Guru and Jere will be attending the Southeast Linux Fest in Charlotte, NC the weekend of June 7-June 11.
Show Notes
- Final Prep for SELF.
- Hypercard turns 25.
- AT&T CEO suggests the future is data plans, with some traffic ‘toll free’, not counted toward your allowance. Content providers would pay for traffic on their sites. Voice and text would be VoIP/data based services.
- LTE allowing CDMA users to have a SIM card for the first time, as the industry and Apple consider embedded SIMS, taking away same portability from users who have it now.
- nanoSIM standard approved.
- Platform News
- ICS up to 7.1% of devices, Gingerbread at 65%, Froyo at 19.1%, others too small to mention.
- Google holding Maps Event on Wednesday to show off the “next dimension” of Maps.
- Google Drives to offer offline mode in a few weeks.
- PowerA introduces Moga Bluetooth controller for Android. Will controllers for cell phones allow them to replace handheld gaming devices?
- Should the Menu Button be killed finally in favor of Action Overflow?
- Google Voice adds custom settings for callers who aren’t in your contact list
- App News
- SiriusXM satellite radio app gets update, still need an Internet subscription
- Hotspot Shield VPN now available for Android, offers free VPN services(assuming you trust them to protect your data). Free includes basic encryption and ads, Elite version is $1.99/month or $19.99/year and adds private browsing, malware protection, and bandwidth compression. Does not yet support ICS or Honeycomb.
- Google Translate updated to ICS design. (Play Link)
- Official TicketMaster App now available. (Play Link)
- New Swiftkey 3 Beta released, hopefully soon out of beta, just keeps improving.
- Google Maps updated, adds local tab with Zagat rating.
- ClipSync syncs your phone and computer clipboard. (Play Link)
- Evernote Hello remembers who people are so you don’t have to. The app not only allows you to enter a person into your phone and put a face to the name, but it also builds up the context of where and when you met, what you may have had in common, or even what they were wearing. (Play Link)
- Have you tried Go Backup? Backs up Contacts, Go Launcher settings, and Apps(Root required) (Play Link)
- Do you want to sync your phone and your fridge? Samsung’s Music Hub seeks to do that.
- Guru plans to try Food Planner (Play Link), will inventory his cabinets to stop wasting food and plan meals.
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