This week Google Reader says its final goodbye, sending itself off in a wave of suggestions for replacements from the news media. It would appear at first that groups like Feedly and Digg have taken early leads in the war of potential, but what else is out there to work with? And what bits and
This month is Pride month here in the United States, a time when Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered folks across the nation celebrate their existence in parties, parades, and events galore. Google has once again come forth with a little gem of an easter egg for the masses with a rainbow-flavored search bar surrounding all
Dolphin has done a pretty fine job when it comes to keeping its browser loaded with plenty of handy features, both on Android and iOS. Now, the Dolphin’s hit version 10 for Android, bringing along an array of things including a revamped user interface, drag-and-drop support for speed dials on the home screen, additional swipe-based gestures and a new store for web-based applications. In addition to all that, Dolphin brought back support for Adobe Flash, while also taking to this release to improve the built-in search options and allow users to dig through sites like Amazon, Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube right from within the app. The overhauled Dolphin browser is now available on Google Play, so give the source below a quick click if you’re eager to check out these changes.
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Via: Droid Life
Source: Google Play
This week the team at Kibits have launched “Collaborate.com”, a full mobile and web browser-based environment for teamwork, aiming to bring together groups of associates that aren’t always working in the same zip code. This platform works at launch on iPhone, iPod touch, Android, and inside web browsers and integrates the content of services such
The web browser Safari has been given an unforseen boost this week during WWDC 2013 from Apple in their presentation of OS X Mavericks. This system’s name comes from surfers down on the west coast – so too does the web surfing app at the head of Apple’s efforts make with the updates. Here with
Microsoft loves talking about its Internet Explorer 10 web browser, but who can blame them? This time around, however, the company was proud to proclaim that the new browser is the most energy efficient browser out of the bunch, according to the Center for Sustainable Energy Systems at Fraunhofer USA. Microsoft says that when compared
This afternoon Twitter has reported site issues in a very, very general way for the masses. This status update comes courtesy of Twitter’s Tumblr page, as it were, a publication whose engine is now owned by Yahoo. Twitter’s status appears at the moment to be affecting both mobile and web browser-based Twitter accounts.
The Twitter issue at hand appears to have been in effect for a bit under an hour at this point here at 4PM CST, with Twitter official only assuring the public that their engineers are currently working to resolve the issue. This update appeared a little over 30 minutes after the issue started to appear in social networks both inside and out of Twitter.
For those of you still having Twitter issues, there’s always support groups inside Google+ and Facebook. That said, Twitter is already appearing to start sending Tweets and appear both in and out of mobile web browsers for multiple operating systems, from our end. Reports continue to flow from both sides of the miniblog.
Let us know if you’re having site issues and we’ll let you know when Twitter gives the go-ahead. Until then: courage!
SOURCE: Twitter
Twitter is down with “site issues”, it’s not just you is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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This week the folks responsible for creating the Gmail environment for email on devices ranging from desktop all-in-ones down to the smallest smartphone have begun unrolling their previously announced “Categories” update. This version of Gmail allows users to employ a rather simple system for categorizing emails, most of this activated and sorted automatically where, in the past, all was based only on keywords and email addresses.
The Android version of this application will be appearing on the Google Play store today for some users, and rolling out to the rest soon for others. If you feel that you need the UI right this minute, you can hit up Android Community for an APK link – easy as pie. From there you’ll see what we’re seeing above and below.
Users will be able to activate this user interface on their desktop machines in web browsers in the upper right-hand corner of the Gmail homepage. Clicking the Gear icon will bring you into a list that has “configure inbox” in it – click it and see!
This update user interface does not make the Gmail experience any more difficult than it has been in the past, and is entirely optional. You’ll not need to separate emails into new categories like these if you’re not all about it, and in Android it’s only about making things just a bit more smooth.
The update should appear immediately after the “configure inbox” button is tapped – the Android user interface update may need a shut down and re-open cycling to happen before any changes can be seen.
Several built-in categories will appear in both your web browser (desktop) and mobile app Gmail environments. You can choose to use these or modify at will. Let us know which sections you’ll be pushing your correspondance into!
Android’s version has features such as one-tap emptying of the trash can and pull-down refresh – otherwise known as swipe down to refresh. This version of Gmail for Android goes by the name 4.5-694836, if you’d like to know, and it’ll be made official in the Google Play store sooner than later.
Gmail “categories” update hits Android and web with one-click activation is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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While the Google Search app brought the voice recognition and smart responses of the most recent update to the Google Search engine to iOS, this week it goes in-browser with Chrome as well. The Chrome web browser update comes in with natural voice recognition and searching without typing – sort of like what you get with Siri. Here voice recognition gets a boost, quicker recognition with text streaming as you chat, and responses spoken aloud.
Like what the Google Search app does on iOS, here Chrome offers the advanced system straight through the browser. This system also works with Google Now, showing results for weather, sports scores, and Google-provided connections to your social networking circles through Google+.
Version 27.0.1453.10 of Chrome was pushed today to all iOS users, both iPad and iPhone – and iPod touch, of course – and this update is entirely free, as always. Inside you’ll also find what Google touts as faster page reloading as well as stability and security improvements along with bug fixes galore. As with past updates to Chrome, this June 3, 2013 update will require a tap of the “update” button inside the App Store.
Google continues to make pushes into the iOS universe with their systems such as Google Now, Chrome, and soon Google Music, as well. This update is only the latest in a string of efforts to bring the innovations shown at Google I/O 2013 to both Android and Apple’s mobile operating system iOS.
Chrome iOS update brings chatty Google voice search is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Most everyone we know will play a browser-based game from time to time. While there are plenty to choose from, there are some from Google that are a bit more unique. These, while games, are actually experiments. To be specific, Google launches these games as Chrome Experiments. We got a look at one called World Wide Maze a few months back and Google was showing one called Racer during I/O.
As of today we have one that should be familiar to anyone that has spent time playing games in an arcade or at a carnival. The game is Skee-Ball, though Google has it listed as Roll It. Regardless of the name though, the concept is the same, you roll the balls down the lane launching them to the score buckets above. The unique part about this version is how you play. The game requires the use of a desktop browser and a mobile device.
The game play is pretty simple, using your mobile device you set the angle to roll the ball and then swing to roll the ball. The obvious bit about holding your device tightly should go without saying, but that was the warning just in case. While the game play is simple, so is the setup process. Taking a step back and looking at that, you begin by launching the Roll It experiment from the Chrome Experiments website. From this point Google will take you step by step, which is really nothing more than launching Chrome on your mobile device, surfing to a website and entering a code to pair with your computer.
Once at this point you can begin playing. While fun to play, we cannot imagine many spending all that much time using this. In our time playing the game ran nice and smooth, though it did have the fan on our MacBook Air screaming. Perhaps key though, Google uses these experiments to highlight the ease of use. That is to show how you can run these types of games with nothing to install and no real configuration of any kind.
In this case, the Roll It Chrome Experiment is showing off the following items; WebSockets, HTML5 Canvas, Three.js, Go,Google App Engine and Google Compute Engine. Otherwise, while the process to get up and running is rather simple, you can get a brief look at the process as well as the game play in the video sitting above.
SOURCE: Chrome Experiments
Chrome experiment Roll It brings Skee Ball to the browser is written by Robert Nelson & originally posted on SlashGear.
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