Quixey is a functional search engine for apps. You use apps in your everyday life. You use apps in your phone, in your browser, in your social network and in your software at work. Soon, you’ll even have apps in your car, on your TV and built into your home appliances. Quixey is a new type of search engine, a functional search engine, designed specifically for apps. It helps you find apps to do what you want on an ever-growing number of platforms. Quixey, search engine for web and mobile applications backed by Eric Schmidt, is expanding its scope to include
Read MoreThe XDK is the world’s first HTML5 powered mobile application development tool. With it, you can create, debug and build customized, robust HTML5 apps in hours. appMobi's cloud-based build system turns your HTML5-based apps into 100% native API-compliant mobile apps for iOS or Android, or you can deploy them as webapps or Chrome apps. All from a single code base. It’s clear that HTML5 has become the unifying technology for the mobile space. However, creating great HTML5 apps requires great HTML5 tools and that’s exactly what the XDK is. As a Chrome ‘web app’ itself, the XDK can also be
Read MoreGoogle just wouldn't be Google if it wasn't wringing out every last iota of performance from its products. Instant Pages feature would be available to Chrome beta channel users. Instant Pages uses an algorithm to "guess" where you'll click next, pre-fetching and pre-rendering the result if it's confident enough. Just in case you want to check how Instant Pages can make a difference check out the video below, you can see a side by side comparison of Chrome with and without Instant Pages enabled. Other than this print preview is available for Windows and Linux users (Mac coming soon) in the
Read MoreIncreasing your savings by one more percentage point or even better, another percentage point a year can add up to big additional savings over time. If you can find a way to boost your savings by just one percent more, you can increase your savings fund by a sizable amount. This calculator from The New York Times lets you play with the variables to see just how much extra you can save. The calculator shows you how much you'll have saved in your time horizon at your chosen savings rate, if you save 1% more, and if you save an additional
Read MoreWanting to get more visibility for your music videos on YouTube? YouTube’s the video portal has launched a comprehensive guide outlining how content producers should be approaching the platform and which features they can take advantage of. The 70 page guide has a fitting title: The Creator Playbook. It’s really just a well thought-out set of best practices — if your content isn’t any good, optimizing the first five seconds of your video isn’t going to be much help. The document is a hefty 70 pages long. YouTube has broken each of its miniguides into three sections: - Programming & Producing, -
Read MoreToshiba-Fujitsu IS12T is the world’s first world’s first phone running Windows Phone 7.5 (aka Mango). Specs announced by the provider of the IS12T in Japan, local mobile carrier KDDI: #1 3.7-inch display has 800×480 resolution #2 13.2MP camera has CMOS sensor, is powered by Milbeaut Mobile engine, and takes video with 1,280×720 resolution #3 water- and shock-proof body #4 microUSB port #5 32GB internal memory (no extra card slot) #6 IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (no tethering) #7 Bluetooth 2.1+EDR #8 DLNA support #9 Zune-branded multi-media function #10 Internet Explorer 9 as browser #11 Xbox LIVE connectivity #12 Windows Live SkyDrive access #13 battery life in standby: 280 hours, continuous talk time: 400 minutes #14 size:
Read MoreTwo years ago Google released the Page Speed browser extension and earlier this year the Page Speed Online API to provide developers with specific suggestions to make their web pages faster. Page Speed is an open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Page Speed started as an open-source browser extension, and is now available via Page Speed Online and as an API. The Page Speed Online API makes it easy to integrate Page Speed performance analysis into your development tools and workflow. Here are some of the things developers can
Read MoreGoogle has been making a lot of new improvements to Google Image Search lately – date annotations, restoration of the image size filter and addition of a date filter. The giant search engine has started showing EXIF data of photos, which incidentally was another top requested feature by the Reddit community. When you click on a thumbnail on the image search results page, you are taken to a landing page. The landing page's sidebar now includes EXIF data including camera make, focal length, flash usage, aperture, shutter speed, ISO speed and exposure bias. This is one feature that any photographer will
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