Join Skype 5.2 update for Mac offers group screen sharing
Sharing is caring, or so they say. Skype, the VoIP giant that was purchased by Microsoft, has not missed out on that particular adage, hence leading up to Skype 5.2 update for Mac which will deliver group screen sharing – something its predecessor failed to deliver. This new update would mean group communication being made easier than ever before, since you can share your display during a group video call. This is the perfect situation whenever you have something to troubleshoot, and since a picture is worth a thousand words, doing so over the screen is easier than combing through lines of fix-it text.
It must be noted that this is a spin-off of what has been available for some time already – screen sharing within a one-to-one Skype call. Apart from troubleshooting, there are numerous other reasons on why group screen sharing is cool – imagine making a document presentation to colleagues who are separated by thousands of miles, or to share holiday photos with friends and family?
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Augmented Reality Cinema shows you the scene where it was filmed
Normally, I don’t report on Apps here, as we could do a blog for that. However, this one I just couldn’t resist, but it is sadly still a concept.
If you are a regular reader of this blog, and I am told that we have many, then you know that I am nuts over all things augmented reality. This particular one can be used a famous movie locations.
You can watch the video to see it in action, and it looks simple to use. Find the spot where a movie was filmed, like the Westminster Bridge in 28 Days Later, and you will see the scene played out.
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Deep Shot is good for computer-to-phone transfers, and vice versa
Even though our computer and smartphones make our world easier to live in, it can be a pain to transfer the information back and forth.
Fortunately, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, an MIT Grad student and Google Inern, and Yang Li (also employed by Google) have created Deep Shot. Imagine doing something on your computer, like driving directions. Instead of going to the Navigation App on your smartphone and retyping everything again, you can just take a picture of the screen, and what was on the PC will be on your phone.
The reverse of this also works as well. So if you are doing something on your mobile phone and you want to type it up on your computer, just Deep Shot it from the mobile to the PC. You can watch a video of it after the jump for more information.
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Google Wallet introduced, and PayPal is upset
Google has recently announced their new mobile payment system with Google Wallet. It is a free Android Android App that will arrive sometime this summer that will allow users to make payments for products and/or services.
Google Wallet, which is open platform software, was officially unveiled at a massive event a few days ago. This deal has been in the works for a while, and a lot of big companies like MasterCard, Citi, Sprint, and First Data have invested in it. In order to encourage more growth an usage of this unique program, Google Wallet is going to encourage a lot of deals like discounts, promotions, loyalty rewards, and the like.
It sounds like a terrific deal for consumers, but you know who isn’t happy about it? PayPal. Yeah, they are suing Google, accusing Google Wallet’s project leader, Osama Bedier, of “feeding confidential PayPal information to Google so that it can develop the NFC mobile payment system”.
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Yahoo! Mail hits latest iteration, kisses goodbye to beta version
Yahoo! hasn’t had it good lately over the years with the emergence of new players in the tech market, but that doesn’t mean this Internet giant is about to throw in the towel. No sir, they are still a formidable force, one to be reckoned with, and has just announced that they will be rolling out their Yahoo! Mail that will drop the Beta tag, making it available for all 284 million users worldwide to make the upgrade in the coming weeks.
Currently, Yahoo! Mail is one of the largest and most trusted email brands in the world, where the newer version will do its bit to bring conversations to life in the form of a faster, safer, and more personal communications experience. Not only that, Yahoo! will also ensure that their latest Yahoo! Mail version will be made available to its range of global partners such as Nokia.
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RageGage helps tide you over those temper tantrums
RageGage is one of the more interesting computer peripherals that you will ever find – after all, the company is one of the leading manufacturers where rage-release devices are concerned, so their latest invention – the RageGage, was specially designed to be physically abused (without letting you end up on the wrong side of the law to boot), especially when you’re over your top due to the incompetence of others around you.
RageGage is a dynamic, customizable smash pad which will offer cheeky, humorous distraction that intends to quickly defuse any tense situations, targeting even the most violent rage-explosions. At last, there is one good thing that online games are there for instead of just being time wasters and a productivity thief in offices worldwide – you get to let off some steam by virtually smacking Facebook friends, without having them suffer from a “panda eye” in the process.
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RecognizeMe relies on facial recognition to unlock an iPhone
A few days ago, we reported on the Hoyos Eyelock USB Iris Scanner that allows the user to enter their laptop or desktop device via eye-scan. All it takes is just connecting it via USB, but what if you could get similar security on your mobile phone?
The technology is already here. What you can see in the picture and in the video after the jump is RecognizeMe, an App that is only available on jailbroken iPhones. This App uses the Facetime camera in order to recognized the registered user, and only then will it unlock the phone.
So who needs fingerswipes and passwords? Just look at the iPhone, which is something that you are probably doing anyway if you have your iPhone on hand.
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Library books can be easily shelved with ShelvAR
When I was in the 8th grade, I did some time in a library, shelving some books. If you have never done painstaking work like this, I highly don’t recommend it.
I remember we that this one biographies section where books had to be organized not by number, but by person. I sure could have used ShelvAR back then. ShelvAR is a augmented reality program that can read all the call numbers, and can determine if they are in the proper order. It is being developed by a team of researchers at Miami University’s Augmented Reality Research Group, and there is a video of it after the jump being demonstrated with a Galaxy Tab.
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