Sunday, May 16, 2010
A couple of cool new changes on Google Image Search make searching for images on your iPhone better than it was.
Google recently changed the look of their homepage and search results and I'm sure all of you must have noticed that by now. But it's not just the desktop that the changes have been made on but on the mobile as well. While searching for some important images on Google Image Search on my iPhone, I noticed this rather interesting new change which I though I must share with you. I'm sure sooner or later you'll stumble upon it yourselves but in case you haven't yet, well, you saw it here first!
As you can see, the thumbnails for search results are now closely packed with hardly any gap between them giving them a tiled look. If you scroll down you'll see larger forward and backward buttons with the page numbers in between so you can jump directly. But what you won't notice immediately is that you can actually swipe horizontally on the grid of icons to move between the search pages.This means you don't necessarily have to scroll down and use the forward backward buttons and you can move around as if you are in some gallery application on your phone. The next page of the search results is automatically loaded so when you scroll to it the image thumbnails are ready.
When you click on one of these images, they now open full screen. On top you can see buttons to go back to the search results or view the image in full size. Below is the name and URL of the site the image is from and its resolution and size. You can click on it to go to the original site. The top and bottom bar disappear from view after some time, so the image is in full focus. In this view the images are pixelated as they are basically stretched from their thumbnail view. Just like in the search results you can swipe on the images to move to the next or previous one. Since they are just thumbnails they take no time at all to load and it feels like you are browsing images saved on your phone.
These are minor changes but they really do make a difference to the way you search. I must say I really liked this new changes and Google has done a pretty good job on it. I would like to know what you think of this new feature though. Do leave us a comment below.
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Today Jeff Bertolucci has written, on PC World blog, a review about Google's Wi-Fi and individual privacy rights where he claims that it seems, after Google revealed Friday that its Street View cars, in addition to snapping photos of the world's roadways, have also been collecting sensitive personal information from unencrypted wireless networks.
It was no secret that Google's cars had already been collecting publicly broadcast SSID information (Wi-Fi network names) and MAC addresses (unique numbers for devices like Wi-Fi routers). But this techie data, which is used for location-based services such as Google Maps, didn't include any "payload data," or personal information sent over the network.
Or so "Big Brother" Google claimed on April 27. But yesterday the search behemoth 'fussed up to a security gaffe of Orwellian proportions. Due to a piece of code written in 2006 by an engineer for an experimental Wi-Fi project, Google had in fact been collecting those private bits after all:
"But it's now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi networks, even though we never used that data in any Google products," wrote Alan Eustace, Google senior VP, engineering & research.
Google was smart to open up about the spying incident. An attempted cover-up would have proven disastrous, particularly when numerous consumer and government agencies worldwide have criticized the search company's seemingly insatiable appetite for personal information, a quest that critics say infringes on individual privacy rights.
There's little doubt the Wi-Fi spying incident won't fade away quietly. In fact, the Electronic Frontiers Association (EFA) and Australia Privacy Foundation (APF) have joined forces to question potential security mishaps by Google's Street View, according to a report by Computerworld Australia.
The latest Street View controversy is sweet fodder for conspiracy theorists. As someone said to him responding to the news: "Imagine, Google driving around in vans, taking pictures of EVERYTHING, and gobbling up Wi-Fi signals like some new-age techno CIA." .
If nothing else, Google's security gaffe should serve as a wake-up call to clueless folk who've yet to encrypt their home Wi-Fi networks. Do you get it now? Anybody may be snooping on you.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Flash Will it be the Achilles heel of Apple iPad? Roundly criticized by Steve Jobs himself, who refuses to integrate the iPad format, Adobe has released at least one video showing the future HP Tablet Slate ran it perfectly on this technology.
85% of websites and 75% of Internet videos using Flash. With Flash Player, HP Tablet Slate provides access to the entire Web, "says Alan Tam, head of marketing at Adobe Flash, which features examples of video sites, games, video clips, d 'photo albums or digital newspaper exploiting this technology.
Despite the false start of Tablet PCs and other Smart Display, Microsoft and its partners seem in any case, determined to win the segment of touch pads, a market that could also invest in Google or Sony in the coming months ...
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Apple has also indicated that users of multimedia tablet launched April 3 in U.S.A., had already downloaded 12 million applications and 1.5 million digital books.
The iPad, a tablet with touch screen 9.7 inches, is located halfway between the smartphone and laptop. According to figures provided by the group, 300,000 units were sold the day of its launch on April 3, and 500,000 during its first week marketing.
Particular, it allows you to read electronic books and newspapers, surf the Internet, watch movies and play video games.
Apple has launched Friday in the U.S. 3G version of the iPad, which offers a dual Wi-Fi and 3G, with nearly a month late arrival on the shelf Wi-Fi model
The analysts expect about five million iPad sold this year, even though the tablet is not available outside the U.S. before the end of May
The Apple stock gained 0.77% to 263.10 dollars in early trading while the Nasdaq Composite Index which has risen by 0.6%.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Among the software installed by default are Safari, Mail, Photos, Video, YouTube, iPod, iTunes, AppStore, Maps, Notes, Calendar and Contacts. The application iBooks, powered by Apple, allowing the purchase and read electronic books is available for download from the AppStore soon April 3.
All applications available on the App Store, which represents about 150 000, will work with the iPad, and applications specific to the platform will be developed through the SDK. Apple also adapt its software Pages, Keynote and Numbers (formerly grouped under the iWork for Mac), which are traded separately on the App Store at a price of $ 9.99 each
The desire of Steve Jobs, Adobe Flash technology will not be incorporated into the iPad, as is the case now on the iPhone and iPod touch.
After the presentation of the iPad, the press emphasizes the rendering speed of web pages, the responsiveness of the touchscreen and the sale price of the device, considered reasonable. Among the weaknesses, journalists are the presence of a virtual keyboard and regretted the lack of camera, as well as non-support of multitasking and Flash. The webdesigner complain of resolution 1024 × 768 pixels, considered low.
Walt Mossberg believes that the iPad outwardly resembles a large iPod touch but offers more powerful, closer to the versions for the Macintosh, especially in the case of productivity applications impression shared by David Pogue, for whom name "Wholesale iPod touch does not do justice to the device .
The press revealed that the group STMicroelectronics has introduced the brand "iPad" at OHIM in 2000, while Fujitsu was filed in 2003 with the USPTO. These companies use to sell different products in the field of electronics. In January 2010, Masahiro Yamane, director of public relations division of Fujitsu, said that the mark belongs to the Japanese In March, ownership is transferred to Apple. In 2007, the trademark "iPhone" was already the subject of a dispute between Apple and Cisco, before the two companies reach an agreement to share.
The Free Software Foundation, which campaigns against the systems of digital rights management, regrets that, as in the case of the iPhone, third-party applications for the iPad are required to be licensed by Apple and distributed on its App Store. However, it allows Apple to manage applications on the App Store. Thus, the firm has already done the cleaning of the slate of the App Store by removing, for example, applications of a sexual nature or to ensure the safety of these mobile terminals (for exemption).
Walt Mossberg believes that the iPad outwardly resembles a large iPod touch but offers more powerful, closer to the versions for the Macintosh, especially in the case of productivity applications impression shared by David Pogue, for whom name "Wholesale iPod touch does not do justice to the device.
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