Dec 03
Google Play Music has officially arrived on Glass, so those ahead of the curve can now, um, listen t
Posted in: Today's ChiliGoogle Play Music has officially arrived on Glass, so those ahead of the curve can now, um, listen to music.
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Dec 03
This article was written on January 27, 2007 by CyberNet.
Weekend Warrior
Recently, I stumbled across Wayfaring, a visual map creation service that uses Google Maps. There are four main things that you can do with with Wayfaring. You’re able to create maps of your own, share those maps with friends and family, explore maps that others have made, and collaborate with others to build new maps. There’s an endless list of reasons you’d use it, such as places you’ve traveled to, favorite restaurants, favorite golf courses, mapping out clients, etc. I decided to create a map of my own, so I’ll take you through the process.
Pictured above is the map that I created. One of the first things you should know is that you can embed your map into blogs or other websites. Clicking on the map will take you to Wayfaring where you can get more details about each point. The first thing that you’ll do when creating a map is to select the general area on the map that you’ll be starting with. I was starting in Miami, Florida, so I selected that area. Next, you’re going to name your map which you can always change later. I titled mine Honeymoon Cruise’, and then it was time to start adding “waypoints,” or locations on my map.
I went on a cruise for my honeymoon, so I created Waypoints for each of the stops the ship made. With each waypoint, you’re also able to add notes, and tags to give more details. Another nice feature is that you’re able to add extra elements like photos and videos to give it a more personalized feel. After you’ve added all of your points, you can create a route and connect each point together to get the total mileage.
Once you’re done, you have the option of sharing the map with friends, or family by email, or of course as mentioned, by embedding it on your website. Maps can be set to private or public, and you can also set it so that others can edit them (this would be the collaboration portion).
The last thing that you might want to do with Wayfaring is to explore and find maps that others have created. They have the “Best of Wayfaring” where you can view some of the best maps that users have created. Another option is to search by specific key words, or view the most recent maps created.
One of the best maps I came across was a road trip that started on the East Coast and went all across the US to California with lots of stops in-between. They included pictures for some of the places that they came across. If you switch to the satellite option on the Google map, you could get a nice tour of some of the US landmarks.
That’s all that there’s really to it. Wayfaring a very simple, easy way to create maps for any reason you could think of!
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Dec 02
Google has let us know the latest breakdown of its Android mobile operating system statistics, and for the first time, Android 4.4 KitKat has appeared on the radar. In this month’s pie chart, the Android 4.4 KitKat market share makes its debut, but needless to say, it remain extremely small in nature – measuring all of just 1.1%. That is not surprising since Android 4.4 KitKat happens to be made available to an extremely limited number of handsets, including the Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, the Google Play edition phones and the Moto X.
As for the largest distribution of the Android version on the pie, it would be Android 4.1 to Android 4.3. Jelly Bean, where their combined total managed to touch a market share of 54.5%. This marks an increase of 2.4% in comparison to the previous month, while Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich saw a decline of 1.2% to touch 18.6% this month. Android 3.2 Honeycomb remained pretty much the same at just 0.1%, while Android 2.3 Gingerbread makes haste on its downward spiral, dropping to just 24.1% with no sign of it making a comeback – which is a good thing, of course, since it would signal that more and more folks have jumped onto newer versions of the Android operating system. When do you think Android 4.4 KitKat will be the dominant version? KitKat has been ported over before to older handsets, too.
KitKat Now Part Of Android Distribution Stats original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 02
In the past couple of months, we have heard the rumors of Google reportedly preparing some barges near the docks in which Google later admitted was theirs, and that it would be used to help the company demonstrate new products, such as Google Glass for example. It’s definitely a unique concept when it comes to retail space and given Apple’s dominance in retail, with numerous Apple retail outlets around the world, we suppose Google could use the upper hand, at least as far as inventiveness is concerned. However it seems that Google might be running into some legal hurdles with their barges. (more…)
Google’s Plans For Their Barges Could Run Into Some Legal Hurdles original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 02
In the beginning, the barge moored to Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay was thought to be a floating data center. Then it was supposed to be a floating high-end show room and party venue. Now we’re hearing that the mysterious Google barge is actually a floating retail center. It could even headline Google Glass. […]
Dec 02
As soon as tomorrow the folks behind VSCO Cam will be pushing the app to Android, this after many moons in Beta and quite a few more months on the likes of iOS. This app will bring top-notch editing abilities for photos for those Android users that want to get the very most out of […]
Dec 02
Ever wondered just how much richer we are all off thanks to Google’s Street View? In fact, it is less than a week ago when we brought you a story on how Google’s Street View would bring us to more than 65 airports and train stations, giving you a look at places that you might never step in throughout your entire life. Well, this time around, here we are with news of the first ever Google Street View of Santa’s Grotto.
As with other Street View adventures, this particular one would bring you on a very special virtual tour of one of Notcutts’ 18 UK garden centres into the Grotto, where you will also have the privilege of being greeted by Father Christmas. Notcutts believe that they are also the first to use Google Street Map technology so that just about anyone with a decent Internet connection will be able to check out the Santa Grotto. Never mind if you think that you are going to miss Santa this year, you will still be able to check him out in his Grotto right in front of your computer. Having said that, it will be far from being there in person. How do you like the Street View of Santa’s Grotto so far?
Santa’s Grotto Gets The Google Street View Treatment original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 02
The latest version of Android contains a baffling list of more than 1,400 English words that Google has quietly deemed inappropriate. Here’s a look some of the more bizarre examples that Google’s predictive algorithm has been instructed to ignore.
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Dec 01
So far there has been no official confirmation of when Nexus 10 2013 release is going to take place. The current Nexus 10 went out of stock on the Google Play Store back in October and it has not been restocked since then. This led to increased speculation that a successor is going to be announced soon, but so far nothing has been said about the next generation Nexus 10. As per the latest rumors circulating the internet, it is likely that Google might announce the tablet on Cyber Monday, which is tomorrow. Since there is no official confirmation, its best to take this rumor with a grain of salt.
Apparently Google is going to make the announcement on Cyber Monday because its hardware partner might be facing difficulties in production and to avoid the Black Friday and Thanksgiving shopping frenzy, the company has decided to make the announcement after the holiday weekend has passed. Previous rumors have suggested that perhaps ASUS has manufactured the Nexus 10, while it has also been rumored that Samsung might be manufacturing the Nexus 10 2013. Nothing is known for sure at this point in time. Though it wouldn’t come as a surprise if Google just announced the tablet through an official blog post, it did so for the Nexus 5 even when it was being speculated that Google will host a formal launch event for its next generation Nexus smartphone.
Nexus 10 2013 Release Expected On Cyber Monday original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 01
Google obviously wants Chrome web apps to do better, and it has made a number of changes recently which are geared towards increasing usage of such apps. The Chrome browser received in-app payments support, an app launcher as well as rich notifications and soon the browser might get another feature which would allow users to try Chrome web apps without needing to install them. The Chromium team has been working on “ephemeral” apps, basically apps that can be launched by just clicking on a hyperlink.
The way this feature would work is that the Chrome Web Store results will include a “Launch” button, clicking on which would launch said app without having to install it in the Chrome web browser. A launch prompt will be displayed if the app has any permission warnings, and if it does not, then the app would launch immediately. The links for ephemeral apps will only be shown on Google search results page, and users will be able to launch apps by just clicking on the hyperlinks. New features are initially tested out in the Chromium open source web browser project before they are rolled out in a stable Chrome build, and while its possible that the feature might never make the cut, it wouldn’t come as a surprise if it ultimately does.
Chrome Might Let Users Try Apps Without Having To Install Them original content from Ubergizmo. 
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