Today we’re previewing five new dynamic templates in Blogger that you’ll soon be able to customize and use for your blog. These new views use the latest in web technology, including AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3,
These views require modern browsers such as Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome or Safari. Many elements of these views will not work should you have an older browser.
In all views, search is available in the upper right hand corner. Clicking on the ">" arrow in the very top left of the header bar will slide the header bar across and allow you to choose different views for the current blog as well as type in a new blog URL.
Mouse over any of the cards to see the post title and comment count. As you scroll down, additional posts will continue to load.
Click on a card to see the post in full view. You can navigate through the posts usingJ(older post) andK(newer post) or the arrow keys. Hitescapeor clickBack to all poststo return to the Flipcard view.
In the upper left, click to sort byDate,AuthorandCategory.
Clicking on an individual tile will expand that post to the full width of the view, and clicking again will collapse the post back into its original position.
The exact position of the tiles is randomly determined each time the blog loads, but they will appear chronologically from top left to bottom right.
Once a tile is expanded, you can page down by using the "up" and "down" arrow keys as well as J and K.
This view is optimized for the tablet viewing, and supports screen rotation
Timeslide
This view breaks the blog content down into three different areas:
Left column: Enlarged picture with a post snippet, title, and snipppet displayed in chronological order
Middle column: Displays just the post title and snippet
Right column: Displays just the individual post titles
When searching for posts in this view, the results will be highlighted.
Snapshot
This view will display only the posts which have images.
Clicking through any photo will display the full post page, with naviagtion links at the bottom for Newer and Older posts
Mousing over any photo will display a post snippet
Infinite scrolling: read more posts without having to reload or click to a second page
New layouts: different views suited to different types of blogs
Speed: download images as you view them, not all at once in advance
Interactivity: there are now more ways to experience and engage with blog content
To try these views on your own blog, simply add “/view” to the end of the blog URL—for example, http://buzz.blogspot.com/view
We’re previewing these templates early on so we can incorporate your feedback for a wider launch soon.
Microsoft have today voiced their concerns about Google in Europe. They’re unhappy with various Google “practices” including blocking access to parts of YouTube that Android phones can access…
“Google blocked Microsoft’s new Windows Phones from operating properly with YouTube. Google has enabled its own Android phones to access YouTube so that users can search for video categories, find favorites, see ratings, and so forth in the rich user interfaces offered by those phones. It’s done the same thing for the iPhones offered by Apple, which doesn’t offer a competing search service.
Microsoft has filed a formal complaint with European Union competition regulators over Google's dominance of the internet search market, escalating a debate that has already placed the online search group at the centre of an EU probe.
In its complaint, Microsoft alleges that Google is abusing its dominance of the search market in Europe, where it controls 95 per cent of the market, and that it is impeding fair competition.
the filing follows complaints by several other companies, including one owned by Microsoft, over what they claim are Google’s restrictive practices in the advertising and search markets.
Microsoft said the situation was more obvious in Europe, where Google dominates the search market, than in the US.
Mr Smith claimed that since acquiring YouTube, Google had put in place a number of measures to restrict competing search engines from properly accessing it for their results.
Microsoft also alleged that in 2010, and again more recently, Google had blocked Microsoft’s new Windows Phones from operating properly with YouTube.
He said that Google was restricting its advertising customers access to their own data. Microsoft also claimed that Google discriminates against would-be competitors by making it more expensive for them to obtain prominent advertising space on its site.
Microsoft also made reference to the ongoing debate over what it said were Google’s moves to block access to content owned by book publishers.
Google said that it was “not surprised” by Microsoft’s actions since one of their subsidiaries was one of the original complainants. “For our part, we continue to discuss the case with the European Commission and we’re happy to explain to anyone how our business works,” it said.
Last year Brussels launched an investigation into Google, following complaints from three companies. The EU is looking at whether Google gave preferential treatment to its own services when ranking results and whether its contractual relationships with advertisers may also have breached competition rules.
Last month 1plusV, a French company related to Ejustice.fr, one of three companies that originally filed complaints against Google, accused Google of abusing its dominant position in the online search market and blocking the development of rival search businesses.
The Zeemote JS1 Controller delivers console-style gaming for the World's Best Mobile Gaming Experience! The Zeemote JS1 featuring Zeekey Controller Software empowers you to have the ultimate control over ALL Mobile Games or Apps. By this Zeemote JS1 Controller you can Play Mobile Games or use the controller to experience your BlackBerry phone in an entirely new way. Use the Zeemote JS1 to navigate the phone menu and take the ultimate control over phone features like the media player and web browser. The Zeemote JS1 can also be used with most Apps downloaded to your BlackBerry. Moreover, using your Zeemote JS1 you can browse the Internet, Cue up your favorite music, map a destination and more... the Zeemote JS1 enables full control over your mobile experience.
It is a bluetooth game controller that has drivers available for Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows. Here are some pictures of the joystick.
This joystick has been around for a while now, the manufacturers Zeemote originally bundled these with various Nokia handsets along with some free Games. Recently they released an SDK (software development kit) for Android so that game developers could include support for this controller in their games. At the moment there are about 17 games in the android market that have support built in. The most notable are Speedx 3D and quake.
As well as being able to play games with built in support, there is a driver available on the market called “Bluez IME” which allows you to use the controller to map the buttons to various actions from a keyboard, so you can use the controller on various games that supports keyboard input. So you could play driving games, platform games or puzzle games using the controller as well. There are also drivers available on the Zeemote website for Nokia, Samsung, LG, Blackberry and Windows (normal not mobile).
Overall the controller is a great for games, with some smaller screen devices such as the htc desire onscreen controls are too fiddly, the zeemote would be perfect. The zeemote also works really well with my advent vega allowing me to prop the tablet up and play a game without having to hold onto the device the whole time.
The last thing to mention is the cost, brand new on Amazon they cost between £3 and £6.95, so if you fancy trying one of these out it is not going to break the bank.
The international technology leader Google has added the Cherokee written language, called Cherokee Syllabary, to its repertoire of searchable languages. Just like the many other languages Google supports, now anyone who can read and write Cherokee can look up virtually anything in the world,or at least the world of the World Wide Web.
Cherokee Nation translators worked side by side with Google employees to work through all the challenges of adding a new, and very different, language to their services. The syllabary, created by Sequoyah in the early 1800s has characters, some of which resemble Latin and Greek letters. The 85 character syllabary quickly made the majority of Cherokees literate and was adapted into the first Native American newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix which was written in Cherokee and English.
Over the past decade Cherokee Nation has been dedicated to keeping its language vital. It started with free language classes, a youth choir that sings in Cherokee, student language bowl competitions, a Cherokee degree program at Northeastern State University and a language immersion school that has grown every year, which is now up to fifth grade.
“Translators from Cherokee Nation were eager to volunteer to help make this project a reality, including Cherokee speaking staff, community members and youth,” said Cherokee Nation Language Technologist Joseph Erb. “We now have the power and knowledge of the Internet accessible in our own language.”
They also included an on screen Chaerokee Keyboard on the search page through the Google Virtual Keyboard API. This makes it easier for people to search web content in Cherokee without a physical Cherokee keyboard. To access the keyboard, simply click the icon at the right side of the search box.
If you see this picture closely, you will see a cute fat boy , smiling in the picture.Guess what ?He is not just ordinary Boy
He is Xiao Hao, 3-year-old Baby, yes ! 3 years old … at his age, Xiao Hao’s weight had reach 60 Kg or about 132,3 Pounds. This Special Baby live in Guang Zhou, Southern China. Due to his extraordinary weight, He wasn’t allowed to attend kindergarten at his hometown. The Teachers thought that he would harm his friends : (
To reduce his weight, his parents made Xiao Hao do some swimming exercise. His medical doctor at Guangdong Hospital, Lu Hong, said that Xiao Hao’s phenomenon is not because of hormonal dysfunction, but rather a “ China’s Little Emperor Syndrome “
"His appetite is so good that for a meal he can eat 3 big bowls of rice, even larger than I and his mother," said Hao's father Lu Yuncheng.
No matter how hard the family restricts Hao's diet and pushes him to move more the toddler has still managed to put on 10kg (22 lbs) in the past year.
Hao hates walking and each day his mother takes him to kindergarten on a motorcycle.
"He is quite happy that I could ride him to kindergarten instead of walking him there," said Yuan.
"Doctors said his hormones are at a normal level. It's hard to know why he could be so big."
"We now worry the most about his health. As if he continues to grow at this rate his heart could fail," said Yuan.
They also worry that when he gets older and more aware of his weight Hao will be bullied.
Tabular Explanation
The following tables will give you an idea about the average height and weight of baby boys and girls in accordance to their age. It is not necessary that your infant’s average should be exactly what is mentioned in the chart.
Average Height and Weight of Boys at Different Ages
Age
Weight (Kg)
Height (Cm)
Birth
3.3
50.5
3 Months
6.0
61.1
6 Months
7.8
67.8
9 Months
9.2
72.3
1 Year
10.2
76.1
2 Years
12.3
85.6
3 Years
14.6
94.9
4 Years
16.7
102.9
5 Years
18.7
109.9
Average Height and Weight of Girls at Different Ages
Floating Image is a replacement for your gallery app, the app also contains a live wallpaper. It shows a nice 3D floating thumbnail slideshow of your images. By default it uses your “DCIM” folder on your memory card plus a random selection of photos from Flickr’s top 500 images, So the first time you load it up you might wonder what some of the pictures are. You can remove the Flickr pictures in the settings.
There are a lot of settings to play about with, you can change background colour, the speed the images move around at, where the photos appear from plus many more. You can also add photo feeds from Picasa, facebook Flickr and any folder on your memory card. When the photos are scrolling past you tap on one you want and it zooms in on it, tap it again and the slideshow commences. You can also pause the slideshow by pressing and holding the screen, doing the same to resume. The live wallpaper is a bit of a battery hog, but there are some options to reduce frame rate.
With this app you could turn your device into a photo frame, using a tablet this would look great. On a phone it is a much nicer way of viewing your pictures.
The concept is simple. Instead of looking through your p
ictures one by one by pressing on that lame Next arrow in Android, you open Floating Image and you begin to see all your photos floating across the screen. Now, here is the thing. When I say “Your photos”, I do not just mean the photos on your phone, you can also view online pictures in Flickr straight from within the app.
It liked to see the ability to add your various online photo storage accounts, such as Picasa or even Facebook, but you can’t have it all I guess. So, the pictures float across your screen and you can press on a picture to view it full size, then press it again to go back to the floating pictures. You can easily set a picture from Flickr as your wallpaper or save the picture to the phone by pressing on the photo for two seconds.
The interface is almost non existent with your options being limited to defining which directories the app uses to find pictures as well as the ability to disable Flickr pictures. As the title says, Floating Image will keep you occupied while you sit back and watch a visually appealing 3D presentation of your photos. The app worked well even though I was using it on a Samsung Galaxy, which is significantly less powerful than the Nexus or Droid, so I am sure it works beautifully on those phones.
The jewel in RIM's crown, BlackBerry Messenger, may be making its way to multiple mobile phone platforms, including Android and iOS.
The rumour comes via BGR, which reports that multiple trusted sources have told it that a BlackBerry Messenger app will first be available on Android before making its way to Apple's iOS.
Further details are few and far between – there's no indication yet of timescales or pricing, although the sources are apparently 'confident' that BBM will launch on Android 'some time this year'.
Allowing BlackBerry users to send typed messages to each other completely free of charge, tech blog BGR has revealed “Research In Motion is planning to bring its beloved BlackBerry Messenger app and service to Android, and eventually to iOS as well.” Launch date and pricing information for the cross-platform BBM is still awaited.
The claimed sources reportedly informed BGR that: “RIM has not yet finalized details surrounding timing or pricing” They add: “We have heard that the company might make the software free to all users. We’re also told strategy is still being developed, however, and RIM may end up charging users a one-time fee or even a recurring fee for access to its BBM service on third-party platforms."
With the Apple app due to follow the reportedly imminent Android offering due to the easier to develop open platform the BGR report goes on to conclude: “Right now, we have heard that Android is definitely a go. But again, we’re not sure on timing, though our sources are confident that it will launch some time this year. RIM chose Android first because of the fact that it could develop and integrate something like this much easier with an open platform, but the plan is to build and deploy an iOS version at some point as well,”
Blackberry style
It seems that Android gets to go first because the open platform is much easier to integrate the service into; the restrictive iOS will be more of a challenge.
BlackBerry users currently get BBM free on their handsets, but Android or iOS users may be charged a fee, be it one-time or recurring.
The app may offer a stripped-down version of BBM , which would still allow users to chat with friends but would restrict sharing media or location information; for the full, all-singing all dancing BBM, you'd need to have a BlackBerry handset.
An unfounded scientific assertion by a nonscientist has swept across the Web like a tsunami over the past few days. In an article in Newsweek, writer Simon Winchester claimed that the 9.0-magnitude Japan earthquake, following close on the heels of recent quakes in New Zealand and Chile, has ratcheted up the chances of a catastrophic seismic event striking in California.
In his article, "The Scariest Earthquake is yet to come" Winchester pointed out that all three of those recent earthquakes occurred along faults on the edge of the Pacific Plate — the giant tectonic puzzle piece under the Pacific Ocean — and that this also butts up against the North American plate along the San Andreas Fault.
"A significant event on one side of a major tectonic plate is often … followed some weeks or months later by another on the plate’s far side," he wrote. "Now there have been catastrophic events at three corners of the Pacific Plate — one in the northwest, on Friday; one in the southwest, last month; one in the southeast, last year. That leaves just one corner unaffected — the northeast. And the fault line in the northeast of the Pacific Plate is the San Andreas Fault, underpinning the city of San Francisco."
Winchester claimed that the geological community is "very apprehensive" about these earthquakes triggering a massive California quake. Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to LiveScience, checked that claim with a panel of geophysicists.
"There is no evidence for a connection between all of the Pacific Rim earthquakes," Nathan Bangs, a geophysicist who studies tectonic processes at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, told Life's little mysteries. "I don't know what the basis is for the statements and implications in the Newsweek article, but there is no evidence that there is a link."
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) earthquake geologist David Schwartz, who heads the San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake Hazards Project, concurred. "Simon Winchester is a popular science writer, not a scientist," Schwartz said. "I'm not saying we won't have an earthquake here in California at some point in the future, but there really is no physical connection between these earthquakes."
Schwartz explained that earthquakes can indeed cascade, with one setting off another — but only locally. "When an earthquake happens, it changes the stress in the vicinity around it, and if there are other faults nearby, this increase in stress can trigger them and produce more earthquakes. In other places, it relaxes the crust and puts earthquakes off," he said.
In New Zealand, for example, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that rumbled 20 miles northwest of the city of Christchurch in September triggered the much smaller 6.3-magnitude that occurred closer to the city in February. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake, on the other hand, relaxed nearby faults, which has placed the region in a relatively quake-free "stress shadow" for the past 100 years. "But these static stress changes occur in a relatively restricted region," Schwartz said. The effects of the stress changes aren't just anybody's guess, either: Scientists can produce very accurate computer models of the local stress transfer.
Rich Briggs, a USGS geologist whose work focuses on how earthquakes happen, explained another way in which earthquakes can cascade. "The other way earthquakes affect their neighbors is that when a fault ruptures, it sends out seismic waves that in the case of large earthquakes can even circle the globe. In some cases, this 'dynamic stress transfer' increases seismicity," Briggs told Life's Little Mysteries. "But that only happens as waves go by, in the minutes that it takes the waves to travel out from the fault zone."
The dynamic stress transfer induces aftershocks immediately after the initial seismic event — not days, months, or years after. Because the 9.0-magnitude eathquake that hit Japan can only alter regional faults, the dynamic stress transfer process is the only way to set off a similar reaction in California. If that were the case, though, the earthquake would have hit already. AP/Yomiuri Shimbun
So when will a major earthquake strike California? "Based on models taking into account the long-term rate of slip on the San Andreas fault and the amount of offset that occurred on the fault in 1906, the best guess is that 1906-type earthquakes occur at intervals of about 200 years," Robert Williams, USGS seismologist, wrote in an email. "Because of the time needed to accumulate slip equal to a 20-foot offset, there is only a small chance (about 2 percent) that such an earthquake could occur in the next 30 years."
"The real threat to the San Francisco Bay region over the next 30 years comes not from a 1906-type earthquake, but from smaller (magnitude about 7) earthquakes occurring on the Hayward fault, the Peninsula segment of the San Andreas fault, or the Rodgers Creek fault," Williams wrote.
Schwartz agreed that the Hayward fault, located just east of the San Francisco Bay, is more likely to slip than the San Andreas. But the bottom line is that, "if a fault slips, it will do so on its own, not because of something 5,000 miles away."
"I think the idea of saying the earthquake hazard is real is good, because it hopefully gets people to prepare. It's hard to get people to prepare," Schwartz said. "But to scare people by saying the earthquakes are jumping around and the next place one will jump is here – that's just bad science."
