Yesterday, Facebook launched Facebook Places, its new location-sharing service. As a location-sharing service, Facebook as about as barebones as they come. The functionality is limited to checking in and sharing your location with your Facebook friends.
Most Android phones allow users to protect their phones from unauthorized access by drawing a pattern on their device’s touchscreens. According to a team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, however, these graphical passwords are actually extremely easy to crack, as “oily residues, or smudges, on the touch screen surface, are one side effect of touches from which frequently used patterns such as a graphical password might be inferred.”
During his keynote speech at QuakeCon 2010, id Software’s John Carmack demonstrated Rage on the iPhone, running at 60 frames-per-second and able to “kill anything done on the Xbox or PlayStation 2.” via id Unleashes Impressive Rage On The iPhone.
If you own an Android phone with the latest Android 2.2 Froyo update, you can now use your voice to control almost all of the most often used features of the phone. With Voice Actions for Android, users can use voice commands to perform actions like sending text messages (” “send text to Allison Miller Running late. I will be home around 9″), play specific songs from their music collection (“listen to the New Pornographers”), go to websites, send email, write a note, search Google and view a map and get directions.
tap tap tap ~ Camera+ second month sales: The Sophomore Software Slump? You just have to love how open these guys are about their sales figures.
Tweet Looks like Twitter is launching its own Tweet buttons later this week. While you can already embed the code (see below), not everybody can actually use the button to retweet the post yet. Just for the sake if it, I have embedded the code (courtesy of Mashable) here. I’m guessing we will see a…
Google just announced that it has stopped development of its real-time collaboration and communication platform Google Wave. Wave, according to Google’s Urs Holzle, “has not seen the user adoption [Google] would have liked.” The parts of the code that Google already offered as open source code will remain available, but Wave as a standalone product…
I used to think that location-based services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and all of their clones represented the next big thing in mobile. The reality, however, is that even though these companies are still growing (or at least say they are), I just can’t figure out why I should continue to check in when I…
Since its launch 2 years ago, Google Chrome always offered three different builds of its increasingly popular browser: stable, beta and developer. While regular users could always stay with the stable build, early adopters could opt for the beta and developer channel. The developer channel features weekly updates, while beta channel users only see and…
Google Earth now features local news-style weather animations for snow and rain drops.
To see this, open up the latest version of Google Earth, enable the weather layer and head for a place where it is currently raining or snowing.
Yesterday, TweetDeck’s Richard Barley announced a new beta version of the popular Twitter (and Buzz, LinkedIn and Facebook) client. In this new version, TweetDeck uses Twitter’s new streaming API to display tweets in real time. Until now, clients had to poll Twitter’s servers at regular intervals to update your searches and lists. Now, Twitter just…
Thoughts about online privacy aren’t keeping most Internet users awake, but here are some eye-popping stats in the form of a very cool infographic.
Facebook just launched its long-awaited question and answer product dubbed Facebook Answers. You can now ask your social network any question you feel like and get answers from your extended network
The Old Spice Man (“I’m on a horse”) is fielding questions from Internet users on Reddit today. Here are his answers. 1. Squidboots: If you were alone in the woods, and no one were around to smell you, would you smell as manly and awesome? 2. Chmown: How can I smell like fighting and space shuttles?…