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My wife keeps me grounded
May 13th
This is a harmless “hairball” post I had as a draft.
Me: Hey, they added me to popurls.com!
My wife: Never heard of it. (pause) Had you heard of it before?
Me: Yeah.
Wife: Really?
Me: Yeah!
Wife: (with an extra helping of sarcasm) Really?
Me: Yes!
Wife: (dripping with condescension) You’re a very important man.
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While “Facebook Home” Keeps Google, Search Is Harder To Reach
Apr 4th
Pick your survey, and one of the top activities on a smartphone is to use Facebook. That’s what the new Facebook Home is all about, making it easier for Facebook users to get Facebook. But it also makes another top activity — search — harder to do. On Android devices, search is…
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Linquet Mini Keeps You From Losing Your Stuff
Feb 22nd
People lose stuff. It is a fact of modern society. Smartphones, tablets, hats, mittens… children. What if you could tag all the stuff you lose most often with a little tracker and get a ping on your smartphone if it gets too far away from you? Then here comes the Linquet Mini: a small dongle that you can tag on any item you might lose and connect it to your smartphone with Bluetooth.
About the size of a quarter, the Linquet Mini can be tagged to basically anything. It keeps tabs of items through a free app that uploads information to the cloud. Consumers can link multiple items to the app and set different items to a variety of profiles. For instance, if you want to link your dog, you could tag its collar with a Linquet Mini and set the range for “far.” If you are walking down the streets of Manhattan with your child, you might want to tag the kid as “near.” Each profile can be adjusted with different notification sounds. If you press a button from the app, the Linquet will make a sound to help you find what you are looking for.
The whereabouts of your items are uploaded to the cloud from the dongle. Linquet sells the cloud service for $29.99 a year while the dongle itself is free. The company calls this pricing model “hardware as a service.” The Linquet Mini is currently in a crowd-funding period with the goal of raising $75,000 to be able to ship the Minis by May 2013.
Of course, Linquet is not the only company to provide tracking service. LoJack is perhaps the original popular commercial tracking device, tracking lost and stolen vehicles since 1986. The company’s name has become synonymous with placing a tracking device on an item. LoJack also now makes laptop tracking software and hardware. A variety of software apps exist to find lost smartphones and tablets, such as Lookout’s Android and iOS apps or Apple’s “Find My iPhone” feature through iCloud.
For readers that want to reserve a Linquet Mini and a year of cloud service, visit the company’s website and use the code “linqrw” to reserve a dongle for $25.
Lead image courtesy Shutterstock.
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SEO Outsourcing Company Just Keeps on Growing With New Hires and Agency … – Equities.com
Dec 4th
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SEO Outsourcing Company Just Keeps on Growing With New Hires and Agency …
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Seo Taeji keeps promise to fans and opens up a pop-up cafe – Yahoo! Philippines News
Nov 30th
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Seo Taeji keeps promise to fans and opens up a pop-up cafe
Yahoo! Philippines News Fast forwarding to present day, Seo Taiji demonstrated he was a man of his word as he made the announcement that a Seo Taiji Café would temporarily be in operation from December 1 through the 9 at the Youngdeungpo CGV on the sixth floor. |
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SEO Canada Organization Powerhouse Internet Marketing Keeps Customers at … – Equities.com
Nov 30th
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Android 4.2 Gets New Features, But Keeps Jelly Bean Name
Oct 30th
We thought we might be getting a new tasty treat from Google on Monday. Speculation was that the new version of the Android operating system in the Nexus devices announced yesterday would be called “Key Lime Pie” or some other tasty desert name beginning with “K.” But instead all we got was Android 4.2, an extension of the existing “Jelly Bean” operating system.
The naming decision is correct, though. Android 4.2 is not a whole new addition to the Android family but more of a feature extension to Jelly Bean 4.1. The design and user experience remain the same, even as many existing features are updated and bulked out.
The New Features
Photo Sphere Camera: Just like Apple did in iOS 6, Google has added a “panorama” camera function to stock Android. Basically, it is the ability to take larger pictures by moving the smartphone camera and then digitally stitching together multiple images. Some of Android manufacturers, like Samsung, had already done this but it was not an existing feature of Android itself.
Gesture Typing: Ever use Swype, the “gliding” input gesture from Nuance? It is a classic Android third-party feature that many cannot live without. You move your finger around the keyboard from letter to letter without lifting it up. This is another excellent addition to stock Android, though many manufacturers, like HTC, already used the gesture swiping method.
Multi-User Tablets: The ability for multiple people to use a single tablet and customize it to their own preferences, such as personalized home screens and widgets. This is one area where tablet computers are merging with traditional PC functionalities. It should be of great use to families that want to share tablets.
Wireless Sharing: Like Apple’s AirPlay, this lets Android users display their device’s screen on your TV. This is another third-party Android service that is being incorporated intto the stock version.
Daydream: Display useful information, kind of like a screen saver, on your Android device while it is idle.
Actionable Notifications: Hinted at during Google’s introduction of Jelly Bean at the Google I/O conference in June. It is partly a function of Google Now, where notifications are “cards” that can be acted upon from the drop down menu.
Expanded Google Now: Google’s “Now” project is one of the most important at the company, with a large and growing team. It is not surprising that semantic mobile search is getting more robust with Android 4.2. Apple did the same thing with Siri in its latest iOS 6 release. Expect Google to feature Google Now in most Android updates going forward. For Google, this is the future of personalization between the user and the device. Overall, increased device intelligence and identity is the future of smartphones.
Android Beam: Google put a lot of work into making Android “feel” smoother and faster. That includes Android Beam, the Near Field Communications (NFC) function that enables people to share photos, websites, music, directions or videos with a single touch. This is not a new Android feature, but an improvement of its initial introduction in 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Apple’s iOS has nothing similar.
Resize-able Widgets: Another Jelly Bean 4.1 feature improved in 4.2. I have not been able to play with 4.2 yet but hopefully the widgets, which are supposed to be responsive to other widgets on a homescreen, work better than they did in version 4.1.
What To Make Of 4.2
As you can see, there is not a ton that is exactly “new” to Android here. Stuff like the “panoramic” camera and gesture typing come to stock Android from existing third-party add-ons. It is likely that Google is licensing technology from companies like Nuance (which owns Swype) to perform these functions.
Google is also copying the best iOS functions, like wireless sharing an adapter for HDMI-enabled TVs instead of the Apple TV device the iPhone needs.
Expandable notifications, resize-able widgets and the Google Now upgrade are all remnants from what Google announced at I/O as well.
So Android 4.2 doesn’t really deserve a new name. We’ll have to wait a while longer for Key Lime Pie, or whatever it turns out to be.
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Seo In Guk keeps messaging hearts to comedian Shin Bora? – allkpop
Oct 7th
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Seo In Guk keeps messaging hearts to comedian Shin Bora?
allkpop I keep waking up because you send them in the middle of the night” and shared a screen shot showing the messages from Seo In Guk who apparently has been hooked on the popular mobile game 'Anipang.' Meanwhile, Shin Bora also attracted attention for … |
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AppsGoneFree Keeps You Posted On App Store Deals
Sep 18th
Apple’s App Store is a frantic place. There’s no good way to keep track of what’s new or what’s changed among the more than 700,000 apps in there. For instance, when a great app goes free for a promotion, wouldn’t you like to know about it? Believe it or not, there’s an app for that. AppsGoneFree 2.0 launched Tuesday.
Apps don’t cost a lot of money, but if you’re the type of person who likes to try them all, it adds up. So AppsGoneFree updates every day with the latest free promotional offers for paid apps. AppsGoneFree 2.0 has an iPad version and nine languages and App Store locations, so more people can take advantage of the offers.
It also has a new feature called AppBump, which lets the million members of AppsGoneFree nominate their favorite apps to be featured. If the developer agrees to make the app free for a day, AppsGoneFree will feature it prominently.
AppsGoneFree is a service from AppAdvice, a site dedicated to reviewing the latest and greatest iOS apps. The site’s knowledge of the app universe helped it identify an area of need for developers and customers alike, and AppsGoneFree is the result.
App Store Struggles
Apps in the App Store live and die by the buzz. By temporarily going free, they can quickly climb the charts and get attention. This hopefully leads to future sales.
“The problem with this methodology is the App Store is too crazy a place for methodologies,” says AppAdvice editor in chief Jamie Young. “There are literally several hundred apps reducing their price to free each day. This technique doesn’t work reliably to draw any attention to an app.”
So AppsGoneFree helps developers get an additional bump out of those promotions, and its new democratic features let the community of app enthusiasts give valuable feedback and generate exposure.
And whether you’re an enthusiast or not, if you want to know when great apps go free, just install AppsGoneFree (it’s free), and the app will alert you when the day’s issue comes out.
Disclosure: Jon and Jamie used to host The Dock Podcast together, which is why Jamie tipped him off to this update.
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VMware Denies Cloud Spin-Off Rumors – Keeps Focus on Platform-as-a-Service
Jul 20th
Rumors of a VMware/EMC spin-off are “completely unfounded,” according to a company executive, who sees little chance that VMware will change its approach to cloud computing during its current transition in leadership.
Earlier this week, the company announced that VMware CEO Paul Maritz is being replaced by EMC COO Pat Gelsinger. But the rumors didn’t stop there. Reports circulated that Maritz would head up a VMware spinoff combining cloud assets from VMware and parent company EMC.
“None of that is founded,” VMware’s VP of Cloud Services Matthew Lodge emphasized in an interview Thursday.
Lodge’s denial addressed not only the possibility of a spin-off, but also the existence of Project Rubicon, allegedly a joint EMC/VMware Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) project mentioned by various media outlets (including this one) earlier in the week. Lodge also described such a project’s existence as “unfounded.”
Paas, Not IaaS
In fact, IaaS is not really where VMware wants to be. According to Lodge, VMware’s strategy is strictly centered on Platform-as-a-service (PaaS), represented by its flagship open source PaaS project Cloud Foundry.
IaaS is used when cloud clients outsource all of their operational hardware elements, such as storage, networking and servers. The virtualization and operating system layers are also included. The Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider actually owns and maintains the physical hardware, but the client has to provide additional tools, such as middleware software to manage their servers. PaaS, on the other hand, provides all of those features and the middleware and database software… so all PaaS clients have to do is bring their applications and data.
Perhaps the best-known example of IaaS in action is Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides customers virtual machine images with a preloaded operating system. The customer has to manage each virtual image, maintaining and upgrading it as needed. Third-party middleware like Eucalyptus is used to provision the virtual machines.
Rather than go head-to-head with IaaS providers like AWS, Google Compute Engine and Microsoft’s Windows Azure, VMware is taking the PaaS role in the cloud sector.
Cloud Foundry is the center of VMware’s two-fold strategy:
First, VMware capitalizes on its huge vSphere virtualization market share (estimated to be in the 80% range), encouraging that existing customer base to migrate their existing virtual infrastructure to the cloud. Because it’s a PaaS solution, an app that works on a “local” vSphere virtual machine will easily move to a cloud-based vSphere VM.
The other side of the strategy is targeting new app developers and demonstrating the advantages of PaaS over IaaS for developers keen on the cloud.
“AWS and Google are not good for moving existing apps to the cloud,” Lodge claimed. “They are better for developers writing new apps from scratch.”
Help Moving Apps to the Cloud
Rewriting existing apps to be cloud friendly can be a massive undertaking. It can be done, certainly: Lodge related how Netflix’s development team essentially rewrote all of its code to take advantage of cloud computing. “They basically wrote their own PaaS, which shows how talented they are.”
Mere mortals may not have that kind of time or energy, Lodge said, which is where Cloud Foundry comes in. It handles all of the virtual machines and infrastructure issues for the developer, so the app they’re coding doesn’t have to.
Thus far, VMware’s PaaS-centric strategy seems to be working. By focusing its attention on working with partners in the PaaS space, the company is not grabbing cloud headlines to rival Amazon, Google and Microsoft, but it has a fast-growing presence.
“We’re on over 130 clouds in 26 countries,” Lodge boasted. “Not even AWS has that kind of footprint.”
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, seems to be the current feeling in the halls of VMware. If Gelsinger sticks to this course under his tenure, don’t look for an IaaS play from VMware anytime soon.
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