From GigaOm this morning – VLC Media Player is back in the iTunes store. It supports playing any type of media file (even non-Apple friendly) and downloads videos from any URL. There’s also a connection to Dropbox. Looks good.
Month: July 2013
From 9-5 Mac. Always looking for these tips, and had no idea that number of tabs open ran down my battery life.
There’s an article on Engadget that explains why the first command for Google Glass is “OK, Glass.” I must say, I did wonder why. It is supposed to be “functional and subtle enough not to embarrass the user in public.” Full story here.
All Things D published this article of all Music Startups since 2007. Not so long ago, and so many! Many have still survived. I forgot about many, but fun to take a trip down memory lane.
This is from Wired – great optical illusions posted on Vine. They are fun to watch, and really tricky to do.
Interesting survey mentioned on GigaOm, showing the same level of interest in making smartphone apps as they do in making tablet apps. Smartphones are the extension everyone has to their body, but tablets seem to be the place where there’s more room for growth. This piece shows us the difference (which, no surprise, is different when applied to development of Android apps.)
This article, from Quartz, is actually called “What I learned from researching almost every single smart watch that has been rumored or announced” and it is not about what you would think – it’s about the unspoken holy grail of portable consumer electronics. Battery power. There is chart at the link showing how battery capacity has increased since 1990 vs. how wireless transfer speed, CPU speed, and other technologies have progressed over the same period of time. Battery life extension technology has gone almost nowhere while capacity for everything else tech continues to get better and better. The limit of capability, in more and more cases, will be how long a battery will last.
This is interesting. According to All Things D, only 5% of tablet buyers buy anything other than the WiFi version. It goes on to say that even the tablets sold with wireless chips often go unused, even when cellular enabled. Article and graph here.
What they fail to mention is that most smartphones have a mobile hotspot – or to mention how many people just assume they’re already paying for one data plan (hotspot on phone or MiFi) so why not just tether it that way?
Workplace Learning in the Digital Age 