Got a Droid? Wish it supported the pinch and zoom gesture (which Android 2.0 does but is not turned on for the Droid)? If so, you might want to consider downloading and installing the free Dolphin Browser from the Android Market. As you can see in my demo, it supports the pinch and zoom gesture even on the Droid.
Category: Mobile Devices
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Google Goggles (Visual Search) for Android Video Demo
Sorry for the difficult to see screen demo on the Droid. Brightness cranked up but still nearly impossible to see. But, I wanted to quickly put up some kind of demo of Google Goggles running on a Droid. So, here it is such as it is 🙂
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Podcast 39: Nuance Speech to Text Powering AT&T Voicemail to Text Service – John Pollard/GM
In Podcast 39 I speak with Nuance Communications General Manager John Pollard about the their speech-to-text techology that powers the recently announced AT&T Wireless Voicemail to Text service (a $9.99 per month service).
– John Pollard technology industry background
– Information about Nuance
– How AT&T Voicemail to Text works
– Value proposition?Audio quality note: John and I bought had problems with Skype the morning of the podcast (December 4). So, I used my LiveScribe Pulse Smartpen to record the discussion from a conventional phone call. I used an HTC Touch Pro2 (Windows Mobile 6.1) phone on my side of the conversation. I mixed the stereo audio recorded by the pen’s headset down to mono so that John’s voice could be heard over both speakers instead of just the left channel.
This podcast is 21 minutes and 41 seconds long.
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Blog Post Test Using Eee PC T91MT Pen Input & LiveWriter
This text was entered using a stylus on an Asus Eee PCT91MT touch screen net book. It is a slow and imprecise so far. typing on a keyboard is a lot faster for me. I wonder it this process becomes faster with practice?
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Podcast 38: Android App Recommendations discussion with Frank McPherson
In Podcast 38 Windows Mobile expert, and now Android enthusiast/expert, Frank McPherson joins me once again to “talk Android”. The focus of this 31 minute 7 second long podcast is Android app recommendations. I also took the opportunity to ask Frank to describe the process of purchasing an app from the Android market. We discussed the following apps:
Frank’s paid app recommendations:
– DoggCatcher ($9.99) podcasting client
– Advanced Task Manager (99 cents)Frank’s free app recommendations:
– Glympse location sharing
– Sherpa location discoveryTodd’s free app recommendations:
– Bonsai Blast game
– Weather Channel
– WiFi AnalyzerFinally, Frank and I discussed our Android app wish list.
You can find Frank’s website at: http://frankmcpherson.com
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People who have never seen a netbook should not write op-eds about them
I think it was Harlan Ellison who said: Everyone is entitlted to an INFORMED opinion. So, while I disagree with this TechRepublic article subject line, I figured it was worth taking a look at…
Netbooks are dead. Long live the notebook
That was the case until I read its first sentence: Netbooks — those underpowered mini laptops with 7-inch screens and unusable little keyboards — are a dying fad. Say what? A 7-inch screen? There hasn’t been a mainstream netbook with a 7-inch screen since the first generation Asus (the Eee PC 701) that introduced the netbook concept in 2007. Quite honestly, I stopped reading the article at that point. The standard netbook LCD screen is 10.1 inches these days with a smattering of models with 9-inch displays (like the touchscreen Asus Eee PC T91MT I recently bought).