Root Motorola DROID [HowTo]

1. Download the zip file
2. Rename to "update.zip" and copy to sdcard
3. Power off the DROID and power back on while holding X key
4. When you se "/!\" press vol+ and camera simultaneously
5. Use on screen menu to install
6. Once installed you will be able to run "su" from adb shell

Download Thunderbird 3 Final

After long 3 RC of Thunderbird, an email client from Mozilla has staged itself for celebrations. There are lot of new fantastic features accompanying Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0. The prominent feature is its Tabbed interface just like Firefox, and we all just know how much of importance is tabbing. New tabbed search results for email filtering will help to sort out relevant emails. Speed is always the main concern for Mozilla and this will be highly experienced by Mozilla Thunderbird users.

Thunderbird 3.0 is based on Gecko 1.9.1.5 

Look out some more advanced features

-Customize with Personas
-Smart Folders
-Global search with Autocomplete
-Column Headings
-Windows Vista search integration
-Mac Spotlight integration
-Addons Manager
-Mail Account Setup Wizard (Auto configurable email settings)
-One Click Address Book
-Email Attachment Reminder
-Activity Manager to record all interactions at one place
-Personal identity security
-Junk filtering
-Robust Privacy
-Phishing Protection
-Automated Updates
-Easy Gmail accessibility when its is down
-Easy backup
- and last but not the least its Open Source :)

Source code
Download Thunderbird 3.0 (8.6MB)

Android TextMate alternative for Eclipse

Android TextMate Bundle 0.1 is an alternative for Eclipse plug-in for Android app development. It has an easy interface with quickly executable commands to create, run and update Android apps. Features are




-Create & Update new projects
-Create new Android Virtual Devices
-Emulator Viewer & Launcher
-Build, Delete, & install Android Apps

Download Android TextMate Bundle 0.1

Google Chrome Extensions now Live

With the launch of Google Chrome beta for Mac OS X, Chrome Extensions are also now Live. Chrome Extensions are like Firefox AddOns. Its adds to the functionality of browser. It helps customize Google Chrome with features. Only Google Chrome Beta versions are supported to use extensions. Some of the popular extensions are Google Mail Checker, RSS Subscription Extension, Bubble Translate etc.

Go to Google Chrome Extensions page

Download Chrome Beta for Mac

Finally Chrome beta for Mac OS X is available for download. Some of the features include

-Bookmark manager

-App Mode

-Task Manager

-Gears

-Sync for Mac

-Multi-touch Gestures

-Full extension support

-Full Screen Mode

Download Chrome beta for Mac

Download National Geographic Wallpapers

NatGeo is a freeware which allows to download National Geographic Wallpapers. This is a directly runnable  file and doesn't requires any installation. Interface is pretty neat and easy.

 This application offers direct download wallpapers of 2007, 2008, 2009. We can also set the Screen resolution ranging from 1280x1024 to 800x600. All Windows platform are supportable.

Download NatGeo

Chromium OS 64-bit

ChromiumOS64  is an unofficial prototype of Google Chrome OS designed by Teo En Ming. This new Chrome OS is dedicated for 64-bit CPU's. Since official Google Chrome OS doesnot support 64-bit PC's but when officially released in 2010, ChromeOS64 will be under Google Chrome OS jurisdiction. It allows users to run as virtual OS on Linux and Windows. The latest release supports XEN Virtualization. It is a Pre-Alpha release and size upto 1GB.

Source/Download

Android 1.6 Donut DSTL1 update

Android 1.6 Donut update is available for General Mobile DSTL1. Some of the improvements in r2544_donut_update are

-Bluetooth function

-Android Keyboard

-New Visual style

-Task Manager

-Dual SIM card selection option

-Data Connection Control for SIM1 and SIM2

Download Android 1.6 Donut Update for GM DSTL1

Make Bolt your Blackberry default browser

Bolt 1.6 for Blackberry just released, has the capability to be used as Default browser. It is compatible with OS version 4.3 or above and it is fast. Bolt is available in both Full and Slimmed down versions. It has some great advantages over traditional stock browser like

-Password Manager

-Acid3 compliant

-Enhanced socket support

-Ability to stream videos

-Upload large files

-Social Media functionality

-RSS option

-MIDP 2.0 CLDC 1.0 or higher compatible

-Runs as well on Windows Mobile 6, HTC Touch, MOTO Q, MOTO Q9c (with WMOS 6.1)

Try a Demo before installing. Bolt 1.6 requires Blackberry Launcher. To downlod Bolt 1.6 Direct Phone browser to http://www.boltbrowser.com/download.html

Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid prototype

Previously we covered some Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid mockups. More new designs are popping up. The design which is shown below is called Opklaar. It is an African word meaning to Clear.






Last two proposed art works are Wasp-Hard based on Wasp suite of GTK, Metacity, Xfwn and GDM themes.

Google Goggles & Project Natal: The Sixth Sense?

Google Goggles is a new initiative taken by Search engine team to make search even more user convenient and friendly. This service will allow end users to take real world pictures and generate a related Google Search. It will be a Visual Mobile Search (VMS) app developed for Android powered Smartphones.  This technology uses Visual recognition and Location based results to provide accurate results. CNBC covers a entertaining video about whats inside the Google visual project

There are couple of known apps which serve this visual search purpose on a smaller scale. One is SnapTell for music, movies, books and other one is PlinkArt for art searches. Now it will be interesting how Google implements Voice search technology on a large scale and how it competes with iPhone which has more than 100,000 apps in Apple Store.

On the other hand Microsoft is also working on Visual Computing projects at its research center. Microsoft Project named "Natal" is a XBox 360 platform for controller free gaming and entertainment.

Microsoft "Natal" to be launched in late 2010 will enable users with a natural interface control with gestures, voice commands or objects and images. However it may sound like something different as compared to Google Goggles but it is the same tree with two branches.

Microsoft Project "Natal" and Google Goggles initiative somehow replicates the TED Sixth Sense idea presented by Pranav Mistry. PhD student at MIT Pranav explains how he manages to converge the Real World objects to Digital World and vice versa. Mistry also explains that his project will be open source and would like end users to extend its open source capabilities.

It will be really interesting to see how these technologies are revolutionized by High Tech Companies like Google and Microsoft to change the future of Visual Computing and Image processing. This will conclude to an era where sixth sense will be a major contributor to worlds economy.

Google launches Dictionary site

Google Inc. is purely focusing on user required content which is the key for their success. Recently Launched Google Dictionary targets mainly user interests. There are many websites dedicated for this purpose, but many people are seen searching  for meanings on Google even though they know about Microsoft Encarta, Answers or Yahoo answers. This new service includes definitions, acronyms from different sites such as Wikipedia. Google Dictionary supports 28 languages. Since Google is on every tongue and it will be a hard for great sites such as Answers.com to maintain its reputation.

Head over to Google Dictionary

multifl0w 1.21 gets updated

New multifl0w 1.21 update is available for download. You can add the source address in cydia

http://repo.beyouriphone.com

This update is available on Cydia for MobileVolumeSound. It brings typical sound of the Mac in iPhone or iPod when pressing their buttons. This update also corresponds to bring compatibility on devices with OS 3.0 and adds sound when even the screen is off while listening songs. Also now you can double tap to open Multifl0w and gives snapshot of each background application for easy selection of apps. Multifl0w uses very less RAM and CPU. You can find the update on Cydia via Bigboss repository or download Multifl0w_1.21.deb.