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HyperDock 1.0 brings Windows 7 desktop features to Snow Leopard

Publié: février 5, 2011, 6:15pm CET

By Nick Peers

Are you looking to combine the best bits of Windows 7's desktop with your Snow Leopard-powered Mac? HyperDock 1.0 aims to fill in the gaps by bringing two of Windows 7's best features -- pop-up thumbnail previews of open windows and programs, and the ability to quickly and easily snap two windows side-by-side on-screen -- to the Mac desktop.
Once installed, the program adds itself to the System Preferences pane, making it possible to bring order back to a cluttered collection of windows simply by rolling your mouse over a program and window icons in the dock. A small pop-up window displays thumbnails of all open windows; select a window to view it full-screen or close it directly from the pop-up.
If you roll the mouse over the iTunes dock icon you'll get a preview of the currently playing song along with a limited number of playback and rating controls; the iCal icon displays a list of upcoming events. Better still, the size and appearance of the thumbnails is completely customizable depending on personal preference, which is a feature not present in Windows 7.
HyperDock also makes it possible to quickly view two windows side-by-side; simply drag one window to the left or right edge of the screen and it'll automatically resize to take up half the desktop; repeat with another window using the opposite edge. Windows can also be resized using a combination of keys and the mouse instead of having to drag window edges.
You can also assign keyboard shortcuts to the Mac OS X Dock or individual icons there, allowing you to quickly and easily hide and quit applications, and open new tabs or windows in others.
HyperDock 1.0 doesn't add any new features present in the last beta release, but is no longer free to use; instead it installs as a 15-day trial version, after which you'll need to pay the small sum of $9.95 to continue using it. One licence is good for all your Macs. It currently only runs on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Sorry, Snow Leopard users, the software is not currently available through the Mac App Store.
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Tip: Save money with Google Shopper

Publié: février 5, 2011, 5:55pm CET

By Mark Wison

If you're looking to save money or want to check out reviews of a product before making a purchase, Google Shopper may just be the app you've been looking for. Previously available for the Android platform, the app is now available for iPhone and iPod touch, making it possible to check prices and product details when on the high street.
The app takes full advantage of the iPhone and iPod touch camera, as it can be used to scan barcodes to speed up the process of performing searches. Once a product has been found it can be added to an ever-growing wishlist that can be shared with others -- great for when your birthday is imminent.
Perhaps more importantly, the app also lists the prices of the product online so you can easily compare a huge number of sites for the best price. Where possible local prices are also listed, while the reviews can help you to determine whether to make a purchase based on other people's experiences.
But the app is not limited to barcode scanning -- the camera can also be used to take a photo of a book, album, game or DVD cover, and Google Shopper will perform impressive image comparison to find the product online. Standard text search is also available as are voice driven searches.
Available free of charge, Google Shopper is a free app that could save you a fortune over time and help you to make better buying decisions. Find out more and download a copy by paying a visit to the app's review page.
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Google makes it easier to build sites for Google TV

Publié: février 5, 2011, 1:17am CET par Tim Conneally

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Friday, the Google TV team published a couple of new design templates, as well as a still-in-beta Web UI library that Web designers can use to optimize their sites for Google TV.
"While existing websites can be displayed in Google TV, the user experience isn't always ideal within the context of a living room," Steve Hines and Daniels Lee of Google TV Developer Relations Team wrote in the Google TV blog today.
Blockage of such "less-than-ideal" sites could actually have been what caused Google TV to have such a disappointing launch in the first place.
Within the first month of the service's availability on the Logitech Revue set top box, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, and Viacom all made their websites unavailable to Google TV. The idea was that this would limit users' access to only the sites that the content providers designed specifically for Google TV.
If you're a pessimist, you could say it was done to limit users' access to certain streaming video content. If you're an optimist, you could say it was to ensure users had the highest quality sites available on their Google TVs.
Either way, if you're a Web designer, you now have some easy tools to rebuild your video site with a pre-made "10-foot UI" for Google TV. All of the templates are open sourced under the Apache 2 license, and they support sites that utilize HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and Flash.
"One important optimization for browsing websites on TV is ensuring that D-pad navigation works well. The JavaScript-based templates utilizes a new library we've developed for this purpose-- the Google TV Web UI Library," Hines and Lee wrote today.
The templates require that you have the Adobe Flex 4.5 SDK installed in your IDE, and the Flash 10.2 plugin for browser-based testing.
They can be downloaded now from the Google TV developer resource page.
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