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		<title>Towards a generic AR browser</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a very significant day for the AR world, as Layar released their 3.5 release with a new functionality called Stream. While this can be viewed as a UI change and yet another way of presenting AR information, this is in fact a huge step in the direction of AR as a first class [...]]]></description>
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<p>Yesterday was a very significant day for the AR world, as Layar released their 3.5 release with a new functionality called Stream. While this can be viewed as a UI change and yet another way of presenting AR information, this is in fact a huge step in the direction of AR as a first class medium.</p>
<p>In that sense this is no less significant than the first consumer version of the web browser was (say Mosaic 1.03 or Netscape 0.9 so you will).</p>
<p>Let me explain why.</p>
<p>Until now, AR content has been served and displayed as yet another domain specific application, in many senses:</p>
<ul>
<li>brand specific (for branding and PR purposes)</li>
<li>region specific (one app or layer per region, e.g. a local hamburger joint)</li>
<li>application specific (literally: stand alone AR apps are still out there)</li>
</ul>
<p>Within the Layar platform, a single AR browser for multiple platforms and targeted at the global market was already a fact. But each AR content item (the <a class="zem_slink" title="Point of interest" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_interest">Point of Interest</a>, POI in short) was still confined to it&#8217;s defining layer, which is of course the under control of one publisher per individual layer. So even if a publisher would want to publish the richest possible AR content for a domain, they would be limited by the availability of accurate AR content to them.</p>
<p>For a example (and this is real): there might be several branches of banks who publish their own, branded version of a &#8220;<a class="zem_slink" title="Automated teller machine" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_teller_machine">ATM</a> finder&#8221; layer. They might not have accurate data about all available ATM&#8217;s or leave the competing branches out because of better brand recognition. Which is inevitable or even fine as a business decision. For the end user, who just wants to find the nearest ATM, this is very awkward; they have to first find all available ATM finder layers ad then open them, one by one. In Stream everything is combined and accessible by just the single search term &#8220;ATM&#8221;.</p>
<p>Now don&#8217;t get me wrong, I do recognize the importance of having the Single Layer concept for branding, ownership and even paid business models. Even more, this is one of the enablers four our business model behind <a title="TAB Worldmedia" href="http://tabworldmedia.com">TAB worldmedia</a>. Even more, it benefits the end user as well, as this is a way to communicate the source and thus trustworthyness for specific content. I do trust the branch owner of a certain ATM brand more than just a generic publisher regarding location and availability.</p>
<p>So this is where Layar steps in and created a really smart compromise. Stream combines the best of two worlds in a very elegant way: it makes the most relevant AR content available to the end user, while still providing context and branding when a user &#8220;dives in&#8221; and opens the POI, as this is still displayed in its own context and branded layer.</p>
<p>The whole stream approach is exciting for yet another reason: it means that we have a significant and diverse offering of AR content in many regions already, which justifies a unified and categorized or searchable, well, stream of AR data. In other words, there&#8217;s so much content out there that a simple Layer catalog approach is not sufficient any more for discovery. And thus, it signifies the emancipation of AR as a first class content medium, as stated above.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really excited to see this happen within a year after the launch of the first open AR browsers, yet another signal about the high pace at which AR is evolving right now!</p>
<p>Read the original announcement here: <a title="Layar Blog" href="http://site.layar.com/company/blog/layar-revolutionizes-mobile-content-discovery/">Layar revolutionizes Mobile Content Discovery with new Stream Technology powered browser</a>.</p>
<p>Note: Layar Stream is available for Android right now from the Android Market, iPhone users have to wait a little as the approval process needs to be completed before they can update their version through the AppStore.</p>
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		<title>Layar 3D: Second Life meets Real World</title>
		<link>http://squio.nl/blog/2009/09/24/layar-3d-second-life-meets-real-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How cool would it be if Second Life was not constrained to its own virtual world, but existed right here, as an overlay on the real world around you? I tried it at least twice, but never really &#8220;got into&#8221; Second Life. Maybe because it is too &#8220;virtual&#8221; for me, too much disconnected from real [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How cool would it be if <a class="zem_slink" title="Second Life" rel="homepage" href="http://Secondlife.com">Second Life</a> was not constrained to its own virtual world, but existed right here, as an overlay on the real world around you?</p>
<p>I tried it at least twice, but never really &#8220;got into&#8221; Second Life. Maybe because it is too &#8220;virtual&#8221; for me, too much disconnected from real people and real places. But what if the existing environment could be enhanced with &#8211; well&#8230; anything goes! Some examples:</p>
<ul>
<li>A <a class="zem_slink" title="Virtual tour" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_tour">virtual tour</a> through an <a class="zem_slink" title="Ancient Rome" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome">ancient Roman</a> settlement which existed once around the 3rd age</li>
<li>A virtual guide telling you about the history of a building (with audio and video)</li>
<li>Time travel: see this place how it evolved over time</li>
<li>Architectural development: project 3D renderings of a future building on a construction site</li>
<li>Yourself with a virtual &#8220;skin&#8221;, symbolizing some character you play in a <a class="zem_slink" title="Role-playing game" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game">role playing game</a></li>
<li>&#8230;and then: options to connect in the real world, connect the real you with the game character somehow</li>
<li>Education: labeling items such as buildings, trees, traffic signs and attach quizzes about their meaning</li>
<li>Remember the crazy Japanese gadget called <a title="Wikipedia about Lovegetty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovegetty">Lovegetty</a>? Oh well&#8230;</li>
<li>See? really, the sky is the limit!</li>
</ul>
<p>That was one of the dreams I had when thinking about the future possibilities of <a class="zem_slink" title="Augmented reality" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality">Augmented Reality</a> applications, such as Layar, but then equipped with a real 3D <a class="zem_slink" title="Rendering (computer graphics)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_%28computer_graphics%29">rendering</a> engine and real-time update possibilities.</p>
<p>It looks like this future is actually right around the corner with the announcement of Layar 3D, yesterday. Not all of this will be readily available &#8211; let alone work smooth enough on today&#8217;s mobile devices, but the start is definitely here and soon available on a handset near you.</p>
<p>Some videos from the announcement embedded below, be sure to check out the <a href="http://layar.com/3d/">Layar 3D site</a> as well!</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/6716495">Raimo van der Klein about Layar 3D</a> movie by <a href="http://www.marketingfacts.nl/berichten/20090923_picnic09_layar_nu_ook_in_3d/">MarketingFacts</a>.</p>
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		<title>Biggest business advantage for Google Wave?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 10:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by liako via Flickr Alexander van Elsas compiled an excellent list of 10 reasons why Google just reinvented online communication. You should read that blog post now, if you haven&#8217;t already! I do agree that Google does Wave the right way &#8211; it&#8217;s all about openness, Alexander&#8217;s points 2 and 3 should make most [...]]]></description>
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<p><a class="zem_slink" title="Alexander van Elsas" rel="homepage" href="http://vanelsas.wordpress.com">Alexander van Elsas</a> compiled an excellent list of <a href="http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/10-reasons-why-google-just-reinvented-online-communication/">10 reasons why Google just reinvented online communication</a>. You should read that blog post now, if you haven&#8217;t already!</p>
<p>I do agree that Google does <a href="http://wave.google.com/">Wave</a> <em>the right way</em> &#8211; it&#8217;s all about openness, Alexander&#8217;s points 2 and 3 should make most critical users and developers happy.</p>
<p>But then Google still has the business advantage of having all aggregated data in their silo&#8217;s &#8211; they will be the <em>exclusive</em> owner of virtually <em>all communication data in the world</em>. This gives them enormous business advantages in terms of finding out what people are discussing, right now. All this can be put in perspective with <a class="zem_slink" title="Data mining" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining">data mining</a> of all previous communication. The logical exploitation is ever more <a class="zem_slink" title="Targeted advertising" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_advertising">targeted advertising</a> (adding location, local time, mood, communication partners and such to the expression). But being able to watch real time trends in high resolution, <a class="zem_slink" title="Granularity" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granularity">fine grained</a> up to the user level in the context of their <a class="zem_slink" title="Social network" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network">social network</a> will likely enable entirely new business models, which we can not even imagine right now.</p>
<p>Does this matter for the individual user?<br />
Maybe, privacy is potentially at risk even more than it is now. Whatever will happen, great power comes with great responsibility and the slogan &#8220;do not evil&#8221; applies more than ever before.</p>
<p>At the same time I&#8217;m really excited to see this happen and will most likely join Wave as soon as it becomes available.</p>
<p>What did <a class="zem_slink" title="Scott McNealy" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy">Scott McNealy</a> say again? &#8220;<a href="http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/01/17538">You have zero privacy anyway, get over it</a>&#8221; . And that was ten yars ago.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you want to peek under the hood of all those mysterious Firefox 3.x databases? Easy does it: just install SQLite Manager in&#8230; Firefox itself (for easy installation visit SQLite Manager on the AMO site). This add-on can be activated from the Tool menu and opens in a separate window. By default, a shortcut to [...]]]></description>
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<p>So you want to peek under the hood of all those mysterious Firefox 3.x databases? Easy does it: just install <a class="zem_slink" title="SQLite Manager" rel="homepage" href="http://sqlite-manager.googlecode.com/">SQLite Manager</a> in&#8230; Firefox itself (for easy installation visit <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817">SQLite Manager on the AMO site</a>).</p>
<p>This add-on can be activated from the Tool menu and opens in a separate window. By default, a shortcut to your profile directory is provided, but there is nothing preventing you from opening other <a class="zem_slink" title="SQLite" rel="homepage" href="http://sqlite.org/">sqlite3</a> databases when you&#8217;re done staring at the <em>places.sqlite</em> database.</p>
<p>On <a class="zem_slink" title="Mac OS X" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Mac OSX</a> there is lots to explore about your <a class="zem_slink" title="Mail (application)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail">Mail.app</a> settings in your <em>~/Library/Mail</em> directory, e.g to <a href="http://menson.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/forever-for-now-optimizing-mailapp-performance/">optimize mail performance</a>. Just be careful that you don&#8217;t make any changes on the live database (you work on a back-up copy, right?).</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via CrunchBase Please note, this blog post is in Dutch (translate). Mijn eerste indrukken na een paar dagen spelen met de Android powered HTC G1 (door T-Mobile ook wel &#8220;Googlephone&#8221; genoemd). Voornamelijk vanuit de mogelijkheden op internet gebied, en vergeleken met mijn oude Sony Ericsson 810i (SE). Direct bij het eerste opstarten krijg je [...]]]></description>
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<p>Please note, this blog post is in Dutch (<a title="Courtesy Google Translate" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&amp;hl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fsquio.nl%2Fblog%2F2009%2F02%2F03%2Fgoogle-android-op-t-mobile-g1-eerste-indruk%2F&amp;sl=nl&amp;tl=en">translate</a>).</p>
<p>Mijn eerste indrukken na een paar dagen spelen met de <em><a href="http://code.google.com/android/">Android</a> powered</em> <a class="zem_slink" title="High Tech Computer Corporation" rel="homepage" href="http://www.htc.com">HTC</a> G1 (door T-Mobile ook wel &#8220;<a class="zem_slink" title="Android" rel="homepage" href="http://code.google.com/android/">Googlephone</a>&#8221; genoemd). Voornamelijk vanuit de mogelijkheden op internet gebied, en vergeleken met mijn oude <a class="zem_slink" title="Sony Ericsson" rel="homepage" href="http://www.sonyericsson.com">Sony Ericsson</a> 810i (<em>SE</em>).</p>
<p>Direct bij het eerste opstarten krijg je een melding dat de telefoon het best (of alleen maar?) met een google account gebruikt kan worden. Ik heb niet geprobeerd wat er wel/niet mogelijk is <em>zonder</em> google account, maar ben meteen ingelogd met mijn <a class="zem_slink" title="Google Apps" rel="homepage" href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html">Google Apps</a> account.</p>
<p><strong>Adresboek en agenda</strong><br />
Het blijkt meteen waarom dat google account zo belangrijk is: dit is namelijk de enige manier om adressen en agenda&#8217;s te synchroniseren met de G1. Via Bluetooth wordt geen enkele uitwisselings-functie ondersteund, via de USB kabel blijk je alleen bij de externe <em>flash kaart</em> te kunnen en niet bij het telefoon geheugen zelf. Dat betekent vanzelf ook geen <a class="zem_slink" title="ISync" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/">iSync</a> vanuit <a class="zem_slink" title="Mac OS X" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Mac OSX</a> en geen uitwisseling met Addressbook en <a class="zem_slink" title="ICal" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/ical/">iCal</a>.</p>
<p>Die synchronisatie zal dus via google moeten lopen, om dat te configureren is niet helemaal triviaal:</p>
<ul>
<li>Configuratie van iCal om agenda&#8217;s met <a class="zem_slink" title="Google Calendar" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com/calendar">Google Calendar</a> te synchroniseren gaat het best met programma <a title="Google Code project page Calaboration" href="http://code.google.com/p/calaboration/">Calaboration</a>.</li>
<li>Addressbook kan zelf met Google Contacts synchroniseren, mits je een <a class="zem_slink" title="iPhone" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone">iPhone</a> of <a class="zem_slink" title="IPod Touch" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Touch">iPod touch</a> aangesloten hebt (waarom?) maar er is een ingewikkelde <a title="Enable Google Contact Sync Without an iPhone or iPod Touch" href="http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/05/29/enable_google_contact_sync_without_an_iphone_or_ipod_touch-2.html">work around voor synchronisatie met Google zonder iPhone</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Op de SE werkte iSync juist vlekkeloos, alleen groepen van adressen en agenda&#8217;s werden niet ondersteund.</p>
<p><strong>E-mail</strong><br />
Op de G1 zijn er twee ingebouwde opties voor email: een gmail client die onberispelijk werk in alle opzichten, en een meer traditionele email client die je simpel kan configureren met je mail account gegevens. Het gebruik van IMAP over SSL is hier geen probleem, je kan de betreffende instellingen en poort nummers makkelijk invoeren. Er is alleen een groot gebrek aan deze mail client: er wordt geen IMAP IDLE ofwel push email ondersteund. De SE mail applicatie deed dat wel, al ruim twee jaar geleden (alleen was het daar nodig om voor de mailserver van XS4ALL een apart SSL certificaat te installeren).</p>
<p><strong>Web browser</strong><br />
De ingebouwde webbrowser is niets bijzonders, werkt zoals het hoort en zelfs de javascript ondersteuning is acceptabel. Alleen de user interface is te beperkt, navigatie gaat alleen redelijk via obscure toetsenbord commando&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Op de SE was een oudere versie van Opera Mobile meegeleverd, maar met wat kunst en vliegwerk bleek het goed mogelijk om de actuele 4.x versie te installeren. Die browser heeft zelfs zonder touch screen een prettigere user interface.</p>
<p>Verder is er ook slecht nieuws voor wat betreft de mobiele versie van Firefox, <a title="New Firefox 'Fennec' Alpha Arrives as Mobile Browser Wars Heat Up" href="http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/new-firefox-fen.html">Fennec</a>, die juist als eerste alpha release beschikbaar is. Het ziet er niet naar uit dat die ooit voor Android beschikbaar komt doordat Android alleen Java applicaties ondersteunt (en <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platforms.mobile/msg/ef777a097719f1dd">Fennec is in C/C++ ontwikkeld</a>).</p>
<p><strong>Muziek speler</strong><br />
De ingebouwde Walkman software van de SE was &#8211; na mijn iPod &#8211; een belediging, ik heb die nooit gebruikt. Sony heeft destijds een leuk apparaat voor cassettebandjes gemaakt, daar hadden ze het bij moeten laten.</p>
<p>De ingebouwde music player voor Android is een hele verademing. Prettig dat er niet te veel opties zijn, dat houdt het wel overzichtelijk. Alleen kan ik me geen uitgebreide bibliotheek in het ding voorstellen (maar dat gaat ook niet op 8G Flash, max. 16G).</p>
<p><strong>Camera</strong><br />
De 2M pixel camera van de SE is niet veel bijzonders. Maar wel beter dan de 3M pixel camera van de G1! Het beeld is vaag, met vale kleuren en de lichtgevoeligheid is zeer beperkt. Verder kan de G1 met de huidige Android versie geen filmpjes maken (de SE wel, al zijn die het aanzien niet waard). Waar de SE het met een simpele witte LED moets doen als verlichting, heeft de G1 helemaal niets. Donker is gewoon pech gehad.</p>
<p><strong>Android Market: applicaties</strong><br />
Dit is het grote verschil tussen de G1 (ok, en de iPhone) en de rest van de smart phones die momenteel beschikbaar zijn: de open toegang tot het <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/">platform</a> voor  ontwikkelaars om applicaties te ontwikkelen en aan de man te brengen. De tegenghaner van de Apple&#8217;s <a class="zem_slink" title="App Store" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/">App Store</a> is de Android Market.</p>
<p><span id="more-204"></span><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-214" title="android_droid" src="http://squio.nl/blog/wp-content/2009/02/android_droid.jpg" alt="android_droid" width="150" height="150" />Van de honderden beschikbare applicaties heb ik er een aantal geïnstalleerd en vluchtig bekeken.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Weer</strong>:<br />
<a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.accuweather.android">AccuWeather</a> is een simpele widget die de weersverwachting geeft, ook heel aardig voor Nederland. <a href="http://www.bright.nl/buienradar-eerste-nederlandse-android-app"><br />
Buienradar</a> werkt zoals verwacht maar is niet bepaald elegant (de kaart is versmald weergegeven), je kan niet inzoomen en er wordt geen gebruik gemaakt van de locatiedata.</li>
<li><strong>Barcodes en Shopping</strong>:</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.biggu.shopsavvy">ShopSavvy</a> leest barcodes met je camera en zoekt de goedkoopste web- en locale shops. Na een aantal scans moet je met een Amerikaanse ZIP code registreren en ik kreeg resultaten in UK ponden of alleen Duitse webshops. Alternatieven zijn er genoeg.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.compareeverywhere">CompareEverywhere </a>doet min of meer het zelfde als ShopSavvy, alleen wat minder resultaten maar wel weer links naar reviews.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.snaptell.mobile.client.android">SnapTell </a>zoekt niet alleen op basis van barcode, maar je kan ook een foto van een boekomslag of CD maken om te zoeken. Dit werkt verbazend snel en nog goed ook. Vreemd is dat de foto rsultaten heel anders (uitgebreider) zijn dan de barcode resultaten van de zelfde CD.<br />
Wel aardig: <a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.google.zxing.client.android">Barcode Scanner</a>, herkent niet alleen &#8220;gewone&#8221; barcodes maar ook <a href="http://www.qrcodes.nl/">QR Codes</a>, en laat meteen het gedecodeerde resultaat zien, verder kan je er niet veel mee.</li>
<li><strong>Locatie / sociaal netwerk</strong>: een <a href="http://brightkite.com/">BrightKite</a> client, <a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/org.ifies.brightroid">Brightroid</a>, natuurlijk een must met een geo-device zoals de G1. Nog niet getest.</li>
<li>Twitter clients zijn er veel, ik heb alleen <a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.twidroid">Twidroid</a> geprobeerd en die werkt goed, ook in de achtergond. Regelmatig worden nieuwe tweets opgehaald en als notoficatie in de boven balk van het scherm getoond.</li>
<li><strong>Podcasts, download en beluisteren</strong>:<br />
<a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.snoggdoggler.android.doggcatcher">DoggCatcher </a>ondersteunt (nog) geen Atom feeds en faalt met RSS feeds ook vaak, teleurstellend.<br />
Het enige alternatief, <a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/lamp.lime.sand">PodWeasel</a>, werkt nog slechter.<br />
Voor podcasts zijn we er nog niet (en itunes synchronisatie is ook niet mogelijk).</li>
<li><strong>Muziek</strong>: de ingebouwde player voldoet prima als basic player.<br />
<a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.streamfurious.android.free">StreamFurious </a>speelt shoutcast (MP3) streams, er is een lijst van meest populaire stations, waaronder <a href="http://hypem.com/radio/">hypem radio</a>, nice!</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.shazam.android">Shazam</a> herkent muziek die door de microfoon wordt opgepikt, werkt perfect voor niet al te obscure tracks.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/net.jjc1138.android.scrobbler">ScrobbleDroid </a>draait in de achtergrond en &#8220;scrobblet&#8221; de muziek die je afspeelt naar <a href="http://www.last.fm/">Last.fm</a> (je hebt daar dan wel een account nodig).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/org.tunescontrol">TunesRemote</a> belooft dat je er iTunes op een andere computer op het zelfde WiFi network mee kan bedienen. Dat is me niet gelukt.</li>
<li><strong>Video</strong></li>
<li>Youtube is een ingebouwde player die rechtstreeks youtube films afspeelt. Vreemd genoeg worden niet alle youtube films correct afgespeeld, waarschijnlijk doordat de bitrate of afmetingen te hoog liggen. <strong><br />
</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.appdroid.videoplayer">Video Player</a> speelt video van de externe flash card, alleen formaten die door de G1 ondersteund worden.</li>
<li><strong>Locatie/ GPS</strong>:<a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.hubrisware.ridetrac"><br />
RideTrac</a> volgt de weg die je aflegt (per fiets) en legt die vast in GPS coordinaten. Een test binnen de bebouwde kom gaf me een grillig pad, met vreemde zijsprongen, waardoor de afgelegde weg niet klopte en bovendien door het heen en weer springen kunstmatig lang was.<br />
Een simpelere applicatie, <a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/net.armooo.locationlog">Location Log</a>, kan punten vastleggen maar daar kan je verolgens vrijwel niets mee (export functie moet nog komen).</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.qype.com/?p=443">QypeRadar</a> zoekt naar bestemmingen in de omgeving en toont beschrijvingen en reviews (restaurant, museum, park, etc).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.google.android.panoramio">Panoramio</a> toont foto&#8217;s die in de omgeving gemomen zijn en plaatst ze op de kaart (google maps).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.wikitude">Wikitude</a> gaat een stap verder en toont in het camera beeld van de G1 ingetekende contouren van bezienswaardigheden, als een soort radar beeld. Dat werkt uiteraard alleen goed buiten bij vrij zicht op de betreffende objecten.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.google.android.stardroid">Sky Map </a>geeft op het scherm de sterrenbeelden weer die je in die richting aan de hemel kan zien staan. Leuke applicatie, werkt heel redelijk. Wel moet je &#8216;s-nachts je scherm minder helder zetten om de echte sterren nog te kunnen zien!</li>
<li><strong>Camera</strong></li>
<li>De ingebouwde Camera applicatie is heel simpel en heeft een zeer matige user interface.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.ap.SnapPhoto">SnapPhoto </a>heeft een iets betere interface en gebruikt de ingebouwde &#8220;motion detector&#8221; om op een moment te wachten dat je de camera relatief stil houdt, geen luxe met die slechte lichtgevoeligheid. Dit is de enige applicatie die de G1 heeft laten crashen (de GPS module en camera bleven actief, met zeer hoog stroomgebuik tot gevolg).</li>
<li><strong>Computer / netwerk tools:</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/org.connectbot">ConnectBot</a> is een volledige terminal applicatie met SSH ondersteuning, werkt prefect!</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.ap.DroidFtp">DroidFTP</a> is een ftp applicatie, nog niet getest.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/ale.portScandroid">Port Scandroid</a> een trage maar werkende portscanner (TCP/UDP).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/org.donpark.whatismyip">WhatIsMyIp?</a> toont de toiegekende IP adressen op de verschillende netwerken (3G, WiFi).</li>
<li><strong>Utilities</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/tv.studer.smssync">SMS Backup</a> stuurt ontvangen en verstuurde SMS&#8217;en naar een gmail account, waar ze onder een label (&#8216;SMS&#8217; default) bewaard worden. Handig! Wel vreemd dat er apart met gmail verbonden wordt, je moet je account gegevens invullen bij setup, terwijl je al een gmail account had geconfigureerd in je Android phone.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.codetastrophe.cellfinder">Cellfinder</a> met welke mobiele operator en antenne ben ik verbonden? Meer een speeltje dan echt nuttig.</li>
<li>De <a href="http://wegwijzer.ing.nl/">ING Wegwijzer</a> geeft de locatie van geld automaten van ING, maar ook concurrerende banken aan. Op de kaart, of in de &#8220;radar view&#8221; met de camera. Verstandig om ook de concurrenten te tonen, anders was dit een nogal waardeloze applicatie geweest, nu is het juist zeer de moiete waard als je in een vreemde omgeving geld wil pinnen.</li>
</ul>
<p>Al deze uitbreidingen maken Android tot een tot de verbeelding sprekend systeem. Je kan duidelijk merken dat de ontwikkeling nog in het beginstadium zit, zowel van Android zelf, als van de meeste Market applicaties. Verrassend volwassen uitschieters hebben vaak al een langer verleden op een ander platform, een voorbeeld is Shazam dat op de iPhone al veel succes had.</p>
<p>Door zijn openheid is Android echt een systeem om veel mee te experimenteren. De keerzijde is dat je &#8211; zeker in dit stadium &#8211; ook veel <em>moet</em> experimenteren om dingen echt werkend te krijgen.</p>
<p>Als je dat niet wilt of daar de tijd niet voor hebt kan je beter een iPhone kiezen. Dat geldt zeker als je een mooi design en consequente user interface belangrijk vind, de HTC G1 is echt grof en onbehouwen in vergelijking met de iPhone.</p>
<p>Voor een veel dieper gaande vergelijking met de iPhone: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/01/perspectives-ars-community-compares-iphone-and-android-g1.ars">Perspectives: Ars community compares iPhone and Android G1</a> (arstechnica.com). Meer vergelijking en een mooie <a href="http://www.frankwatching.com/archive/2009/01/24/t-mobile-g1-review-dit-is-nog-maar-het-begin/">review</a> (frankwatching.com).</p>
<p>Zo, en nu eens gaan kijken hoe je <a href="http://andbook.anddev.org/">applicaties voor Android kan ontwikkelen</a>!</p>
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		<title>The end of free, also for Google?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via CrunchBase Just like with the downturn around year 2001, many formerly free web apps start charging for their services, and sometimes quite significant amounts. For instance, the first payed tier of Getsatisfaction costs now $49 per month, still significant for a start-up. Not to criticize GSFN, we love the service as we use [...]]]></description>
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<p>Just like with the downturn around year 2001, many formerly free web apps start charging for their services, and sometimes quite significant amounts. For instance, the first payed tier of <a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/pricing?added_by=employee">Getsatisfaction</a> costs now $49 per month, still significant for a start-up. Not to criticize <em>GSFN</em>, we love the service as we use it for <a href="http://www.twones.com/">Twones</a>, but this is clearly becoming a trend.</p>
<p>In times of economic downturn it is either getting paid or getting bust.</p>
<p>More surprising is a silent change in the options for <a class="zem_slink" title="Google Apps" rel="homepage" href="http://www.google.com/a/">Google Apps</a> when you sign up for a new account (new domain).</p>
<p>A year ago, the free product allowed you to add 100 users (or emails), now 50.</p>
<p>And the webmail product was almost like the free <a class="zem_slink" title="Gmail" rel="homepage" href="http://gmail.com">gmail</a> product. Specifically, you should specify that connections always use <a class="zem_slink" title="Solid State Logic" rel="homepage" href="http://www.solid-state-logic.com/">SSL</a> (secure <a class="zem_slink" title="Https" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https">https</a> rather than standard http). This is now gone, you have to pay $50,- per user per year now to use secure connections.</p>
<p>This surprises me, considered that there are urgent <a title="Why You Should Turn Gmail’s SSL Feature On Now" href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Why_You_Should_Turn_Gmail_s_SSL_Feature_On_Now">reports</a> warning that you should use the https option for gmail, which attracts more and more <a class="zem_slink" title="Black hat" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hat">black hat</a> hackers due to its high popularity.</p>
<p>Oh, and $50 is a bit much of a price tag for members of my family who just want to check their email every so often&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>: a bit of googling learns that I&#8217;m not the only one who noticed&#8230;</p>
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<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/your_google_docs_may_be_open_to_hijacking.php">Your Google Docs May Be Open to Hijacking</a></li>
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<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.markevanstech.com/2009/01/23/the-end-of-free/">The End of Free?</a> (hey, even the same title)</li>
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		<title>Fruux: sync addresses and calendars between macs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to keep your contacts and your calendar synchronized between macs, you had the only option to subscribe to mobile me. For me that was not really an option, as I don&#8217;t use any of the other services and then $99,- p/a is a bit hefty. But now there is Fruux, just a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://fruux.com"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-178" title="fruux.com" src="http://squio.nl/blog/wp-content/2009/01/fruux.png" alt="fruux" width="144" height="144" /></a>If you want to keep your contacts and your calendar synchronized between macs, you had the only option to subscribe to mobile me. For me that was not really an option, as I don&#8217;t use any of the other services and then $99,- p/a is a bit hefty.</p>
<p>But now there is <a href="http://fruux.com/">Fruux</a>, just a single <a class="zem_slink" title="Preference Pane" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_Pane">preference pane</a> addition, which keeps all of your addresses (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Book_(application)">Address Book</a>) and calendars (<a class="zem_slink" title="ICal" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/ical/">iCal</a>) and even your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)">safari</a> bookmarks in perfect sync. Best of all, it is in active development and there are some really nice features ahead, like online access to your data and &#8220;social sync&#8221;, whatever that may be (yes, I&#8217;m curious, maybe a replacement for <a class="zem_slink" title="Plaxo" rel="homepage" href="http://www.plaxo.com">Plaxo</a>?).</p>
<p>Your data is stored at the Fruux servers, securely transported using <a class="zem_slink" title="Https" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https">https</a> (that&#8217;s what they claim). You still need to trust the Fruux team with your contacts and calendars.</p>
<p>A quote:</p>
<blockquote><p>fruux is a lightweight and convenient system preference pane, that syncs your Address Book, Calendars, Tasks and Bookmarks between different Macs. fruux supports sync conflict resolution which will help you when you changed a record on more than one machine. fruux is currently localized in dutch, english, french, german, italian, spanish and romanian.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh, and the app is free (as in beer) and still in beta (all warnings apply, but for me it just works as promised for over a week now). The Dutch localization has one mislabeled button (version 0.9), that&#8217;s just a minor issue I found.</p>
<p>Highly recommended!</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>: I sent the folks at Fruux more details about the Dutch localization issue and they corrected it right away, it will be fixed in the next release!</p>
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		<title>The NextWeb, second day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two day conferences with Geeks have their own challenges. Showering habits are not always that, well, thorough, so you get an idea of how the after party yesterday evening ended by the smell. At the another hand, they are very nice folks, and pass ethernet connection cables around as if they were joints. On with [...]]]></description>
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<p>Two day conferences with Geeks have their own challenges. Showering habits are not always that, well, thorough, so you get an idea of how the after party yesterday evening ended by the smell.</p>
<p>At the another hand, they are very nice folks, and pass ethernet connection cables around as if they were joints.</p>
<p>On with the show&#8230;</p>
<h2>Social Media</h2>
<p><a href="http://scobleizer.com/">Robert Scoble</a> started with a historical overview of networking online and then went on with what it means today. Interesting observation: networks start becoming interesting only after they get being used and shared.  Twitter really sucks when you first log on and have no network (yet).</p>
<p>In fact we know this already since way back, in the &#8217;90s, when every small-medium business was required to have their own forum on-line (<em>user interaction</em>, you know!) with two odd posts lingering around. How sad!</p>
<p><a title="The NextWeb blog" rel="bookmark" href="http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/04/scoble-about-social-media-the-first-experience-is-a-crappy-experience/">Scoble about social media: “The first experience is a crappy experience</a></p>
<h2>Uncertainty</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/">Werner Vogels</a> of Amazon</p>
<p>This keynote was in fact one big sales pitch for the Amazon Services like S3, E2C and friends. But it was a clever and enjoyable pitch.</p>
<p>He focused on Push &amp; Pull models in contrast. Traditionally, we had only the push model, where companies produced goods and forces these top down onto consumers.<br />
Relations have been reversed, customers find what they need and go after it (also in the B2B marketplace).</p>
<p>An example; about a Chinese company, that selects subcontractors on products they make already (no development, just build more of what is already there.</p>
<p><strong>Push vs pull<br />
</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> demand is anticipated &#8211; vs &#8211; demand uncertain</li>
<li> top down design &amp; control &#8211; vs &#8211; emergent design</li>
<li> centralized &#8211; vs &#8211; decentralized</li>
<li> procedural &#8211; vs &#8211; modular</li>
<li> tightly coupled &#8211; vs &#8211; loosely coupled</li>
<li> resource centric &#8211; vs &#8211; user centric</li>
</ul>
<p>And then the Pull model life cycle, which goes like this in a circle:<br />
find &#8211; connect &#8211; innovate &#8211; reflect &#8211; (find, new selection based on reflection)</p>
<p>So, swap out resources which don&#8217;t perform well enough instead of redesign new products yourself; syndicate the innovation at the product- or part level.</p>
<p>Statement: &#8220;<em>you</em> are the missing puzzle piece in a map of connected pieces; that&#8217;s your added value: <em>you</em> make the connections&#8221;</p>
<p>Resources is becoming a dirty word in this setting, because you don&#8217;t know when you will need them. The pull model requires that you can acquire and release resources on demand. Pay as you go and only for what you use.</p>
<p>Running a server infrastructure (as a startup) is waste of money. Focus on inovation instead.</p>
<p>&#8220;The eXtreme Amazon.com&#8221; organization is service oriented (in small teams). So they developed a service oriented, on demand architecture, which now forms the basis for the Amazon services s3, e2c and friends.</p>
<p>This &#8211; indeed &#8211; is a nice infrastructure of building blocks, and others are doing very nice things with it. Like this: <a href="http://scalr.intridea.com">Scalr</a> &#8211; a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing Amazon&#8217;s EC2.</p>
<p>One note from myself: there are alternatives providing on-demand resources. We are using <a title="Referral link to Slicehost.com" href="https://manage.slicehost.com/customers/new?referrer=891768920">slicehost</a>, where you can order &#8220;slices&#8221; of managed servers &#8211; and upgrade them on-demand in a matter of minutes.</p>
<p><a title="The NextWeb blog" rel="bookmark" href="http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/04/werner-vogels-everything-fails-all-the-time/">Werner Vogels: “Everything fails all the time”</a> (after the fact that the internal Amazon infrastructure copes gracefully with constant loss of components, up to complete data centers)</p>
<h2>The Future of Search and Discovery</h2>
<p><a href="http://stumbleupon.com/">Garrett Camp &#8211; StumbleUpon.com</a><br />
His keynote was all about Search vs Explore, which in itself is an interesting theme. StumbleUpon is supposedly a real expert in discovery, but disappointingly Garrett talked about almost every theme around search, advertising and finally just a bit about discovery.</p>
<p>He foresees a great future for recommendation services like Pandora and Digg, without going into great detail of their characteristics.</p>
<p><a title="The NextWeb blog" rel="bookmark" href="http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/04/garreth-camp-one-size-fits-all-in-search-is-history/">Garrett Camp: “one-size-fits-all in search is history”</a></p>
<h2>Data Portability</h2>
<p>The last session: <a title="The NextWeb blog" rel="bookmark" href="http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/04/khris-loux-interviews-chris-saad-about-dataportability/">Khris Loux interviews Chris Saad about Dataportability</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad">Chris Saad</a>, Co-Founder and Chairperson at DataPortability.org and CEO of Faraday Media. Also Co-Founder at Media 2.0 Workgroup and APML Workgroup</p>
<p>A well done interview and lively discussion.</p>
<p>Chris raises the question: <em>&#8220;If all services collect data about me, why not make it explicit, open it up (to me, the user &#8211; make me owner again) and merge it all together?&#8221;</em></p>
<p>This will lead to better search at google (e.g. books) and better recommendations at Amazon (context aware). And I&#8217;m in control to remove (part of) my data, if this is going to improve my experience. Guess what: if the enhanced services live up to their promise, I will leave my data in, in order to benefit from the better service! But at the same time I stay in control.</p>
<p>We (end users) should request from our vendors that we get open data. And OpenID for login, instead of yet another proprietary login on yet another service&#8217;s system. Which means that the provider will have to do another effort, in parallel to their traditional login system, if only for a transition period when not every user will have an OpenID account. If&#8230;</p>
<p>Also, open data is about open standards, so use OPML, Microformats, RDFa and so on and start using/producing open data. These technologies enable users to esport and re-import their data in other services and applications if they want to.</p>
<p>User lock-in should be based on great service, not on a technical / artificial barrier.</p>
<p>Oh, and we get another overloaded buzzword for free: data 2.0!</p>
<p>[ratings]</p>
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		<title>Leopard Image Capture does 16 bits tiffs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The upgrade to Mac OS-X Leopard has not been all joy, there are some annoying bugs (e.g. the search field of keychain access becomes unusable after loss of focus), and new features like spaces and time machine are very disappointing. At the other hand, there are lots of small improvements (almost bug fixes), to name [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src='http://squio.nl/blog/wp-content/2008/01/imagecapture-16bit.png' alt='imagecapture-16bit' style="float:right" />The upgrade to Mac OS-X Leopard has not been all joy, there are some annoying bugs (e.g. the search field of keychain access becomes unusable after loss of focus), and new features like spaces and time machine are very disappointing.</p>
<p>At the other hand, there are lots of small improvements (almost bug fixes), to name a few:</p>
<ul>
<li>Safari&#8217;s XMLHttpRequest supports now other methods than GET and POST as well (e.g. PUT and DELETE).</li>
<li>The default action for entering your password to open a keychain item is &#8220;allow once&#8221; (was: none, you had to click a button)</li>
<li>Terminal.app now has tabs (try CMD-T)</li>
</ul>
<p>And a very nice one: Image Capture now supports 16 bit tiff output for my Epson Perfection 1670 scanner!<br />
If only the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">Gimp</a> starts supporting 16 bit per channel images&#8230;</p>
<p>On a side note: Gimpshop for OS-X appears dead, it was never updated after the first universal binary release and filters never worked for me on Intel. The original, X11 version of <a href="http://www.wilber-loves-apple.org/forum.php?id=1">Gimp.app</a> (2.4.3) works fine, provided that you install a <a href="http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.1">patched version of X11</a>.<br />
[ratings]<div class="tags"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/gimp" rel="tag">gimp</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/osx" rel="tag"> osx</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/leopard" rel="tag"> leopard</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/mac-osx" rel="tag"> mac-osx</a></div>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months after its release, I finally upgraded trusted old Mac OSX from Tiger to Leopard. It was a smooth experience and in general I like the new features, specially the performance improvement of the Finder and Spotlight. But the there is that negative experience with Time Machine. No, I haven&#8217;t even used it (yet), but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://squio.nl/blog/wp-content/2007/12/icn_superduper_128.png" alt="SuperDuper!" style="float: right; padding-left: 10px" />A few months after its release, I finally upgraded trusted old Mac OSX from Tiger to Leopard. It was a smooth experience and in general I like the new features, specially the performance improvement of the Finder and Spotlight.</p>
<p>
But the there is that negative experience with Time Machine.<br />
<br />No, I haven&#8217;t even used it (yet), but the way Apple put this new feature in front of every user&#8217;s face, has forced the makers of <a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html">SuperDuper</a> to find a way of co-existence. Which they have not found yet (read <a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/index.php/shadedgrey/comments/slowest_update_ever/">Slowest! Update! Ever!</a>). </p>
<p>What to do? Switch to Time Machine? <br />I&#8217;m reluctant to do so, because I liked the pure simplicity of SuperDuper so much: always have an up to date backup system, from which you can boot your system and continue your work within minutes if the worst case crash scenario happens.</p>
<p>For now, Im undecided &#8211; hopefully my system will not crash in the mean time![ratings]<div class="tags"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/superduper" rel="tag">superduper</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/backup" rel="tag"> backup</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/timemachine" rel="tag"> timemachine</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/leopard" rel="tag"> leopard</a></div>
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