Nestle put a Rio augmented reality game on every box of cereal
1 year ago
Angry Birds: Rio for Android launching exclusively through Amazon App Store - more Android fragmentation to follow?
A Preview of Android 3.0 Honeycomb - Google’s proper attempt at empowering an iPad rival
“Honeycomb is the next version of the Android platform, designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets. We’ve spent a lot of time refining the user experience in Honeycomb, and we’ve developed a brand new, truly virtual and holographic user interface. Many of Android’s existing features will really shine on Honeycomb: refined multi-tasking, elegant notifications, access to over 100,000 apps on Android Market, home screen customization with a new 3D experience and redesigned widgets that are richer and more interactive. We’ve also made some powerful upgrades to the web browser, including tabbed browsing, form auto-fill, syncing with your Google Chrome bookmarks, and incognito mode for private browsing.
Honeycomb also features the latest Google Mobile innovations including Google Maps 5 with 3D interactions and offline reliability, access to over 3 million Google eBooks, and Google Talk, which now allows you to video and voice chat with any other Google Talk enabled device (PC, tablet, etc).”
(Source: googlemobile.blogspot.com)
Soluto - A new year’s resolution for a frustration-free PC
Here’s a startup to keep your eye on this coming year, and for PC owners to get using right away. Soluto is a simple ‘anti frustration’ software which provides user friendly tools to make the most of your PC (core functionality you’d think would be built in already).
The programme analyses your boot and identifies applications you can remove from the process altogether or delay to be run until your PC is idle, it helped shave an impressive 30 seconds off my own 3 minute boot time. The programme is also an ongoing monitor and if ever your system slows to a crawl or in any other way frustrates you you can click on Soluto and ask it to investigate.
The system is linked to the PC Genome project, essentially a giant wiki of other users experiences and knowledge and helps you make your own decisions based on what previous users have done. Check it out for yourself at Soluto.com.
Are you ready for Near Field Communication?
Google is hoping to bring the technology mainstream in their updated Nexus phone.
Opinion: RockMelt’s First Update Make it The Social Browser!
// Community Post - Phil Ricci
I love this browser.
I do not normally get that stoked about things, but I have to tell you, I am on this. I got in on RockMelt pretty much after its launch a few weeks back, (Shout out to Peter for the invite!) and I haven’t looked back!
I had been playing with Flock for a time, which has always been OK to me; Its kinda a glitchy version of Chrome with just an ongoing feed (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc) like TweetDeck. To be honest, never have been really impressed, so when I heard the initial buzz on RockMelt I was a bit skeptical.
Took me about an hour to realize that I was wrong.
RockMelt is not like any other browser. It’s clean, it’s fast (Based on The Chromium Project 7) and it streamlines sharing and surfing. It is the browser if you like your browsing to be social.
It’s all about the edges!
RockMelt uses what it calls “edges” (See Above), which basically means it doesn’t clutter up the screen like other browsers do. (In the tune of Steve Miller) You have friends to left of you, apps to the right, and just browsing in the middle will do…
RockMelt has all the killer extensions that Google has made, plus they are already creating their own to fit their interface better.
So it’s just all good?
Now the only downside (if you can call it that) is that this is by invite only (Must be Facebook friends) by either a friend or through the company direct at www.rockmelt.com. If you go the route of the latter, you could be on the wait for up to a week. That said, users are pretty stoked to use this, so people are constantly looking to share.
The newest update, that just dropped, took away about 95% of all the little hiccups that were present in the initial beta; and the RockMelt team has already announced more on the horizon.
So what am I saying?
Try this. It’s not going to be for everyone, but what is? If you are someone who wants to be able to browse fast, while being able to keep tabs on all you social media and share with ease…then RockMelt is you browser.
I officially made this my default the other day and I’m thrilled.
I hope you enjoy!
Until Next Time…
By Phil Ricci, The World: by Phil - If you have a great idea in the world of tech or social media, give me a shout @www.theworldbyphil.com.
Orange Ballonacy - We’re part of the Internet Balloon Race, will you join in?
OS X 10.7 Lion Announced
- Multi-Touch gestures
- Based on track pad or Magic Mouse input, not a touch screen
- App Store
- Best place to discover apps
- One-click downloads
- Free & paid apps
- Automatic installation and updates
- Licensed for use on all personal Macs
- App Home screens
- Full screen apps
- Auto save
- Apps resume when launched
