Google has unveiled the YouTube Video Editor, which lets people edit their videos in the cloud. The application lets users merge clips into a longer video or edit down a video, among other things. Google said it will add new features based on user feedback. The video editor is available on TestTube, which is a laboratory of sorts for YouTube. The video editor lets users combine multiple short clips they have uploaded to create a longer video. It also lets them trim the beginning and ending of their videos.
2. New high-power battery may lead to big hybrid vehicles
A new type of high-power battery may help make larger hybrid vehicles a reality, according to a research paper published this week. A group of scientists at MIT have found a way to use carbon nanotubes to create a device that combines the strengths of batteries and capacitors, resulting in a battery than can both store a large amount of energy and put out a high rate of power. The ability to provide a better combination of high power and rapid discharge may help engineers tailor the batteries to a broader range of vehicles.
Batteries and capacitors have long occupied independent niches when it comes to storing electricity. Lithium batteries can store a significant amount of energy using chemical processes, but can only supply a low rate of power; capacitors can deliver a lot of power at once by eliminating the difference between two oppositely charged plates, but have low total energy storage.
3. Dell thinking about shipping Google's Chrome OS on netbooks
A Dell executive has revealed that the company is in talks with Google and is exploring the possibility of shipping netbooks with Chrome OS, the search giant's cloud-centric Linux-based mobile operating system. The news reflects Dell's interest in experimenting with new platforms.
Dell has experimented with desktop Linux, but hasn't really committed to the platform in the consumer space. The company shipped quite a few Linux-based netbooks prior to the release of Windows 7, but no longer actively markets Linux to netbook customers. If you know exactly where to look on Dell's website, you can still find several computers that are offered with Ubuntu preinstalled. Dell doesn't promote these systems, however, and does not make them easily discoverable to regular consumers. Dell's current desktop Linux offerings are largely intended for Linux enthusiasts.
Dell is preparing to launch its 5-inch Streak tablet in the European market with Google's Android handheld platform. Dell could potentially be looking to expand its relationship with Google and might view Chrome OS as a more mainstream option than Ubuntu for Linux netbooks. Dell will likely test the waters with a limited offering of Chrome OS systems, much like it did with Moblin when the Intel-backed platform first arrived.
Amit Midha, the president of Dell's Greater China and South Asia unit, recently told Reuters that Dell is experimenting in order to stay ahead of the curve. The company wants to make sure that it won't get left behind if emerging platforms like Android or Chrome OS start to gain traction.
Due to arrive on hardware later this year, Chrome OS is starting to attract interest from some hardware vendors. Some evidence from the Chrome OS version control repositories suggests that Dell, Acer, and HP are all jumping on the bandwagon in some capacity.
Recovery point objective metrics are commonly defined as how much data a system can afford to lose without endangering business processes. Let's face facts: Some applications require zero-data-loss protection both within one site and between sites. These applications move millions of dollars or potentially company-crashing information in every byte they process, and so justify the complexity and cost of zero-byte RPO. However, using the same type of protection solution to provide recovery for all of your corporate data can produce an unworkable solution.2. New high-power battery may lead to big hybrid vehicles
A new type of high-power battery may help make larger hybrid vehicles a reality, according to a research paper published this week. A group of scientists at MIT have found a way to use carbon nanotubes to create a device that combines the strengths of batteries and capacitors, resulting in a battery than can both store a large amount of energy and put out a high rate of power. The ability to provide a better combination of high power and rapid discharge may help engineers tailor the batteries to a broader range of vehicles.
Batteries and capacitors have long occupied independent niches when it comes to storing electricity. Lithium batteries can store a significant amount of energy using chemical processes, but can only supply a low rate of power; capacitors can deliver a lot of power at once by eliminating the difference between two oppositely charged plates, but have low total energy storage.
3. Dell thinking about shipping Google's Chrome OS on netbooks
A Dell executive has revealed that the company is in talks with Google and is exploring the possibility of shipping netbooks with Chrome OS, the search giant's cloud-centric Linux-based mobile operating system. The news reflects Dell's interest in experimenting with new platforms.
Dell has experimented with desktop Linux, but hasn't really committed to the platform in the consumer space. The company shipped quite a few Linux-based netbooks prior to the release of Windows 7, but no longer actively markets Linux to netbook customers. If you know exactly where to look on Dell's website, you can still find several computers that are offered with Ubuntu preinstalled. Dell doesn't promote these systems, however, and does not make them easily discoverable to regular consumers. Dell's current desktop Linux offerings are largely intended for Linux enthusiasts.
Dell is preparing to launch its 5-inch Streak tablet in the European market with Google's Android handheld platform. Dell could potentially be looking to expand its relationship with Google and might view Chrome OS as a more mainstream option than Ubuntu for Linux netbooks. Dell will likely test the waters with a limited offering of Chrome OS systems, much like it did with Moblin when the Intel-backed platform first arrived.
Amit Midha, the president of Dell's Greater China and South Asia unit, recently told Reuters that Dell is experimenting in order to stay ahead of the curve. The company wants to make sure that it won't get left behind if emerging platforms like Android or Chrome OS start to gain traction.
Due to arrive on hardware later this year, Chrome OS is starting to attract interest from some hardware vendors. Some evidence from the Chrome OS version control repositories suggests that Dell, Acer, and HP are all jumping on the bandwagon in some capacity.
5. Don't Just Build an iPhone App - Build a Winner
The archetype of the software developer who punches his ticket on the gravy train with a bestselling iPhone app has become for the Information Age what Horatio Alger was for its industrial predecessor. What devotee of Apple's popular mobile hasn't wondered what it would take to create a winning app for it? Those devotees need wonder no more with a new book by Craig Hockenberry, iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual, published by O'Reilly. Hockenberry concedes in the introduction to his 324-page Missing Manual that there's no dearth of tomes for developing iPhone apps.
6. Google Apps highlights – 6/18/2010
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.
Over the last couple of weeks we introduced several new features to Google Docs, and made updates to Gmail, Buzz and Blogger. The Google Apps Marketplace expanded, and we brought many new businesses and schools onboard. Here’s the scoop:
New Google Docs editors rolling out to everyone
Just a couple months ago we started previewing Google Docs’ new editors for documents and spreadsheets, and on Monday we began turning on these faster, more feature-rich editors for everyone. In new documents, you’ll see character-by-character real-time collaboration, a ruler for custom margins and tab stops, and the files you import from your computer will be much higher quality. The new version of spreadsheets is faster, and includes a formula editing bar, cell auto-complete and much more. If your university, employer or organization provides you with a Google Docs account, you’ll start seeing the new editors by default in the coming weeks, too.
7. Google releases command line tool for accessing Web services
Google has announced the availability of a new tool called GoogleCL that will allow users to interact with the company's popular Web services directly from the command line.
GoogleCL was developed in Python on top of the gdata-python-client library. It's an open-source software project that's hosted on Google Code and distributed under the Apache license. Users who want to contribute fixes and improvements can submit patches through the project's issue tracker.
Although modern desktop computing is increasingly dominated by graphical user interfaces, command line tools are still extremely useful for rapid interaction, simple programmatic automation, and remote system management. GoogleCL will make Google-hosted data more accessible to common command-line workflows. The GoogleCL tool offers an easy way to pipe your GMail contact list into sed and awk, or use a shell glob to specify which photos and movies to batch upload to Picasa and YouTube. It also supports Blogger, Google Calendar, and Google docs.
The tool can be downloaded from its project page on the Google Code Web site. Google is making available a tarball with the source code and an installable DEB package. I tested it from the DEB package on my Ubuntu 10.04 desktop computer. The first time that you access each individual service, it will prompt you for your username and then it will supply an OAuth link that you can copy and paste into a Web browser to complete the authentication process. After initial account configuration, the tool can be used in pipelines and other non-interactive command line workflows.
I tested several of the features, particularly the GMail contact list support. It worked well with a Google Apps account that I use with one of my own domains. The supported services and operations are documented in the project's user manual. An assortment of sample uses can be found on the project's wiki.
Some of the features in GoogleCL, such as Google Docs editing, require at least version 2.0 of the gdata-python-client library. Unfortunately, the Ubuntu repositories only have version 1.2.4. The tool will work with the older version of the library, but will display an error message when the user tries to use a feature that isn't supported.
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