Google Tinkers with Sudoku

You know the drill. You’re walking home from work, stag, one evening, you, with those lean and shriveled thumbs from work, fiddle with your smartphone or the equivalent, catching up with breaking news from the technology section of the Grit. Then, by a very fortuitous chance, you notice the masthead denotes “Newt Gingrich joins in with Mark Fuhrman at the Algonquin Table, aptly relocated to the Apollo Theater.” You’re on pins and needles, trying to evade those lowlife human stories, but you are actually actuating an image of a moron who would pay for drive-thru burgers with a check. Then you find yourself subliminally rummaging through the web archives with a classic hunt and peck approach, which is endemic to skycaps with no arms. You’re there: “Google unveils a cutting-edge technology that solves any cryptic from the Mouse Trap!” 

Google has never lowballed me with underwhelming awe, and its latest implementation that solves Sudoku enclosed me in a cage with Christine O'Donnell trying to dabble me into witchcraft, making my cranial ridge burst. I’m astonished. Sudoku puzzles have never shone the come-hither look straight at my face, but now I am utterly sold. Sudoku beckons. I’ve been a rabid fan of Sudoku since the roll out of that feature on Google Mobile (iPhone), or Goggles, and I am glad to say I’ve never been so excited about new technology since Sinbad. 

The new feature is offered gratis, and is available for phones that have Google Goggles, or Google Mobile (iPhone) installed. Preferably, I would not overuse it, for your phone can easily turn into a threadbare liberal perception, or should I say, Casual Determinism, that is predisposed to decline. If you have an iPhone, tap that austerely embroidered camera icon that looks like an iPod Shuffle counterpart, and grab the image of a recognizable image of a Sudoku puzzle. You should careen through the process, unless by a hapless chance, a vagrant drifter walks up to you and shoots you in your head. The app will then analyze the picture, and, voila, the mystery-shrouded puzzle you had been grappling with is settled! 

All in all, the app works impeccably, lest the image displays you losing a game of tic-tac-toe with a grub worm or worse. Other than that, the addition of Sudoku-solve imparts of us that we are meandering toward the never-ending vista of technology, that Google has yet to proffer.

iPod Touch 4th Generation Review

Aesthetics

When you first turn on the device you will notice it's beautiful 3.5 inch Retina Display. Also, if your a first time user at the top is a camera that is normally used for pictures and FaceTime. On the silver back side you have another camera that can also be used for pictures, FaceTime and video. 

Features

One of the most used features by me is the video recording which shoots in 720p video. Great for vlogging or just documenting some memories. The less used feature by me is FaceTime, which allows you to video chat with other iPod Touch's (4th Generation), iPhone 4's and Macs (with iSight cameras). I recently found another service Tango, also a video chatting service but this allows you to do via 3G and to other devices (such as Android phones). 

 Another feature used by most people is Game Center, basically Game Center allows you to play with your friends on compatible iOS 4 games. One feature not noticed by users is Gyro, this allows the iPod to detect advance movements; Provides a more precise gaming experience. If your interested in purchasing one you can do so here.

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Price(s):

8GB --> $229

32GB --> $299

64GB --> $399 

Non iPad Tablets: Just Stop

The iPad has won. It's over. Why other companies still want to continue making tablets that are unresponsive, useless, and just bad is a mystery. It seems that Apple are the only people who can make touch screens, as all, repeat all of the non-Apple touch screens I have tried have been really really awful. 

The other issue of course when you have a tablet is what OS you have and honestly, again Apple easily triumphs. They came up with the whole app idea, Android has less Apps, and even with the new Gingerbread update, it still won't cut it.

Besides, the Apple UI is just so much nicer. Nice little icons, whereas Android has several different screen layouts and is, let's face it, pretty disorganised. So if hardware wise AND software wise other tablets are not up to standard, the other companies should just save the effort and try to innovate and invent something new for once.

Apple are always the company who come out with the revolutionary ideas, and everybody steals them. Windows 7 is basically a really bad, virus filled version of Mac OS X and to honest, I'm surprised Apple haven't launched a big lawsuit against Windows yet. I'm not an Apple fanboy in any way, but I do think they easily make the best products (even though a few, like the new Nano, are horrible to be polite). My message to other companies is simple, to recap: INNOVATE and DON'T STEAL. 

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The World that Forgot About BlackBerry

In the midst of the new tablet rush, I completely forgot about RIM and when I came home today to see that they had released a tablet, I was stunned. Let me just start off by saying that I am completely blown away by the Blackberry Playbook. When I read the specs, I found out that this thing was a monster. A tablet packing a dual-core processor? Jeez. Two HD cameras, HDMI out, and much more. I think RIM made the right choice by waiting to enter the tablet market, because they just took features everyone wanted in the iPad, and put it in their product. And that new Blackberry Tablet OS, it looks great.

For people like me who don't want the size of the iPad, but also do not want a horrible Android tablet, this product is going to be a huge hit. I personally decided that if it is affordable for me, I will purchase one. I hope RIM releases more hands-on videos with the Playbook soon, and that when the SDK comes out in a couple weeks, developers flood in and create some high-quality applications that will be ready come launch in early 2011. So do you think that this could be an iPad killer? I personally do not think it will "kill" the iPad, but it will add some good competition in the tablet market. Let me know what you think.