With the release of Android just over two years ago, it has sparked many designers and artists alike to create wallpaper dedicated to this new operating system. As you will see in this post we have compiled a diverse collection of Android wallpaper designs. I hope that you will find one to refresh your desktop. Enjoy!
Via: designrfix
A first look at the new “Windows 8″ user interface. Read more at http://bit.ly/iCTxY6. Developers: Learn how to take advantage of the future of Windows at the Build Conference: http://www.buildwindows.com/
Explore the world in 3D with Google Maps 5.0 for Android. Now, you can tilt, rotate, zoom smoothly, and enter compass mode to orient yourself in the world with Google Maps.
You’ll also get better offline reliability for Maps if you lose your Internet connection. You’ll be able to continue viewing the map around the places you use Maps the most, and Google Maps Navigation (Beta) will automatically reroute you offline.
2010 was a storied year for gadgets and technology. While we’re stilling waiting for flying cars, space travel, jet packs and photon cannons, the top 10 gadgets of 2010 were amazing in their own right. This was the year of the iPad, the electric car and controller-free gaming. While those technologies may not take us to Mars, they will make our lives more fulfilling and fun. From our perspective, here are the top 10 gadgets of 2010, new technologies worthy of celebration.
[Source: thecoolist]
LG, Samsung and ASUS have all developed hardware for Windows Phone 7, but none tickle my fancy quite as much as this WP7 tablet concept, which has a kickstand that folds into a keypad, and joystick controls on the back. It’s the work of designer Umang Dokey, who dreamt up the 8-inch tablet with two webcams and the aforementioned hardware niceties. The two joysticks would be ideal for gaming, acting like shoulder buttons—they could even be handy when scrolling through documents or the web. A kickstand that folds in front to become a keypad is a terrific idea—especially when it’s implemented into the actual device, unlike the iPad’s keyboard kickstand.
[Source: GizModo]
Go ahead and stare the user interface of the Windows Phone 7 Series deserves it. Thats the reaction we got at Mobile World Conference in Barcelona when we revealed this new holistic design system that brings together form and function based on key principles — informing every aspect of the phone. See what everyone is talking about by checking out this video.
In this Google-sponsored video by Patrick Boivin, stop-motion ninjas show us only the second unboxing that I can describe as “action-packed.” They easily defeated the Nexus One packaging, but their arch-rival Blister Pack won’t go down so easy.
[Source: GizModo]
The master of light effects, Chuck Anderson from Nopattern.com has updated his portfolio with some incredible new work. The clients are very cool too, including Microsoft with beautiful artworks for Windows 7 and the package itself. Also there’s the Google Chrome theme and the fantastic work for the Chicago Marathon.
[Source: abduzeedo]
Microsoft Silverlight is getting all kinds of attentions from Adobe Flash. Many agencies start building interactive website by using Silverlight. I can’t tell the differences but I still prefer Flash until I can get a free copy of Silverlight ^ ^
Courier is a real device, and we’ve heard that it’s in the “late prototype” stage of development. It’s not a tablet, it’s a booklet. The dual 7-inch (or so) screens are multitouch, and designed for writing, flicking and drawing with a stylus, in addition to fingers. They’re connected by a hinge that holds a single iPhone-esque home button. Statuses, like wireless signal and battery life, are displayed along the rim of one of the screens. On the back cover is a camera, and it might charge through an inductive pad, like the Palm Touchstone charging dock for Pre.
[Source: GizModo]
For today’s free wallpaper showcase, we collected some of the good quality of free Windows 7 Wallpapers around the web. These wallpapers were made by those talented graphics designers who want to share their talent to other people.
[Source: BlueBlots]
We already knew that the Zune HD would be available in five different colors, and a just sent out pre-order email has now given us our first (very small) glimpse of the options available. In addition to the standard black and silver (or platinum, as Microsoft calls it), it seems you’ll also have your choice of blue, lime green, and a red / maroon color, each of which can also be adorned with your choice of 10 exclusive Zune Originals designs. From the looks of it, however, folks pre-ordering are limited to the two less colorful options.
[Source: Engadget]
It’s easier than ever to pit Windows 7 and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard head-to-head: They’re launching soon, both within a month of each other—and both are basically glorified service packs of the current OS.
In way, they’re opposites: Windows 7 uses the same core foundation as Vista while fixing issues and prettying up the outside, while Snow Leopard keeps most of the same spots while re-arranging how things work internally. But the mission is the same—to evolve their current OS—not change the whole game. And launching this fall, we can’t avoid a comparison study. The stars of Redmond and Cupertino have never been so closely aligned before.
[Source: GizModo]
Another stunning flash site by BigSpaceShip. Luv the alien style UI and breathtaking motion pieces under the surveillance section.
Day -1 of E3 just ended, and along with the massive amount of Microsoft Xbox hardware announcements, there’s been lots of software as well. Here are our favorites.
• Crytek announces next-generation benchmarking software
• Kojima! of Metal Gear Solid fame is taking over a Castlevania game.
• Alan Wake, the Xbox survival/horror/third-person game looks good
• Metal Gear Solid Rising may be a timed exclusive
• Another Metal Gear game is coming to PSP
• Some Forza 3 screenshots
• Crackdown 2 and Left 4 Dead 2
• Final Fantasy XIII gets a Spring 2010 ship date
• New and old Monkey Island games are coming
• The Final Fantasy IV Wiiware game is here
• EA Sports Active is getting an expansion pack
• Starcraft II may be out this year
[Source: GizModo]
That’s right folks, the Zune HD is real, and it’s coming this Fall. Microsoft officially announced the next iteration in their Zune line today, making it less of a tripped out pipe dream, and more of a totally tubular reality. The specs, which look exactly like that leak we saw, go like this: 3.3-inch, 480 x 272 OLED capacitive touchscreen display, built-in HD Radio receiver, HD output (utilizing a new dock — not on-board), and… not much more right now. Microsoft is doing away with the famed squircle in favor a full multitouch device, and they seemed to indicate that some new touch-friendly apps and games would be headed our way, though they were fairly mum when it came to details. The device will boast an IE-based, customized browser, but little else was said in the way of software.
[Source: Engadget]
Team Xbox claims to have sources inside Microsoft who are working on a new device that “sits somewhere in-between the Xbox and Zune platforms.”
Whether or not this device is the fabled “Pink” Zune Phone is unclear, but Team Xbox is pretty sure that the device they’ve heard about lacks a phone.
Codenamed the “xYz” during discussions, the device will feature a WVGA touchscreen and a series of new hardware features not currently seen on the market (these features are unclear, and could include WiMax or graphics processing chipsets). It will implement Live Anywhere in a way that unites Microsoft’s digital storefronts, allowing music and movies to play on the xYz and Xbox.
[Source: GizModo]
Mac always has better ads and genius responses to Microsoft’s strategies.
Windows 7 looks really awesome in every aspect. The new features include: Stream Your Library Over the Internet With Windows Media Player, Windows XP Mode and The Most Insane Default Backgrounds. These are simply in addition to all of the new things we already knew about, like tweaks to Aero Peek, better shortcuts, UI improvements and of course, lots of bug squishing.
[Source: GizModo]
