Ubuntu OS for Smartphones

January 3rd, 2013 4 Comments

Ubuntu OS for Smartphones

 Ubuntu Phone OS

Linux aficionados can rejoice as Ubuntu developer Canonical has announced the Ubuntu OS for smartphones. The new OS is designed to run on Android devices promising to make use of their full capabilities. Ubuntu phones will be unveiled by early 2014,but you will be able to download images of the OS for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus over the next few weeks. Check out how the OS looks in the video below.

The interface is very fresh and different as compared to current smartphone operating systems like Android and iOS. The Ubuntu phone OS depends heavily on swipe gestures from all four edges of the screen. As you might have noticed in the video above, swiping from left to right pulls up your open apps while a short swipe in the same direction reveals an app dock along the left edge of the screen. You can scroll through these apps and open any app as required. Swiping in the other direction from right to left opens the app that you used last. Swiping from the top to bottom shows your notifications. You can scroll through the icons at the top and access their settings too. The bottom edge brings up the settings or menu for that app.

Ubuntu phone apps

The whole screen is used to run the app and menus or notifications are only shown when you make the appropriate swipe so there is no wastage of screen space. Similar to Ubuntu on your computer,the Ubuntu phone OS will run native apps as well as web apps. If you have noticed in the video above, there are already a lot of major apps like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Gmail, Spotify etc with more being promised. Other features include a universal search which searches for content on your phone as well as on the web. Voice and text commands are promised too.  If you are a user of Ubuntu One, the cloud storage service, then all your content will be accessible from your phone as well.

Ubuntu phone OS

All in all, this OS shows a lot of promise. If Ubuntu can tie up with some major hardware manufacturers to produce some quality handsets, they might be able to carve a place for themselves in the smartphone market. But they need to do it fast as they are a little late to the party, Android and iOS are gobbling up most of the market share.

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Google lets you share your New Year Resolutions globally

January 2nd, 2013 2 Comments

Google lets you share your New Year Resolutions globally

With the advent of  a New Year almost everyone is ready with a list or at least one New Year Resolution. Google has realized it as well and to motivate you, put up a site where you can share your resolution with the rest of the world.

Google NY resolutions

Just head to Google’s Global Resolutions Page. Here you can enter the resolution that you plan on sticking to in 2013. Just enter your pin code, your country and the category to which your resolution belongs and hit share. Your resolution will be added to the world map on which people from all around the world have added their resolutions as well.

Resolutions

You can check out resolutions from a specific category like Love, Health, Family, Education, Career, Finance etc or just see random resolutions by people from around the world. What’s more amazing is that people may have entered their messages in any language other than English and Google will automatically post an English translation of the message. Have a look at the screenshot above for an example. The page updates automatically as new resolutions keep on adding. Resolutions we have seen included “Play the Guitar a few hours everyday” to a little lofty resolves like “Peace for everyone”  and an interesting “Try to cook a  recipe from every country in the world”.

So go ahead and add your on resolutions to the map. Let us know whats your resolution for the year in the comments below.

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