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Jelly Bean

By on Friday, June 29, 2012

Jelly beans are Jeanne’s favorite treat. And it could just be my favorite… mobile OS. Maybe :P Along with the Nexus 7 (and a host of others), Google has announced the latest version of Android: Jelly Bean. It’s an incremental update, carrying a version number of 4.1, but it offers a lot of updates:

  1. Project Butter has brought smoother and faster feeling user interface
  2. Improved notification center with expandable and actionable notifications
  3. Updated widget behavior
  4. Improved camera and gallery apps for easy photo snapping and sharing
  5. Improved keyboard behavior with with word prediction
  6. Added Accessibility options with support for external Braille input
  7. Enhanced Android Beam allowing transfer of photos and video
  8. Offline Voice recognition and typing
  9. Google Voice search is more intelligent than ever
  10. Updated Google Search user interface
  11. Google Now adds automatic information feeds to your device (weather, traffic, sports, etc)
  12. Bi-Directional text and additional language support
  13. Truly high-resolution contact photos
  14. USB audio output and HDMI multichannel audio output
  15. App encryption and Smart App updates

Source: GSMArena

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iTunes Store Is Now Open

By on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Apple has just opened up the iTunes store for South East Asia area (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam). Guess what songs I immediately got? Manic Monday and Friday I’m In Love for my iOS 6 alarms :P

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Nokia and WP8

By on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

So much for synergy. A few days ago, Microsoft announced WP8 to much self-generated fanfare and a bitter fact: You can’t upgrade older devices to WP7. Used to be that’s not so much of a problem. But iOS has shifted the customer expectation towards upgradeability being a necessity. The result: a lot of disappointment and a big drop in stock price for Nokia. For sure other WP7 device makers were also affected. And for sure they already have WP8 devices on the works. But Nokia had touted “special advantages” when it decided to partner with Microsoft. Don’t you just hate it when your strategic partner doesn’t strategize with you? Couldn’t Microsoft have handled it a little bit better? When Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich was announced, not all devices were expected to be able to run it. And even now adoption has been low. And yet that affair seemed better handled.

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Live Your Life

By on Tuesday, June 12, 2012

By Tecumseh

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view,
and demand that they respect yours.
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,
even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
Show respect to all people and grovel to none.
When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools
and robs the spirit of its vision.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled
with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep
and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

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