Do you still remember the iPad + Velcro video? Here. After thousands people watched it, Apple decided to post on their own website, you can find here.
iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.
The Google Android development team have announced the release of the source code for version 2.2 of their open source Android mobile operating system on Twitter, code named “Froyo“. Originally announced at this year’s Google I/O developer conference, Froyo is the seventh platform release since 1.0 and the next major update for Google’s mobile OS. Compared to the previous 2.1 update, code named “Eclair”, from early January of this year, the latest release includes a number of changes, improvements and new features.
Skype has released SkypeKit, a collection of software and APIs that allows Internet-connected devices or applications to offer Skype voice and video calls. SkypeKit is designed to work with a wide variety of chip sets, operating systems, and audio/video devices.
SkypeKit lets connected devices get Plugged into Skype. At the moment, SkypeKit is available in a beta version for Linux systems. Those who have a Skype account can request an invitation to take part in the program. In its questions and answers blog post, Skype says that membership will cost less than $20 (approximately £13).
{ Link: Skype Developer }
People are used to use Facebook as their free online album, which has features like free storage space, notification, and the most essential one privacy control, but there still something miss here, one of them is [zip album and download]. Here is Pick&Zip‘s aim.
Pick&Zip is a totally free online tool that will allow you downloading pictures from Facebook in a single zip or pdf file.
- Choose a contact
- Browse tagged and album pictures
- Add pictures to selection
- Download!
To start using Pick&Zip, you need to login to your Facebook account.
{ Link: http://picknzip.com/ }
Notational Velocity is a simple but surprisingly powerful notebook application.
Notational Velocity does save notes, either in ASCII, RTF, or HTML, but with the latest version, Notational Velocity syncs with Simplenote or WriteRoom for iPhone. It also easily syncs via Dropbox if you follow the important configuration notes here.
It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. The solution is by nature nonconformist.
Notational Velocity isn’t about the feature set, it’s about speed. It was made to be used from the keyboard. There are no controls to click on even if you wanted to.
{ Download: 2.0β3 (Mac OS X 10.4 – 10.6)}
Textus eBook reader
Jun 23
Textus is a eBook reader for Mac OS X, aims to be simple, fast and elegant.
Requirements
Mac OS X 10.5+
Development
You can observe our development here in github:
http://github.com/jjgod/textus/tree/master
or get latest source code by:
git clone git@github.com:jjgod/textus.git
Feel free to file new issues or send me patches!
{ Downloads: Latest beta First public beta }
GoogleCL is a command-line utility that provides access to various Google services. GoogleCL is a pure Python application that uses the Python gdata libraries to make Google Data API calls from the command line.
Blogger
$ google blogger post –title “foo” “command line posting”
Calendar
$ google calendar add “Lunch with Jim at noon tomorrow”
Contacts
$ google contacts list name,email > contacts.csv
Docs
$ google docs edit –title “Shopping list”
Picasa
$ google picasa create –title “Cat Photos” ~/photos/cats/*.jpg
Youtube
$ google youtube post –category Education killer_robots.avi
Supported Google services currently include, for example, Blogger, Calendar, Docs, Contacts, YouTube and the Picasa photo sharing site. Google has posted a number of Example Scripts that show how to create a new Blogger post, Calendar entry or Contact, and upload a video to YouTube. The developers note that, in addition to standard tarball and .deb package downloads, they “hope to have it included in Debian and Ubuntu repositories in time for their next releases.”
More details about the command-line tool can be found in a post on the Open Source at Google blog. GoogleCL is hosted on Google Code and is released under version 2.0 of the Apache License. A Manual is also provided.
Sunlight is a simple but useful application which retrieve an image from the internet and set it as a wallpaper every 30 minutes. The image is real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth’s patterns of sunlight and darkness. And every half hour, these images are composited and mapped onto a sphere by xplanet according to the relative position of the sun.
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