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Gowalla 1.0 hits the Android Market

6 Mar, 2010 No Comments

Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0, Android

We recently covered the beta version of Gowalla's location-based social app for Android, and now it's hit version 1.0. You can download Gowalla from the Android Market starting today. Gowalla's main competitor, Foursquare, has already been on Android for some time.

If you're familiar with the Gowalla iPhone app, the Android version won't disappoint. It has practically all of the features of the iPhone app, wrapped up in a nicely-designed Android-style package. You can check in, keep track of friends, see your profile and complete trips from the new app. The only thing you can't do is add a location, but that feature is presumably coming soon in an update.

As we mentioned before, Gowalla for Android has very accurate location detection, powered by Skyhook Wireless, so it's great at picking out exactly where you are when you're ready to check in.

[via Mashable]

Gowalla 1.0 hits the Android Market originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Session Buddy is a killer session management extension for Google Chrome

6 Mar, 2010 No Comments

Filed under: Google, Browsers

Google Chrome has basic session recovery and can load a specific set of URLs upon launching, but it's nothing too exciting. If you're after a more powerful alternative, check out the Session Buddy extension.

Once installed, you can save and restore tabs and windows from previous browsing sessions. You can also remove specific tabs or windows prior to restoring -- just in case there are pages you don't need to reopen. By default, Session Buddy restores windows exactly the way you had them, but you can also choose to open everything in a single new window or in the currently active window.

You can also create new sessions by manually entering a list of URLs in Session Buddy's options screen. It's a handy way to set up windows and tabs for news reading forays, time wasting on your favorite LOL-worthy sites, or getting right down to business with your favorite web apps.

You're not just stuck with a list of timestamped sessions, either: Session Buddy lets you specify names for easy recall.

Clicking the "update snapshot" link quickly saves your current Chrome session, and you can also export (to plain text or CSV) and import sessions -- useful if you want to pick up where you left off on a different computer.

I'd love to see the developer plug Session Buddy into Chrome's sync framework as the Fresh Start extension does. With that added, Session Buddy would easily be among my top 5 Chrome extensions.

Session Buddy is a killer session management extension for Google Chrome originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Steve Jobs on iPad tethering with iPhone: “No.”

6 Mar, 2010 No Comments

Filed under: Hardware, News, Apple

It goes almost without saying that a lot of the people who buy Apple's new iPad will already have Apple's iPhone. Maybe you were thinking, "Well, since I've got an iPhone already, why pay for two data plans? There has to be some way to tether the iPad using the iPhone, right?"

According to Steve Jobs, the answer is a big, fat NO.

Jobs responded to an email from Swedish DJ Jezper Söderlund, who asked:

Will the wifi-only version somehow support tethering thru my iPhone?

Two devices, based on the same OS, with already built-in technology to share one data plan suggests a secondary contract could possibly be redundant.

From the look of your keynote, where the iPad sits well between my MacBook Pro and my iPhone, I was hoping the three of them could interact as seamless as possible.

And his answer was just one word. No. (Sent from his iPhone, of course.)

We'll have to wait and see whether intrepid iPhone hackers will be able to change that answer when it comes to jailbroken phones, but Jobs seems set on the model of a separate data plan for each device.

[via Engadget]

Steve Jobs on iPad tethering with iPhone: "No." originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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BREAKING: EC response raises more questions for ‘Gang of Six’ browsers

6 Mar, 2010 No Comments

Filed under: Analysis, Browsers

The European Commission responded earlier today to the petition submitted by the 'Gang of Six' web browsers seeking "any of a myriad of small changes" to alert users of the 7 browser choices not initially displayed on Microsoft's new European Browser Choice update dialog. In an email to CNet writer Stephen Shankland, EC spokeswoman Amelia Torres writes:

"The elements of the Choice Screen were published on the Internet and attention was drawn to them both through a press release and a notice in the EU's Official Journal, in all the languages of the Union. Two of the signatories made submissions in response to this market test, but did not raise the suggestions they advance now. Nor did any other market participant. The elements in question therefore remained unchanged when the final commitments were made binding on Microsoft by the Commission's decision of 16 December 2009."
(emphasis added)

Torres' response leaves little room to argue the merits of the 'Gang of Six' petition. I contacted Flock's Shawn Hardin for a response to Torres' remarks.

"Microsoft informed us on 12/16/09 that Flock had been selected for inclusion. This was the first time Flock received any official information about a decision that Flock would be participating in the program. Prior to this, Flock was never identified or invited as an "interested party" by the European Commission"
(emphasis added)

The EU comment period ends on December 16th when the agreement became binding -- Immediately following which, Microsoft announced the results of the convoluted ranking calculation which defined the 12 browsers to be included.

In contrast to Torres' response on behalf of the Commission, the Directorate General of Competition has responded by scheduling a meeting to discuss the petition with the signatories for Monday.

BREAKING: EC response raises more questions for 'Gang of Six' browsers originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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BREAKING: EC response raises more questions for ‘Gang of Six’ browsers

6 Mar, 2010 No Comments

Filed under: Analysis, Browsers

"The elements of the Choice Screen were published on the Internet and attention was drawn to them both through a press release and a notice in the EU's Official Journal, in all the languages of the Union. Two of the signatories made submissions in response to this market test, but did not raise the suggestions they advance now. Nor did any other market participant. The elements in question therefore remained unchanged when the final commitments were made binding on Microsoft by the Commission's decision of 16 December 2009."
(emphasis added)

Torres' response leaves little room to argue the merits of the 'Gang of Six' petition. I contacted Flock's Shawn Hardin for a response to Torres' remarks.

"Microsoft informed us on 12/16/09 that Flock had been selected for inclusion. This was the first time Flock received any official information about a decision that Flock would be participating in the program. Prior to this, Flock was never identified or invited as an "interested party" by the European Commission"
(emphasis added)

BREAKING: EC response raises more questions for 'Gang of Six' browsers originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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137 years of Popular Science Magazine now online

6 Mar, 2010 No Comments

Filed under: Fun, Internet, News, Google

A special shout out to our tipster @RussHogg who told us the entire 137 year archive of Popular Science Magazine is now available for online free browsing. You can view the entire collection's issues as they appeared at time of publication. It's definitely fun to go back in time and view cutting edge science throughout the years.

Right now, you can search by inputting key words in the search box, however they plan to roll out a browse-by-issue cover interface in the future with more advanced features for searching. Popular Science partnered with Google to make the archive possible.

Thanks @RussHogg!

137 years of Popular Science Magazine now online originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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137 years of Popular Science Magazine now online

6 Mar, 2010 No Comments

Filed under: Fun, Internet, News, Google

137 years of Popular Science Magazine now online originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google finally buys DocVerse, the bridge between MS Office and Google Apps

6 Mar, 2010 No Comments

Filed under: Office, Productivity, Web services, Google

Google has been steadily adding to the variety of file types allowed in Google Apps -- you can store or share basically anything, now -- but there was still a missing link between the Microsoft Office documents you use on your desktop and the Google Docs files you edit in the cloud. A third party service called DocVerse bridged that gap, and now Google has acquired DocVerse.

We first reported on the possibility of this acquisition last December, but now it's finally a done deal. Now Google can provide the fantastic cloud-based Office collaboration abilities that DocVerse has been refining for some time. This is a well-timed move, considering that Microsoft's new business strategy is reportedly heavy on cloud-based software. Google is getting DocVerse's talent, as well as its technology. The team will join Google Docs.

Google finally buys DocVerse, the bridge between MS Office and Google Apps originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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