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arainert:

Remote presence via networked devices was so big at ITP 8 yrs ago. Cool to see widely available consumer tech finally get there. (via Feel Me App Turns Texting Into Touching | Co.Design: business innovation design)

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In this screencast we provide the progress of week 4 of our 3 Month Chromebook Challenge. This week we performed some massively multiplayer online game (MMO / MMOG) action on a Chromebook instead of just playing addictive causal games like Angry Birds.

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In this screencast we provide the progress of week 3 of our 3 Month Chromebook Challenge. Sure, a lot of office tasks can be performed in Google Docs instead of Office, iWork, or OpenOffice but we explore setting up hot keys to eliminate repetitive tasks while programming and video conferencing on a Chromebook.

stuck-up-japaneseeggroll:

This Is How It Be ! Technology Has Officially Took Over ! #Crazy

Sexiest Women in Technology

A Pinterest board of my Top Sexiest Women in Technology of All Time.

brianduprix:

Finally: BlackBerry App World gains ‘upgrade all’ command, from Engadget http://engt.co/MpqIsO

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Created this Private Circle in hopes of Screen casting through Google+ Hangouts and having the video automatically uploaded to my YouTube Channel. This is kind of a experiment for my 3 month long “Google Chromebook Challenge”.

Basically a challenge to do everything I would normally do on a typical computer using only my Google Chromebook Cloud computer. Nothing but Web!

Google Circle of 1, hanging out by myself - how sad:(

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In this screencast we provide the progress of week 2 of our 3 Month Chromebook Challenge. While some users that live completely in the cloud can get by with YouTube on they’re Chomebook we explore ways of getting Multimedia for all of our TV shows, music, and movies this week.

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In this screencast we initiate a 3 Month challenge to use only a Google Chromebook to complete EVERY daily computing tasks and share each weeks progress. In week 1, just getting a Chromebook to produce our screencasts will be the first road block.

cnet:

Media streaming standoff: Roku vs. Apple TV vs. Nexus Q!

Google’s Nexus Q is the newest kid on the streaming block. CNET puts it head-to-head our favorite tried-and-true stalwarts, the Apple TV and the Roku.

No matter who wins, traditional cable loses.

theatlantic:

Finally, You Can Have a QR Code On Your Headstone

theatlantic:

Facebook Rolls Out New Icons for Same-Sex Marriages

Mazel tov! If you are married to your same-sex partner, and share these types of things on Facebook, no more second-class iconography for you. Facebook has rolled out little icons — in, of course, that distinct Facebook-blue — that will appear in timelines to mark the weddings of same-sex couples.

Read more. [Image: Facebook]

thenextweb:

(via A graveyard of cancelled Google products, collected on Pinterest by a helpful Microsoft employee - The Next Web)

thisistheverge:

The Windows logo is evolving backwards

crystalsgonzalez:

Olivia Munn is my recent absolute favorite woman in entertainment and technology. We both agree on having gadgets in our bedrooms.

Now that I sleep alone, my MacBook, BlackBerry, and Nikon D90 are ALWAYS in bed with me.

all-thingsawesome:

The USB Watch is a simple way of carrying your memory stick in style. A 10-minute romp with the computer charges it enough to tell you the correct time for a week. What’s more, every time you hook it up it syncs in automatically with the computer’s time. The LED display shows you the current memory status at the touch of a button. I think it’s a clever integration of functionality and utility.

Designers: Yoon-jin Gon, Yoon-tae Myoung & Kim Sung Hun

eatlessworkmore:

I hate when people do this.

sadowa:

A Nexus 7 shown at the Google Developers Conference on June 27 in San Francisco, California. The tablet will go on sale next month for $199 and will run on the latest Android Jelly Bean OS.

Photo by Mathew Sumner/Getty Images.

Steve Jobs Was Wrong

Google’s new Nexus 7 proves smaller tablets aren’t completely worthless.

In the fall of 2010, Steve Jobs made an unusual appearance on an Apple earnings call. He’d come to rant. The CEO had prepared a nine-minute broadside against Android, Google’s mobile operating system, and all of the Android tablets that were being rushed into production to take on the iPad. Many of those devices carried 7-inch screens, making them substantially smaller than the iPad, whose display is nearly 10 inches diagonally.

Jobs thought 7-inch tablets were too small. Apple’s user testing had revealed that “there are clear limits of how close you can physically place elements on a touchscreen before users cannot reliably tap, flick, or pinch them,” Jobs said. As a result, these tiny tablets would need to be sold with sandpaper, he predicted, “so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one-quarter of their present size.” He wasn’t finished: Because most tablet owners also have a smartphone, people would find that these tiny tablets didn’t offer anything they couldn’t do on their phones. “The 7-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad,” Jobs said. As a result, they “are going to be DOA.”

And for a long while, he was right. Manufacturers built 7-inch tablets because shrinking the display allowed them to cut costs enough to compete with the iPad on price. And, just as Jobs predicted, the small screen was a usability nightmare—you’d try to tap one thing and end up tapping another. This didn’t have to be so. After all, you don’t make all that many tap errors on even tinier smartphone screens. But because of cheap hardware and bad software, many 7-inch tablets—including the BlackBerry PlayBook and the Dell Streak 7—totally sucked. Last year, Amazon attempted to change all that with its own 7-inch tablet, the Kindle Fire. That device was just as buggy as every other small tablet, but many people (myself included) argued that it made up for its problems with one overriding advantage: At $199, it was super-cheap. I believed the Fire was 70 percent as good as an iPad. Since it was only 40 percent of the iPad’s price, I thought it was a great deal.

Now Google has done Amazon one better. The search company worked with the hardware maker Asus to create a super-cheap 7-inch tablet thatisn’t buggy. In fact, the new tablet, called Nexus 7, is pretty fun. Over the last couple days, I’ve managed to use it for pretty much everything I do on my iPad: watching movies, reading books, browsing the Web, scanning email and Twitter, looking at photos, and playing games. For the most part, I found the experience quite pleasant.

Sure, it’s not perfect. The Nexus 7 runs Google’s latest version of Android, which I continue to find a bit cluttered and challenging for novices. It’s also not nearly as fast as the iPad. It takes longer to load up Web pages, and you can’t scroll or zoom as fluidly as on Apple’s tablet. Its screen resolution, while perfectly satisfactory, isn’t anywhere near as dreamy as Apple’s Retina display. Plus, there aren’t as many tablet-optimized apps available for the Nexus 7 as you’ll find on the iPad.

But these are all quibbles. The Nexus 7 proves Steve Jobs was wrong. 

brianduprix:

PSA: Samsung Galaxy S III now available in Sprint stores, from Engadget http://engt.co/LddNzo

Thinking of getting this smartphone