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Android 2.0 gets Google Maps Navigation

Fernando Dunn, II — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:23:38 +0000

Official Google Blog -- Google announces a big change in Google Maps for mobile: Google Maps Navigation (Beta) will be available for Android 2.0 devices. Currently, the only phone with Android 2.0 is the Motorola Droid which will be released on November 6th. Hopefully the HTC Hero will get a 2.0 update soon or Google opens Google Maps Navigation to other Android versions.

Student builds creepy Guitar Hero playing robot type thing

Fernando — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:38:10 +0000

SlashGear -- Minnesota West Technical College engineering student Pete Nikrin made a robot that plays Guitar Hero pretty well. It is said to get 100% accuracy in Trials, 98% in Medium mode, 95% in Hard mode and 80% in Expert mode. I bet it can't beat me in Madden though.

Glass of Water (Reflection Study)

Fernando Dunn, II — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:03:10 +0000

Fish Sketch

Fernando Dunn, II — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:53:00 +0000

St. Louis Post Dispatch’s 100 Neediest Cases

Fernando Dunn, II — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:48:17 +0000

Every year, the St. Louis Post Dispatch hosts a holiday drive for our needy neighbors entitled 100 Neediest Cases. Hundres of families' stories are filtered, and 100 are selected for publication. To further emphasize the story, the St. Louis Post Dispatch runs a contest allowing local high school artists to illustrate an image depicting a need or struggle. The entries that can be used as an illustration are selected and placed with a particular story. My drawing was selected as one of the top 20 submitted. It encapsulates four different children with four different ailments. I created this piece using graphite pencil on strathmore board.

Google Social Search lets you search social web content

Fernando — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:28:09 +0000

Official Google Blog -- Google releases their Google Social Search experiment today. This new Google Labs experiment provides Google search results from a combination of your Gmail chat buddies, your Gmail contacts, and people you publicly connect to on social sites such as Twitter and FriendFeed. To sign up, go to Google's Experimental Search page or learn more about social search.