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Android - Google’s upcoming software for mobile phones

Posted by MoiN 30 May, 2008 (0) Comment

A brief demonstration at the Internet search leader’s annual developer conference in San Francisco represented the most extensive public look so far at “Android” - an open-source platform being designed for “smart” phones and other mobile devices that surf the Web. Android was first announced nearly seven months ago.

The bells and whistles unveiled Wednesday included: a way to unlock phones by drawing a specific shape on the touchscreen instead of entering a password; bookmarks for favorite Web sites on the device’s home page; a “compass” tool that automatically roams with the phone while a user looks at photographic images of a city map; a magnifying tool to zoom in on Web content; and a mobile version of the video game “Pac Man.”

Android is being developed by The Open Handset Alliance which consists for more than 30 Mobile and Technology companies.: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform. To help developers get started developing new applications, google is offering an early look at the Android Software Development Kit.Three part overview of the Android architecture and APIs

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Floola Version 2.5 is here

Posted by MoiN 23 January, 2008 (0) Comment

Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It’s a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (Windows Vista is supported).

Floola supports all common used iPod features including artwork, podcasts and smart playlists! It’s also able to convert audio or video incompatible with the iPod so that you can copy almost any file to it. It even allows adding youtube and myspace videos just entering the page url!

Features:

Cross plattform
Works on any Windows (98 and above), any Mac and any linux distribution with GTK installed.

Localization
Available in different languages.

Lyrics
Lyric support even on older iPods (3G and above).

Search for duplicates
Easily find duplicated songs on iPod.

Search lost files
Easily find songs lost in your iPod.

Artwork
Add artwork to your songs easily.

Videos
Videos can be added to iPod.

Convert
Convert audio and video incompatible formats

Portable
Put the application on iPod and launch it on any PC, immediately.

Copy
add and extract songs to and from iPod.

Playlists
Easily manage, import and export (m3u, pls) playlists.