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So, it works as such. You dig up ancient photos — a few generations prior, or even a few decades ago — scan ’em in, and tag them to their rightful place on Google Maps. Then, folks who visit the ‘What Was Here’ project website or download the iOS app (all linked below) will be able to see what kind of world they’d be living in if Uncle Rico’s time machine actually worked. ‘Course, the initiative needs you, you and you to participate if it’s to be dubbed a success, so we’d recommend using whatever’s left of your weekend to contribute. And then send your mum a “thinking of you” letter using the very map you’re improving. Who said retro had to be retro, anyway?

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This article was written on May 29, 2008 by CyberNet.

For Mac users, Apple has released the update, Mac OS X 10.5.3. You’ve probably already seen the update available for download in the Software Update, but you may not be aware of what this new update does. One of the biggest things, of course, is that it includes some general operating system fixes which you can read all about here. There’s a pretty long list of minor changes that were made all across the operating system. A new feature though, is the option to sync your Google Contacts with the Address Book Application (our review here).

The Official Google Mac Blog points out this feature and explains how you do it. They recommend that before you get started, you back-up your Google Contacts as well as your Address Book. Once you’ve got that done, just open up Address Book, then Preferences, and then you’ll see the option to “Synchronize with Google” (right below Synchronize with Yahoo).

If you just followed those steps and you don’t see the option, it’s probably because you have never hooked up an iPhone or iPod Touch to your computer. See, Apple made a small mistake here and the only way the option will appear is if you’ve hooked up the previously mentioned devices. Of course not everybody that has a Mac owns an iPhone or iPod Touch, and so what are they to do? Thankfully there’s already a solution which Lifehacker writes about here. It sounds simple enough and should only take a few minutes.

Both Ryan and I installed this update without any issues (it’s a big one, 420 MB) but not everybody was so fortunate. Blogger jkOnTheRun wrote a post saying that the update crashed his MacBook Pro. He says, “It downloaded and installed fine, indicated it was “patching files,” and then never would boot up again.” The problem he had is the only problem I’ve seen mentioned around the Blogosphere regarding this update, so I’m sure you should be able to update without a hitch too. As a precaution though, be sure to back-up your files as Apple recommends you do anyways.

Thanks to Omar and Nimrodguy for the tips!

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Parrot has been teasing us with its Asteroid head unit for quite some time now, first showing it off at CES way back in January. It’s finally coming to the US in October and we got a chance to try it out in Frankfurt. This Android-powered unit fits into a DIN slot in your car — easily replacing many standard car stereos (and some non-standard ones too). It comes with a flurry of cables that includes a GPS receiver (which can be stuck somewhere outside the car to get better reception) and inputs for USB, 3.5mm audio, and even an iDevice.

Through these you can pull tunes from just about anything to play on there, but if you tether the device with a phone to provide connectivity (or plug in a USB modem, or connect over WiFi) you can stream music directly on it. It also offers Google Navigation, including traffic and all the niceties you’ve come to expect from your smartphone — but on an admittedly tiny (3.2-inch) screen. Connect a music device over USB and it’ll index the contents via GraceNote, letting you speak any artist, album, or song to play it directly. The Asteroid ships to the US in October for $349. If you have room for a little more Android in your life, maybe it’s time to make a little more room in your dash.

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This article was written on June 10, 2008 by CyberNet.

For those of you who tend to save documents as PDF’s frequently, you may be interested to know that it looks as though Google is planning to add a PDF service to their collection of online office applications. Currently they offer Google Docs, Spreadsheets, and Presentations, so a PDF service would fit in nicely.

So far Google has yet to make any official announcement or confirm the suspicions, however there are a couple of clues that tell us it’s coming. First, as Google Operating System points out, a PDF icon can be seen if you go to this link. Additionally, if you go to http://docs.google.com/#pdfs, you’ll get a message saying there are No PDFs as shown in the image below. This has to mean they are preparing for them.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could edit your PDF’s right from Google Docs and store them there as well? It would also be nice if they would allow users to upload documents to be converted into PDF’s. They already have the technology to do it since they allow you to save a Google Docs document as a PDF already. If they allowed something like this to their users, they’d be ahead of Adobe with their Acrobat.com. Adobe allows you to upload documents to be converted into PDF’s but they limit you to only five which is disappointing.

If Google adds PDF support, there will be a lot of happy campers out there!

Source: Google Operating System

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