crowds, concerts and landscapes and will increase your view range by approximately 40 per cent. When the same lens is set as a macro, you can really create close-up shots. The shot distance of the macro lens is between 10-23 mm. The Fisheye lens creates curved edges with its 180 degree angle – so your images will look like you are peering through a fish bowl. The Fisheye, Macro/Wide Angle camera phone lenses are available at thekingmart.com and are priced between US$20-$40.

New Nike+ GPS iPhone app for athletes

If you’re an athlete and a tech freak at the same time you must’ve heard or used Nike + iPod app that analyzes your physical performances during the workout. You’ll be pleased to know that Nike has announced a new app called Nike+ GPS that will do a similar job but with new features.

Unlike the Nike + iPod, this app doesn’t require separate Nike + iPod adapter, instead it will use Apple’s built-in accelerometer and GPS to analyze your running pace and distance. Besides that it measures your pace, distance and burned calories this app will also map your route on Google Maps and it will show on which specific parts of the route you ran slower or faster.

Interestingly about this app will give you voice feedback on how well are you doing and if you want to check how far you’ve come with your route you can check it with a single tap on the screen. Just like with Nike + iPod you can setup which songs will play during your route as well.

If you feel competitive, you’ll be pleased to know that this app allows you to upload your statistics to Nikeplus.com and challenge other runners. Through this site users can share their progress via Twitter and Facebook as well.

Nike + iPod requires iOS 3.1 or newer in order to work, it works with the iPod Touch and the iPad although without GPS tracking. Anyway, if you want to try this amazing app on your iPhone, you can download it from the App Store for just $1.99.