TryThis: GeoReminder. Location-based reminders with an iPhone [TNW Apps]

TNW Quick Hit

GeoReminder is a new iPhone app for those who need to be reminded about something based on a certain location.

Hits: Perfect app for anyone with forgetful tendencies.  Dead simple to use.

Misses: Background reminding doesn?t work for those with an iPhone 3G and use of the app can severely reduce battery life.

Overall: 3.5/5

The Details:

Task lists are great things provided you remember to enter tasks in need of completion and remember to check your task list when running errands.

There are many really slick note and to-do apps for the iPhone, Put Things Off, Evernote, and ToDo, to name a few.

GeoReminder ($.99) adds a super new element to jogging one?s memory.  Users add reminders that will be triggered upon reaching a location.

To begin, add locations from the Google powered map.

Next, add what item(s) you need to pick up/reminded to pick up, a description, category, and locations where it could be found.

Once you reach a location you have entered into the app, which has an item you need, a push notification alerts you so you won?t forget that which you have to pick up.

GeoReminder works in the background, so one doesn?t have to worry about checking the app. When you reach one of the tagged locations, an alert will pop up.

A couple of things should be noted about GeoReminder.   Even though the app is compatible with the iPhone 3G, background reminding will not work. This is because multitasking is not available on the iPhone 3G.  Moreover, continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Absent those disclaimers, GeoReminder is a neat app that can aid anyone, from the most forgetful, to those with a great memory but with many things to carry out.  Especially at holiday time, GeoReminder is an app that could aid anyone who often has an issue with failing to remember to pick up that special gift for that special someone.

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Out of Many, One In-box

Smart phones allow multiple ways to connect with friends, from phone calls to Twitter messages, but each has its own app or in-box. Now the cell-phone manufacturer Nokia is experimenting with a universal in-box that puts messages and updates from separate apps in one location, so you can see everything at a glance.

The universal in-box looks superficially like a regular e-mail in-box. But the stream of recent messages can be a mixture of e-mails, text messages, call logs, tweets, Facebook updates, Flickr photos, and more.

Just last week, Facebook launched its Messages product?aka an "e-mail killer"?to combine e-mail with text messages and private Facebook messages. Smart phones can already receive messages sent over those and other communications channels, but the messages are stuck in separate app "silos." "The universal in-box brings together all those communications into one place so the user does not need to check separate apps," says Rafael Ballagas, a researcher at Nokia Research Center, in Palo Alto, California.

That makes it easier to track and carry out conversations that span different kinds of messaging. For example, it would be simple to see that someone responded to a Twitter update with a text message. It would also be possible to seamlessly switch methods of communication, and reply to a person's latest Facebook update by e-mailing them.

As a result, users can think less about the medium of communication, and more about the people they are contacting and what they want to say, says Tim Sohn, another researcher on the project. That's particularly valuable on a mobile device with a small screen, he says.

The universal in-box is made possible by cloud software running on a distant server. The software gathers up a person's messages from a device and connects with Web services such as Facebook. Processing these messages has to be done in the cloud to avoid overtaxing the limited computing and battery resources of a cell phone.

An additional feature called Lenses tames the potentially overwhelming volume of messages in a universal in-box. Each lens creates a kind of mini-in-box specific to a certain group of people or related to a particular topic. "You can create your own lenses for different points of interest, whether that's your high school friends or another community like your work contacts," says Sohn.

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Acer launch round-up: tablets, 4.8-inch smartphone, and more

Acer has taken the wraps off a range of new tablet devices and a content platform as part of an ambitious effort to rival Apples iPad and capture a good portion of this still nascent market. The new lineup includes a 4.8-inch "smartphone with the soul of a tablet," 7 and 10-inch Android tablets, a 10-inch Windows-based variant, and a unique dual touch screen hybrid between laptop and tablet. Here's a quick rundown of the key features disclosed so far:

Acer Iconia

Scheduled to debut early 2011, the Iconia is similar in concept to the Toshiba Libretto unveiled a few months ago but with larger 14-inch displays capable of a 1366x768 pixel resolution and beefier hardware under the hood. It will have an Intel Core i5 CPU, Intel graphics, up to 4GB of RAM, up to 750GB of storage, VGA and HDMI out, 802.11n, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, dual 1.3MP cameras, integrated 3G, gigabit Ethernet, two USB 2.0, one USB 3.0, and Windows 7 Home Premium.

Battery life is said to be rather disappointing at a mere 2.5 to 3 hours, but that's to be expected when you've got a pair of bright displays and only a 4-cell battery to run the show. The bottom display acts as a full screen keyboard or it can adapt whatever task you're doing at the time. Placing five fingers on this screen will bring up what Acer calls the Ring interface, which lets you control media applications, such as music and video, or launch the virtual keyboard.

Acer has customized the interface and applications to make it easy for gesture-based control using two screens and plans to release a software development kit for developers to bring their own applications to the form factor. Acer acknowledged it would take time to build an audience for a device based on such a different concept, so initially they are targeting early adopters. According to FastCompany, the Iconia will see a mid-January debut for around $2,300.

Read more...

Tablets

Next up are the 10.1- and 7-inch Android tablets. According to reports, they'll both run the upcoming Honeycomb release, which is expected early next year, and will boast integrated Wi-Fi and 3G. The larger unit is said to have a dual-core Tegra processor, HDMI output and native 1280x800 (16:10) resolution, 5-megapixel rear camera plus a front-facing camera for video calling, a ten-point multi-touch system and an inbuilt Gyroscope for gaming purposes.

The 7-incher is mostly identical, save for the screen size and gyroscope. It will feature the same resolution, Flash 10.1 support, DLNA technology and Acers own UI layered on top of Android. Availability for both of these is set for April 2011. The 10-inch Windows 7 variant will arrive in February. Details are scarce for this one but reports say it will run on the next-generation AMD platform, and comes with a keyboard docking station, essentially turning it into a detachable laptop.

Smartphone

As for Acers yet-to-be-named smartphone, this 4.8-inch behemoth rocks a 1024 x 480 pixel resolution display, 1GHZ processor, 8MP rear camera with LED flash and a 2MP unit on the front for video conferencing, support for Flash 10.1, Bluetooth 3.0, HSPA+14.4 connectivity, six-axis gyroscope and accelerometer, and a nameless build of Android (Gingebread perhaps?). The idea behind this device is very similar to what the Dell Streak is trying to achieve, as it is being touted to be a smartphone and a tablet all rolled into one. Expect a launch in April 2011.

Acer Alive and Clear.fi

Last but not least, Acer hopes part of the appeal of its new tablet and smartphone lineup will be their ability to seamlessly share files with the new Clear.fi system and download apps or other media content from the Alive platform. The latter is Acers iTunes equivalent, while the former is a cloud-based system designed to detect other Clear.fi-enabed devices connected to a wireless home network, and allow multi-format content to be shared across those devices.

Some of that content will come from Acers new Alive store, which will include free and paid content for most devices and operating systems. A variety of partners will be providing content which will be segmented into five areas, including Listen, for music, audiobooks, radio programs, podcasts and others types of audio entertainment; Watch, for movies, TV programs and channels, and videos; Read, for e-books, e-magazines and e-newspapers; and Play, for games.

Users in the UK and Italy will be getting first access next month, followed by a more thorough rollout across all new Acer devices and other markets during the first quarter of next year.

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Acer launch round-up: tablets, 4.8-inch smartphone, and more

Acer has taken the wraps off a range of new tablet devices and a content platform as part of an ambitious effort to rival Apples iPad and capture a good portion of this still nascent market. The new lineup includes a 4.8-inch "smartphone with the soul of a tablet," 7 and 10-inch Android tablets, a 10-inch Windows-based variant, and a unique dual touch screen hybrid between laptop and tablet. Here's a quick rundown of the key features disclosed so far:

Acer Iconia

Scheduled to debut early 2011, the Iconia is similar in concept to the Toshiba Libretto unveiled a few months ago but with larger 14-inch displays capable of a 1366x768 pixel resolution and beefier hardware under the hood. It will have an Intel Core i5 CPU, Intel graphics, up to 4GB of RAM, up to 750GB of storage, VGA and HDMI out, 802.11n, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, dual 1.3MP cameras, integrated 3G, gigabit Ethernet, two USB 2.0, one USB 3.0, and Windows 7 Home Premium.

Battery life is said to be rather disappointing at a mere 2.5 to 3 hours, but that's to be expected when you've got a pair of bright displays and only a 4-cell battery to run the show. The bottom display acts as a full screen keyboard or it can adapt whatever task you're doing at the time. Placing five fingers on this screen will bring up what Acer calls the Ring interface, which lets you control media applications, such as music and video, or launch the virtual keyboard.

Acer has customized the interface and applications to make it easy for gesture-based control using two screens and plans to release a software development kit for developers to bring their own applications to the form factor. Acer acknowledged it would take time to build an audience for a device based on such a different concept, so initially they are targeting early adopters. According to FastCompany, the Iconia will see a mid-January debut for around $2,300.

Read more...

Tablets

Next up are the 10.1- and 7-inch Android tablets. According to reports, they'll both run the upcoming Honeycomb release, which is expected early next year, and will boast integrated Wi-Fi and 3G. The larger unit is said to have a dual-core Tegra processor, HDMI output and native 1280x800 (16:10) resolution, 5-megapixel rear camera plus a front-facing camera for video calling, a ten-point multi-touch system and an inbuilt Gyroscope for gaming purposes.

The 7-incher is mostly identical, save for the screen size and gyroscope. It will feature the same resolution, Flash 10.1 support, DLNA technology and Acers own UI layered on top of Android. Availability for both of these is set for April 2011. The 10-inch Windows 7 variant will arrive in February. Details are scarce for this one but reports say it will run on the next-generation AMD platform, and comes with a keyboard docking station, essentially turning it into a detachable laptop.

Smartphone

As for Acers yet-to-be-named smartphone, this 4.8-inch behemoth rocks a 1024 x 480 pixel resolution display, 1GHZ processor, 8MP rear camera with LED flash and a 2MP unit on the front for video conferencing, support for Flash 10.1, Bluetooth 3.0, HSPA+14.4 connectivity, six-axis gyroscope and accelerometer, and a nameless build of Android (Gingebread perhaps?). The idea behind this device is very similar to what the Dell Streak is trying to achieve, as it is being touted to be a smartphone and a tablet all rolled into one. Expect a launch in April 2011.

Acer Alive and Clear.fi

Last but not least, Acer hopes part of the appeal of its new tablet and smartphone lineup will be their ability to seamlessly share files with the new Clear.fi system and download apps or other media content from the Alive platform. The latter is Acers iTunes equivalent, while the former is a cloud-based system designed to detect other Clear.fi-enabed devices connected to a wireless home network, and allow multi-format content to be shared across those devices.

Some of that content will come from Acers new Alive store, which will include free and paid content for most devices and operating systems. A variety of partners will be providing content which will be segmented into five areas, including Listen, for music, audiobooks, radio programs, podcasts and others types of audio entertainment; Watch, for movies, TV programs and channels, and videos; Read, for e-books, e-magazines and e-newspapers; and Play, for games.

Users in the UK and Italy will be getting first access next month, followed by a more thorough rollout across all new Acer devices and other markets during the first quarter of next year.

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Sony: PlayStation Move shortages could last until February

Sophos: 150,000 Mac users gave 50,000 malware reports

Earlier this month, Sophos declared that Mac users should not ignore malware and released Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition for Mac for free. After a few weeks, the security company now has a little data to share.

Sophos says it has some 150,000 active users, meaning those who download updates from its servers, so far. Furthermore, in the first two weeks of availability, the company said it counted just under 50,000 malware reports from the Mac users. The top 20 chart below shows the percentage of malware reports by users of the Mac product for the most commonly encountered malware that they are seeing:

The top threat, Mal/ASDFDldr-A, is how Sophos detects malicious files that use the scripting capability of Microsoft Media Player to force a user to visit an infected site instead of playing a video. The infected media files are typically blank (no music, no video) but are several megabytes in size due to null padding, and they are distributed posing as music from Lady Gaga, ABBA, Madonna, and so on.

There's also a lot of cross-platform Java-based attacks in the list, many of which have been designed to download further Windows-based attacks to computers, but they could easily be adapted to download Mac-based threats too. It's no wonder that Java is on Apple's kill list.

There's also some Mac OS X-specific malware: OSX/Jahlav and DNS Changer. These are well known Mac Trojans typically found all over the Web disguised as downloads, plug-ins, or videos.

"We don't see as much Mac malware as Windows malware," Sophos said in a statement. "Not by a long shot. But that doesn't mean that Mac users can afford to have their heads in the sand about about protecting their precious computers. And, unfortunately, so long as Mac users don't properly defend themselves they will increasingly be perceived as a soft target by cybercriminals."

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Sony: PlayStation Move shortages could last until February

UberTwitter sheds its BlackBerry exclusivity, comes to the iPhone [TNW Mobile]

UberTwitter, one of the most popular Twitter clients on BlackBerry devices, has shed its exclusivity and is now available as a free download on the iPhone.

The application has enjoyed success on RIM?s BlackBerry platform with over nine million users downloading the client, who have sent 10 million tweets between them. In its porting to the iPhone, UberTwitter offers all the standard Twitter features but adds a new feature called UberView which is meant to make the reading of your important tweets faster and a lot more simpler.

Put simply, UberView allows UberTwitter users to interact with and digest content without having to leave the body of the tweet, displaying webpages, photos or videos within the app. The feature, when combined with the composition and sending of tweets, link shortening and direct messaging, make for a pretty useful new addition to the bevy of Twitter applications available on the App Store.

UberTwitter isn?t resting on its laurels and welcomes feedback on its new iPhone app, enabling a small button within the app allowing users to submit ideas and suggestions. The company has already seen 10,000 people download its beta version and hopes to release a stable version 1.0 by mid-December, incorporating user suggestions sent using the application itself.

To get your hands on the app, you can download it via this link or by performing a simple search on the App Store.

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Source: http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2010/11/24/ubertwitter-sheds-its-blackberry-exclusivity-comes-to-the-iphone/

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Developer of The Witcher 2 plans to hunt pirates

TomSEA said:
"should make you wonder why these companies can spend so much money on targeting pirates..."

Oh gosh - I'm sure the thought that they're losing millions of dollars in lost revenue after years of development and literally tens of millions invested in that development has something to do with it.

More and more PC gaming companies are banging the drum on this because they've had it with the colossal amount of theft of their products. Many have turned to console development only and might do a shitty PC port after the fact. (thanks very much thieving a-holes) as a result. PC gaming and developers have taken a helluva beating from theft and all these asinine, "I would never buy it so that entitles me to steal it" excuses make it that much worse by encouraging even more theft.

"In an economic crisis it should make you wonder why these companies can spend so much money on targeting pirates, gain so little, then complain about lost money."

Guess what, princeton, if there wasn't any theft - or even a minimal amount of theft - they wouldn't be doing this.

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SeeSaw and Brainient bring ?Choose your own ads? to UK online video [TNW UK]

Users of online TV service SeeSaw will soon have a choice of which ads they?re subjected to, as Hulu?s ?Ad Selector? format is transplanted to Europe for the first time.

Users will have a choice of three pre-roll ads in a move that promises to generate improved results for advertisers,  through giving users an active roll in deciding which advert to watch. Presumably, SeeSaw also sees it as a way to bump up the prices on its advertising ratecard in future too.

SeeSaw?s move is in partnership with Brainient, the online video startup that enhances online video with fully customisable, interactive overlays. Brainient CEO Emi Gal tells me that the SeeSaw implementation is different to Hulu?s in that instead of allowing the viewer to select between three advertisers, it allows them to select between three different videos from the same advertiser. Brainient plans to roll the format out to other UK publishers over the next three months.

Pioneered by US TV service Hulu, the Ad Selector has emerged as a contender for the future of advertising in online TV. A study by VivaKi, reported by AdWeek, earlier this year found that the Ad Selector delivered average click-through rates 106% higher than pre-roll ads. Users remembered more about the ads too, with online ad-recall scores at 290% higher than pre-rolls.

Brainient, which presented at this year?s The Next Web Conference, raised $800,000 in funding in September to expand its business. It now has clients in Europe, US and India, is launching version 2 of its platform next month and plans to announce new strategic partnerships early next year.

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