Episode 202 – The Dutch Sandwich Meets the Double Irish

By | June 2, 2014

Reading Rainbow

Guru records live from Florida.

Show Notes

  • In Other News
    • The Laptop…not dead yet. At the least…the experience of a hardware keyboard is not something easily replaced with a touchscreen.
    • Levar Burton seeking to bring back Reading Rainbow, including an Android app. For $400, Levar will record you a customized voicemail….
    • Fernando Corbato, age 87, one of the people credited with inventing the password, keeps his on a few sheets of typed paper.
    • Softbank may be buying Deutsche Telekom’s stake in T-Mobile US.
  • Platform News
    • Google Stars..a replacement for the Chrome Bookmarking system. This brings back some of the link sharing functionality of Google Reader, along with the ability for Google to learn more about you and sort your data.
    • Future versions of Android likely to block system write access outside of recovery, even to root users.
    • Android TV rumored to launch at Google I/O
    • Google+ continues to try to reinvent the photo album with Google+ Stories.
  • App News
    • Disney releases full episode streaming apps for Android for its channels.
    • Google adds guest mode to Android Device Manager to allow a friend to use your phone to disable/find theirs.
    • Google Camera add 16:9 support, timer, and new panorama mode. (Play Link)