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Content settings aren’t a new feature to Google Chrome, but as the browser matures it looks as though the Big G is making granular controls.

Two recent additions to the Chromium source code combine to function very much like FlashBlock does: per-plug-in content settings and click-to-play. Visit a page with the former enabled, and the latter allows you to click any element you want to display. Better still, you can whitelist an entire website. Simply click the puzzle piece in Chrome’s Omnibar and the menu above is displayed. To try it out right now, you’ll need to download a recent Chromium snapshot build and add two command line switches: –enable-resource-content-settings and –enable-click-to-play.

Why would you want to do this? Two big reasons are security and transfer caps.

While Chrome itself is a very secure browser, plug-ins (especially out-of-date ones) can pose a major security risk. By using click-to-play and manually whitelisting sites you trust, you’re giving yourself a little added protection against nefarious types who use things like Flash to perform drive-by attacks on unwary surfers. And because blocking prevents the elements from downloading without your consent, click-to-play can also help you conserve bandwidth.

The FlashBlock extension currently has more than 160,000 users — I’m curious to see if that number dwindles once this code makes its way into Chrome’s beta and stable channels. It sure seems as though the enhanced content settings will make FlashBlock redundant.

What do you think? Sound off in the comments!Google Chrome to get advanced plug-in blocking (think FlashBlock) originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

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iPhone users who are also U-verse subscribers can use the app to download TV episodes over a Wi-Fi connection , but not AT&T’s 3G wireless network.

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It’s just about that time of year again — time for millions of students to put their noses to the grindstone and head back to school for another year of academic excitement!

Few learning tools are as versatile as your trusty laptop or desktop computer — and your Web browser is likely one of the most-used programs on it. If Google Chrome is your browser of choice, there are loads of useful add-on enhancements in the Extensions Gallery which can turn Chrome into a powerful tool for staying focused and productive while tackling your coursework.

Take the jump and have a look at thirteen Chrome extensions I’ve found useful… and be sure to share your own picks in the comments!

Clip to Evernote
Evernote is a fantastic research and productivity tool — and it’s made even better when you plug the Chrome extension into your browser. Clip, tag, and describe just about any content you stumble across as you browse and retrieve it later from the Evernote desktop app or the equally handy (and far more pocketable) mobile version.

Wikipedia Companion
Sure, you can just open another tab or window when you want to look up something on Wikipedia, but you don’t have to. The Wikipedia Companion extension lets you do it in a pop-up without having to leave the page you’re currently browsing. It’s very useful for doing things like looking up some background info about Peter Forsberg while you’re browsing TSN instead of finishing an important blog post.

Ultimate Google Docs Viewer
Recent versions of Chrome have a built-in viewer for PDF documents, but the Google Docs Previewer can also handle Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files. Ultimate Docs Viewer keeps an eye out for supported files and zips you over to the online previewer for a fast, lightweight to peruse them.

FastestChrome
Want a single extension which adds a whole slew of efficiency-boosting features to Chrome? Check out FastestChrome. It provides useful enhancements like auto-loading the next page in multi-page articles, “linkifying” plain-text URLs, providing pop-up definitions for words you highlight, adding related articles to Wikipedia pages, and a whole lot more. There’s a good reason more than 300,000 Chrome users have the FastestChrome extension installed: it’s pretty dang useful.

Postponer Adder and Manager
Postponer is a pair of unofficial ReadItLater extensions for Google Chrome. The adder allows you to submit new URLs to your ReadItLater queue while the manager provides a searchable, sortable pop-up display of both unread and read items. It’s a nice way to stash pages you want or need to read when you’re short on time.

ChromeMilk / Unofficial Google Tasks / ToodleChrome
Google Tasks, Remember the Milk, and Toodledo are all excellent task management apps. Whichever you choose to help you get things done, there’s a Chrome extension which helps you stay on top of your tasks while you browse.

DayHiker
If you use Google Calendar to keep your schedule in order, DayHiker deserves a spot in your browser. It provides a slick heads-up display of your upcoming appointments. DayHiker can also display your Google Tasks, has a handy pop-out alarm clock function, and it works with both standard Google accounts as well as Apps accounts.

StayFocusd
Staying on task isn’t always an easy thing — especially in your Web browser, where there are so many awesome sites out there where you could be enjoying yourself while you slack off. StayFocusd is here to help! Add sites to your block list and set up time restrictions and StayFocusd will make sure you don’t fritter away more than your allotted amount for the day. Once the timer hits your magic number, the site is blocked until the following day.

Lazarus
As stable as Google Chrome might be, there’s always the chance you might be victimized by an untimely browser crash. If one happens while you’re filling out a form, it’s a pain in the butt to have to start from scratch after you re-launch Chrome. That’s where Lazarus comes in — it keeps tabs on forms while you fill them out and saves the data temporarily. If Chrome should happen to crash, Lazarus pops your previously entered data back in. It can be a real frustration preventer.

After the Deadline
Chrome has a built-in spellchecker, but you can bolt on a full-featured virtual proofreader by installing After the Deadline. ATD checks for grammar, syntax, and even common stylistic mistakes and it works just about anywhere you can type in some text (even things like Facebook wall posts). ATD is like having your own private proofreader/editor right inside Google Chrome.
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Google added direct access numbers to its Google Voice for mobile application on Android and Blackberry smartphones. The company is actively soliciting suggestions from users about how to improve Google Voice. – Google July 22 moved to accelerate calls placed on Android and Blackberry smartphones through its
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Dear Meat is one of the more creative uses for Tumblr that I’ve seen recently. It’s run by a guy named Matthew Hocker, and it features letters that people have written to things.
Matthew curates the site, so it’s not a bunch of random comments. I mean, it’s quite random, but the content is interesting and evokes emotion. As I write this, the front page features “Dear Nipples,” “Dear Tripod,” “Dear People Who Tease Me For Reading All the Time,” and more.
It does have some letters to people, too (“Dear sister of my father,” for example); they all seem well-written. Some of them are funny, some are sad, and some are just plain boring. Matthew offers no personal interpretation for what he publishes; he just puts the notes up on the site as they are. However, this being Tumblr, you’ll find that each note has a small steak underneath it. Click the steak, and you’ll get the note’s permalink page, which also shows people’s “Likes” (I hate that word) and reblogs. All in all, it’s a fun little project!Dear Meat publishes letters from people to objects originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsNVIDIA
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Filed under: Fun, Games
Thankfully, we’ve had a bit of a reprieve from the Hatfield and McCoy-style feuding over what video codec should be supported by the video tag. Still, it seems like there’s always someone trying to pull off some HTML5-related dickery… Which leaves me wanting to know, “Can’t we just have some fun with it already?!”

According to html5games.com the answer to my question is a resounding “Yes!”

Grab a handful of imaginary quarters, cinch up your soda hat, launch your favorite HTML5-compatible browser, and get ready for some plug-in free causal gaming action!

There are loads of fun games to play, like the 3D Tetris clone Cubeout, Pacman, Solitaire and Spades games, and the collection is growing all the time. In fairness to Flash game developers, I didn’t see anything on HTML5games which truly rivals the quality and addictiveness of some of our favorite Adobe-powered timewasters, but HTML5 is still pretty nascent as a gaming platform.

Given some more time, HTML5games could very start inching its way up my frequently used bookmarks list.Because HTML5 is about more than the damn video tag, there’s HTML5games.com originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Producers Guillermo del Toro (?Pan’s Labyrinth,? ?The Orphanage?) and Mark Johnson (?Chronicles of Narnia?) join forces to deliver ?Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,? a tale of hair-raising, spine-chilling horror.JDS UNIPHASE
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Filed under: Fun, Utilities, Windows
I’m pretty happy with the way Windows 7 looks out of the box. The vast majority of our readers seem to like the new look, too — especially the fact that it’s highly customizable. But suppose you want to do more than play with sliders to adjust the hue and opacity? Suppose you want to drape a Mac’s gray-and-purple cloak over your desktop?

Take a look at Snow Transformation Pack. It’s one of the most faithful, complete OS X skins I’ve ever seen and it’s a breeze to install. Just download the pack, install it, and two reboots (one is required to disable UAC, another to load modified system files) later your Windows desktop looks remarkably similar to a real Mac running Snow Leopard.

Despite the visual overhaul, you won’t lose any functionality. As you can see, taskbar thumbnails still work just fine (as do jump lists) and you can still rearrange icons to your heart’s content. Window controls (minimize/restore/maximize) remain on the right — where you’re used to seeing them on your Windows system.

STP even skins Internet Explorer to look a bit like Safari, and the familiar OS X style dock is included as well — courtesy of RK Launcher. There’s even a stacks docklet included, which is one of my favorite features of the OS X dock.

I tested the Snow Transformation Pack on a netbook running 32-bit Windows 7 Starter, but reports from other reviewers seem to indicate that it will run on 64-bit installs as well. If you give it a try, share your thoughts with us in the comments!

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A Wacom-style graphics tablet for the Wii? It’s a fantastic idea, and if THQ, the maker of the uDraw, can make it work as well as a Wacom, it could have a winning peripheral.
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For now it’s just a rumor, but wouldn’t a November launch of a waterproof Android phone on T-Mobile be really cool?  Supposedly the Motorola Jordan is that phone, and BGR is reporting that it will be waterproof to a depth of 10 meters.  Think of all the phones you’ve left in the rain, dropped in the sink, or even worse — in the toilet.  Not to mention those of us who like to fish or go boating. This could make one hell of a weekend phone, for those times when you have one hell of a weekend.  We’ll let you know as we find out more.  [BGR]Posted originally at Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories

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A full appellate brief appealing U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton’s ruling that Google-owned YouTube had taken sufficient steps to deal with copyright violations on the online video-sharing service is expected in the fall.

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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
FreeApps is a software catalog with a twist. It has a ton of quality, freeware/open source offerings that are sorted by category. You browse the catalog, and then you tick the box next to every application that you’d like to install.
You then hit Get Installer and download a small file (about 0.5MB). Run the file, and it downloads all of the applications that you’ve marked and sets them all up, silently. It’s a pretty magical experience; just hit “install” and watch the tool save you hours of browsing and installation. I tried it, and it was a really great experience.
If any of this sounds familiar, it’s because this is exactly what Ninite has been offering for a while. FreeApps’ catalog seems to offer a wider selection, though. They have Miranda IM, for example, which is a must-have for me (but they don’t offer Python, which Ninite does).
Bottom line: Personally, I much prefer FreeApps to Ninite because it offers the tools that I use. Now, if they would just add Total Commander …FreeApps lets you install a ton of quality free applications at once originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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The 1.4-GHz terrestrial-satellite LTE wireless network will help utilities establish proprietary grid management networks.

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The long-awaited trailer from the makers of the original BioShock shows the world of BioShock Infinite for the first time. Is it yet another adventure with Little Sister in the underwater city of Rapture? Not exactly.TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS
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Foreword: My dear American brethren and sistren, stop reading now: Spotify isn’t available in your country. Rdio should be out soon though!

Spotify Chrome Extension is a bit of a misnomer. It’s not an official extension, nor does it really utilize any of Spotify’s functionality, but it is a whole lot more useful than any other Chrome extension out there. Once it’s installed, you can select some text (an artist’s name), hit the new Spotify button on your browser chrome and BOOM! you’re rewarded with search results from Spotify’s extensive music database. Click a result and the song starts playing in Spotify. Neat.

The problem is, you can only search by artist. You can’t select the name of an album and search for that — neither can you do the same for record labels. Also, there’s no way to push the button and enter your own search string — you’re only given that option if a previous search returns no results.

So, it does one thing and it does it well; I just wish it did a bit more. It would be a few seconds’ work to add album searching. But hey, perhaps I’m being a little unfair: the extension is brand new. I just hope the developer hasn’t abandoned this neat little extension — it has promise!Spotify Chrome Extension is handy, but could certainly be a lot better originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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The 10.1-inch screen on the Wi-Fi enabled player presents 1080p high-definition video with a claimed three-hour battery life on a single charge.

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After months of infringement lawsuits and countersuits filed by Nokia and Apple, Nokia takes its case to the International Trade Commission. Nokia claims Apple is infringing on seven of its patents involving virtually all Apple iPhones, computers and iPods. – Nokia escalated its legal battle with Apple Dec. 29, filing a complaint with
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Investors and advisors of the vertically focused company include Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, LinkedIn chairman Reid Hoffman and Google Ventures general partner Joe Kraus.

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  Forum  user JCrater11 and others have been keeping up a nightly changelog for Cyanogenmod 6 for the Sprint HTC Evo 4G. Last month we told you it was coming, and since then development has taken off. For those of you who don’t know, Cyanogenmod is built from and Android 2.2 Froyo source and doesn’t include anything that is closed-source. If you don’t have an Evo, you can check to see if your phone is supported by Cyanogen at the developer website. If you are rocking the Evo, though, head on over to the forum thread and check out what’s new in the nightlies (and if you notice something that isn’t there, feel free to pitch in). [Android Central Forums]Posted originally at Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories

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For those of you dying to watch the full thing, here’s Adobe’s entire Google TV demonstration from the Adobe Flash Summit. We get to experience Flash on a number of websites, and for a dev unit, it’s all pretty functional. Check it out after the break.
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Large websites (like DownloadSquad or any other major blog/site) have full-time sysadmins, dedicated hosting facilities, and a ton of fail-safe mechanisms to ensure that they’re always up and available.
However, if you have a small site that’s running off of a shared host you may sometimes be surprised to discover that it’s down. That rarely happens, but when it does happen you usually discover it yourself — or a friend tells you. By then, there’s no telling how many visitors you may have lost (dozens, usually, but that’s a lot of visitors for a small, personal site).
MonitorServerUptime is an inexpensive service (US $3 per URL/server per month) that promises to send you an email or SMS alert (worldwide) whenever your site goes down.
What you do from there is really up to you. When you’re using a shared server and need to rely on your host’s support services, though, there’s often not much that you can do (outside of sending an email and hoping for a quick and effective reply). But still, being one of the first to know that your own website is down does help.

Know of a similar service which you think is a better deal? Tell us!MonitorServerUptime is a monitoring solution for small websites originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsARROW ELECTRONICS
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Mobile isn’t the only place Microsoft is looking to make a splash when it comes to gaming. They’ve also been quietly at work using addictive timewasters from PopCap to lure you over to Bing — you can find the goodies in Bing Entertainment under the games tab.

We’re not talking about Pac-Man in a Google doodle here. We’re talking just over a dozen casual games including the kiss-your-afternoon-goodbye favorite Plants vs. Zombies. No, it’s not the same boatload of games you’ll find at MSN Games, but it’s a nice assortment for a brief diversion on a search site. You’ll also find one of my personal addictions — Bookworm — and a handful of other PopCap games like Hexic, Bejeweled 2, and a pair of fun Mahjonng titles.

Bing Games frames your play window with a Facebook border which allows you to post your scores, view your friends’ recent activity, or even challenge them to beat your score — a nice touch if you’re the competitive, social type.

Thanks for the tip, Alan!Microsoft adds big names to Bing Games — including Plants vs. Zombies originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsEPICOR SOFTWARE
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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity
Shutdown Timer is a utility which shuts down your computer, logs you off, runs a file or does any number of other things once the CPU goes above or beyond a certain threshold, or the network downstream or upstream passes a threshold, et cetera.
In simple terms, it’s a tool which lets you shut down your computer once your downloads complete for the night. I’ve covered it before, but a new version has been released, the the UI is completely different now.
To be honest – I liked the previous UI better. This new UI has some odd quirks: for example, I cannot set a condition such as “when CPU is below 10% AND memory is below 2.5GB”. It’s either CPU or memory, can’t be both.
On the plus side, you can now set it to open a file or run a program when the trigger conditions are met – that’s new, and very handy.
Another nice thing about this program, in my opinion, is how its creator tries to monetize it. The program’s site is beautifully laid out (as is the program); there are no annoyances, but there are clear and simple requests for donation, including a bar that shows how many donations have been collected so far. It’s a simple, common model, but the execution is graceful. I certainly hope some people donate (I don’t personally use the tool, but if I did, I probably would, just because he asks so nicely and provides a good product).
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It’s just about that time of year again — time for millions of students to put their noses to the grindstone and head back to school for another year of academic excitement!

Few learning tools are as versatile as your trusty laptop or desktop computer — and your Web browser is likely one of the most-used programs on it. If Google Chrome is your browser of choice, there are loads of useful add-on enhancements in the Extensions Gallery which can turn Chrome into a powerful tool for staying focused and productive while tackling your coursework.

Take the jump and have a look at thirteen Chrome extensions I’ve found useful… and be sure to share your own picks in the comments!

Clip to Evernote
Evernote is a fantastic research and productivity tool — and it’s made even better when you plug the Chrome extension into your browser. Clip, tag, and describe just about any content you stumble across as you browse and retrieve it later from the Evernote desktop app or the equally handy (and far more pocketable) mobile version.

Wikipedia Companion
Sure, you can just open another tab or window when you want to look up something on Wikipedia, but you don’t have to. The Wikipedia Companion extension lets you do it in a pop-up without having to leave the page you’re currently browsing. It’s very useful for doing things like looking up some background info about Peter Forsberg while you’re browsing TSN instead of finishing an important blog post.

Ultimate Google Docs Viewer
Recent versions of Chrome have a built-in viewer for PDF documents, but the Google Docs Previewer can also handle Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files. Ultimate Docs Viewer keeps an eye out for supported files and zips you over to the online previewer for a fast, lightweight to peruse them.

FastestChrome
Want a single extension which adds a whole slew of efficiency-boosting features to Chrome? Check out FastestChrome. It provides useful enhancements like auto-loading the next page in multi-page articles, “linkifying” plain-text URLs, providing pop-up definitions for words you highlight, adding related articles to Wikipedia pages, and a whole lot more. There’s a good reason more than 300,000 Chrome users have the FastestChrome extension installed: it’s pretty dang useful.

Postponer Adder and Manager
Postponer is a pair of unofficial ReadItLater extensions for Google Chrome. The adder allows you to submit new URLs to your ReadItLater queue while the manager provides a searchable, sortable pop-up display of both unread and read items. It’s a nice way to stash pages you want or need to read when you’re short on time.

ChromeMilk / Unofficial Google Tasks / ToodleChrome
Google Tasks, Remember the Milk, and Toodledo are all excellent task management apps. Whichever you choose to help you get things done, there’s a Chrome extension which helps you stay on top of your tasks while you browse.

DayHiker
If you use Google Calendar to keep your schedule in order, DayHiker deserves a spot in your browser. It provides a slick heads-up display of your upcoming appointments. DayHiker can also display your Google Tasks, has a handy pop-out alarm clock function, and it works with both standard Google accounts as well as Apps accounts.

StayFocusd
Staying on task isn’t always an easy thing — especially in your Web browser, where there are so many awesome sites out there where you could be enjoying yourself while you slack off. StayFocusd is here to help! Add sites to your block list and set up time restrictions and StayFocusd will make sure you don’t fritter away more than your allotted amount for the day. Once the timer hits your magic number, the site is blocked until the following day.

Lazarus
As stable as Google Chrome might be, there’s always the chance you might be victimized by an untimely browser crash. If one happens while you’re filling out a form, it’s a pain in the butt to have to start from scratch after you re-launch Chrome. That’s where Lazarus comes in — it keeps tabs on forms while you fill them out and saves the data temporarily. If Chrome should happen to crash, Lazarus pops your previously entered data back in. It can be a real frustration preventer.

After the Deadline
Chrome has a built-in spellchecker, but you can bolt on a full-featured virtual proofreader by installing After the Deadline. ATD checks for grammar, syntax, and even common stylistic mistakes and it works just about anywhere you can type in some text (even things like Facebook wall posts). ATD is like having your own private proofreader/editor right inside Google Chrome.
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Apple released the all new Apple iPad April 3rd. Already over 300,000 have been sold, with lines forming around the country. Apples pitch is that its the best way to experience the web, email, photos and video. The thin, and light iPad (its only 1.5 pounds) features a 9.7 inch high resolution screen that enables users to watch HD movies, TV shows, podcasts and music videos. It also features a vivid LED-backlit IPS display, ideal for photo slideshows or Keynote presentations. You can surf the web, listen to music or even read a book with it. The iPad also has built-in 802.11n wireless capabilities and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, which lets you connect to devices like wireless headphones or the Apple Wireless Keyboard. So well take a in depth look at it. Evaluate its pros and cons and let in on what the reviewers are saying from across the web. – Video Content.

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Clearwire has expanded its portfolio of portable hotspots with the iSpot, which has been designed to attract Apple users.

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ARM, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have together created Linaro, a not-for-profit company focused on supporting the development of open-source products for devices powered by ARM’s chip designs. Along with Android, other open-source ventures such as LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and WebOS stand to profit from the project, which could help unify a fragmented Linux mobile operating system market. – IBM and chip designer ARM, with
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Apple is notifying customers that it has begun its free bumper program, allowing existing and new iPhone 4 customers to get reimbursed for the purchase of approved bumpers.

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It’s just about that time of year again — time for millions of students to put their noses to the grindstone and head back to school for another year of academic excitement!

Few learning tools are as versatile as your trusty laptop or desktop computer — and your Web browser is likely one of the most-used programs on it. If Google Chrome is your browser of choice, there are loads of useful add-on enhancements in the Extensions Gallery which can turn Chrome into a powerful tool for staying focused and productive while tackling your coursework.

Take the jump and have a look at thirteen Chrome extensions I’ve found useful… and be sure to share your own picks in the comments!

Clip to Evernote
Evernote is a fantastic research and productivity tool — and it’s made even better when you plug the Chrome extension into your browser. Clip, tag, and describe just about any content you stumble across as you browse and retrieve it later from the Evernote desktop app or the equally handy (and far more pocketable) mobile version.

Wikipedia Companion
Sure, you can just open another tab or window when you want to look up something on Wikipedia, but you don’t have to. The Wikipedia Companion extension lets you do it in a pop-up without having to leave the page you’re currently browsing. It’s very useful for doing things like looking up some background info about Peter Forsberg while you’re browsing TSN instead of finishing an important blog post.

Ultimate Google Docs Viewer
Recent versions of Chrome have a built-in viewer for PDF documents, but the Google Docs Previewer can also handle Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files. Ultimate Docs Viewer keeps an eye out for supported files and zips you over to the online previewer for a fast, lightweight to peruse them.

FastestChrome
Want a single extension which adds a whole slew of efficiency-boosting features to Chrome? Check out FastestChrome. It provides useful enhancements like auto-loading the next page in multi-page articles, “linkifying” plain-text URLs, providing pop-up definitions for words you highlight, adding related articles to Wikipedia pages, and a whole lot more. There’s a good reason more than 300,000 Chrome users have the FastestChrome extension installed: it’s pretty dang useful.

Postponer Adder and Manager
Postponer is a pair of unofficial ReadItLater extensions for Google Chrome. The adder allows you to submit new URLs to your ReadItLater queue while the manager provides a searchable, sortable pop-up display of both unread and read items. It’s a nice way to stash pages you want or need to read when you’re short on time.

ChromeMilk / Unofficial Google Tasks / ToodleChrome
Google Tasks, Remember the Milk, and Toodledo are all excellent task management apps. Whichever you choose to help you get things done, there’s a Chrome extension which helps you stay on top of your tasks while you browse.

DayHiker
If you use Google Calendar to keep your schedule in order, DayHiker deserves a spot in your browser. It provides a slick heads-up display of your upcoming appointments. DayHiker can also display your Google Tasks, has a handy pop-out alarm clock function, and it works with both standard Google accounts as well as Apps accounts.

StayFocusd
Staying on task isn’t always an easy thing — especially in your Web browser, where there are so many awesome sites out there where you could be enjoying yourself while you slack off. StayFocusd is here to help! Add sites to your block list and set up time restrictions and StayFocusd will make sure you don’t fritter away more than your allotted amount for the day. Once the timer hits your magic number, the site is blocked until the following day.

Lazarus
As stable as Google Chrome might be, there’s always the chance you might be victimized by an untimely browser crash. If one happens while you’re filling out a form, it’s a pain in the butt to have to start from scratch after you re-launch Chrome. That’s where Lazarus comes in — it keeps tabs on forms while you fill them out and saves the data temporarily. If Chrome should happen to crash, Lazarus pops your previously entered data back in. It can be a real frustration preventer.

After the Deadline
Chrome has a built-in spellchecker, but you can bolt on a full-featured virtual proofreader by installing After the Deadline. ATD checks for grammar, syntax, and even common stylistic mistakes and it works just about anywhere you can type in some text (even things like Facebook wall posts). ATD is like having your own private proofreader/editor right inside Google Chrome.
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UC Berkeley researchers and students create a backpack that can be used to build 3D maps of buildings.

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If coverage of the highlights wasn’t enough for you, Google has uploaded a video of last week’s press event on YouTube.  Besides news about Chrome to phone and the all new voice actions, you’ll get 29 minutes worth of Google mobile developer geekdom, and I know there’s a few of you out there thinking that’s just fine.  I do, too, and it’s well worth a look if you’re curious about mobile development or Google in general.  We have the video after the break.
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Filed under: Blogging, AndroidI had actually intended to try out TweetDeck for Android today, but it turns out it only works on smartphones sporting Android 2.0 or newer. Thus, with my weak, little Android 1.6 phone I’ve been left out in the cold, tweetless and lonely. But hey, it ain’t all bad: I’ve been playing with the official WordPress app instead, and damn it’s good!

First things first, though: you’d have to be an utter buffoon to compose a proper, longer-than-140-character blog post using your mobile phone. That’s not to say that the WordPress app doesn’t feature a great New Post editor, but I can only recommend you use it if you’re a masochist with tungsten carbide fingertips and precision-engineered reinforced tendons.

Fortunately the WordPress app offers a lot more than just the New Post editor. You can moderate and reply to comments, check your stats and even upload photos and videos straight from your camera!

In short, if you use use self-hosted WordPress.org installation, or a free blog available from WordPress.com, and you have an Android phone, you want this app.

If you still need convincing, read on!
After installing, the first thing you need to do is add a WordPress blog that you want to manage. Both the free WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.org blogs can be added — just type in your name and password. You can add more than one blog, too.

Each blog has a Preferences page, as you can see above. Actually, rather counter-intuitively, each blog has two separate pages; I have no idea why. The one you see above configures comment notifications, and the other lets your configure the size of your image uploads. Sadly I am Little Timmy No-Friends and no one left a comment on my blog today, so I couldn’t test Notifications, but I’m sure they work!

Once you’re added a blog, you can look at Comments, your Posts and Pages, and even the blog’s Stats! Comments can be moderated, edited and replied to — you can even ‘mass moderate’ using checkboxes (check the screenshot). To make a new post you click the ‘+’ in the bottom left corner of the Posts tab. I don’t know why it doesn’t say ‘New Post’… were the app developers trying to be cool? You can also edit and create static Pages, though you’re probably not going to do that while on the move.

Finally we have the Stats tab! It looks just like the Web-based stats that you will have already seen many times on both WordPress.com and your self-hosted blog. Again, I can’t see why you’d want to look at your stats while on the move — to show at job interviews, perhaps? Incidentally, that high point on the graph was just after I joined Download Squad…

All in all, the Android WordPress app is excellent! The only issue I had was uploading photos directly from my phone’s camera. It simply caused the app to crash — and of course I lost my torturously-typed blog post in the process! Perhaps the photos were too big, or maybe it’s a known bug. I’m sure it’ll be fixed in due course.

WordPress for Android Tech Specs

Installed Size — 1.3MB, but that could grow if you add more blogs
Speed/Responsiveness — The app itself is very responsive. Posts, comments and pages take a while to download the first time you view them — but they’re a lot faster after that (Android 1.6 @ 600 MHz, LG GT 540 Swift)
User Interface — The interface is probably the best I’ve ever had the pleasure of using, at least on smartphone. Bravo!
Configurability & Extensibility — The app doesn’t actually do a whole lot, so there isn’t much to configure. I can’t see any way in which the app can be extended, either
License — Free and open-source, just like the blogging platform itself — coders, get involved with the next version of the app!
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Filed under: Utilities, Mozilla, BrowsersI still remember the day fondly. I was 16 and I had just got my first broadband connection. 512 kilobits of pure DOWNLOAD! Ten times the bandwidth of my dial-up modem! Unlimited traffic! To this day I’m still amazed at how quickly I filled my 20GB hard drive with porn. But that’s beyond the point — back then, you had to either painstakingly Right Click > Save As on every image and video, or rely on a bunch of really crap standalone Web crawlers.

Fast forward to today and collecting porn image galleries is a lot easier. Not only do we have terabytes of hard disk space and megabit Internet connections, but you can use peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent to download entire archives at the click of a button. But if you still want to crawl sites and make your own archives, you can’t go wrong with the Firefox add-on FoxySpider.

FoxySpider is marketed as a porn crawler. Out of the box it will crawl all images and videos on the page you’re currently viewing, but it has tons of options. You can change the crawl depth, make it ignore files without thumbnails and change how many files are concurrently downloaded. You have complete control over the file types that are downloaded, so if you want to crawl music files, documents or indeed any file extension, FoxySpider also has you covered.

The output galleries are configurable too — thumbnail size, background color and so on. There’s no option to automatically save the galleries you create, however!FoxySpider is a Web crawler for image and video enthusiasts originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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1854: Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden, or, Life in the Woods. His distillation of two years living in relative seclusion offers deep insights not just into the natural world and humanity’s place in it, but how that relationship was being impacted — and degraded — by the Industrial Revolution. It remains to this day a [...]INFORMATICA
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Omniture adds a new application to its Omniture SiteCatalyst tool that allows users to monitor the spread of viral video on YouTube and other sites. Salesforce, Google, Amazon and other companies have all been expanding the range of applications available on their cloud-based computing platforms, even allowing clients to monitor Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and other sites to see how a particular service or product is being greeted by the general public….

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Microsoft and Polycom are entering an alliance that will include jointly developing, selling and marketing unified communications products based on Polycom endpoints and Microsoft’s Communications Server 14. – Polycom, which already has partnerships with the likes of Hewlett-Packard
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Filed under: Games, Mobile, Android
Forget emulation, gentlemen, because Sony Ericsson is finally bringing us a PlayStation phone! Engadget has the scoop, and Sir Topolsky seems confident that this is more than just a rumor — we might even see this portable-gaming-cum-smartphone as soon as October!

If you hadn’t realised yet, the image above is a mock-up of what Engadget thinks the phone will look like. We know that it will have a slide-out hardware controller, and that it will feature gaming controls rather than a QWERTY keyboard (I wonder if you’ll be able to type SMSes with the Square, Triangle, Circle and Cross…) There won’t be an analogue joystick (boo!), but there will be shoulder buttons. Other than the game pad, the hardware is nothing special: a big screen, a 5-megapixel camera and a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. I wonder if it will emulate PlayStation and PSP games, or whether it will have some juicy Sony-developed co-processors to run things natively?

Now the only bit that everyone really cares about: the games. Considering the mediocrity of Android’s gaming scene, a big blob of love from Sony would be huge news. (Aside: Did you see how chummy Google and Sony CEOs looked during the announcement of Google TV? I wonder if Google courted this development from Sony Ericsson…)

Anyway, there will be a new category on the Android Market, just for for these new PlayStation-esque games. As to what games will be made available, who knows! The Engadget article is short on details in that regard, so we’ll have to speculate. Will it leverage the PSP’s excellent library of games? Or is this new phone merely intended to court the cautious game developers that are paddling in Apple’s warm, cerulean waters? ‘Pssst! We have hardware buttons! Come make some games!’

We’ll have to wait until later this year to find out.
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Filed under: Design, Utilities, Windows
Earlier this week, I spent some time creating my own Rainmeter config. It’s nothing major — it’s based on an existing config, and is just a simple bar which shows the time (in a couple of time zones), the current date, and a large clock.
The problem was that I wanted Windows to take this bar into account when maximizing windows; I didn’t want the windows to be maximized over it. To make things worse, I do not always have the bar in that position. Sometimes I use the same space for my CD Art Display skin, and I also don’t want Windows to maximize windows over that.
Enter DesktopCoral! This trusty utility isn’t new, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t cool. With a few simple settings, I reserved a space at the bottom of my secondary monitor, which is just right for my widgets. If I want to change the configuration, I just need to drag a couple of sliders and check a couple of boxes. Unlike many customization tools, DesktopCoral’s configuration is completely graphical.
I spent exactly two minutes configuring this tool, and it’s been running in my system tray, quietly doing its job without a hitch, for over a week now. That’s perfect!DesktopCoral reserves desktop space for your widgets originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Weighing in at a massive 4 kilobytes for the portable version, Feewhee does exactly two things, and does them well:
First, get the program and run it. Then, hover your mouse over the title bar of any window. Now scroll the wheel, and watch the window resize up or down, according to the direction of your scroll.
Press shift and scroll, and watch the window gradually become less opaque (or more transparent, in other words).
I love this kind of software because it’s tiny, free, portable, does exactly one thing and does it exceptionally well. I’m more of a keyboard kind of guy so I’m not sure how much use this would get on my system, but at this size (consuming 866KB of memory while it’s running) I really don’t mind having it sit there in the background, just in case.
By the way, while you’re there, you should really check out the entire Nattyware site. They have some very nice freeware utilities, other than Feewhee.Feewhee lets you instantly resize windows and make them transparent originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsMICROS SYSTEMS
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Blur gets a lot of undeserved hate.  Sure it may not be as pretty out-of-the-box as Sense, or as sleek and lean as stock Android, but PhilBlur can look great if you take the time.  Check out some of the great looks members have going on in the Droid X forums! [Android Central forums] Pic courtesy of terpitude71!Posted originally at Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories

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A full appellate brief appealing U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton’s ruling that Google-owned YouTube had taken sufficient steps to deal with copyright violations on the online video-sharing service is expected in the fall.

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The tenth annual Debian Developer Conference has opened in New York City. DebConf 2010 is the first time the event has been held in the United States. – The tenth annual Debian Developer Conference has opened in New York City.
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1790: In keeping with a tradition at least as old as the Romans and constitutionally mandated by the Founding Fathers, the first U.S. Census begins.
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Google added direct access numbers to its Google Voice for mobile application on Android and Blackberry smartphones. The company is actively soliciting suggestions from users about how to improve Google Voice. – Google July 22 moved to accelerate calls placed on Android and Blackberry smartphones through its
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Developers will eventually be able to put ad-supported content in third-party apps.

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Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters
Hummingbird Mind is an interactive story that’s done up in 8-bit graphics. It’s rather slow-paced, but I like it. It has several elements from my own life: working from home, procrastination, and cats. Well, it has one cat. And of course, there’s a hummingbird. There’s also mention of doing the dishes and a hat, but I don’t want to give the story away, so that’s enough hints.
The controls are just like in the quests of yore. Your mouse pointer becomes a tiny “cross” pointer, and the dialog slowly appears on the screen. (The dialog appears in a “typing” effect, but you can click if you want it to all show up at once.) Once a scene is described, you get to select one of several possible choices. You don’t always see them all; I think that some choices are only revealed when you come back to a scene after you’ve already done something in the game.
The text is well-written and engaging. I think it would have been cooler with vector graphics rather than the 8-bit raster style, but I guess the 8-bit style is easier to make. It’s quite a lovely little game!Hummingbird Mind is a beautiful, retro, interactive story – Time-Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Filed under: Utilities, Mozilla, BrowsersI still remember the day fondly. I was 16 and I had just got my first broadband connection. 512 kilobits of pure DOWNLOAD! Ten times the bandwidth of my dial-up modem! Unlimited traffic! To this day I’m still amazed at how quickly I filled my 20GB hard drive with porn. But that’s beyond the point — back then, you had to either painstakingly Right Click > Save As on every image and video, or rely on a bunch of really crap standalone Web crawlers.

Fast forward to today and collecting porn image galleries is a lot easier. Not only do we have terabytes of hard disk space and megabit Internet connections, but you can use peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent to download entire archives at the click of a button. But if you still want to crawl sites and make your own archives, you can’t go wrong with the Firefox add-on FoxySpider.

FoxySpider is marketed as a porn crawler. Out of the box it will crawl all images and videos on the page you’re currently viewing, but it has tons of options. You can change the crawl depth, make it ignore files without thumbnails and change how many files are concurrently downloaded. You have complete control over the file types that are downloaded, so if you want to crawl music files, documents or indeed any file extension, FoxySpider also has you covered.

The output galleries are configurable too — thumbnail size, background color and so on. There’s no option to automatically save the galleries you create, however!FoxySpider is a Web crawler for image and video enthusiasts originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsTRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS
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We’ll be running some amazing new, weekly contests in the iPhone Forum and iPad Forum and what better way to start than a contest to help us think of amazing new contests?

Let us know your ideas for cool, weird, funny, and all around fun contests and if we like your idea and use it, [...]TiPb contest idea contest! Enter now! is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb – The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog

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Smartphones with dual-core chips could allow for faster application performance and 1080p video playback.

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Earlier this week I reviewed NESoid, a tidy little Android app that lets you play the vast library of NES games on your smartphone. It’s no surprise that my 600MHz smartphone can emulate the NES’s 8-bit 1.8MHz (really!) processor — but boy was I shocked when I installed PSX4droid and found I could (almost) play Final Fantasy VII on my phone.

Note: just like the NES emulator, it’s almost pointless to play PlayStation games on a phone without multi-touch capabilities. PSX4android will work on your Android 1.6 phone, but don’t try to play anything more complicated than Tetris clones.

First things first, PSX4droid isn’t a free app: it costs $5.99 on the Android Market. That said, given how gaming experience will vary wildly depending on what phone you own, I would recommend you torrent PSX4droid first before spending money on something that might not work. There’s also a non-exhaustive list of compatible phones that you can check beforehand. In general, if you have one of the newer 1GHz+ Android 2.0-or-later smartphones, PSX4droid should work.

Update: you can also buy something from the Android Market and get a full refund within 24 hours — so you can do that instead.

OK, now on with the actual review!

Getting PSX4droid to run is a lot harder than other emulators out there. It isn’t simply a matter of installing the app and grabbing a few ROMs. Even if you buy PSX4droid, it won’t work out of the box: you need to get a PlayStation BIOS BIN file first. Search the Web for ’scph1001.bin’. Transfer the file it to your phone’s SD card. (If you need help, there’s a walkthrough at the end of Android Tapp’s review.)

Then you need to find some game ROMs! Unlike NES and Sega games, PlayStation games are pretty big (the size of a CD!) This means that ROM sites don’t tend to host the files themselves, so to find PlayStation ROMs you’re going to have to trawl through MegaUpload, RapidShare and lots of ad-ridden pages to find your games. Couple in the fact that not every game works on the emulator, and you can see how playing PlayStation games on your Android might be more effort than it’s worth. Still, if you want to push ahead, here are some good ROM sites:

CoolROM (requires free membership)
DopeRoms (slow direct downloads)
EmuParadise (has direct downloads!)
Romulation (requires free membership)

Once you have a ROM or two, transfer them to your phone’s SD card. You are finally ready to play some games! Note in the screenshot below that I have to set the PSX BIOS file to the ’scph1001.bin’ file that I transferred to my phone.

I won’t lie to you, the gaming experience really isn’t great — at least on my Android 1.6 phone. With a newer HTC or Motorola smartphone (one with a hardware keyboard!) it might be better, but I bet it still pales in comparison to the real thing. On my phone the graphics were OK (around 10-15 FPS), but the audio sucked (very crackly) — probably because the 3D graphics were sucking up all available processing power.

There are two special input methods worth checking out: the Nintendo Wiimote (or indeed any Bluetooth gamepad), and the capability of using the phone’s internal ’tilt’ sensor. You can push ‘up’ on the on-screen gamepad while tilting your phone to the left, and your character moves diagonally! The Bluetooth input method is much more exciting — you get the Wiimote’s complete functionality! — but it seems to require Android 2.0, and even then it doesn’t work on HTC phones.

With all that said, I actually managed to play through the first few combat sequences in Final Fantasy VII. PSX4droid might not be as smooth as the NES or Sega emulators, but given a year or two and 3GHz processors in our mobile phones, the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP might seem a little redundant.

PSX4droid Tech Specs

Installed Size — 1.35MB, but PlayStation ROMs vary from hundreds of megabytes to a couple of gigabytes (Final Fantasy!)
Speed/Responsiveness — Interface-wise, fine. Actual game experience will vary wildly depending on what phone you have (tested with Android 1.6 @ 600MHz, LG GT 540 Swift)
User Interface — I still can’t really fathom why anyone would use a flat, on-screen display for playing games. Give me BUTTONS!
Configurability & Extensibility — Lots and lots of options, from how games are displayed through to shortcut keys and the placement of the on-screen gamepad
License — Commercial, costs $5.99

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Analysis: Logitech’s Google TV box named; expect it to control your life this fall.

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My Apple journey started as a test of whether and when Apple hardware and software had a place in a mostly-Windows corporate world. In the year since, I’ve come to appreciate computer systems that just work, and my switchover has been eased by products such as Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition. With that said, however, Mac desktop and notebook systems are still a departmental, not an enterprise, concern for IT managers. – 2010 will start my second year as a daily Mac user in a Windows-oriented
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Filed under: Fun, Text, Weird Wednesday
Notologist is a simple idea that’s beautifully executed. Phil Zelnar leaves pretty paper notes lying around, each one containing a code and a handwritten question. Someone finds the note, goes to the site, enters the code, and writes their reply. The rest of the world gets to see the replies and enjoy the site’s beautiful design.
This is obviously a PR stunt, but it works. It’s a great way for Phil to show off his design chops and his understanding of the social nature of the Web. I think it’s much better than a portfolio or a plain bio. It’s also nice that Phil only put down a tiny link at the bottom of the page (rather than a huge logo plastered all over the place) and gave the project its own domain.

If you like Notologist, you might want to check out Phil’s other fun project, Your Favorite Letter. It collects votes for people’s favorite letters, and then it eventually makes a word. It’s difficult to explain, but it’s very simple to understand once you see the page. It’s also beautifully designed.
In fact, if every great Web designer would take some time to create a fun, compelling project, it would make the Web a whole lot funkier… and it might net them some great paid projects.

Kudos!Notologist leaves random notes lying around, publishes replies originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsTRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS
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My Apple journey started as a test of whether and when Apple hardware and software had a place in a mostly-Windows corporate world. In the year since, I’ve come to appreciate computer systems that just work, and my switchover has been eased by products such as Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition. With that said, however, Mac desktop and notebook systems are still a departmental, not an enterprise, concern for IT managers. – 2010 will start my second year as a daily Mac user in a Windows-oriented
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The collection spans from the dawn of the computer to the advent of the PC. Here are top highlights from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

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Filed under: Windows
Just about everyone customizes his or her Windows desktop somehow, but most probably don’t bother tinkering with the Welcome screen. After all, you really don’t see it that often unless you’re a stickler for security and always log off when you’re AFK (which is a good habit to get into, really).

If that’s how you roll, take a look at Windows 7 Logon Reworked. It’s available in three variations — the one you see above, another with the Windows logo embedded in the login box’s glass border, and one more which is completely logo-free. As with a lot of other shell modifications, installing Reworked requires a little bit of tinkering in your system folder. You’ll have to replace the stock Windows authui.dll in Safe Mode to do it — check the author’s instructions on DeviantArt if you need help and make sure you create a backup before making any changes!

Both 32 and 64-bit versions are available for all three styles, and there’s also a snazzy Aurora-inspired replacement background should you want to change that as well!Windows 7 Logon Reworked is a sexy welcome screen replacement originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Filed under: Utilities, Mozilla, BrowsersI still remember the day fondly. I was 16 and I had just got my first broadband connection. 512 kilobits of pure DOWNLOAD! Ten times the bandwidth of my dial-up modem! Unlimited traffic! To this day I’m still amazed at how quickly I filled my 20GB hard drive with porn. But that’s beyond the point — back then, you had to either painstakingly Right Click > Save As on every image and video, or rely on a bunch of really crap standalone Web crawlers.

Fast forward to today and collecting porn image galleries is a lot easier. Not only do we have terabytes of hard disk space and megabit Internet connections, but you can use peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent to download entire archives at the click of a button. But if you still want to crawl sites and make your own archives, you can’t go wrong with the Firefox add-on FoxySpider.

FoxySpider is marketed as a porn crawler. Out of the box it will crawl all images and videos on the page you’re currently viewing, but it has tons of options. You can change the crawl depth, make it ignore files without thumbnails and change how many files are concurrently downloaded. You have complete control over the file types that are downloaded, so if you want to crawl music files, documents or indeed any file extension, FoxySpider also has you covered.

The output galleries are configurable too — thumbnail size, background color and so on. There’s no option to automatically save the galleries you create, however!FoxySpider is a Web crawler for image and video enthusiasts originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Our final look at the teams in the MoonBots Challenge takes us to a state steeped in transportation tradition, Michigan. From steamships to railroads to automobiles, The Great Lakes State has played an important role in moving people. And now, Team Yellow Jackets is hoping to play an important part in Lego lunar robotics.
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Filed under: Google, How-Tos, Browsers
Google Chrome’s sync features can be incredibly handy for those of use who run the browser on multiple computers. Every now and then, however, you may run into a problem. In my case, I had certain bookmarks which kept popping back up even though I’d previously deleted them.

Today I got an email from a reader, John, who was having a similar issue with his extensions. “Recently LastPass has found a way to stay in there, but all my other extensions are gone, no where to be found, not even at chrome://extensions,” he wrote.

So, how does he fix this? I’ve tried a couple things in the past which seem to help.

Sign out of Chrome Sync and sign back in. To do this, click the wrench menu icon and then click options. Once the window appears, click the Personal Stuff tab and press Stop syncing this account. Confirm by pressing Stop syncing.

This method will work best when you’re not signed in to Chrome elsewhere — so remember to close your browser on your secondary machine before you begin.

Change your Google account password. Also recommended as a quick way to kill 3rd-party app access to your Twitter account, a quick change of your Google password will break sync and give you a chance to start fresh. This link should take you to the password change page, or you can visit your Google Dashboard.

This will prevent all your systems from re-syncing, regardless of whether or not you closed the browser first.

If you’ve been having issues with Chrome sync, let us know if either of these solutions worked for you!How to reboot Google Chrome sync when you’re having problems originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Nearly half of young people spend as much time watching traditional TV as they do using online video services, RealNetworks says.

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Filed under: Fun, Text, Weird Wednesday
Notologist is a simple idea that’s beautifully executed. Phil Zelnar leaves pretty paper notes lying around, each one containing a code and a handwritten question. Someone finds the note, goes to the site, enters the code, and writes their reply. The rest of the world gets to see the replies and enjoy the site’s beautiful design.
This is obviously a PR stunt, but it works. It’s a great way for Phil to show off his design chops and his understanding of the social nature of the Web. I think it’s much better than a portfolio or a plain bio. It’s also nice that Phil only put down a tiny link at the bottom of the page (rather than a huge logo plastered all over the place) and gave the project its own domain.

If you like Notologist, you might want to check out Phil’s other fun project, Your Favorite Letter. It collects votes for people’s favorite letters, and then it eventually makes a word. It’s difficult to explain, but it’s very simple to understand once you see the page. It’s also beautifully designed.
In fact, if every great Web designer would take some time to create a fun, compelling project, it would make the Web a whole lot funkier… and it might net them some great paid projects.

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Filed under: Productivity, Browsers
Tab Candy for Firefox isn’t even officially out yet, and there’s already a Chrome competitor; TabSense presents you with a list of your current browser tabs, divided by window.
It gets points for effort, but at this stage, TabSense definitely feels half-baked. Clicking the name of a tab doesn’t actually activate it, but it detaches it from its current group (window). Dragging tabs from group to group does work, though, and it causes the tab to move between windows, which is pretty cool. The extension doesn’t pop up a whole bunch of Chrome windows. Instead, you see only one window, and all of the others are hidden. That’s nice, too.
There’s a quick-search box in the top-right corner, which allows you to search tabs by name, and it does work (it highlights the tab that you’re looking for). There are no thumbnails. Also, the groups are temporary and were not saved when I quit Chrome.
The main problem at the moment is with activating tabs; I was unable to actually show the tab that I tried to access. As I said, clicking it didn’t work. But still, this alpha-grade extension shows some promise, even if it lacks most of Tab Candy’s “wow” factor.
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Google now gives users the option to post a link to a Google profile at the bottom of name-query search pages, meaning that anyone searching for a user online can view information that the user wants the world to see. This potentially allows Google to use its search engine to create more of a social networking presence online, similar to Facebook and Twitter….

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Will Spider-Man the musical be worth it? At this point, it’s hard to tell. So far the production, rumored to be the most expensive ever produced on Broadway (gotta pay for all those swinging special effects, I guess) has had a rocky start. It’s pushed back its original opening date, and lost two well-known actors [...]METHODE ELECTRONICS
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Blur gets a lot of undeserved hate.  Sure it may not be as pretty out-of-the-box as Sense, or as sleek and lean as stock Android, but PhilBlur can look great if you take the time.  Check out some of the great looks members have going on in the Droid X forums! [Android Central forums] Pic courtesy of terpitude71!Posted originally at Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories

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90% expect to offer VoIP over WiMAX and 64% plan to use the wireless technology for mobility-based services by 2012 according to Infonetics Research.

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Filed under: Audio, iPhoneIt’s no secret that there was a little bad blood last time Grooveshark submitted their iPhone app to the Cupertino Crew. The app was denied, and Grooveshark didn’t fell they had to take the rejection lying down… So they decided to release it to jailbroken iPhones and iPods via Cydia.

Yesterday, however, Grooveshark announced that Apple had approved the app. Yep, it’s in the app store right now and you can download it for free. Correct me if I’m wrong here, but I can’t think of another app which has made the jump from Cydia to the actual App Store (I have been thoroughly corrected — thanks, commenters!).

Now, we Canadians aren’t blessed with the same number of choices as those of you in the U.S. or U.K. when it comes to all-you-can-eat music apps — but even if I could use another service I’d probably stick with Grooveshark. The iPhone app lets you search Grooveshark’s massive library, it can pull up your saved playlists and favorites, and songs can be downloaded for offline play.

If you like, you can even switch to Offline Mode, which replaces the search button on your toolbar with offline songs — a particularly nice feature for iPod touch users like me who aren’t constantly around WIFI.

Don’t forget, Grooveshark VIP access is only $3 a month. That’s dirt cheap for a music service as good as this, and you even get two months free when you sign up for a year.

If you haven’t seen the app before, check out my gallery — or better still, just install it on your iPhone [App Store link] and try it out!

Thanks for the heads up, Mobiputing!
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From the childhood moment when a cop told us kids to take our skateboards and “play on the grass”, I have wondered just what kind of skateboard could ever actually do that. There have been big-wheeled answers over the years, but none so gloriously ridiculous as Bryson Lovett’s Vertrax Skateboard concept.
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Filed under: Google, Beta, Browsers
Google has pushed more Chrome features from the dev channel over to beta today — and you might not be particularly happy about one of them.

The unified menu which received a lot of heat from dev channel users has now been pushed. The change makes sense when you consider Google’s commitment to keeping Chrome’s interface as minimalist as possible, but it does mean that certain functions aren’t located in the places users expect to find them (like the Extensions link).

Now bumped to v6, Chrome beta now supports Autofill and extension sync (woot!) and sports a speedier V8 JavaScript engine (Google reports it as being 15% faster than v5’s engine).

More notes are available on the official release post, and you can also check out the Chrome Blog’s thoughts on the update.

Looking for the Google Chrome beta channel download? Why, it’s right over here!Chrome beta channel update brings UI, sync updates, faster V8 JavaScript engine originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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iSuppli has forecast that 75 million smartphones will use Google’s OS by 2012 and 62 million will use Apple’s iOS.

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Did you know that you can have a total of 6 apps in your iPad dock? By default there are only 4 but in this quick tip you’ll see how you can easily add up to 2 more of your choice. So, to get started select an app you’d like to bring to the main [...]

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Another week has passed us by, and fear not, we have yet another Android device available publicly. This week we saw the release of the Motorola Droid 2 – find all our launch coverage at that link — which sure made a lot of people happy. There was a ton of news, we cranked through it all, and if you weren’t able to keep up, (we can’t blame you) here is a recap of the rest of the news: News Leaked Verizon roadmap shows tons more Android, LTE rolloutDroid X overclockedHP’s Zeen eReader to run AndroidFix coming for Froyo audio issuesAndroid trojan found in the wildBest Buy tablet in the works?Android users supposedly getting less sex than iPhone, BlackBerry ownersHTC releases kernel sources for Aria, Evo, Incredible, WildfireNothing says forever like UnrEVOkedR2-D2 Droid 2 date pinned at Sept. 30; plus, more picturesOracle taking Google to court over Java patentsDroid 2 gets torn down; insides look familiar, tooDell Streak now available in U.S., see Android 2.1 leaked abroadDroid Incredible rumored to get Froyo on Aug. 18 Applications Android Quick App: Home Run Battle 3DAndroid Quick App: PulseAndroid Quick App: Wordfeud FreeSwiftKey Keyboard gains speech-to-textGoogle updates Gesture Search app, now with flipping actionAndroid Quick App: Crush the CastleTweetdeck for Android now in open beta Evernote updated with widget and morePosted originally at Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories

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Steve Jobs’ keynote address at the Apple WWDC 2010 event in San Francisco included the announcement of the iPhone 4 along with a new version of the mobile platform operating system. – …

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Filed under: Design, Utilities, Windows
Earlier this week, I spent some time creating my own Rainmeter config. It’s nothing major — it’s based on an existing config, and is just a simple bar which shows the time (in a couple of time zones), the current date, and a large clock.
The problem was that I wanted Windows to take this bar into account when maximizing windows; I didn’t want the windows to be maximized over it. To make things worse, I do not always have the bar in that position. Sometimes I use the same space for my CD Art Display skin, and I also don’t want Windows to maximize windows over that.
Enter DesktopCoral! This trusty utility isn’t new, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t cool. With a few simple settings, I reserved a space at the bottom of my secondary monitor, which is just right for my widgets. If I want to change the configuration, I just need to drag a couple of sliders and check a couple of boxes. Unlike many customization tools, DesktopCoral’s configuration is completely graphical.
I spent exactly two minutes configuring this tool, and it’s been running in my system tray, quietly doing its job without a hitch, for over a week now. That’s perfect!DesktopCoral reserves desktop space for your widgets originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Arnold Rudoff asked for advice on video formats

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Did you know that you can have a total of 6 apps in your iPad dock? By default there are only 4 but in this quick tip you’ll see how you can easily add up to 2 more of your choice. So, to get started select an app you’d like to bring to the main [...]

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Once again the internet is flooded with catchy headlines that Android outsold iPhone for the first half of 2010. And why not, that’s a great headline. But it’s also — to quote the Simpsons — unpossible.

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Want to jailbreak your iOS 4.0.2 device? If your device is an iPhone 3G or second-generation iPod Touch, you’re in luck!

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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 [...]

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Filed under: Blogging, AndroidI had actually intended to try out TweetDeck for Android today, but it turns out it only works on smartphones sporting Android 2.0 or newer. Thus, with my weak, little Android 1.6 phone I’ve been left out in the cold, tweetless and lonely. But hey, it ain’t all bad: I’ve been playing with the official WordPress app instead, and damn it’s good!

First things first, though: you’d have to be an utter buffoon to compose a proper, longer-than-140-character blog post using your mobile phone. That’s not to say that the WordPress app doesn’t feature a great New Post editor, but I can only recommend you use it if you’re a masochist with tungsten carbide fingertips and precision-engineered reinforced tendons.

Fortunately the WordPress app offers a lot more than just the New Post editor. You can moderate and reply to comments, check your stats and even upload photos and videos straight from your camera!

In short, if you use use self-hosted WordPress.org installation, or a free blog available from WordPress.com, and you have an Android phone, you want this app.

If you still need convincing, read on!
After installing, the first thing you need to do is add a WordPress blog that you want to manage. Both the free WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.org blogs can be added — just type in your name and password. You can add more than one blog, too.

Each blog has a Preferences page, as you can see above. Actually, rather counter-intuitively, each blog has two separate pages; I have no idea why. The one you see above configures comment notifications, and the other lets your configure the size of your image uploads. Sadly I am Little Timmy No-Friends and no one left a comment on my blog today, so I couldn’t test Notifications, but I’m sure they work!

Once you’re added a blog, you can look at Comments, your Posts and Pages, and even the blog’s Stats! Comments can be moderated, edited and replied to — you can even ‘mass moderate’ using checkboxes (check the screenshot). To make a new post you click the ‘+’ in the bottom left corner of the Posts tab. I don’t know why it doesn’t say ‘New Post’… were the app developers trying to be cool? You can also edit and create static Pages, though you’re probably not going to do that while on the move.

Finally we have the Stats tab! It looks just like the Web-based stats that you will have already seen many times on both WordPress.com and your self-hosted blog. Again, I can’t see why you’d want to look at your stats while on the move — to show at job interviews, perhaps? Incidentally, that high point on the graph was just after I joined Download Squad…

All in all, the Android WordPress app is excellent! The only issue I had was uploading photos directly from my phone’s camera. It simply caused the app to crash — and of course I lost my torturously-typed blog post in the process! Perhaps the photos were too big, or maybe it’s a known bug. I’m sure it’ll be fixed in due course.

WordPress for Android Tech Specs

Installed Size — 1.3MB, but that could grow if you add more blogs
Speed/Responsiveness — The app itself is very responsive. Posts, comments and pages take a while to download the first time you view them — but they’re a lot faster after that (Android 1.6 @ 600 MHz, LG GT 540 Swift)
User Interface — The interface is probably the best I’ve ever had the pleasure of using, at least on smartphone. Bravo!
Configurability & Extensibility — The app doesn’t actually do a whole lot, so there isn’t much to configure. I can’t see any way in which the app can be extended, either
License — Free and open-source, just like the blogging platform itself — coders, get involved with the next version of the app!
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Playboy magazine is coming to iPad by the nudity isn’t coming with it. According to founder Hugh Hefner, who broke the news on Twitter, the reason is:

Steve Jobs has a thing about nudity

So yes, you really will be reading it for the articles.

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Nearly half of young people spend as much time watching traditional TV as they do using online video services, RealNetworks says.

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Filed under: Mozilla, BrowsersAccording to Computerworld (they don’t cite a source, however), Firefox 4.0 will feature the same ’silent’ updating as Google Chrome. Minor updates, say from Firefox 4.0 to 4.0.1, will be carried out in the background after the user opens the browser. Major revisions to 4.5 or 5.0 will still prompt the user before being installed.

This could be reactionary — a recent report [PDF] found that a massive 97% of Chrome installations are up-to-date, compared to Firefox’s mediocre 85% and Safari’s meager 53% — or, more likely, this is just a move to keep Firefox as secure and easy-to-use as possible. Personally I hate those ‘do you want to update now?’ boxes. I’m always in the middle of something and loathe to close all my tabs.

Firefox isn’t merely copying Chrome, however. In true, fluffy-purple-dinosaur Mozilla fashion, the behind-the-scenes auto-updater will be configurable. For those that simply want to browse, you can disable any and all update notifications — your browser will always be kept up-to-date. Alternatively, if you’re a power-user, you can simply turn the auto-updater off. Neat!Hot on the heels of Chrome, Firefox 4 will support ’silent’ in-the-background updating originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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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 [...]

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If you were to imagine a leather folio case for the iPad, you’d probably envision the $100 Sena Folio. It’s the epitome of business class, leather outside and in…

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You know that Samsung Captivate ROM that’s floating around (and that we just wrote about)? This might what’s going on: We’ve all been aware of the GPS issues plaguing the Captivate and Vibrant, namely that it just plain didn’t work well unless you tweaked a bunch of settings. But Samsung’s Carla Saavedra unleashed the above on Twitter, saying that indeed a fix is on the way. So all of you folks out there who feared Sammy wasn’t listening, well, fear no more. [Twitter via Everything Android] Thanks, ChrisPosted originally at Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories

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Enterprises are spending an average of $120 a month per mobile employee and few companies conduct mobile connectivity cost audits, according to an iPass survey.

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The Linux Foundation announces the launch of its Open Compliance Program, which includes tools, training and a standard format for reporting software licensing information. – The Linux Foundation on Aug.
10 announced the launch of the Open Compliance
Program, which it described as quot;a comprehensive initiative that
includes tools, training, a standard format [in which] to report software
licensing information, consulting and a self-assessment checklist that will h…

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Filed under: Fun, Text, Utilities
Key Hero is an online typing test implemented in Flash. It’s very, very good, and very addictive.
You’ll be given an assortment of texts — all from known books or films, and all quite nice to read. You hit Start, and it then waits for your first keystroke. Once you start typing, the timer kicks in. When you make a mistake, it beeps and turns red. You fix it, and continue.
At the end your overall speed and accuracy for that text is displayed. You’ll also see a graph that shows your speed throughout the text. If you do more than one test, Key Hero presents a graph at the bottom of the page showing you all of your previous scores so you can see whether or not you’re improving or maintaining the same speed.
There’s another graph, showing the type of mistakes you make. These can be bad ordering, wrong case, doublet, or “other”. Most of mine are bad ordering.
So, as you can see in the screenshot, my top score is 110.3 WPM, with a 99.41% accuracy rate — I should mention I use Colemak, and that it wasn’t my first try.
What’s your top score? Post a screenshot, don’t just tell us!Key Hero typing test is an addictive way to check and improve your typing originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsIBASIS
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Filed under: OS Updates, Google, Beta, Browsers
We’ve known about Google Chrome’s “Chromoting” feature for some time. Many blogs reported it as a way to “run Windows apps on Chrome OS,” which is, of course, a bit of a stretch. Now relabeled “Remoting,” the feature is probably closer to running an application via Terminal Services or by first connecting to a host machine by using RDP or VNC.

Any way you look at it, Remoting is a very key component of Google’s enterprise ambitions for Chrome OS (and the Chrome browser). It could very well allow inexpensive nettops, netbooks, and tablet devices running Chrome OS to easily interact with a business’ existing enterprise apps.

As those devices inch closer to reality, Chrome OS code continues to mature and new features — like Remoting — begin to appear. You can see in the screenshot above that Remoting is now taking shape more visibly in Chromium. It’s currently hidden behind the –enable-remoting flag, and the setup function under Chrome’s wrench menu points to a page which is unavaiable.

It’s a start, and it’s certainly going to be interesting to watch Google’s plans for Remoting unfold.

Thanks, Dinu!Google Chrome’s Remoting feature shows up in Chromium with enterprise implications originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Startup will build products to simplify business communications.

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Filed under: Internet, P2PIn what will surely become a landmark case — or at least a massive thorn in the MPAA and RIAA’s clubbed, pygmy feet — a judge has ruled that bypassing DRM via hacking, reverse engineering or any other means is not in itself illegal.

The case itself ruled that General Electric, in using hacked security dongles to repair some uninterruptible power supplies produced by another company, did not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Why? Because the end goal was legal. If the hacked dongles had been used for the forces of evil, the story would be different.

While this doesn’t sound immediately applicable to DRM-protected software, music and movies, bear in mind that the DMCA is the foundation for every spurious copyright claim made by RIAA, MPAA and the myriad of other digital rights groups. In essence, this ruling means that you’re free to break DRM on media that you own. No longer is it illegal to rip your own DVDs or crippled audio CDs onto your hard disk. I think there might also be some implication for the godawful DRM used on contemporary games like Assassin’s Creed 2 (and if you’re a lawyer, please leave a comment!)

In case you were wondering, this doesn’t make piracy legal. It just means that bypassing DRM to reach a legal goal — i.e. fair use of things you own — is now protected by common law.

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Machine-to-machine communication, mobile banking, and wireless sensor networks also on the rise over the next decade, says Plunkett Research.

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Fring, a provider of voice over IP apps, was slightly overwhelmed, following the release of a two-way calling app allowing iPhone 4 owners to chat face-to-face with friends on various mobile platforms. – Fring has introduced an already popular new app to the Apple App
Store that allows iPhone 4 owners to enjoy two-way video calls over
WiFi or 3G, with friends on older iPhone, Android or Symbian
smartphones.

The app has proven so popular, however, that the Fring Blog waved a white flag, notin…

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I went by Apple’s Canadian Flagship store this week and there was a lineup of about 100 people waiting for iPhone 4. Actually, waiting just to see if there’d be a shipment of iPhone 4 so they could lineup for those. Apple staff said it’s been happening every day around 10am. Even some of the [...]International lineups persist for iPhone 4 is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb – The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog

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Foxconn factory in India resumes work after clearance by local authorities

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Canonical is preparing to introduce a new service option for Ubuntu Linux users, known as Ubuntu Advantage. – Canonical is preparing to introduce a new service option for Ubuntu Linux
users, known as Ubuntu Advantage.
Slated for official release on June 7, Ubuntu Advantage is a comprehensive
service that combines systems management tools, technical support, access to
online resources, training and legal…

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iSuppli has forecast that 75 million smartphones will use Google’s OS by 2012 and 62 million will use Apple’s iOS.

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Foreword: My dear American brethren and sistren, stop reading now: Spotify isn’t available in your country. Rdio should be out soon though!

Spotify Chrome Extension is a bit of a misnomer. It’s not an official extension, nor does it really utilize any of Spotify’s functionality, but it is a whole lot more useful than any other Chrome extension out there. Once it’s installed, you can select some text (an artist’s name), hit the new Spotify button on your browser chrome and BOOM! you’re rewarded with search results from Spotify’s extensive music database. Click a result and the song starts playing in Spotify. Neat.

The problem is, you can only search by artist. You can’t select the name of an album and search for that — neither can you do the same for record labels. Also, there’s no way to push the button and enter your own search string — you’re only given that option if a previous search returns no results.

So, it does one thing and it does it well; I just wish it did a bit more. It would be a few seconds’ work to add album searching. But hey, perhaps I’m being a little unfair: the extension is brand new. I just hope the developer hasn’t abandoned this neat little extension — it has promise!Spotify Chrome Extension is handy, but could certainly be a lot better originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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The voice-over-IP service’s promise of free or low-cost calling and videoconferencing is music to SMB ears, but a lack of key business communication features should give business owners pause.

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Filed under: Games, Windows Mobile, MicrosoftNeowin has the scoop: according to the Microsoft Careers website, a new game studio that specializes in Windows Phone games is being created as we speak. This news comes just a few hours after details of Sony Ericsson’s ‘PlayStation Phone’ emerged. The new studio’s ‘mission statement’ follows:

MGS Mobile Gaming – focused on bringing games and entertainment to the mobile life that people lead. Our vision is to deliver games and entertainment so good that people will want them always with them, on a service that makes them social, connected and relevant anywhere their life goes. The Mobile Gaming team is building industry leading products that showcase our Windows Phone platform as well as emerging mobile platforms, and will help realize Microsoft’s connected entertainment vision. The Mobile Gaming studio will be the hub for MGS franchises and titles on mobile devices and a center of excellence for mobile games.
I can’t add much to the story other than speculation. What are the other ‘emerging mobile platforms’ that are alluded to? Experience with Xbox Live and C# are listed as ‘highly desired’, so I can’t imagine them making games for iOS devices — but who knows what Microsoft has planned?

Microsoft definitely managed to carve itself a nice chunk of the console industry with the Xbox — can it do the same with the mobile segment? Before today, the mobile phone industry lacked a big-money developer and now we have both Sony and Microsoft weighing in! Things are about to get very interesting — and right now, if I happened to be a Nintendo executive, I’d be wondering when and where the mobile phone and portable gaming markets will collide…
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News Analysis: Although Gizmodo editor Jason Chen may not have done the most ethical thing by paying $5,000 for an AWOL prototype of the next iPhone, the California task force that forced open his door in apparent violation of the terms of its search warrant (to say nothing of state law) just turned his case into a test of journalistic freedoms. – Legend has it that one of the first things taught in journalism school is
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Despite a rough economy, iPad accessories continue to flow into the wild in an untamed river of shiny plastic and form-fitting polycarbonate. Griffin Technology…

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Filed under: Games, Windows, Mobile

It wasn’t really a secret that Microsoft had big-time gaming ambitions for WP7 — the demo video above is from way back in March of this year. As hardware specs begin leaking and the release date approaches, it’s time to make sure that someone is developing awesome games for the platform.

Over at the Microsoft Careers site, there’s a new job posting which makes it pretty clear that the intended to do plenty of it in-house. According the the posting, “Microsoft Games Studios is establishing a new Studio – MGS Mobile Gaming – focused on bringing games and entertainment to the mobile life that people lead.” The Mobile Gaming team will “help realize Microsoft’s connected entertainment vision,” which includes that awesome start-a-game-on-one-platform-continue-on-another feature they showed off.

You’ve got to think that the millions of hard-core Xbox 360 gamers out there will be at least a little interested in picking up a WP7 device if Microsoft can deliver a compelling cross-platform experience…

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Just about everyone customizes his or her Windows desktop somehow, but most probably don’t bother tinkering with the Welcome screen. After all, you really don’t see it that often unless you’re a stickler for security and always log off when you’re AFK (which is a good habit to get into, really).

If that’s how you roll, take a look at Windows 7 Logon Reworked. It’s available in three variations — the one you see above, another with the Windows logo embedded in the login box’s glass border, and one more which is completely logo-free. As with a lot of other shell modifications, installing Reworked requires a little bit of tinkering in your system folder. You’ll have to replace the stock Windows authui.dll in Safe Mode to do it — check the author’s instructions on DeviantArt if you need help and make sure you create a backup before making any changes!

Both 32 and 64-bit versions are available for all three styles, and there’s also a snazzy Aurora-inspired replacement background should you want to change that as well!Windows 7 Logon Reworked is a sexy welcome screen replacement originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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IBM and its technology partners are using data from the vendor’s Commuter Pain Surveys to make transportation systems more intelligent. The most recent study, whose findings were revealed just a few weeks ago, was conducted globally, not just in the United States, for the first time in three years.

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Filed under: Audio, iPhoneIt’s no secret that there was a little bad blood last time Grooveshark submitted their iPhone app to the Cupertino Crew. The app was denied, and Grooveshark didn’t fell they had to take the rejection lying down… So they decided to release it to jailbroken iPhones and iPods via Cydia.

Yesterday, however, Grooveshark announced that Apple had approved the app. Yep, it’s in the app store right now and you can download it for free. Correct me if I’m wrong here, but I can’t think of another app which has made the jump from Cydia to the actual App Store (I have been thoroughly corrected — thanks, commenters!).

Now, we Canadians aren’t blessed with the same number of choices as those of you in the U.S. or U.K. when it comes to all-you-can-eat music apps — but even if I could use another service I’d probably stick with Grooveshark. The iPhone app lets you search Grooveshark’s massive library, it can pull up your saved playlists and favorites, and songs can be downloaded for offline play.

If you like, you can even switch to Offline Mode, which replaces the search button on your toolbar with offline songs — a particularly nice feature for iPod touch users like me who aren’t constantly around WIFI.

Don’t forget, Grooveshark VIP access is only $3 a month. That’s dirt cheap for a music service as good as this, and you even get two months free when you sign up for a year.

If you haven’t seen the app before, check out my gallery — or better still, just install it on your iPhone [App Store link] and try it out!

Thanks for the heads up, Mobiputing!
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Despite concerns that federal authorities might fine or arrest him, hacker Chris Paget went ahead with a live demonstration of mobile phone interception at the…

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Filed under: Utilities, Video, Windows
It used to be that when I watched a movie with VLC, halfway through the movie the screen would suddenly black out. Too late, I would realize that the screensaver kicked in because I hadn’t touched the mouse for a while. It was so irritating that I simply disabled my screen saver.
I think VLC specifically addressed this issue, but I’m sure it still happens with other video players. Mouse Jiggler is a tiny, handy utility whose sole purpose in life is to jiggle the mouse cursor for you, so that the screensaver doesn’t kick in.
It has a neat feature called “Zen jiggle” (I love the name) which jiggles the mouse “invisibily” – meaning, your computer thinks the mouse is moving, while the cursor doesn’t actually move anywhere.
The GUI is sparse, and I like that. Just two check boxes. You can’t even minimize it or hide it, and I think that’s great: this way you can’t forget it on, and then wonder why your mouse is randomly jiggling while you’re working. Very nice!
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Before you start playing Polygonal Fury, turn down the volume. It’s a fun game so I decided to cover it, but the soundtrack is grating, to say the least. I like electronica, but this game loops a short track of electronic music and repeats it over and over again. So turn down the volume (or disable the music in the game’s Options menu).
Okay, now that you’ve done that you can actually enjoy the game, because it’s quite nice otherwise. A bunch of shapes are floating around on the screen — when you click a shape, something happens. Triangles shoot other shapes. Circles explode in place. Squares “ram” in one of four directions (up, down, left, right).
When a shape hits another shape, that other shape is triggered. So if I click a triangle and it shoots a circle, that circle would then explode. If the explosion catches a square, the square would “ram” another shape, and so on. Pretty soon, chaos erupts on the screen. Of course, you only get so many clicks per level (usually 3 or 4, at least in the beginning), so you need to make them count.
You can upgrade your weapons between levels; you get “upgrade points” based on your performance in the previous level. The upgrade points are saved between levels, so of course you can save up if you want to buy something bigger (such as the “double-damage” upgrade, which costs 10 points). All in all, it’s a pretty neat game!Polygonal Fury is a wild, chain-reaction Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsSYNTAX-BRILLIAN
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Avaya officials are following through on promises to aggressively integrate technologies acquired from Nortel to build up its enterprise communications offerings. The newest UC and contact center offerings are the latest examples. – When Avaya officials last year announced their intention to buy
struggling Nortel Networks enterprise business for $915 million, both
they and some analysts believed that would push the company toward the top of the enterprise telephony market.
And thats a market that includes the likes of
techn…

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90% expect to offer VoIP over WiMAX and 64% plan to use the wireless technology for mobility-based services by 2012 according to Infonetics Research.

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AT T is said to be making software enhancements to its 3G network to get a bit more juice from it before a planned migration to 4G and before millions of new Apple iPhone users come on board….

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Think of this one as a little tidbit to enjoy with your morning coffee! BSkyB, the owner of the Sky TV brand and a large portion of mogul Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, has claimed that Skype’s trademark application is confusingly similar to the extant Sky TV trademark.

You might be tittering at the stupidity, but apparently BSkyB even has consumer research to back up its claims! People actually get Skype and Sky confused. And, get this, the European Courts has recently also ruled in BSkyB’s favor — though, of course, Skype says it will appeal the decision.

This all comes as Skype seeks more funding with an IPO, and the trademark issue is mentioned in the filing. There’s a very good chance that Skype won’t be able to operate without Sky’s permission (which will surely cost a licensing fee!) — that, or they’ll have to change their name.

It’s not like ‘Skype’ ever really meant anything though, right?
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Filed under: MicrosoftGood news, everyone!

Well, everyone who’s attending PDC 2010 anyway.

Microsoft has announced that all attendees will have a chance to shop at the Microsoft Company Store. That news might not have you dancing in your seat, but it’s certainly a bit more exciting when you tack on the employee discount they’re extending.

The “sale” is part of the welcome reception which takes place on October 23rd. Even if you’re not going to arrive until the following morning, you can still pick up a voucher and take advantage of the discount — U.S. attendees get the added bonus of being able to shop at the online store as well!

You’re limited to $120 in software (there’s no limit on other swag like branded accessories), but that Franklin/Hamilton combo will go a long way. Microsoft’s employee pricing is about as rock-bottom as it gets.

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Filed under: Games, Android, Retrocomputing
About ten years ago, I remember installing a PlayStation emulator on my PC. With marvel, wonder and awe, I played through Final Fantasy VII yet again. It was awesome! Both the MIDI orchestration and jaggy polygons were faithfully preserved and everything!

I also remember that it was slow. My PC had a 600MHz processor, yet it struggled to emulate the 33MHz processor in the PlayStation 1. Fast forward to today, however, and the gigahertz processor is ubiquitous, be it in the desktop or mobile form factor. I don’t think anyone foresaw that we’d have 1GHz processors in computers that fit comfortable in our palm.

But hey, who’s complaining?

There are many emulators for Android smartphones, but today I’m going to look at the most important: NESoid. It’s a free app that lets you play just about every NES game on your Android phone. It’s not without its niggles (read on!), but you really can’t complain when it comes to free games.

You can install it by searching for ‘Nesoid’ on the Android marketplace (grab the Lite version, or pay the few dollars if you need the ability to save and load games).
First things first: you need some game ROMs! I use The Old Computer — there are lots of ads, but their database is truly exhaustive! As you can guess from its name, they don’t only do NES ROMs either.

At this stage, I have to tell you that downloading ROMs is only totally legal if you own the actual NES cartridges — but even if you don’t, it’s very unlikely that you’ll get into trouble for downloading these games.

Once you have some ROMs (make sure they have the .NES extension), simply transfer them to your phone’s SD card. Then open NESoid, navigate to wherever you dumped the ROMs… and off you go!

There are some niggles though, as I said. First, if you don’t have a hardware keyboard, it’s really quite hard to manipulate an on-screen D-pad and A/B buttons. Second, if you don’t have a multi-touch device, lots of games will be almost unplayable. I tried to play Street Fighter 3, but as I lacked the ability to hold a direction and punch… it wasn’t a whole lot of fun. Still, if you have a newer HTC or Droid smartphone, games are probably very playable.

Like PC emulators, NESoid has a ton of configuration options. You can change how the game’s graphics are scaled, and you can also increase the ‘fast forward’ speed, so that you can play games like Super Mario Bros in double-quick time! Cheaters will be glad to hear that NESoid even has Game Genie support! (Wow, I haven’t seen the phrase ‘Game Genie in over a decade…)

All in all, NESoid is a fantastic little app, if only to provide cheap, rheumy-eyed retro gaming for the commute to work — or, if you’re like me, while you’re loosing your bowels into bowl of hell.

NESoid Tech Specs

Installed Size — 1.2MB (and each game is very small, between 20 and 200 kilobytes)
Speed/Responsiveness — The interface is fine, and the emulation itself is fast. Street Fighter 3 is one of the ‘largest’ NES games, and it runs fine (Android 1.6 @ 600MHz, LG GT 540 Swift)
User Interface — On-screen keyboard is messy, but there isn’t really a graceful solution for that (it is configurable, though!)
Configurability & Extensibility — You can configure almost everything, and obviously with the huge library of NES games, extensibility is a given!
License — Free, not open source. Paid version ($3.98) lets you save and load games

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Today saw the release of the first in-depth previews of Microsoft’s next-generation mobile operating system Windows Phone 7. The problem is, I don’t really care about the screen, or indeed any of the hardware. I’m not interested in half the things that Engadget or ZDNet have to say about the phone: I’m just interested in what the software — the operating system — enables the phone to do. I figured you might be the same — after all, who wants to dig through a dozen pages of pictures and flavourless prose when everything you want to know can be boiled down to a bunch of bullet points?

So, here’s what Windows Phone 7 means for you, the software-enthusiast end-user:

Using Windows Phone 7 will be very smooth — there is a lot less emphasis on applications. You won’t ’start the camera app’ and then ’start the messaging app’ to send a photo. You will just take a photo and then send it to a friend. As ZDNet puts it, the emphasis will be on how you interact with people rather than apps — which is rather fitting, given our contemporary love affair with social interaction.
The Start screen is still alive — but unlike other mobile platforms where your home screen is merely dotted with app icons, you can create quick access buttons to almost anything, including your favourite songs or contacts. Being able to open an instant messenger chat with your best friend from the Start screen is pretty darn cool.
Applications are going to be wider — on WP7 you will find words trailing off the edge of the screen. Apparently it’s a very natural cue that encourages you to swipe left or right to access the next page. I suggest you watch Engadget’s video to see how this actually works in practice. Personally, I love the change: moving from a wide-screen desktop display to a hyper-portrait mobile phone is never pleasant.
Much more stringent hardware requirements — no surprise here, I guess. Windows Phone 7 has a (very sexy) list of minimum hardware requirements, including a multi-touch 800×480 screen and a flash-equipped camera. (Check the ZDNet article for a full list.)
There will be no external storage on WP7 phones — OK, this one’s a surprise! I guess this is to please app developers and content providers… but time will tell! (Incidentally, WP7 phones must have a minimum of 8GB internal storage.)
Hubs — this is Windows Phone 7’s shining glory. There are different kinds of hubs: People, Pictures, Games, Music + Videos, Marketplace and Office. Without going into exact details, these hubs provide easy access to every kind of media. In the case of Pictures, it shows your local camera photos, and your photos from Facebook. Games will contain all of the juicy Xbox Arcade/XNA games that also work on the WP7. For more details on how the hubs work, watch ZDNet’s video.
Configuration, settings — like Android, Windows Phone 7 has a consolidated, global ’settings’ menu where you can alter any setting for any application. Hooray!

I think that about covers it all. Overall, reviewers and developers are concluding that Windows Phone 7 is polished, fluid and very easy to use. In fact, most complaints seem to be about the lack of copy-and-paste and true multi-tasking. Sure, Microsoft isn’t quite finished, but with WP7 phones due to arrive this winter, the platform must be very nearly feature-complete. I think it’s safe to say that Windows Phone 7 will not debut with either a clipboard or multi-tasking.

Never mind! The iPhone still did very well without either of those features.
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Security experts claim a wallpaper app for Android based phone can surreptitiously grab user data and send it to a third party.

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Daring Fireball has revealed that the CDMA iPhone 4 is codenamed N92 and is entering the engineering verification (EVT) stage, one step before the design verification test (DVT) stage, which is right before manufacturing — and right on time for a possible January 2011 launch.

The device itself is supposed to be identical to the current [...]CDMA iPhone 4 codenamed N92, in engineering verification test for possible January (Verizon?) debut is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb – The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog

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Check your inboxes if you’re a Sprint Premier member. You should have received an email inviting you to reserve the Epic 4G before any of those non-special Sprint customers can. The Samsung Epic 4G is a Galaxy S phone and will be available on August 31, for $249 with a new two-year agreement. Check out our hands-on here. Thanks Jeff.Posted originally at Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories

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Apple experienced a strong 2009 despite the recession but may make substantial changes to its product lines and strategy in 2010 in order to counter direct competition from Google, Microsoft and other players. Those strategies could include opening the iPhone to multiple carriers, introducing an iPod Touch with a camera, expanding its retail footprint, releasing the long-rumored tablet PC, imposing increased regulation on the App Store, and even introducing the Beatles catalog to iTunes. – In contrast to many tech companies dampened down by the recession, Apple
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Notologist is a simple idea that’s beautifully executed. Phil Zelnar leaves pretty paper notes lying around, each one containing a code and a handwritten question. Someone finds the note, goes to the site, enters the code, and writes their reply. The rest of the world gets to see the replies and enjoy the site’s beautiful design.
This is obviously a PR stunt, but it works. It’s a great way for Phil to show off his design chops and his understanding of the social nature of the Web. I think it’s much better than a portfolio or a plain bio. It’s also nice that Phil only put down a tiny link at the bottom of the page (rather than a huge logo plastered all over the place) and gave the project its own domain.

If you like Notologist, you might want to check out Phil’s other fun project, Your Favorite Letter. It collects votes for people’s favorite letters, and then it eventually makes a word. It’s difficult to explain, but it’s very simple to understand once you see the page. It’s also beautifully designed.
In fact, if every great Web designer would take some time to create a fun, compelling project, it would make the Web a whole lot funkier… and it might net them some great paid projects.

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The European Union has decided to throw their efforts behind the publicity grab FTC investigation into Apple’s lack of support for Adobe’s Flash player and Flash cross-compiler on iPhone and iPad says the New York Post:

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Jamboxx is a nifty new iPad app, a free one I must add, that allows you to start kickin’ it old school again just like back in the day when things like smelly stickers and mullets were considered cool. Developed by the crew over at BSSP Labs, this fun and simple app will have you [...]SYNTAX-BRILLIAN
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Filed under: OS Updates, Utilities
For the last couple of years I’ve heard a lot of talk about VirtualBox and VMWare — but until six months ago, when it took me five minutes to install Ubuntu ‘in a window’ on my Windows 7 machine, I had no idea just how awesome virtual machines are. No longer must I have a bunch of headless Linux boxes under my desk — I can just run them in windows on my uber desktop PC!

But… what if you want to retain that element of headlessness? What if you don’t want to run your virtual machines on your main computer? They are quite resource intensive after all! VirtualBox’s UI is quite complex, and while you can manage it all from the command line, it’s far from easy. Fortunately, phpVirtualBox is here to valiantly plug the void between WIMP and CLI with a rather lovely Web interface.

phpVirtualBox is very nearly as good as the real thing, and as you can see from the screenshot above it’s also almost identical. Except for a few small omissions, it’s feature complete too: for all intents and purposes, phpVirtualBox allows you to painlessly maintain headless VirtualBox machines.

There’s something about remotely managing computers via the Internet. I was outside earlier, on my laptop, and using Firefox to play with an installation of Chromium OS running on a headless Windows 2000 box. Magical, yes, but also really handy: I’m sure there’s a whole slew of really neat things that can be done with remotely-managed virtual machines!

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Firefox 4 Beta 2 has been delayed for a few more days as the candidate build undergoes quality assurance tests, according to a note on Mozilla’s Website. Firefox 4’s new features are designed to head off a challenge from Google Chrome and other browsers. – Firefox 4’s latest beta will be delayed a week, according to Mozilla, as it
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 Gaming on Android just got a lot more serious. Engadget is reporting that Sony Ericsson is hard at work on the oft-rumored PSP phone, only it will come with Android 3.0 ("Gingerbread") and is described by those in the know as "a cross between the Samsung Captivate and the PSP Go" (you can see their mockup above). This is quite surprising as they haven’t even been able to launch a phone running 2.1 yet.Sony is aiming for graphics power in the realm of the PSX or PSP. Considering we already have PS1 emulators running on Android, this is perfectly reasonable. To help out with the demands of mobile gaming, the gaming-specific controls would slide out like we are used to in landscape slider phones along with a "long touch pad" rather than the joystick nub that PSP owners would be familiar with.Other specs for the phone are what you would expect from a high-end device: 3.7- or 4.1-inch screen, at least WVGA resolution (800×480), a non-final 5MP camera, and a 1 GHz Snapdragon CPU. It seems like Sony Ericsson will be putting a custom skin on the device, which we (sadly) have come to expect as of late. It also seems like Google is deeply involved with the device, and a special section of the Android Market will be created for titles that would require the added power and physical buttons on the phone. Other phones and devices might be able to see the games at some point "if their specs and button layouts meet requirements." Rumored games include members of the Modern Warfare (aka Call of Duty) and God of War franchises. Price and launch date are vague at best, with October being listed as the earliest possible. In addition, no mention was made of what carrier(s) the phone would arrive on or in what countries, so it is wide open at the moment. Still, this looks to be where Sony is aiming for their future mobile gaming efforts. As such, it should have a great backing from the gaming industry. So, who wants one? [Engadet]Posted originally at Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories

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Omniture adds a new application to its Omniture SiteCatalyst tool that allows users to monitor the spread of viral video on YouTube and other sites. Salesforce, Google, Amazon and other companies have all been expanding the range of applications available on their cloud-based computing platforms, even allowing clients to monitor Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and other sites to see how a particular service or product is being greeted by the general public….

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Filed under: Design, Utilities
What you see in the screenshot isn’t Shotty; it’s Shotty’s home page. This used to be tacky, but I haven’t seen it in a while. Shotty took a Windows 7-style window frame and created their whole site to resemble an application. This is a great metaphor for a screenshot application, and the execution is perfect. The buttons change correctly when you hover them, etc. It’s very, very cute.
Having been impressed by the site, I went on to take Shotty for a spin. The application is fast and simple, and the built-in editor is interesting; you get blur, highlight, and text “labels.” The text labels are unique in that you configure the text once, and then you use the label like a “stamp.” You can click anywhere on your image, and Shotty’s editor adds another instance of your text right there. I couldn’t figure out how to edit the text, though.
Once you finish annotating and editing your screenshot, it’s time to upload. There are four different uploaders that are configured right from the box. I tried the default one (which is on Shotty’s own servers). It worked very well, and it gave me a BBCode-style link directly to my image (perfect for forums). You can also configure image expiration dates, with the default being three months.
One very interesting omission is that you cannot capture an arbitrary area (selection). Shotty only works with the whole desktop or with the current window. In other words, you can’t take just part of the window. This is a key feature for many users (me included) and is very easy to add, so I can’t help but wonder why Shotty’s makers chose to omit it. For the sake of simplicity, perhaps?Shotty is a cute, fast, free screenshot tool, uploads included originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Filed under: Linux

Meego — the Linux effort headed up by Intel and Nokia — recently scored a fairly major win, with GENIVI selecting it as the platform of choice for in-vehicle infotainment. In case you’re not familiar with GENIVI, it’s a consortium comprised of several high-profile companies including GM, BMW, Hyundai, Intel, Nokia, NVidia, ARM, Freescale, and many others.

On GENIVI’s about page, they speak of “developing a reusable, open source IVI platform” with the hope of driving “broad adoption of [a] development platform.” Enter Meego, which now appears poised to face off against Android on an even wider variety of upcoming devices.

Just days ago, the Meego IVI version was made available to the public. If you’ve got a car PC (or you plan on knocking one together), you can now download the remix and give it a go. As you’d expect with an IVI OS, Meego supports road-friendly tech like Bluetooth and Navit. Fennec is included for web browsing and Totem currently handles audio/video duties.

Right now, the Meego IVI interface isn’t quite as polished as the netbook version, but it’s a nice start and should be a nice fit for small-screen in-dash systems.

If your luck is better than mine, feel free to send over some screenshots — I couldn’t get Meego IVI to do anything other than boot and freeze at the desktop, and it wouldn’t install.Meego in-vehicle infotainment remix now available for download originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | CommentsHON HAI PRECISION IND.
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SwiftKey, one of our favorite keyboards, just added a much-wanted feature that many popular third-party keyboards lack: speech to text. The microphone gets a dedicated button in its familiar spot to the left of the space bar, but the implementation is slightly different from what most of us are used to.Pressing it brings up a blank screen with the "Speak now" dialog rather than staying on the screen you’re actually entering text on. While slightly jarring, this may be due to one other tweak–after speaking, a popup lets you select what you meant to say. Will this alleviate the frustration of the speech-to-text engine constantly misunderstanding you, or just add another step?The app description now also promises the "full app out soon." Their beta release added a lot of polish compared to the alpha, so we may be in for a treat in the near future. Download link and another screenshot after the break

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Posted originally at Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories

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While it hasn’t yet achieved prominence on par with its desktop-oriented sibling, Ubuntu 10.04 Server is gaining on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, due in part to private cloud advances. For a look at Ubuntu 10.04 LTS in action, check out the slide gallery below, and make sure to read eWEEK Labs’
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Filed under: Games, Android, Retrocomputing
About ten years ago, I remember installing a PlayStation emulator on my PC. With marvel, wonder and awe, I played through Final Fantasy VII yet again. It was awesome! Both the MIDI orchestration and jaggy polygons were faithfully preserved and everything!

I also remember that it was slow. My PC had a 600MHz processor, yet it struggled to emulate the 33MHz processor in the PlayStation 1. Fast forward to today, however, and the gigahertz processor is ubiquitous, be it in the desktop or mobile form factor. I don’t think anyone foresaw that we’d have 1GHz processors in computers that fit comfortable in our palm.

But hey, who’s complaining?

There are many emulators for Android smartphones, but today I’m going to look at the most important: NESoid. It’s a free app that lets you play just about every NES game on your Android phone. It’s not without its niggles (read on!), but you really can’t complain when it comes to free games.

You can install it by searching for ‘Nesoid’ on the Android marketplace (grab the Lite version, or pay the few dollars if you need the ability to save and load games).
First things first: you need some game ROMs! I use The Old Computer — there are lots of ads, but their database is truly exhaustive! As you can guess from its name, they don’t only do NES ROMs either.

At this stage, I have to tell you that downloading ROMs is only totally legal if you own the actual NES cartridges — but even if you don’t, it’s very unlikely that you’ll get into trouble for downloading these games.

Once you have some ROMs (make sure they have the .NES extension), simply transfer them to your phone’s SD card. Then open NESoid, navigate to wherever you dumped the ROMs… and off you go!

There are some niggles though, as I said. First, if you don’t have a hardware keyboard, it’s really quite hard to manipulate an on-screen D-pad and A/B buttons. Second, if you don’t have a multi-touch device, lots of games will be almost unplayable. I tried to play Street Fighter 3, but as I lacked the ability to hold a direction and punch… it wasn’t a whole lot of fun. Still, if you have a newer HTC or Droid smartphone, games are probably very playable.

Like PC emulators, NESoid has a ton of configuration options. You can change how the game’s graphics are scaled, and you can also increase the ‘fast forward’ speed, so that you can play games like Super Mario Bros in double-quick time! Cheaters will be glad to hear that NESoid even has Game Genie support! (Wow, I haven’t seen the phrase ‘Game Genie in over a decade…)

All in all, NESoid is a fantastic little app, if only to provide cheap, rheumy-eyed retro gaming for the commute to work — or, if you’re like me, while you’re loosing your bowels into bowl of hell.

NESoid Tech Specs

Installed Size — 1.2MB (and each game is very small, between 20 and 200 kilobytes)
Speed/Responsiveness — The interface is fine, and the emulation itself is fast. Street Fighter 3 is one of the ‘largest’ NES games, and it runs fine (Android 1.6 @ 600MHz, LG GT 540 Swift)
User Interface — On-screen keyboard is messy, but there isn’t really a graceful solution for that (it is configurable, though!)
Configurability & Extensibility — You can configure almost everything, and obviously with the huge library of NES games, extensibility is a given!
License — Free, not open source. Paid version ($3.98) lets you save and load games

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Filed under: Internet, Features, Mozilla, BrowsersWith classic, why-does-the-universe-hate-me irony it seems that Mozilla had a flurry of activity while I was on vacation. Except the Thunderbird Contacts thing that Lee gushed about earlier this week, there’s been absolutely nothing since I got back. Incidentally, if you still haven’t downloaded the FF4.0 beta 2, you should do that now. The first release candidate should be only a couple of months away, so what you see in the beta is close to the real thing.

Don’t worry about the lack of news, though. I’ve saved up a bunch of cool add-ons, neat things, tips and tricks over the last three weeks — let’s start with the best!

1. Show your homepage when you open a new tab

One of the reasons I still use Chrome is its Home Tab. I just love having quick access to my most-visited websites: just Ctrl-T and click; nice and fast. When you open a new tab in Firefox, however, you get a blank page… unless you have an add-on like New Tab Homepage!

As the add-on’s page says, if you have another add-on like Tab Mix, New Tab Homepage is redundant. But if you want a light-weight (and thus fast!) add-on that only modifies your new tabs, this one’s for you. Set your homepage to something useful, like your Delicious bookmark page or your to-do list, and voilá!

(Don’t forget that some version of Firefox 4 will probably get its own built-in Home Tab)
2. Do you like that cute little Foxkeh guy? Now you can make your own Foxkeh desktop wallpaper!

Lee’s out of town at the moment, so I can say this with relative safety: Lee has a bit of a thing for Foxkeh. He doesn’t really do it for me — I like my drawn art to be a bit more, er, female… and naked… — but hey, if you’re into furry animals, you’ll love Foxkeh’s Wallpaper Creator.

Created by Mozilla Japan, the Wallpaper Creator is an example of what you can do with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in modern Web browsers. Have a play with little Foxkeh — it’s surprisingly smooth! I’m now rather excited about what FF4 and IE9 will be able to do with hardware-accelerated SVG manipulation.

P.S. note how it looks like Foxkeh is defecating some very juicy pieces of watermelon in the picture above.

3. In the same vein, Firefox 4 Beta 2 now has CSS3 transitions

To celebrate the new functionality, Mozilla Hacks (their Web developer blog), has published a few very cool demos that show off CSS transitions. The screenshot above shows a combination of HTML5 video and CSS transforms — play around with the demo yourself and you’ll see just how cool it is. Interestingly, the black and white filter on the thumbnails doesn’t work in Chrome, but I guess CSS3 and HTML5 support is very much a work-in-progress for every browser.

Another cool demo shows a field of images which you can dizzily navigate around. The white-bordered thumbnails are actually in-line video placeholders.

These demos, along with those published as part of the IE9 Test Drive, show us the beginnings of what we can expect from the next generation of browsers. This is a sneak-peek at what will constitute the ‘Web 3.0′ experience!

4. Squeeze a little more out of your mobile browsing experience with the Netbook Optimization Kit

The Netbook Optimization Kit is a clever collection of 10 Firefox add-ons that are meant to make your low-resolution, low-powered browsing experience faster and easier.

Most of the add-ons are pretty obvious: there’s Hide Caption Titlebar, and Adblock Plus — but also some cool add-ons like URL Tooltip (which removes the need for the status bar) and Fission (which combines the address and progress bars).

All in all, this little bundle is well worth installing if your vertical resolution is in that crippling 600-to-800-pixel range.

5. Wield more control over how PDFs interact with Firefox by installing the PDF Download add-on

We covered PDF Download many moons ago, but since PDFs don’t seem to be going away any time soon — and boy do I hate unwittingly opening them on my laptop (it grinds to a halt!) — I thought I would rehash it. While a lot of new functionality has been added, PDF Download’s main purpose is to ‘catch’ PDF link clicks, offering you the option of downloading, viewing as HTML or simply viewing it in the default Adobe Reader plug-in.

No doubt because of Google’s built-in PDF-to-HTML conversion, PDF Download now has another feature: it lets you convert whole pages to PDF at the click of a button — or send a Web page as a PDF via email.

It’s highly configurable, too: both the viewing and conversion aspects of PDF Download can be tailored to perform exactly as required. You can even configure the ‘PDF link catching’ to snoop the MIME type, rather than file extension.

At the end of the day, you’re still dealing with frickin’ PDF files though. I’m amazed how resilient the format has been! Maybe with hardware-rendered fonts, and the other shiny aspects of CSS3 and HTML5, we might finally see a shift away from Adobe’s closed, commercial platforms?Firefox Friday Five: all quiet on the Firefox front, so here are some neat websites, tips, features and tricks originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | CommentsFEI COMPANY
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Filed under: E-mail, Microsoft
Microsoft has finally completed the rollout of Hotmail’s biggest update ever, making it available to all 350 million of its users. The new look and features have turned a lot of heads, drawing praise from bloggers and longtime Gmail users alike.

Of course, as with any upgrade there have been snags — with some customers complaining of their browser freezing when trying to load Hotmail, and also some problems when using Firefox. Some bemoan the addition of social features — even though they’re totally optional. It’s a big adjustment for the average user, and there are plenty of those among Hotmail’s massive base.

Once they’ve adapted to the changes they’ll find a much improved webmail client, and one which is a strong Gmail competitor.

Does anyone else find it’s a bit strange to see writers keep referring to Hotmail as a Gmail alternative? After all, its userbase is almost three times as large… [It's the same vein as bloggers refering to Nokia and RIM as underdogs, with bigger market shares... -Ed]New Hotmail now available to all users, whether they want it or not originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsBHARTI AIRTEL
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Filed under: E-mail, Mozilla
I’m not a fan of desktop email clients. I haven’t been for some time, and I’m not shy about extolling the benefits of a Web-based email app. Mozilla, however, decided to put together a slick new add-on for Thunderbird that has me seriously thinking about switching back.

Like the project they launched earlier this year for Firefox, Contacts for Thunderbird is all about connecting with your friends and acquaintances beyond your inbox and address book. Contacts can tap in to a number of sources, like Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo!, Gmail, and LinkedIn. It’s extensible, of course, so you’ll be able to add support for other sites (Orkut? Windows Live?).

Once you’ve logged in to a service the fun begins. Click on a Twitter user — Soluto’s Roee Adler, for example — and interaction options are presented under Services:. I can send Roee a DM or view his updates right in the Contacts tab. Click a Facebook friend and you can view their updates, photos, and photos in which they’ve been tagged. Unfortunately, no Facebook messaging options are available yet.

Just like other Mozilla Labs projects, you’re getting an early look at what could very well be a core feature in upcoming versions of Thunderbird. While it’s lacking some features now, rest assured they’re on the way — Contacts will eventually provide a powerful, centralized dashboard for both email and social networking conversation.
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Two word scramble games, Every Word and Shuffled Row, built by Amazon Digital Services are available for download via the Kindle’s Wi-Fi or 3G wireless technology.

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Last week we noted a glitch in a new iPhone app from American Airlines that prevented some long-time members of the AmericanAdvantage club from being able to use the slick application, which helps orchestrate everything from check-ins to seat assignments to upgrades. American says it learned of the problem quickly and corrected the bug within hours.

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Meego — the Linux effort headed up by Intel and Nokia — recently scored a fairly major win, with GENIVI selecting it as the platform of choice for in-vehicle infotainment. In case you’re not familiar with GENIVI, it’s a consortium comprised of several high-profile companies including GM, BMW, Hyundai, Intel, Nokia, NVidia, ARM, Freescale, and many others.

On GENIVI’s about page, they speak of “developing a reusable, open source IVI platform” with the hope of driving “broad adoption of [a] development platform.” Enter Meego, which now appears poised to face off against Android on an even wider variety of upcoming devices.

Just days ago, the Meego IVI version was made available to the public. If you’ve got a car PC (or you plan on knocking one together), you can now download the remix and give it a go. As you’d expect with an IVI OS, Meego supports road-friendly tech like Bluetooth and Navit. Fennec is included for web browsing and Totem currently handles audio/video duties.

Right now, the Meego IVI interface isn’t quite as polished as the netbook version, but it’s a nice start and should be a nice fit for small-screen in-dash systems.

If your luck is better than mine, feel free to send over some screenshots — I couldn’t get Meego IVI to do anything other than boot and freeze at the desktop, and it wouldn’t install.Meego in-vehicle infotainment remix now available for download originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | CommentsNIKON
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Filed under: E-mail, Google

A while back, Google coders introduced drag-and-drop uploading in GMail (provided you were using a supported browser like Chrome), and there was much rejoicing. Today, they’ve introduced its counterpart: drag-and-drop downloading of attachments.

It might not sound like a big deal, but it’s actually quite nice to be able to grab a file and pull it down directly to a specific folder on your desktop without having to deal with a “save as” dialog. It’s the kind of functionality that Google hopes will help make web apps feel more like traditional desktop apps — and make them more appealing to those who have been slow to adopt.

And, hey, if nothing else it’s a nice way around Chrome’s sub-par download manager — maybe some day that’ll get some love, too.Video: GMail now supports drag-and-drop for downloading file attachments, too originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsBT GROUP
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Department of Health and Human Services honored Text4baby messaging service, which has more than 64,000 subscribers.

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Filed under: Developer, Internet, Microsoft, Browsers
Slightly ahead of schedule, Microsoft has just squeezed out the fourth and final IE9 developer preview.

From the outset, the news is much the same as the previous release: More hardware acceleration! Faster! More standards compliant! But there’s some juicy stuff under the hood, too — read on, if you want technical details. If you want developer-level stuff, check the IE team’s new blog post.

First, it looks like audio is now hardware accelerated. There’s both a multi-track mixer/sampling demo, and some daft Hamster Dance Revolution game — both show off strong audio processing abilities. I’ve never really thought of audio as being important for the Web platform, but I guess if we’re going to see increasingly-complex in-the-browser games and applications, having hardware audio access is highly desirable.

Next, there’s yet more support and hardware acceleration for SVG animation. Have a go with the dice rolling demo or the aforementioned music games — pretty damn cool for in-the-browser animation, eh?
Finally, with JavaScript performance (they’ve moved Chakra inside the rendering engine, it seems) and standards compliance (Acid3 score of 95/100!) both getting very close to both Opera and Chrome, IE9 looks in fine shape to regain the trust of developers. With the platform now finished, it’s now up to the IE team (and Microsoft!) to woo the big-money developers and content providers. There’s a lot of new and exciting functionality in IE9, but it’s going to take time and skill to utilize it successfully.

My only real concern is that the Internet Explorer team has put a lot of its eggs in the hardware accelerated basket. Firefox 4.0 will be hardware accelerated, and Opera has also confirmed that hardware acceleration is in the pipeline. It makes you wonder what Google has up its sleeve — the Internet isn’t just about JavaScript performance, and when you take that ace away from Chrome, it doesn’t have much else. But when every browser has hardware acceleration, what can IE9 bring to the table?

Surely it then becomes a matter of end-user experience. If IE9 launches later this year, it might have the edge for a while, but the whole point of open standards like HTML, CSS, JS and SVG is that every browser can support them. I worry that the Internet Explorer team might produce a fantastic browser, but one that simply isn’t as usable or functional as either Firefox or Opera. We shall see!Final Internet Explorer 9 preview released — tons of fixes, speed-ups, and only 8 weeks until the beta originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | CommentsELECTRONIC ARTS
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Filed under: Games, Android
Earlier this week I reviewed NESoid, a tidy little Android app that lets you play the vast library of NES games on your smartphone. It’s no surprise that my 600MHz smartphone can emulate the NES’s 8-bit 1.8MHz (really!) processor — but boy was I shocked when I installed PSX4droid and found I could (almost) play Final Fantasy VII on my phone.

Note: just like the NES emulator, it’s almost pointless to play PlayStation games on a phone without multi-touch capabilities. PSX4android will work on your Android 1.6 phone, but don’t try to play anything more complicated than Tetris clones.

First things first, PSX4droid isn’t a free app: it costs $5.99 on the Android Market. That said, given how gaming experience will vary wildly depending on what phone you own, I would recommend you torrent PSX4droid first before spending money on something that might not work. There’s also a non-exhaustive list of compatible phones that you can check beforehand. In general, if you have one of the newer 1GHz+ Android 2.0-or-later smartphones, PSX4droid should work.

Update: you can also buy something from the Android Market and get a full refund within 24 hours — so you can do that instead.

OK, now on with the actual review!

Getting PSX4droid to run is a lot harder than other emulators out there. It isn’t simply a matter of installing the app and grabbing a few ROMs. Even if you buy PSX4droid, it won’t work out of the box: you need to get a PlayStation BIOS BIN file first. Search the Web for ’scph1001.bin’. Transfer the file it to your phone’s SD card. (If you need help, there’s a walkthrough at the end of Android Tapp’s review.)

Then you need to find some game ROMs! Unlike NES and Sega games, PlayStation games are pretty big (the size of a CD!) This means that ROM sites don’t tend to host the files themselves, so to find PlayStation ROMs you’re going to have to trawl through MegaUpload, RapidShare and lots of ad-ridden pages to find your games. Couple in the fact that not every game works on the emulator, and you can see how playing PlayStation games on your Android might be more effort than it’s worth. Still, if you want to push ahead, here are some good ROM sites:

CoolROM (requires free membership)
DopeRoms (slow direct downloads)
EmuParadise (has direct downloads!)
Romulation (requires free membership)

Once you have a ROM or two, transfer them to your phone’s SD card. You are finally ready to play some games! Note in the screenshot below that I have to set the PSX BIOS file to the ’scph1001.bin’ file that I transferred to my phone.

I won’t lie to you, the gaming experience really isn’t great — at least on my Android 1.6 phone. With a newer HTC or Motorola smartphone (one with a hardware keyboard!) it might be better, but I bet it still pales in comparison to the real thing. On my phone the graphics were OK (around 10-15 FPS), but the audio sucked (very crackly) — probably because the 3D graphics were sucking up all available processing power.

There are two special input methods worth checking out: the Nintendo Wiimote (or indeed any Bluetooth gamepad), and the capability of using the phone’s internal ’tilt’ sensor. You can push ‘up’ on the on-screen gamepad while tilting your phone to the left, and your character moves diagonally! The Bluetooth input method is much more exciting — you get the Wiimote’s complete functionality! — but it seems to require Android 2.0, and even then it doesn’t work on HTC phones.

With all that said, I actually managed to play through the first few combat sequences in Final Fantasy VII. PSX4droid might not be as smooth as the NES or Sega emulators, but given a year or two and 3GHz processors in our mobile phones, the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP might seem a little redundant.

PSX4droid Tech Specs

Installed Size — 1.35MB, but PlayStation ROMs vary from hundreds of megabytes to a couple of gigabytes (Final Fantasy!)
Speed/Responsiveness — Interface-wise, fine. Actual game experience will vary wildly depending on what phone you have (tested with Android 1.6 @ 600MHz, LG GT 540 Swift)
User Interface — I still can’t really fathom why anyone would use a flat, on-screen display for playing games. Give me BUTTONS!
Configurability & Extensibility — Lots and lots of options, from how games are displayed through to shortcut keys and the placement of the on-screen gamepad
License — Commercial, costs $5.99

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Filed under: Features, Mozilla, BrowsersGood afternoon! I have good news and bad news. This will be my last Firefox Friday for July, because I’m going on holiday. Lee and Matthew will pick up the slack while I’m gone. A different point of view is always interesting and I thoroughly look forward to reading the column while on vacation, sprawled across a babe-blanketed balmy beach somewhere in Eastern Europe…

Anyway, there’s a lot of stuff to cover this week, so let’s dive right in with the most pertinent morsel!

1. Firefox Home now available for your iPhone and iPod Touch (and iPad, I think)

Get it while it’s hot! It’s free (obviously), and promises to revolutionize your mobile Web experience. Here’s a direct iTunes link if you want to dive right in.

We’ve already covered Firefox Home a bunch of times, so I’ll spare you the details and jump right into the next juicy bit of Firefox news.

2. Mozilla App Store will offer a middle-ground between Android’s openness and Apple’s walled playground for Web apps

It’s still in a very early stage of development — heck, it might still just be ideas on a whiteboard — but with Google obviously working hard on a Chrome Web Store, I think Mozilla will soon start showing off early prototypes of its “open” Web app store.

Web apps-in-a-tab are the next stage in the ‘platformication’ of browsers, and thanks to Apple’s proven app store model you can be certain that a huge ecosystem will sprout up around commercial (and free) in-the-browser applications. Don’t worry about weird, draconian moderation either: Mozilla has already stipulated than such a store would only host applications based on open standards like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

What remains to be seen is whether people will pay for such apps. The Technology Review story points out that Salesforce has had success in selling business-oriented Web apps, so there is a market out there. What I want to know is whether Web apps written in HTML and JavaScript can be protected by DRM…

Don’t forget, Firefox 4 now has App Tabs, too!

3. Mozilla Summit yields a bunch of fun and useful Jetpack add-ons (including one that shakes your browser during earthquakes…)

It seems news of the Mozilla app store wasn’t the only cool thing to come out of the Mozilla Summit last week in Canada! During the event, attendees were cajoled into developing add-ons using Jetpack and the new Web-based Add-ons Builder (which is very cool, if you haven’t seen it yet!).

The results were, unsurprisingly, pretty damn cool! The Most Useful award went to Copy ShortURL, but Most Creative went to the excellently-named QuakeyFox. All it does is scan the USGS earthquake RSS feed — and if there’s an earthquake anywhere in the world, your browser window shakes! (How damn cool is it that there’s an earthquake RSS feed? Who needs Twitter?!)

Most Fun — and really, this one’s genius — was awarded to Too Old For Facebook. Install or ‘Test’ it, and then visit Facebook. It made my brain hurt.

4. Regain the ability to watch full-screen videos on Facebook!

If, like me, you use Facebook as your primary source of abominable animal videos, you may have noticed that the ‘fullscreen’ button recently disappeared from videos imported from external sites like YouTube and Vimeo. Firefox Facts speculates that Facebook doesn’t want us to leave the Facebook environment, even if it’s only to watch a full-screen video — but who cares? The point is: the full-screen button’s gone and you want it back!

All you need is Greasemonkey and a tiny Userscript — and voila! Full-screen video in Facebook. (Click the image to watch a truly awesome video, incidentally.)

5. India gets its very own Web browser based on Firefox, also first browser to feature built-in anti-virus protection

Other than its rather unfortunate name — Epic Browser (really!) — this is probably the coolest Firefox-derivative I’ve ever seen. It’s basically Firefox — all the menus and options are the same — but with the entire browser chrome reworked to make it both user- and Indian-friendly.

Epic Browser’s main feature is the massive sidebar chock full of handy add-ons and widgets. You have one-click access to Facebook, Orkut, email, videos — and, most importantly, built-in Indic language transliteration (powered by Google!) If you read the FAQ you can get a fairly good idea of what Epic Browser does and what modifications they’ve made.

The Epic site claims there are thousands of sidebar widgets and themes — but considering the, er, confident hyperbole — faster! instantly! one-click! maximum!! — used throughout, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a slight exaggeration. Still, Epic Browser is free, and built on Firefox 3.6.6, so it’s pretty darn fast. Its developers seemingly haven’t made their changes open source though… for shame!
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Apple announces an update to its iMac, Mac Pro, and display lineup offering a mix of big new monitors, powerful new towers, and power-packed desktop.

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Don’t get me wrong, I like my iPod touch — there are just certain restrictions which can sometimes hamper the experience. Say, for example, you’ve got computers in two different locations (maybe one at home and another at work). You’d like to be able to sync all your music on both systems using iTunes, but you can’t.

At least you’re not supposed to be able to, but a free Windows app offers a simple workaround. It’s called Phoneable, and it’ll have you syncing your iPhone or iPod media on multiple computers in three easy steps.

The process is about as painless as it can get. First, perform a backup of your device in iTunes. Next, install and launch PhoneAble and perform the check. If your key doesn’t match, click set key. That’s it. You should now be able to sync your music, video, and pics on additional computers…

… as long as they all run Windows. If they do, grab PhoneAble and start syncing!Phoneable lets you sync your iPhone or iPod with multiple iTunes libraries originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsDIEBOLD
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Apple bought mobile ad network Quattro Wireless. Quattro confirmed the purchase, which AllThingsDigital said was worth $275 million. The deal could accelerate the growing war between Apple and Google, friends quickly turned enemies in the pitched battle for the mobile Web. Chris Dixon, co-founder of decision engine Hunch and an investor in multiple properties, argued that Apple’s interest in Quattro must be about ads in mobile apps. –

Apple has acquired mobile ad network Quattro Wireless in
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There’s quite an abundance of apps available for the iPad but there’s a couple more I’d personally like to see in the near future. Maybe with a little luck the wait won’t be for much longer. So here’s my current iPad app wishlist, not too much to ask for don’t you agree? BBC Radio iPad [...]AMKOR TECHNOLOGY
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