SpeedView for Google Android

SpeedView is an advanced speedometer application that uses the
phone's built-in GPS system to show your current maximum and average
speed, as well as the direction, total distance, and time traveled.
Suitable for running, car driving, biking, or hiking.

• 
  High accuracy
  GPS-based speedometer that is more accurate than the one in your car.
  


• 
  Linear compass
  Shows your current direction of travel. A compass mode is also available.
  


• 
  HUD view
  Mirrors the numbers so you can place your phone on your car's
  dashboard and see the speed reflected in the front glass. You can check
  out this video to see how it works. 

• 
  Speed graph
  Displays a graph chart covering the last several minutes.
  


• 
  Display units
  Supports units such as miles, kilometers, and nautical miles.
  


• 
  Speed warning
  You can set the speed limits for three different types of roads so
  that when you go too fast a visual alert or sound will notify you. 

 

• 
  GPX track export
  Enables you to save your current track to the SD card or email it to someone. The GPX format is supported by Google Earth and many other programs.
  


• 
  Background mode
  You can minimize the program and keep it running in the
  background. It will work as usual and even notify you when you exceed
  the speed limit.

Please note that the accuracy of the speed readings depends on
the GPS reception quality, which can be affected by a multitude of
error-introducing factors (more on that below).

 

In addition, note that this application is not optimized to run
on 7-inch tablets or devices with uncommon screen resolutions. You will
be able to run and use it, but it may not display properly. If you have
any questions or comments, feel free to post them on our blog.

Link for Android Market

Maverick - GPS off-road navigation app for Android devices

 

Maverick is a GPS off-road navigation app for Android devices. It
automatically caches all your maps for offline use so that you can
access them even without an Internet connection. This app is great for
hiking, boating, geocaching, and other outdoor activities.

• 
  Multiple global and regional online maps
  Including Bing, Yandex, Open Street Maps, OSM Cycle, OSM Public
  Transport, Multimap (UK), OutdoorActive (Germany, Austria, South Tyrol),
  Cykloatlas, HikeBikeMap (Germany), Open Piste Map, NearMap (Australia),
  and many others. 

 

• 
  All maps are automatically cached for offline use
  You can use Mobile Atlas Creator to create or download map tiles and MAPC2MAPC to manipulate maps and convert them between different platforms and software. 

 

• 
  Go caching!
  Create custom geocache queries on geocaching.com. Queries that contain 500 geocaches or fewer can be delivered as an email attachment. 

 

• 
  Share your current or planned location
  Send your address, GPS coordinates, and a link to Google Maps or even a map image. 

 

• 
  Save places you visit
  Waypoints are stored in a KML file that can be viewed and edited in Google Earth. 

 

• 
  Navigate easily
  A built-in radar shows the direction, distance, and estimated time to a point of interest. 

 

• 
  Record your tracks with a single tap
  Export tracks as GPX files that can be viewed in Google Earth and other programs. 

 

• 
  Upload tracks to GPSies.com
  You can use GPSies.com to view and download tracks that have been recorded by a GPS device. Please note that a free account is required for uploading. 

 

• 
  Trip computer
  See your speed, altitude, pitch, etc. 

Link for Android Market

Important GPS tips:
It can take about 45 seconds to acquire satellite signals when you
first start the application, or roughly 15 seconds if it has been used
recently. Because the signal cannot pass through solid non-transparent
objects, GPS requires an unobstructed view of the sky to work correctly.
Thus, signal reception can be degraded by tall buildings, bridges,
tunnels, mountains, etc. Also, moving around while locking onto several
satellites makes it harder for those separate signals to triangulate
your exact location. Please try to stand still when receiving a GPS fix,
unless there is absolutely no alternative.

'Here I am' Android App - Let people know where you are throgh SMS

Let people know where you are! This application can send an SMS or
email containing your coordinates and a link to Google Maps. This link
can also be opened in the Maps application on an Android device or
iPhone, and can be used as an endpoint for driving directions.

This app can utilize location information from both GPS
satellites and wireless networks. Using GPS satellites to track location
allows for maximum accuracy, so it is the application's preferred
method. If you have the "Use GPS satellites" option disabled under the
Location & security settings on your device, Android will try to
determine your location via a technique called triangulation that
depends on availability of cell tower and Wi-Fi access points.



Example message
My Location:
48°51'28.99", 2°17'39.34"
Parc du Champ de Mars, Paris
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.85805,02.29426

Additional features

• Copy the current location to clipboard.


• Insert the last know location.


• Open your current location in the Maps app.


• Specify output coordinates display format.


• Display either the address or elevation.

 

Important GPS tips:
It can take about 45 seconds to acquire satellite signals when you
first start the application, or roughly 15 seconds if it has been used
recently. Because the signal cannot pass through solid non-transparent
objects, GPS requires an unobstructed view of the sky to work correctly.
Thus, signal reception can be degraded by tall buildings, bridges,
tunnels, mountains, etc. Also, moving around while locking onto several
satellites makes it harder for those separate signals to triangulate
your exact location. Please try to stand still when receiving a GPS fix,
unless there is absolutely no alternative.

Link for Android Market

SendFile - Can send, drag and drop a file to Sony Ericsson Mobile

With SendFile you can send any file to an Ericsson mobile phone, including:

• MP3 music (*.mp3).


• GIF and JPEG pictures.


• E-Melody (*.emy), I-Melody (*.imy) and MIDI (*.mid) melodies.


• vNotes and vToDo.


• Themes (*.thm).


• Any other files supported by the phone.

You can drag and drop a file to Ericsson SendFile or use command
line, as well as Explorer "SendTo" menu. Tested with SonyEricsson T68i,
K700i and Bluetooth connection.

Requirements

• Ericsson mobile phone with OBEX Support


• Irda/Bluetooth/Cable connection

 

SendFile.exe

 

MemoClip - Enhances the Windows Clipboard

MemoClip is a clipboard extender and information manager that
significantly enhances the capabilities of the Windows Clipboard. The
standard "copy and paste" feature of Windows lets you transfer only one
piece of information at a time. Moreover, some third-party programs, or
Windows itself, can overwrite the clipboard whether you are ready or
not.

What can MemoClip do?

MemoClip watches the Windows Clipboard and automatically captures
all items that you cut or copy. Once your data is saved in MemoClip,
you can view, edit, format, export it and even combine items. Any item
can be placed back on the Clipboard or pasted directly into an
application with just a few mouse clicks, key presses or a user-defined
global hotkey.




You can store an unlimited number of items in collections that
are organized in a tree like category structure. Each collection has
separate rules as to how long to keep information, so you can use a
"Short-Term" collection to track your Clipboard history for the past few
days.




In addition to auto-capture, you can manually add notes in just
two key strokes. Jot down ideas, phone numbers, addresses or everything
you currently have in that stack of yellow stickies. Create "Long-Term"
collections to keep your bookmarks, letter closings, recipes, project
notes, snippets of HTML code, or whatever.




MemoClip also supports auto-replace, regardless of what
application you may be working with. Insert commonly used text by
entering a short abbreviation (text shortcut) nickname. For example, you
could abbreviate the name of your firm/organization “cs” and have it
expand to “Code Sector Inc." after pressing Space. Enter special symbols
like ™ by simply typing (tm). Insert signatures in email messages. All
this and much more.

Are you a web surfer?

Just copy a link or text from a web page and MemoClip
automatically stores it until you need it. Pressing Ctrl+Ins twice will
store a selection to the current collection. Append mode allows you make
a digest of a web page contents and save it to a collection or to a
file on a disk.

Working with a text editor or a spreadsheet?

MemoClip can help you copy several blocks of text from one place
to another without having to scroll back and forth. The number of items
that can be stored and recalled is unlimited, so you can freely copy and
paste a large range of data into your favorite spreadsheet.

Are you a programmer, tester or support technician?

If so, this utility is for you. MemoClip is extremely useful when
you do any kind of support via email and have to answer similar
questions over and over again. It will save hours of typing similar
blocks of text in your messages.

MemoClip.exe

JetStart - Get what ever you want with this Start Menu alternate

Tired of digging into crowded Start Menu? JetStart offers you quick
access to categorized Start Menu shortcuts, recently launched programs
and system commands.


Just type a few letters and JetStart will show matching
applications as you type. Once you have found the desired program, you
can immediately launch, drag to desktop or uninstall it.

Toolbar

JetStart Toolbar allows you to quickly access your favorite Windows applications.

• Organize shortcuts by drag and drop.


• Launch multiple programs at once.


• Activated by a hot key or from the tray icon.


• Drag files from the Toolbar to your desktop, etc.


• Convenient keyboard interface.


• Docking to the screen edges.


• Freely resizable with mouse.

 

Reorder taskbar buttons by drag-and-drop


JetStart also lets you reorder buttons on your taskbar the way
you like. Just drag and drop any taskbar button to the new location with
your mouse.

JetStart.exe

Direct Folders - Direct access to your favorite recent folders.

Direct Folders guarantees you quick and direct access to your
favorite and recent folders. Now you can jump to any deeply nested
folder in just a single mouse click! It also automatically resizes every
standard file dialog, so you can see a larger number of files. You will
be able to find what you are looking for with a lot less scrolling.

One of the many useful features of Direct Folders is its ability
to automatically switch the folder view of open dialogs to thumbnails,
list or details depending on the application you are working with. You
can select your preference of file sort order to be the default as well.

 How Direct Folders works

There are several ways to access Direct Folders. One of the
easiest is to simply double click in an empty area of the desktop,
Explorer or File Open/Save dialog box, which brings up a menu. Total
Commander and DirectoryOpus are also supported.


Select a favorite or recent folder from this menu and the file
dialog immediately jumps to that folder. If you activate this menu from
the desktop or tray icon, this folder will be opened in the Windows
Explorer (or another file manager of your preference).


Direct Folders actions when the file dialog opens:

• Resizes the file dialog box.


• Sets the custom files view mode and sort order.


• Pro: Jumps to the last used folder or any folder you specified.


• Pro: Scrolls to the last used file in that folder.

The ClickSwitch feature will make a file dialog instantly jump to
the folder already opened in Explorer, Total Commander or Directory
Opus. Just switch to the window you need.

Direct Folders.exe

TeraCopy - Copy and move files at the maximum possible speed

One of the most common complaints about newer versions of Windows is the
slow copying speed, especially when transferring lots of files over the
network. If you want to speed up your copying or if you regularly
transfer large amounts of data and have to stop the process to perform
some other disk-intensive task, this program may be just what you need.

TeraCopy is designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible
speed. It skips bad files during the copying process, and then displays
them at the end of the transfer so that you can see which ones need
attention. TeraCopy can automatically check the copied files for errors
by calculating their CRC checksum values. It also provides a lot more
information about the files being copied than its Windows counterpart.
TeraCopy integrates with Windows Explorer's right-click menu and can be
set as the default copy handler.

• 
  Copy files faster:
  TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce the seek
  times. Asynchronous copying speeds up the file transfer between two
  physical hard drives.
  


• 
  Pause and resume file transfer activities:
  Pause the copy process at any time in order to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
  


• 
  Error recovery:
  In case of a copy error, TeraCopy will try several times to
  recover and, in the worse case scenario, will simply skip the file, not
  terminating the entire transfer.
  


• 
  Interactive file list:
  TeraCopy shows the failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only the problem files.
  


• 
  Shell integration:
  TeraCopy can completely replace the Explorer copy and move functions, in turn enabling you to work with files as usual.
  


• Full Unicode support.


• Windows 8 x64 support.

TeraCopy.exe

Google Public DNS: Largest Public DNS service and receives 70 Billion requests a day

We launched Google Public DNS
in December 2009 to help make the web faster for everyone. Today, we’re
no longer an experimental service. We’re the largest public DNS service
in the world, handling an average of more than 70 billion requests a day.

DNS

acts
like the phone book of the Internet. If you had to look up hundreds or
thousands of phone numbers every day, you’d want a directory that was
fast, secure and correct. That’s what Google Public DNS provides for
tens of millions of people.


Google Public DNS has become particularly popular for our users
internationally. Today, about 70 percent of its traffic comes from
outside the U.S. We’ve maintained our strong presence in North America,
South America and Europe, and beefed up our presence in Asia. We've also
added entirely new access points to parts of the world where we
previously didn't have Google Public DNS servers, including Australia,
India, Japan and Nigeria.

 

Shortly after launch, we made a technical
proposal
for how public DNS services can work better with some kinds of
important web hosts (known as content distribution networks, or CDNs)
that have servers all of the world. We came up with a way to pass
information to CDNs so they can send users to nearby servers. Our
proposal, now called “edns-client-subnet,” continues to be discussed by
members of the Internet Engineering Task Force. While we work with the
IETF, other companies have started experimenting with implementing this proposal.


We’ve also taken steps to help support
IPv6. On World IPv6 Day, we announced our IPv6 addresses: 2001:4860:4860::8888 and 2001:4860:4860::8844 to supplement our original addresses, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.


Google Public DNS’s goal is simple: making the web—really, the whole
Internet!—faster for our users. If you’d like to try it yourself, please
see our page
Using Google Public DNS.



How to: Switch to Google Public DNS server and speed up your browser speed

Google enables offline access for Google Docs Android app

Individual items in the Google Docs app for Android can be viewed
offline when your mobile device has no Internet connectivity. Offline
editing isn’t currently supported.

Make an item available offline

Many items in your Documents List can be made available offline. This
includes Google documents, Google presentations, Google spreadsheets,
uploaded images, and files in formats such as .pdf, .doc, .xls and .ppt.
Google Sites, Google drawings, Google forms, Fusion Tables and
collections can’t be made available offline.

You can make an item available offline while you
have an Internet connection. You can also request make an item available
offline when your device is disconnected from the Internet. The item
will update the next time your device regains Internet connectivity.

 

On an Android tablet

Here are several options for how to make an item available offline on your Android tablet:

• Open an item’s preview pane. Then, select the checkbox next to Available offline.


• Or, open an item’s preview pane, click the Menu button in the top right of your screen, and touch Make available offline in the drop-down menu.


• Touch and hold the name of an item in your Documents List for 2-3 seconds. Then, touch Make available offline in the menu that appears.

If you no longer need offline access for a given item, select Remove offline from the same menus. 

    

On an Android phone

Here are several options for how to make an item available offline on your Android phone:

• Touch and hold the name of an item in your Documents List for 2-3 seconds. Then, touch Make offline in the menu that appears.


• Touch the arrow button next to an item, and select Make offline from the menu that appears.

If you no longer need offline access for a given item, select Remove offline from the same menus. 

A notification that indicates if an item is available for offline
viewing will appear in the top (phone) or the bottom right (tablet) of
your screen. A failure notification may appear if you have intermittent
connectivity, or if there isn’t enough space to store the item on your
Android device.

Access and manage offline items

When your Android device loses Internet connectivity, you can access your offline items by touching Offline on the landing page of the Google Docs app (phone), or in the left-hand navigation panel (tablet).

The files available for offline viewing will appear in this section of the app, with one of the following designations:

• Up to date: Items that are in sync with their
  online state. If you’re offline, the latest edits reflected will be
  those from the last time your device had Internet connectivity.


• Out of date: Items for which online edits have been made since the offline version was updated.


• Not yet available: Some items show state if your
  device hasn’t downloaded the item yet. For example, this may happen when
  you have an intermittent Internet connection.

When your device is disconnected, you can still take some actions on
your offline docs and files such as starring or renaming items.

Updating offline items

If your Android device is connected to WiFi, your offline items will be synced automatically every few hours.

However, if your Android device is connected to your carrier’s
network (i.e. 3G), you’ll need to prompt the Google Docs app to update
your offline items. This is done to avoid overloading your mobile data
plan.


Here’s how to update your offline items:

1. When you have an active connection, press the Update button for specific items in the Offline folder.


2. Open the items from your Documents List.


3. Click Refresh in your Documents List and respond to the prompt about updating your offline items.

Googel enables offline access in Google Docs Android app

Individual items in the Google Docs app for Android can be viewed
offline when your mobile device has no Internet connectivity. Offline
editing isn’t currently supported.

Make an item available offline

Many items in your Documents List can be made available offline. This
includes Google documents, Google presentations, Google spreadsheets,
uploaded images, and files in formats such as .pdf, .doc, .xls and .ppt.
Google Sites, Google drawings, Google forms, Fusion Tables and
collections can’t be made available offline.

You can make an item available offline while you
have an Internet connection. You can also request make an item available
offline when your device is disconnected from the Internet. The item
will update the next time your device regains Internet connectivity.

 

On an Android tablet

Here are several options for how to make an item available offline on your Android tablet:

• Open an item’s preview pane. Then, select the checkbox next to Available offline.


• Or, open an item’s preview pane, click the Menu button in the top right of your screen, and touch Make available offline in the drop-down menu.


• Touch and hold the name of an item in your Documents List for 2-3 seconds. Then, touch Make available offline in the menu that appears.

If you no longer need offline access for a given item, select Remove offline from the same menus. 

On an Android phone

Here are several options for how to make an item available offline on your Android phone:

• Touch and hold the name of an item in your Documents List for 2-3 seconds. Then, touch Make offline in the menu that appears.


• Touch the arrow button next to an item, and select Make offline from the menu that appears.

If you no longer need offline access for a given item, select Remove offline from the same menus. 

A notification that indicates if an item is available for offline
viewing will appear in the top (phone) or the bottom right (tablet) of
your screen. A failure notification may appear if you have intermittent
connectivity, or if there isn’t enough space to store the item on your
Android device.

Access and manage offline items

When your Android device loses Internet connectivity, you can access your offline items by touching Offline on the landing page of the Google Docs app (phone), or in the left-hand navigation panel (tablet).

The files available for offline viewing will appear in this section of the app, with one of the following designations:

• Up to date: Items that are in sync with their
  online state. If you’re offline, the latest edits reflected will be
  those from the last time your device had Internet connectivity.


• Out of date: Items for which online edits have been made since the offline version was updated.


• Not yet available: Some items show state if your
  device hasn’t downloaded the item yet. For example, this may happen when
  you have an intermittent Internet connection.

When your device is disconnected, you can still take some actions on
your offline docs and files such as starring or renaming items.

Updating offline items

If your Android device is connected to WiFi, your offline items will be synced automatically every few hours.

However, if your Android device is connected to your carrier’s
network (i.e. 3G), you’ll need to prompt the Google Docs app to update
your offline items. This is done to avoid overloading your mobile data
plan.


Here’s how to update your offline items:

1. When you have an active connection, press the Update button for specific items in the Offline folder.


2. Open the items from your Documents List.


3. Click Refresh in your Documents List and respond to the prompt about updating your offline items.

Updated Google Docs for android: Improved tablet experiense and Offline access

There may be times when you don’t have an Internet connection on your
Android device, but you still want access to a file you’ve saved in
Google Docs. Now you can select any file in Google Docs to make it
available offline. So regardless of whether you’re connected to the
internet, you’re always connected to those files.

Even better,
Google Docs automatically updates your offline files when you’re on
Wi-Fi. You can also manually update files anytime you have a data
connection by opening the file or tapping ‘Update’ from the Offline
section of the app.

Make file available offline	Update online file

Make file available offline

Update offline file

For
those of you with Android tablets, Google’ve also improved the Google Docs
reading experience. Now, when you open a Google document on your tablet
while online, you’ll get a high-resolution version of the document.
Swipe left and right to flip between pages, or use the slider at the
bottom to page ahead quickly.

New reading layout on Android tablet

Whether you’re offline or online, these improvements will make it easier to be productive from anywhere.

Download Google Docs from Android market

Introduction to HTML5

What is HTML5?

HTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML (HyperText
Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. HTML5
is the proposed next standard for HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and DOM Level 2
HTML. It aims to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based rich
internet application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flash and
Microsoft Silverlight. 

Its development is still under process. The difference between HTML5 and
its immediate predecessors HTML4.01 and XHTML1.1 is that HTML5 has
features like video playback and drag-and-drop which were missing in the
earlier versions.



The origin of the specification dates back to June 2004 by the
(WHATWG) Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group under the
name Web Applications1.0.In March 2010 WHATWG was ready with the draft
standard state of the specification. The editor of HTML5 is Ian Hickson
of Google,Inc.Also at this point of time the specification was ready in
working draft state at World Wide Web Consortium.

 

HTML5 was the starting point of the group working upon the new HTML
at W3C in 2007.On 22nd January 2008 this working group published the
First Public Working Draft of HTML5. The specification is still under
development and will remain to be so for years to come although some
parts of it will be ready to be implemented in the browsers soon. It is
being estimated that HTML5 will reach the final recommendation stage in
late 2010.It will be recommended by W3C.  Ian Hickson is expecting HTML5
to reach the Candidate Recommendation stage in 2012.The specification
will be recommended by W3C only if it has "100% complete and fully
interoperable implementations".

HTML5 will also help in building new features.



One feature that the Gmail design team is now working on is the
ability to drag files from the desktop into the browser.This feature
will be important in that it will bring Web applications even closer in
feature functionality to desktop applications, de Boor said.



Gmail will also make use of HTML5's database standards. Now, the
e-mail service uses Google Gears to store mail for offline reading, but
over time that will migrate to the HTML5 standards.

De Boor also talked about adding new features that couldn't be rendered using HTML5.



One will be the ability to drag files from the browser window onto
the desktop. To do this, his team is working on a new data transfer
protocol, called "downloadurl."

 

"We tried to get this in HTML5," but were unable to do so. He
jokingly said that Google will have to lobby to have some of the
functionality needed to make that happen added into HTML6, which, as of
today, does not exist in any form.

Instead of rendering it into a standard, the web design company will "encourage other browsers to use it," he said.



He noted that the web design company doesn't wasn't to revisit the
"browser wars" of the last decade. "We tried to learn from history and
be much more cooperative to the other browser makers," he said.



Another new feature he talked about was something called "Magic
iFrame," which would allow a user to take part of a Web page, rendered
in a frame, and pull it out and make it its own full Web page in a new
browser window.

Click to enlarge

HTML5 employs inputs which ensure full exhaustion on the modern
websites. Some of the inputs are semantic replacements of general
functions of generic block () and the inline () elements. Some of
elements from HTML4.01 have been deleted and some new ones have been
added to HTML5 to make it more efficient. The syntax of HTML5 is not
based on SGML although their markup is same. Along with markup
specification. Scripting application programming interfaces (APIs) is
also specified by HTML5.



The new APIs specified are:

The canvas element for immediate mode 2Ddrawing.

Offline web applications.

Timed media playback.

Document editing.

Drag and drop.

Cross document messaging.

Browser history management.

Must visit site: 'HTML5 Showcase' - A gallery of the best html5 sites in the world. 

Google currents : Your favourite publications in your android tablet or smartphone

Google Currents - free & fast magazine-like editions for your tablet & phone.



Google
Currents delivers beautiful magazine-like editions to your tablet and
smartphone for high speed offline reading. Editions are all free and
include:

* Publisher editions - Publishers such as Forbes,
Techcrunch, Saveur, Popular Science, Good, 500px, Fast Company and more
have produced hundreds of editions including in-depth articles, videos,
fine photography, slideshows, live-maps, and social streams. 

*
Google trending editions - Google Currents uses Google search
technology to hourly build a set of editions tracking the five most
recent trending stories in categories such as world, entertainment,
sports, science, and more. Each story is presented through a fresh
edition of articles, videos, and pictures.

* Your favorite blogs
and feeds - Instantly, turn your Google Reader subscriptions, or any of
your favorite blogs/feeds into a beautiful edition with a magazine feel. 

Each edition is available for high speed offline reading, and
provides quick-touch sharing. Google Currents self-adapts to differently
sized phones and tablets, with your subscriptions synchronized across
devices. Google Currents - a reading experience not to be missed.

Download from Android Market