Globalblox - The web 2.0 startpage

Globalblox - The web 2.0 startpage: "

With Globalblox you can make your own homepage based on logos of brands.

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Mondiali in Streaming 2010 17 giugno

Mondiali in Streaming 2010 17 giugno: "

Ciao ragazzi la Spagna è andata KO con la svizzera…dopo la brillante prova offerta dalla Corea del Nord contro il Brasile…ma ecco a voi i link alle partite di oggi ….buona visione

FRANCIA MESSICO

ARGENTINA COREA DEL SUD

GRECIA NIGERIA

I siti migliori per la visione on-line dei match mondiali sono:

1) RAI MONDIALI

2)Cool Streaming

3)FootyFire

4)IraqGoals

5)Free TV Online

Ovviamente [...]

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Mouseless Invisible Mouse

Mouseless Invisible Mouse: "

Posted on Jun 17, 10 01:53 PM PDT

Can't see the mouse in the video? Why, that's because it's an invisible mouse (of sorts), dubbed Mouseless. The folks over at Fluid Interfaces Group, MIT Media Lab, have come up with a setup that uses an IR camera and IR laser to determine the position of your hand and detect clicks, essentially turning your hand into the mouse itself. The best part of this project is that the total cost of the prototype was about $20, which should be well within your budget, assuming the necessary technical wizardry isn't an issue for you. Check out a video of it in action after the jump, though the mouse cursor does seem to a track a little slow. It'll be interesting if such technology were made standing into every notebook in the future, though. Would you want to use a mouse in this manner?

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Google Maps Navigation anche in Italia con comandi vocali, gratis

Google Maps Navigation anche in Italia con comandi vocali, gratis: "

Google Maps Navigation sbarca finalmente anche in Italia con i suoi comandi vocali e soprattutto la sua natura totalmente gratuita. Dopo il debutto in terra americana il software per la navigazione GPS guidata arriva anche…"

iPhone vs. Android Showdown: Which Phone Is Best for Power Users?: "

iPhone vs. Android Showdown: Which Phone Is Best for Power Users?

The newest iPhone comes out in two weeks; the Android OS continues to deploy on better and better hardware; and both operating systems roll out exciting new features and innovations with each release. So which deserves your hard-earned cash?

A Starting Point

You can evaluate iPhone and Android devices from countless angles,^[1] so rather than pretend that we've got the One True Comparison, it only seems appropriate to highlight that we're not necessarily your average user. For more specifics on how we judge these devices, read this footnote.

For our purposes, we're measuring each phone OS against 20 features we care about most, declaring a winner (or a tie) for each category, and adding it all up. The extent to which our measurements match up with what you most care about may vary, but we suspect that many of you share similar values when it comes to your smartphone.

Note: The table below indicates the device we think 'wins' each category. A happy Android means we think Android is better in that category; an Apple means iPhone outperforms Android; categories with both an Android and Apple are ties.

Artwork by Adam Dachis

Below, we've broken down the categories above and explained whey we chose the winners as we did.

Ease of Use; Winner: iPhone

Android has come a long way in a short time, but from an ease-of-use perspective, the iPhone wins out. You can pick up any iPhone and quickly, easily understand what's going on. It's got one main button on the front of the device, and everything you do consists of tapping app icons from the home screen. Android devices have several buttons on the front of the device that perform a variety of functions, and once you unlock the screen (and depending on which Android device you have), you're confronted with many different possible home screens and ways of doing things from those home screens.

Openness; Winner: Android

We really like that the Android operating system open source, but what's more important to most end users is openness in terms of what you can run on these devices. The operating systems themselves are clearly important, but one thing's abundantly clear: the applications make the phone. And while Google has yet to get in hot water for rejecting apps based on anti-competitive fear or censorship, Apple's has. A lot.

Battery Life; Winner: iPhone

Apple has taken battery life extremely seriously in their careful development of the iPhone, and it's shown. While Android devices get a kitchen-sink's worth of features that you may consider to be a fair tradeoff for battery life, there's little question that the iPhone's battery life outlasts that of most Android devices. Battery performance definitely varies from Android handset to Android handset (the recently released EVO is taking big hits for its poor battery performance), but the iPhone's battery performance—particularly the new iPhone's performance—generally outlasts Android's.

Multitasking; Tie

It's a big deal that the iPhone is finally getting some multitasking support in iOS4, and while it's still not as true of multitasking as Android users enjoy, the tradeoff in terms off battery life improvements is important enough that, overall, we'd consider multitasking to be a wash.

Software Keyboard; Winner: iPhone

If you talk to anyone who's used both the iPhone and Android with some frequency, the general consensus is that the iPhone's software keyboard is a good deal better than Android's default keyboard. That's unfortunate for Android users, but the consolation is that you can install any custom keyboard as your default keyboard on Android, and we've seen some solid keyboard alternatives. Still, the advantage, if only by virtue of being better out of the box, goes to the iPhone.

System-Wide Search; Tie

Apple's implementation of Spotlight on the iPhone searches contacts, media, email, applications, notes, and calendar. Android searches most of that (but notably not email), but also integrates with auto-suggest web searches; it also lets other applications plug into it, so the more supported apps you install, the more robust the universal search becomes.

Notification system; Winner: Android

This may seem like a silly thing to care too much about, but the iPhone's modal notification system is particularly user un-friendly, especially for a device as friendly as the iPhone. You have to act on a notification, and you can only see one notification at a time before the next one dismisses the previous one entirely. Android's brilliant pull-down window shade notification tray, on the other hand, is a beautiful thing that could make any iPhone owner jealous.

Voice-to-Text; Winner: Android

Nearly every text field on an Android device can be filled with a few words from your mouth, and it works surprisingly well. You can respond to emails by voice, send long text messages by voice while you're walking around Target, respond to your editor's IMs while you're at a graduation ceremony, and so on, as long as you're comfortable talking to your phone (it is a phone, so you should be). Apart from voice-to-text in third party apps, iOS doesn't support voice-to-text at all.

Syncing; Winner: Android

iPhones can be incredible standalone devices, but they're surprisingly old-fashioned when it comes to syncing, requiring users to plug into their computers and connect to iTunes to do all sorts of syncing and activating that could be more conveniently done wirelessly. Android phones support pretty great over-the-air syncing with your Google account, so much so that if you were to lose your previous Android phone, simply entering your Google account into a new one can get you up and running with a usable phone in a jiffy.

Non-Google Sync; Winner: iPhone

Android's great at syncing seamlessly with Google's servers, but it's not so keen on syncing with other popular sources of data—like, say, Outlook, Address Book, or iTunes. If you're a heavy user of any of those applications, the iPhone is the easiest option.

Tethering; Winner: Android

The cost of tethering on Android devices varies depending on the provider, but so far the Android tethering situation is better off than what AT&T is offering on the iPhone. In the States, AT&T will charge you $20/month just for the privilege of tethering your iPhone's data connection to a computer—despite the fact that you're already paying for a metered data plan. The situation isn't necessarily much better across the Android-sphere (Sprint is also planning to charge for tethering on the EVO, for example), but currently most Android carriers are sticking with "unlimited" plans, versus AT&T/iPhone's 2GB limit. It's still a close race on this point, but Android edges ahead with the ability to turn your handset into a Wi-Fi hotspot that can deliver wireless to you and seven of your closest friends.

Release and Update Consistency; Winner: iPhone

These days, your mobile OS is just as important (if not more) than mobile hardware, and Apple has set the consumer expectation to expect that their device will receive new feature updates even if it isn't the latest phone. To that end, it's extremely easy to keep track of what's going on in the iPhone ecosystem. Apple releases one new phone a year, and one major update each year. When an update rolls out, every phone receives the update at the same time (unless it's particularly old; the original iPhone won't upgrade to iOS4, for example). In contrast, Android runs on a lot of different devices, and when Google pushes out a new update, there's no telling when or if it's going to make its way to your phone. In the future Google is planning to change to yearly Android updates similar to iPhone OS updates, which will likely help this situation, but in the meantime, it's a source of frustration for Android users.

Apps; Tie

A lot of people may disagree on this assessment, given that Apple's App Store has around four times the number of applications the Android Market does, but there's also a lot of crap in the App Store, and at this point, most popular, mission-critical applications have been developed for both the iPhone and Android. What's more, some potentially very popular applications end up locked out of the App Store for, if we're being generous, arbitrary reasons. At the end of the day, it may be a big deal that your must-have application X is missing from the Android Market/App Store, and those may end up to be dealbreakers for you, but overall we'd call them pretty even.

Web browsing; Tie

The iPhone's Mobile Safari browser, while not without its faults, is a very nice, very usable mobile browser. Android's browser, while not as smooth an operator as Safari, supports (or can support) Flash. The extent to which that matters to you may vary, but it's big enough that we're considering it a tie.

Gaming; Winner: iPhone

We're frugal productivity nerds at Lifehacker, so we don't really care all that much about gaming. And while the number of solid gaming options available in the Android Market continue to grow, it's still not on par with what's available for the iPhone.

Music Player; Winner: iPhone

Android may do a lot of things well, but one arena where its users regularly voice complaint is with its default media player. Where the iPhone comes with a very solid iPod app, most Android users quickly go looking for alternative players. Google is hyping over-the-internet streaming of all your music from your desktop computer eventually, but until we see something great there, the iPhone still wins out.

Free Turn-by-Turn Navigation; Winner: Android

After the Google Voice debacle from last year, it's looking less and less likely that Google will ever develop another new app for the iPhone. Unfortunately, that means that extremely cool applications, like Google Maps Navigation, Google's free turn-by-turn GPS application, will never make it to the iPhone, and so far there isn't anything as good for the iPhone that's also free. The iPhone does have its share of solid for-a-price GPS utilities in the App Store (and some decent inexpensive-to-free options), but Maps Navigation is built into Android and outshines the iPhone's free alternatives.

Integration with Google Apps; Winner: Android

If you rely on Google tools like Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, and the like, Android just does it better. The iPhone's still no slouch, and can sync over-the-air with Contacts, Calendar, and even does Gmail push for instant new message notifications, but if you're a serious Google or even just Gmail user, the iPhone doesn't stack up to Android.

Google Voice; Winner: Android

It may seem absurd to make this a separate point of comparison from Google Apps, but Voice is a very phone-centric app with potentially huge influence over how you use your phone. Apple had the option to approve a Google Voice app for the iPhone and completely blew it. And since we really love Google Voice, it only makes Android look that much more attractive.

Customizable; Winner: Android

You may be able to add a wallpaper to your iPhone desktop when iOS4 rolls out, but beyond that, there's not much you can do to tweak your iPhone to exactly how you like it—without jailbreaking, that is. In comparison, Android devices are Mr. Potato Heads of customizability.

Overall Score: Android: 13; iPhone: 11

Clearly our scorecard is extremely subjective, so take this evaluation with a grain of salt, and consider how important the features we listed (and maybe those we didn't list) are to you and come up with your own assessment. If your priorities are similar to ours, you're likely looking at an Android for your next purchase.

In fact, in our recent poll on the subject, 66 percent of Lifehacker readers said they prefer Android; 30 percent prefer the iPhone, and 4 percent preferred neither. Whichever end of the spectrum you fall on, we'd love to hear more about what's driving your decision in the comments.

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Why just Android and iPhone? The iPhone and Android operating systems are not the only mobile OSes on the block, but they're what we're focusing on in this post. It's cool if you're really into Windows Mobile/Phone 7 or webOS. For the purpose of this post, we're focusing on what we consider to be the most popular options among our readers. [go back up]

How we judge: We consider ourselves power users who care about things like openness, user control, and customizability; we also care about ease of use, high quality design, and quality hardware. For better or worse (usually worse), these qualities often end up at odds with one another in the current smartphone market, but they make up the measuring stick against which we're evaluating these devices.

It's also probably worth noting that, Android OS and hardware aside, we're big fans of several of Google's services, and so some of those play an important role in some of the categories above. It may not seem fair to Apple and the iPhone to do so, but in most instances (like Google Voice), Apple had the opportunity to accept Google-focused applications to the App Store.

Finally, the state of Android devices can be somewhat confusing because they're released by different carriers and on lots of different hardware. We tried to strike a balance between acknowledging faults on some of the worst incarnations of Android hardware while also keeping in mind the best. To the extent that older iPhones aren't up to snuff compared to the new iPhone, we've done the same thing in discussing the iPhone. [go back up]

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Street View integra le foto degli utenti in maniera interattiva con sovrapposizione

Street View integra le foto degli utenti in maniera interattiva con sovrapposizione: "

Qualche mese fa Google introdusse in Street View la possibilità di visualizzare le foto degli utenti in posti specifici grazie al geotag. Ora questa funzione è stata migliorata ed ora le foto possono essere direttamente visualizzate sulle immagini di Street View, in sovrimpressione.

Mi spiego meglio con un esempio. Provate a vedere il Colosseo in Street View. Se notate, direttamente sull’Anfiteatro ci sono delle miniature di foto scattate da utenti. Passando il puntatore sopra, la foto sarà ingrandita e ridimensionata in modo tale da sovrapporsi quasi perfettamente a quella sottostante scattata dalle Google Car. Il risultato è impressionante. Provate a farvi un giro tra i monumenti del mondo.

Pensate alla possibilità di poter vedere l’evoluzione architettonica o la situazione in un determinato momento storico, grazie a questa suggestiva funzione.

Via | Google-latlong.blogspot.com

Street View integra le foto degli utenti in maniera interattiva con sovrapposizione é stato pubblicato su downloadblog alle 13:00 di giovedì 10 giugno 2010.

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Seguire i mondiali di calcio 2010 direttamente dal cellulare

Seguire i mondiali di calcio 2010 direttamente dal cellulare: "

Mancano ormai pochi giorni al fischio d’inizio dei mondiali di calcio 2010 in Sud Africa e ovviamente tutti ci prepariamo a guardare le partite nel miglior modo possibile, in questo articolo vedremo come fare per seguire i risultati in diretta dei mondiali di calcio direttamente sul proprio smartphone o cellulare.



Se, oltre a guardare le partite in TV vogliamo essere aggiornati su tutti i risultati delle partite, allora è possibile scaricare varie applicazioni per il proprio smartphone o cellulare che consentono di fare ciò, vediamo quali sono le applicazioni per i vari smartphone:

iMundial Sudafrica 2010 per iPhone

Questa applicazione è disponibile per iPhone e iPod Touch gratuitamente e consente di avere i risultati di tutte le partite dei mondiali e non solo, è possibile avere informazioni sugli arbitri, curiosità e tante news.

AppMundial per Android

Applicazione molto simile a quella precedente, solo che questa volta si chiama AppMundial ed è disponibile per smartphone con sistema operativo Android gratuitamente. Anche in questo caso sarà possibile vedere i risultati delle partite in tempo reale, informazioni sui vari gruppi e tanto altro.

Goal Mobile per BlackBarry

Questa applicazione non è stata pensata per i mondiali di calcio 2010 ma sul calcio in generale ma, visto che i mondiali sono alle porte, verranno fornite informazioni anche su di esse e a breve sarà disponibile un livescore. L’applicazione è scaricabile gratuitamente per smartphone BlackBarry.

Nokia Gol per Nokia

Ottima applicazione gratuita per cellulari Nokia che consente di avere tutti i risultati in tempo reale sui mondiali in Sud Africa con informazioni sui goal, gli ammoniti e espulsi della partita, commenti e tanto altro.

Se qualcuno conoscesse altre applicazioni che consentono di seguire i mondiali di calcio 2010 dal cellulare può scriverle nei commenti, intanto spero che queste informazioni possano esservi utili.

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Make Your Own 3D Glasses in 10 Seconds

Make Your Own 3D Glasses in 10 Seconds: "

You’ll need a pair of 3D glasses with red and blue (to be more precise, cyan) lenses to watch any of the 3D videos that are available on YouTube or this pool of 3D images (anaglyphs) that’s on Flickr.

For instance, here’s a 3D clip from the popular Avatar movie that you’ll only enjoy if you have the right colored glasses.

Create 3-D Glasses at Home!

The basic 3D glasses are available for around 99¢ on eBay but if you want them right now, you can build your own using a spare CD jewel case and some permanent marker pens.

Just scribble the transparent side of the jewel case with red and blue marker pens* large enough to cover the width of your eyes. The blue (or cyan) color lens is for the right eye while the red color will cover the left eye.

Alternatively, you may use an existing pair of sun-glasses and replace the lenses with colored sheets of transparent plastic. Or pick an old pair of eyeglasses and fill the left and right lenses with red and blue permanent markers respectively.

I tried using water colors instead of permanent markers but that didn’t work. Same was the case with sketch pens so stick with permanent markers.

3D Glasses with CD Jewel Case

3D Glasses made from Sunglasses

Make Your Own 3D Glasses in 10 Seconds

Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.

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ADW.Launcher – Opensource home replacement

ADW.Launcher – Opensource home replacement: "

ADW.Launcher is the newest home replacement application on the block. The app is highly customizable with some really nice features.

Features:

• Opensource home replacement


• Customize app drawer


• Customize drag & drop action buttons


• Customize desktop previews

Download ADW.Launcher for free from the Android Market.

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