iPhone 4 Hits Stores but White
Saturday, April 30, 2011
5 iPhone Apps lets you do move with Evernote
Did you ever notice how the most popular apps & platforms have lots of additional add-ons and extensions that were created for them? Evernote is no different. In this article, I’ll show you a few of the simple applications that will help you do even more with Evernote.
1. Read It Later
While it’s easy to copy text from a website to read later in Evernote, Read It Later makes this process even easier.
Read It Later gives you an easy way to copy text from a website to read later in Evernote. The service’s bookmarklet makes reproducing the contents of a webpage simple with just the click of a button, and the iOS app comes with Evernote integration built-in. What’s good about that is it allows you to take your archive of pages on the go.
I also recommend you check out Instapaper, another great app that functions a lot like Read It Later.
2. FastFinga
Livescribe smartpens are great because they keep a digital record of the things that you write and draw with them, but if you don’t have one, FastFinga could function as a suitable replacement. This iOS app lets you write your messages by hand on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.
You can link up your Evernote account and store the messages you’ve written there. The service’s handwriting recognition will transform what you’ve written into searchable text, which is really cool if you ask me.
3. Twipple
Twipple isn’t the most well-known or widely used Twitter client for iOS devices that’s out there, but it integrates with Evernote really well. With Twipple, your tweets can be saved to notebooks and tagged, allowing you to refer back to them later. This is especially useful considering Twitter Search only displays tweets for up to 2 weeks.
4. Twitter: @myEN
Okay, this isn’t an app as such, but I felt I had to include it here because it is very handy. @myEN, which Mark covered a while back, is a Twitter account that lets you save tweets straight into Evernote. Using this service is simple. All you have to do is follow @myEN on Twitter and you will be direct messaged a link that will let you link up your Twitter and Evernote accounts. Afterwards, just add @myEN to the end of the tweets you would like to save.
5. Voice2Note
Evernote already allows you to record voice notes, but they aren’t searchable and you have no cut and paste functionality. With Voice2Note, however, you can convert audio notes into text to make them easily searchable. Simply connect your Evernote account and the first 30 seconds of your notes will be transcribed.
Conclusion
If you aren’t a fan of Evernote but you like the idea of a web clipping utility, be sure to check out Saikat’s article on the 5 best Evernote alternatives.What are some of your favorite Evernote add-ons?
Friday, April 29, 2011
Nokia 6700 Slide Colorful Smartphone
Today Nokia unveiled its new mid range 3G slider phone by the name Nokia 6700 slide. This new mobile phone is made for design curious customers and comes with six fresh colors. This cell phone has a compact size and its aluminum finish feels fantastic in hand. Because of its size and design this gadget can easily fit into your jeans pocket. This new device runs on Symbian OS v9.3, S60 rel. 3.2 and is packed with a 5 mega pixel Carl Zeiss optics camera with auto focus and LED flash allowing you to capture and share moments as they happen. Your pictures can be edited on the go and uploaded to the web directly from the camera menu. The 6700 Slide supports up to 16GB and comes with a 2GB card in the standard sales package.For connectivity in this handset with pc or other mobile phone there is Bluetooth v2.1 and USB v2.0. The Nokia 6700 slide can give its best battery time of 300 hours on standby and 4 hours of talk time and music play back of 29 hours. And as for the entertainment in this device there is a FM radio and music player, which won’t let you to get bored. The Nokia 6700 slide is available with the price around 160 Euros.
The Nokia 6700 cell phone features include a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, a 2.2-inch screen display, supports HSDPA and HSUPA, Symbian S60, FM radio, bluetooth 2.1, music player, a 2GB MicroSD card in the box, aluminium frame, also boasts over 12 days standby and four hours talktime. The Nokia 6700 is compact size, modern design and aluminum finish feels great in the hand, it looks and colored a little like 4th gen iPod Nano. The Nokia 6700 will be available in Q1 2010.Nokia's dogged commitment to producing a wide range of handsets for a wide range of budgets and types of interest continues with the 6700 Slide.The slider format is one that has slipped in popularity with the rise of large screened handsets of varying degrees of smartphone capability. But it is a format that still has lots of fans.
Sliders tend to be small, their number pads are hidden away until needed, and you can perform lots of activities without bothering to slip them out of their hiding place behind the front facia.
Quick, easy, one-click access to features via buttons rather than a touchscreen are the order of the day.
The Nokia 6700 slide doesn’t have to do much to get recognised, coming as it does in six stunning colours. It’s not short on features either and with social networking and 3G at its heart, this is one very connected device. The aluminium frame and 2.2-inch screen round off quite a tasty package.Aluminium, pink, petrol-blue, red, lime and purple are the colour choices on offer for the Nokia 6700 slide, each more striking than the last. Pictures are well catered for with a five megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash and a dedicated camera button.
HSDPA and HSUPA will keep users well connected whilst 29 hours of audio playback will be music to headphone fans’ ears (the 6700 also boasts over 12 days standby and four hours talktime). On board FM radio and music player will help to keep the beats alive. Based on S60, the 6700 slide also makes it easy to share pics and make the most of social networks whilst editing and uploading shots is a breeze.
Expected to land in the first quarter of 2010, the 6700 is estimated to retail for €160 before taxes and subsidies.
Enough from us, check out the 6700 in all its glory below.
Nokia 6700 photo
Nokia 6700 green model
Nokia 6700 all colors
Nokia 6700 bule phone
Nokia 6700 diffrent colors phobne
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Free Android apps outnumbered Free iPhone apps
Good news for Android users who hate paying for stuff: according to new numbers from Netherlands-based mobile analytics group Distimo,
there are now more free apps available for Google's mobile OS than the iPhone, at 134,342 to 121,845. There are a few things to consider here: first, when one adds free iPad-only apps, the total number of gratis iOS apps increases to a more competitive 132,239. And then there's Apple's sometimes rigorous vetting process, which has probably played a role in its numeric slippage -- after all, this report doesn't highlight things like legality, repetition, or the overall number of apps dedicated to making farting noises. Also, Apple has a lot more premium apps, giving it the overall lead at 333,124 to 206,143 -- but between Android's rapid growth and what the report terms iOS's relative stagnation, Distimo expects Google to take the top spot in five months' time, outnumbering iPhone and iPad apps combined -- a rough scenario for Cupertino to stomach, no doubt, but at least the company will still have Windows Phone to kick around a while longer. [Source link requires registration]
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Google Talk for Android Phones Gets Video Chat
Thas been integrated into iOS for the last year. Today, that’s starting to change.
Google is currently rolling out an update to Nexus S devices that adds voice and video chat to Google Talk, which is included as part of the core set of Google applications that come pre-installed on many Android devices. The feature will work on both Wi-Fi and 3G/4G wireless networks, and allows calls between phones, tablets, and any computer with Gmail and Google Talk enabled.
The update is gradually rolling out over the air (a process that usually takes a couple of weeks), and it also includes numerous bug fixes. The Nexus One will be getting an update as well, but it won’t include the video chat support (it doesn’t have a front-facing camera, though it would have been nice to have a voice-only feature for VoIP calls).
We should note that the tablet version of Android, Honeycomb, has actually offered video chat in Google Talk since it launched, but this is the first time it’s been available on phones. Google says that the feature will roll out to more Android 2.3+ phones in the future.
Is Reddit Eclipsing Digg in Traffic?
In fact, according to two of these sources, Reddit is already the larger web property in terms of page views and visits.
For the first time ever Thursday, Alexa showed Digg’s reach being eclipsed by Reddit. According to the online ranking service,
Reddit is now the 117th most popular site on the web, while Digg has fallen to 138th.
To quote a famous animated bird, “I’m think I’m going to have a heart attack and die of not-surprise.”
Digg has been waning in every sense — staff, effect on the wider community of content creators, traffic — for quite some time. In fact, we can pinpoint the start of Digg’s serious troubles: the user-led revolt against the “New Digg”.
Simultaneously, Reddit was showing signs of significant growth. In fact, the site claimed it passed a billion page views per month this February.
Let’s take a look at the stats from a few sources. While their methods differ, most of these numbers tell the same basic story. Digg is trending downward, while Reddit is still on the rise.
Here’s a look at both unique visitors and site visits from Quantcast:
Finally, we have data from Alexa showing reach and pageviews from the past six months (where you can see the trend gaining momentum) and the past seven days:
[Article from Mashable]
Blackberry OS 6 Video leaked!
Stephen Elop: Nokia won't build just another tablet
Apple has a tablet. So does RIM. HP Palm too, soon enough. And Android tablets, particularly those running Honeycomb... they're everywhere -- hell, even Sony has a few on the way. That leaves Nokia as the glaring anomaly conspicuously absent from the tablet wars. Understandable, we guess, given the company's urgent need to transition its smartphone strategy to Windows Phone. That doesn't mean the company is standing still though. According to an interview with YLE television in Finland, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is taking a very calculated approach to tablets,
saying, "We could take advantage of Microsoft technology and software, and build a Windows-oriented tablet, or we could do things with some of the other software assets that we have. Our team right now is assessing what's the right tablet strategy for Nokia." In other words, Nokia is investigating tablets running Windows 7 (doubtful), MeeGo (doubtful), and Windows Next, aka that tablet-friendly Windows 8 OS (likely). But here's the most illuminating exchange from the well-mannered Canadian:
Makes sense to us and echoes what we've heard about Sony's relatively delayed entry into consumer tablets. Why should Nokia build another me-too tablet when it can tap into the combined Microsoft / Nokia ecosystem and make a grab at some real market share and profit? The entire 20 minute interview is interesting as Elop discusses layoffs, the first Nokia Windows Phone, Symbian, and competing against Apple and Google. Hit the source link for the full deal -- the tablet discussion begins at 10 minutes and 32 seconds.There are now over 200 different tablets on the marketplace, only one of them is doing really well. And, my challenge to the team is I don't wanna be the 201st tablet on the market that you can't tell from all of the others. We have to take a uniquely Nokia prospective and so the teams are working very hard on something that would be differentiating relative to everything else that's going on in the market.
Q. So you're not in a hurry?
We're always in a hurry to do the right things, but we're mostly in a hurry to do the right thing.
[Thanks, Pauli N.]
By Thomas Ricker
Chrome OS machines leaked in bug reports: Acer netbook and touch-friendly Seaboard
we can also safely assume that the ZGB will be running the web-only OS on an Atom processor. That's where the details end for now but, hey, it's better than nothing.
The other device, Seaboard, has been floating around the Chrome OS flaw depot for some time, but reports are finally starting to reveal some tantalizing details. We now know that it is powered by a Tegra 2 and sports a touchscreen -- the perfect place to test out those finger-friendly tweaks we've heard so much about. There are also mentions of a "lid switch" and a physical keyboard, indicating it may be a convertible or something in the vein of the Eee Pad Slider rather than a pure slate. The hybrid form factor would make perfect sense since it will house a pair of USB ports and an HDMI jack, which could make for a rather chunky tablet. Obviously, neither of these devices are confirmed yet (and Seaboard is most likely being used for internal testing only) but at least we've got a better idea of what to expect when the browser-based OS comes to consumers later this year.
Is iCloud gonna be Apple's own music streaming service?
Okay, so if you had to guess a name for an Apple service that exists in the cloud it's pretty safe to say you'd pick "iCloud," right? Good, now that we're past the obvious, there are some slightly more compelling indicators out there
that this may indeed be what Apple is going to call its (presumably) soon-to-launch music streaming service. We received anonymous tips about this name in the past, and now Om Malik is reporting some interesting history, that the domain iCloud.com is owned by a company called Xcerion, which recently re-branded its cloud-based storage service from iCloud to CloudMe. TechCrunch reached out to the company and got a beautifully-worded non-denial talking about how the new name better embraces the company's cross-platform approach. That it does, but the timing is interesting. Obviously nothing is confirmed, but with Warner and at least one other of the big four record labels signed on, we'd guess the real name for this service should be drifting into view any time now.
sourceGiga Om, TechCrunch
First Look on Sony S1 and S2 PlayStation Tablets based on Android
Today I had my first look at the 2 new Sony Tablets!
Google Docs for Android now available
Google Doc 's has previously only been available in a web-based version for Android users. Now,Google finally released an app for the service.
The app is not fully complete, and the promisedOCR function does nothing further. The fact that Google not received an Android application for Google Docs only now is the right label, but now they have finally released the first version of the app for the system.
The app can both create new documents and view and edit existingdocuments . The latter is done not through the app itself but by the app will open up a browser window on your mobile.
An exciting feature of the app is the ability to take pictures with theircamera phone to text documents , which Google then converts to editable text. By clicking on the icon with a plus on the top right of the app brings up a menu where you can choose to create a new text document,spreadsheet or a document from a photo .
If you choose the latter, Google Docs automatically if there is text in the picture taking and putting it together with the image of the document you create.
I regret to say that the feature does not work very well when I tested it. The test phone was a Samsung S Galaxy , which under good lighting conditions have a really sharp camera and the text I was driving at was the classic Lorem Ipsum-chant.
The conditions for the OCR function to work under should therefore have been almost ideal, yet the result was not better than what the above screenshot shows. A sharp image in spite of Google Docs might, only converting a few sentences in the image into text. Hopefully Google will improve function in the future.
Despite the limping OCR functionality is Google's Android app for its Docs service anyway, overall functioning and the editing is done in a browser window instead of in the app is not something that you honestly feel that much of.
In the list of documents you can in a simple way to rename the documents and change how we share them with other users. One can also easily search through their records in the app and adding it as a widget, you get quick access to program various functions directly on the desktop on the phone.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Hootsuite new features, including .li short URL
Owl.li and htl.li are 2 new options offered by HootSuite for URL shortening. Hailing from Liechtenstein, the new domains work the same way as the other HootSuite URL shorteners, Ow.ly and Ht.ly, by tracking clicks for statistical analysis, and both include the social bar.
Users can go try out the new .li shorteners by heading to their HootSuite accounts and doing the following:
- Choose on-the-fly via the pull down menu under the compose window
- Set as your default choice by choosing Settings, then Preferences, then selecting in URL Prefs tab
- Customize your feeds with chosen domain when adding an RSS/Atom URL
The company also offers additional information on how its use of the .ly domain works on its website.
Despite having some downtime as a result of the Amazon EC2 outage, the HootSuite team has had a very busy week, adding Spanish language support as well as the new URL shorteners. Plus, HootSuite has offered all of its users compensation for the downtime, which is something not many organizations have done.
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