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"Let Me Show You Your New D Cup Breasts With My Business Card..." [Business Cards]
This is an actual plastic surgeon's business card. Now, someone create an American Psycho parody video where Patrick Bateman and Luis Carruthers exchange these booby and LEGO business cards, please. [Scary Ideas via @JackSchofield] More »
Your Android Apps May Be Sweet-Talking Advertisers Behind Your Back
A study conducted jointly by Penn State University, Duke University and Intel Labs has found that some Android apps surreptitiously send user information to remote servers at ad networks and analytics firms. Some of the apps send users' geographic locations to remote ad networks; others send a unique hardware identifier and, in some cases, the phone number and SIM card serial number to developers, the team stated.
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Deal of the Day ? 10% Coupon for Xbox 360 Slim, Wii, DSi, PS3, Video games, and Accessories
The LogicBUY Deal for Tuesday is a 10% off coupon on a plethora of gaming gear.� For a limited time, you can get discounts on select consoles, video games, and accessories like LCD monitors and other peripherals.� This coupon expires September 29, 2010 or after the first 250 uses.� You?ll even get free shipping on [...] Filed in categories: NewsTagged: Deal of the DayDeal of the Day ? 10% Coupon for Xbox 360 Slim, Wii, DSi, PS3, Video games, and Accessories originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on September 28, 2010 at 6:30 am.
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SugarSync for Android is just like Dropbox... but better
Filed under: Utilities, web 2.0, Mobile, AndroidDropbox has received a lot of attention recently, mostly thanks to the rampant 'OMG 250MB referral!!' scheme that they've been successfully leveraging over the last couple of months. The thing is, just like Apple, Dropbox might be receiving the most press, but that doesn't mean it's better than the competition -- and there's a lot of competition!
Enter SugarSync, a Dropbox competitor with a lot of tricks up its sleeve. If you take a quick look at the comparison chart, you'll quickly see that SugarSync easily outstrips Dropbox in terms of functionality. In fact, SugarSync does so much that today I'm only going to discuss the Android app -- if I were to wade into the Web-based and desktop-based side of the service, we'd be here all afternoon.
First of all, the Android app is free (search for 'SugarSync' on the Market) -- as is the 2GB 'Free' SugarSync package. Unfortunately, though, the free version has almost no features. That's the defining difference between Dropbox and Sugarsync: if you don't want to pay for the service, use Dropbox. If you're happy to pay a few dollars a month, go with SugarSync -- it does so much more than Dropbox, and it's cheaper!
Once you've logged in, SugarSync for Android actually has zero configurable options. What you see is what you get -- but that's OK, because it's a very feature-heavy app indeed. From the home page you have access to everything currently stored on your account, and any files and folders that friends have shared with you. If anything, you have access to too much -- I quickly lost track of where my files were, and the differences between my Web Archive and Magic Briefcase. You can also quickly examine the contents of both your phone and your sync folders at home via the 'My Devices' section at the bottom.
SugarSync has two main focuses that it handles very differently: documents (as in Word docs, PDFs, etc.), and media (images and music).
For managing your documents, SugarSync keeps version histories of every file, making synchronization both easy and safe, no matter where you're working from; home, the office, or even while tapping away on the train.
The second focus, media, is equally as impressive. There's a built-in image viewer that's capable of handling high-res images with aplomb, and a music player that streams any music you have in the cloud -- and yes, your phone keeps downloaded images and music locally cached! The music player isn't great -- it only lets you skip tracks and pause -- but that's the kind of thing that will surely be upgraded in the future.
My favourite feature
Despite being by far the most basic feature of the app, the ability to send files via email with a single click is awesome. Every file has an envelope next to it -- click it, select a contact, and send the file. The file isn't sent from your phone, so it sends instantly. Very cool, if you're out of the office and need to send a document or photo to someone. Sent files expire in 21 days, which makes this particular feature rather like YouSendIt...
Also, when you open the app for the first time, it asks you to 'play a little game' -- if you successfully send a few files, and upload a photo, you get rewarded with 250MB of free cloud storage! Hooray!
My biggest gripe
Just like the Dropbox for Android app, you can't move files from one folder to another! There's no way to take an existing file and make it publicly shared without downloading it, and then re-uploading it.
SugarSync for Android Tech Specs
Installed Size -- 1.84MB, but obviously you need more space for any downloaded files
Speed/Responsiveness -- Excellent (Android 1.6 @ 600MHz, LG GT540 Swift)
User Interface -- Good, though I'm not a huge fan of the tabs -- they're a bit unnecessary in this case and provided plenty of accidental return-to-Android-home-screen errors...
Configurability & Extensibility -- Nope, nothing to see here
License -- Free, closed source. The service itself costs from between $4.99 and $24.99 per month, however!
SugarSync for Android is just like Dropbox... but better originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Enter SugarSync, a Dropbox competitor with a lot of tricks up its sleeve. If you take a quick look at the comparison chart, you'll quickly see that SugarSync easily outstrips Dropbox in terms of functionality. In fact, SugarSync does so much that today I'm only going to discuss the Android app -- if I were to wade into the Web-based and desktop-based side of the service, we'd be here all afternoon.
First of all, the Android app is free (search for 'SugarSync' on the Market) -- as is the 2GB 'Free' SugarSync package. Unfortunately, though, the free version has almost no features. That's the defining difference between Dropbox and Sugarsync: if you don't want to pay for the service, use Dropbox. If you're happy to pay a few dollars a month, go with SugarSync -- it does so much more than Dropbox, and it's cheaper!
Once you've logged in, SugarSync for Android actually has zero configurable options. What you see is what you get -- but that's OK, because it's a very feature-heavy app indeed. From the home page you have access to everything currently stored on your account, and any files and folders that friends have shared with you. If anything, you have access to too much -- I quickly lost track of where my files were, and the differences between my Web Archive and Magic Briefcase. You can also quickly examine the contents of both your phone and your sync folders at home via the 'My Devices' section at the bottom.
SugarSync has two main focuses that it handles very differently: documents (as in Word docs, PDFs, etc.), and media (images and music).
For managing your documents, SugarSync keeps version histories of every file, making synchronization both easy and safe, no matter where you're working from; home, the office, or even while tapping away on the train.
The second focus, media, is equally as impressive. There's a built-in image viewer that's capable of handling high-res images with aplomb, and a music player that streams any music you have in the cloud -- and yes, your phone keeps downloaded images and music locally cached! The music player isn't great -- it only lets you skip tracks and pause -- but that's the kind of thing that will surely be upgraded in the future.
My favourite feature
Despite being by far the most basic feature of the app, the ability to send files via email with a single click is awesome. Every file has an envelope next to it -- click it, select a contact, and send the file. The file isn't sent from your phone, so it sends instantly. Very cool, if you're out of the office and need to send a document or photo to someone. Sent files expire in 21 days, which makes this particular feature rather like YouSendIt...
Also, when you open the app for the first time, it asks you to 'play a little game' -- if you successfully send a few files, and upload a photo, you get rewarded with 250MB of free cloud storage! Hooray!
My biggest gripe
Just like the Dropbox for Android app, you can't move files from one folder to another! There's no way to take an existing file and make it publicly shared without downloading it, and then re-uploading it.
SugarSync for Android Tech Specs
Installed Size -- 1.84MB, but obviously you need more space for any downloaded files
Speed/Responsiveness -- Excellent (Android 1.6 @ 600MHz, LG GT540 Swift)
User Interface -- Good, though I'm not a huge fan of the tabs -- they're a bit unnecessary in this case and provided plenty of accidental return-to-Android-home-screen errors...
Configurability & Extensibility -- Nope, nothing to see here
License -- Free, closed source. The service itself costs from between $4.99 and $24.99 per month, however!
SugarSync for Android is just like Dropbox... but better originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Froyo now on a third of Android devices
The march of Froyo continues, with Android 2.2 now on one-third of all Android devices. Please excuse us while we do a little jig. ... ... ... OK, we're back. That's right, folks, 33.4 percent of devices now have the latest version of Android, up from 28.7 percent just 20 days ago. The number of devices on Android 2.1 (Eclair) dropped 1.3 percentage points, to 41.7 percent, and Donut (Android 1.6) and Cupcake (Android 1.5) are down to 16.5 percent and 9.7 percent respectively. Hooray for progress. [Android Developer Blog]Posted originally at Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories
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The Future of the Web: How Firefox Panorama and Aza Raskin will shape the Web
Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, BrowsersWhen I visited the Mozilla offices in Mountain View, California, I met with three very important Mozillans. Aza Raskin, Creative Lead of Firefox; Vladimir Vuki?evi?, Principal Engineer of Firefox; and Nick Nguyen, Mozilla's Director of Add-ons. Together, they form the spearhead that drives both the creative vision and development of Firefox, a browser that's now used by over 400 million users.
I picked the brains of all three and each offered up very different points of view -- different, but ultimately aligned. I don't know if an energizing thunderbolt struck down from the Board of Directors, or whether the appointment of Aza as Creative Lead made the difference, but one thing's for sure: Mozilla now has a unified vision of what Firefox is and what it can become.
This is a series of posts about the future of Mozilla and Firefox, and ultimately how a bunch of innovative open-source dinosaur-loving hippies will affect the Web. First up, we're going to look at Aza Raskin's new brainchild: Panorama.There's a fundamental and very basic tenet in good itnerface design: failure is not the user's fault. When you push a door that's meant to be pulled, it's not your fault -- it's the designer's.
When you are designing and creating a browser that's used by 400,000,000 users of the Web, it goes without saying that a lot of responsibility lies in your hands. A crippling bug or fundamentally flawed user interface not only turns people away from your browser, but from the entire Internet. When a geriatric user with Window Me and IE6 announces that they can't make a website work, it's not their fault. It's not the Web's fault either: it's the browser! Fortunately, a rather gifted designer is at the helm of Firefox.
"We now spend more time in our browser than in our car; more time in our browser than with our family," Aza Raskin tells me with a sad smile. It's his job to make sure Firefox is as usable as possible, and to ensure the user experience is smooth and predictable -- in essence, it's his job to make sure you enjoy the Web.
Aza wields a double-edged sword, controlling the online lives of 400 million people. With one broad stroke he can either break the Web, or revolutionize it. Take one of Firefox 4's big new features an example: Panorama. Just two days before my meeting with Aza I had attended the Internet Explorer 9 launch, where its UI was extolled as the pinnacle of research and extensive usability studies. And it's true, IE9's interface is incredibly refined and a joy to use, but it's not innovative. "You can never let your data dictate design," Aza said, in response to Microsoft's finding that very few people use more than eight tabs. "If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating."
Panorama, then, just like the introduction of tabs so many years ago, is about changing the entire Web paradigm. Today, Panorama is simply a workflow and productivity enhancement that sits on top of Firefox, but imagine the future; imagine what Panorama could be like with 'touch' controls -- pinch-to-zoom, flicking tabs between groups -- or with social connections. Imagine what it'll be like when, ultimately, everything you use on a computer is a Web app. "The ramifications for what it means to have a physical, spatial understanding of all of your online workspace are about to become apparent," Aza begins. "When you zoom out, you won't see just your own tabs; you'll see your friends' tabs. You'll see social interaction; links coming in from your friends on Twitter."
"We're at the very tip of this iceberg." He's almost boiling over with anticipation at this point. "It's like going back to GUIs, the first very time. 'What's going to come out of the GUI?' Nobody knew. You have this basic idea..." Our PR rep signals that the meeting has come to an end and Aza quickly changes tack: "Firefox is going to continue to lead in this sphere because other browsers are going on this glut of removing everything, instead of innovating." If those words don't fill you with confidence for the future of Firefox, I don't know what will.
The introduction of Panorama in Firefox 4 as an optional, out-of-the-way feature is genius. There's still the Chrome-like, minimal interface, but Panorama will be there, completely out of the way, just begging to be discovered by those that are feeling the more-than-10-tabs grind and looking for a reprieve.
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Not played with Panorama tab sets yet? Grab a beta build of Firefox 4 and hit Ctrl+Space to begin!The Future of the Web: How Firefox Panorama and Aza Raskin will shape the Web originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
I picked the brains of all three and each offered up very different points of view -- different, but ultimately aligned. I don't know if an energizing thunderbolt struck down from the Board of Directors, or whether the appointment of Aza as Creative Lead made the difference, but one thing's for sure: Mozilla now has a unified vision of what Firefox is and what it can become.
This is a series of posts about the future of Mozilla and Firefox, and ultimately how a bunch of innovative open-source dinosaur-loving hippies will affect the Web. First up, we're going to look at Aza Raskin's new brainchild: Panorama.There's a fundamental and very basic tenet in good itnerface design: failure is not the user's fault. When you push a door that's meant to be pulled, it's not your fault -- it's the designer's.
When you are designing and creating a browser that's used by 400,000,000 users of the Web, it goes without saying that a lot of responsibility lies in your hands. A crippling bug or fundamentally flawed user interface not only turns people away from your browser, but from the entire Internet. When a geriatric user with Window Me and IE6 announces that they can't make a website work, it's not their fault. It's not the Web's fault either: it's the browser! Fortunately, a rather gifted designer is at the helm of Firefox.
"We now spend more time in our browser than in our car; more time in our browser than with our family," Aza Raskin tells me with a sad smile. It's his job to make sure Firefox is as usable as possible, and to ensure the user experience is smooth and predictable -- in essence, it's his job to make sure you enjoy the Web.
Aza wields a double-edged sword, controlling the online lives of 400 million people. With one broad stroke he can either break the Web, or revolutionize it. Take one of Firefox 4's big new features an example: Panorama. Just two days before my meeting with Aza I had attended the Internet Explorer 9 launch, where its UI was extolled as the pinnacle of research and extensive usability studies. And it's true, IE9's interface is incredibly refined and a joy to use, but it's not innovative. "You can never let your data dictate design," Aza said, in response to Microsoft's finding that very few people use more than eight tabs. "If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating."
Panorama, then, just like the introduction of tabs so many years ago, is about changing the entire Web paradigm. Today, Panorama is simply a workflow and productivity enhancement that sits on top of Firefox, but imagine the future; imagine what Panorama could be like with 'touch' controls -- pinch-to-zoom, flicking tabs between groups -- or with social connections. Imagine what it'll be like when, ultimately, everything you use on a computer is a Web app. "The ramifications for what it means to have a physical, spatial understanding of all of your online workspace are about to become apparent," Aza begins. "When you zoom out, you won't see just your own tabs; you'll see your friends' tabs. You'll see social interaction; links coming in from your friends on Twitter."
"We're at the very tip of this iceberg." He's almost boiling over with anticipation at this point. "It's like going back to GUIs, the first very time. 'What's going to come out of the GUI?' Nobody knew. You have this basic idea..." Our PR rep signals that the meeting has come to an end and Aza quickly changes tack: "Firefox is going to continue to lead in this sphere because other browsers are going on this glut of removing everything, instead of innovating." If those words don't fill you with confidence for the future of Firefox, I don't know what will.
The introduction of Panorama in Firefox 4 as an optional, out-of-the-way feature is genius. There's still the Chrome-like, minimal interface, but Panorama will be there, completely out of the way, just begging to be discovered by those that are feeling the more-than-10-tabs grind and looking for a reprieve.
* * *
Not played with Panorama tab sets yet? Grab a beta build of Firefox 4 and hit Ctrl+Space to begin!The Future of the Web: How Firefox Panorama and Aza Raskin will shape the Web originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Apple TV (2010) Jailbreak via SHAtter exploit shown off
Looks like Apple TV (2010) can indeed be Jailbroken via the SHAtter exploit just like any other iOS 4.x device to date. Keep in mind the image above is just a tease and the Jailbreak hasn’t been packaged for the masses yet, nor have we heard of any Apple TV-centric Jailbreak apps or extensions yet, [...]Apple TV (2010) Jailbreak via SHAtter exploit shown off is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog
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