CBS has just posted a new app to the Apple App Store that turns your iPhone into a Star Trek communicator. You can flip the communicator open by flipping the phone and it includes all sorts of Original Series sound effects. Even cooler there is a phone app included, which can access your contacts, so you can make calls right from the communicator.
Star Trek die hard fans will simply love this app. Currently it is priced at $.199 so go to the iTunes store if you cannot wait for it to go cheaper.
Google rolled out an update to its Chrome Web browser on Tuesday, complete with an iTunes-style app store for the browser.
The Chrome Web Store features an array of games, Web tools, news apps and other features that can be incorporated with the browser after its new update.
In their blog post, they said the store will be featured prominently in Chrome, helping people discover great apps and developers reach millions of users around the world.
A quick look found a free version of the popular “Plants vs. Zombies” game. While there was a desktop theme for “Angry Birds,” that addictive smartphone favorite didn’t appear to be available yet.
There was a mix of free and paid apps. The store is currently available only in the United States, but Google said it will be rolled out to other countries in the coming months.
Google Instant, which shows results as the user types, has been added to the Omnibox — its combination browser and search box. Google also will roll out a revamp of Chrome’s Javascript engine, which the company says will load programs written with that language twice as fast.
Stealth startup Path has finally launched after months of hype, speculation and rumors; in many ways, it is the anti-social network. Calling itself The Personal Network because it is determined to go against the example set by Twitter’s follower model: you are limited to just 50 friends on Path.
It chose the 50 number based on the theories of Oxford professor of evolutionary psychology Robin Dunbar, who claims that 150 is the maximum number of social relationships any human can handle.
Path has received a lot of attention because of its founding team: former Facebook senior platform manager Dave Morin, Macster co-creator Dustin Mierau and Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning. But will this be a success. We will soon find out. Maybe users will still use this for very personal purposes considering that even I believe that all accounts in Facebook contain some friends who are not really close to the account owner.
Users may still use Path due to the power of exclusivity. But what exactly is it? It is a suite of applications (starting today with the iPhone) focused on intimate photo sharing. All you do is share pictures and three pieces of information to give them context: people, places and things. Pretty limited but then again, it is not a good idea to share everything to the public. Some things are just worth kept only to a select few.
