Android app: Foursquare updated for Android

The social network of 20 million users worldwide unveiled the new version of its program.

The Foursquare social network that allows its users to share with your friend’s information about the restaurant, cinema or store where they are has made a complete change of design in its mobile operating system Android and Apple.

Version 5.0 of the geo location service now displays three icons, making navigation easier. You can also get personalized offers and recommendations "based on where you, your friends and people with your tastes have been" as you can read the program description.

It also presents images larger than before; you can browse through different categories or search for a particular concept, helping to plan the user exits.
The company announced that the program launched in 2009 and already has 20 million users, will soon be for Blackberry devices.

ClamBook: Laptop Docking Station for iPhone and Android

The U.S. firm Clamcase Clambook has announced a device that cans all iPhone and Android smartphones to become a laptop. The manufacturer has previously only known for the iPad for deposits, with which the Apple tablet can be used as a notebook. This idea is extended Clamcase.

Clambook - widescreen and 3D Cinema Sound
while the iPhone is not a big problem, then use a shell to expand to a keyboard, this is a smartphone with something else. Therefore, instead of a shell as Clamcase has developed an action of ultra thin laptop, which is fueled by the computing power of smartphone. As of now there are only representations Clambook and not a finished product. The conceptual images, however, a very nice impression. As expected, the manufacturer of the Clambook consist of an aluminum housing, where a touch panel, widescreen, 3D cinema sound and a keyboard will be a guest.

As is evident from the product side, there is provided applications such as Gmail, Firefox, as well as screen size marked on the desktop screen and the quality can be. Besides Clambook Act as a second screen for the games. Also aims to support dedicated Clamcase Android 4.0 buttons and different gestures.

The concept of using the smartphone as a unit for a laptop is not new - Motorola offers for some of its models called Lap docks that are connected to the phone and use the data and computing power. With the Motorola solution with the smartphone however, additional software is available with a customized user interface will go on Lapdock. When Clambook this seems unnecessary. As a result Clamcase Welcome to the custom user interface bigger screen is not explained. According to the Clambook Clamcase and will be available later this year - a price not yet known.

Google Maps entire town and offline 3D mode for android

Google just made a series of announcements designed to make its mapping service, Google Maps, continue to advance and maintain its leading position with the threat of Apple this your alternative in the coming weeks. And there is something that seems to haunt the team: mobile devices. Now that Apple is abandoning Google Maps as the default in IOS map from Google want the best possible service. And for it have made a big announcement: Google Maps on Android will be available offline in the coming weeks.

Also, since Google still want to cover absolutely everyone with Street View, something they could not do alone with cars. "The wheels alone can take you to some places," said Brian McClendon, vice president of engineering for Google Maps, in the post announcing the news. The solution? Street View Trekker, adaptation of the entire camera crew so that it fits "into a backpack" so it can be a person on foot who transport.

Also new is the announcement of the arrival of the third dimension of Google Earth also for mobile devices, which made "through a combination of new techniques of imaging and computer vision allow us to automatically create urban landscapes 3D.” When can we see this? According to the post, later this year expect to have 3D images of "metropolitan areas with a total population of 300 million inhabitants."

Furthermore, with the aim of mapping service is increasingly necessary, since Google announced the extension of Map Maker, map editing tool, ten new countries.

With all this new string of news and ads Google seems to be trying to tell Apple they do not know what they're missing to abandon them. What Cupertino firm offer instead? Will there a map service to the level of Google Maps? Not long to find out.

Android tablet:Iconia Tab A110: 7 inch tablet for under $ 200

NVIDIA announces the Computex electronics show cheap tablet with Tegra chipset for 3-fewer than 200 U.S. dollars. One of the devices could be the Iconia Tab A110, which can be seen there.

The chipset and graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA specialist E3 is not only on the currently held gaming convention, but also at the Computex electronics show presence, which has simultaneously opened its doors in Taiwan. There, the company announced the first low-tablet for under $ 200 with quad-core processor for the second half of this year.

In an interview, said Ujesh Desai, responsible for product marketing at NVIDIA: "during the second half they will see how to introduce a number of partners, their 199-dollar tablet with Tegra chipset-3 '. Name he did not want to, but still elicit that there will be a mixture of the major industry players and a few smaller manufacturers.

One of the first models that come with quad-core processor, 7-inch display and Android 4.0 for under 200 dollars on the market could be the Acer Iconia Tab A110, which shows the manufacturer all the way at Computex. In an interview with the Verge IT blog the spokesman told the company that it is another Tegra 3 tablet is, but other than that Iconia Tab A510 or A700 Series Contagion Tab for less than $ 200 on the market will come.

The Iconia Tab A110, according to the website has a 7 inch touch screen with a resolution of 1024x600 pixels, 1 GB of RAM, a front camera for video calls, a slot for microSD card and an HDMI output. A back camera is missing and the technology is built into a housing that with 11.4 millimeters comparatively thick. It is in the third quarter on the market.

In addition, the Acer Iconia Tab was 210, a 10.1-inch display with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels, but otherwise is largely technically identical with the Iconia Tab 110th The price to pay is slightly above $ 200.

Whether in the two tablets inserted on the new wharf platform from NVIDIA, which announced in January this year, the manufacturer is still unclear. It has the same processor as the current 4 +1 3 Tegra chipset, but with a little more favorable memory DDR3L and technologies such as Direct Touch, and Prism. Direct touch saves the manufacturers, according to NVIDIA, the integration of an additional display controller.
Prism is an optimal control for the backlighting of displays that allow the use of cheaper components, the company said.

Android app: on {X} Microsoft makes Android phones smarter

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With the app you can create rules. It can send the phone as an SMS when you leave a particular place. Microsoft has already collected several of these "recipes".

Microsoft has released a new method to facilitate certain actions and processes on smartphone. The automation software is on {x} but currently only available for Android devices as a beta version. For the in-house Windows Phone, the phone is not offered. Customers can use on {x} (pronounced like "Onyx") set about, that the phone sends a text message to the partner as soon as you leave the office. The software will also detect whether someone is moving on foot or by car and, accordingly, set actions.

The project is still in a beta phase. Several "recipes" for standing on {x} examples are available. Its source code can be adapted directly interested, thus creating new rules and recipes. Anyone who wants to can publish them for all or keep secret. A forum for the developer community on {x} will help ensure that the recipes do really what they are intended.

Android app that will help you lose weight

Noom Android app that can help you lose weight by enhancing the monitoring of your habits.

In the application load our personal data such as age, gender and weight, and set targets and Noom is responsible for setting an action plan tailored to our particularities.

We always say that the best resource for weight loss is to change habits at the hands of health professionals, but the technology can be on your side if you need more control of what you eat or how much you move. Noom is an Android application that can "help you lose weight" by enhancing the monitoring of your habits.

In the application load our personal data such as age, gender and weight, and set targets and Noom is responsible for setting an action plan tailored to our specific, considering from what we want to make physical activity to allow us to keep track of calories admitted with what we eat and calories expended through exercise.

Noom separates the food heats according to their nutritional quality, for which there is a group of red, one yellow and green. The calories consumed are recorded so that the target compared to the daily energy entered the diet.

Always reminding us that our phone will be the aim of our daily actions is thin, so we can go regularly recording the weight for the application to interpret the same direction we are taking toward the goal of losing weight. Every day the application will remind us of the importance of various habits through a text that seeks to keep us motivated.

Pro mode the application works as a personal trainer that helps us constantly to lose weight, therefore, this new tool can be helpful if we need an extra incentive to initiate changes that ultimately allow us to change habits and lose weight healthy.

The application is free, but has the disadvantage of being available only in English, although it is very difficult to identify and interpret functions Noom given sample data charts which assist greatly.

Nyko's PlayPad Android tablets controllers

Gaming on Android tablets and smartphone still makes relatively little fun, especially because we remain brilliant console and PC classic bestseller on services like On Live in Germany unfortunately denied. Nevertheless, most of the unfortunately rare sown Tegra games are pretty much in it, but that could control the one or the other gamer’s difficulties. Nyko is now introducing two new wireless game pads, which is for playing games like Blade or Shadow gun Linger are certainly better than a touch screen.

The game pads are developed in close collaboration with NVIDIA and therefore optimized for playing games was Tegra. Purely from the structure and conceptually the PlayPad Pro game pad works somewhat like a XBOX Controller - this must mean anything bad, because so far there is no possibility of an Xbox controller on an Android tablet up and running. Although one can quite easily PS3 Controller via Bluetooth to connect to the tablet, but the prices are set at 40-60 € for many customers is too high.

Those Nykos game pads will be much cheaper, but not too sure. The normal version of the Play Pads from Nyko looks a lot smaller and more portable and could possibly attract a lower price budget. Through one of Nyko charge provided Playground app can configure the buttons for games, at its discretion, which could be challenging for gamers another buying criterion.