Chrome Buzz – browser extension f. Chrome, basically just shows your feed, nothing more
Buzzer – shares a webpage through Google Reader on your Buzz-account
Share-Bookmarklet – does the same as above, but through a bookmarklet which works on all browsers. in both cases you have to add your Google Reader as a connected site in Buzz
while you’re waiting for Facebook to release their HipHop for PHP over on github, you might wanna watch this video having engineer Haiping Zhao giving a detailled introduction about the way HipHop transforms PHP-code into C++.
as an avid Squeezebox-user, I’ve no idea how I could have missed this gem for so long: iPeng lets you use our iPhone to control your Squeezbox (or boxes, if you’ve several spread across the house). hands down the best way to browse a large local music-library or subscription-services napster & rhapsody [which of course both are not available in austria ]. the app goes for EUR 8,-, compared to the EUR >1.000,- you’ld spend for a Sonos that’s a boon
had some fun toying with Google Goggles this morning. Goggles uses your phone’s camera to do image-based search for products, landmarks, media, shops etc. the results I was getting for products & books are pretty accurate. most impressive: I snapped the artwork (no text, title at all) of a german, medical text-book – first result was the correct link to Amazon. looking forward to test this outdoors, where Goggles is also using GPS & compass to refine results.
ps: if you can’t find Googles in the Android Marketplace, make sure you’re running Android 1.6 Donat or higher! if you’re stuck with an G1 like me, you might want to take the chance and root your phone and upgrade to CyanogenMod…
Sony has a fun little Facebook-app that lets you post auto-tuned audio-status-updates to your wall …the best thing to happen since the T-Pain iPhone app.
after spending the better part of last weekend using the Huawei RBM2 from Red Bull Mobile (unboxing-pictures here) I won’t deprive you of my thoughts on the device. the RBM2 basically offers everything you’ld expect from an Android-phone nowadays, given that the platform is out now for more than a year. in other words: the RBM2 is a rock-solid phone lacking any exceptional highs or lows. overall I’ld compare it to the HTC Magic, which has a similar form factor, similar hardware & similar featureset. while the RBM2 seems to be snappier & more responsive compared to the HTC Dream aka G1 (which I’ve been using thoroughly), it is still using the same CPU (Qualcomm MSM7200A at 528MHz) – any increased resposiveness might be due to Android 1.5 and less app-clutter.
the RBM2’s touch-display does the usual half-VGA (320×480px) and is in one league with the iPhone in terms of size, crispness & brightness. other features include a 3.2megapixel camera with LED-flash, integrated GPS, wifi-, bluetooth- & UMTS/HDSPA-connectivity.
if you’re in the market for a Red Bull Mobile contract, the RBM2 is a no-brainer – it’s the only smartphone in RBM’s portfolio of handsets, and a worthy choice if only for the Android operating system.
the RBM2’s touch-display does the usual half-VGA (320×480px) and is in one league with the iPhone in terms of size, crispness & brightness. other features include a 3.2megapixel camera with LED-flash, integrated GPS, wifi-, bluetooth- & UMTS/HDSPA-connectivity.
if you’re in the market for a Red Bull Mobile contract, the RBM2 is a no-brainer – it’s the only smartphone in RBM’s handset-portfolio, and a worthy choice if only for the Android operating system. with a two-year contract (EUR 29,-/month – 2.000min. voice & 2GB data), the RBM2 comes for free.
trying out the new Xbox Zune video-marketplace, which is only available within the XboxLive Update Preview-program for now. there are only few select movies available for the preview, even fewer in 1080p HD & 5.1 audio (Matrix Revolutions, Watchmen). HD-movies come both as on-demand streaming & download for 490 microsoft points or EUR 5,70 (SD movies come at EUR 2,80) – not exactly cheap…
unboxing the RBM2, which is produced by Huawei exclusively for Red Bull Mobile and should hit stores on monday, nov. 9th. the RBM2 seems to be a quite decent Android phone, with a form-factor & featureset (UMTS, GPS, half-VGA 3.5″ touch-display) similar to the iPhone. the RBM2 comes with a modified Wikitude AR-browser displaying Red Bull-related POIs and media-upload-tools for the RBM-community. and of course plenty of stier-branding
just a few screenshots from the pending Xbox LIVE Update, which will include access to Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm & Zune marketplace. I couldn’t find Last.fm in the preview, but Facebook & Twitter really works well… if you want to be considered for upcoming Xbox preview-programs (this one seems to be closed down), sign up here!
1) download and install the wonderful Wavr-Plugin by Lucas Caro (thx!)
2) the plugin version 0.2 includes hardcoded URLs to the Wave-sandbox (wave.google.com/a/sandbox) – if you want to use it with Wave production (wave.google.com), edit wavr.php and replace “http://wave.google.com/a/sandbox/” with “http://wave.google.com/wave/” on line 109
3) create a new post or page and include a snippet like this: [ wave id="WAVE-ID" height="500" bgcolor="#000000" color="#FFFFFF" ]
4) while the sanbox included a handy debug-menu, on production you’ll have to look into the sourcecode to find out the Wave-ID (imho). in firefox, mark the wave-items in your inbox and right-click “view source”. look out for a token like googlewave.com!w+Gl6GGfYIC – that’s the ID.
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