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Android @ Home Can Connect To Every Electrical Device In Your House. [Household Tech]

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Have you ever wanted to turn on your lights with your smartphone or turn off the A/C after you had already walked out the door? Google is making home automation a lot easier with Android @ Home, which was introduced at its I/O conference. Google describes your home as a network of accessories and Android [...]

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Google Goggles For Android Gets Improved Business Card Recognition

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Google Goggles is a visual search application that lets you search the web by taking a photo. Launch the app, take a picture of an object, a book cover for example, and Google will return with search results for the book, all without typing. Google Goggles for Android received an update that brings new features [...]

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a la mode releases DaVinci app for Android. And It’s Free.

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a la mode has released a free appraisal app in the Android Market. The app allows appraisers to fill out the appraisal form including subject and comparable property photos all from the device. The app also includes a voice-to-text input feature to make data collection even easier. Once the data is collected, the file can [...]

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Picasa Now Gives Unlimited Small Photo And Video Storage

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Google recently changed their storage policy and now allows unlimited storage of small photos (photos under 800 pixels) and videos that are less than 15 minutes. While most real estate photos are probably larger than 800 pixels, unlimited storage of videos is pretty exciting news. In the past, each image and video you uploaded counted toward [...]

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iPad 2 Announced. It’s faster, lighter, thinner, has two cameras, and ships March 11th.

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Apple announced the iPad2 today and called 2010 the year of the iPad and 2011 the year of the Copycats. The iPad 2 is an all new design.  Here is a quick breakdown: 1/3 thinner than the first generation iPad.  It is 8.8 mm thick, down from 13.4 mm.  That is thinner than the iPhone [...]

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Think QR Codes Are Going Away Sometime Soon? Think Again.

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Like most new technology you might be skeptical about whether or not you should invest the time to lean how to use it for fear of the fad ending.  Well, now you can be pretty sure that QR Codes are not going away anytime soon. Here is a quick explanation if you are unsure what [...]

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Google Social Search And The Importance Of Your Social Network

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Google is updating their social search feature and putting links from your social network higher in search results. Google Social Search was introduced in 2009 and integrated your friends publicly shared content in your search results.  With Google’s Social Search update, all of those shared links are moving higher in search results. Today we’re doing a [...]

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