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Opera Mini 5 now available for Android devices

Filed under: Browsers, Mobile

Opera has just released the second beta of its Mini 5 browser. Amongst other changes and fixes, Android is now supported.

Until now, Android users have been stuck with Opera Mini 4.2, a thoroughly lackluster browser that really doesn’t compete with either the stock WebKit browser or Dolphin. With Mini 5, Opera becomes [...]

Goodbye, privacy: The entire UK set to go on Google Street View tomorrow

Filed under: Internet

The UK is already one of the most-monitored Western countries. It has a record number of security cameras on the streets and public transport stations (one camera for every 14 people!); its authorities are installing chips in garbage cans to monitor the amount of trash, and now Google is “helping out” by bringing [...]

Harmony helps you doodle with the magic of Javascript

Filed under: Fun

While we’re on the subject of other web technologies that do things we’re used to seeing from Flash, I thought I’d show you Harmony. It’s a very neat little toy (or proof of concept, I guess) that is written in Javascript, and it uses a technique called “procedural drawing”. It’s a similar concept [...]

Spectrum Analyzer showcases HTML5 Audio’s potential

Filed under: Audio, web 2.0

You know those IQ test questions, “An apple is to an orange as a ________ is to a wall”? Well, HTML5 is to HTML4 as a photon torpedo is to a snowball hurled by a sleepy five-year old. Or something. If that sounds jumbled, it’s just because HTML5 is challenging my [...]

Mobile Minute: Free EA games for UK and Ireland Palm Pre users!

Filed under: Palm, Freeware, Mobile Minute

With Palm’s webOS App Catalog finally starting to roll out paid applications around the world, EA Mobile and Palm seem to be enticing folks to start using the App Catalog with a trio of free games. Unfortunately, in order to nab the three downloads — Need for Speed Underground, Monopoly [...]

Add volume and battery meters (and more!) to your Windows 7 superbar

Filed under: Utilities, Windows

We’ve covered a few Windows 7 friendly status indicators before — like these two for monitoring your CPU and memory utilization. Another developer decided to have a go at his own version, and the results are pretty slick.

Five meters are available: power, volume, disk, CPU, and memory. The meters are very [...]

Gowalla 1.0 hits the Android Market

Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0, Android

We recently covered the beta version of Gowalla’s location-based social app for Android, and now it’s hit version 1.0. You can download Gowalla from the Android Market starting today. Gowalla’s main competitor, Foursquare, has already been on Android for some time.

If you’re familiar with the Gowalla iPhone app, the [...]

Steve Jobs on iPad tethering with iPhone: "No."

Filed under: Hardware, News, Apple

It goes almost without saying that a lot of the people who buy Apple’s new iPad will already have Apple’s iPhone. Maybe you were thinking, “Well, since I’ve got an iPhone already, why pay for two data plans? There has to be some way to tether the iPad using the iPhone, [...]

Delicious brings back the Hotlist, adds "People" feature

Filed under: Social Software, Microblogging

The folks over at Delicious have been fairly active recently. A month ago they added filtering and browsing features, and yesterday they released a couple of new changes. Well, one is not that new actually — more of a comeback, but it’s still cool (or hot, as the case may be).

The [...]

Apple patents camera-swipe controls for a future iPhone

Filed under: Apple, iPhone

All kinds of crazy rumors about the next-generation iPhone are already floating around, months ahead of its release. If you were excited when you heard that the back of the phone might be touch-sensitive, you’ll love this latest feature: the new iPhone’s camera might be usable as a swipe-pad. Patently Apple reports [...]