07.19.10

Android phones will be cheaper in future chipsets by favorable

The smart phone operating system Android by Google is one of the best alternative to Windows Mobile and the iOS from Apple. Benefits of the open-source OS brings some, and the simple and individual handling more and more users to the free software. Android could now even more interesting, because there Smartphone with Google operating system it is very likely soon be much cheaper.

Smartphones with the operating system Android, such as the Nexus One, are becoming more popular. The sales increase almost every week, and this could soon happen much more rapidly. The reason for this is the discounted cost for the production of the required chip sets. MediaTek, one of the manufacturers of these chip sets, has now announced that the hardware for Android smartphones from autumn to be significantly cheaper.

Android Handys

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05.18.10

Google Sharing: Firefox addon for Google data-collecting mania

Firefox users who are worried about the security of personal data while surfing the web should see the new Firefox plug-in Google sharing. At least the collective joy of sharing with Google Google is advanced one latch.

The aim of the application that was developed by Moxie Marlinspike by the Institute of Disruptive Studies, it is to be sent to Google annonymisieren data.Without sharing Google Google collects data about our website, such as web pages visited and details about the personal surfing habits. , Agriculture, among others IP address, search terms, browser choice, and many more data to Google’s servers. Many users, this hoarding of Google has long been a thorn in the side.

Google Sharing

02.26.10

Save files online for free with Google Docs up to 1GB

Google has expanded its office suite Docs & Spreadsheets is a free online storage for files. Free 1 GB is available, against payment of up to 16 TB.

1GB Online Speicher

Expected was a long time that Google Docs & Spreadsheets will be expanded to an online disk. Now Google has its collection of office programs such donated online storage for files. The online store in Google Docs & Spreadsheets has come to the generosity of the other group, however, unusually small. Only 1 GB is available in the free version available. The e-mail service, Gmail now brings it to a mailbox size of about 7 GB. Other providers of free “online hard drive” offer considerably more space. For additional online storage can be favorably hinzugebucht at a price of 25 cents per GB for Google Docs particularly large quantities. The smallest package with 20 GB costs only $ 5 a year. That’s enough room for 10,000 photos of a 5 megapixel camera, expect from Google. The second smallest package with 80 GB free online storage space in the $ 20. Zahlungswillige users can choose currently between nine packet sizes. 16 TB (1TB = 1,024 GB) are getting for $ 4096 a year. For online store of this magnitude Google will have few rivals. The upload is done via a small dialog box that simple, but is not very comfortable.A new destination folder in the online store must also create one in advance, it can not be only create one if you have checked their files for upload to store already. For 1 GB of free disk space, the comfort is sufficient, but for larger amounts of data that is still not a viable solution.

However, Google provides an API for developers are available, so it sometimes provides a comfortable software for uploading and downloading of files to Google Docs & Spreadsheets will be. By default, Google converts the files of a number of different formats in the Google Docs format. By clicking on the relevant checkbox can be turned off the automatic conversion. Files stored online can be shared with others, and sent by e-mail.

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02.21.10

Translate widget to translate texts

TranslateIt

Are you interested in having a dashboard widget to translate sentences and paragraphs on the fly? Translate is a good solution. It can translate between several languages, for which it uses the translation engine Google, but unless we go to the website of Google and do the same time we will win. Bit field are the creators of, among other applications, Submerge, the great tool for subtitling films that spoke to us and Pedro Santa maria on this entry. The truth is that the translation engine of Google, while not perfect, has improved markedly over time and can get us out of trouble.

TranslateIt is free and can help accelerate tasks, so if you need to translate texts from time to time is a good bet.

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