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Entries from September 12, 2010 - September 18, 2010
Wednesday
Sep152010
Brandon DavenportWhy not Update your Facebook status with OnStar »
Why not Update your Facebook status with OnStar“OnStar, the in-car services network, today announced a new service which allows you to update your Facebook status by dictating to the OnStar. And not only that, you can listen to the most recent updates from your news feeds via OnStar.” — Gigaom
Wednesday
Sep152010
The HTC Vision / T-Mobile G2 finally gets an official specs sheet
We’ve seen the rumours, and speculated the G2’s specifications to within a degree of certainty, but now that HTC’s thrown the device up on their website, we can say there’s something calming about knowing the device’s final specs. As rumoured, the handset is powered by an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230, it’ll run Android 2.2, have 4GB of ROM, 512MB of RAM, a 3.7-inch WVGA display, a five megapixel camera (with flash and autofocus). And last but not least the G2’s outfitted with the industry norm: WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS/aGPS.
Wednesday
Sep152010
Rumor - Nintendo 3DS Coming Out Nov. 20th in Japan
According to a tweet by “Nocchisan” - an employee of third party peripheral manufacturer Key Factory -Keys will be releasing 10 peripherals to coincide with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS on November 20th of this year in Japan. However, not too long after the tweet was published it was deleted, as well as Nocchisan’s entire Twitter profile.
Wednesday
Sep152010
How to be productive while working in Coffee Shops »
How to be productive while working in Coffee ShopsLots of time spent is on our computers, at home… watching cat videos — but when you need to get actual work done, a lot of us pack up and head over to the local coffee shop and set up our arsenal of “stuff”. The thing is, lots of us don’t realize how important it is to create a relationship with the shop owners to avoid awkward conversations about you being “that guy” with your mess on the table, complete with dual monitors and favorite desk-chair…
Tuesday
Sep142010
The new Twitter is coming, in a few hours
The new Twitter is coming, in a few hours
This is going to be an eventful night, and a crazy week. Twitter is rolling out one of the largest updates ever seen in a social network — using the same methods as the Twitter iPad app, they will allow you to view a conversation by clicking on a tweet, and use it as a threaded conversation. They are also planning to implement multimedia inside the stream, with media partnerships with 16 companies.
Their also rolling out an entirely new look, along with a better user interface, again, using the slide out, card thingies like the iPad app has. We don’t know the effects this will have on Apps and 3rd party applications, yet, but we’re expecting to see large growth in users enjoying just the Twitter website, since there won’t be such a demanding need for 3rd party apps and websites — Check it out!
What do you think? - As a developer, is this cheesing you off?
Tuesday
Sep142010
Twitter Instant Search is here, and it rocks
Instant search has been a gigantic hit with the masses, starting with Google Instant, then Youtube Instant, then iTunes instant — and now Twitter Instant. This latest edition to the instant family was created by Matthias Schneider, a German developer who seems to like Twitter enough to create an instant search client for it.
Tuesday
Sep142010
How to Add Google Instant Search to Google Chrome
Google Instant has been a giant success, and people are raving over it non-stop — but there is one area that has been left un-touched — the super searchbar thing in Google Chrome. Why can’t it use the Google Instant engine as well? Well, now it’s time to do a little tweaking, and enable Instant Search in Google Chrome. The guys over at How-to Geek have created a great tutorial on how to do this.
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