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Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough
We hope you Android lovers out there are sitting down, because we’re about to knock your socks off. Android 2.0 hasn’t been released, announced, or even pictured. Until now. And we’re doing it like we’re doing it for TV — major screenshots and major information right here, just for you, our beloved readers.
Android 2.0 looks to be a major improvement in Google’s mobile OS and we couldn’t be more excited about it. From native Exchange support to native Facebook support (it will sync with your contacts), browser improvements, a completely updated Maps application, unified email Inbox — there’s much, much more — and a brand new UI makeover, version 2.0 starts to make Android a really viable (and interesting) platform. Bounce over the jump for all the screenshots and our walkthrough!
Please note: this isn’t the final build of Android 2.0 and the follow reporting is based on the version we have running. Things can and will change prior to release.
Microsoft Exchange compatibility looks to be built-in to the OS now, and the new unified Inbox is perfect for keeping up with your personal and corporate email. You can star (flag for the corporate world) emails, mark multiple as read or unread, delete, forward — whatever you want basically. Emails load effortlessly. Unfortunately (or not so unfortunately) the unified Inbox won’t work with your Gmail account as that uses the specific Google-made Gmail email application in Android.
Maps has been updated to include Layers. We’d imagine this will grow over time but now you can overlay search queries, Wikipedia entries, Latitude buddies, traffic, transit lines, and even load remote My Maps where you can share and receive directions with others. Android 2.0 seems to have some multi-touch gestures built-in like two-finger tapping in Maps, that will zoom in, however, there’s no gesture to zoom out and pinching doesn’t work. © Apple.
The browser has a nice little UI makeover with a redone URL entry bar which includes a Favicon. In terms of performance, no this version we have doesn’t have Flash 10, Google keeps making strides in the browser space. It’s worlds better than anything we’ve used previously on a stock Android OS, and jumps one notch higher than HTC’s customized browser. There is not multi-touch in here as of now, but, you can double tap to zoom in and zoom out which is really all we’ve been asking for since Android 1.0. Oh and did we mention this thing flies? We’re talking ridiculously close to iPhone 3GS web page speeds.
There’s now a YouTube widget you can place directly on your homescreen and that allows for literally two-click YouTube video uploads. You hit record, the video recording app launches, you type in a title and description for your newly-recorded video, and it’s up and away.
While the settings area is roughly the same overall, there’s a lot of interesting additions in 2.0. For starters, there’s haptic feedback built-in and a brand new Accessibility option. There’s also a new option for Text-to-speech and generally with Android 2.0, you’re given more control over the settings of your phone and more opportunities to customize it based on your liking. Something completely bewildering is the fact that if you set a lock code for the phone (seriously give people a choice to use numbers or letters as the passcode), there’s no lock interval option, so each time your phone turns off (about every 30 seconds when not in use), you’re forced to enter the password again on arrival. Lame.
Car Home. What? You don’t know what that is? Ok, it’s a new application that’s meant to be used, uh, in your car. Seriously it’s actually quite nice. It’s a consolidated list of icons that help you perform things (presumably using voice commands if you’re driving). Things like doing a voice search across the internet, getting driving directions, viewing a location on a map, selecting a contact, searching through your phone, etc. It’s very cool that you can say, “map of gas stations” and that will open Google Maps and show you on the map where all the gas stations are closest to you. Not exactly new technology, but hey, we didn’t say it was. We said this was all about pushing Android forward, and it is.
The Amazon MP3 application seems to work over 3G instead of just Wi-Fi now, but whether that is something done because of Android 2.0 or just because of the carrier it’s running on, we’re not positively sure.
Contacts seem to be much more roomy and there’s some great functionality built right in. Instead of hitting the contact and then diving through it to find the contact information you need, just tap the contact’s photo. Up will spring a clean and tidy sub-menu with the pertinent information which can be clicked on. Send someone an email instantly, open up their Facebook profile, or even call them! Very cool and all great things that we love seeing.
Things like the music application and gallery application don’t look to have changed too much, if at all. There also looks to be some more flexibility when defining homescreen shortcuts and things of that nature.
That’s all we have for you today, guys. What do you think of Android 2.0 in its not-final version? We’re loving it. And it could help that it’s running on a pretty bad ass piece of machinery, but hey, that’s for another day.
(from boygeniousreport)
HAVA media streamer for iPhone available now
Just a quick note to all you HAVA Player enthusiasts: the iPhone app that the company announced at CES is finally ready for public consumption. Available from the App Store (of all places), the software lets HAVA owners control it all remotely — including cable, satellite, and your DVR. What’s more, you can stream your recorded programming right onto the handset for all those times when you can’t stand to be apart from Jim Kramer. Supports iPhone and iPod touch with (OS 2.2.1 or higher) and will run you $9.99. PR after the break.
(from engadget)
nikon d3s, night vision…
Nikon has announced a new player, the nikon D3s, an incredible machine capable of shooting at 102.400 ISO! and with its FX CMOS sensor shoot HD movies as well.
It has 12.1 Mp and the will cost around $5.200.
You still have the D3X with 24.5 Mp and the D3 with 12.1 Mp and also $5.500
Here you have the techspecs for the D3s. Looks like the s gives video to the nikons, like the d300s.
- ISO performance: ISO 12800 as standard, expandable to ISO equivalent of 102400 (Hi 3)
- Nikon FX-format CMOS image sensor with 12.1 effective megapixels
- Improved D-Movie function including High-Sensitivity Movie mode and flicker reduction function
- Nikon’s Integrated Dust Reduction System including Image Sensor Cleaning function
- Incorporates Nikon’s original EXPEED digital image processing
- Active D-Lighting with bracketing for up to 5 frames
- Picture Control: Standard, Vivid, Neutral and Monochrome (Landscape and Portrait can be downloaded from Nikon website)
- Quick response with approx. 0.12 seconds start-up time and approx. 0.04 seconds shutter-release time lag
- 9-frames-per-second shooting rate in FX format, 11 fps in DX crop (CIPA Guidelines)
- Nikon’s original Scene Recognition System, utilizing 1,005-pixel RGB sensor, for more accurate autofocus, auto exposure, i-TTL flash control and auto white balance
- Multi-CAM 3500FX AF sensor module featuring 51 AF points
- Viewfinder with approx. 100% frame coverage and approx. 0.7x magnification in FX format
- Durable shutter unit proven by 300,000 cycles of testing on fully assembled camera
- Intelligent power management that lets you shoot up to approx. 4,200 frames per charge (based on CIPA Standards)
- Easy-to-access Live View modes with dedicated button
- Quiet Shutter-release mode for nonintrusive shooting
- High-definition (approx. 921k-dot), 170˚ viewing angle, 3-in. VGA LCD monitor with tempered glass.
Which one is for you?
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Building Maker is a 3D modeling tool for adding buildings to Google Earth. It’s fun to use, and an easy way to get on the 3D map. Here’s how it works:
- Select a city from around the world.
- Make a building with photos we provide.
- Save your building and it will be reviewed.
- See your 3D building in Google Earth!
Got my google wave invitation
I just got my google wave invitation today. I am testing it. ;-)
The Cement Factory Loft in Barcelona by Ricardo Bofill
LoftLife takes a look into The Cement Factory loft, Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill’s legendary and unusual live/work complex in Barcelona. Originally, the space was, in fact, a cement factory but it also resembles a cathedral with its high, narrow windows and gothic-style arches.
Today, the factory serves as Ricardo’s personal home, as well as offices, laboratories, and a venue for exhibitions, lectures, and concerts.
Take a look inside.
©2009 Design Milk | Posted by Jaime in Architectur
Vue is the coolest wireless webcam network
Vue is the easiest and simplest way to remotely view your family, your home, your business…virtually anything, from anywhere, at anytime. Vue lets you create your own personal video network and delivers live video wirelessly for you to see and share from any web browser or flash-enabled mobile device – no software to load. It’s really that simple!
Vue FrameMesh technology – video unplugged.
Vue utilizes innovative patented FrameMesh™ technology to enable wireless live video transmission from battery operated miniature cameras. FrameMesh is an ultra low-power technology that allows a camera to operate for up to a year on a single battery with normal use. With no wires to restrict you, cameras can be positioned and repositioned easily in seconds using our patented peel & stick magnetic mounts.
Just minutes from the box to live video.
Vue is designed for zero-configuration setup. There is no software to load. No hard drive storage requirement. No long string of characters to type. We’ve simplified the setup to remove the need for technical expertise.
Stick. Click. View.
Stick the patented peel & stick magnetic mounts to the wall anywhere within 300 feet of the gateway* and position the camera on the mount. Click a single button to sync your cameras, then click on your personal my.VueZone.com page to register. View by dragging an active camera to the My Vue area on your Watch Page.
That’s it!
View Online From Anywhere
Your personal page at my.VueZone.com.
Vue provides secure viewing of your personal video network online from any browser* or flash-enabled mobile device. Your my.VueZone.com Watch Page gives you complete control for viewing up to 50 cameras on a single gateway…and even multiple gateways. Extend your Vue anytime by adding cameras and gateways.
View. Share.
It’s as easy as drag-and-drop. Your active cameras are visible on your Watch Page. Simply drag a camera icon into the My Vue area and click the Start button to view and share live video.
Record. Playback. Store.
Any video clip or snapshot can be easily recorded and stored for future playback. You can also schedule automatic recording times. Vue gives you 2gb of secure private storage with service plans for expanding.
Share Live Cameras
Let others share live events.
Vue lets your friends and family share the events in your life… at the moment they are happening and at your control. You can share a special event like a birthday party or family reunion. You can also grant share status to specific people so they can check in on your life periodically.
It’s easy to share live cameras – drag and click.
When you want to let others share your live Vue cameras, you simply drag the live camera you want to share into the Share area and click the names on your sharing list. Those people are then notified that they can see what they’re missing by viewing your cameras. Names can be removed from the sharing list just as easily.
So…
(from geekbrief)
The kit comes with two wireless cameras. Four ingenious magnetic mounts, four CR123 batteries, a receiver and an ethernet cable. The battery cover opens with the twist of a coin.
You have to create an account on my.vuezone.com. You can rename them, drag them into the view screen. Press play the same way you start a YouTube video and the live stream begins. You can choose to record and my account includes 2000MBs of storage that you can watch later and choose to share online. You can share so your neighbor can to view the cameras when you are out of town. If the alarm goes off, you can hop on and see what’s happening without putting himself in danger.
It works as well as they say it does and it couldn’t possibly be simpler to set up. Image quality is perfectly acceptable. The magnetic mounting system is brilliant. You stick it to a wall and then move the camera around to get the best shot. Wireless range is excellent. Signal is good all around the house. You can add up to 50 cameras!!! Now, that would be expensive because extra cameras are $100 a pop. $300 for the initial pack that brings two cameras.
Free iPhone to iPhone text messanging
Quick Pitch: Ping! is simplified iPhone-to-iPhone messaging with push notifications (also works with iPod Touch). It uses a unique Ping! ID, and works similar to Blackberry Messenger so that messages can extend to friends anywhere in the world without text messaging costs.
Genius Idea: Although text messaging has come down in cost over the years, it’s still not free. A number of mobile applications work around that though, and let you send free messages to other users. Ping is one such application — after you download it for 99 cents from the iPhone app store [iTunes link].
One of the best aspects of Ping is that it uses push notifications, which makes it much more like regular text messaging. Simply download Ping, create a username, and start messaging your friends that also have the app. It also lets you link Ping contacts to your address book and works on iPod Touch, which extends its reach to the more than 40 million people that have either an iPhone or iPod Touch.
That is of course the downside of the app – it’s only for iPhone to iPhone messaging, so it can’t quite replace text messaging if your friends use other devices (or, don’t sign up for Ping). TextPlus, another app we’ve reviewed, actually does the opposite, letting you use an iPhone app to send text messages to any phone number, though we’ve heard that they plan to add app-to-app messaging as well.
The ideal messaging app would seemingly have a version for multiple platforms (iPhone, BlackBerry,Android, etc.) and also support texting to non-users. That’s likely the direction most of these companies will ultimately move in, but we’re not quite there yet.
(from mashable)
Track your trips: Project Niu
http://www.projectniu.org
Acknowledgment when sending SMS with an iPhone
To do this here is a little tutorial to guide you there 2 methods, I suggest the easiest (note it seems that in some cases, not mine in any case, the notification SMS from unknown then put you the contact in your book, but once in the SMS you have of course the name of the sender):
Acknowledgment iPhone SMS
* Launch Cydia
* Once in Cydia -> Manage -> Source, add and install the source http://iphonedelivery.advinux.com/cydia
* In Search -> find the application iPhoneDelivery
* Install the application
* Your system restarts, wait
* In Settings -> Messages, select Acknowledgment and Flash AR (this is the info bubble that gives you the details)
After several tests, everything works perfect, no problem!
In addition it does not make you an SMS acknowledgment but just a warning.
(extracted from nightgamer)
Rovio Robot. The ultimate webcam
Rovio™ is the groundbreaking new Wi-Fi enabled mobile webcam that lets you view and interact with its environment through streaming video and audio, wherever you are! With Rovio, you will always be just a click away from the people and places that are important to you.
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