Google Thinks These Android Apps Are Beautiful

[ Developer] Just last week, Google revealed what it felt were the very best games available for Android devices. While games may make up a sizable part of Android’s catalog of apps, they’re on no account the best apps available. For your entire other apps, Google has released a listing of what it considers to be the foremost beautifully designed Android apps. So, what does Google search for when deciding which apps are one of the most beautiful? Here’s the factors: Attention to detail makes an app truly beautiful: transitions are fast and clear, and layout and typography are crisp and meaningful. During this collection, we highlight several beautiful apps with masterfully crafted design details. Without further ado, here’s the complete list of apps and their descriptions: Timely – Timely’s smooth and playful screen transitions prove that setting alarms can be incredibly fun. Circa – Circa’s design boasts elegant typography and an innovative reading interface. Etsy – Explore wonderful hand-crafted goods with... Read More »

6 Cool Apps From Uncle Sam

The US government now offers greater than 100 handy apps for mobile devices. Investigate new apps users rate highly. (Image: USA.gov, Apple) If you ever wondered in regards to the speed of your mobile broadband, there is a new app which could assess its performance and share the important points right for your smartphone. Speed Test, released as portion of the Federal Communications Commission’s “Measuring Broadband America” program, is only one of greater than 100 apps available from the government. Because it collects data, that’s then utilized by the FCC to create an in depth picture of mobile broadband performance nationwide, Speed Test raises some questions on user privacy. The FCC says its aim with this system and the app is to create open information, a top goal of the Digital Government Strategy. The agency claims that it won’t collect personally identifiable data within the process; instead, it is going to use the anonymous results to enhance both cellular and WiFi speeds on mobile devices.... Read More »

Internap Taps Solid-State Storage For Cloud Service

Hosting services giant enters cloud sector, aims to distinguish itself from competitors with high-speed, performance-guaranteed block storage. Internap Network Services moved into the general public cloud realm in November with its AgileCloud, and it’s now offering compute and storage services from its data centers located in key worldwide communications hubs. Internap is called large supplier of hosting services from its datacenters; that is answerable for the infrastructure, and its customers supply an application to run on it. Its services include both virtual servers and bare-metal servers devoted to a single customer. It has been edging as much as cloud services because it bought Voxel, with its automated management software, in late 2011. On Nov. 21, it announced it now offers “hybridized cloud services.” In its lexicon, this suggests that is offering customer self-service for infrastructure-as-a-service that may include multitenant hosts or bare-metal servers. Either option would be activated by customers throughout the OpenStack set of cloud APIs. If a customer uses Internap to construct out... Read More »

Bing Code Search Involves Visual Studio

[ Developer] When writing code in Visual Studio, you can find it’s essential to pull code samples from StackOverflow or MSDN. You may normally just ought to copy and paste the code over after which make some modifications so it fits in together with your previously written code. Now Microsoft is making it easier to do through Bing. The Bing team announced today that it has worked with the Visual Studio and Microsoft Research teams to develop what it calls the Bing Code Search Visual Studio extension. As its name implies, it’s a brand new extension that uses Bing to locate “relevant code samples in Visual Studio giving you the power to check and add that code within the code editor.” The Bing team notes that searches are context sensitive so you’ll get samples that use an analogous variable names on your own code. Bing says Code Search pulls from MSDN, StackOverflow, Donnetperls and CSharp411. Here’s the way it works: Bing uses signals and metadata... Read More »

Artemis Networks Demands Wireless Revolution

Startup’s “revolutionary” pCell wireless networking technology, which provides each device its own discrete bubble of wireless energy to enhance speed, could change industry.   Lost Smartphone? 6 Free Tracking Apps (click image for larger view) As he describes his company’s pCell wireless networking system, entrepreneur Steve Perlman, CEO of Artemis Networks, appears to be channeling Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. “I’m here to inform you about an incredible, revolutionary new technology in wireless,” declares Perlman in a video on his company’s website. The jargon comes straight out of Apple, where the words “amazing” and “revolutionary” are commonplace in company press releases. Perlman, who previously worked at Apple, has borrowed not just the superlatives favored by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, but in addition Jobs’ attire — an easy black shirt and jeans — to convince the area that his company’s pCell technology changes everything. Former Apple CEO John Sculley meanwhile has turned to Google jargon to endorse the technology. “pCell is an authentic ‘moon shot’ disruptive invention, a... Read More »