Full version of Google Docs now works on iPad, but you can still go mobile if you want
December 10, 2010 No Comment
The big G just revamped its mobile device interface of Google Docs to make it closer to the full-fledged experience you get when editing from a proper computer — you know, something that probably has a keyboard, a big display, and a price that didn’t come with any two year agreements. Now that top shelf interface is also available on one of those devices that fits somewhere in-between those two segments: the iPad . Users of Apple’s tablet can opt into the desktop version for big-time editing of spreadsheets and documents and, while Google still recommends using the mobile editor, if you want full power it’s yours. Full version of Google Docs now works on iPad, but you can still go mobile if you want originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Olbermann Slammed ‘Racist’ Conservatives for Calling Obama ‘Arrogant,’ Hails ‘Nostradomus’ Dem Who Saw Obama’s ‘Nose in the Air’
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Actor Colin Firth and director Tom Hooper attend a charity screening of ‘The King’s Speech’ in London in support of Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children. (Dec. 10)
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Questions were being asked about security Friday after street protests caught Prince Charles and his wife Camilla as they travelled in London overnight. (Dec. 10)
Continue reading …Microsoft said to be planning second Windows Phone 7 update for MWC in February
December 10, 2010 No Comment
Coming this February, at a Mobile World Congress near you, from the company that popularized the Service Pack : a second major update to Windows Phone 7 . The observant among you will already be leaping out of their seats to point out that the first WP7 update hasn’t even been delivered yet, but it seems like Microsoft’s calendar stretches beyond the next month and the company’s already churning away on enhancing and improving its rebooted mobile OS. Such is the scuttlebutt coming out of WinRumors , and it’s kind of hard to argue with the postulation that Steve Ballmer wouldn’t be keynoting MWC in 2011 without something significant to announce. Word is that users will be getting added customization options for their phones, while developers will gain an extra few API hooks and controls that will ideally lead to more sophisticated apps in WP7′s future. Sounds good to us, now how about some landscape love, Microsoft? Microsoft said to be planning second Windows Phone 7 update for MWC in February originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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The Milwaukee, Wisc. district attorney says the woman who was accused of injuring a 100-year-old Wal-Mart greeter and then taken to jail won’t be charged. (Dec. 10)
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Palestinian sources say two residents dead after old shell explodes on street in Sajaiyeh neighborhood
Continue reading …Apple engineer uses Lego to rebuild ancient Greek mechanism, will surely try to patent it (video)
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The Antikythera Mechanism is what you call truly old school technology. Argued to be the world’s oldest known computer, this ancient Greek invention was used some time circa 100BC to calculate and “predict celestial events and eclipses with unprecedented accuracy.” Skipping past the two millennia in which it lay lost on a sea floor somewhere, the Mechanism has now been recreated by an Apple software engineer by the name of Andrew Carol, who has lovingly pieced 1,500 Lego Technic blocks together, creating 110 gears and four gearboxes in total. Each box is responsible for performing one piece of arithmetic, and when the resulting machine is fed with appropriate calendar data, it spits out a (hopefully accurate) prediction for the next time a solar eclipse should occur. All well and good, but we’re really just amazed by the beauty of those gears working. Check them out after the break. Continue reading Apple engineer uses Lego to rebuild ancient Greek mechanism, will surely try to patent it (video) Apple engineer uses Lego to rebuild ancient Greek mechanism, will surely try to patent it (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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‘Kindness was a keynote throughout your life,’ Prime Minister Netanyahu says during funeral
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Photo: the Independent O.k.; which one is the real panda and which is the scientist? It’s a tough one: scientists in China are dressing up as pandas in order to prepare the bears for release into the wild. Pandas are an endangered species, there are just 2,500 left and they can’t get too used to human contact because it will make them too tame. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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