The Next Big Thing In Text Input Technology
Posted by: casualtech on: September 11, 2008
You have to watch the demo above which is made by the CEO of a company called Swype, Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden who are the founders of the company have worked on some successful input technology before but I truly believe this might be the next big thing for them
Like you saw on the video you only have to swipe your finger or stylus over the letter of the words and it gets on the screen with impressively low number of grammatical errors. Now this is apparently only limited to the speed that you can swipe, Mike claims that you can do up to 50 words per minute and I don’t think hes exaggerating.
This works on multiple plataforms from tablets to cellphones. I’ll let the presentation video speak for itself you have to watch it …Youll be blown away I promise 
Chromocaust
Posted by: casualtech on: September 11, 2008
Did You Hear The News That You Are Dead?
Many of you may not now but Google introduced its browser with a comic that explained every features it includes. The image above is from a recent contest Gizmodo.com did and it has some pretty funny entry in the gallery just click here to see them.
In other notes the world apparently proved to be stronger than many tought and failed to collapse under the ginormous pressure of the LHC that went live today. But this was just a small test, the real experiment starts on October so please try to enjoy life has much has possibly before reality bends :]
Oh and apparently there’s gonna be another Apple event this time Mac related on October…So which do you think is more possible, new Macs or a reality bending black hole?
All In One Post: Apple Conference
Posted by: casualtech on: September 9, 2008
Welcome
Today we finally got to see what Apple had been working on, here’s a recap of all the announcements that were made at the conference this morning including photos galleries, hands-ons impressions and a full stream of the event if you want to watch it…
For The Star Wars Fans: A Full Size Drivable Lanspeeder!
Posted by: casualtech on: September 8, 2008
This baby was made by Daniel Deutsch. Its powered by an eletricall batery and it reaches around 22 miles per hour and can run several miles with just one recharge!… I so want one but aparrently he isnt in it for the money. Click on the link to see more pictures on he’s website of the Land speeder and other creations, check them out!
Apple And Microsoft Go Head To Head On September 9
Posted by: casualtech on: September 7, 2008
A Mockup of the new nano and the current zune mini
For all of you who don’t know about it Apple announced a special event for September 8, some days before that Microsoft had announced an event for that same day. Because of Apple tradition we know that this is going to be a iPod event and there are rumors that Microsoft is going to go head to head with Apple and announce something Zune related. Leaked photos of the new iPod nano and information about iTune 8.0 after the jump….Plus what you should expect from Microsoft event.
Bringin Sexy Back To Windows Mobile: Sony Xperia1
Posted by: casualtech on: September 4, 2008
I saw this hotness a long time ago… I think just after the first iPhone had come out so it got lost in all the buzz and dint get the attention it deserved. This is the first Sony phone with Windows mobile OS in it and what a product came out of this collaboration.
The X1 sports touch screen support, from which comes one of my favorite home screen on any cellphone. Its called the Xperia Panel Interface its just like the customizable icons on your desktop but they look way more cooler on the high resolution screen of this phone and have some really nice effects that adds to the experience.
With a camera in front it has support for a feature some iPhone users wish they had, video calls. It also has a 3.5 mega pixel camera on the back thats comes with a App that lets you photoblog right from you cellphone not mention that you can actually take videos unlike the iPhone photo only camera.
If you slide it to the side it has a qwerty keyboard from where you can write all the text messages you please , according to some hands on reviews the Keyboard does not disappoint in quality. Lets not forget you can also read/write all you emails because it supports Push Email.
For your internet browsing needs you get mobile IE and absolutely fast 3G speeds, not to mention it also does Wifi whenever you get into a hotspot. Blog reading on the go wont be a problem because it includes an RSS feed reader right out of the box.
You must agree with me here. This cellphone has one slick design with some powerfull feautures to back up all its beauty, there’s only one thing Im not diggin Windows mobile on it :S … I mean I cant say its really bad but its not the best out there. Sometimes I wish Apple would just distribute its mobile OS to other cellphone makers, oooh how I love you selfish Apple XD. Take a look at this Youtube vid which shows Xperia1 full beauty.
I sooo want one!
Google Chrome:Is Fast And Simple
Posted by: casualtech on: September 3, 2008
Google Chrome Logo
Google today officially entered the web browser market with its entry called Googles Chrome which you can check all details and download it here. I’ve spend the last two to three hours using the browser and visiting all the usual sites I frequent daily, so far I have had no inconvenience with anything.
After three hours I miss all my favorite Firefox extensions/add ons, but at the same time that’s what I like about it. This browser feels simple,fast and stable , I have yet entered a site where it gets all slow and crappy. Read the rest of this entry »
Nintendo:Sh*t Just Got Casual?
Posted by: casualtech on: August 21, 2008
Someone explain to me how are we suppose to play WiiMusic apart from just shaking the controllers around without any sense? And whats up with the music? I mean I don’t have anything against people who are into instrumental music. I see what Nintendo is aiming to do here… They want to make the Guitar Hero for young kids and older people or like they call it “The Casual Gamer”.
What’s The Problem With Profitability?
Posted by: casualtech on: August 20, 2008
Recently we have been seen some startups close their shop simply because they dint have the money to keep up with expenses and no one wanted to buy them out of a massive debt hole. We can only wonder, whats up with all this startups not having a profitability plan on their hands? Can all of them be taken has serious business? I mean, what serious business only rely on ad clicks for money?
While recently all the online business going down seem to be just the music related starups( Is not easy to make money in a f*cked up industry anyway) we all now that many of the sites we use and love don’t charge us a dime and their only plan for making money seems to be putting up huge ads. For me their principal error is to think that having a huge community means more people will click ads = more money…Not thinking about the much higher expenses that come with more users.
In the other hand we have the crazy out of their mind Vc’s giving millions on funding to anyone that makes a promise that he’s gonna create a website thats gonna be mentioned on Techcrunch.com. After they have millions they just burn the money going around in circles trying to figure out how they gonna make a proffit out of their huge but costly community.
To all online startups, just beacuse you are a “virtuall” bussines does not mean that basic bussines rules do not apply to yall so please have a plan on hand next time you make me waste time on your website only for it to dissapear later on :]
Is Google Reader Trying To Do Too Much?
Posted by: casualtech on: May 6, 2008
The question comes to me at the time that Google introduces a new feature for its Google reader that lets add notes to your shared items and basically share anything else you want in the process. But isn’t that what Digg, Twitter and FriendFeed are here for? The only difference here is that you can do it directly from the reader adding yet another layer of things that can distract you during what should be a simple experience of reading.
We all like to share the stuff with friends and such but there are already sites for that, so is Google move basically just trying to stop FriendFeed growth has the ultimate place to share stuff?- the other thing people don’t like is that the “note” feature is completely disconnected from any other discussion site right now- so that means yet another separate place where a different conversation is going to be occurring. Unless they find a way to connect the comments you make on GReader to the ones on FriendFeed or Twitter people don’t need another site to constantly refresh just to see what people are saying.
RSS readers should do just what their meat too, remember too many things just may be what’s preventing RSS from going mainstream. People like clean and simple experiences, too many features just distract and confuse the casual user leaving them with a bad experience in mind.
