http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PocketPcLive/~3/iE8wQ5AfvR4/firefox-for-android-almost-ready.html

After a host of beta releases, Firefox 4 has finally entered Release Candidate (RC) stage. The newer improved version features faster scrolling, better responsiveness with Firefox Sync while taking the overall user experience up many notches.

System Explorer Completo administrador de tareas

Pues de seguro te pasa como a muchos, no estás satisfecho con el administrador de tareas que te brinda windows, si este es el caso te propongo que pruebes esta versión de System Explorer un programa desarrollado por Mister Group y distribuido en la condición de programa gratuito.

System Explorer 3.8 posee una serie de características que superan con creces al Task Manager (administrador de tareas del windows) que lo hacen una utilidad atractiva y simple de usar, entre sus características principales cuenta con un administrador de procesos que muestra las tareas y procesos que se están ejecutando con sus respectivos parámetros, además posee un escaner de procesos con el cual puedes comprobar la seguridad de tu pc, por si existe alguna posible infección viral, este proceso se lanza luego de preguntarte si deseas hacer la comprobación de seguridad y compara los procesos en ejecución contra una base de datos de programas maliciosos on-line, según los desarrolladores del software. System Explorer posee entre otras bondades, un gráfico del rendimiento del cpu, memoria y acceso al disco con colores totalmente personalizables, además de todo ello una característica que lo hace muy relevante, sobretodo cuando tenemos dudas sobre la seguridad de nuestro sistema y es que en la lista de procesos aparece una columna de seguridad que te permite comprobar aquellos programas que no han sido chequeados por el utilitario, los cuales muestra con una marca relevante. Por último el programa cuenta con un utilitario para desinstalar aplicaciones, es completamente configurable y puedes si lo decides en sus opciones reemplazar de manera automática el administrador de tareas de windows.

Sin lugar a dudas System explorer es resumiendo un utilitario preciso, sencillo y de mucha utilidad para mantener sano tu sistema operativo.

Compatibilidad: Microsoft Windows 7/ XP/Vista

Descargar System Explorer 3.8.6 (3.87 MB)

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Hey guys, do you know today Mango's Support adds that Microsoft updates Zune Clients to Version 4.8.2345.0.  People who had bought or those who have used the Beta 1, Beta 2 or even the RTM version of Windows Phone will be eventually knowing that, there is one more step needed for them to install 'Beta Zune Client', which supports connecting Mango-based phones.

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Today at CTIA Sprint unveiled the HTC EVO 3D smartphone. It's HTC's first phone to feature 3D, as well as their first greater-than-WVGA resolution device, sporting a qHD 960x540 display.

Introducing Google Play

[This post is by Kenneth Lui, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]

For more than a year we've been focused on expanding the reach, content, and monetization opportunities of Android Market. We started by extending the store to users on the web and then went on to add books, movies, and music. The number of people who have visited, registered, and downloaded from the store has been amazing.

Today we're launching Google Play, an integrated destination for apps, books, movies, and music, accessible to users on Android devices and to anyone on the Web. As part of this launch, Google Play replaces and extends Android Market — users everywhere can now find their favorite apps and games in Google Play, with other digital content, all in one place.

We believe that with a strong brand, compelling offerings, and a seamless purchasing and consumption experience, Google Play will drive more traffic and revenue to the entire ecosystem.

We'll be investing in the brand to bring Google Play to as many people as possible, and we'll also invest in the latest digital content to keep Google Play fresh, relevant, and engaging. Apps and games remain the core of Google Play, so we'll continue investing in new ways to connect users with their favorite apps, and developers with new customers.

As we grow and promote Google Play around the world, we'll be marketing your apps and games at the same time. Our policies have not changed and our goal is still the same — to create a great, open marketplace for distributing Android apps.

Google Play is built on the same infrastructure as Android Market, so the transition for users and developers will be seamless. Users can sign into their existing accounts with the same credentials as before and purchase content using the same payment methods. As a developer, there's no change needed to your published products and you can continue to use the same publishing tools to put your app in front of hundreds of millions of Android users. If your app was in Android Market yesterday, it's in Google Play today.

We'll be rolling out Google Play to devices in a phased OTA update, starting today and continuing over the days to come. With the update, the Android Market app will upgrade to the Play Store app and the Music, Videos, and Books apps will upgrade to Play Music, Play Movies, and Play Books. This update is for devices running Android 2.2 or higher, and users on other devices will continue to have the same access to your apps as before.

You can start sending customers to your products in Google Play right away. Check out the updated "Get it on Google Play" badges and look for an email with more details on the transition. In the meantime, you can check out the Google Play web site at the link below and join the discussion on +Android Developers.

http://play.google.com

New Social APIs in Android ICS

[This post is by Daniel Lehmann, Tech Lead on the Android Apps team. — Tim Bray]

[We're trying something new; There's a post over on Google+ where we'll host a discussion of this article. Daniel Lehmann has agreed to drop by and participate. Come on over and join in!]

With Android Ice Cream Sandwich, we set out to build software that supports emotional connections between humans and the devices they carry. We wanted to build the most personal device that the user has ever owned.

The first ingredient in our recipe is to show users the people that they care about most in a magazine-like way. High-resolution photos replace simple lists of text.

The second ingredient is to more prominently visualize their friends' activities. We show updates from multiple sources wherever a contact is displayed, without the need to open each social networking app individually.

Android is an open platform, and in Ice Cream Sandwich we provide a rich new API to allow any social networking application to integrate with the system. This post explains how apps like Google+ use these APIs, and how other social networks can do the same.

A few basics

Since Eclair (Android 2.0), the system has been able to join contacts from different sources. Android can notice if you are connected to the same person and different networks, and join those into aggregate contacts.

Essential terms to understand throughout the remainder of this post are:

• RawContact is a contact as it exists in one source, for example a friend in Skype.

• Data rows exists for each piece of information that the raw contact contains (name, phone number, email address, etc.).

• A Contact joins multiple raw contacts into one aggregate. This is what the user perceives as a real contact in the People and Phone apps.

• A sync adapter synchronizes its raw contacts with its cloud source. It can be bundled with a Market application (examples: Skype, Twitter, Google+).

While users deal with contacts, sync adapters work with their raw contact rows. They own the data inside a raw contact, but by design it is left up to Android to properly join raw contact rows with others.

Contacts sync adapters have a special xml file that describes their content, which is documented in the Android SDK. In the following paragraphs, we'll assume this file is named contacts.xml.

The Android SDK also contains the application SampleSyncAdapter (and its source code) that implements everything mentioned in here in an easy to understand way.

High resolution photos

In Android versions prior to Honeycomb (3.0), contact photos used to be 96x96. Starting with ICS, they now have a thumbnail (which is the 96x96 version) and a display photo. The display photo's maximum size can vary from device to device (On Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S, it is currently configured to be 256x256, but expect this to vary with future devices). The size as configured can be queried like this:

private static int getPhotoPickSize(Context context) {    // Note that this URI is safe to call on the UI thread.    Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(DisplayPhoto.CONTENT_MAX_DIMENSIONS_URI,        new String[]{ DisplayPhoto.DISPLAY_MAX_DIM }, null, null, null);    try {      c.moveToFirst();      return c.getInt(0);    } finally {      c.close();    }  }

This value is useful if you need to query the picture from the server (as you can specify the right size for the download). If you already have a high resolution picture, there is no need for any resizing on your side; if it is too big, the contacts provider will downsample it automatically.

Up until now, pictures were written using a ContentValues object, just like all the other data rows of the raw contact. While this approach is still supported, it might fail when used with bigger pictures, as there is a size limit when sending ContentValues across process boundaries. The prefered way now is to use an AssetFileDescriptor and write them using a FileOutputStream instead:

private static void saveBitmapToRawContact(Context context, long rawContactId, byte[] photo) throws IOException {      Uri rawContactUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(RawContacts.CONTENT_URI, rawContactId);      Uri outputFileUri =          Uri.withAppendedPath(rawContactUri, RawContacts.DisplayPhoto.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);      AssetFileDescriptor descriptor = context.getContentResolver().openAssetFileDescriptor(          outputFileUri, 'rw');      FileOutputStream stream = descriptor.createOutputStream();      try {        stream.write(photo);      } finally {        stream.close();        descriptor.close();      }  }

For best results, store uncompressed square photos and let the contacts provider take care of compressing the photo. It will create both a thumbnail and a display photo as necessary.

This API is available on API version 14+. For older versions, we recommend to fallback to the old method using ContentValues and assuming a constant size of 96x96.

Update streams

The API for update streams is the biggest new addition for contacts in Ice Cream Sandwich. Sync adapters can now enrich their contact data by providing a social stream that includes text and photos.

This API is intended to provide an entry point into your social app to increase user engagement. We chose to only surface the most recent few stream items, as we believe that your social app will always be the best way to interact with posts on your network.

StreamItems rows are associated with a raw contact row. They contain the newest updates of that raw contact, along with text, time stamp and comments. They can also have pictures, which are stored in StreamItemPhotos. The number of stream items per raw contact has a limit, which on the current Nexus devices is set to 5, but expect this number to change with future devices. The limit can be queried like this:

private static int getStreamItemLimit(Context context) {    // Note that this URI is safe to call on the UI thread.    Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(StreamItems.CONTENT_LIMIT_URI,        new String[]{ StreamItems.MAX_ITEMS }, null, null, null);    try {      c.moveToFirst();      return c.getInt(0);    } finally {      c.close();    }  }

When displayed in the People app, stream items from all participating raw contacts will be intermixed and shown chronologically.

The following function shows how to add a stream item to an existing raw contact:

private static void addContactStreamItem(Context context, long rawContactId, String text,      String comments, long timestamp, String accountName, String accountType){    ContentValues values = new ContentValues();    values.put(StreamItems.RAW_CONTACT_ID, rawContactId);    values.put(StreamItems.TEXT, 'Breakfasted at Tiffanys');    values.put(StreamItems.TIMESTAMP, timestamp);    values.put(StreamItems.COMMENTS, comments);    values.put(StreamItems.ACCOUNT_NAME, accountName);    values.put(StreamItems.ACCOUNT_TYPE, accountType);    context.getContentResolver().insert(StreamItems.CONTENT_URI, values);  }

You can also specify an action that should be executed when a stream item or one of its photos is tapped. To achieve this, specify the receiving Activities in your contacts.xml using the tags viewStreamItemActivity and viewStreamItemPhotoActivity:

<ContactsAccountType    xmlns:android='http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android'    viewStreamItemActivity='com.example.activities.ViewStreamItemActivity"    viewStreamItemPhotoActivity='com.example.activities.ViewStreamItemPhotoActivity'>    <!-- Description of your data types -->  </ContactsAccountType>

Update streams are available on API version 15+ and are intended to replace the StatusUpdate API. For previous versions, we recommend that you fall back to the StatusUpdates API, which only shows a single text item and no pictures.

"Me" profile

Ice Cream Sandwich is the first version of Android that supports the "Me" contact, which is prominently shown at the top of the list of the new People app. This simplifies use-cases that used to be a multi-tap process in previous versions — for example, sharing personal contact data with another person or "navigating home" in a navigation app. Also it allows applications to directly address the user by name and show their photo.

The "Me" profile is protected by the new permissions READ_PROFILE and WRITE_PROFILE. The new functionality is powerful; READ_PROFILE lets developers access users' personally identifying information. Please make sure to inform the user on why you require this permission.

The entry point to the new API is ContactsContract.Profile and is available on API version 14+.

Add connection

Previously, connecting with users on a social network involved opening the respective social networking app, searching for the person and then connecting ("Friend", "Follow" etc.). Ice Cream Sandwich has a much slicker approach: When looking at an existing contact in the People application, the user can decide to add this person to another network as well. For example, the user might want to follow a person on Google+ that they already have as a contact in Gmail.

Once the user taps one of the "Add connection" commands, the app is launched and can look for the person using the information that is already in the contact. Search criteria are up to the app, but good candidates are name, email address or phone number.

To specify your "Add connection" menu item, use the attributes inviteContactActivity and inviteContactActionLabel in your contacts.xml:

<ContactsAccountType    xmlns:android='http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android'    inviteContactActivity='com.example.activities.InviteContactActivity'    inviteContactActionLabel='@string/invite_action_label'>    <!-- Description of your data types -->  </ContactsAccountType>

Be sure to use the same verb as you typically use for adding connections, so that in combination with your app icon the user understands which application is about to be launched.

The "Add connection" functionality is available on API version 14+.

Contact-view notification

High-resolution pictures need a lot of space, and social streams quickly become outdated. It is therefore not a good idea to keep the whole contacts database completely in sync with the social network. A well-written sync adapter should take importance of contacts into account; as an example, starred contacts are shown with big pictures, so high-resolution pictures are more important. Your network might also have its own metrics that can help to identify important contacts.

For all other contacts, you can register to receive a notification which is sent by the People app to all sync adapters that contribute to a contact whenever the contact's detail page is opened. At that point, you can provide additional information. As an example, when the Google+ sync adapter receives this notification, it pulls in the high-resolution photo and most recent social stream posts for that user and writes them to the contacts provider. This can be achieved by adding the viewContactNotifyService attribute to contacts.xml:

<ContactsAccountType    xmlns:android='http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android'    viewContactNotifyService='com.example.notifier.NotifierService'>    <!-- Description of your data types -->  </ContactsAccountType>

When this Intent is launched, its data field will point to the URI of the raw contact that was opened.

These notifications are available with API version 14+.

Summary

With Ice Cream Sandwich, we improved key areas around high resolution photos and update streams, and simplified the creation of new connections.

Everything outlined in here is done using open APIs that can be implemented by any network that wants to participate. We're excited to see how developers take advantage of these new features!

Pirates & Traders

Pirates & Traders es un divertido juego de rol ambientado en el Mar Caribe. Tendremos que elegir nuestro destino como capitán de barco, convertirnos en un pirata o ser un honrado mercader.

Comenzaremos con un pequeño barco y una patente de corso del país que seleccionemos, el resto del juego dependerá de las decisiones que vayamos tomando.....




Algunas de las características de las que dispone el juego:

- 5 habilidades diferentes: Esgrima, Vela, artillería, carisma y astucia
- 20 barcos históricos diferentes
- Personaliza tus naves con 12 diferentes mejoras

Mientras surcamos el caribe tendremos encuentros con otros barcos,  tendremos que decidir si entablamos batalla o por el contrario huimos. Durante el desarrollo de los combates podemos acercarnos o alejarnos, disparar a distintas partes del barco contrario e incluso intentar abordar al enemigo.

En resumen un buen juego para convertirte en un auténtico pirata del caribe.

Algunas capturas del juego

Para descargar el juego basta con escanear el siguiente código QR con Barcode Scanner o Bidi

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