Microsoft IE8 & Private Browsing
Safari has a neat feature that neither Firefox nor IE have. I am talking about private browsing. Users can normally turn on temporary when they don’t want to divulge the visited sites.
Granted they can delete all the private data. But them all will be erased.
IE8 developer team seems to take this seriously and will implement in the next release of IE8.
Andy Zeigler is the Program Manager of the new Privacy features in IE 8. Dean and Andy shed light onto exactly what’s been done in the realm of Privacy in IE 8 Beta 2. Two core new Privacy mechanisms are present in IE 8: InPrivate Browsing and InPrivate Blocking (with InPrivate Subscriptions, a feed-based blocking service).
[Source IE8 Team]
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Use the iTunes Music Store with Your Kids
Kids can have fun using the iTunes music store while parents still control the credit card and content their children can access.
Parents can restrict access to certain content, set up a shopping cart to review music choices before they’re purchased, and give kids a monthly allowance.
Automatic Switching SIP (Software Input Keyboard) for Diamond Users
Exidler, a member of XDA-Developer forum posts a small utility to take advantage of the Diamond (Touch pro) stylus sensor. You can set up so when the stylus is out, the standard SIP will be be used otherwise the finger friendly will be activated. Download HERE!
Alternatively, you can get a commercial application ($7) that gives you more flexibility to launch the app or action of your choice whether the stylus is in or out of its slot.
Free Animated FLIP CLOCK for WM Standard
A great way to give some individuality to your Windows Mobile Standard home screen is to install this free (and trendy) animated add-on FLIP CLOCK to your device
Replacement the Windows Home Screen theme to the animated FLIP CLOCK version:
Download this cab file to your device- Open > File Manager and run this file one time, to start to unpack
- After installation, make a soft-reset
- Go to Settings > Display > Home Screen
- Select Earth Flip Clock layout theme, then > Done
- Return to Home Screen
(additionally: press left/right arrow button to switch the preview of calendar)
Download HERE! [Thanks JGUI!]
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Qualcomm’s MediaFLO Adds more TV Channels
MediaFLO USA Brings Expanded Live News Coverage to AT&T and Verizon Wireless Phones with Addition of NBC Universal’s CNBC and MSNBC, FOX News Channels.
"The FLO TV service allows consumers to stay connected to breaking news as it happens," said Jonathan Barzilay, senior vice president, programming and advertising, MediaFLO USA. "With the addition of CNBC, MSNBC and FOX News, our subscribers will enjoy instant access to national news and up–to–the–minute financial information."
All three channels will offer simulcast programming – airing content at the same time as it appears on cable – and will give consumers on–the–go access to many of the most popular news shows on cable TV, including "Squawk Box," "Mad Money with Jim Cramer" and "Power Lunch" on CNBC; "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," "Hardball with Chris Matthews" and "Morning Joe" on MSNBC; and "FOX & Friends," "The O’Reilly Factor with Bill O’Reilly" and "Hannity & Colmes" on FOX News.
In addition to the new channels, MediaFLO USA’s mobile TV service provides consumers with news programming from CBS News on CBS Mobile; NBC News on NBC 2GO, featuring "The Today Show," "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" and "Meet The Press"; and AT&T Mobile TV customers have access to a full–time CNN Mobile channel.
[Source Qualcomm Press]
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Skip Through Automated Phone Prompts
You probably find 99% of the times when you dial to an institution in the US is to speak to a real person. But the process is often very lengthy and frustrating to get you the right person to talk to. All the companies now have automated phone prompts to cut down on operator costs unless it is really justified.
I ran across to this site Dialahuman, which gives you some great convenient shortcut to get to the real human operator.
Bookmark-worthy nevertheless!
[Via Lifehacker]
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FCC Doc Reveals HTC Dream Frontal Dimensions
An FCC documentation reveals some dimensions of the HTC Dream, the first smartphone that will be powered by Google Android OS.
Here’s how the smartphones compare:
- HTC Dream: 115 x 55-mm
- iPhone 3G: 115.2-mm x 62.1-mm
- Xperia X1: 110.5 x 52.6-mm
- HTC Touch Pro: 102 x 51-mm
Please note: Even though the Sony and HTC devices seem to be smaller in frontal view, they all have the slide keyboard. They all should be substantially thicker than the iPhone.(Graphic courtesy Sizeasy). [Via Engadget]
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ThrottleLock: Pattern Locking Your WM Device
ThrottleLock is a pattern based lock application, fully skinable and with multi-language support. ThrottleLock is a little app to lock your device. It will only be unlocked when a pattern is drawn on a grid of points.
Important:
The default code is to click on the first point (the one on the top left corner).
By default the device will be locked automatically when goes into suspended state. Optionally you can also turn it on by executing the link at Start Menu > Programs > ThrottleLock. If you don’t want the device to automatically lock remove the link placed at \Windows\Startup.
The app is fully skinable. You can change the skin by replacing the png files and modifying the config.xml to change the fonts and colors.
Also the app supports multi-language. Spanish and English translations are included. To translate the app to your language just copy the texts.txt file to a file called texts_XXX.txt where XXX is the 3 chars ISO code for your language and then translate the texts included in that file. Respect the line orders and carriage returns, also take care to keep the UTC16 encoding.
Download HERE!
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RunKeeper: iPhone App for Runner
Runner fans must already know that there were GPS watches, and there were chips in your shoe like Nike+ working with your iPod to track the workouts. The result of each workout session can then be sync’ed with the computer and uploaded to a Web site for analysis.
All of this cumbersome steps and additional hardware could be greatly simplified with the iPhone, which already has an accelerometer, a GPS feature (3G) and the connectivity.
We already spotted few screenshots of the upcoming similar app, and later there were some rumors about these screenshots are perhaps hoax. But luckily you don’t have to wait for it.
I just received from the developer of a new iPhone app called RunKeeper, which has been released on Apple App store, that runs on your iPhone 3G.
You just need to install the app and register at RunKeeper web site. Launch the app when you start running. The app can let the iPod function working for your music listening pleasure during your workout. Upon completion, your data will be sent to RunKeeper web site directly for analysis.
A link to the app in the App Store ($9.99)-
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=286617197&mt=8
Read the first RunKeeper review HERE!
A Hints of Future Windows Mobile
The Gemini Division, a Science Fiction TV show is produced by NBC gives a hint of what Windows Mobile interface will look like. In the first clip, you will see the lead character, played by actress Rosario Dawson showing the long horizontal Windows Mobile powered device.
We know that Microsoft marketing campaign is cranking up with $300 millions in budget to rekindle its image with more Hollywood product placements and competitive advertisement campaign, which have been fruitful for Apple.
We hope this is a “real” shape of things to come!
[Source NBC's website via PPCT].
Top Olympic Images
After 16 days, the Olympics have come to a close. Later on I will certainly watch the closing ceremony with the family. I hope it will be as spectacular as the opening one.
While we are waiting, enjoy a montage of Getty images from some of the most memorable moments at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Two Wonderful Ways to Explore Flickr Photos
Flickr.com, a Yahoo owned online service offering free and paid photo service hosting. But unlike other hundred others similar services, Flickr offers open source API (Application Program Interface), which means you can enjoy several third party Web apps to front-end to the vast amount of uploaded photos to select what you are looking for. I am showing here two wonderful apps for your viewing pleasure:
TAGgalaxy.com : you can look for tags (a shortname that people give when they upload photos to Flickr to represent what the photo is about). As you can imagine a tag such Washington can easily provides thousands of photos.
TAGgalaxy lets you enter a tag and also additional tags to drill down to a smaller manageable photos, the process showing some planets with size representing the amount of photos .
Once you are happy with your set of tags. The app then contacts Flickr to fetch the photos in to a sphere that you can manipulate in all directions to explore the photos. Click on any photos, user can see the option to go to Flickr page that photo belongs.
If the sphere can not contain all selected photos, you can use the top arrow to navigate to the next set, etc…
EarthAlbum.com: As we mentioned tag earlier, photo can carry tag describing the location where the photo is taken. EarthAlbum mashups Google Map and Flickr to basically give you pictures related to a ping pointed location on the map of the world. Click on any location, and geotagged photos appear in a strip on the top of the interface. Click one to see it larger and get a description from the photographer. Naturally, you can zoom in on the map to get more specific choices. Big cities and tourist destinations have the most photos associated with them, but click around to get a variety. You can even search for photos at specific addresses.
Using TAGgalaxy Courtesy of Barrynabdahl
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Weekend Art: Official Pirelli Calendar Collection
The infamous high-end Italian Automobile tire manufacturer publishes yearly some of the most artful galleries of photography.
If you click the link you’ll be taken to the Pirelli Calendar Club web site where you can view all the decades 60’s to 2000 Known in the past for featuring nude or topless shots of the world’s most desirable women, this year’s edition drops the glitz and glamour and puts each model in very artful "Japanese" glamour shots. My favorite is 2007 with “Black & White” Classic Italian.
As bonus, the display is in Flash, which allows you to artfully browser the earlier year editions too! 
Enjoy!