Formula highlights in Google spreadsheets

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

formulahighlighting Formula highlights in Google spreadsheets

In the new version of Google Spreadsheets, cell references and the corresponding cells are now highlighted to make it easier to keep track of your formulas.

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Chrome Extensions Get Desktop Notifications

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

While a few extensions have had desktop notifications for a little while now, Google has finally built a desktop notification API for extensions, making it easier for developers to add it to their extensions and keep them universal across extensions (and operating systems). While there doesn’t seem to be a list of extensions that have added this new functionality, I have tested it with the Gmail Notifier extension and found that it works rely good.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kkmbodalobogbnejmcdghkfimhodifol

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Dropbox

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

Dropbox is great because it’s not just a desktop app it allows you to manage files in fully synced folders from desktop and mobile devices.

Dropbox’s Android application allows users to access a Dropbox — and any kind of content it contains, including music and movies — from anywhere. Users can also upload files, such as images and links, to their Dropbox account. This video will give you an idea of how it works:

I was late to the game of starting to use Dropbox but now it’s one of the moste used tool for me.

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Facebook releases SDK for android

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

facebook android sdk1 Facebook releases SDK for android

You can begin integrating the following Facebook Platform features into your Android applications today:

  • Strong authentication using OAuth 2.0
  • Making requests to the new Graph API
  • Publishing stories back to Facebook via Feed forms

Steven Soneff, an engineering intern on the Facebook Mobile Platform team, loves Facebook’s “move fast” ethic; he built this SDK in just a few weeks for his internship project.

You will can find the SDK here http://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk/

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Autonomous quadrocopter impressive flight maneuvers

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

I’ve just come across a video demo from the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab that shows an autonomous quadrotor helicopter performing precise maneuvers at an unbelievably speed an precition.

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Tweetdeck adds Foursquare and Google buzz

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

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Welcome to Disruptive Code

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

It may be almost summer, but our minds are already set on fall activities and so should yours be (if you ask us anyway)!. On September 21st – 22nd, we’re bringing you the perhaps coolest web developers conference that Scandinavia and fellow countries beyond has ever seen - Disruptive Code! You’ll probably find all the basic A:s to the Q:s by simply visiting the website, but just to rub it in:

Disruptive Code

Disruptive Code is a new, Nordic web developer conference focused on the latest and most exciting within web development, web applications, methods, services, mobile web services and open source. During two full days, we invite around 350 developers and entrepreneurs to a really cool conference with parallel talks, workshops, unconference sessions, panel discussions, debates, mingle and a party that will be unforgettable!

Disruptive Code will focus on four different areas:

  • Developer
  • Frontend
  • Mobile ( focus: location, augmented reality, apps)
  • Startup

And as always at our Disruptive Media Conferences, the main stage sessions will be livestreamed on the web and published in high-definition video format after the event – but if you want to see the other 2/3 of sessions and meet the peeps  (which, believe us, you’ll want to) we’d favour the location if we where you…

On stage you’ll meet both Swedish and international speakers, developers and innovators from large organizations as well as small but smart startups. And the target audience (you?) is web developers, web designers, IT- and business strategists and entrepreneurs interested in the latest methods and technologies within web and digital business development.

If you want to see who we’ve hooked up so far, keep an eye on the speaker line up (which of course will beconstantly updated along the count-down), and if you want to have the latest news about this conference, speakers and subjects related to it, we suggest you check disruptivecode.com or  follow us at@disruptivecode and follow the conversation with #dcode which is Disruptive Code’s official hashtag!

But foremost – if you wanna keep your wallet in shape in time for summer get your super early-bird ticket today, which gives you more than half price on the ticket! We only have 50 of these available though, so don’t think about it too long… Hope to see you in September, and remember – if Code is Poetry, well then Disuptive Code should be nothing less than an anthology! ;)

cross post from: http://www.disruptivemedia.se

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Manual update your Neus One to Froyo

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

froyo 2 2 hed img rm eng Manual update your Neus One to Froyo

It was only a matter of time. The direct link to download the Android 2.2 “Froyo” update from Google’s servers has been found. According to XDA-Developers, it only works if you have a “non-rooted stock ERE27 system” Nexus One. Meet the requirements? Can’t wait any longer? You can get the update here http://android.clients.google.com/packages/passion/signed-passion-FRF50-from-ERE27.1e519a24.zip

Download it to you device, rename the file to update.zip and place it in the root directory of your SD card. Boot your phone int to recovery mode by holding the volume button down while booting and then pressing volume up and power when the varning triangle appears. – Do this on your own risk!

I have now had Froyo on my Nexus One for 24 hours and its very slick and extreamly fast compared to 2.1

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Iphone 4 sighted with white front plate

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

white iphone next rm eng Iphone 4 sighted with white front plate

Chinese site apple.pro has posted the following image of a white and a black iPhone 4

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Bring Your Own Laptop to Work at Procter & Gamble

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Lars-Olof Allerhed
Procter & Gamble has begun a pilot program in which several hundred employees are allowed to use their own laptops at work:
This pilot program is based on a simple idea: many of P&G’s younger employees would rather use their own laptops than corporate-issued systems.
The pilot is focused on junior employees, who are more likely to prefer their own laptops, and less likely to handle a significant amount of sensitive information:
To head off potential problems, the pilot involves junior employees and new hires unlikely to be handling sensitive company information. “They are in a low-risk category,” [Vice President of IT Development and Operations Jim] Fortner said.
Cora Carmody, CIO of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., says the shift to cloud computing further reduces legal and security concerns that would be present with a traditional corporate network. That’s because cloud computing is designed for a more mobile workforce, in which employees access corporate data over the Internet, and greater security emphasis is placed on the data itself, instead of the network.

Procter & Gamble has begun a pilot program in which several hundred employees are allowed to use their own laptops at work:
This pilot program is based on a simple idea: many of P&G’s younger employees would rather use their own laptops than corporate-issued systems.
The pilot is focused on junior employees, who are more likely to prefer their own laptops, and less likely to handle a significant amount of sensitive information:
To head off potential problems, the pilot involves junior employees and new hires unlikely to be handling sensitive company information. “They are in a low-risk category,” [Vice President of IT Development and Operations Jim] Fortner said.
Cora Carmody, CIO of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., says the shift to cloud computing further reduces legal and security concerns that would be present with a traditional corporate network. That’s because cloud computing is designed for a more mobile workforce, in which employees access corporate data over the Internet, and greater security emphasis is placed on the data itself, instead of the network.

Cross post form: http://www.ikiw.org

I see this trend spreading with in IBM as well

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