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HTC Jelly Bean, Android 4.1 Update κάποια στιγμή - by www.pestaola.gr
Η HTC μίλησε αλλά δεν είπε κάτι συγκεκριμένο. Το HTC Jelly Bean update θα έρθει κάποια στιγμή στα κινητά αλλά κανείς δεν ξέρει ακόμα πότε ακριβώς. Το σίγουρο είναι ότι η σειρά HTC One θα μπορεί να τρέξει το Android 4.1, ίσως και άλλα κινητά αλλά το πότε ακριβώς μένει να το μάθουμε μόλις ολοκληρωθεί [...]
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Back in the mid-80s, the idea of transferring funds, checking your email, buying stocks and booking a trip online was all a faraway dream. But if you happened to be in France at the time, you might've already been wired up and doing these things for years -- thanks to the state-subsidized Minitels that were in each and every household. The country was far more interconnected than any other and proud of the text-only terminals, even though government-owned France Telecom monopolized access and you had to be newspaper company to supply any content.
It took off anyway, and soon faux-newspaper companies sprung up everywhere for the not-so-secret purpose of delivering paid Minitel services. They supplied information, financial access, ticketing, online shopping, and even some naughty text-based services (sacré bleu!). At its apogee in 1998, the system generated over a billion dollars a year in revenue, and accounted for nearly 15% of the annual income for online retailers 3 Suisses and La Redoute, to name a couple.
But France can be an insular nation, and Minitel never really spread anywhere else. The internet gave the coup de grace to the system and displaced it, and though it's still accessed by millions each year, France Telecom will pull the plug once and for all this Saturday. Some regret that the nation didn't build on its technological lead, but most French folks will probably remember the boxes nostalgically, knowing that they beat the internet by almost 20 years.
[Image credit: Musée De l'Informatique]
Minitel to be shut down tomorrow: France bids adieu to the internet's precursor originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Evernote, ασφαλές περιεχόμενο με κρυπτογραφημένο κείμενο [How-To] - by www.pestaola.gr
Δεν είναι λίγοι αυτοί που έχουν επιλέξει το Evernote ως το ψηφιακό τους σημειωματάριο, είτε για προσωπική είτε για επαγγελματική χρήση. Πολλές φορές το περιεχόμενο των σημειώσεων κάθε χρήστη μπορεί να περιέχει επαγγελματικά μυστικά, προσωπικά δεδομένα, κωδικούς πρόσβασης και γενικότερα περιεχόμενο που δεν πρέπει να αποκαλυφθεί, σε περίπτωση που οποιοσδήποτε αποκτήσει πρόσβαση στο λογαριασμό σας. [...]
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While Chrome for iOS may not be much more than a skin on top of Mobile Safari, that doesn't seem to have put off the denizens of the App Store — they've sent Google's browser to the number 1 position in the free app charts. In our hands-on, we liked the Chrome mobile interface and appreciated the way it syncs with the desktop browser, though App Store restrictions stop it matching Mobile Safari for speed. It's definitely worth checking out, especially if you use the most popular browser in the world on other devices, and its instant popularity suggests that there could well be a demand for alternate iOS browsers.
Google Chrome για iPhone και iPad εδώ και τώρα - by www.pestaola.gr
Σήμερα έχουμε την δεύτερη μέρα του ετήσιου συνεδρίου Google I/O, το σημερινό keynote της Google έιχε να κάνει με το οτιδήποτε πέραν του Android. Μια από τις σημαντικότερες ειδήσεις του keynote της Google είναι η έλευση του Chrome για iOS, δηλαδή για iPhone, iPad και iPod touch. Από σήμερα λοιπόν αγαπητοί κάτοχοι Apple συσκευών θα [...]
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Nokia has started to rollout a Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh (Tango) update to its existing Lumia 800 and 710 handsets. The update introduces several new features, including Internet sharing and a flip-to-silence option. Lumia 800 and 710 users will also be able to download optional Camera Extras, Contact Share, and Play To apps after the latest Windows Phone update is applied.
Existing Lumia 900 and 610 handsets already have the latest Windows Phone updates and flip-to-silence, but 800 and 710 users can obtain the update from Zune on a PC or the Windows Phone Connector software on a mac. The update is fairly minor, with the exception of internet sharing, adding MMS improvements and a new GPS location icon.
Virtually every corner of the Google universe is being touched at Google I/O, and that now includes Google Drive. A version 2 update to the Drive SDK gives Android and iOS developers the option of building the cloud storage into their mobile apps, whether it's downloads, uploads or on-the-spot edits. The programming interface has likewise been expanded as a whole to handle everyday file duties, such as conversions, copying and revision handling. Web-only users are taken care of with support for embedded shares and opening Google documents in any given software that will take the exportable formats. The updated Drive SDK is ready to go, with a flood of apps either coming or already here -- if you want to hop on the bandwagon, just take a peek at the source link.
Google Drive SDK version 2 supports Android and iOS apps, common file tasks originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 01:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Buried somewhat quietly in the noise of Google's spate of announcements today was an interesting fact: the Nexus Q, Google's new media streamer and first self-built consumer hardware, is being manufactured in the United States. In fact, Google didn’t talk about it on stage at all, but had stories in The New York Times and Wired timed with the announcement of the product. Google isn't providing many details about the manufacture of the devices, which isn't surprising, but we do know they're being made in San Jose, California. The price for a "made in the USA" streamer? $300.
Though electronics manufacturing has been somewhat a hot topic since most of the jobs went overseas, the concern hit a high point recently following serious...
Google Maps Offline, χάρτες ολόκληρης πόλης στο κινητό σου - by www.pestaola.gr
Το νέο Google Maps πάει Offline στην έκδοση για Android. Αυτό σημαίνει ότι από εδώ και πέρα με το Android 4.1 Jelly Bean οι χρήστες θα μπορούν να κατεβάζουν και να χρησιμοποιούν χάρτες μια ολόκληρης πόλης χωρίς σύνδεση στο internet. Ο λόγος που το Google μπαίνει σε αυτή την αγορά είναι προφανής και σκοπό έχει [...]
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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, το νέο Android OS έρχεται μέσα Ιουλίου - by www.pestaola.gr
Το νέο Android 4.1 είναι εδώ με κωδικό όνομα Jelly Bean. Πρόκειται για μια σημαντική αναβάθμιση που μετά από χρόνο διορθώνει σημαντικά προβλήματα του λειτουργικού και προσθέτει νέες δυνατότητες. Η σημαντική προσθήκη στο Android 4.1 Jelly Bean είναι αυτό που το Google ονομάζει Project Butter. Με το Project Butter το Google διόρθωσε τα προβλήματα performance [...]
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Android activations, 1.000.000 νέες συσκευές κάθε μέρα - by www.pestaola.gr
Είναι πλέον γεγονός, το Android μετράει 1.000.000 Android Activations κάθε μέρα. Αυτό σημαίνει ότι κάθε 24 ώρες το Google βλέπει ένα εκατομμύριο νέα Androids να μιλάνε με τους server του. Δεν είναι ξεκάθαρο τι συσκευές είναι αυτές, ούτε τι έκδοση Android τρέχουν αλλά αυτό έχει μάλλον μικρή σημασία γιατί 1.000.000 νέες συσκευές είναι πάρα πολλές. [...]
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Google has just announced Google+ for tablets on stage at I/O. The app is available for Android today, and Google says the iOS version will be available "soon." Google says that more users engage with Google+ on mobile than desktops, and a tablet version of it has been sorely missing. The app itself, from what we can tell, looks very slick, with photos front and center to the content, very large in the streams, organizing content based on popularity.
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Google announced the next version of Android, named Jelly Bean, today. It has a ton of improvements in notifications, speed and smoothness, and a new feature called Google Now that gives you useful real-time information based on where you are and what's coming up in your calendar.
Arguably the coolest feature in Android 4.1 is a feature called "Google Now", that always keeps you up to date on what's important in your life. Say you have an event coming up in your calendar. It will figure out your usual travel method, calculate the time it will take you to get to your event using that travel method, and notify you when you need to leave (with a quick shortcut to navigate you there). If you're using public transit, it'll even factor in the time it'll take to get you to the bus stop.
It can also show you places of interest as you walk down the street, like restaurants and bars, and even tell you what the famous menu items are at those places. It'll keep you updated on the status of upcoming flights, sports scores, currency conversions if it recognizes you traveling internationally, and a lot more. It gets smarter the more you use it, too, which is awesome.
Google has also added its intelligent Knowledge Graph searching to mobile search, in a very cool way. If you search for a person, place, or thing that Google understands, it'll show you a card with information pertaining to that specific thing. If you search for the weather, it'll show you a screen with lots of weather information rather than just giving you a list of search results. Of course, you can swipe down to bypass the card and get your regular search results if you so choose.
If you perform the search with your voice, then it will speak the resulting Knowledge Graph answer back to you as it shows you the card. The voice recognition has been sped up and is now better at understanding natural language. The voice lady's voice is also lovely and surprisingly non-robotic.
Notifications in Jelly Bean are now expandable, so you can get more information about a specific notification and even take action right from the notification drawer. For example, if you have a missed call, you'll see a contact image, their number, and a button to call them back. You can also see the body of a Gmail message and reply to it, upcoming calendar events with a button to email all other attendants, and you can even like or reply to comments on social networks like FourSquare (and, presumably, Facebook and Twitter). If someone shares a photo on Google+, you'll see a full res version of the photo, and you can +1 or share it with one tap.
By default, the drawer expands the top notification in the list, and as you swipe the top notification away, the next one in the list will flat up and automatically expand. If you want to expand other notifications in the drawer, you can do so with a two-finger swipe.
Google has taken more steps to improve Android's sometimes-laggy UI with something they call "Project Butter": an initiative to improve speed and smoothness. This is something Ice Cream Sandwich aspired to do as well, but instead of practical UI tweaks, it looks like Jelly Bean contains more under-the-hood improvements (which is what Android really needed). The most interesting of these under the hood tweaks is the touch responsiveness improvement, which ramps up the CPU as soon as you touch the screen so it can react quickly to whatever you're about to do.
Speaking of voice control, Google has also shrunk the size of voice recognition so that the entire thing is offline. That means if you want to send a text message or type using your voice, you can do so right from the keyboard, no internet connection necessary.
The Camera has gotten a few new cool gestures. When in camera view, you can swipe to the left to view your camera roll, and swipe through your photo library right from there. If you want a wider view, you can pinch in to view a filmstrip of your photos, and swipe up to delete any of your photos, just like you can do in the browser or multitasking screens introduced in Ice Cream Sandwich.
Lastly, the home screen has a very cool new feature in which it automatically rearranges your screen when you drop in widgets. Say you want to move a widget to another screen, but there isn't enough room for that widget. It'll automatically rearrange your icons and resize the widget so it fits perfectly, which is pretty awesome.
These aren't the only new things in Jelly Bean, but they are the coolest. It also includes new Android Beam features (like the ability to pair your phone with Bluetooth speakers just by tapping them together), new input languages, accessibility features for blind users, and more. Jelly Bean will be available to the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S, and Motorola Xoom in mid-July, with other phones following behind. Got a new feature that you think looks awesome, or something you wish they would have added? Talk about it in the comments.
It's seems like only yesterday we were all crowded around our laptops, watching a live stream and getting amped for Ice Cream Sandwich. Truth is, that was six months ago now and, while most of the Android running public still hasn't been blessed with 4.0, it's already time to make the leap to 4.1. Today Google officially took the wraps off Jelly Bean, the next evolution of its mobile platform and while its not quite the revolutionary shift that was Gingerbread to ICS, it still marks an important improvement for the ecosystem. One of the biggest features is Project Butter, a deep diving effort to improve performance and response time. The whole system hums along at 60fps now, and while the difference of a few miliseconds might sound like small potatoes, it becomes glaringly apparently the moment you run Jelly Bean next to an ICS device. Animations are smoother and quicker. The CPU immediately ramps up the moment a touch is detected to ensure speedy response.
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Jelly Bean, Android 4.1 revealed by Google originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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MetroTwit for the desktop has been available to Windows 8 users throughout the testing phase of the operating system, but the team has now released a Metro style version of the popular Twitter app. Available in the Windows Store, the preview version of MetroTwit contains most of the functionality you'd expect from a Twitter app, including column support and picture uploads.
We've been using MetroTwit desktop on our Windows machines, naming it a must-have app to make Windows 7 more beautiful. The Windows 8 version is designed with mouse and touch support in mind and includes some built-in live tiles to provide a quick overview of different parts of a Twitter account. It's certainly one of the better looking Windows 8 Twitter clients...
Sony promised us a YouTube app for the PlayStation Vita this month, and although it's just sliding under the wire, that app is here. The viewer as it hits the console will play videos over 3G and WiFi as well as in HD quality, if you've got the bandwidth to burn. Most of the basics for favorites and searches are covered, including a small player that will let you hop between clips. There's no mention of subscriptions for those perpetually addicted to Maru or Ray William Johnson, however. That quirk aside, the free app is due to swing by the PlayStation Store any moment now, so fire up your Vita and get ready to watch game strategy videos distracting pet clips on that OLED-packing handheld.
YouTube for PS Vita now ready, will help you watch more kitties than Killzone originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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