How to start using Latitude in iPhone?

Its as simple as visiting google.com/latitude from your iPhone to start using Latitude. No application is required to download from Appstore as Apple requested Google to release Latitude as a web application in order to avoid conflicts with inbuilt Maps on the iPhone.

How to bookmark Latitude to your homepage if wish to access quickly and regularly?

Just open Latitude in Safari and tap the + icon > Add to Home Screen > Add.

Privacy

You can also manually set your whereabouts using Latitude by modifying your privacy settings, instead of detecting your location automatically.

You can also make custom settings for each friends in your network. Unfortunately, if your Boss is in your network you may want to sometimes hide him or select “Share only city level location”.

What is not good with Latitude on iPhone?

Since Latitude is browser based in iPhone, it does not run in the background and hence continuous location tracking is not possible like in Blackberry and other mobile OS. So the workaround is to launch the Latitude using Safari and it gets updated with your current location. This is also good in a way you can save $$ for your data plan

Good news is Microsoft has included an updated version of Outlook Connector for Office 2010 under the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview suite, so that users can use Outlook 2010 to access its Gmail, Windows Live etc including the folders of email, contacts and calendars.

Where to download the Outlook Connector for Office 2010?

For x86 version: http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/F/8/DF8DC3A7-CF01-4F22-B965-DD8CD86411ED/OutlookConnector.exe
For x64 Version: http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/F/2/8F2D0D4D-719B-4BD3-90BC-56B7AF48C419/OutlookConnector.exe

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I am waiting for my Windows 7 RTM copy, and I shall update you after I try it.

Technorati : Windows7
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I found a very simple tiny application called “CaptureiT from TechMogul“. You can download this program over-the-air, and later you assign this to your Blackberry’s convenience keys. As you press the convenience key, your BlackBerry snaps the current screen and save it in your media folder automatically. Go to the Techmogul download page directly from your BlackBerry, download and install it. If application errors, make sure permissions are set to allow by going to:

Option > Advanced Options > Applications > CaptureiT > Edit Permissions

To set CaptureiT with your favorite convenience key, go to: Options > Screen/Keyboard (I set mine to Left side)

Price for the second generation Kindle has been dropped to $299. This price slash will tempt many people to get the latest generation Kindle and start reading e-books. Also, Amazon expects more units will be sold along with their huge collections of e-books. According to Amazon “We’ve been able to increase the volume of Kindles we’re manufacturing and decrease the cost of doing so,”.

By reducing the Amazon Kindle’s price could be their first step to introduce advertising in the e-books.. To some people, displaying ads while reading will be annoying. However, ad will be inserted only if you agree to buy the free e-book option (I guess). As per MediaPost ” U.S. Patent Office applications filed by Amazon show the Seattle company might be moving toward an ad-supported model that could lower the price of electronic books.”

On top of Grease-monkey, you just need to install another two Grease-monkey scripts in your Firefox – Bing! Here comes Twitter search results on top of the page for whatever you search. Installing this scripts made simple, however I have screen captured the steps that I would like to share it here:

Step1: Install Grease-Monkey script for “Twitter search results on Bing”

Right click on the smiley Grease-monkey, go to “Manage Scripts” and verify the script for “Twitter Search Results on Bing” is there.

Step2: Install Grease-Monkey script for “Bing-cleaner” for improving search result layout.

The procedure to install the Bing-Cleaner script is same as the first one. So repeat the steps.

Now fire up the Firefox, go to Bing and search anything. You will see search results from twitter is on top, aligned neatly.

Will existing users pay the price for these devices to get the upgrade version with Camera? Why would you want a camera powered iPod in the first place when you are already carrying a phone with a camera (in most cases it’s true).

On the other side, you cannot label iPod as “just another MP3 player”, because most of us who owns iPod also use it to download applications, watching movies when you feel bored of listening to the music. I personally love the collections of applications in the App Store and its user experiences.

What people may worry is the size. Will it be thicker due to the camera integration? According to TechCrunch’s quote from a source in Asia “Apple has placed an order for a massive number of camera modules of the type that they include in the iPhone. These are inexpensive cameras, in the $10 range. And the size of the order, our source says, means they can only be used for one thing – the iPods.”

digWin bridge contents on the web to the relevant readers, which mostly on technologies around Microsoft and other emerging technologies on social media. All these information are scattered around the web and growing explosively, which means finding the best buzz from this crowded web space is draining anyone’s productivity.

Purplera1n’s jailbreak now available for  both Windows and Intel Mac computers to unlock the iPhone 3GS. By jailbreak-ing, iphone 3GS owners can download Cydia in their iPhone which helps them to install unofficial applications.

What is good in Jailbreak-ing?

Once you have Cydia (like App Store) installed on your device, you may continue to install UltraSn0w that unlocks the iPhone 3GS. The benefit is users now can choose any service provider’s SIM card on their iPhone without getting stuck by selected service provider’s locked iPhone.

As per dev team blog, “those unlucky users who updated iPhone 3.1 SDK before may not be able to unlock their iPhone.”

Here are some cool FAQs on Jailbreak:

• What is jailbreaking?
• Why jailbreak?
• How do I jailbreak?

To get you started, Gmail put your most used labels on the left hand side, right below “inbox/Sent Mail/Drafts” and hid the labels you use the least.  Alternatively, you can go into the Gmail Settings from the top, select labels to do the further management, where you can show and hide labels according to your wish.

Here is how you drag label onto the message.

Here is how you drag the message into the label

I like this feature, as it brings more things “above fold” and enables high visibility of stuff like chat, google calendar, etc which includes only the very active labels. So Gmail labels are not going away, its  better than folders concept when it comes to message categorization. Because, this way users can classify message into multiple categories with the help of “label” rather than moving the message in folders isolated from inbox and in some cases its away from mailbox itself. This new feature also warns that there won’t be any Right Side Label which was an experiment, but many people liked it including myself.