Google Drive

After many year of waiting we got yesterday the google drive (based on google docs), It will collobrate docs and gmail and google+ with smartphone.

It seems to me that it's an upgrade to google docs and not a "new" service.

The new upgrade will enable us to download client and sync all documents via internet via the local device (computer, smartphone)

What do you think?

https://drive.google.com/start

In Google Drive, you can create new documents, spreadsheets and presentations instantly. Work together at the same time, on the same doc, and see changes as they appear.

Gmail
Say goodbye to bulky email attachments. Send a link from Google Drive in Gmail and everyone has the same file, same version—automatically.

Google+
Your videos and pictures in Google Drive are instantly available in Google+, so you’re never more than one click away from sharing with your circles.

You can share files or folders with anyone, and choose whether they can view, edit or comment on your stuff.

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Google TV

http://www.google.com/tv/features.html

http://www.google.com/tv/get.html

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Introducing Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich

Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich brings an entirely new look and feel to Android. The lock screen, widgets, notifications, multi-tasking and everything in between has been rethought and refined to make Android simple, beautiful, and beyond smart
Download:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
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http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0-highlights.html#UserFeatures

I loved this new features:

Android is continously driving innovation forward:

Android Beam for NFC-based sharing

Android Beam is an innovative, convenient feature for sharing across two NFC-enabled devices, It lets people instantly exchange favorite apps, contacts, music, videos — almost anything. It’s incredibly simple and convenient to use — there’s no menu to open, application to launch, or pairing needed. Just touch one Android-powered phone to another, then tap to send.

For sharing apps, Android Beam pushes a link to the app's details page in Android Market. On the other device, the Market app launches and loads the details page, for easy downloading of the app. Individual apps can build on Android Beam to add other types of interactions, such as passing game scores, initiating a multiplayer game or chat, and more.

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Face Unlock

Android 4.0 introduces a completely new approach to securing a device, making it even more personal — Face Unlock is a new screen-lock option that lets users unlock their devices with their faces. It takes advantage of state-of-the-art facial recognition technology to register a face and to recognize it later when unlocking the device. Users just hold their devices in front of their faces to unlock, or use a backup PIN or pattern

New camera capabilities

Developers can take advantage of a variety of new camera features in Android 4.0. ZSL exposure, continuous focus, and image zoom let apps capture better still and video images, including during video capture. Apps can even capture full-resolution snapshots while shooting video. Apps can now set custom metering regions in a camera preview, then manage white balance and exposure dynamically for those regions. For easier focusing and image processing, a face-detection service identifies and tracks faces in a preview and returns their screen coordinates.

Text-to-speech API

A new framework API lets developers write text-to-speech engines and make them available to any app requesting TTS capabilities.

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Calling All Ice Cream Sandwich Lovers

youtube.com – Live: YouTube.com/Android, 10/19/11, 10AM, Hong Kong Time (HKT)




The previous version

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

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DART STRUCTURED WEB PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

http://www.dartlang.org/

What is DART?

a class-based optionally typed programming language for building web applications

Dart targets a wide range of development scenarios: from a one-person project without much structure to a large-scale project needing formal types in the code to state programmer intent. To support this wide range of projects, Dart has optional types; this means you can start coding without types and add them later as needed. We believe Dart will be great for writing large web applications.

 Please see the full  post:

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/10/dart-language-for-structured-web.html

Code examples can be found here:

http://www.dartlang.org/samples/index.html

.seems very nice language

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Google Developer Day 2011 at ISRAEL

When 13.11.2011

Where :Avenue Convention and Events Center

for the latest developments in Android, Chrome, HTML5, Cloud and more in Tel-Aviv on November 13, 2011. Google Developer Day, Israel will take place at the Avenue Convention and Events Center. Follow  at@chromedevfest and on googlecode.blogspot.com to stay up to date on GDD and other news from the Google Developer team

http://www.google.com/events/developerday/2011/tel-aviv/

Google Developer Day is a free event, but they have only a limited number of spots.

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WINDOWS 8 DEV PREVIEW

Link to the new Windows Dev Center

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/

Windows Developer Preview downloads

The Windows Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516

Build Conference

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/KEY-0001

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