Ideas are everywhere, but how do we know which ones actually work? At Google, we put a lot of stock in both the wisdom of crowds — the idea that lots of people responding to a given question can collectively find the best answer — and the value of community. We believe that people working together can help one another
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Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
My all-time favorite iPhone app, MLB’s At Bat [App Store link], is all new for the 2009 baseball season. For the uninitiated, At Bat provides nearly real-time statistics for ongoing games, including scoring, current batter and pitcher, stats, the count at the plate … even video clips from a game that’s in progress.
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We’re pretty comfortable with the idea of open source software running on computers and mobile phone — heck, even guitars — but cars? That one we’re still warming up to, but this concept vehicle from EDAG definitely helps. As its name implies, the Light Car – Open Source lets developers modify and / or improve upon the auto’s technologies —
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Zoho, makers of an awesome web-based software suite comprised of document, project and invoicing management tools, has given its online word processing tool Writer a fresh look along with a couple of new features worth checking out. The Chennai, India-based startup says Zoho Writer 2.0 comes with hundreds of improvements, for the most part on the user interface.
But the makeover
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Let’s face it: The next-generation of transportation, governed by electric vehicles and biofuels, will take years to reach average users. What can we do in the meantime? Look to the tools created by information technology — cell phones, software, online mapping tools, social networks — to help drivers cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions. On March 24, in San Francisco,
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Posted by Luke Blanshard, Software Engineer and member of the Data Liberation team
Filtering is an essential Gmail power-user feature. With filters (and labels) you can use Gmail to handle a ton of incoming mail. I know — I’m subscribed to 64 mailing lists at Google. My filters let me manage the deluge with ease.
But managing the filters themselves has been
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AirBed and Breakfast, an online portal for renting space on a stranger’s airbed or couch, has re-launched its website to AirBnB, an eBay-like marketplace for all accommodations. Now a Y-Combinator start-up (the startup is currently in the winter session of the incubator), AirBnB, which launched as AirBed and Breakfast last August, found that users wanted to use the site for
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, iTunes, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Zynga has released a new iPhone game called Scramble Live, and while the game itself isn’t anything really new — it’s Boggle, basically — the technology is pretty interesting. They’ve already got a Facebook version up and running with over a million users, and the new app will
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, iTunes, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Zynga has released a new iPhone game called Scramble Live, and while the game itself isn’t anything really new — it’s Boggle, basically — the technology is pretty interesting. They’ve already got a Facebook version up and running with over a million users, and the new app will
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Filed under: Gaming, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Toy Bot Diaries is a fun little series of platforming games with a physics twist — you probably saw it on those early iPod touch gaming commercials. It features a little robot jumping around levels with a grappling hook and some magnetic boots. If you haven’t picked it up yet, now’s the
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Videos from conferences, seminars, and talks have become a standard way to ensure that even those who can’t attend an event are able to at least get access to the presentations after the fact. However, video recordings from conferences are often somewhat sub-par and even the best videographers can have a hard time capturing both the speakers and their slides.
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Social networks suck if you can’t find friends that use them. This is especially true for those social networks oriented around sharing your location; for the most part, you end up knowing where you and three other people are before you get bored and give up. Following a trend made popular by Facebook, the mobile social mapping service Loopt has
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Social networks suck if you can’t find friends that use them. This is especially true for those social networks oriented around sharing your location; for the most part, you end up knowing where you and three other people are before you get bored and give up. Following a trend made popular by Facebook, the mobile social mapping service Loopt has
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Filed under: Software, iPhone, iPod touch
Ambiance creator Matt Coneybeare is temporarily offering a free copy of version 1.0 as a gesture of goodwill to the negative backlash to the 2.0 upgrade of the iPhone audio app.
When released last summer, Ambiance (link opens iTunes) — along with aSleep — introduced “environmental enhancers” to the iPhone. These apps would produce sounds ranging
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Oh, e-voting machines… ever since they arrived on the scene to challenge old timey lever-laden beasts of yore (not to mention pencils and paper, if you remember what those are), there have been numberless examples of their hackability, their unreliable software, and the general mayhem caused by not having a paper trail in elections. It’s been a fun ride, but
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Filed under: Software, Internet Tools
AroundMe [App Store link] has always been a must have app for my iPhone. Now it has been updated to make it even better. Since it’s free, having it on your phone is a no-brainer.
In this latest edition you can chose a category of places, e.g., restaurants, hospitals, supermarkets and so on. You then get the
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Earlier today, Motorola announced it was selling Good Technology, the wireless email software division it bought for $400 million only 2 years ago, to Visto technologies, the leader in enterprise push email.
This move signals the end of Motorola’s attempt to build a business-specific phone to compete with RIM’s Blackberry (RIMM) and Palm. To some, this is an admission of failure,
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Peripherals, Software, iTunes, Developer
Why, you might wonder, would we want another media program — isn’t iTunes enough? But a new app called Doubletwist (by DVD Jon, creator of the old DeCSS DRM-stripping software) looks to answer that question by taking an iTunes-style interface, and expanding it to pretty much anything you’d want to do with
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