Monthly Archives: February 2010

[Pre] WebOS 1.4 With Free Need 4 Speed, Sims, and Monopoly

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It seems Palm has eventually understood that Germany might be an important market for their Pre. The Pre is the most sold smartphone on the carrier O2 Germany. O2 Germany yesterday started to distribute webOS 1.4. The update we’ve all been waiting for desperately.

Free commercial Games for german customers

Sadly Electronic Arts’ free download offer for:

  • Need for Speed
  • The Sims
  • Monopoly

is for german customers only. Sorry guys from whereever you are.

New features

WebOS comes with some minor ;-) feature additions:

  • Video recording and editing
  • Video uploading to Facebook and Youtube
  • Better performance when starting apps
  • Telephone app performs a lot faster
  • Longer battery runtime
  • Messaging software allows calling numbers directly
  • SMS/MMS can be forwarded via e-mail
  • Videos can be attached to MMS’
  • phone numbers can be called from the calendar
  • E-mails can be sorted by date, sender, and subject
  • Middle button blinks as notification
  • Wi-Fi can be deactivated again if in sleep (prolonged battery life about 30% in first test)
  • Adobe Flash 10.1 support (will be added to the App Catalog soon)

Find a lot more about the Pre’s latest update in this article on Golem.de (click here for autotranslated version).

[Muzaq] Alcoholic Faith Mission: My Eyes To See

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When two guys from Denmark feel it is too narrow there and they decide to move to Brooklyn, so how does this sound then? Listen carefully to “My Eyes to See”. It is taken from AFM’s upcoming Album “Let This Be the Last Night We Care” (to be released on March 5th, 2010).

Description? No, thanks this is something between post-rock, electronic and pop. Just listen, it sounds very nice. If this was mainstream pop, we could turn on the radio without having to barve again and again.

By the way, they are touring through Europe in March 2010. Check their dates here.

» Alcoholic Faith Mission…

[Muzaq] Sinclair: Cold in Berlin

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London based Electro-Pop producer Sinclair seem to have visited Berlin during the last eight weeks. Yes since the end of december 2009 Berlin is full of snow.

Picture is courtesy of Sinclair.

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You think: snow? Are those Berlin people crazy? Yes, we are. Snow is kinda very rare here in Berlin, although the winter gets very cold here and temps go down to -20 degrees celsius. Anyway now we had snow and even more snow and lots of more snow for the last eight weeks.

She seem to have taken some pics on her trip to snowy Berlin and used them in the vid for her song: “Cold in Berlin”.

Enjoy “It’s so cold in Berlin, but I’m feeling kinda hot”…

» Sinclair on Rupert’s MySpace.com…
» Sinclair on Twitter.com…

[Pre] Adobe Releases Flash 10.1 Beta To Developers

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On the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Adobe released Flash 10.1 beta. This non public release aims at developers to allow them to make final changes to their Flash based websites to make them compatible to mobile devices.

Currently some Flash based applications are not adjusted to mobile devices. So touching buttons on small displays is not working best. Adobe recommends Flash content providers to adjust their products for mobile devices.

Adobe Flash 10.1 is coming to Google’s Android, Symbian OS, Palm’s WebOS, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry. A final version will be finished in mid 2010.

Adrian Ludwig of Adobe says, technically the Flash platform could easily be enrolled to the iPhone, but Apple’s license policies does not allow that at the moment. Moreover he says In december 2010 more than 7million iPhone and iPod Touch users tried to browse to Adobe’s Flash installer website to find out it is not available for that device.

The video and advertisement is courtesy of Golem.de…

The video and advertisement is courtesy of Golem.de aswell…

[Pre] Eight Keyboard Shortcuts For WebOS

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1. Soft Reboot

  • Hold these keys at once Orange Key + Sym Key + R

2. Make Screenshot

  • Hold these keys at once Orange Key + Sym Key + P

3. Num Lock

  • double click Orange Key

4. Caps Lock

  • double click Shift Key

5. Highlight Text

  • Hold Shift Key and mark text on screen
  • Highlighted text becomes yellow backgrounded

6. Copy Text to Clipboard

  • Highlight text as described above
  • Hold finger to the gesture area (right or left of the middle button)
  • The middle button begins to glow
  • Press C Keyon keyboard to copy

7. Cut Text to Clipboard

  • Highlight text as described above
  • Hold finger to the gesture area (right or left of the middle button)
  • The middle button begins to glow
  • Press X Key on keyboard to cut

8. Paste Text from Clipboard

  • put cursor to the place where you want text pasted
  • Hold finger to the gesture area (right or left of the middle button)
  • The middle button begins to glow
  • Press V Key on keyboard to paste

[Bing] Microsoft Bing Maps As The Real Second Life

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Microsoft seems to be putting lots of money into their geo mapping services. They are not only integrating 3D views, that can be zoomed fluently into, they are integrating real time recordings and historical pictures as long as they contain geo data. If that is not enuff for you: they also integrated the view on the stars that of course changes when you move or adjust the time.

A little too much information? Check this presentation by Microsoft Live Labs’ architect Blaise Aguera y Arcas – also known as the creator of Photosynth, the technology that is now being integrated into Bing Maps.

Well, do you still think there is need for Linden’s Second Life?

1. Demoing Bing 3D Maps (courtesy of TED.com)…

2. Demoing Photosynth in 2007 (also courtesy of TED.com)…

[Muzaq] Dukes of Windsor: It’s A War

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[Update] Former article title: [Muzaq] Dukes of Windows: It’s A War. Yes, you’d better not ask. And no, (sadly) Microsoft is not paying us for those typos…

That’s the sound of Australians living here in Berlin. The song “It’s A War” is taken from their upcoming album “It’s A War”. Until then enjoy the latest single from the Dukes of Windsor.

YouTube might have disabled access to this song from some countries… Did we tell you about swedish VPN services yet? No? Ok, we’re gonna catch up on that soon ;-)

Links

» Wikipedia.org: Dukes of Windsor…
» MySpace.com: Dukes of Windsor…

[Pre] Recommended Apps: Reboot Scheduler

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Many of us know the phenomenon. The longer we use the iPhone or the Palm Pre the slower it goes. Rebooting the system always helped on either device.

For the Palm Pre there is now a solution that is called Reboot Scheduler by Zinge, which allows to automize the reboot process and to schedule it to a certain time.

We feel this is a nice tool for people running homebrew apps on their Pre anyway. You find it via the PreCentral repository.

That’s what we really like about the Palm Pre WebOS platform: it embraces the homebrew developers. No jailbreaking, no hassle.

Kudos fly out to Zinge and the PreCentral team.

Links

» PreCentral.net: Palm Pre Reboot Scheduler…

Screenshot is courtesy of PreCentral.net…

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