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Google Street View is now on the ski slopes!

Cihan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:54:28 GMT

You can now see the venues for the games and the world's first snowmobile Street View imagery on Google Maps.

Apple iPad Secret unveiled

Cihan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:26:40 GMT

Apple on Wednesday finally unveiled its tablet computer, called the iPad, at an invite-only event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in downtown San Francisco. The device, which looks like a larger version of Apple's iPod Touch will be available in two to three months, and starts at $499.

Read on to get a quick overview of everything that was announced, and why it matters.

Apple Keynote Video

New hardware: The iPad

Apple's CEO Steve Jobs introduces the iPad

(Credit: James Martin/CNET)

Proving rumors right, Apple unveiled the iPad, a device that looks akin to a large iPhone or iPod Touch. It sports a 9.7-inch LCD touch-screen display, which makes use of the same multitouch technology found on the iPhone, Apple's Magic Mouse, and its notebook trackpads. It also has the same in-plane switching display technology that made its debut in the latest crop of iMacs.

Like the iPhone and iPod, it sports a finger-friendly OS with an on-screen QWERTY keyboard, and an accelerometer that can detect whether the device is in portrait or landscape mode. It has a 30-pin dock connector, built-in Wi-Fi, and a home button that jumps users back to the main screen of the OS. It also has a volume rocker and a mute button--just like the iPhone.

(Credit: Apple)

Along with a big screen, it's sporting a 1Ghz custom Apple chip (from its pick-up of PA Semi back in 2008). Apple says it can get 10 hours of video, which is about four more than the iPod Touch and the same as the latest generation iPhone. This translates to "a month" of standby time. The iPad will come in 16, 32, and 64GB capacities for $499, $599, and $699, respectively. That's just the Wi-Fi version though. Apple will also be selling a version of the iPad that includes both Wi-Fi and a 3G wireless modem built in. iPad users who want to make use of the 3G service, which is being offered by AT&T, can pick up one of two plans for that: $15 a month for 250MB of data, or unlimited for $29.99 a month. It also bumps up the baseline price of the device to $629 (16GB), $729 (32GB), and $829 (64GB).

The iPad with just Wi-Fi will be shipping in the next 60 days, with the 3G version in the next 90 days.

Other noteworthy specs:

• The Wi-Fi antenna supports 802.11 a/b/g/n

• The iPad weighs just 1.5 pounds. The version with 3G is .1 pounds heavier.

• The screen resolution is 1024x768 (the iPhone/iPod is 480x320).

• It can playback 720p HD video, though video output to external sources is limited to 480p. • It has the same oleophobic coating that made its debut on the iPhone 3GS. This helps face and finger grease bead up and wipe off easier.

Bigger apps

As for apps, the iPad's screen runs larger than what can be found on Apple's smaller portable devices, which means developers have more screen real estate to work with. At the same time, the iPad is backwards compatible with existing iPhone and iPod Touch applications. Apps with smaller screen resolutions are simply scaled up to fit. Apple is giving developers a way to modify their applications to work with both sets of hardware.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrated the tablet running numerous first-party apps, including iTunes, a photo gallery, its Safari Web browser, iCal, e-mail, Google Maps, and YouTube. Many shared traits of what's been seen on the iPhone, just with more screen real estate. This was most evident in Apple's Mail app, which now features a two-up panel display with a preview of the selected e-mail in the larger part of the screen. According to Jobs, all of its apps were re-written to fit natively on the bigger display.

Several companies also demonstrated their new iPad-optimized apps:

• Gameloft showed off a larger-resolution version of its hit first-person shooter N.O.V.A., which will be out "later this year."

• The New York Times demoed a tablet-friendly version of its app, which mimics the layout of reading a newspaper in portrait mode, except with video links that open up within an embedded player.

• Brushes, a popular iPhone app, demoed the upcoming iPad version of its image editing software, which now makes use of the larger screen real estate to conceal large pop-up menus.

(Credit: James Martin/CNET)

• MLB.com unveiled a tweaked version of its app that adds video highlights, team info, virtual baseball cards, and more on-screen overlays.

Apple also introduced an updated version of its iWork software. It's the first version of the software to run on one of Apple's portable devices, and makes full use of the iPad's touch screen. This confirms a rumor from The New York Times earlier this month. Worth noting is that iWork will be offered as three separate apps, all of which will cost $10 apiece. Having Numbers, Keynote, and Sheets will run iPad users $30, as opposed to the $79 price tag for the desktop version.

Book distribution

(Credit: (James Martin/CNET))

Jobs unveiled a new content delivery system called iBooks (not to be confused with Apple's former laptop line, the iBook). The new app features a virtual bookshelf with content from five major publishers: HarperCollins, Hachette, Penguin, Macmillan, and Simon & Shuster (note: Simon & Shuster is a division of CBS Corporation, which publishes CNET).

Apple said the iBooks store will feature both popular books as well as text books. Notably absent was any mention of whether magazines will be available as well.

Just like iTunes, books are split up into what's popular and by genre. Users can preview the first few pages before purchasing, and downloaded books are sent directly to the user's virtual bookshelf. They can then be read in a similar manner to what's already been available with Amazon's Kindle app. Users can read their books in portrait or landscape mode, change the size of the text, and hop around using a persistent table of contents.

Other tidbits

Apple will be selling a dock that comes with a keyboard for the iPad.

(Credit: Apple)

• Apple confirmed to CNET that the iPad is just like the iPhone and iPod Touch when it comes to Adobe Flash--it does not support the popular Web plug-in.

• 250,000,000 iPods have been sold since 2001.

• Apple has 248 retail stores that have seen 50 million visitors.

• The App Store now has more than 140,000 applications.

• There is still no multitasking. Apps can only run one at a time, that is, unless they're Apple's apps.

• The iPad appears to use Apple's unibody machining process, which made its formal debut in the company's late 2008 MacBook line.

• The new OS borrows a few cues from Snow Leopard, including the capability to change background wallpapers, and a 3D-style dock.

• 125 million credit cards are already hooked up to the iTunes and App Store.

• Apple is selling a number of first-party accessories, including a dock with a full-sized keyboard, a camera connection kit that lets users import images from their SD cards, and a case that doubles as a stand. Apple has not announced pricing for any of these items.

Below is just one of our live videos from the event. Also, be sure to check out our Live Blog, which has many more pictures and details.

soruce : Cnet

Monopoly City Streets: Google Launching Online Version of Monopoly

Cihan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:51:57 GMT

This could be very addictive: Google (Google) is teaming up with board game maker Hasbro to launch a Google Maps (Google Maps) version of Monopoly (Monopoly). Monopoly City Streets, which launches Wednesday, allows users to compete in a live, worldwide version of the popular game, creating the biggest Monopoly tournament ever played.

It’s an ambitious venture that we’ll confess to being fairly excited about: players will literally be able to buy any street in the world, and compete with every other player on the “board”. You start with 3 million Monopoly dollars, and can build not only hotels and houses but also football stadiums, castles and skyscrapers, reports the UK’s Guardian. Downing Street in the UK will cost $231,000, while Pennsylvania Avenue will cost $2 million.

The preview site reads:

On the 9th SEPTEMBER, a world of property empire building on an unimaginable scale will be launched! A live worldwide game of MONOPOLY using Google Maps as the game board. The goal is simple. Play to beat your friends and the world to become the richest property magnate in existence.

Own any street in the world. Build humble houses, crazy castles and stupendous skyscrapers to collect rent. Use MONOPOLY Chance Cards to sabotage your mates by building Hazards on their streets.

What the coverage doesn’t mention is the level of involvement Google had here: while in theory this could have been built on the Google Maps API with little input from the search engine maker itself, all reports seem to indicate that Google had a direct role in bringing the game to fruition.

And before we start: I get to be the car, ok?

src: http://mashable.com/2009/09/07/monopoly-google-maps/#mb

Google Latitude. Now for iPhone and iPod Touch..!

Cihan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:24:00 GMT

Google Latitude one of my favorite application on my Google Ion Android 2. But Almost all my friends had Apple iPhone and Latitude was not supported on iPhone till now!

Ok my all friends go to Google Latitude

...quote from google blog...

I'm a big fan of the iPhone. I'm also a big fan of the web. So, naturally, I'm excited that today we're finally releasing Google Latitude for iPhone and iPod touch as a web application running in Safari.

Our Latitude web app provides all the core functionality you might expect: you can see the location of your friends on a map and modify your privacy settings so that you control how your location is shared and with whom. In fact, if my friends and colleagues back in London haven't yet noticed my absence, they'll see in Latitude that I'm currently vacationing on the beach in Australia. Hi guys, remember me!?

You'll also find basic Search and Directions functionality to help you get around the world. And just like our Google Maps for mobile client apps (and more recently on desktop Google Maps), you can press the "blue dot" to be taken to your approximate current location on the map with My Location, thanks to Safari now supporting the W3C Geolocation API.

To try Google Latitude, type google.com/latitude into your iPhone's browser. And if you miss the experience of launching the app directly from your home screen, you can add a bookmark to the home screen by opening Latitude in Safari and tapping the + icon > Add to Home Screen > Add.

Spezify visual search

Cihan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:09:15 GMT

New Generation Visual Search Engine http://www.spezify.com/

This is facts, Google is worlds greatest search engine. But Spezify focused on little much for new trend navigation. Site is very handy to basic users, and very useful to show video, image and text content in same screen.

Shaping the future of internet : Google Chrome OS !

Cihan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:20:33 GMT

7th of this July (2009) Google announced browser based operating system Google Chrome OS. After than all blogs,twitters starting to publishing the news.

Snip from the official Google Blog:

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Google Calendar Week Numbers

Cihan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:39:55 GMT

You might want to be able to view week numbers in Google Calendar, but Google hasn't released such a feature yet. Maybe you've used the ISO8601 calendar, or even made your own week numbers, but in my opinion using a day event to display the week number is kinda ugly.

Google has released a new feature since Google Calendar was created; Web Content Events. It gives Google Calendar the possibility to display events in the title bar of each day as small icons. I found out that you can only add these kind of entries by either uploading an iCal file or using the Google Calendar API, which only technically inclined people know how to do.

Reference : http://sites.google.com/site/gcalweeknumbers/googlecalendarweeknumbers

Strange Internet phenomena MRirian or Magibon

Cihan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:10:15 GMT

When i was find Magibon Channel on youtube, she was uploaded 4 movie. Now she got 76 movie, 83,697 Subscribers and 5,803,280 channel views. Its unbelievable she is just looking camera, moving eyes and wave one's hand...

By the way, we love you Magibon.

Wiki Info
2006年夏にYouTubeに初めて自分の動画を投稿。当初は無言のまま顔をアップで写すだけだったが、アメリカ合衆国で謎の美少女として人気を集めた。5回目の投稿で初めて言葉をしゃべったが、それは日本語での自己紹介であった。このような活動が日本語をしゃべる正体不明のネットアイドルとして町山智浩のブログで紹介されたことなどから、日本でも注目を集めるようになり、YouTubeでの閲覧回数が300万アクセスを記録した。

2008年4月7日～13日に初来日を果たし、TBSラジオやGyaOに出演したほか、週刊プレイボーイなどの取材を受けた。2回目の来日は2008年10月18日からの第21回東京国際映画祭出席のため。共演者の優木まおみらとともにグリーンカーペットを歩いた。

本人は、ペンシルベニア州の田舎町に住み、周囲に日本人などがまったくいない環境で育ったが、インターネットで日本語や日本の文化を学び、日本の芸能界の情報にも詳しい。マギボンの「ボン」は、加護亜依のニックネームのあいぼんを真似たもの。

Technorati Join

Cihan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:26:56 GMT

I just Add my blog to Technorati Blog List. If you like to add as your favorite please click link at below.

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Android G2 Application Development CityShake !

Cihan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:39:41 GMT

When i get my brand new Android G2 (aka Google Ion) at Google I/O Developer Conference @2009 i was started to think about what can i develop on this super funny gadget, it must be interact with Google Maps (of course) and i decide.

Application working with one of free JSON Geo Web Service, when you shake Android find random city and show wiki/map information on screen.

I know its very basic application but just for start. Screenshot :