Back in September Google claimed that they will be allowing iOS editing on Google Docs. Well they’ve followed through to this claim and released it!
As an avid Google Docs user I find myself wanting to edit on my iPad since I very rarely use my computer after I got my iPad. And until now you never were available to do that!
This is very exciting to Google Docs users….leave me what you think in the comments!
Facebook recently announced that slowly over the following months that they will be revealing a new email service. This will allow users to get a @facebook.com email address.
Facebook claims that they want to reinvent the email (Which everyone claims to do)
Do you think this will be a win or a fail?
Let me know below.
I wouldn’t really say friend but Cristina Cordova, Vice President of Business Development at Alphonso Labs emailed me stating that Pulse Mini and Pulse News Reader would be going free on all devices across all platforms. She attached a PDF that explained why.
All the PDF said was that the college project is so successful that they have made enough money on it and decided to make it free forever.
Good think to because I was just about to buy it!
Let me know what you think in the comments below!
Earlier today TheAppleBlog had an interesting post that I thought many Apple “fan-boys” should read.
Quote (via TheAppleBlog):
I realize that suggesting a break from Apple products on an Apple blog is heresy, but there are good reasons to pop your head up and look around at what else is out there every once in a while. Gadget tunnel vision is a dangerous thing, for both your sense of perspective and your budget.
Brand Loyalty Carries No Tangible Reward
Brand loyalty can be a very strong emotion, especially around Apple Inc. But what’s it really worth to you? You could argue that by being loyal, you’re encouraging Apple to continue putting out high-quality products, but it’s not a one-to-one relationship. Buying a piece of kit from Sony or someone else here or there won’t destroy Apple’s R&D capabilities.
In reality, you get nothing for your loyalty beyond the ability to wave it in the faces of others who aren’t so loyal. Which, admittedly, can be quite satisfying in the short term, but doesn’t really amount to much in the long run.
Playing the Field Gets You More Action
Pardon the double-entendre, but it’s true that if you have greater variety in your choice of gadgets and tech, you’ll have a much broader base of experience from which to draw for both professional and personal purposes. At work and on resumés, platform agnosticism plays much better than single-minded devotion to one company. Most employees don’t want to see “haven’t touched a Windows machine since ’95″ listed under “Skills.”
Knowing about, say, Android as well as iOS, for example, will also get you far in personal interactions. The one-note Apple guy or girl isn’t always the most popular person at tweetups and tech conferences. Even if you’re debating the merits of OS X versus Windows 7, think how much stronger your argument will be if you’ve actually used both extensively.
Your Apple Vacation Can Be a “Staycation”
You don’t need to invest in new hardware to take a break from Apple. Bootcamp on OS X allows you to run Windows or other operating systems on your Mac computer. Or, if you’d rather not even leave OS X (though I recommend you do), there are always Parallels and VMware Fusion which allow you to run Windows on an emulated machine within Apple’s OS.
You can also even run Android on an iPhone or iPad using OpeniBoot, though it’s pretty buggy. But if you’re the adventurous type, and want to test out Google’s iOS competitor without spending money on new hardware, this could be the way to do it.
The Future Is Multi-Platform
Developers aren’t going to focus on just one platform, so long as user interest in a platform continues to grow. Nor are content providers, advertisers, or enterprise IT departments. There’s no reason why users should, either. Device and platform flexibility will inform UI and UX decisions going forward, and consumers with a wide variety of experience will help inform those decisions.
Apple is a great platform, and will likely remain my platform of choice for the foreseeable future. But that doesn’t mean I’ll use it to the absolute exclusion of all others. Variety is the spice of life, and that maxim applies just as well to my digital existence, too.
Above is an image of the almost non-fiction “Verizon iPhone” posted by ÜberGizmo. You can see it’s a white iPhone 4 with no SIM card slot on the right side, no area for the antenna, and it’s displaying the Verizon Carrier setting. This would be, by no means, difficult to Photoshop. Third party companies already sell white iPhone 4 parts, the phone could be jailbroken making the carrier display “Verizon”, and Photoshop could be used to remove the SIM card slot and antenna.
We’ll see what’s to come in the months ahead. Leave your comments below of what you think about the Verizon iPhone. Is it a myth, will it come early next year, or will it never come at all? Fill us in on what you’re thinking.
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Well, this is the “big” announcement that we were waiting for. On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Apple announced that The Beatles are now on iTunes. You can download your favorite songs from all 13 of The Beatles’ original studio albums or download the complete box set HERE.
Unfortunately, iOS 4.2 has not yet been released and most likely won’t until around the 24th of November. Of course, this does come as a disappointment to many of us but to those who love The Beatles and downloading music via iTunes, I suppose it’s a joyous day for them. Stay tuned to TechGeec.com for all of your most needed updates.
Here is a list of my 10 favorite extensions for the Google Chrome web browser (in no particular order):
1. Clickable Links – Turns unclickable urls & email addresses into clickable ones. Click HERE to download.
2. Downloads - Access the Downloads window directly from the toolbar. Click HERE to download.
3. Firebug Lite for Google Chrome – provides the rich visual representation we are used to see in Firebug when it comes to HTML elements, DOM elements, and Box Model shading. It provides also some cool features like inspecting HTML elemements with your mouse, and live editing CSS properties. Click HERE to download.
4. InvisibleHand – Automatically get the lowest price on whatever you’re buying. Click HERE to download.
5. Session Manager - Session Manager lets you save sessions of your opened tabs and windows, and to quickly re-open them whenever you like. Click HERE to download.
6. Smooth Scroll – Scrolls the websites smoothly when scrolling with the mouse wheel or the keyboard. Click HERE to download.
7. StayFocusd – StayFocusd increases your productivity by limiting the amount of time per day that you can spend browsing time-wasting websites. Click HERE to download.
8. Turn Off the Lights – The entire page will be fading to dark, so you can watch video as if you are in the cinema. Click HERE to download.
9. WOT – Web of Trust is a safe browsing tool, which warns you about risky sites that cheat customers, deliver malware or send spam. Click HERE to download.
10. Xmarks Bookmark and Password Sync - Backup and sync your bookmarks, passwords and open tabs across computers and browsers. Xmarks is also available for Firefox, Safari and IE. Click HERE to download.
As noted by enthusiast blog istartedsomething, Windows Phone 7 is on the verge of being jailbroken. In fact, hackers have already gained root access Windows Phone 7′s registry and file system — their methods simply aren’t yet bundled up in a nice little user-friendly package. “Jailbreaking” or “rooting” is a process that will allow users to install applications that have not been approved by Microsoft. It will also allow developers to build applications that utilize functions of the OS that are not accessible using standard developers tools. As it did with the iPhone, a Windows Phone 7 jailbreak will open up a whole new realm of possibilities for apps and customizations that would otherwise be unavailable to end users.
If you’d like to learn more about iOS (iPhone/iPod touch/iPad) jailbreak, you can view our Q&A section HERE.
Today, November 15, 2010, Apple updated their homepage with the text,
Tomorrow is just another day. That you’ll never forget. Check back here tomorrow for an exciting announcement from iTunes.
Beneath the text, they display four clocks with the time of their announcement. The first clock displays 7:00 AM (California), then 10:00 AM (New York), 3:00 PM (London), and lastly Midnight (Tokyo).
This announcement could be regarding a couple of things. The first (and most plausible), is the release of iOS 4.2. This is a big announcement because with this new firmware, iPad owners can now have all of the iOS 4 features, on the Apple tablet.
The other possibility is the announcement of the Mac App Store. This is most likely not going to be the announcement because just this past week Apple put out an advertisement asking for people to review applications for the soon to be Mac App Store. There is no possible way that they can get all of the reviews in on time if this is going to be the announcement. Thus, iOS 4.2 will most likely be released.
Stay tuned to TechGeec.com to know what the announcement is.
For those who have never heard of the computer software, Boxee, it’s a free program that brings all of your favorite shows that are available online all to one place where you can manage what shows you want to watch now, watch later, or never watch at all. It takes the time you spend searching for your favorite TV shows online out of the equation and it does the work for you. You tell it what you watch, it finds it for you (so long as the TV show has episodes online).
Boxee just recently (November 10, 2010) released what I feel to be the missing link in the “TV box” line. In this day and age when the internet is at the center of almost all of our lives and when almost everything is available online, not one company has yet to release a product that allows the consumer to watch TV shows that are online on their TVs – until now.
The Boxee Box by D-Link is a product that will most likely cause many TV service providers to lose business. If all of the shows that you watch on your TV are available online, then there is absolutely no need for you to spend the money for cable or satellite when you can use Boxee for free. The Boxee Box essentially takes everything from their computer application to your TV, all through a small “box”.
Many might ask themselves, “I’m not going to cancel my service with my cable/satellite provider because I still want to watch live TV and I have a DVR to record all my shows so why would I need a Boxee Box?” That’s a fantastic and extremely easy question to answer. I recently switched from Dish Network to DirecTV and while all of my favorite shows recorded onto the Dish Network DVR, there was no way for
me to transfer those episodes to a computer or to the new DirecTV DVR. I didn’t have the time to watch my recorded shows which resulted in me missing a whole week worth of television shows. Some shows have story lines which carry over to the following week’s episode and I didn’t want to be lost when that time came around. Luckily all of the TV shows I watch are available online. So instead of endlessly searching on the web for the episodes I missed, I went onto Boxee and all of the episodes were right there waiting for me in my queue.
But how does the Boxee Box compare to other TV “boxes” such as the new Apple TV, Google TV, or Roku? You’ll have to wait for our review of the Boxee Box coming in December.
You can pick up your own Boxee Box at Amazon.com for a list price of $229.99. As of November 14, however, Amazon is offering a 13% discount making the price $199.99. If you use Boxee of you already have a Boxee Box, let us know what you think about it my leaving us a comment below this article.