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New Google Maps Hands-on

Been playing around with the new version myself and must say it’s a great step forward. Here’s the official Google Promo Video: The new Google Maps draws you a tailored map for every search and click you make. So whatever you’re trying to find or wherever you’re trying to go, you’ll always have a map …

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Smarter Objects

As a user points a smart phone or tablet at a physical object, an augmented reality (AR) application recognizes the object and offers an intuitive graphical interface to program the object’s behavior and interactions with other objects. Once reprogrammed, the Smarter Object can then be operated with a simple tangible interface (such as knobs, buttons, …

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The Application Cache is no longer a Douchebag

A new command for the Firefox Command Line (part of the Developer Tools) named appcache to manipulate/inspect the appcache. As someone commented on the original post: Somebody has recently pointed out that the appcache is still a douchebag but at least Firefox now has a way to tell us why. The Application Cache is no …

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Ghostlab — Synchronized testing for web and mobile.

Ghostlab synchronizes scrolls, clicks, reloads and form input across all connected clients. This means what you’re testing is not the simple page load, but the full user experience. The concept behind it is dead simple actually: start a webserver serving the project and inject some .js which keeps all connected browsers in sync using websockets. …

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