Archive for August, 2010
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Palm introduced webOS 2.0, the next generation web-based operating system! We’ve got lots of new and updated
features to make your apps more powerful and flexible. New features include:
- Stacks – grouping related cards in stacks, reducing clutter, and making it even easier to move quickly between task
- Quick Actions – Start an email, create a message, update your status, search your favorite websites—all without having to launch an app
- Apps can have custom Touchstone at-a-glance views with Exhibition
- Synergy is opening up to developers
- HTML5 and Javascript support is much improved
- Hybrid PDK/SDK apps will be fully supported
webOS 2.0 SDK Beta
Tags: celluar, developer, palm, phone, pre, release, sdk, smartphone, webos
Posted in News, Palm, Software, webOS | 1 Comment »
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Lightroom 3.2 is now available as final releases on Adobe.com.
Adobe Lightroom 3
The version 3.2 update includes these enhancements:
- Direct publishing to Facebook and SmugMug is now available
- Tethered capture now supports the Leica S2
- Fixed authentication issues that could be experienced with the Facebook publish collection
- Adressed performance issues that could occur while reviewing images in Loupe view
- Corrected several Adobe Photoshop Elements upgrade issues
- Corrected a file renaming bug involving date or time fields
- Export with watermark will now function correctly when choosing the Limit File Size option
- Additional camera support for several new camera models including the Panasonic DMC-LX5, Sony NEX-5 and Canon EOS 60D and over 120 new lens profiles
Tags: Adobe, catalog, editing, images, lightroom, photography, photoshop, raw, Software, tool, utility, version, video, workflow
Posted in Adobe, Internet, Software | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Google Voice has become a part of Gmail. You’ll need to install the Google voice and video chat plug-in. Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free. International calling rates are available here. Dialing a phone number works just like a normal phone. Just click “Call phone” at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact’s name.
Google Voice in Gmail
Tags: call, chat, contact, dial, free, gmail, Google, Internet, number, phone, voice, voip
Posted in Google, Internet, News | No Comments »
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Microsoft will hold a gala in San Francisco on September 15th to celebrate “The Beauty of the Web”, official launch of IE9 Beta.
Tags: beta, browser, celebrate, explorer, gala, ie9, Internet, launch, microsoft, new, san francisco, version, web
Posted in Internet, News, Software | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 9th, 2010
For a while I was not able to use GPS hardware on my Palm Pre+. Some people suggested that it might be crippled by Verizon since they want to sell subscriptions for their GPS software – Verizon Navigator. I read reports claiming that when you start Navigator first, GPS working in other apps auto-magically. This thing was probably inspiration for writing a small app called GPS Fix. GPS Fix is designed to wake your GPS, then keep it alive by continually pinging it at a set interval. I got following recipe to make possible to use SmartRunner to track my cycling rides.
- Start GPS Fix and enable it
- Call Verizon Navigator from GPS Fix and wait until it will ask you to purchase this app.
- Start SmartRunner.
- Wait. I figured out that it takes a while to sync with satellites. Unlike my PhotoTrackr device it cannot really sync when I am moving. That was always problem cause I am used to start and let it sync while I am riding. This is not working with GPS hardware from Pre+. Once you are synced you can start tracking in SmartRunner and GPS Fix will keep pinging hardware to make sure it will be running.
Tags: 3g, carrier, celluar, digital, fix, geolocation, gps, navigation, phone, pre, receptionpalm, service, smartphone, verizon, webos, zero
Posted in Cummute, Cycling, Fitness, GPS, Palm, webOS | 1 Comment »
Sunday, August 8th, 2010
I found a test page that will check your browser compliance with HTML 5 standard. I am using mostly Firefox at work and at home. I quickly run tests for 3 different browsers on my Mac and it seems like FF is not a champion of HTML 5.
1) Firefox 3.6.8 – scored 139/300 mostly because it has 0 or 1 in 6 categories: Parsing Rules,Local Devices, Elements, Forms, Microdata, WebGL
2) Safari 5.0.1 – scored 208/300. Still 5 categories were not covered.
3) Chrome 6.0.472.25 – is a winner with score 217/300. It looks like 4 categories are not yet implemented.
It seems like all browsers fully support Canvas, Geolocation and Workers. Safari and Chrome got almost 100% in Audio and Video categories, each one got one codec missing. Safari got best support for Forms and Web Applications but is totally behind in Files category.
Tags: audio, benchmark., browser, chrome, codec, comparison, evaluation, features, firefox, HTML5, Internet, number, safari, score, standard, support, test, video, www
Posted in Internet, News | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
I moved from Cupertino to Mountain View and my daily commute has been reduced by few miles. It used to be 9 miles one way. Now it is only 3.6 miles if I go straight so I have to find longer route. Unfortunately part of it is now resurfaced so I am taking short way to work and back.
Work to Home
Tags: alternative, bicyclist, bike, biking, car-free, commmute, cycling, cyclist, daily, fitness, gps, gpx, heatlth, transit, transportation, travel
Posted in Cycling, Fitness, GPS, Health | 1 Comment »
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Overall worst month of the year. SS recovered a little from disaster last month but average performance of others was not good enough to make better numbers. For a second month SXP got results from ThinkStock and it way below it used to be before IStock acquired it. I guess it is a middle of summer slow down.
Jul Jul/Jun
SS 55.31% 138.68%
123RF 17.26% 49.43%
DT 9.46% 104.06%
IS 6.91% 57.76%
FT 6.74% 129.41%
SXP 2.19% 316.67%
CSP 1.08% 391.67%
BS 0.46% 18.18%
CS 0.58% 500.00%
95.52%
JUL 2010 Microstock
JUL 2010 Microstock Trend
Tags: breakdown, Dreamstime, earnings, Fotolia, images, iStockphoto, may, microstock, photography, results, selling, shutterstock
Posted in 123RF, Dreamstime, Fotolia, Internet, iStockphoto, News, Photo, Shutterstock, Stock | 1 Comment »
