1. Nothing but Windows Blue Skies From Now On?
Rumors about Windows Blue, the next iteration of Microsoft's flagship operating system, have been juiced up with the release of leaked screen shots and videos over the weekend. The new system lets users personalize the screen from the side and swipe in from any edge. Windows Blue offers a variety of color choices for the screen background and includes several new apps -- Alarms, Calculate, Sound Recorder, and Movie Moments. Windows Blue also integrates Internet Explorer 11 and appears to allow syncing with multiple devices.
2. Google+: New apps for iPhone and Android »
Today we're launching new versions of Google+ for iPhone and Android. Here's a quick look at the improvements in four key areas: photos, posts, profiles and communities. Photos: filters and edits from...
3. Aussie Developer Reckons Apple’s Retina Display Testing Is Faulty [Updated]
Apple pretty consistently scores well with consumer groups when it comes to customer satisfaction — so much so that it makes a point of advertising that fact. Disagree with Apple’s diagnosis, as Aussie software developer Mitch Malone did, and the story can be markedly different. More »
4. Australia’s Best (Legal) Online Movie Services
Yesterday, we looked at the best streaming and catch-up services for TV shows. Today, we take a look at the movie equivalents, from Apple TV to BigPond Movies. More »
5. Impeccably Accurate CD Player Scans Discs Multiple Times For Errors
It turns out that even the most expensive of home stereo CD players are still occasionally susceptible of incorrectly reading the data on the disc, which can ruin the listening experience. So a company called Parasound has created the CD 1, a Linux-powered standalone CD player that actually reads a disc multiple times during playback to find and eliminate errors. More »
6. Tesla Motors
7. Digg details Reader replacement
Last week, Digg revealed plans to build a replacement app for Google's soon-to-be-defunct Reader and compete with other services that have suddenly become popular, like Feedly and The Old Reader. While I wait to someday have my OPML file uploaded to The Old Reader (currently number 3,590 in the queue), I am trying out some other alternatives -- I really liked Feedspot, but updating seems spotty.
In a blog post, Digg says "Google did a lot of things right with its Reader, but based on what we’re hearing from users, there is room for meaningful improvement. We want to build a product that’s clean and flexible, that bends easily and intuitively to the needs of different users. We want to experiment with and add value to the sources of information that are increasingly important, but difficult to surface and organize in most reader applications — like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, LinkedIn, or Hacker News. We likely won’t get everything we want into v1, but we believe it’s worth exploring".
Sounds good so far, but we will need to wait for an actual app before getting too excited. The company is continuing to gather suggestions from Reader refugees as it builds the app. In fact, it has set up a mailing list for news on the progress and it is complete with a Reader shutdown clock.
Rumors about Windows Blue, the next iteration of Microsoft's flagship operating system, have been juiced up with the release of leaked screen shots and videos over the weekend. The new system lets users personalize the screen from the side and swipe in from any edge. Windows Blue offers a variety of color choices for the screen background and includes several new apps -- Alarms, Calculate, Sound Recorder, and Movie Moments. Windows Blue also integrates Internet Explorer 11 and appears to allow syncing with multiple devices.
2. Google+: New apps for iPhone and Android »
Today we're launching new versions of Google+ for iPhone and Android. Here's a quick look at the improvements in four key areas: photos, posts, profiles and communities. Photos: filters and edits from...
3. Aussie Developer Reckons Apple’s Retina Display Testing Is Faulty [Updated]
Apple pretty consistently scores well with consumer groups when it comes to customer satisfaction — so much so that it makes a point of advertising that fact. Disagree with Apple’s diagnosis, as Aussie software developer Mitch Malone did, and the story can be markedly different. More »
4. Australia’s Best (Legal) Online Movie Services
Yesterday, we looked at the best streaming and catch-up services for TV shows. Today, we take a look at the movie equivalents, from Apple TV to BigPond Movies. More »
5. Impeccably Accurate CD Player Scans Discs Multiple Times For Errors
It turns out that even the most expensive of home stereo CD players are still occasionally susceptible of incorrectly reading the data on the disc, which can ruin the listening experience. So a company called Parasound has created the CD 1, a Linux-powered standalone CD player that actually reads a disc multiple times during playback to find and eliminate errors. More »
6. Tesla Motors
Last week, Digg revealed plans to build a replacement app for Google's soon-to-be-defunct Reader and compete with other services that have suddenly become popular, like Feedly and The Old Reader. While I wait to someday have my OPML file uploaded to The Old Reader (currently number 3,590 in the queue), I am trying out some other alternatives -- I really liked Feedspot, but updating seems spotty.
In a blog post, Digg says "Google did a lot of things right with its Reader, but based on what we’re hearing from users, there is room for meaningful improvement. We want to build a product that’s clean and flexible, that bends easily and intuitively to the needs of different users. We want to experiment with and add value to the sources of information that are increasingly important, but difficult to surface and organize in most reader applications — like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, LinkedIn, or Hacker News. We likely won’t get everything we want into v1, but we believe it’s worth exploring".
Sounds good so far, but we will need to wait for an actual app before getting too excited. The company is continuing to gather suggestions from Reader refugees as it builds the app. In fact, it has set up a mailing list for news on the progress and it is complete with a Reader shutdown clock.
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