Android – TimBatchelder

Snooperscope iPhone night vision lens

December 7, 2013December 26, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management

Hunt ghosts with Snooperscope smartphone night vision lens
by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com

This magnetic device lets you act like a creepy spy, observe nocturnal wildlife, or see Kinect infrared dots.

Maybe you want to check out whatever it was that just went bump in the night. Or maybe you just want to see things in the dark. Here’…

http://flip.it/l8MWp

Turn your smartphone into night vision goggles with Snooperscope (mnn.com)
Snooperscope: Night Vision for Your Smartphone (freshnessmag.com)
Take that selfie in the dark! Night vision is coming to smartphones (digitaltrends.com)

Qardio unveils portable, wireless cardiovascular monitoring devices

August 21, 2013August 29, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Qardio unveils portable, wireless cardiovascular monitoring devices.

Qardio Monitors Send Real-Time Stats to Your Doctor (mashable.com)
GadgeTell Review: SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive (technologytell.com)
Broadcom Eyes Big Role in Wearable Technology (eweek.com)
Starbucks expanding pilot wireless charging program to Silicon Valley (electronista.com)

Gmail now allows you to designate trustee after you die

May 18, 2013July 2, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security Privacy

Act Now Or, When You Die, Your Secret Love Letters Will Belong To Google
BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com

Gmail’s recent policy changes that let you designate someone to control your account after you’re gone is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the confusing issues around who can access your online life once you pass away.

After you die, the…

http://flip.it/hISS5

Google’s Response to Glass Privacy Concerns Disappoints Congressman (hngn.com)
Secret warrant used to access WikiLeaks volunteer’s Gmail account (theverge.com)
Google handed over years of e-mails belonging to WikiLeaks chatroom admin (arstechnica.com)
New Gmail app adds a touch of color — and frustration – Computerworld (computerworld.com)

Adobe redesigns a pen to draw on the Internet

May 18, 2013July 2, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management

How Adobe Reinvented The Pen To Draw On The Internet
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

What is the future of the cloud-connected interface? How about a simple pen and ruler?

This week, Adobe announced that the Creative Suite was becoming the subscription-based Creative Cloud. It didn’t go so well. But amidst the bad news, we ma…

How Adobe Reinvented The Pen To Draw On The Internet http://flip.it/AF1D6 http://flip.it/dHQf3

Adobe Photoshop CC Has Apparently Been Cracked One Day After Launch (petapixel.com)
There’s next to no cloud in the Adobe Creative Cloud (community.csc.com)
Top 5 Myths of Creative Cloud ***IT Edition*** (blogs.adobe.com)
Adobe’s VP of Experience Design Michael Gough on Paper dependency and the omniscient gadget (techinamerica.com)
Adobe to buy digital marketing software company for $600 mln (adithyaentertainment.wordpress.com)

Collabfinder: make hackathons a part of college life

April 9, 2013June 21, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life
By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com

A growing list of schools are turning to the “serendipity engine” to help students find cross-discipline collaborators for passion projects.

After he graduated from UCLA with a degree in philosophy, Sahadeva Hammari emailed one of his…

CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life http://flip.it/aV26T http://flip.it/R4F4z

Living the Lockout Hackathon (dublintenementexperience.wordpress.com)
Shrinivasan: Chennai Geeks June Hackathon on Android apps development. (goinggnu.wordpress.com)
Just re-launched: Collabfinder (swiss-miss.com)
Let’s enjoy the backlash against hackathons (mathbabe.org)
New York Hosts Music Research and Music Education Hackathons (hypebot.com)

Cultivate your power users if you want to succeed

March 27, 2013June 20, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

If You Want Your App To Take Off, Learn To Reward Your Power Users
By Lars Albright, fastcompany.com

Yikes: 70 percent of the people who download your app will never, ever look at it again. So you better learn how to create and coddle power users.

Mobile apps are booming by all the basic measures, like downloads and total users. It’s the…

http://flip.it/SLkxR

Digg Reader ready to save power users from Google Reader shutdown (geek.com)
Zemanta Power User – Stephanie Bernaba at Momma Be Thy Name (zemanta.com)

How trapped are your digital movies and TV shows?

January 31, 2013February 12, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

How trapped are your digital movies and TV shows?
by Danny Sullivan, cnet.com

Buying films or TV episodes from a digital media outlet may be great if you watch though one particular device. But what happens if you change from iOS to Android? From a PC to a Mac? From a Roku to Apple TV? We chart it out.

Have you decided t…

RT @CNETNews: How trapped are your digital movies and TV shows? @dannysullivan sorts it all out http://flip.it/Bb5uk http://flip.it/scCQW

How trapped are your digital movies and TV shows? (timbatchelder.wordpress.com)
FBI Employees Download Pirated Movies and TV-Shows (theintelhub.com)
Tesco Launches a Free TV and Movie Streaming Service to Take on Netflix, LoveFilm and Now TV (gizmodo.co.uk)
Apple TV vs. Roku LT: Which streaming box should you buy? (reviews.cnet.com)
Apple TV vs. Roku: Which streaming box should you buy? (reviews.cnet.com)
TorGuard Launches VPN Router and HDTV Box Online Store (prweb.com)

Lumoback Posture-Monitoring

January 11, 2013April 23, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital Health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Network Science, Regenerative Economy

Start-Up Behind Lumoback Posture-Monitoring Gadget Raises $5M
Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com

Lumo BodyTech, which makes a wearable waistband that tracks posture and movement and vibrates when the wearer slouches, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group.

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up double…

http://flip.it/mi6cM

Posture Police (wired.com)
LUMOback Posture Sensor (werd.com)
By 2020, You’ll Own 50 Internet-Connected Devices (huffingtonpost.com)
Home and health devices controlled by apps on the rise (reuters.com)
SXSW: Use big data tools to chart your own data (zdnet.com)

Why Apple, Google and Microsoft are not doomed

December 30, 2012January 3, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Contrary to media frenzies, Apple is not giving up on innovation (it is actually becoming a more efficient, responsible, transparent and happier place to work).

Image via CrunchBase

The Year of Doom For Microsoft, Google and Apple
Haydn Shaughnessy, forbes.com

2012 was the year of the doom merchant in business. In the fantasy world of dying planets earth survived but if you listen to the doom mongers, Microsoft, Apple, Google and a whole lot of other companies are on their death bed.

There a…

RT @ForbesTech: The year of doom for Microsoft, Google and Apple http://flip.it/yhyHD http://flip.it/GQt5g

Microsoft renews plea for crackdown on Google (thehimalayantimes.com)
Microsoft trumps Apple and Google, buys R2 Studios (slashgear.com)
Microsoft Just Bought a Company That’ll Help the Xbox Win Your Living Room (gizmodo.co.uk)
Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone (tech.slashdot.org)
Google Executives Told YouTube Not To Enable A First-class YouTube Experience On Windows Phones (wmpoweruser.com)

Location based culture data app

December 28, 2012January 3, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

Nicko sez, “Sitegeist is a free Android and iPhone app from the Sunlight Foundation that helps you to learn more about your surroundings in seconds. Sitegeist takes public data about the people, housing, history, environment and thing…

Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in – Boing Boing http://flip.it/tQRnP http://flip.it/Fe1ZG

Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in (boingboing.net)
Sitegeist: A mobile app that tells you about your data surroundings (flowingdata.com)
iPhone Apps Of The Week: Sitegeist, Flickr, and More (gizmodo.co.uk)
Infographic your world with Sitegeist (tuaw.com)

bOING-bOING-02 (Photo credit: Frauenfelder)

Dashcam: iPhone black box app for car

December 28, 2012January 6, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital Health, Knowledge Management

(via DashCam: The iPhone BlackBox App For Your Car – Mobile Magazine)

30 Best iPhone and iPad apps this week (guardian.co.uk)

Funf: computational social science in your pocket

December 19, 2012April 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Open-source Funf platform taps into Android’s huge knowledge about you
By Daniel Cossins, wired.co.uk

Magazine

This article was taken from the November 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing…

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Why Google just hired the Behavio Team (glass-apps.org)
Silicon Alley Insider: Google Just Bought A Cool SXSW Startup, Behavio (GOOG) (businessinsider.com)
Knight Foundation-Backed Mobile Sensor Startup Behavio Shuts Down As Founders Join Google (rosevilleitconsult.wordpress.com)

Misfit wearable is superior to Fitbit

November 28, 2012April 8, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

Watch Out Fitbit, This Badass New Activity Tracker Is Out to Eat Your Lunch
Peter Ha, gizmodo.com

You might not have ever heard of Misfit Wearables but you’ll want to pay attention starting now that its first gadget has made its debut.

Founded by Agamatrix founders Sonny Vu and Sridhar Iyengar, the Redwood City-based company als…

Watch Out Fitbit, This Badass New Activity Tracker Is Out to Eat Your Lunch http://flpbd.it/gJCIs http://flpbd.it/BxmVw

2013 Digital Health Funding Update (rockhealth.com)
Wearable design, Misfit and the age of the glanceable UI (gigaom.com)
#! Fitbit Wireless Activity/Sleep Tracker, Black/Blue review cheap price buy sale (vtresa.wordpress.com)
Nike+ FuelBand vs Fitbit Tracking: Spring 2013 Update (quantifiedself.com)
Meet Homo Erectus Connectus – or, if you prefer, Wearable Man (infographic) [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
Get Stepping – Steps to Good Health Challenge – 4/2 (favoriteadventure.wordpress.com)

People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry phones

November 26, 2012April 7, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry Phones
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com

Like, an actual itching allergy. But, come on, there are lots of other reasons to dump BlackBerry.

BlackBerry has been having a rough go of it lately, slowly sliding into irrelevance as Android and iPhone corner the market. Now add one…

http://flpbd.it/OS1sT

BlackBerry’s time may be ripe in iPhone battle – Boston Herald (bostonherald.com)
Preview BlackBerry 10 on your iPhone, Android device (howto.cnet.com)
BlackBerry details unique security features in OS 10 (networkworld.com)
Curious About BlackBerry 10? Try It Now On Your Android Or iOS Device (cultofmac.com)

Stitcher is the best podcast app keeps the news flowing

November 5, 2012March 31, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Stitcher keeps the news flowing for desktop users with new web-based app
Zachary Lutz, engadget.com

Stitcher is already a heavy hitter in the world of mobile apps, but users will now find their favorite radio shows and podcasts are accessible from the desktop. Today, the company announced an HTML5 version of its popular app that’s…

http://flpbd.it/TyIku

Stitcher Radio 3.0 for Android Brings a New UI, Rich Notifications (news.softpedia.com)
Stitcher Radio rolls out redesigned Android app, and adds ‘Topic Search’ to iOS (thenextweb.com)
Stitcher Radio 3.0.4 for Android Packs Playback Improvements (news.softpedia.com)
Update Alert: Stitcher Radio re-adds Widget, fixes Bluetooth (omgdroid.com)
Hands on: Apple’s Podcasts app is finally usable! (digitaltrends.com)
Stitcher Radio Gets New UI (thedroidguy.com)
Stitcher browser plugins for Chrome and Firefox now available (engadget.com)
Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9am ET! (dailykos.com)
Stitcher for Android version 3.0 released with Holo interface, rich notifications (mobilesyrup.com)
Stitcher overhauls its Android app to dovetail with Google’s interface world (engadget.com)

Google+ Goes Looking For Love

October 7, 2012February 23, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Google+ Goes Looking For Love
By Andy Meek, fastcompany.com

Instead of going for the billion-user benchmark recently set by social titan Facebook, Google+ is trying to harness emotion, says Google’s Vic Gundotra.

An interview with Google’s senior vice president for engineering, Vic Gundotra, about…

http://flpbd.it/oOkme

Nexus phones to feature ‘insanely great cameras’ says Google’s Vic Gundotra (recombu.com)
Google’s Vic Gundotra promises insanely great cameras on upcoming Nexus phones (9to5google.com)
The Cassandra Memorandum: Google in 2013 (seomoz.org)
Google’s Vic Gundotra: Future Nexus phones will have ‘insanely great cameras’ (venturebeat.com)
Google’s Vic Gundotra teases Nexus phones with ‘insanely great cameras’ (pocket-lint.com)
Google Toils to Bring Awesome Cameras to Nexus Devices (devicemag.com)

Netatmo Urban Weather Station

August 31, 2012February 11, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

Netatmo Urban Weather Station tells iOS users when it’s safe to brave the great outdoors (video)

Jon Fingas, engadget.com

We haven’t seen weather stations garner the same level of clever mobile integration as other pieces of household gear — like, say, thermostats. Netatmo wants its newly available Urban Weather Station to inject a similar dose of life…

http://flpbd.it/E3mPn

Netatmo Urban Weather Station hands-on (phonearena.com)
Netatmo Personal Weather Station Monitors Indoor/Outdoor Conditions, Reports to Smartphone (mashable.com)
Netatmo’s Urban Weather Station Debuts Android Compatibility at CES 2013 (paramuspost.com)
Netatmo Personal Weather Station (geeknewscentral.com)
Get Your Own Personal Weather Station That Interfaces With The iPhone With Netatmo (macgasm.net)
Personal weather station offers users health advice (springwise.com)
Complete CES coverage from Reviewed.com (reviewed.com)
In Depth: What’s next in home Wi-Fi: new kit, apps and more (techradar.com)
A digital fork, and other new and strange gadgets at CES (theglobeandmail.com)

Apple vs Samsung case in photos

August 20, 2012February 11, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management

iPhone and iPhone 3G camera comparison (Photo credit: Neven Mrgan)

Apple’s case that Samsung copied the iPhone and iPad—in pictures

Jon Brodkin, arstechnica.com

With the Apple v. Samsung patent trial underway, Apple is making its case that Samsung’s phones and tablets are ripoffs of the iPhone and iPad. We’ve had extensive coverage of the testimony from our reporter in the courthouse, a…

http://flpbd.it/tLwVj

Tim Cook said ‘No’ to suing Samsung but Steve Jobs said ‘Yes’ (phonearena.com)
Insight: Apple and Samsung, frenemies for life (dawn.com)
Tim Cook disagreed with Steve Jobs over suing Samsung (thedroidguy.com)
Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook Never Wanted To Haul Samsung To Court (goandroid.co.in)
Apple and Samsung: A completely new form of tech rivalry (mercurynews.com)
No easy fix for Apple’s squeezed profit margins (business.financialpost.com)
Here is how Apple, Samsung love story took an ugly turn (ibnlive.in.com)
Apple and Samsung: is an amicable split possible? (guardian.co.uk)
iGear Gives Away Custom iPhone and Samsung S3 Cases for Valentine’s Day (prweb.com)

If you’re going to do good science, release the code

May 9, 2011February 10, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Linguistic Search

If you’re going to do good science, release the computer code too | Technology | guardian.co.uk.

Berners-Lee calls for computer science education at a younger age (vg247.com)
Entertainment Industries Council Inc. Celebrates the Importance of Science, Engineering and Technology during High-Tech Month with Special Interviews and Feature Reports (prweb.com)
High Schoolers Compete at Science Olympiad (wbng.com)
Computing to become UK’s “fourth science” (pcpro.co.uk)
BenchmarkXPRT Development Community Releases Source Code for HDXPRT 2012 (prweb.com)
Should Open Access Include Open Software? (telescoper.wordpress.com)
Middleman & Haml with Github-style fenced code blocks (stackoverflow.com)
Statisticians and computer scientists – if there is no code, there is no paper (simplystatistics.org)
Fixing bugs in minds and bugs in societies (dw2blog.com)

Skyscape: Mobile medical resources for iOS, Android & Blackberry

May 29, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

iOS logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Mobile medical resources for iOS, Android & Blackberry | Skyscape.

500+ Android And iOS Apps Now Available on Appy Pie Inc (prweb.com)
Home Depot abandoning BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple’s iPhone and iOS (technologynewsworldwide.com)
Opinion: An Apple iOS UI redesign? Nice, but not essential (electronista.com)

Pixel Qi’s Transflective LCD: Best of both worlds?

May 19, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

logo of the US-American display manufacturer Pixel Qi Corporation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I’ve been a big fan of e-Ink because it allows a very low energy cost, low EMF design for reading. However this comes with drawback for people who need monitors with higher resolutions or brightness. Now there appears to be a type of display that does both…

E-Ink Is Dead, Pixel Qi’s Amazing Transflective LCD Just Killed It.

Mirasol e-readers still several months away (reviews.cnet.com)
Troubleshooting Your Computer Monitor: Fixing Stuck Pixels on Your LCD Monitor (pc.answers.com)
Top Online Monitor Tests for Your LCD Screen (pc.answers.com)
What Are the Differences Between an LCD and a Plasma Monitor? (pc.answers.com)

How the Tablet Will Change the World | Magazine

April 16, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Image representing iPad as depicted in CrunchBase — Image via CrunchBase

www.wired.com

Great article on the new iPad which argues it represents a major shift in communication away from the conventional computer towards an always on, always connected, keyboard-less, mouse-less, cloud based, multi-sensory, gesture based social networking device.

Kindle Fire HD: 10 Critical Specs and Review of Amazon Kindle Fire 2 Revealed by Tablet XRay (prweb.com)
Tablets buying guide (reviews.cnet.com)
Protect Your Bubble Announces its Valentine’s Day Gadget Gift Guide (prweb.com)
7 Uses for Your Outdated iPad (gizmodo.com)
Making the Switch from Laptop to Tablet (technologytell.com)

Sales 2.0 Presentation Tool by Glance

November 9, 2009November 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Sales 2.0 Presentation Tool by Glance.

Sales 2.0 and Gamification: A Q&A with Anneke Seley (customerthink.com)
Screensharing a browser tab in HTML5? (html5rocks.com)
5 Recommended iPad Screensharing Apps (edudemic.com)
Smart Business Applications of Google+ Hangouts You’re Missing Out On (hubspot.com)
Spring Design Launches Beta of ScreenShare™, an Android App that Extends Mobile Phone Apps to the Larger Screen of Tablets (sys-con.com)
Spring Design Launches Beta of ScreenShare™, an Android App that Extends Mobile Phone Apps to the Larger Screen of Tablets (geardiary.com)
“Pinning” the video feed in Google Hangouts (mollerus.net)

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