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Intel integrated graphics: finally good enough for the MacBook Air?
At long last, Apple released Intel's highly anticipated Sandy Bridge updates on both the MacBook Air and Mac mini earlier this month. However, many of these machines—along with the 13" MacBook Pro introduced earlier this year—rely solely on Intel's integrated graphics, a move that raised eyebrows among users allergic to the reduced performance that often comes with Intel's integrated GPUs. The move from Intel's integrated GPU from the 320M indeed has some trade-offs, but some investigation reveals that performance is, as we suspected, largely the same.
While Intel's reputation for graphics hasn't gone much beyond "just barely enough to suffice," the integrated GPU in Sandy Bridge processors represents Intel's first serious effort to address performance. That performance generally compares to low-end discrete GPUs, while in many cases reducing overall power consumption.
We thought it would be useful to examine the differences between Apple's previous integrated solution—the 320M—and Intel's HD Graphics 3000. Given that Intel's next-generation architecture, codenamed Ivy Bridge, is expected to offer significantly improved graphics, we can draw some conclusions about why Apple decided to make the switch now rather than later.
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Make Your To-Dos Come to You with ReQall
You've just returned from running errands: you went to the grocery store, picked up the dry cleaning, even stopped for coffee—but crap, you forgot to stop by the post office right next to the coffee shop. Location-aware to-do service ReQall makes sure that won't happen again. Like any other to-do app, ReQall helps you stay on top of projects and to-dos, but it also brings your tasks to you at the right time, including when you're near the place you need to do something. Think of ReQall as your personal assistant that knows where you are and what you have to do there, what you have coming up, and when to remind you that your work is due.
Why ReQall?
ReQall is a great web service that can help you keep your to-dos, appointments, and projects organized. Since we first mentioned it, the service has grown, updated their mobile apps for iOS and Android, launched a beta app for Android that briefs you on important news, events, and to-dos over the course of the day, and still keeps you informed of your to-dos based on where you are and when they need to be complete.
ReQall certainly isn't the only tool out there to help you organize your to-dos. What makes ReQall special is the emphasis it places on keeping your proactively aware of what you have to do and what's on your plate. It may not be the most feature-rich to-do list manager, but it's definitely one of the smartest and most proactive personal assistant services we've ever seen. Here's how to set it up to be your personal assistant.
Set Up ReQall
The first thing you'll need is a ReQall account. You'll be able to do most of the things we describe here with the Standard account, but the Pro account offers some advanced features like integration with Evernote, direct integration with Google Calendar or Outlook for events, and push notifications of to-dos in specific places via GPS. Standard accounts are free, and you get a 15-day trial of ReQall Pro. ReQall Pro will set you back $24.99/year or $2.99/month once your 30-day trial if over.
The basic web services and many proactive alerts are free however, so there's no need to sign up or a paid account if you don't want to. However, since ReQall offers new users that trial of the pro features, it's worth signing up, seeing if you make heavy use of them, and then deciding whether you want to pay for it. If not, do nothing and ReQall will automatically bump your trial Pro account to Standard.
Once your account is created, you'll want to go download the ReQall mobile app for your iOS or Android device. Install it, and log in to your ReQall account there as well. Having the app on your mobile device extends your ability to check in on your to-dos when you're on the go, and to have those to-dos alert you when it's time to do them. Even if you don't have a smartphone, you can still make use of ReQall's SMS alerts.
Finally, add ReQall's toll-free number (you'll get it once you've associated your phone with your account) to your address book or contacts on any type of phone to make use of the service's transcription features. You can always call the voice entry number to add to-dos and appointments by voice, whether you have a standard or a pro account. The difference is that pro accounts have the option for human transcription of their voice messages. Smartphone users can use the mobile app or the phone number for voice entry.
Set up To-Dos and Shopping Lists with Alerts
Once your account is all set up and you have the mobile apps installed, now it's time to enter some to-dos, appointments, or deadlines. You can enter and manage tasks from the web app or the mobile apps, or call the toll-free number to enter tasks (although the voice-to-text is spotty without human transcription.) ReQall supports common language for dates, so you can either speak or type in your to-dos on the web or by phone and say things like "Submit project schedule next Tuesday" and ReQall will add an item to your to-dos with the same name and set the due date to the following Tuesday.
Best of all, ReQall will automatically set an alert for that item for a half-hour before the time you entered the item on the due date. For example, if I enter a task to "Visit the market this Saturday" at 10am, it'll add the task to my to-dos for Saturday, and set a reminder for me to go out at 9:30am to remind me to do it. Pro account holders can also get SMS alerts, and smartphone users will get push notifications from their iOS or Android app that they have a task due in the next half-hour. If you dislike the notifications or email/SMS alerts, you can turn them off.
Go a Step Further with ReQall Rover
We mentioned ReQall Rover when the beta launched as an invite-only affair. The app (Android only, unfortunately) uses connections to your Google account to pull down Google Calendar appointments, contacts, and actionable items from your Gmail messages. It uses your Facebook likes to personalize news for you, and your location to tell you what weather and traffic conditions are like in your area, and to alert you to local deals on shopping and nearby restaurants.
It sounds like a lot of personal information to centralize in one application, and it is?what you get back however is a morning, afternoon, and evening update from Rover on everything the service thinks you should know. ReQall Rover is still invite-only, but the beta is open and invite codes are given out to anyone who asks for one: ReQall just throttles them based on demand.
While Rover has come a long way since we first mentioned it, it's still hit or miss depending on how heavily you use ReQall. For many users, the standard ReQall mobile apps are more than enough to automate your to-dos. However, if you're a heavy user of Google Calendar and tasks, like to share your activities with friends on Twitter and Facebook, or just like the personal touch that comes with spoken to-dos every morning, afternoon, and evening, ReQall Rover is worth a look.
For example, every morning at 830, Rover automatically opens on my Android phone, wishes me a good morning, and tells me what the weather conditions are outside, the traffic in the area, what meetings or calendar appointments I have for the day and who they're with, what events I have that I should be aware of, and Groupon or Deal Map's nearby daily deal. It also tells me what's trending on Twitter in my area, and what my friends are saying on Facebook. You can toggle any of those items on or off, depending on how useful you find them.
Rover has a way to go to fulfill it's promise to automatically skim your Gmail messages for actionable items, or to give you more control over the news it reads to you, but the app has improved its local deal and restaurant recommendations and can find you a nice place to have lunch in between your to-dos. Rover is Android-only at the moment, and while it had its bugs, it was useful to get those regular "stuff you need to know" summaries over the course of the day, the same way I would get if I actually had a real personal assistant. Even so, many users on the Android market report issues, so your mileage may vary.
Conclusion
With a little time and some simple setup, ReQall is the best organizational tool I've ever used. It's not perfect, but its proactive, "come to me when you brainstorm, I'll come to you with your work" approach keeps me away from alternatives. While the focus here has been on setting up ReQall to bring your tasks and appointments to you without you having to think about them, the service has other features like task sharing with other people in your contacts, integration with Evernote for clippings, notes, and to-dos, integration with Goole Calendar, Outlook, and iCal, and a Firefox extension that can all help you stay organized.
Don't feel overwhelmed by the number of tools ReQall has to offer however. Sign up for an account, and get started with the web apps and the mobile apps first to see if it's for you. After a few days or weeks of being reminded of the things you have to do when you have to do them, and entering them when you think about them, you'll never have to think "was there something I was supposed to do today," because ReQall will tell you ? without forcing you to remember to look at it.
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суббота, 30 июля 2011 г.
Telus recruits Leonard Nimoy to vet your Facebook status updates
Brought to you by Telus, What Would Leonard Nimoy Say (WWLNS) is a Facebook app, which allows you to run your status updates past the legendary sci-fi actor before slapping them up on Facebook. To use the app you must 'Like' it, and sacrifice your https connection if you happen to have it enabled, but that's the price you pay to have Spock proof read your inane musings.
Check out Telus on Facebook to take the app for a whirl, and jump on over to Engadget to see more Nimoy-Telus combinations.
Telus recruits Leonard Nimoy to vet your Facebook status updates originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
GNOME 3 released, ushers in an interesting amalgam of iOS and OS X
The best way to check out GNOME 3's new features -- and it has lots of new features -- is to run a live version of openSUSE or Fedora, or simply head over to the GNOME 3 website and watch the (rather pretty) introductory videos. If you want a synopsis, though, here it is: GNOME 3 looks a lot like Mac OS X, with a healthy dollop of iOSesqueness for good measure, but yet it still somehow retains an underlying feel of Linux.
The overall aesthetic is very simple, very elegant, and despite being slightly out of fashion, there are plenty of rounded corners, too. The main addition, workflow-wise, is the addition of an app-launcher-cum-alt-tab screen, where you can launch apps, or flip through your open windows. For a complete list of the new features and changes, check the GNOME 3 release notes.
Despite GNOME 3 being officially launched, there aren't actually any releases for existing, stable Linux distros -- it's the live CD/USB images, or Ubuntu users will have to wait for the launch of 11.04 for a GNOME 3 PPA, but it will break Unity in the process. Fedora users will have to wait for for the May 24 release of Fedora 15. Of course, if you're feeling crazy, you can always build GNOME 3 from source.
GNOME 3 released, ushers in an interesting amalgam of iOS and OS X originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Farewell, Internet
Going forward, you'll still be able to get the best tech news coverage from Engadget, HuffingtonPost Tech, Joystiq and TUAW. While we're still working out some of the details, Switched and DownloadSquad will continue to live on the Web and be fully accessible via search. Understandably, our Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr presences will quiet down, but you can still follow the Switched and DownloadSquad writers on their personal accounts. Thanks for reading.
Farewell, Internet originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Google streaming I/O conference 2011 live for those who can't make it
So if were unlucky in getting tickets, stuck at home, or to your desk on May 10th and 11th, but really want to get in on the I/O action, check out the Google I/O Live page, where you can register your interest by displaying the Google I/O Live 2011 HTML5 badge on your site. Oh and check out the fancy, bouncing ball, countdown clock while you're there too.
Google streaming I/O conference 2011 live for those who can't make it originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Turn your iPad into a mini-keyboard with ION's Piano Apprentice
ION recently announced a new piano accessory for the iPad that will let you play and learn piano on a mini-keyboard. While piano-playing apps on the iPad are fun, they are not useful for instruction as the 9.7-inch display of the iPad is too small for a reasonably sized keyboard. ION solved that problem with its new Piano Apprentice, a dock for an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch that includes a 25-note lighted keyboard with touch-sensitive keys.
The keyboard dock includes an iOS app that teaches you how to play piano with the help of instructor Scott Houston. You can follow his hands on the screen while you play on the keyboard. The keys on the dock will even light up while you practice your tune. The Piano Apprentice will arrive this fall for US$100.
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PIANO APPRENTICE turns a portable keyboard into a traveling music teacher with an intelligent piano learning software app.
Cumberland, R.I. (July 19, 2011) - ION, a leader in consumer audio and entertainment technology, announces PIANO APPRENTICE, a portable lighted-key piano learning system for iPad, iPhone or iPod. ION will showcase PIANO APPRENTICE at Booth #400 at the 2011 Summer NAMM show from July 21st- 23rd in Nashville, TN.
PIANO APPRENTICE portable piano transforms iPad, iPhone or iPod into a personal piano instructor. The PIANO APPRENTICE App - a free download from the App Store - is piano learning software designed and built by ION to work seamlessly with PIANO APPRENTICE and creates a comprehensive music-learning experience. Piano players follow along as Emmy award-winning piano instructor, Scott Houston (aka "The Piano Guy"), appears on the screen demonstrating how to play while the PIANO APPRENTICE keys light up in time with the music. In addition, Scott's hands are right above the PIANO APPRENTICE keyboard, showing the user where to place their hands, teaching them how to play.
Other modes will teach aspiring pianists how to read sheet music or allow them to simply play the piano at any octave they choose. The portable keyboard itself is touch sensitive, responding to soft or hard playing accordingly for expressive music creation. PIANO APPRENTICE is lightweight, battery powered, and has built-in speakers for learning and playing anywhere. A headphone jack is included for quiet practice at anytime.
"PIANO APPRENTICE enables people everywhere to bring out their inner musician using their iPad, iPhone or iPod, even if they've never played an instrument before," said Wendy Mittelstadt, Product Manager, ION. "This is a incredibly easy-to-use and portable system for learning and music creation."
Turn your iPad into a mini-keyboard with ION's Piano Apprentice originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nokia's windows (phone) of opportunity are closing fast
Trends in smartphone adoption in the west suggest that Finnish phone maker will have a hard fight to make an impact with its Windows Phone devices
You'll have seen Nokia's terrible second-quarter results. The number of both mobile phones and smartphones that it sold fell back to levels last seen in 2006; its mobile phone revenues fell back to levels last seen in 2005. In smartphones, which is where everyone expects future sales for all phone makers to lie, it did worse with its entire range of smartphones than Apple did with its two, namely the iPhone 3GS (vintage summer 2009) and iPhone 4 (vintage summer 2010). Nokia sold 16.7m - a 30% drop year-on-year, with average selling prices for those phones almost unchanged at ?142 compared to ?143 a year ago.
That's not the worst of it though. The bad stuff is yet to come, because although Nokia is working very hard on producing a Windows Phone device, and is expected to have at least one for sale from some time in October, or a bit afterwards, that's just one device. It's not going to be a game-changer like the iPhone. (And even that didn't sell in vast numbers in its first quarter.)
Nokia's problem, as the analysts I've spoken to see it, is that it isn't going to have a range of smartphones that people want to buy ready for sale before some time around March or June of 2012. That is, in three or four quarters' time.
But by then the smartphone window will be all but shut. According to the data from ComTech that we published earlier this month, smartphone adoption in the UK is growing by about 1% per month, and in the US at a slightly slower pace, but still fast enough that in the UK (one of the largest phone markets in Europe) and the US you'll either be past, or close to, 50% smartphone ownership by June 2012.
That ignores the possibility, by the way, that there's a Christmas bump of smartphone purchases this year after Apple releases its one (maybe two? we're hearing whispers) phone/s in September, and Samsung and HTC continue to pour their brightest and best into the market. Samsung, which will report its second-quarter results on Friday, and is expected to have sold even more smartphones than Apple, and more mobile phones in total than Nokia's 88.5m total. The Galaxy IIS is wowing plenty of people, while HTC's Android models are proving popular.
Given that those three companies alone - let alone RIM - will be going hell for leather after the customers at Christmas, it may be that those adoption rates will speed up. (It's noticeable though that it didn't speed up last Christmas, so the straight-line model may be good enough.)
Meanwhile Windows Phone sales numbers are so impressive that Microsoft didn't even mention them in its latest quarterly earnings. The whole Windows Phone effort is skated over in a single paragraph. And the analysts don't ask about it in the Q&A.
Now, Francisco Jeronimo, smartphone analyst for IDC, thinks the timing issue presents a problem for Nokia. "On the smartphone in the just-passed quarter they couldn't even compete on price," he says. "They cut prices to keep the volume high in the mid-tier, but as Android smartphones go lower in price, the actual price isn't a strategic selling point. Consumers can buy a better experience [than Nokia's] for the same or lower price."
So how about when Windows Phone comes along? "That will reverse [the decline], but the question is how bad it can get [for Nokia] before it's too bad to regain leadership. They can't compete with Samsung and Apple."
And as the window of opportunity closes - and there are fewer consumers and enterprises left to try to persuade to switch for the first time from their feature phone - Nokia will be facing two diametrically opposed forces that are equally antagonistic to its success:
? some of those remaining feature phone users will be refuseniks who don't want a smartphone and aren't going to change unless they're somehow forced to, or the price of changing is zero;
? the feature phone users who do change will face temptations on offer from all the Android manufacturers, and Apple, and RIM. Android handsets may be so cheap you'll near enough get them with packets of cornflakes.
That means the window of opportunity for Nokia, before all those feature phone switchers get tied up with two-year contracts, is closing really quite fast. The switchers who come after June 2012 probably aren't going to be as generous with their money (else they would have bought a smartphone already). They're less valuable. And Nokia will have to scrap for every new contract as the early adopters come out of contract; the most likely course is that people who have bought into an ecosystem tend to stay with it. Thus iPhone users tend to stick with iPhones, and Android users with Android phones (even if they switch between brands).
Yes, you can argue that the US isn't switching quite as quickly as the UK (and the rest of Europe), so the windows of opportunity should remain open for longer there. That's true - except that Nokia faces a monumental uphill struggle in the US, where its share and brand awareness are next to zero. Winning the US, or even placing third, will take a monumental marketing effort - and those aren't cheap.
There's only one bright note for Nokia, which is that carriers are quite keen that it should succeed, or at least provide some sort of competition that will stop Apple riding roughshod over them and Android leaving them with no margin. Sources I've spoken to at carriers raise their eyebrows and shrug their shoulders a little hopefully. But they know that time is not on Nokia's side here. It needs to do quite a lot, quite quickly.
Just to rub it in, Richard Windsor, equities analyst at Nomura Securities, thinks that 2011 is going to see the fastest growth in sales of smartphones (it's forecast to be about 50% up on 2010, which saw a total of 285m smartphones sold, and that 2012 will see slower growth. That's the tough, competitive market that Nokia will be launching its Windows Phone models into. It's already discovered that price doesn't persuade people to buy its smartphones. Now the question is: what will?
Wireshark 1.6.1
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In business, a professional translation device may be preferable to beginner language skills
Playing down one's linguistic skills - no matter one's facility - may prove beneficial in certain business communications, according to the Deseret News. Certain cultures value modesty. Also, some professionals may frown upon a beginner's stumbling attempts at their native language.
For instance, American business professionals may want to decide against communicating in beginner's Japanese with their clients. Such attempts may risk one's looking less than capable, particularly if he or she is not fluent or in grasp of the nuances of the language, according to the news source.
An automated translator or online translation tool would be handy in such a situation, as it could facilitate easy communication between parties. English-speaking professionals can shield themselves linguistic missteps, the Deseret News adds.
However, not all cultures perceive beginning speakers as incompetent. They may even appreciate the attempt of an English-speaker who tries out non-fluent language skills.
Language errors can be incredibly costly to a company. In his book Blunders in International Business, David A. Ricks notes that translation mistakes are some of the most common in professional communication. Ignorance of multiple meanings of a word, for instance, can potentially lead to gaffes, insults and broken deals.
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Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows. Very light on system resources and extremely fast, Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive. Featuring a powerful plugin-based framework and boasting over 350 plugins, Miranda IM [...]
четверг, 28 июля 2011 г.
Skype 5.3 for Windows released, improves mobile video call quality
Beyond improved call quality, not much has changed. You can now see your friends' presence icons when contact cards are collapsed, and the topic editing button is now always visible on the conversation header. For a complete list of changes, hit up the Skype Garage blog.
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Skype 5.3 for Windows released, improves mobile video call quality originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Eye-Fi's Direct Mode Turns Card into Hotspot for Mobile Transfers
A new mode in Eye-Fi X2 cards let you rely images through a smartphone using a neat trick: I'm a long-time fan of the Eye-Fi digital camera cards that pack a CPU, a Wi-Fi radio, and now up to 8 GB of storage into an SD or SDHC form factor. The Eye-Fi line is regularly updated to add features like transfer of RAW images or video files, or endless storage, in which images already wirelessly transferred to another location can be deleted when storage is needed. (I haven't erased my Eye-Fi camera card since that feature came out. I simply don't need to know what's on the card any more.)
Direct Mode is another in that array of improvements, and it requires a little explanation. Eye-Fi may be a bit breezy in describing the feature, which requires you to think a bit differently about how the card works.
In regular operation, an Eye-Fi card looks to a camera precisely like any memory card. Whenever the Eye-Fi recognizes a Wi-Fi network it knows about, it connects, and starts to carry out whatever operations were waiting for access, such as uploading files to a computer or sharing service. This works whether the network in question is a home network for which you've stored a password, a public network to which you have access through an Eye-Fi subscription, or a free network tied in via Eye-Fi's relationship with Devicescape's Easy WiFi service.
But in Direct Mode, the card will transform from a Wi-Fi client into a Wi-Fi hotspot, but not for just any device to connect. Rather, if you have a smartphone or tablet with the Eye-Fi software running (available for iOS and Android initially), the app connects to the card over Wi-Fi, and images are transferred over. You can use a 3G-equipped device to relay and upload images and movies, or transfer media and then connect via Wi-Fi to a network to upload that data from the app. The mobile app can copy media over the Internet to whatever computer with which you paired the Eye-Fi—the one to which over a local network the card sends files—as well as an online sharing or social-networking site you've picked from Eye-Fi's partners.
Direct Mode was announced with more details alongside the release of the Mobile X2, part of a reshuffling of the Eye-Fi line up, which now comprises Connect X2, Mobile X2, and Pro X2. The Connect has 4 GB and costs $50, while the Mobile has 8 GB and costs $80. That's their only difference. The Pro at $150 and with 8 GB of storage adds RAW file handling, and including a geotagging and a 1-year hotspot subscription. While RAW is restricted to the Pro model, you can add geotagging to Connect or Mobile for $30 (one-time fee), and hotspot access for $30/yr.
Direct Mode will be a firmware upgrade for all current and past X2 models in a few weeks, according to Eye-Fi.
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SeaMonkey, Mozilla's all-in-one Internet suite, releases new beta
SeaMonkey 2.1 Beta 3 lets you enter Safe Mode from the Help menu, and you can permanently apply some of the Safe Mode settings if you so wish. When a plug-in crashes, you're now instantly presented with options, such as reloading the page. Built-in extensions such as ChatZilla, JavaScript debugger, DOM inspector, and DebugQA are now installed by default. SeaMonkey Sync has received an easier setup process, and Windows 7 jump lists are now supported. Also added are detection of outdated plug-ins, WebGL support, an optional search bar (including suggestions for search engines that support them), an engine manager for OpenSearch, and plug-ins now work in feeds shown in MailNews windows.
ChatZilla is working again, as are the JavaScript Debugger Venkman, as well as download progress display in the Windows 7 taskbar. Restoring large browser sessions has been improved, and you can even switch tabs by mouse scrolling.
This being a beta, the obvious warnings apply: stuff may break, bugs may show up everywhere, and generally speaking you probably shouldn't use this version as your daily driver -- at least not from the get-go, without having tested it for a while first.
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SeaMonkey, Mozilla's all-in-one Internet suite, releases new beta originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.