The Complete Archives Of Popular Science
Out now using Googles “Books” engine, all the magazines ever published of Popular Science Monthly. Delicous.
Open Letter To Steve Jobs Concerning The HTC Lawsuits
Wil Shipley:
Enforcing patents is wrong. You’ve famously taken and built on ideas from your competitors, as have I, as we should, as great artists do. Why is what HTC has done worse? Whether an idea was patented doesn’t change the morality of copying it, it only changes the ability to sue.
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I always [...]
Android Market Finally Shows Updates To Your Apps
Until now (which is a while) you haven’t had any easy way to find updates to apps you’ve installed on your Android phone. You had to enter the market and search for a particular app to see if an update was available. Since just a few days ago, you can now simply click the “Downloads” [...]
Google Profiles
With yesterdays launch of Buzz, it’s becoming clear that Googles Profiles product is set to become a larger player. Already, Google uses your profile to show tweets and search results relevant to you, based on the links defined in your profile. Here’s my profile.
Google Buzz
From the announcement:
Google Buzz is a new way to share updates, photos, videos and more, and it’s built right into Gmail.
The integration with Gmail certainly makes this a different beast than Twitter (which is integrated).
Quick Thoughts On Google In Advertisement
Just last night, Google advertised their core search business on the Superbowl. Prior to this they’ve been advertising the Google Chrome browser. All this is radically different from how Google used to do things, which was to not advertise at all.
Here are a two of the ads, and some quick thoughts on them.
Parisian Love:
Chrome Features:
So [...]
Android: On Context Buttons
David Barnard complains about the capacitative buttons below the Nexus One screen. As I have done in my Motorola Milestone review. But it gets both more interesting and, unfortunately, worse, in the story of these buttons.
There are four buttons1:
Back
Context menu
Home
Search
While programmable, the back button mostly works as you’d expect. When in the browser, “back” goes [...]
A Few Notes On Google Android And “Multitouch”
The word “multitouch” is thrown around a lot these days. Mostly by people who should know better.
Multitouch means you can touch the screen with multiple fingers, and the system will register this as, yes, multiple fingers. Google Android does support this, has supported this for a while, and most Android phones have the hardware that [...]
Google Webdrive Launched, Kinda (Update: Desktop Integration)
Excellent news for fans of the cloud. Posted on the official Google Docs blog is this announcement:
We’re happy to announce that over the next few weeks we will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. With this change, you’ll be able to upload and access [...]