Opera’s latest beta version for Mac users adds to the already crowded browser market for the Mac OS. This is of course not a new addition to the browser wars on Mac, it is just an update. And what an update it is. With 10.50, Opera turns into a native Cocoa app, much like the Camino browser I sometimes use. It is still using the Presto rendering engine as opposed to other popular options like Webkit. But the highlight of the release? It is speed! This thing is super fast.
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If there’s one thing that you have to love about iPhone apps, it is the creativity that some of them exude. You have really well-made interfaces to really well-made apps that really work the platform. However, there are some apps that work really great when it comes to doing certain basic things in our digital lives. Some organize your finances and some organize your music. Moodagent doesn’t necessarily organize anything and neither does it give you information. Instead, it builds playlists based on your mood and it does it really well.
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Scribd has been working on their bringing their services to mobile platforms like smartphones and e-readers. Scribd has already come a long way from being a mere host of user generated content like YouTube to being a platform for selling books. Of course, where larger companies are focussing all their energies on building relationships with the publishing industry bigwigs, Scribd is looking at the other demographic of content producers. These are people who cannot afford to publish their works the traditional ways. This is essentially ‘Etsy for writers’. You make ‘em and you sell ‘em yourself.
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Apple has been continuously banning apps with partial nudity or with content that is sexual in nature. Over the past few days, they have been busy purging the App Store of all of these apps, much to the dismay of their developers. And when you do something like this en mass, you are bound to be the target of many pointed questions. Apple usually issues extremely concise statements that basically give a vague reason followed by what can essentially be summed up as “….because we can and we want to.” This time however, Phil Schiller has attempted at explaining things. He has also failed at doing so in a satisfactory manner.
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Just like it happened with Google, Microsoft is now being rumored as working on their own phone. And this time too, by ‘their own phone’ all I mean is that Microsoft’s branding will be all over the phone and the hardware partner will be reduced to an OEM state. If the rumors are true and Asus is indeed that hardware partner, then it should be nothing new for Asus. Both HTC and Asus started out as OEM’s and then moved into making their own lines of hardware. The OEM company Pegatron is behind the Asus brand name.
MWC 2010 came and went and all we heard from Microsoft’s mobile division is their new mobile OS — Windows Phone 7 Series. What we did not hear anything about is the mysterious Project Pink. It is supposed to be Microsoft’s long term project to develop the next generation smartphone. Now that Apple has beaten them to the punch and Google has added to that injury, it is about time Microsoft did something about its flagging mobile OS presence.
Windows Phone 7 Series will surely change things for the better for Microsoft and it is surely off to a great start, judging by the glowing reviews it has been getting (including mine, I must add). So why would Microsoft want to make their own phone? Same reason Google did it — ultimate control over the end product. Ideally, the phone would be a showcase of everything that Windows Phone 7 is. It should be the perfect Microsoft experience. However, a cursory glance at the Nexus One will remind us that the ideal state of affairs does not exist.
Software companies are not adept at hardware design and development for obvious reasons. They lack both experience and the expertise required. Controlling a good hardware company is thus no guarantee that the results will be palatable. Google at least chose a knowledgeable partner. Microsoft in my opinion is making a blunder by choosing Asus — Pegatron does not make mobile phones. They have very little experience in it and Asus’s first phone has more or less bombed.
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Published on
February 18, 2010 in
Mobile Devices.
Tags: 2010, android, Bravo, Desire, htc, Qualcomm, Sense UI, Smarpthone, Snapdragon, WMC.
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Google might’ve commissioned HTC to build the Nexus One but they are surely going to be trumped by the Desire — the uber Nexus One to say the least. This is basically the Nexus One’s profile with some tweaks here and there and the Sense UI overlay — things that make a world of difference to the entire phone.
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HTC unveiled at WMC 2010 a phone that is arguably the best thing that ever happened to Android. It is called the HTC Legend and it is arguably the most beautiful and useful Android phone ever. It is an Android 2.1 phone running the HTC Sense UI. The body is made out of a single piece of aluminum, meaning it has the same manufacturing process as the unibody MacBooks.
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I personally never thought that Microsoft would be able to pull this of but hey, they did! They released at MWC the next generation of the Windows Experience on mobile phones — the Windows Phone 7 Series. The different name is exactly what it suggests — a clean break from the Windows Mobile legacy. I know a lot of you breathed a collective sigh of relief there. And it has been completely worthwhile — it is a gorgeous mobile OS that completes the triad of major computing players — Apple, Google and Microsoft.
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Bowtie is a fun little app for Mac users that lets you customize your iTunes playback experience. It is essentially an iTunes controller like Ecoute or CoverSutra. It allows you to enjoy and control your iTunes playback through customizable shortcuts and displays your album art as well. Not only that, it also sends your songs to Last.fm while marking the songs you love and the songs that you ban. Everything is extremely customizable in Bowtie and that is the main fun of it. It is extremely theme friendly and has numerous official and user made themes to choose from, making sure that it will completely suit your taste.
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