Marie's blog: June 2011

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Video: Opera Mobile 11.1, Opera Mini 6.1 have arrived

Whether you prefer the full power of a browser or a lighter version of it, Opera has you covered. Opera is one of the most popular 3rd-party browsers for Android, up there with Dolphin and Skyfire, and it’s just gotten a bit better. Opera has just updated Opera Mobile to version 11.1 and Opera Mini

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No Surprise Here: You Can Use Ubuntu on a Galaxy Tab 10.1 [Video]

We’ve seen it with countless phones and tablets before it, and here it is again – Ubuntu, running on a device that’s supposed to be running Android. . . . → Read More: No Surprise Here: You Can Use Ubuntu on a Galaxy Tab 10.1 [Video]

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Yelp App Updated To Add New Groupon Now! Style "Deals" Feature

Yelp received an update today, and it adds a brand-new mobile-exclusive feature called Deals, which is essentially a competitor to Groupon's Groupon Now!. The Deals button found on the updated app integrates Yelp Special Offers, Check-In Offers, and its time/location-sensitive Deals all into a single, location-based menu.

Like Groupon Now!, you can only view offers within a certain distance of your current location (which is to say, it can't be manually set). The fact that it puts together all of Yelp's discount systems into a single list is really pretty handy, but unfortunately, there's no option to...

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Autodesk Releases Inventor Publisher Viewer To The Android Market

If you're familiar with Autodesk's Inventor Publisher software, then you know what a Godsend it can be for creating and viewing rich, three-dimensional instructions. Up until now, it has been lacking on thing, though - what if you're not at at PC when you need to view said instructions? Suddenly, the benefits of Inventor Publisher were not as glorious. That has all changed now, though, as Autodesk has released an Inventor Publisher Viewer app into the Android Market.

Like its name suggests, the viewer allows you to use instructions created in Inventor Publisher on your Android...

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[Updated] Gameloft Announces Upcoming Games For The Remainder Of 2011

Update: It looks like there was a bit of a mix up, as these games are for feature phones, not Android. Here is Gameloft's official statement on the matter:

I can confirm there has been a confusion. The lineup we have announced yesterday is only for feature phones (java and brew).
We do not announce in advance our line up of games for Android and iOS. Usually we announce our games for iPhone and Android separately (one announcement for each game).
Sorry for the confusion.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Could Come as Early as This August

One of Sony Ericsson’s newest phones, the Xperia Ray, may be set to come out this August if UK retailer Carphone Warehouse is to be believed. They’ve allowed customers to register to be notified about any pricing and availability information and have mentioned that the expected ship date is some time within August. Take this

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Google+ Invites Are Now OPEN – Sorta

So, it looks like Google has opened the invite system for those cool kids already in their new Google+ social network. . . . → Read More: Google+ Invites Are Now OPEN – Sorta

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Replica Island Android App Review

The Replica Island Android App by Team Replica app is an android is a game in which you must navigate through many different obstacle ridden levels. The game features a Japanese animation style to it. Controls for the games can be varied based on your device and can be changed within the game, but most [...]

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Would You Like to Text on Your Tablet? You Can Now Thanks to Howettl

Tablets are moving up pretty quickly. A lot of people are even using their tablets more then they use their laptop or desktop. With everything they can do, it really isn’t all that surprising. Unfortunately there are still things that we wish our tablets could do to make things just a little easier. No on really wants to hold a 10″ screen to the side of their head for phone calls, but...

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Ultimate Theme Chooser Theme Collection – Over 170 Currently Available

WOW! That is about all I can say about this thread that popped up in the Android Themes section of XDA. The original post was in the HTC Hero section of the famed site. Courtesy of some people that stumbled upon this thread, maxpower47, moved it to the main Android section since they are pretty much universal across various devices. The list is broken down mainly by device screen specifications. MDPI/HDPI, MDPI...

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6 Iphone Game Sites

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TomTom Close to Android App Launch

We all knew TomTom had an Android app in the works and that eventually we would see it go live for us. I’m fairly certain a chunk of the problem with bringing it to Android sooner had to do with memory limits or processor speeds, but that is just my opinion so don’t go posting that anywhere. The crew over at PocketGPSWorld got a little sit down time with Corinne Vigreux,...

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Microsoft Tight-Lipped on Windows 8 for a Reason

Did Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speak too soon?

"As we look forward to the next generation of Windows systems, which will come out next year, there's a whole lot more coming," he told the audience at the Microsoft Developer Forum in Tokyo, according to a transcript published on Microsoft's Website. "As we progress through the year, you ought to expect to hear a lot about Windows 8. Windows 8 slates, tablets, PCs, a variety of different form factors."

Despite the whole transcript-on-Microsoft's-Website thing, Microsoft seems intent on blunting the impact of its own chief's words. "It appears there was a misstatement," a Microsoft spokesperson wrote in a statement circulated to media. "To date, we have yet to formally announce any timing or naming for the next version of Windows."

Why? Simple. Microsoft is likely concerned that premature news of the next version of Windows will curb momentum for Windows 7, released in October 2009. Windows 7 has sold very well, eating a big chunk of Windows XP's market share and helping shove the much-maligned Windows Vista into the dustbin of dead tech. But with Microsoft dependent on continuing Windows 7 sales to fuel a healthy portion of its revenue, it needs to stop anything that threatens to choke off a portion of those sales--including businesses not upgrading from XP to 7, because Microsoft's CEO suggested the next generation is hitting store shelves by 2012.

What do we know about the next-generation Windows? Windows and Windows Live Division President Steven Sinofsky announced during this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that the next-generation platform will support SoC (system-on-a-chip) architecture, in particular ARM-based systems from partners such as Qualcomm, Nvidia and Texas Instruments. That would give Microsoft the ability to port the next Windows--dubbed "Windows 8" by some in the media, although no official name has been announced--onto tablets and other mobile form factors powered by ARM offerings.

"Under the hood there are a ton of differences that need to be worked through," Sinofsky told the audience during his CES presentation. Nonetheless, he added, "Windows has proven remarkably flexible at this under-the-hood sort of stuff."

Beyond that, however, Microsoft has kept details of the next Windows firmly under wraps. In April, bloggers Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott dissected various features of what they called an early operating-system build on Rivera's Within Windows blog. According to those postings, the next version of Windows could incorporate an Office-style ribbon interface into Windows Explorer, complete with tools for viewing libraries and manipulating images. The bloggers also included a screenshot of an early device-unlock window, done in the "Metro" design style already present in Windows Phone.

In any case, Microsoft seems intent on keeping virtually all details of Windows 8 under wraps for the time being.

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Tag Heuer Releases a Diamond-Encrusted, Alligator-Skinned Android for $6,700

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Funny how the most expensive phones are often the least impressive. Take this new offering from Tag Heuer, the watch manufacturer. Now you'd think a cool $6,728 would buy you not only a cell phone, but also perhaps a gold-encrusted bidet / shower with built-in Android 9.9 Hummingbird Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich, 5080p video recording and 3D holographic imaging (for talking to people while you're taking a dump).

Turns out, it just buys you a diamond-encrusted phone.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Free Virtual Tours From the Getty Museum Using Google Goggles

For all you museum and art buffs out there, Google is partnering with the Getty Museum in Los Angeles to provide virtual tours using nothing more than their Google Goggles app. The way it works is simple. Take a photo of the paintings in the museam and Google Goggle’s will pull the necessary information from [...]

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Pew: Adoption Of E-Readers Doubles In 6 Months, Bigger Than Tablets

A new Pew research survey of U.S. adults conducted in May, 2011 shows that ownership of electronic readers such as the Amazon Kindle or The Barnes & Noble Nook is now at 12 percent. The ownership of e-readers doubled from six months prior when it was 6 percent. The adoption of e-readers continues to outpace tablets such as the iPad and Motorola Xoom. Only 8 percent of respondents said they won a tablet, compared to 5 percent six months earlier. So tablet ownership seems to be growing at a slower pace.

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