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While, this was a slow week, there have been some awesome things. I AM really sorry for not getting them to you right away, so here it is…

• The Google Android was shown at the mobile conference. It wasn’t really much, since it was actually the emulator displayed on a Texas Mobile Instruments mobile phone. The actual OS is delayed. The Sony phone for the Android will be out in 2009.

• Firefox 3 Beta was introduced to the world, and I love it. It doesn’t seem buggy, and the address bar is an actual search engine for any website you’ve gone to. Type in a word that you found on a page, and it will search all pages with that word. It’s awesome!

• Pmog is a private beta site that allows you to play one game all across the net. A browser add-on docked at the bottom of your browser allows you to play missions and drop things such as mines. Then, when other Pmog users go onto the particular site, they get hurt by your mine. Creative, right?

Well, that’s basically it. I’ll try to keep you updated all of the time.

Sprout is a creative builder which allows you to build widgets (or sprouts) easily. It uses flash to build and then easily allows you to embed or post this on anything including facebook. It allows you to add music, videos, dates, images, and more to a sprout. Here is a sample of what you can do:


Right now, Sprout is in private beta, but you might be able to get an account with this. Just go to the building area, create something, save it, and it will ask you to create an account before you work is saved. There you have it!

Today is a beautiful day. The birds are chirping, the wind is burping, and above all, aim is now on gmail. Of course, it has fewer features than the regular AIM messenger has, but it still talks to your friends, right? Right. I’ve been waiting for this feature for months. it is so useful to me because I have many friends who don’t use Gmail, but AIM. I don’t always find time for AIM in fact, I haven’t been on it for three months. Thanks to this, I will be on AIM while checking my emails.

Thanks Google!

P.S. And no, you can’t have my screenname.

Freewebs has finally (after over a year of waiting) introduced fotowhoosh a site where you can transfer your old 2d pics into glamorous 3d photos. Right now, you cannot upload to the website, but you can use your facebook photos in this application. It takes a pretty long time to render (5 to 15 minutes to be exact). However, it does not make you wait. You can go back to do what you do on facebook, come back, and view it. Make no mistake, the 3d photos do not make pictures look authentic, but they do magnify objects and give one the sense of traveling into your photo. It is another great feature of the web.

I just received a private beta invite from Docsyncer. It is freakin awesome. You synch your documents with Google Docs and Docsyncer’s servers and then you can go anywhere in the world and not have to worry about printing your documents out, or forgetting them at home. All it takes is a download a small program and Bam! You are worry free. The program works in the background so that whenever you edit a document, the site uploads it. Docsyncer also has a time line, so you can view how your documents looked in the past. The site is working on a way to let you upload a document from another computer and send it to your computer so that the document will be open on your computer when you return home.

Hello everyone who has stayed with this blog. I am very sorry that we were away this November, but am glad to inform you that I’m back. On this post, I will give a review of the month. So lets get into it.

The Kindle is a mini computer designed by Amazon that allows you to buy books, news papers, and blogs off of amazon and then download it right off of the Kindle. The internet is free because amazon struck a deal with Sprint. I don’t know the speciics of the dea, but I guess that’s why book prices are kind of high. If you just want to use the internet, though, it’s free. The screen is book-like and dim to attract the people who do not like reading of of the glossy screens of today. It also has some note-taking abilities. I would like to see Amazon strike deals with major school textbook companies so students don’t have to lug around with heavy textbooks, breaking their backs. Then and ONLY then, will I buy something like this. MacWorld has a really good article on what we know and what we don’t know about the Kindle.

Flashphone is an awesome free flash browser based phone. It is based in Russia. Right now (as a Beta procedure) you are only allowed to have three minutes talking time, but the company says that when it’s out of beta, it will have unlimited minutes. The company’s money source is based on ads that come on before the call takes place.

iHound is an iPod tracker that tracks where the iPod i so that if you ever lose it or it gets stolen, you can find it. The way it works is whenever an iPod is plugged into a computer, the computer’s wifi sends a signal to the website, informing you where it is. This tracking idea is really good unless your guy is pour, which is usually the case with stealers, and does not use wifi, likes your collection of music, is a hacker, uses a firewall, owns a gun, lives in a bad neighborhood, or lives in another continent.

Doodlekit is a nice website creator that gives advanced tools to non-techies

On another note, the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (weird name) is an awesome idea. It awards $100 and a Google t-shirt to developers, 13 to 18 who do three things on several open source projects. The person who does the most for the open source projects get a free trip to Google’s complex in California baby!

But the most favorite of mine this month, isn’t that Verizon went open (which really isn’t open ), but the LiveScribe Smart Pen. It is pen that does just about everything that you hope for in a pen. Here is a summary of the pen:

Smartpen

Just slightly larger than a Montblanc, Livescribe’s smartpen is designed to replace the everyday pen as a user’s primary writing instrument. Leveraging recent breakthroughs in memory, storage, microprocessors, connectivity and component size, the smartpen is an advanced paper-based computer, with both audio and visual feedback, powerful processing capabilities and substantial built-in storage.

Dot Paper with Dot Positioning System (DPS)

Imagine a piece of paper the size of Europe and Asia, where every 3 square millimeters is covered with a unique pattern of dots that is nearly invisible to the human eye. The pattern of simple, micro-dots enables a patented dot-positioning system to precisely track the smartpen’s movement on paper. As a result, anything you write – words, numbers or drawings – can be stored, recognized, and intelligently responded to by the Livescribe smartpen.

Livescribe’s dot paper notebooks and documents will be provided by the company and partners at prices near standard paper. Dot paper may also be printed on certified home or business printers.

Applications

The possibilities for paper-based computing applications are endless – with tools and games that enhance personal productivity, learning, communications, and entertainment.

Never miss a word One of the key applications at launch for the Livescribe platform is called “Paper Replay,” which allows total recall from lectures, meetings or conversations by simply tapping on your notes. When used to take notes during a discussion or lecture, the smartpen records the conversation and digitizes the handwriting, automatically synchronizing the ink and audio. By later tapping the ink, the user can replay the conversation from the exact moment the note was written. Notes and audio can also be uploaded to a PC where they can be replayed, saved, searched or sent.

Create, share, and collaborate – Other applications will use the power of the Internet to enable personal expression. Handwritten messages can be sent as emails. Animated, hand-drawn “movies” can be posted and shared online. Spoken messages can be recorded, linked with written notes and emailed directly from a notepad.

“Live” documents that work – Other applications available for download will use handwriting recognition and pre-printed materials to bring your paper to life. Write a math problem and the smartpen will interpret your writing, calculate the answer and speak it or show it on its OLED display. Write a word and hear or see its definition or even its translation into another language. Tap a pre-printed map, conversion table, customer survey, magazine ad, or study guide, and the smartpen instantly launches an application that enables direct user interaction.

Cool, huh? It also allows you to create an application for the pen.
Bang!

I’ve been trying to get to fix8, because I’ve recently gotten a chance to check it out. Fix8 is an awesome program that renders a cartoon face over your face and uses face recognition to make your emotions on the cartoon look real. Of course, you do have to have a webcam. This free program also allows you to talk on messengers that are web cam capable. Enjoy your cartoon.

As a fan of Bob Dylan and Facebook, I am in love with this application. It won a Bob Dylan contest on Facebook to promote Bob Dylan’s new soundtrack and I’ll tell you, it made me aware of this new cd and also made me want to buy it a whole lot. This App is an edited version of Bob Dylan’s new or old (I forgot) music video. With it, you get to decide the text that goes on each page of the cards. To better understand this, here is the original version of the video.

Scout Agent is a new unique download that looks at your podcasts and songs on Itunes. It. recommends other music and podcasts based on what you have. Life couldn’t get any better.

There’s too much TV online now these days. I think it’s one of the biggest online businesses. A new TV application, made by HP, is going to be put on all running HP computers  it’s going to be an upgrade for all running HP’s running Windows Vista. They’re also working on giving this TV application to non-HP owners to run on their desktops. Their website is called next.tv.