Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Daily Crunch: Squid and the Purple Kinect Edition
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Infinity Blade to hit App Store on Dec 9th
Epic Games has announced that the long awaited iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad game, Infinity Blade, will be in the App Store on December 9. The game will be available for the iPad, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, as well as third- and fourth-generation iPod touch devices at a cost of $5.99.
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Aviary adds awesome HTML5 photo editor to its burgeoning arsenal
Aviary, the creators of a huge suite of online editing and creation tools, has just launched a rather suave HTML5 photo editor.
Citing its super-simplicity and embeddableness, Aviary seems to be rather proud of its new creation -- and justifiably so. The editor, no doubt because of its slim feature set, is very quick to load. The interface is snappy, and none of the manipulations or photo filters seem to create any kind of 'lag'. There aren't many functions, mind you (but Aviary says more are coming).
The idea behind the new editor, according to Aviary, was to create a cut-down and customizable editor that could easily be embedded across the Web, on its partners' websites. Of course, while you can just embed the editor, you could just take the code and install it on your own server -- and hack some new functionality into it while you're at it. That's the joy of open HTML5 Web apps, folks! Pure HTML means that it will work on next-generation mobile browsers like Firefox for Android, too.
All in all, the Aviary HTML5 photo editor is nothing short of excellent. If you need to do a quick bit of editing and don't want to play with a Flash editor that's larger and more cumbersome than a rusty forklift truck, try out Aviary's HTML5 editor.Aviary adds awesome HTML5 photo editor to its burgeoning arsenal originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Citing its super-simplicity and embeddableness, Aviary seems to be rather proud of its new creation -- and justifiably so. The editor, no doubt because of its slim feature set, is very quick to load. The interface is snappy, and none of the manipulations or photo filters seem to create any kind of 'lag'. There aren't many functions, mind you (but Aviary says more are coming).
The idea behind the new editor, according to Aviary, was to create a cut-down and customizable editor that could easily be embedded across the Web, on its partners' websites. Of course, while you can just embed the editor, you could just take the code and install it on your own server -- and hack some new functionality into it while you're at it. That's the joy of open HTML5 Web apps, folks! Pure HTML means that it will work on next-generation mobile browsers like Firefox for Android, too.
All in all, the Aviary HTML5 photo editor is nothing short of excellent. If you need to do a quick bit of editing and don't want to play with a Flash editor that's larger and more cumbersome than a rusty forklift truck, try out Aviary's HTML5 editor.Aviary adds awesome HTML5 photo editor to its burgeoning arsenal originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Play a Game of Billiards On This Incredible Kinetic Sculpture [Sculptures]
Made from colorful junk, Andrew Smith's sculptures all perform amazing kinetic feats. I like how this one in particular resembles a donkey, or some other four-legged creature which has billiard balls running up and down its length. [AndrewSmith via DesignBoom] More »
The Intricate Choreography of Flight [Video]
5,000 airplanes are in the United States skies alone every hour. 63 such planes were filmed for this time-lapse video showing the intricate and beautiful choreography of take-offs and landings. Watch it. It's worth two minutes. More »
Chomium update shows additional Chrome Web app tweaks
The launch of Google Chrome OS has been delayed and we still haven't gotten to browse the aisles of the Chrome Web Store... but there's still plenty of app-related work going on at Google. In recent Chromium snapshots, for example, a couple of subtle UI tweaks show that we're inching ever closer to being able to install Web apps in Google Chrome.
Chromium's wrench menu now displays how many background Web apps are currently running in your browser (or browser-OS, if you're using Chrome OS). Clicking view background apps will bring the Chrome task manager into view, where the CPU, memory, and network utilized by your Background Apps and Extensions is displayed.
Chrome Web apps, of course, will be very similar to the extensions you can currently install from the Gallery. Similar enough, in fact, that many popular extensions will require only a minor tweak to their manifest files to "evolve" into apps. They'll have access to additional APIs and have different permission options, however, which will allow Chrome Web apps to go beyond current extension functionality.Chomium update shows additional Chrome Web app tweaks originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Chromium's wrench menu now displays how many background Web apps are currently running in your browser (or browser-OS, if you're using Chrome OS). Clicking view background apps will bring the Chrome task manager into view, where the CPU, memory, and network utilized by your Background Apps and Extensions is displayed.
Chrome Web apps, of course, will be very similar to the extensions you can currently install from the Gallery. Similar enough, in fact, that many popular extensions will require only a minor tweak to their manifest files to "evolve" into apps. They'll have access to additional APIs and have different permission options, however, which will allow Chrome Web apps to go beyond current extension functionality.Chomium update shows additional Chrome Web app tweaks originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Real-time discovery of Twitter images with Hashalbum
One of Twitter's greatest strengths is the sheer wealth of data that it produces. Like the Internet itself, though, without search engines, that data is all but inaccessible. Few would argue that Google defined the Internet that we use today, and likewise it is only through ingenious indexing that the Twitter fire hose will ultimately become useful. Which brings me neatly onto Hashalbum, a site that simply searches Twitter for a hashtag (like #tsa), and shows you all of the images contained in that data set.
It's a stupidly simple idea that instantly exposes a treasure trove of funny, poignant and timely images. Supposedly the albums update in real-time, but I can't confirm that -- and I also don't know how much of the Twitter fire hose Hashalbum actually parses. Other than letting you search by hashtag, the site does nothing else.
Of course, because the results are unfiltered and the engine is completely 'dumb' (there's no analysis of the images themselves), the quality of the searches isn't very high. Just like Twitter, Hashalbum produces a stream of random, stream-of-consciousness images -- it's still down to you to pick out the interesting bits, but hey, that's Twitter! Real-time discovery of Twitter images with Hashalbum originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
It's a stupidly simple idea that instantly exposes a treasure trove of funny, poignant and timely images. Supposedly the albums update in real-time, but I can't confirm that -- and I also don't know how much of the Twitter fire hose Hashalbum actually parses. Other than letting you search by hashtag, the site does nothing else.
Of course, because the results are unfiltered and the engine is completely 'dumb' (there's no analysis of the images themselves), the quality of the searches isn't very high. Just like Twitter, Hashalbum produces a stream of random, stream-of-consciousness images -- it's still down to you to pick out the interesting bits, but hey, that's Twitter! Real-time discovery of Twitter images with Hashalbum originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Jing, the all-in-one screen capture and recording tool from TechSmith, reviewed
TechSmith, with the launch of Snagit more than 20 years ago, is the definitive veteran of screen capture technology. Camtasia Studio, launched almost 10 years later, is now at version 7.1 and remains the best screen recording and video editing suite out there. TechSmith's latest tool, however, is an interesting mix of both Snagit and Camtasia. It's called Jing, and it makes sharing screenshots and screen recordings a total breeze.
Jing, at its most basic, lets you take perfect screenshots. You can drag a selection box around the target area, or let it snap to the current window. It's not as customizable as Snagit or Screenpresso, but it's definitely good enough.
When you probe a little deeper, however, Jing becomes a lot more interesting. Instead of taking a screenshot of a selected area or window, you can hit the 'Capture video' button and immediately start recording.
But it gets even better! Jing can automatically upload your screenshots and videos to TechSmith's Screencast.com site.Continue reading Jing, the all-in-one screen capture and recording tool from TechSmith, reviewedJing, the all-in-one screen capture and recording tool from TechSmith, reviewed originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Jing, at its most basic, lets you take perfect screenshots. You can drag a selection box around the target area, or let it snap to the current window. It's not as customizable as Snagit or Screenpresso, but it's definitely good enough.
When you probe a little deeper, however, Jing becomes a lot more interesting. Instead of taking a screenshot of a selected area or window, you can hit the 'Capture video' button and immediately start recording.
But it gets even better! Jing can automatically upload your screenshots and videos to TechSmith's Screencast.com site.Continue reading Jing, the all-in-one screen capture and recording tool from TechSmith, reviewedJing, the all-in-one screen capture and recording tool from TechSmith, reviewed originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Google Chrome to make your settings searchable
Updates to Chrome Canary tend to fly under the radar a lot of the time -- many of the changes are subtle, and Google doesn't blog about Canary the way it does Chrome's Dev, Beta, and Stable channels. One visible addition to Chrome Canary 9.0.591.0 is the arrival of a search box on the tabbed settings page.
As Chrome continues its evolution from mere browser into a 'platform,' the settings pages will likely see more and more customization options added. Some pages -- like Under the Hood -- are already getting quite lengthy, so adding an option to search certainly makes sense. [Don't forget Firefox's filterable about:config, too! -Ed]
Chrome's settings search is not hooked up at the moment, hence my homage to Celebrity Jeopardy.
Download Google Chrome Canary for WindowsGoogle Chrome to make your settings searchable originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
As Chrome continues its evolution from mere browser into a 'platform,' the settings pages will likely see more and more customization options added. Some pages -- like Under the Hood -- are already getting quite lengthy, so adding an option to search certainly makes sense. [Don't forget Firefox's filterable about:config, too! -Ed]
Chrome's settings search is not hooked up at the moment, hence my homage to Celebrity Jeopardy.
Download Google Chrome Canary for WindowsGoogle Chrome to make your settings searchable originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Wikileaks Spill: Catalyst for New, More Open Style of Governing?
Despite talk of dire consequences for U.S. foreign policy and military intelligence, online publisher Wikileaks Sunday began releasing more than 250,000 leaked cables between 274 worldwide embassies and the U.S. State Department. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange calls the leaked cables "the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain" on the organization's website.
Netflix launches $7.99 streaming-only plan, increases price of DVD plan
After a trial back in October, Netflix has now announced its $7.99/month streaming-only plan. This matches the Hulu Plus price drop from last week. Of course, both services have different libraries of TV shows and movies -- and Hulu Plus still has ads!
The new plan is targeted squarely at the growing army of those that find physical media a thing of the past. Still, a difference of just $2 is a small price to pay for the option of unlimited DVDs.
In other news, Netflix has increased the price of its DVD-loaning plans, presumably to cover the growth of its streaming service. One-DVD-at-a-time now costs a dollar more ($9.99), with larger plans increasing by a similar percentage.
The only-two-DVDs-a-month plan price remains unchanged.
[via Engadget]Filed under: Video, web 2.0Netflix launches $7.99 streaming-only plan, increases price of DVD plan originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
The new plan is targeted squarely at the growing army of those that find physical media a thing of the past. Still, a difference of just $2 is a small price to pay for the option of unlimited DVDs.
In other news, Netflix has increased the price of its DVD-loaning plans, presumably to cover the growth of its streaming service. One-DVD-at-a-time now costs a dollar more ($9.99), with larger plans increasing by a similar percentage.
The only-two-DVDs-a-month plan price remains unchanged.
[via Engadget]Filed under: Video, web 2.0Netflix launches $7.99 streaming-only plan, increases price of DVD plan originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
TRON: Legacy Reader Meetups in SF, NYC and Everywhere Else! [Meetup]
Lifehacker, io9 and Gizmodo want to watch TRON: Legacy with readers in San Francisco, New York and everywhere else. Cosplay if you can. There may be a beer in it for you afterwards. More »
Monday, November 29, 2010
120 BPM: No Mixmaster Marvel, but It Has a Beat and You Can Dance to It
Want to exercise your musical chops on the iPad? An app from Little Worlds Studios called "120 BPM" will let you do it. The app, named for the beats per minute in a typical House music tune, allows you to mix instrumental loops to create pulsing compositions in four musical styles -- Electro, Dance, Funk and Pop Rock. Think "GarageBand," only on a smaller scale.
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120 BPM: No Mixmaster Marvel, but It Has a Beat and You Can Dance to It
Want to exercise your musical chops on the iPad? An app from Little Worlds Studios called "120 BPM" will let you do it. The app, named for the beats per minute in a typical House music tune, allows you to mix instrumental loops to create pulsing compositions in four musical styles -- Electro, Dance, Funk and Pop Rock. Think "GarageBand," only on a smaller scale.
Staffing Up for IT's New Normal
There is a quiet but persistent buzz that IT budgets will grow in 2011. CIOs are hinting at this during analyst meetings, and a recent poll at Interop, the leading business trade show for IT executives, showed that more than half of IT professionals are projecting an increase in their budgets going forward.
10 Reasons You Need An iPad For College
So you’ve heard about the Apple iPad and you’re heading back to school soon. Chances are you’re probably wondering if it’s a smart choice to invest your money towards purchasing an iPad for college. In this article we’ll help explain a few of the many benefits there are for college students who own, or will [...]
Chomium update shows additional Chrome Web app tweaks
The launch of Google Chrome OS has been delayed and we still haven't gotten to browse the aisles of the Chrome Web Store... but there's still plenty of app-related work going on at Google. In recent Chromium snapshots, for example, a couple of subtle UI tweaks show that we're inching ever closer to being able to install Web apps in Google Chrome.
Chromium's wrench menu now displays how many background Web apps are currently running in your browser (or browser-OS, if you're using Chrome OS). Clicking view background apps will bring the Chrome task manager into view, where the CPU, memory, and network utilized by your Background Apps and Extensions is displayed.
Chrome Web apps, of course, will be very similar to the extensions you can currently install from the Gallery. Similar enough, in fact, that many popular extensions will require only a minor tweak to their manifest files to "evolve" into apps. They'll have access to additional APIs and have different permission options, however, which will allow Chrome Web apps to go beyond current extension functionality.Chomium update shows additional Chrome Web app tweaks originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Chromium's wrench menu now displays how many background Web apps are currently running in your browser (or browser-OS, if you're using Chrome OS). Clicking view background apps will bring the Chrome task manager into view, where the CPU, memory, and network utilized by your Background Apps and Extensions is displayed.
Chrome Web apps, of course, will be very similar to the extensions you can currently install from the Gallery. Similar enough, in fact, that many popular extensions will require only a minor tweak to their manifest files to "evolve" into apps. They'll have access to additional APIs and have different permission options, however, which will allow Chrome Web apps to go beyond current extension functionality.Chomium update shows additional Chrome Web app tweaks originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Google Wave looks set to be rescued by Apache
The Apache Software Foundation, that is, not an ominously portentous, Wagner-blaring helicopter.
The beleaguered Wave project, which Google has ceased developing, will soon shut down. Last week, Google gave us the ability to export our existing waves as Zip files, and now, thanks to Apache and the Wave in a Box off-shoot, you may soon have somewhere to import them to. It won't be exactly the same as Google Wave, but it could be pretty damn close.
The Register is reporting that the Apache Software Group is looking to roll Wave in a Box into its current management and build systems. It's currently only in the incubator phase, but the the full proposal for Apache Wave reads like a serious, concerted effort. There are a ton of Googlers on the list of code committers, at any rate.
If all goes to plan, you may soon be able to easily set up your very own Wave server, for internal collaboration efforts. Who knows, maybe big-name email and instant messaging providers like Microsoft, Yahoo and Google will one day provide an end point for our waves!Google Wave looks set to be rescued by Apache originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
The beleaguered Wave project, which Google has ceased developing, will soon shut down. Last week, Google gave us the ability to export our existing waves as Zip files, and now, thanks to Apache and the Wave in a Box off-shoot, you may soon have somewhere to import them to. It won't be exactly the same as Google Wave, but it could be pretty damn close.
The Register is reporting that the Apache Software Group is looking to roll Wave in a Box into its current management and build systems. It's currently only in the incubator phase, but the the full proposal for Apache Wave reads like a serious, concerted effort. There are a ton of Googlers on the list of code committers, at any rate.
If all goes to plan, you may soon be able to easily set up your very own Wave server, for internal collaboration efforts. Who knows, maybe big-name email and instant messaging providers like Microsoft, Yahoo and Google will one day provide an end point for our waves!Google Wave looks set to be rescued by Apache originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Internet Explorer 9 preview 7 available, takes SunSpider crown; Beta now downloaded 13 million times
As of a few moments ago, you can now download Platform Preview 7 of Internet Explorer 9. The main focus of this update is the continued enhancement of the Chakra JavaScript engine; as a result, IE9 now leads the SunSpider benchmark by a few percent.
Like its predecessors, this preview lacks any kind of useful UI -- but if you have the Beta installed, you can follow Lee's guide to hack the Beta UI onto the preview. The Beta, incidentally, has now been downloaded over 13 million times. We're not seeing significant use of IE9 amongst Download Squad readers, but with almost 4% of Ed Bott'z ZDNet readership using IE9, there's definitely some evidence of its growing popularity. With my sources indicating a January release of IE9, Microsoft really ought to release a second beta...
Anyway, in infinitely more exciting news, there's a bunch of cool new HTML5 demos on the Test Drive site to play around with! Shakespeare's Tag Cloud is very cute (and educational!) Galactic, on the other hand, is an excellent example of the 'Open Web' 3D games that we can expect to see next year. It also acts as a very good benchmark tool -- I may have to do another head-to-head browser shootout!
Update: I just tested IE9 on the 'real world' Kraken benchmark... and it beats Firefox!
Another update: The IE Blog has been updated with more information about Preview 7.Filed under: Microsoft, BrowsersInternet Explorer 9 preview 7 available, takes SunSpider crown; Beta now downloaded 13 million times originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Like its predecessors, this preview lacks any kind of useful UI -- but if you have the Beta installed, you can follow Lee's guide to hack the Beta UI onto the preview. The Beta, incidentally, has now been downloaded over 13 million times. We're not seeing significant use of IE9 amongst Download Squad readers, but with almost 4% of Ed Bott'z ZDNet readership using IE9, there's definitely some evidence of its growing popularity. With my sources indicating a January release of IE9, Microsoft really ought to release a second beta...
Anyway, in infinitely more exciting news, there's a bunch of cool new HTML5 demos on the Test Drive site to play around with! Shakespeare's Tag Cloud is very cute (and educational!) Galactic, on the other hand, is an excellent example of the 'Open Web' 3D games that we can expect to see next year. It also acts as a very good benchmark tool -- I may have to do another head-to-head browser shootout!
Update: I just tested IE9 on the 'real world' Kraken benchmark... and it beats Firefox!
Another update: The IE Blog has been updated with more information about Preview 7.Filed under: Microsoft, BrowsersInternet Explorer 9 preview 7 available, takes SunSpider crown; Beta now downloaded 13 million times originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Daily Crunch: Jailhouse Edition
Review: Dropcam Echo Root Access Found For Windows Phone 7, Jailbreak Not Far Off Robo-Deer Draws Fire From Poachers Limili Identifies That Song That?s Playing, Adds It To Your Grooveshark Collection Killing Time: How Many Of These 25 Bad Tech Habits Apply To You?
Sharp's Android Tablets Get Priced for Japan [Tablets]
If Sharp ever launches its Galapagos range of Android tablets outside of Japan, we can expect prices to be fairly big. The 5.5-inch tablet costs the equivalent of $476, with the 10.8-incher $714, from December 10th. [CrunchGear] More »
Twitter User With Unfortunate Username Harassed by Cricket Fans [Twitter]
In hindsight, tweeter @theashes probably wishes she'd chosen a different username. Completely ignorant to all things cricket, she's been bombarded with tweets from cricket fans, to the extent where Qantas has offered to fly her to a match for free. More »
Struggling Google TV Devices Have Prices Slashed at Retail [Flops]
It would appear as though those Google TV devices, which seemingly had such promise, have been unable to overcome poor user experience, huge honking controllers, and a network-imposed lack of content. Google TV, you see, is a flop. More »
?Stud? Utility-Belt Hides Six Handy Tools
Forget Batman: This is a utility belt. The Rocker Stud Snow Toolbelt is a leather and steel multi-tool. The buckle contains both flat-had and Phillips screwdrivers, and the bit that stops the end of the belt flapping about (what is that part called?) contains three wrenches, in 8, 10 and 11mm sizes. There’s even a [...]
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
The Deparment of Homeland Security Is Cracking Down On BitTorrent Sites [Seize]
The Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seizing domains of BitTorrent sites and sites associated with counterfeit goods. They're taking over sites without any prior complaints or notifications from the court. More »
Aethyr lets you download shared iTunes libraries
Windows users, rejoice! You can now steal music from shared iTunes libraries -- or move music between two of your own computers, of course. Simply install Aethyr, connect to a library in iTunes, then switch to Aethyr and download some songs.
Library sharing in iTunes acts like a local-area network radio: you can stream music from computer to computer (from Mac to Windows!), but downloading is disabled. Aethyr removes that limitation, providing an easy way to move music between computers. According to Lifehacker, you haven't been able to do this since iTunes 7, so Aethyr fills a pretty large void.
It sounds like Aethyr has a few bugs, so you might want to check the FAQ if you experience any issues.
Download Aethyr for WindowsFiled under: Audio, Utilities, WindowsAethyr lets you download shared iTunes libraries originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Library sharing in iTunes acts like a local-area network radio: you can stream music from computer to computer (from Mac to Windows!), but downloading is disabled. Aethyr removes that limitation, providing an easy way to move music between computers. According to Lifehacker, you haven't been able to do this since iTunes 7, so Aethyr fills a pretty large void.
It sounds like Aethyr has a few bugs, so you might want to check the FAQ if you experience any issues.
Download Aethyr for WindowsFiled under: Audio, Utilities, WindowsAethyr lets you download shared iTunes libraries originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
DROID gets lockscreen gestures via CyanogenMOD ROM --other devices soon to follow
Those of you out there who like to play around with custom ROMs may have already picked this tidbit of news up -- CyanogenMod releases will soon be getting a cool new lock screen gesture feature courtesy of mtwebster, with an OG Droid version being already available for download as an add on.Gestures of course, will add the ability to "draw" out anything you wish onto your lock screen and upon doing so, be able to launch an application or activity that has been associated to that drawing. (Kind of like Google's own Gesture Search app.) A smiley face for Facebook maybe a T for Twitter; you all get the drift. Pretty awesome! And likely something that should have been there from the get go on Android but alas, this why many of us love custom ROMs to begin with. [Twitter / CM Forums]DROID gets lockscreen gestures via CyanogenMOD ROM --other devices soon to follow posted originally by Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories
Discover Windows Phone 7 apps with Bing Visual Search
You can now browse the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace with Bing's Visual Search tool. According to the announcement, it only works in the US and UK -- but to make it work, after visiting the WP7 Visual Search, I had to change my location (in the top right corner) to "United States - English." Then I had to visit the Visual Search page again. Presumably this will also work if you live elsewhere, too.
The Visual Search itself is beautiful. The app icons slip and slide around the screen, and panels fade in and out with consummate smoothness -- it's powered by Silverlight, of course. Unsurprisingly, it looks and feels a lot like Zune -- and indeed, you can click through from any app to the Zune. From there you can install apps onto your phone.
The thing is, this tool in itself is nothing special -- but look at the competition! Apple's Web presence is alright, but it's hardly a joy to navigate -- it simply functions as a "preview" for those without iTunes. Google... well, take a look at the Web-based Android Market and decide for yourself. Microsoft's WP7 visual search seems positively awesome by comparison.Filed under: Windows Mobile, Microsoft, SearchDiscover Windows Phone 7 apps with Bing Visual Search originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
The Visual Search itself is beautiful. The app icons slip and slide around the screen, and panels fade in and out with consummate smoothness -- it's powered by Silverlight, of course. Unsurprisingly, it looks and feels a lot like Zune -- and indeed, you can click through from any app to the Zune. From there you can install apps onto your phone.
The thing is, this tool in itself is nothing special -- but look at the competition! Apple's Web presence is alright, but it's hardly a joy to navigate -- it simply functions as a "preview" for those without iTunes. Google... well, take a look at the Web-based Android Market and decide for yourself. Microsoft's WP7 visual search seems positively awesome by comparison.Filed under: Windows Mobile, Microsoft, SearchDiscover Windows Phone 7 apps with Bing Visual Search originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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12 Pets Hard at Work on Computers [Animals]
Family harassing you for "always being on that Gizmondo site"? Here's one for them—pets using computers. See Granny, tech's not all bad! Aww! Plus, this bonus photo of my Effie, hard at work on her iBook. [AnimalsLook] More »
15+ free Windows apps to help you tackle Thanksgiving tech support
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The holiday season has always been a time for gathering -- but in recent years, it's also been a time when family and friends come bearing gifts of computer troubles. Their computer friends -- people like the Download Squad team and you, our readers -- get asked to do everything from installing RAM upgrades to the annual computer tune-up. We're happy to oblige, of course, because there's a decent chance someone will pay us in beer or baked goods. Cash is welcome too, but never seems to be offered quite as readily.
To make your holiday tech duties a bit easier, I've put together a list of some of my favorite troubleshooting apps for Windows.
Where download links for the files aren't on the application's main page, I've included a link to the appropriate download page. I've provided a handful of FileHippo links as well -- they're an excellent mirror site and they don't surround download links in advertisements or "recommendations."Continue reading 15+ free Windows apps to help you tackle Thanksgiving tech supportFiled under: Features, Troubleshooting, Lists15+ free Windows apps to help you tackle Thanksgiving tech support originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
The holiday season has always been a time for gathering -- but in recent years, it's also been a time when family and friends come bearing gifts of computer troubles. Their computer friends -- people like the Download Squad team and you, our readers -- get asked to do everything from installing RAM upgrades to the annual computer tune-up. We're happy to oblige, of course, because there's a decent chance someone will pay us in beer or baked goods. Cash is welcome too, but never seems to be offered quite as readily.
To make your holiday tech duties a bit easier, I've put together a list of some of my favorite troubleshooting apps for Windows.
Where download links for the files aren't on the application's main page, I've included a link to the appropriate download page. I've provided a handful of FileHippo links as well -- they're an excellent mirror site and they don't surround download links in advertisements or "recommendations."Continue reading 15+ free Windows apps to help you tackle Thanksgiving tech supportFiled under: Features, Troubleshooting, Lists15+ free Windows apps to help you tackle Thanksgiving tech support originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
CrunchGear Week in Review: Hop Edition
Weekend Giveaway: An iPad From Fuze A Chair Made Entirely Of The Cracks Between The Cushions Review and Video Unboxing: The Jawbone Jambox New Japanese Piggy Bank: Rubik?s Cube Bank Requires Brain Power Tea Candle Lava Lamp From Mathmos: Why Not? I Always Wondered How Kuribo?s Shoe Worked
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Yahoo! rolling out Google Instant-like previews
While it's not going to win points for a catchy name, Yahoo's new Rich Search Assist will provide some slick new functionality to its users. It's a bit like Google Suggest meets Google Instant Previews. Unlike Instant, however, Yahoo's previews appear in a floating element and only cover the top half of the page. Hover over a suggestion in the left column, and the preview appears on the right.
Yahoo's contextual customizations still appear in the previews as well -- like the Canon Eos pricing and specs in the screenshot or pro sports team snapshots. Rich Search assist is currently only available to a small number of testers, but it should be rolling out to all Yahoo! users in the very near future.
Search Engine Land has shared a YouTube clip of Rich Search Assist in action -- check it out after the break!
Continue reading Yahoo! rolling out Google Instant-like previewsFiled under: Symantec, SearchYahoo! rolling out Google Instant-like previews originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Yahoo's contextual customizations still appear in the previews as well -- like the Canon Eos pricing and specs in the screenshot or pro sports team snapshots. Rich Search assist is currently only available to a small number of testers, but it should be rolling out to all Yahoo! users in the very near future.
Search Engine Land has shared a YouTube clip of Rich Search Assist in action -- check it out after the break!
Continue reading Yahoo! rolling out Google Instant-like previewsFiled under: Symantec, SearchYahoo! rolling out Google Instant-like previews originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Internet Explorer 9 preview 7 available, takes SunSpider crown; Beta now downloaded 13 million times
As of a few moments ago, you can now download Platform Preview 7 of Internet Explorer 9. The main focus of this update is the continued enhancement of the Chakra JavaScript engine; as a result, IE9 now leads the SunSpider benchmark by a few percent.
Like its predecessors, this preview lacks any kind of useful UI -- but if you have the Beta installed, you can follow Lee's guide to hack the Beta UI onto the preview. The Beta, incidentally, has now been downloaded over 13 million times. We're not seeing significant use of IE9 amongst Download Squad readers, but with almost 4% of Ed Bott'z ZDNet readership using IE9, there's definitely some evidence of its growing popularity. With my sources indicating a January release of IE9, Microsoft really ought to release a second beta...
Anyway, in infinitely more exciting news, there's a bunch of cool new HTML5 demos on the Test Drive site to play around with! Shakespeare's Tag Cloud is very cute (and educational!) Galactic, on the other hand, is an excellent example of the 'Open Web' 3D games that we can expect to see next year. It also acts as a very good benchmark tool -- I may have to do another head-to-head browser shootout!
Update: I just tested IE9 on the 'real world' Kraken benchmark... and it beats Firefox!
Another update: The IE Blog has been updated with more information about Preview 7.Filed under: Microsoft, BrowsersInternet Explorer 9 preview 7 available, takes SunSpider crown; Beta now downloaded 13 million times originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Like its predecessors, this preview lacks any kind of useful UI -- but if you have the Beta installed, you can follow Lee's guide to hack the Beta UI onto the preview. The Beta, incidentally, has now been downloaded over 13 million times. We're not seeing significant use of IE9 amongst Download Squad readers, but with almost 4% of Ed Bott'z ZDNet readership using IE9, there's definitely some evidence of its growing popularity. With my sources indicating a January release of IE9, Microsoft really ought to release a second beta...
Anyway, in infinitely more exciting news, there's a bunch of cool new HTML5 demos on the Test Drive site to play around with! Shakespeare's Tag Cloud is very cute (and educational!) Galactic, on the other hand, is an excellent example of the 'Open Web' 3D games that we can expect to see next year. It also acts as a very good benchmark tool -- I may have to do another head-to-head browser shootout!
Update: I just tested IE9 on the 'real world' Kraken benchmark... and it beats Firefox!
Another update: The IE Blog has been updated with more information about Preview 7.Filed under: Microsoft, BrowsersInternet Explorer 9 preview 7 available, takes SunSpider crown; Beta now downloaded 13 million times originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Daily Crunch: Jailhouse Edition
Review: Dropcam Echo Root Access Found For Windows Phone 7, Jailbreak Not Far Off Robo-Deer Draws Fire From Poachers Limili Identifies That Song That?s Playing, Adds It To Your Grooveshark Collection Killing Time: How Many Of These 25 Bad Tech Habits Apply To You?
CrunchGear Week in Review: Hop Edition
Weekend Giveaway: An iPad From Fuze A Chair Made Entirely Of The Cracks Between The Cushions Review and Video Unboxing: The Jawbone Jambox New Japanese Piggy Bank: Rubik?s Cube Bank Requires Brain Power Tea Candle Lava Lamp From Mathmos: Why Not? I Always Wondered How Kuribo?s Shoe Worked
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Saturday, November 27, 2010
An early look at Winamp for Android's SHOUTcast integration
This morning, I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peek at an alpha version of Winamp for Android. The beta version currently available from the Android Market is already a lot better than other media players, but judging by what I've seen today, it's going to get even better.
For this alpha build, Nullsoft has focused on SHOUTcast integration. The implementation is still a little rough around the edges, but it works -- it works really well. You can browse the top stations, and browse by genre or search term. Click a station to listen to it, or push-and-hold to add it to your favourites for easy access in the future. Presumably, if you listen to one station enough, it might be automatically added to your favorites, too. Rounding up the changes, there's 'My recent stations', which is exactly what it sounds like. For more details, check the gallery below.
Streaming radio for Android isn't exactly new, but this is by far the most easy-to-use and functional implementation that I've seen. You might point to Pandora, but not only is it only available to American users, it's simply not in the same league as SHOUTcast. At the time of writing there are 44,454 free SHOUTcast radio stations, and the Android app can listen to any single one of them. If you're not excited by that, let me know: I'll send some goons around to forcibly remove your smartphone.
[Download Squad and Nullsoft, the developers of Winamp, are both owned by AOL.]
Gallery: Winamp for Android, now with SHOUTcast integrationFiled under: Audio, AOL, AndroidAn early look at Winamp for Android's SHOUTcast integration originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
For this alpha build, Nullsoft has focused on SHOUTcast integration. The implementation is still a little rough around the edges, but it works -- it works really well. You can browse the top stations, and browse by genre or search term. Click a station to listen to it, or push-and-hold to add it to your favourites for easy access in the future. Presumably, if you listen to one station enough, it might be automatically added to your favorites, too. Rounding up the changes, there's 'My recent stations', which is exactly what it sounds like. For more details, check the gallery below.
Streaming radio for Android isn't exactly new, but this is by far the most easy-to-use and functional implementation that I've seen. You might point to Pandora, but not only is it only available to American users, it's simply not in the same league as SHOUTcast. At the time of writing there are 44,454 free SHOUTcast radio stations, and the Android app can listen to any single one of them. If you're not excited by that, let me know: I'll send some goons around to forcibly remove your smartphone.
[Download Squad and Nullsoft, the developers of Winamp, are both owned by AOL.]
Gallery: Winamp for Android, now with SHOUTcast integrationFiled under: Audio, AOL, AndroidAn early look at Winamp for Android's SHOUTcast integration originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
A week with AOL's new Project Phoenix mail
As a someone who's been using Gmail since the invites actually meant something, I've become quite comfortable with my inbox. While it's not the most widely-used webmail app around, Gmail has set the bar for geeky features pretty high -- and those features are what keep me coming back. So how does AOL's newly revamped mail app (codenamed Project Phoenix) stack up? I was pleasantly surprised.
Yes, AOL is Download Squad's parent company -- but that doesn't mean I'm going to automatically love every app they develop. Phoenix, however, is really good. It's got a few features that I wish Gmail offered -- like a tabbed interface, quick compose (more on this later), a look reminiscent of native desktop apps, and integrated social network updating via Lifestream. It's also dead simple to connect accounts from other services such as Gmail and Windows Live.Continue reading A week with AOL's new Project Phoenix mailA week with AOL's new Project Phoenix mail originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Yes, AOL is Download Squad's parent company -- but that doesn't mean I'm going to automatically love every app they develop. Phoenix, however, is really good. It's got a few features that I wish Gmail offered -- like a tabbed interface, quick compose (more on this later), a look reminiscent of native desktop apps, and integrated social network updating via Lifestream. It's also dead simple to connect accounts from other services such as Gmail and Windows Live.Continue reading A week with AOL's new Project Phoenix mailA week with AOL's new Project Phoenix mail originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Aethyr lets you download shared iTunes libraries
Windows users, rejoice! You can now steal music from shared iTunes libraries -- or move music between two of your own computers, of course. Simply install Aethyr, connect to a library in iTunes, then switch to Aethyr and download some songs.
Library sharing in iTunes acts like a local-area network radio: you can stream music from computer to computer (from Mac to Windows!), but downloading is disabled. Aethyr removes that limitation, providing an easy way to move music between computers. According to Lifehacker, you haven't been able to do this since iTunes 7, so Aethyr fills a pretty large void.
It sounds like Aethyr has a few bugs, so you might want to check the FAQ if you experience any issues.
Download Aethyr for WindowsFiled under: Audio, Utilities, WindowsAethyr lets you download shared iTunes libraries originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Library sharing in iTunes acts like a local-area network radio: you can stream music from computer to computer (from Mac to Windows!), but downloading is disabled. Aethyr removes that limitation, providing an easy way to move music between computers. According to Lifehacker, you haven't been able to do this since iTunes 7, so Aethyr fills a pretty large void.
It sounds like Aethyr has a few bugs, so you might want to check the FAQ if you experience any issues.
Download Aethyr for WindowsFiled under: Audio, Utilities, WindowsAethyr lets you download shared iTunes libraries originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Google Chrome adds option to hide any extension's button
Google Chrome extensions can be truly handy, but there's at least one feature power users have been clamoring for since the beginning: the ability to hide an extension's browser action button. Good news, Chrome Geeks: the Canary build now lets you hide extension buttons.
Just right-click the icon you want to disappear and select hide button, and it's gone. If you should happen to get removal remorse, just head to chrome://extensions and you'll find a show button link next to any extension you've previously hidden.
Yes, you could already drag-to-resize the entire browser actions area to hide any buttons which happened to be on the right-hand side -- but now you've got full control over which extensions get space on your toolbar and which don't.
At last, extensions which you can call from the context menu or invoke with a hotkey don't have to chew up valuable toolbar real estate in Google Chrome.Continue reading Google Chrome adds option to hide any extension's buttonGoogle Chrome adds option to hide any extension's button originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Just right-click the icon you want to disappear and select hide button, and it's gone. If you should happen to get removal remorse, just head to chrome://extensions and you'll find a show button link next to any extension you've previously hidden.
Yes, you could already drag-to-resize the entire browser actions area to hide any buttons which happened to be on the right-hand side -- but now you've got full control over which extensions get space on your toolbar and which don't.
At last, extensions which you can call from the context menu or invoke with a hotkey don't have to chew up valuable toolbar real estate in Google Chrome.Continue reading Google Chrome adds option to hide any extension's buttonGoogle Chrome adds option to hide any extension's button originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
CrunchGear Week in Review: Egg Timer Edition
Here are some of last week’s stories on CrunchGear: Weekend Giveaway: One Of Two Swatch New Gent Watches Just In Time For Breakfast: The Egg Cuber Sony Announces HandyCam NXCAM, An E-Mount Super-35 Sensor Camcorder The Boxee Box: Sizing Up The Competition This Is Something You Put On Your iPhone
Daily Crunch: Step Into The Body Shot Edition
Body Scanners That Don?t Keep Pictures Apparently Keep Pictures Sony Announces HandyCam NXCAM, An E-Mount Super-35 Sensor Camcorder Using The Kinect To Make Any Surface Multi-Touch Review: Barnes & Noble NookColor Codemasters Joins Growing List Of Companies That Hate Pre-Owned Games
Chrome Dev and Beta updates bring UI and Web Store tweaks, more functional print preview
Once again, don't get your hopes up too much if you see the orange-yellow dot on your Google Chrome wrench icon today -- there are updates for both the Beta and Dev channels, but most of the changes aren't forward-facing. There are, however, some behind-the-scenes updates that are worth knowing about.
On the Beta Channel, several Web Store related fixes were pushed. Access to Chrome's private Web Store APIs has been made more secure, and a histogram has been added which tracks Chrome's built-in promo for the Web Store. Events such as launching an app, clicking through to the Web Store, or manually closing the promo will be logged.
Dev Channel users, brace yourselves: print preview is getting really close now! If you've got the feature enabled in about:flags, pressing Ctrl+P will now actually cause the print preview page to display. It's still not functional, but you will see the in-tab preview page appear and a list of your installed printers -- but the Chrome print dialog will also appear. Cancel the dialog, and you'll get the something went wrong alert.
The Chrome Task Manager has also been updated (image after the break) and now displays Chrome processes in two groups: apps and extensions, and browser and plug-ins. Sandboxed Flash -- which debuted in Canary recently -- has also arrived for Windows Dev channel users. Google Instant integration has also been tweaked, and now plays nicely with extensions which have keywords hooked into the Omnibox.
And of course, both Channels have had the version number bumped "so we look hot, fresh, and new to our friends." Gotta love the less-serious side of Google.Filed under: Google, BrowsersChrome Dev and Beta updates bring UI and Web Store tweaks, more functional print preview originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
On the Beta Channel, several Web Store related fixes were pushed. Access to Chrome's private Web Store APIs has been made more secure, and a histogram has been added which tracks Chrome's built-in promo for the Web Store. Events such as launching an app, clicking through to the Web Store, or manually closing the promo will be logged.
Dev Channel users, brace yourselves: print preview is getting really close now! If you've got the feature enabled in about:flags, pressing Ctrl+P will now actually cause the print preview page to display. It's still not functional, but you will see the in-tab preview page appear and a list of your installed printers -- but the Chrome print dialog will also appear. Cancel the dialog, and you'll get the something went wrong alert.
The Chrome Task Manager has also been updated (image after the break) and now displays Chrome processes in two groups: apps and extensions, and browser and plug-ins. Sandboxed Flash -- which debuted in Canary recently -- has also arrived for Windows Dev channel users. Google Instant integration has also been tweaked, and now plays nicely with extensions which have keywords hooked into the Omnibox.
And of course, both Channels have had the version number bumped "so we look hot, fresh, and new to our friends." Gotta love the less-serious side of Google.Filed under: Google, BrowsersChrome Dev and Beta updates bring UI and Web Store tweaks, more functional print preview originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
An early look at Winamp for Android's SHOUTcast integration
This morning, I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peek at an alpha version of Winamp for Android. The beta version currently available from the Android Market is already a lot better than other media players, but judging by what I've seen today, it's going to get even better.
For this alpha build, Nullsoft has focused on SHOUTcast integration. The implementation is still a little rough around the edges, but it works -- it works really well. You can browse the top stations, and browse by genre or search term. Click a station to listen to it, or push-and-hold to add it to your favourites for easy access in the future. Presumably, if you listen to one station enough, it might be automatically added to your favorites, too. Rounding up the changes, there's 'My recent stations', which is exactly what it sounds like. For more details, check the gallery below.
Streaming radio for Android isn't exactly new, but this is by far the most easy-to-use and functional implementation that I've seen. You might point to Pandora, but not only is it only available to American users, it's simply not in the same league as SHOUTcast. At the time of writing there are 44,454 free SHOUTcast radio stations, and the Android app can listen to any single one of them. If you're not excited by that, let me know: I'll send some goons around to forcibly remove your smartphone.
[Download Squad and Nullsoft, the developers of Winamp, are both owned by AOL.]
Gallery: Winamp for Android, now with SHOUTcast integrationFiled under: Audio, AOL, AndroidAn early look at Winamp for Android's SHOUTcast integration originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
For this alpha build, Nullsoft has focused on SHOUTcast integration. The implementation is still a little rough around the edges, but it works -- it works really well. You can browse the top stations, and browse by genre or search term. Click a station to listen to it, or push-and-hold to add it to your favourites for easy access in the future. Presumably, if you listen to one station enough, it might be automatically added to your favorites, too. Rounding up the changes, there's 'My recent stations', which is exactly what it sounds like. For more details, check the gallery below.
Streaming radio for Android isn't exactly new, but this is by far the most easy-to-use and functional implementation that I've seen. You might point to Pandora, but not only is it only available to American users, it's simply not in the same league as SHOUTcast. At the time of writing there are 44,454 free SHOUTcast radio stations, and the Android app can listen to any single one of them. If you're not excited by that, let me know: I'll send some goons around to forcibly remove your smartphone.
[Download Squad and Nullsoft, the developers of Winamp, are both owned by AOL.]
Gallery: Winamp for Android, now with SHOUTcast integrationFiled under: Audio, AOL, AndroidAn early look at Winamp for Android's SHOUTcast integration originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
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CrunchGear Week in Review: Egg Timer Edition
Here are some of last week’s stories on CrunchGear: Weekend Giveaway: One Of Two Swatch New Gent Watches Just In Time For Breakfast: The Egg Cuber Sony Announces HandyCam NXCAM, An E-Mount Super-35 Sensor Camcorder The Boxee Box: Sizing Up The Competition This Is Something You Put On Your iPhone
Social browsing with Mozilla Labs F1 -- how RockMelt should've been
Mozilla Labs has just let loose the next stage in browser empowerment: F1. In one fell swoop, with just a single add-on, F1 brings social sharing to Firefox. With F1 installed, it's just a matter of clicks to share a site with Twitter, Facebook or Gmail.
The F1 button, which works in Firefox 3.6 and 4.0, sits in the top right corner of your browser, next to the search bar. The first time you use it, you need to authorize any (or all) of the three services. After that, you simply hit the F1 button, select a sharing service, and hit share. In case you were wondering, hitting F1 on the keyboard doesn't work -- that still brings up the Firefox help pages, alas. There's a video of it in action after the break.
It's painfully simple and stunningly effective. Sharing services like AddToAny and ShareThis have been deprecated by a 35 kilobyte Firefox add-on. F1 is faster, more convenient and unfailingly secure -- and this is just the beginning! While it only supports Facebook, Twitter and Gmail for now, Mozilla Labs talks about an API that will allow social sites to hook into Firefox; in theory, F1 could support any and all sharing services, all from within the browser.
This is the beginning of the end for the 'Share' block that hunkers like a hairy, unkempt baboon beneath each and every blog post on the Web. It really makes you wonder what exactly RockMelt spent 10 million dollars and two years of development on. F1 was probably developed in less than a week by a couple of Mozilla Labs code foxes.Continue reading Social browsing with Mozilla Labs F1 -- how RockMelt should've beenSocial browsing with Mozilla Labs F1 -- how RockMelt should've been originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
The F1 button, which works in Firefox 3.6 and 4.0, sits in the top right corner of your browser, next to the search bar. The first time you use it, you need to authorize any (or all) of the three services. After that, you simply hit the F1 button, select a sharing service, and hit share. In case you were wondering, hitting F1 on the keyboard doesn't work -- that still brings up the Firefox help pages, alas. There's a video of it in action after the break.
It's painfully simple and stunningly effective. Sharing services like AddToAny and ShareThis have been deprecated by a 35 kilobyte Firefox add-on. F1 is faster, more convenient and unfailingly secure -- and this is just the beginning! While it only supports Facebook, Twitter and Gmail for now, Mozilla Labs talks about an API that will allow social sites to hook into Firefox; in theory, F1 could support any and all sharing services, all from within the browser.
This is the beginning of the end for the 'Share' block that hunkers like a hairy, unkempt baboon beneath each and every blog post on the Web. It really makes you wonder what exactly RockMelt spent 10 million dollars and two years of development on. F1 was probably developed in less than a week by a couple of Mozilla Labs code foxes.Continue reading Social browsing with Mozilla Labs F1 -- how RockMelt should've beenSocial browsing with Mozilla Labs F1 -- how RockMelt should've been originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
UberTwitter beta arrives on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
UberTwitter, the definitive BlackBerry Twitter app, has finally made the leap to iOS. The app bears the beta moniker, but Engadget seems to think that the final release will be as soon as December.
UberTwitter, other than being a very polished app, only really has one unique feature: UberView (please forgive my continuing lack of umlauts). UberView, with a quick flick of the phone into landscape orientation, shows you a preview of links contained in tweets -- handy for when you don't want to open up a browser, or indeed expose your iDevice to potentially malicious websites.
Other than that, UberTwitter for iOS provides the usual slew of Twitter miscellany: tweet pictures, add your location, change your avatar, send Direct Messages (!!!) and more.
UberTwitter for iOS [iTunes] -- Free
Gallery: UberTwitterUberTwitter beta arrives on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
UberTwitter, other than being a very polished app, only really has one unique feature: UberView (please forgive my continuing lack of umlauts). UberView, with a quick flick of the phone into landscape orientation, shows you a preview of links contained in tweets -- handy for when you don't want to open up a browser, or indeed expose your iDevice to potentially malicious websites.
Other than that, UberTwitter for iOS provides the usual slew of Twitter miscellany: tweet pictures, add your location, change your avatar, send Direct Messages (!!!) and more.
UberTwitter for iOS [iTunes] -- Free
Gallery: UberTwitterUberTwitter beta arrives on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Friday, November 26, 2010
Hands-on video review of Office for Windows Phone 7
If you weren't aware, it's impossible to take screenshots with Windows Phone 7. Perhaps once it's rooted we'll be able to -- but until then, screenshotting apps for reviews is laborious -- you have to take a photo of the screen -- and the quality is inevitably low.
So, looking for an alternative, I decided to do a video review of Office for Windows Phone 7. It's about 10 minutes long, and the video quality is excellent. You should be able to clearly see the text on the screen, and the audio commentary should be informative (and perhaps even funny).
In the video I step through the three key features of Office for WP7: OneNote (and its integration with SkyDrive); Word and Excel (viewing and editing); and SharePoint integration (though I sadly couldn't get it to work). OneNote definitely stands out as one of WP7's killer features, especially when combined with SkyDrive synchronization. Word and Excel, which lack the ability to sync, seem rather useless in comparison -- but still, being able to view Word and Excel documents on the move is surely a good thing.
The video review is after the break.
Continue reading Hands-on video review of Office for Windows Phone 7Filed under: Windows Mobile, MicrosoftHands-on video review of Office for Windows Phone 7 originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
So, looking for an alternative, I decided to do a video review of Office for Windows Phone 7. It's about 10 minutes long, and the video quality is excellent. You should be able to clearly see the text on the screen, and the audio commentary should be informative (and perhaps even funny).
In the video I step through the three key features of Office for WP7: OneNote (and its integration with SkyDrive); Word and Excel (viewing and editing); and SharePoint integration (though I sadly couldn't get it to work). OneNote definitely stands out as one of WP7's killer features, especially when combined with SkyDrive synchronization. Word and Excel, which lack the ability to sync, seem rather useless in comparison -- but still, being able to view Word and Excel documents on the move is surely a good thing.
The video review is after the break.
Continue reading Hands-on video review of Office for Windows Phone 7Filed under: Windows Mobile, MicrosoftHands-on video review of Office for Windows Phone 7 originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
LastPass extension now available for Opera 11
LastPass has been providing secure, accessible-anywhere storage for your endless collection of Web logins for quite some time. The LastPass bookmarklet works in any modern browser, but it's not quite as functional as the add-ons for Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Now, users of Opera 11 can enjoy the full LastPass experience, too!
Head on over to the Opera extensions site and install LastPass (Opera 11 required, of course). The experience is pretty well identical to the Chrome extension, which isn't a surprise -- Opera 11 and Chrome (and Safari) extensions are more or less wrappers around Web code. It was likely a pretty easy undertaking to port LastPass for Chrome to Opera.
We've added LastPass to our collection of 10+ handy Opera 11 extensions -- it definitely deserves a spot on the list.
Thanks to all our Opera users who tipped us!LastPass extension now available for Opera 11 originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Head on over to the Opera extensions site and install LastPass (Opera 11 required, of course). The experience is pretty well identical to the Chrome extension, which isn't a surprise -- Opera 11 and Chrome (and Safari) extensions are more or less wrappers around Web code. It was likely a pretty easy undertaking to port LastPass for Chrome to Opera.
We've added LastPass to our collection of 10+ handy Opera 11 extensions -- it definitely deserves a spot on the list.
Thanks to all our Opera users who tipped us!LastPass extension now available for Opera 11 originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Daily Crunch: Dorm View Edition
Inside Foxconn?s Factories Google Street View Launches In Germany (But With A Win For Privacy Advocates) Review: Macbook Air 13-inch Two Magic Trackpads Merge Like Voltron To Become a Magic Keyboard Tea Candle Lava Lamp From Mathmos: Why Not?
Process Explorer 14 brings better multi-process app support, new monitoring tools
The SysInternals team has just announced a major new update to technician favorite Process Explorer. Version 14 includes a lengthy list of feature additions and tweaks, and it's available for download now.
Process Explorer now shows the total CPU utilization for multiprocess apps like Google Chrome. A pair of new monitoring tools have been added, and allow tracking of hard disk and network activity. By default, they're all crammed into Process Explorer's main toolbar, but a quick drag-and-drop gives you a full-window timeline.
Sadly, my desktop system won't be able to take advantage of one big addition to Process Explorer 14: support for more than 64 CPUs. One day...
Download Process Explorer 14 for WindowsFiled under: Utilities, WindowsProcess Explorer 14 brings better multi-process app support, new monitoring tools originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Process Explorer now shows the total CPU utilization for multiprocess apps like Google Chrome. A pair of new monitoring tools have been added, and allow tracking of hard disk and network activity. By default, they're all crammed into Process Explorer's main toolbar, but a quick drag-and-drop gives you a full-window timeline.
Sadly, my desktop system won't be able to take advantage of one big addition to Process Explorer 14: support for more than 64 CPUs. One day...
Download Process Explorer 14 for WindowsFiled under: Utilities, WindowsProcess Explorer 14 brings better multi-process app support, new monitoring tools originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
The Ten Most Absurd Black Friday Trample Videos You'll See [Video]
To get you pumped for the Black Friday rush, here are 12 videos of shoppers gone wild! �If you have a job in retail, quit now. More »
Tokyo Flash is Making This Watch a Reality, Thanks To You [Tokyo Flash]
Enough people voted on this "Kisai RPM" concept watch submitted to Tokyo Flash by Brit James Fursedon, that the Japanese company is making it a reality. There's even better news—it's on sale now! More »
Acer Jumps on Android Tablets Bandwagon
Acer, Europe’s favorite budget computer maker, has jumped into the tablet game. Introduced yesterday, and available in April, the 7 and 10-inch tablets will both run the Android OS, and both have the slim body and foolishly long widescreen display we have come to expect since the Galaxy Tab arrived.
The ten-incher has a capacitive [...]
The ten-incher has a capacitive [...]
Rumors: iOS 4.3 Will Offer App Subscriptions as Early as December
iPad owners have had less than a week with iOS 4, but a software update offering news and magazine subscriptions targeted at them could arrive in less than a month.
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber reports that Apple’s Steve Jobs will join News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch onstage at a December 9 event to announce Murdoch’s new forthcoming [...]
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber reports that Apple’s Steve Jobs will join News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch onstage at a December 9 event to announce Murdoch’s new forthcoming [...]
Hacker gets native code to run on Windows Phone 7 -- will a jailbreak follow?
It seems, thanks to one of Samsung's recent additions to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, that a jailbreak of Microsoft's latest mobile platform might come a lot sooner than anticipated.
In a high-tech plot twist that even mother could've predicted, it turns out that Windows Phone 7 can run native code! Until today, it was thought that WP7 apps could only be written in Silverlight, an abstracted platform that made jailbreaking all but impossible. If third-party apps can contain native code, it makes jailbreaking all but a foregone conclusion. There still remains the problem of getting such apps onto your phone, though: Microsoft isn't going to approve the addition of a jailbreaking app on the Marketplace!
Microsoft's acceptance of Samsung's native app raises one other important question: why can Samsung submit a native app, but small-time indie developers can't? Samsung's app obviously required some functionality that only native, low-level code could provide -- but why shouldn't all developers get the ability to hook into the underlying operating system?
As Long Zheng says, for a phone's indie and homebrew community to really thrive, unfettered access to the phone's hardware is required. Let's hope this is just the beginning of WP7 hacking!Filed under: Windows Mobile, MicrosoftHacker gets native code to run on Windows Phone 7 -- will a jailbreak follow? originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
In a high-tech plot twist that even mother could've predicted, it turns out that Windows Phone 7 can run native code! Until today, it was thought that WP7 apps could only be written in Silverlight, an abstracted platform that made jailbreaking all but impossible. If third-party apps can contain native code, it makes jailbreaking all but a foregone conclusion. There still remains the problem of getting such apps onto your phone, though: Microsoft isn't going to approve the addition of a jailbreaking app on the Marketplace!
Microsoft's acceptance of Samsung's native app raises one other important question: why can Samsung submit a native app, but small-time indie developers can't? Samsung's app obviously required some functionality that only native, low-level code could provide -- but why shouldn't all developers get the ability to hook into the underlying operating system?
As Long Zheng says, for a phone's indie and homebrew community to really thrive, unfettered access to the phone's hardware is required. Let's hope this is just the beginning of WP7 hacking!Filed under: Windows Mobile, MicrosoftHacker gets native code to run on Windows Phone 7 -- will a jailbreak follow? originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Lensbaby System Bag Keeps All Your Lenses in One Basket
Lensbaby’s new bag is like an oversized egg-box for your precious light-bending optics. The long padded stick has movable sections inside to hold up to four lenses, and there is a mesh section for small accessories, an external zippered pocket for other extras, and the ends themselves open with flaps for quick access to an [...]
Google Chrome adds option to hide any extension's button
Google Chrome extensions can be truly handy, but there's at least one feature power users have been clamoring for since the beginning: the ability to hide an extension's browser action button. Good news, Chrome Geeks: the Canary build now lets you hide extension buttons.
Just right-click the icon you want to disappear and select hide button, and it's gone. If you should happen to get removal remorse, just head to chrome://extensions and you'll find a show button link next to any extension you've previously hidden.
Yes, you could already drag-to-resize the entire browser actions area to hide any buttons which happened to be on the right-hand side -- but now you've got full control over which extensions get space on your toolbar and which don't.
At last, extensions which you can call from the context menu or invoke with a hotkey don't have to chew up valuable toolbar real estate in Google Chrome.Continue reading Google Chrome adds option to hide any extension's buttonGoogle Chrome adds option to hide any extension's button originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Just right-click the icon you want to disappear and select hide button, and it's gone. If you should happen to get removal remorse, just head to chrome://extensions and you'll find a show button link next to any extension you've previously hidden.
Yes, you could already drag-to-resize the entire browser actions area to hide any buttons which happened to be on the right-hand side -- but now you've got full control over which extensions get space on your toolbar and which don't.
At last, extensions which you can call from the context menu or invoke with a hotkey don't have to chew up valuable toolbar real estate in Google Chrome.Continue reading Google Chrome adds option to hide any extension's buttonGoogle Chrome adds option to hide any extension's button originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Is That a Computer You're Wearing on Your Head?
Motorola announced Wednesday that it will develop a hands-free wireless computing headset with micro-display specialists at Kopin -- a move reminiscent of previous attempts to create wearable computers and communications devices. The device will offer voice, audio and PC capabilities on a virtual reality-style 15-inch monitor that will also support simulation software and streaming video.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
SugarSync giveaway: win a 30GB account for a year
When I reviewed SugarSync for Android in September, I came away with one resounding conclusion: it's better than Dropbox. The Android experience is better, and the Web experience is better. There was just one niggle: the free version of SugarSync was feature-crippled. Earlier today, however, SugarSync lifted the crippling restrictions from its free version and bumped the storage up to 5 GB.
In my mind, there's now no reason to use Dropbox -- unless you're a Linux user, in which case you can stop reading now (SugarSync still doesn't support it). The rest of you should head on over and sign up for a free account. If the multi-device support (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian!) doesn't blow your mind, the share-this-folder-with-a-friend feature will.
But wait! What if 5 gigabytes isn't enough -- because let's face it, 5 GB is the merest of data morsels in today's day and age. Maybe you want 30 GB, free, for a year! In that case, enter our giveaway by leaving a comment below -- we have 10 year-long subscriptions to give away! Full terms and conditions are after the break.Continue reading SugarSync giveaway: win a 30GB account for a yearFiled under: UtilitiesSugarSync giveaway: win a 30GB account for a year originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
In my mind, there's now no reason to use Dropbox -- unless you're a Linux user, in which case you can stop reading now (SugarSync still doesn't support it). The rest of you should head on over and sign up for a free account. If the multi-device support (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian!) doesn't blow your mind, the share-this-folder-with-a-friend feature will.
But wait! What if 5 gigabytes isn't enough -- because let's face it, 5 GB is the merest of data morsels in today's day and age. Maybe you want 30 GB, free, for a year! In that case, enter our giveaway by leaving a comment below -- we have 10 year-long subscriptions to give away! Full terms and conditions are after the break.Continue reading SugarSync giveaway: win a 30GB account for a yearFiled under: UtilitiesSugarSync giveaway: win a 30GB account for a year originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Russia Spending $2 Billion to Play Garbage Man in Outer Space [Space]
All those defunct satellites up in space? They don't just float away into the ether. Instead, they make space travel dangerous. That's why Russia is spending $2 billion on a craft to clean up around 600 pieces of space junk. More »
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Use Your iPad To Manage Your Finances In Style
When it comes to budgeting and managing your finances on your iPad there are several apps to choose from, but very few compare to Checkbook by iBear LLC. This newly released app has everything you could want or even ask for when it comes to both style and functionality. Easily keep track of your mortgage, [...]
Beautiful Foot-Cranked Kitchen Appliances
Check out this amazing kitchen appliance from Berlin-based designer Christoph Therard, a human-powered cabinet of mechanical wizardry which lats you crank normally electric-powered gadgets with nothing but your leg.
A machine like this needs a suitably cool name, and the R2B2 has one. The R2B2 works thusly: You hit pump the pedal and a big, heavy [...]
A machine like this needs a suitably cool name, and the R2B2 has one. The R2B2 works thusly: You hit pump the pedal and a big, heavy [...]
Android Central's Guide to Black Friday Deals
Black Friday is Nigh! It's not here yet, but it's nigh! The biggest retail day of the season is almost upon us, and buried among the John Tesh Christmas albums and holiday sweaters are some truly sweet deals on Android devices if you can find them. That's where we come in. Join us after the break to see the amazing deals we've uncovered. Find your own? Leave 'em in the comments. via [bfads.net]
Android Central's Guide to Black Friday Deals posted originally by Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories
Android Central's Guide to Black Friday Deals posted originally by Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories
FeedStore for Chrome lets you catch up on Google Reader news while offline
Back in May, Google axed the offline mode in Google Reader. I didn't use it that often, but it was a nice way to catch up on tech news while I made the 6-hour trek to Winnipeg from my home in the North. Thankfully, there's a new Google Chrome extension called FeedStore which brings back offline reading.
Just install the extension and you're ready to go. FeedStore adds an icon to your browser actions area and notifies you when new unread items arrive -- and stashes a copy you can read later. The reading interface is somewhat customizable, allowing you to choose a font and change the type size and line spacing. There's a dropdown for custom styles, though only the default shows for now (which is nice and clean) -- hopefully we'll see additional options added.
The downside, of course, is that a lot of sites offer truncated feeds. It would be nice if future FeedStore versions could pull the full post from source websites.
Install FeedStore for Google ChromeFeedStore for Chrome lets you catch up on Google Reader news while offline originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Just install the extension and you're ready to go. FeedStore adds an icon to your browser actions area and notifies you when new unread items arrive -- and stashes a copy you can read later. The reading interface is somewhat customizable, allowing you to choose a font and change the type size and line spacing. There's a dropdown for custom styles, though only the default shows for now (which is nice and clean) -- hopefully we'll see additional options added.
The downside, of course, is that a lot of sites offer truncated feeds. It would be nice if future FeedStore versions could pull the full post from source websites.
Install FeedStore for Google ChromeFeedStore for Chrome lets you catch up on Google Reader news while offline originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Rumors: iOS 4.3 Will Offer App Subscriptions as Early as December
iPad owners have had less than a week with iOS 4, but a software update offering news and magazine subscriptions targeted at them could arrive in less than a month.
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber reports that Apple’s Steve Jobs will join News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch onstage at a December 9 event to announce Murdoch’s new forthcoming [...]
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber reports that Apple’s Steve Jobs will join News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch onstage at a December 9 event to announce Murdoch’s new forthcoming [...]
Daily Crunch: Fix It Edition
Tiny Robots Made From Measuring Tapes Move Slowly, Cutely The TunerMatic: It Can Tuna Guitar, But It Can?t Tuna Fish You Probably Don?t Need The $50 Klhip Nail Clippers? Pictures of Destroyed Apple Items Honda Shows Off Its Fit EV
Google branches out into machine-curated high-fashion with Boutiques.com
Representing its first chic service, Google has just launched Boutiques.com. In true Google style, Boutiques parses hundreds of thousands of products to produce a personalized shopping experience that's tailored just for you. Interestingly, there's no sign of an accompanying Android app -- only an iPad app [iTunes].
Boutiques uses 'fashion rules' garnered from high-fashion taste-makers -- designers, fashion bloggers, stylists and celebrities -- to produce a wardrobe of clothes just for you. Have a quick step through the Stylyzer to discover your favorite style of clothes -- or take a look at the wondrous array of dress styles that you can choose from.
Of course, the ultimate goal is to shoehorn you into buying merchandise. Once you're done filling in your loved (and hated) styles of dress, top, bottom and shoes, you're shown to your storefront, which is full of perfectly-picked items of clothing with all the right accessories. Take a look at my storefront, if you can't be bothered to sign up and click through each of the steps.
Sadly, Boutiques only offers female clothes at the moment -- and the products it lists are all from American stores. Still, it's early days -- I'm sure Google has lots more in store.Filed under: Google, web 2.0Google branches out into machine-curated high-fashion with Boutiques.com originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Boutiques uses 'fashion rules' garnered from high-fashion taste-makers -- designers, fashion bloggers, stylists and celebrities -- to produce a wardrobe of clothes just for you. Have a quick step through the Stylyzer to discover your favorite style of clothes -- or take a look at the wondrous array of dress styles that you can choose from.
Of course, the ultimate goal is to shoehorn you into buying merchandise. Once you're done filling in your loved (and hated) styles of dress, top, bottom and shoes, you're shown to your storefront, which is full of perfectly-picked items of clothing with all the right accessories. Take a look at my storefront, if you can't be bothered to sign up and click through each of the steps.
Sadly, Boutiques only offers female clothes at the moment -- and the products it lists are all from American stores. Still, it's early days -- I'm sure Google has lots more in store.Filed under: Google, web 2.0Google branches out into machine-curated high-fashion with Boutiques.com originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
iOS 4.2 bugs: Having problems with MobileMe password?
Having problems with your MobileMe password lately? We’re hearing from users (and our own Rene!) that MobileMe both on the web at me.com and on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad complains your password is wrong when it’s the same password you’ve always used. We’ll take a look at the symptoms and possible solutions after the [...]iOS 4.2 bugs: Having problems with MobileMe password? is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog
CrunchGear Week in Review: Hop Edition
Weekend Giveaway: An iPad From Fuze A Chair Made Entirely Of The Cracks Between The Cushions Review and Video Unboxing: The Jawbone Jambox New Japanese Piggy Bank: Rubik?s Cube Bank Requires Brain Power Tea Candle Lava Lamp From Mathmos: Why Not? I Always Wondered How Kuribo?s Shoe Worked
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
The Tallest Building In the World From the Highest Resolution Satellite Around the World [Google Maps]
The Burj Khalifa—which Tom Cruise likes so much—is complete, a needle of glass surrounded by turquoise water in the middle of the desert. Here's how the complex looks, photographed by GeoEye 1, the highest resolution imaging commercial satellite. More »
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Does iOS 4.2 make you feel like you have ?a whole new iPad??
Apple is sending out an email telling iPad owners that the just released iOS 4.2 will make them feel like they have “a whole new iPad”:
The free iOS 4.2 Software Update has so many features, downloading it is like getting a new iPad. Just connect your iPad to your computer to get new [...]Does iOS 4.2 make you feel like you have “a whole new iPad”? is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog
The free iOS 4.2 Software Update has so many features, downloading it is like getting a new iPad. Just connect your iPad to your computer to get new [...]Does iOS 4.2 make you feel like you have “a whole new iPad”? is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog
DownThemAll, Firefox's best download manager, now multi-lingual
In just three weeks, DownThemAll! version 2 has moved from supporting just one language in beta 4, to 14 languages in beta 5. Well, kind of -- the Japanese option is "English," and American English is much the same thing. But still, the addition of any new languages is sure to please its millions of users.
If you currently use Firefox 3.6 and DTA 1.1, version 2 represents a massive and awesome overhaul to Firefox's best download manager. Speed limits (global, per server, and per download) are implemented; private browsing is supported; HTML5 video and audio tags are supported; the UI is cleaner, faster, ... and the list goes on. For more details, Lee covered most of the significant changes of DTA 2.0 back in May.
Download DownThemAll! 2.0 beta 5 for Firefox 3.5 to 4.0Filed under: Utilities, BrowsersDownThemAll, Firefox's best download manager, now multi-lingual originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
If you currently use Firefox 3.6 and DTA 1.1, version 2 represents a massive and awesome overhaul to Firefox's best download manager. Speed limits (global, per server, and per download) are implemented; private browsing is supported; HTML5 video and audio tags are supported; the UI is cleaner, faster, ... and the list goes on. For more details, Lee covered most of the significant changes of DTA 2.0 back in May.
Download DownThemAll! 2.0 beta 5 for Firefox 3.5 to 4.0Filed under: Utilities, BrowsersDownThemAll, Firefox's best download manager, now multi-lingual originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Know your robots
Get it straight, folks: A Droid is the little mechanical creature from Star Wars, and the phone from Motorola. Android is the operating system. And Lloyd is the lovable-yet-mysterious fellow you'll see around here, various foreign adverts and the odd Christmas tree. Know your robots posted originally by Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories
The Best Stuff to Read With Instapaper While You're Stuck in Longass Airport Lines [IPhone]
Give Me Something to Read is a fantastic, simple service: It's a collection of the best articles and essays saved with the iPhone/iPad/Kindle offline-reading service Instapaper. And you should read everything on their best of 2010 list. More »
Google branches out into machine-curated high-fashion with Boutiques.com
Representing its first chic service, Google has just launched Boutiques.com. In true Google style, Boutiques parses hundreds of thousands of products to produce a personalized shopping experience that's tailored just for you. Interestingly, there's no sign of an accompanying Android app -- only an iPad app [iTunes].
Boutiques uses 'fashion rules' garnered from high-fashion taste-makers -- designers, fashion bloggers, stylists and celebrities -- to produce a wardrobe of clothes just for you. Have a quick step through the Stylyzer to discover your favorite style of clothes -- or take a look at the wondrous array of dress styles that you can choose from.
Of course, the ultimate goal is to shoehorn you into buying merchandise. Once you're done filling in your loved (and hated) styles of dress, top, bottom and shoes, you're shown to your storefront, which is full of perfectly-picked items of clothing with all the right accessories. Take a look at my storefront, if you can't be bothered to sign up and click through each of the steps.
Sadly, Boutiques only offers female clothes at the moment -- and the products it lists are all from American stores. Still, it's early days -- I'm sure Google has lots more in store.Filed under: Google, web 2.0Google branches out into machine-curated high-fashion with Boutiques.com originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Boutiques uses 'fashion rules' garnered from high-fashion taste-makers -- designers, fashion bloggers, stylists and celebrities -- to produce a wardrobe of clothes just for you. Have a quick step through the Stylyzer to discover your favorite style of clothes -- or take a look at the wondrous array of dress styles that you can choose from.
Of course, the ultimate goal is to shoehorn you into buying merchandise. Once you're done filling in your loved (and hated) styles of dress, top, bottom and shoes, you're shown to your storefront, which is full of perfectly-picked items of clothing with all the right accessories. Take a look at my storefront, if you can't be bothered to sign up and click through each of the steps.
Sadly, Boutiques only offers female clothes at the moment -- and the products it lists are all from American stores. Still, it's early days -- I'm sure Google has lots more in store.Filed under: Google, web 2.0Google branches out into machine-curated high-fashion with Boutiques.com originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Dev tip: Hacking AirPlay for 3rd party apps
iOS developer extraordinaire and TUAW blogger Erica Sadun decided to take a look into iOS 4.2’s AirPlay feature (and see if she could figure out why it was restricted to audio-only outside Apple’s YouTube and iPod/Video apps (i.e. there are only audio AirPlay API currently available to 3rd party App Store developers). Here’s what she’s [...]Dev tip: Hacking AirPlay for 3rd party apps is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog
Apple teases once-a-year Black Friday sales event
Apple Online and Apple Retail have only one sale a year — Black Friday, held the day after Thanksgiving — and Apple has already got a helpful reminder posted on their website:
Come back to the Apple Online Store the day after Thanksgiving for a special one-day-only holiday shopping event. You’ll find dozens [...]Apple teases once-a-year Black Friday sales event is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog
Come back to the Apple Online Store the day after Thanksgiving for a special one-day-only holiday shopping event. You’ll find dozens [...]Apple teases once-a-year Black Friday sales event is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog
An early look at Winamp for Android's SHOUTcast integration
This morning, I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peek at an alpha version of Winamp for Android. The beta version currently available from the Android Market is already a lot better than other media players, but judging by what I've seen today, it's going to get even better.
For this alpha build, Nullsoft has focused on SHOUTcast integration. The implementation is still a little rough around the edges, but it works -- it works really well. You can browse the top stations, and browse by genre or search term. Click a station to listen to it, or push-and-hold to add it to your favourites for easy access in the future. Presumably, if you listen to one station enough, it might be automatically added to your favorites, too. Rounding up the changes, there's 'My recent stations', which is exactly what it sounds like. For more details, check the gallery below.
Streaming radio for Android isn't exactly new, but this is by far the most easy-to-use and functional implementation that I've seen. You might point to Pandora, but not only is it only available to American users, it's simply not in the same league as SHOUTcast. At the time of writing there are 44,454 free SHOUTcast radio stations, and the Android app can listen to any single one of them. If you're not excited by that, let me know: I'll send some goons around to forcibly remove your smartphone.
[Download Squad and Nullsoft, the developers of Winamp, are both owned by AOL.]
Gallery: Winamp for Android, now with SHOUTcast integrationFiled under: Audio, AOL, AndroidAn early look at Winamp for Android's SHOUTcast integration originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
For this alpha build, Nullsoft has focused on SHOUTcast integration. The implementation is still a little rough around the edges, but it works -- it works really well. You can browse the top stations, and browse by genre or search term. Click a station to listen to it, or push-and-hold to add it to your favourites for easy access in the future. Presumably, if you listen to one station enough, it might be automatically added to your favorites, too. Rounding up the changes, there's 'My recent stations', which is exactly what it sounds like. For more details, check the gallery below.
Streaming radio for Android isn't exactly new, but this is by far the most easy-to-use and functional implementation that I've seen. You might point to Pandora, but not only is it only available to American users, it's simply not in the same league as SHOUTcast. At the time of writing there are 44,454 free SHOUTcast radio stations, and the Android app can listen to any single one of them. If you're not excited by that, let me know: I'll send some goons around to forcibly remove your smartphone.
[Download Squad and Nullsoft, the developers of Winamp, are both owned by AOL.]
Gallery: Winamp for Android, now with SHOUTcast integrationFiled under: Audio, AOL, AndroidAn early look at Winamp for Android's SHOUTcast integration originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Facebookers' Feeds Crawling With Malware, Security Firm Finds
Links to malware-infested sites and other threats lurk in many Facebook users' news feeds, according to research from security vendor BitDefender. Among approximately 14,000 Facebook users who installed BitDefender's Safego security and privacy app, about one in five has malware in his or her news feed.
Opera Mobile 10.1 beta for Android emerges, much the same as Opera Mini
Late last night Opera released version 10.1 of its browser for Android. It's a beta build, and don't be fooled by the version number: it's obviously meant to show that this is the desktop browser, but ported to your phone -- just like Firefox 4 Mobile.
If you've used Opera Mini, the light-weight, designed-for-dumbphones browser, Opera Mobile will feel very familiar to you.
Mobile keeps the ability to 'remotely render' websites, both reducing bandwidth use and speeding up site loads -- but you can now turn that off and have every site rendered locally with the excellent Presto layout engine.
Amongst other changes, Opera Mobile brings SVG support to Android, a rather lovely tab management pane and support for Opera's sync tool, Link. A full feature list can be found on the Opera website.
You can grab a copy of Opera 10.1 for Android from the Market, or grab the APK directly. The QR code is on the right.Filed under: Browsers, AndroidOpera Mobile 10.1 beta for Android emerges, much the same as Opera Mini originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 09 Nov 2010 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
If you've used Opera Mini, the light-weight, designed-for-dumbphones browser, Opera Mobile will feel very familiar to you.
Mobile keeps the ability to 'remotely render' websites, both reducing bandwidth use and speeding up site loads -- but you can now turn that off and have every site rendered locally with the excellent Presto layout engine.
Amongst other changes, Opera Mobile brings SVG support to Android, a rather lovely tab management pane and support for Opera's sync tool, Link. A full feature list can be found on the Opera website.
You can grab a copy of Opera 10.1 for Android from the Market, or grab the APK directly. The QR code is on the right.Filed under: Browsers, AndroidOpera Mobile 10.1 beta for Android emerges, much the same as Opera Mini originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 09 Nov 2010 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Video: Recumbent Trike for Scary Bearded Children Gets Test-Drive
In June, we took a look at David Parott’s TrimTab 3×3, which I described as a “recumbent trike for scary bearded children,” giving this rationale:
Trikes are for kids and recumbents are for, well, Gore-Tex-clad hippies with too much facial hair. So the nightmarish rider of this machine, called the Trimtab, would be a bearded [...]
Trikes are for kids and recumbents are for, well, Gore-Tex-clad hippies with too much facial hair. So the nightmarish rider of this machine, called the Trimtab, would be a bearded [...]
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Internet Explorer 9 preview 7 available, takes SunSpider crown; Beta now downloaded 13 million times
As of a few moments ago, you can now download Platform Preview 7 of Internet Explorer 9. The main focus of this update is the continued enhancement of the Chakra JavaScript engine; as a result, IE9 now leads the SunSpider benchmark by a few percent.
Like its predecessors, this preview lacks any kind of useful UI -- but if you have the Beta installed, you can follow Lee's guide to hack the Beta UI onto the preview. The Beta, incidentally, has now been downloaded over 13 million times. We're not seeing significant use of IE9 amongst Download Squad readers, but with almost 4% of Ed Bott'z ZDNet readership using IE9, there's definitely some evidence of its growing popularity. With my sources indicating a January release of IE9, Microsoft really ought to release a second beta...
Anyway, in infinitely more exciting news, there's a bunch of cool new HTML5 demos on the Test Drive site to play around with! Shakespeare's Tag Cloud is very cute (and educational!) Galactic, on the other hand, is an excellent example of the 'Open Web' 3D games that we can expect to see next year. It also acts as a very good benchmark tool -- I may have to do another head-to-head browser shootout!
Update: I just tested IE9 on the 'real world' Kraken benchmark... and it beats Firefox!
Another update: The IE Blog has been updated with more information about Preview 7.Filed under: Microsoft, BrowsersInternet Explorer 9 preview 7 available, takes SunSpider crown; Beta now downloaded 13 million times originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Like its predecessors, this preview lacks any kind of useful UI -- but if you have the Beta installed, you can follow Lee's guide to hack the Beta UI onto the preview. The Beta, incidentally, has now been downloaded over 13 million times. We're not seeing significant use of IE9 amongst Download Squad readers, but with almost 4% of Ed Bott'z ZDNet readership using IE9, there's definitely some evidence of its growing popularity. With my sources indicating a January release of IE9, Microsoft really ought to release a second beta...
Anyway, in infinitely more exciting news, there's a bunch of cool new HTML5 demos on the Test Drive site to play around with! Shakespeare's Tag Cloud is very cute (and educational!) Galactic, on the other hand, is an excellent example of the 'Open Web' 3D games that we can expect to see next year. It also acts as a very good benchmark tool -- I may have to do another head-to-head browser shootout!
Update: I just tested IE9 on the 'real world' Kraken benchmark... and it beats Firefox!
Another update: The IE Blog has been updated with more information about Preview 7.Filed under: Microsoft, BrowsersInternet Explorer 9 preview 7 available, takes SunSpider crown; Beta now downloaded 13 million times originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
512MB free storage for your Dropbox, just for tweeting
Well, not just for tweeting... But Dropbox will boost your free account by a full 512MB if you're feeling social. Head on over to www.dropbox.com/free, sign in to your account, and you'll be given four tasks to complete. Each one is worth an additional 128MB and they're all pretty painless:
Connect Dropbox to your Facebook account
Connect Dropbox to your Twitter account
Follow Dropbox on Twitter
Provide a little feedback to the Dropbox team
The last one is actually pretty important. Dropbox is a fantastic service, and one way to make it even better is to offer up your two cents. I'll happily tell the team that I'm still waiting patiently for a webOS app in exchange for an extra 128MB.512MB free storage for your Dropbox, just for tweeting originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Connect Dropbox to your Facebook account
Connect Dropbox to your Twitter account
Follow Dropbox on Twitter
Provide a little feedback to the Dropbox team
The last one is actually pretty important. Dropbox is a fantastic service, and one way to make it even better is to offer up your two cents. I'll happily tell the team that I'm still waiting patiently for a webOS app in exchange for an extra 128MB.512MB free storage for your Dropbox, just for tweeting originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Free Partition Master from Easeus now works on 64-bit Windows, too!
Easeus Partition Master has always been a great little app. It's a powerful yet easy-to-use disk partitioning tool that makes managing your hard disks a breeze. Better still, it runs right in Windows -- handy for people like me who always miss the 'Press F11 for boot menu' prompt. There was one big downside to the free version, however: it didn't support 64-bit versions of Windows.
That's all changed, however. Easeus has decided that it's time for all versions to support Windows x64, including Partition Master Free. The new version also supports removable devices and Linux partitions. Partition Master is totally free, as long as you're running it on a home computer -- you'll still need the Pro version for your workplace or if you want to manage a Windows Server OS.
Download Easeus Partition MasterFiled under: UtilitiesFree Partition Master from Easeus now works on 64-bit Windows, too! originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
That's all changed, however. Easeus has decided that it's time for all versions to support Windows x64, including Partition Master Free. The new version also supports removable devices and Linux partitions. Partition Master is totally free, as long as you're running it on a home computer -- you'll still need the Pro version for your workplace or if you want to manage a Windows Server OS.
Download Easeus Partition MasterFiled under: UtilitiesFree Partition Master from Easeus now works on 64-bit Windows, too! originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
VidCoder now rips Blu-Ray discs, too
VidCoder is a nice, little DVD ripper for Windows -- it provides a simple, streamlined interface, supports encoding presets, and uses Hanbrake's processing engine for the heavy lifting. One feature which was notably absent from the last version we covered was support for Blu-Ray discs. That has been added in version 0.7.0, and VidCoder is now better than ever.
One other nice feature VidCoder offers is automatic preview image creation. That's been tweaked as well, and you can now choose to create from 10 to 30 images via the options menu. The built-in previewer has also gotten more responsive (especially when displaying high-def content) thanks to the addition of memory and disk caching.
You'll need the .Net 4.0 framework to run VidCoder -- as well as an app to circumvent that bothersome copy protection on your discs.
Download VidCoder for WindowsFiled under: Video, Windows, Open SourceVidCoder now rips Blu-Ray discs, too originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
One other nice feature VidCoder offers is automatic preview image creation. That's been tweaked as well, and you can now choose to create from 10 to 30 images via the options menu. The built-in previewer has also gotten more responsive (especially when displaying high-def content) thanks to the addition of memory and disk caching.
You'll need the .Net 4.0 framework to run VidCoder -- as well as an app to circumvent that bothersome copy protection on your discs.
Download VidCoder for WindowsFiled under: Video, Windows, Open SourceVidCoder now rips Blu-Ray discs, too originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Facebook for iOS gets privacy settings
Users of the Facebook app for iOS can now access their privacy settings without firing up Safari. Following the update to version 3.2, you can tap the account button on the app's main screen to jump to Facebook's controls. The update also adds two-tap access to your Facebook profile settings and the Help Center -- also via the Web. As AppAdvice points out, native controls would have been a nicer addition, but at least the screens can be accessed without leaving the app now.
Facebook for iOS [iTunes]Filed under: Social Software, iPhone, FacebookFacebook for iOS gets privacy settings originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Facebook for iOS [iTunes]Filed under: Social Software, iPhone, FacebookFacebook for iOS gets privacy settings originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
The Miracle of Birth on Google Street View [StreetView]
Well, this is certainly more life affirming than your usual dudes with guns/drug dealers/dead people Google Street View fare. Yup, that's the youngest citizen of Wilmersdorf, Germany, captured moments after birth by goodole 9-eyes. Update: Probably not a real baby. More »
Data Visualization, Visualized [Chart]
We love nice charts and data visualization. That's why we like this meta-chart: Data visualization, visualized. Design, user interface, information, data journalism, communication and visual communication, merging. [Ffunction] More »
Voogle brings Google Voice to webOS
Been waiting for a solid Google Voice app you can use on your webOS smartphone? Check out Voogle, which has just landed in the App Catalog at the bargain price of $1.99.
Voogle supports all the important Google Voice features you'd expect. You can make voice calls, send text messages, playing recorded calls, and check voice mail. If you so desire, you can even use Voogle to replace your carrier's built-in voicemail with your own from Google Voice (slick!). Future plans include the addition of MMS support and real-time notifications.
If you're a Google Voice fan and you own a Pre or Pixi, Voogle is a must-have app.
[via PreCentral]Filed under: VoIP, webOSVoogle brings Google Voice to webOS originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Voogle supports all the important Google Voice features you'd expect. You can make voice calls, send text messages, playing recorded calls, and check voice mail. If you so desire, you can even use Voogle to replace your carrier's built-in voicemail with your own from Google Voice (slick!). Future plans include the addition of MMS support and real-time notifications.
If you're a Google Voice fan and you own a Pre or Pixi, Voogle is a must-have app.
[via PreCentral]Filed under: VoIP, webOSVoogle brings Google Voice to webOS originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
IOS-Ready Pico-Projector Turns Your Phone into a Theater
The SHOWWX+ pico-projector from MicroVision could be the ultimate movie-accessory for your iPad. The laser-projector hooks straight into the dock-connector of your iPad (or other iOS device) and throws an image onto the wall, giving a picture of up to 100-inches. The plus-sign in the name designates that the new projector is 50-percent brighter than [...]
Samsung Shifts 600,000 Galaxy Tabs in One Month
Despite being hamstrung by an operating system designed for the smaller screen of a smartphone, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab has sold an impressive 600,000 units in less than a month. That’s pretty close to the iPad’s initial sales, which reached one million in 28 days.
It’s important to remember that the iPad’s first month was largely confined [...]
It’s important to remember that the iPad’s first month was largely confined [...]
TiVo App for iPad Might Be the Ultimate Remote
TiVo is porting its gorgeous interface for integrated live TV, DVR and internet video services to the iPad.
The company is announcing its new Tivo Premiere iPad app today; it should be available free from the iTunes store in the coming weeks.
There have been other iOS and Android remote applications, but TiVo’s is particularly noteworthy [...]
The company is announcing its new Tivo Premiere iPad app today; it should be available free from the iTunes store in the coming weeks.
There have been other iOS and Android remote applications, but TiVo’s is particularly noteworthy [...]
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Play Button, an Annoying MP3-Player In a Button
The Play Button is either a desperate attempt to incorporate all the annoyances of analog music into a digital package, or it is a genius marketing move which will perhaps usurp the USB thumb-drive as the ultimate in corporate schwag giveaways.
It’s an MP3 player, and it’s built into a button. The front of the button [...]
It’s an MP3 player, and it’s built into a button. The front of the button [...]
Monday, November 22, 2010
Free Partition Master from Easeus now works on 64-bit Windows, too!
Easeus Partition Master has always been a great little app. It's a powerful yet easy-to-use disk partitioning tool that makes managing your hard disks a breeze. Better still, it runs right in Windows -- handy for people like me who always miss the 'Press F11 for boot menu' prompt. There was one big downside to the free version, however: it didn't support 64-bit versions of Windows.
That's all changed, however. Easeus has decided that it's time for all versions to support Windows x64, including Partition Master Free. The new version also supports removable devices and Linux partitions. Partition Master is totally free, as long as you're running it on a home computer -- you'll still need the Pro version for your workplace or if you want to manage a Windows Server OS.
Download Easeus Partition MasterFiled under: UtilitiesFree Partition Master from Easeus now works on 64-bit Windows, too! originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
That's all changed, however. Easeus has decided that it's time for all versions to support Windows x64, including Partition Master Free. The new version also supports removable devices and Linux partitions. Partition Master is totally free, as long as you're running it on a home computer -- you'll still need the Pro version for your workplace or if you want to manage a Windows Server OS.
Download Easeus Partition MasterFiled under: UtilitiesFree Partition Master from Easeus now works on 64-bit Windows, too! originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
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iPad 2: Prognosticators Ponder Plethora of Possibilities
Apple's expected to release a new version of the iPad sometime next year, sparking endless speculation about when exactly it will arrive and what features it will tout. Although the original iPad was launched last April, some predictions posit the next iteration will arrive in January, though others give themselves some leeway by forecasting it'll be released sometime in the first quarter of 2011.
Daily Crunch: Dorm View Edition
Inside Foxconn?s Factories Google Street View Launches In Germany (But With A Win For Privacy Advocates) Review: Macbook Air 13-inch Two Magic Trackpads Merge Like Voltron To Become a Magic Keyboard Tea Candle Lava Lamp From Mathmos: Why Not?
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Digital Storm's New Gaming PCs Use Sub-Zero Liquid Cooling System for Insane Overclocks [Video]
>Digital Storm has unveiled their latest line of custom gaming PCs, which employs theSub-Zero Liquid Chilled System, allowing for Intel Core i7 processors to be overclocked at a blazing 4.6 gigahertz while remaining at an icy 0�C. More »
Windows 7 ?iPad? Spec-Sheet Reads Like a Supercomputer?s
Oh, China, how we love your shameless knockoffs. And we love them all the more when they come as well-specced as this one, an almost identical iPad clone which runs Windows 7, Linux, Android, or Google’s Chromium OS.
Here’s the laundry list for the Haleron Tablet, with the most surprising parts first. The display is a [...]
Here’s the laundry list for the Haleron Tablet, with the most surprising parts first. The display is a [...]
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Razer Nostromo Gaming Keypad Is Not For the Office
Using a regular ol’ office keyboard to play games on a PC is like using an office-chair to race in the Tour de France: it’ll get the job done, but it’s not pretty. What the dedicated MMORPGer really needs is the Nostromo from Razer, and co-designed by Belkin.
Slide your hand into its cockpit and you’l [...]
Slide your hand into its cockpit and you’l [...]
Samsung Innovates Again With New Galexy Tab
There’s a lot of buzz surrounding Samsung’s new Galexy Tab, the company’s first attempt at a tablet device which is scheduled for launch this month in Europe. Many people have been wondering what companies would be the first to rival the already famous Apple iPad which was launched back in April and the Galexy Tab [...]
iOS 4.2.1 out today, brings multitasking to iPad
Filed under: OS Updates, iPhone
Let the iTunes-powered updating begin: iOS 4.2.1 is here, and ready to install on your Apple device. If you own an iPhone 3, 3GS, 4, iPod touch 2nd gen or newer, or an iPad, you're good to go. Among the big additions to iOS this time around: multitasking and app folder support for the iPad. There's also AirPlay and AirPrint for even more cord-free computing action on your handheld and Game Center integration is now live as well.
The full presser from Cupertino is available after the break.
Apple's iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch
Major Software Update Brings Multitasking, Folders, Unified Inbox, Game Center, AirPlay & AirPrint to iPad
CUPERTINO, California-November 22, 2010-Apple(R) today announced that iOS 4.2, the latest version of the world's most advanced mobile operating system, is available today for download for iPad[TM], iPhone(R) and iPod touch(R). iOS 4.2 brings over 100 new features from iOS 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 to iPad including Multitasking, Folders, Unified Inbox, Game Center, AirPlay(R) and AirPrint.
"iOS 4.2 makes the iPad a completely new product, just in time for the holiday season," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Once again, the iPad with iOS 4.2 will define the target that other tablets will aspire to, but very few, if any, will ever be able to hit."
iPad users can now run their favorite apps and switch between them instantly, while preserving iPad's legendary battery life. Users can organize their apps with drag-and-drop simplicity using Folders, and Mail now features a Unified Inbox, fast inbox switching and a threaded message view.
Game Center allows iPad, iPhone and iPod touch users to challenge and play friends or be matched automatically with new opponents, showcase their scores and achievements, and discover new games their friends are playing.
AirPlay is a new feature for streaming music, video and photos wirelessly from iPad, iPhone and iPod touch to Apple TV(R), transforming Apple TV into a great accessory for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. iOS users also will be able to use AirPort Express(R) and AirPlay to stream wirelessly to any stereo or powered speakers, or directly to AirPlay-enabled speakers coming to market in the months ahead.
AirPrint is a next-generation Wi-Fi print architecture that dramatically simplifies printing by completely eliminating printer drivers. A selection of AirPrint enabled printers including the HP Photosmart, HP LaserJet Pro and HP Officejet will be the first to support printing direct from iOS devices. iPad, iPhone and iPod touch users can simply tap to print their documents or photos wirelessly to any printer that supports AirPrint.
The Find My iPhone (or iPad or iPod touch) feature is now free to use without a MobileMe? subscription and helps you locate your missing device.* The Find My iPhone app is a free download on the App Store? and lets users easily locate a missing device on a map and have it display a message or play a sound. Users can even remotely lock or wipe data from a lost device to protect privacy.
Other new features that iOS 4.2 brings to the iPad include: the ability to rent TV episodes directly to iPad using the iTunes(R) App with a 30 day viewing window and a 48 hour session window once playback is started; the ability to easily find and highlight specific words and phrases on web pages in Safari(R); enhanced enterprise support so businesses can take advantage of stronger security features, new device management capabilities and improved enterprise integration; industry-leading accessibility enhancements; and support for 25 additional languages, including Korean, Portuguese and Traditional Chinese.
The revolutionary iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. You can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, using the innovative Multi-Touch[TM] user interface. iPad weighs just 1.5 pounds, making it easy to carry and use anywhere.
Today, customers have downloaded more than seven billion apps from the groundbreaking App Store and more than 300,000 apps are available to consumers in 90 countries, with more than 40,000 native iPad apps. Over 125 million iOS users around the world can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel.
Availability
The iOS 4.2 update is available today to download to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch by syncing the device with iTunes 10.1. iOS 4.2 is compatible with iPad, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, second and third generation iPod touch (late 2009 models with 32GB or 64GB) and new iPod touch. Some features may not be available on all products. For example, Multitasking requires iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, third generation iPod touch (late 2009 models with 32GB or 64GB) or later.
*The free Find My iPhone feature is available for iPhone 4, iPad or new iPod touch (4th generation).
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.iOS 4.2.1 out today, brings multitasking to iPad originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Let the iTunes-powered updating begin: iOS 4.2.1 is here, and ready to install on your Apple device. If you own an iPhone 3, 3GS, 4, iPod touch 2nd gen or newer, or an iPad, you're good to go. Among the big additions to iOS this time around: multitasking and app folder support for the iPad. There's also AirPlay and AirPrint for even more cord-free computing action on your handheld and Game Center integration is now live as well.
The full presser from Cupertino is available after the break.
Apple's iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch
Major Software Update Brings Multitasking, Folders, Unified Inbox, Game Center, AirPlay & AirPrint to iPad
CUPERTINO, California-November 22, 2010-Apple(R) today announced that iOS 4.2, the latest version of the world's most advanced mobile operating system, is available today for download for iPad[TM], iPhone(R) and iPod touch(R). iOS 4.2 brings over 100 new features from iOS 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 to iPad including Multitasking, Folders, Unified Inbox, Game Center, AirPlay(R) and AirPrint.
"iOS 4.2 makes the iPad a completely new product, just in time for the holiday season," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Once again, the iPad with iOS 4.2 will define the target that other tablets will aspire to, but very few, if any, will ever be able to hit."
iPad users can now run their favorite apps and switch between them instantly, while preserving iPad's legendary battery life. Users can organize their apps with drag-and-drop simplicity using Folders, and Mail now features a Unified Inbox, fast inbox switching and a threaded message view.
Game Center allows iPad, iPhone and iPod touch users to challenge and play friends or be matched automatically with new opponents, showcase their scores and achievements, and discover new games their friends are playing.
AirPlay is a new feature for streaming music, video and photos wirelessly from iPad, iPhone and iPod touch to Apple TV(R), transforming Apple TV into a great accessory for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. iOS users also will be able to use AirPort Express(R) and AirPlay to stream wirelessly to any stereo or powered speakers, or directly to AirPlay-enabled speakers coming to market in the months ahead.
AirPrint is a next-generation Wi-Fi print architecture that dramatically simplifies printing by completely eliminating printer drivers. A selection of AirPrint enabled printers including the HP Photosmart, HP LaserJet Pro and HP Officejet will be the first to support printing direct from iOS devices. iPad, iPhone and iPod touch users can simply tap to print their documents or photos wirelessly to any printer that supports AirPrint.
The Find My iPhone (or iPad or iPod touch) feature is now free to use without a MobileMe? subscription and helps you locate your missing device.* The Find My iPhone app is a free download on the App Store? and lets users easily locate a missing device on a map and have it display a message or play a sound. Users can even remotely lock or wipe data from a lost device to protect privacy.
Other new features that iOS 4.2 brings to the iPad include: the ability to rent TV episodes directly to iPad using the iTunes(R) App with a 30 day viewing window and a 48 hour session window once playback is started; the ability to easily find and highlight specific words and phrases on web pages in Safari(R); enhanced enterprise support so businesses can take advantage of stronger security features, new device management capabilities and improved enterprise integration; industry-leading accessibility enhancements; and support for 25 additional languages, including Korean, Portuguese and Traditional Chinese.
The revolutionary iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. You can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, using the innovative Multi-Touch[TM] user interface. iPad weighs just 1.5 pounds, making it easy to carry and use anywhere.
Today, customers have downloaded more than seven billion apps from the groundbreaking App Store and more than 300,000 apps are available to consumers in 90 countries, with more than 40,000 native iPad apps. Over 125 million iOS users around the world can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel.
Availability
The iOS 4.2 update is available today to download to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch by syncing the device with iTunes 10.1. iOS 4.2 is compatible with iPad, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, second and third generation iPod touch (late 2009 models with 32GB or 64GB) and new iPod touch. Some features may not be available on all products. For example, Multitasking requires iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, third generation iPod touch (late 2009 models with 32GB or 64GB) or later.
*The free Find My iPhone feature is available for iPhone 4, iPad or new iPod touch (4th generation).
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.iOS 4.2.1 out today, brings multitasking to iPad originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
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