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ابل تستعد لإنتاج بطارية تعمل لعدة أسابيع
تخطط شركة “ابل” لإيجاد مصدر جديد للطاقة لأجهزتها النقالة سواء الكمبيوتر Lap Top أو الهواتف الذكية على اختلاف أنواعها، بحيث ستعمل هذه الأجهزة على وقود الهيدروجين لمدة أطول من المعتادة حاليا، هذا ما تم الكشف عنه بعد أن تقدمت “أبل” بطلب تسجيل براءة اختراع باسمها لدى منظمة العلامات التجارية ذات الحقوق المحفوظة في الولايات المتحدة.
ابل تستعد لإنتاج بطارية تعمل لعدة أسابيع
وفي حال تم تحقيق هذا البرنامج الطموح، فإننا سنستمتع بنتائج مبهرة وأهمها أن البطارية ستتحمل العمل المتواصل لمدة أسابيع طويلة ناهيك عن أن الأجهزة ستكون اخف وزنا مما هي عليه الآن بسبب ثقل وزن البطارية الحالية.
يذكر أن الوقود المذكور يعمل من خلال تحويل الهيدروجين والأكسجين إلى ماء وطاقة كهربائية، وهذه طريقة تكنولوجية لا زالت تحت التجربة لأهداف عسكرية، وفق ما أوردت صحيفة Huffingtonpost.
قريبا تلفزيون ابل مع التحكم الصوتي و الاستجابة للحركة
لم تؤكد لغاية الآن عملاقة التكنولوجيا “ابل” عزمها على إطلاق جهاز تلفزيون ذكي ولكن صحيفة “وول ستريت جورنال” تؤكد أن “ابل” بدأت تجري مشاورات مكثفة مع جهات ذات صلة في إنتاج مثل هذا الجهاز.
قريبا: تلفزيون ابل مع تعليمات صوتية وبدون ريموت كونترول
إذن تواصل شركة “ابل” مشاوراتها المكثفة مع مختلف الجهات سعيا لإنتاج جهاز تلفزيون ذكي، فعقدت الأسبوع المنصرم عدة لقاءات مع مسئولين من كبرى شركات الاتصالات بغرض مناقشة موضوع التلفزيون البيتي الذكي، وفق ما أوردته صحيفة “وول ستريت جورنال” نقلا عن مسئولين كبار في “ابل”.
وقالت الصحيفة إن ايدي كيو- نائب المدير التنفيذي لشركة “ابل”، صاحب مشروع “الايتونز”، شارك في هذه الاجتماعات، غير أن ابل تتكتم رسميا على كل هذه المعلومات.
وتتحدث التسريبات المقتضبة عن هذه اللقاءات أن التلفزيون الذكي الذي يدور الحديث عنه سيعتمد بالأساس على التعليمات الصوتية على نفس قاعدة عمل ما تعرف بتسمية “الخادمة الالكترونية” – “سيري” التي ظهرت مع ظهور جهاز الايفون 4 أس.
وكان الراحل ستيف جوبز – المدير التنفيذي السابق لشركة “ابل” يحلم بأن يتمكن المستخدمون من التحكم بأجهزة التلفزيون عن طريق جهاز الايفون تماما كما هو الحال بخصوص تلفزيونات وهواتف سامسونج.
وطرحت أيضاً خلال هذه اللقاءات فكرة أن يكون جهاز التلفزيون المرتقب مزودا بكاميرا “ويب” ترصد حركة المشاهد وتستجيب لإشارات يديه بما يشبه تقنية “كونيكت” وابتكار مايكروسوفت الذي أدرجته في “اكسبوكس 360″، وهي طريقة إضافية للتحكم بالجهاز.
ومن المتوقع أن يكون تلفزيون “ابل” مزودا باتصالات لاسلكية فقط، باستثناء كابل الكهرباء، وسيكون متصلا بخدمة “السحاب” – iCloud لشركة “ابل” ليتزود بقاعدة المعلومات الشخصية لكل مستخدم مباشرة بما فيها AirPlay إلى جانب إمكانية تسجيل ما يشاء المستخدم من بث تلفزيوني من مسلسلات وأفلام على “السحابة” مباشرة.
بالمقابل تبقى كل هذه التوقعات في إطار المنتظر المرغوب والمأمول طالما لم يصدر أي تصريح رسمي عن شركة “ابل”. وقد تبقى هذه الأفكار في طور التخيلات التي من الممكن أن يتم دمجها في جهاز الاستقبال التلفزيوني reciever الذي تعده “ابل”.
في هذا السياق تردد كثير من الشائعات حول إمكانية التعاون بين ابل و Sharp اليابانية على إنتاج مثل هذا الجهاز، غير أن نائب المدير العام لشركة Sharp لشؤون أمريكا الشمالية كوزو تاكاشاهي قال: “ليس لدي أي فكرة عما يدور الحديث ولم يتصل بنا احد لمثل هذا التعاون، ولكن إذا عدنا إلى تصريح الراحل جوبز حول هذا الجهاز فأنا اعتقد انه سيكون جهازا رائعا”.
يشار إلى أن ستيف جوبز قال في سيرته الذاتية التي صدرت بعد وفاته انه تمكن من “إيجاد الحلول الضرورية لإنتاج التلفزيون الذكي”. وهذا بحد ذاته مؤشر على أن “ابل” لديها الفكرة ولديها الحلول ويبقى عليها أن تدير عجلة التكنولوجيا لتنتج لنا مثل هذا الجهاز بالتعاون مع شركات لها باع طويل في هذا المجال
Top 30 Android Apps And Games Of 2011
Funded by Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, Any.DO is the best productivity and to-do application tailored specifically for Android devices. The app’s elegant interface is optimized to limit actual typing through voice-driven commands. Users can swipe each task when complete, and shake their phones to clear them from the screen. The app also offers (mostly) seamless integration with Google accounts.
More than just an Instagram for Android, Lightbox offers features like photo journals and the ability to arrange pictures by personal timelines that make it unique and, to some, indispensable. The app’s stunning visual display and compatibility on multiple Android devices set the standard moving forward for photo-sharing apps on the platform.
3. Amazon MP3 (full AndroidApps review)
Along with Google Music (see below), Amazon MP3 is the best way for an Android smartphone and tablet owner to kick an iTunes habit. The app provides access to a library of nearly 20 million songs, 5GB of free storage, and reliable offline listening. Subscriptions to Amazon’s Cloud Drive service start at a reasonable $20/year for 20GB of storage, but you can store as much of your own music as you like with that subscription.
4. AirDroid (full AndroidApps review)
Android devices offer so many customization features that sometimes using a larger screen, mouse and full-sized keyboard will help you get the most out of your smartphone or tablet device. This free app lets users operate their smartphones from a PC with a Wi-Fi connection. Additionally, AirDroid emphasizes privacy protection with password changes for each use.
5. SwiftKey X Keyboard (full AndroidApps review)
After launching a beta app last year, SwiftKey X arrived on Android smartphones and tablets in 2011. The app has larger keys as well as superior word and sentence prediction algorithms than what is typically found on Androids. SwiftKey also learns from previously typed emails and messages, and offers three color schemes to simplify the process and brighten things up.
6. Skitch (full AndroidApps review)
Acquired by Evernote, Skitch lets users annotate photos with sketches, images and words. The app has dead simple editing tools and the ability for users to draw with multi-colored crayons. Skitch is a great app for kids in addition to serving as a functional and unique photo-sharing service.
7. BlueStacks Cloud Connect (full AndroidApps review)
While still in Alpha, BlueStacks is demonstrating how Android applications can run on Windows-based PCs. The Android app works in concert with the Windows-based BlueStacks App Player to run mobile applications on PCs. The venture-backed company and application, which has attracted more than 500,000 early adopters since launch, expects to debut a Mac OS version in 2012.
8. Qello (full AndroidApps review)
Available as separate applications for Android smartphones and tablets, Qello offers a great catalog of high definition concerts (mostly rock, but with other genres sprinkled in). Users can sample the 500+ titles for free, or lease any of them on a weekly ($1.99) or monthly basis ($4.99).
9. AccuWeather for Honeycomb (full AndroidApps review)
Developed specifically for Honeycomb-based tablet devices, this all-inclusive weather application showcases the beauty and utility of Android on larger form factors. The Lifestyle section, which informs users on things like whether it is a good day for biking or bad day for allergies, is a nice humanized touch.
10. HD Widgets (full AndroidApps review)
Android is all about customization, and there is no better and more comprehensive widget app available than this one. Optimized for Android tablets and smartphones, HD Widgets is great for Android experts and first-timers alike. Users will also appreciate the “fanatical” customer service of the developers.
Here are the five best Android apps developed by Google that were released or received significant updates in 2011.
11. Google Currents (full AndroidApps review)
As long as Flipboard remains exclusive to iOS devices, this new release from Google serves as the premier news reader on Android smartphones and tablets. More of a fast and elegant aggregator than social magazine, Google Currents benefits from an organized layout and dead simple third-party publisher platform. There is also — shockingly — nice integration with Google+, including curated content from the likes of Robert Scoble and Guy Kawasaki.
12. Google+ (full AndroidApps review)
Google became a relevant player in social networking this year with the successful launch of Google+. While the service is also available as an iPhone app as well as a web app through BlackBerry, Windows and Symbian platforms, Google understandably treats its own platform as first among equals. Check-ins for business, for instance, rolled out first on the Android app.
13. Google Maps (full AndroidApps review)
A November update to this trailblazing application introduced indoor mapping functionality to mobile devices. Google Maps 6.0 helps users more easily navigate within airports, shopping malls and other locations where GPS technology is spotty.
14. Google Docs (full AndroidApps review)
While no mobile application matches the utility of Google Docs on a desktop or laptop, this official version for Android is pretty close. If you’re a hardcore Google Docs user, this app will help you break free from your desk and still read and edit docs and spreadsheets on the fly.
15. Google Music (full AndroidApps review)
Like Amazon MP3 cited above, Google Music is a way for Android users to comfortably cut the cord (or cloud) on iTunes (at least on their mobile devices). The app lets users store up to 20,000 songs for free in the cloud, with a portion available for offline access.
These next 10 apps were initially released for iOS devices. They are included here for their utility, entertainment value and impact on the Android ecosystem.
16. Price Check by Amazon (full AndroidApps review)
When Amazon unveiled this price-comparison app to Android devices just before Black Friday, the company’s retail Death Star became fully operational. Sure, Price Check was available to iPhone owners a year earlier, and there are similar apps across all major mobile platforms. But having an Android app gives Amazon critical mass in this category, and allows the company to (again) upend physical retail as we know it. This includes offering discounts to consumers on their phones during the point of comparison.
17. Netflix (full AndroidApps review)
There were a lot of things that Netflix did horribly wrong in 2011. Releasing a killer Android app for smartphones and tablet devices was not one of them. As Android tablets become ready for prime time and more plausibly compete against the iPad, entertainment apps like Netflix will flourish.
18. SoundTracking (full AndroidApps review)
The most innovative music detection and discovery app of the year finally arrived to Android in December. SoundTracking not only identifies a song a user is listening to, but shares it with Facebook, Twitter and foursquare friends and followers. The advantage of the Android app, relative to the iOS version which launched earlier this year, is that users with Spotify and Rdio can listen to entire tracks (as opposed to 30-second snippets from iTunes).
19. Hipmunk Flight Search (full AndroidApps review)
Hipmunk differentiates from the run-of-the-mill flight search applications by predicting how painful your traveling might be. The app’s “Agony Index” takes into account factors beyond price including flight duration, Wi-Fi access and other variables. Once users choose the least painful flight, the app accommodates direct booking and provides access to third-party services.
20. Fooducate Shopping Scanner (full AndroidApps review)
This app translates nutritional information found on food packaging into plain English, and offers a letter grade as to how healthy or harmful an item can be. The app offers comprehensive coverage of both mainstream brands and niche delicacies via the scanning of barcodes. Best of all? The app suggests healthier, similar alternatives to the worst offenders.
21. Marvel Comics (full AndroidApps review)
Reading classic comics within this app works on virtually any size Android screen — which is no easy feat. Marvel Comics also offers panel-by-panel viewing that features beautiful art and more legible word balloons. While most titles require a subscription, there are an ample amount of classic comics available for free.
22. Syncplicity (full AndroidApps review)
For digitally promiscuous users who store and share files on multiple devices and operating systems powered by Android, iOS and Windows, Syncplicity is a useful way to manage libraries found within all of them. Unlike many cloud-based alternatives, Syncplicity uses encryption to secure files.
23. Starbucks (full AndroidApps review)
After launching initially on iOS and BlackBerry smartphones, the official Starbucks app finally arrived on Android earlier this year. Better late than never. The app lets users manage their Starbucks Cards and purchase coffee and the like at nearly 7,000 U.S. locations.
24. LinkedIn (full AndroidApps review)
After what seemed like an eternity in beta, LinkedIn finally launched an Android app ready for prime time in the spring. While not perfect, the LinkedIn app is a much better alternative than the company’s more limited mobile site. Finally, this indispensable professional networking service found a full-time gig on Android.
25. Path (full AndroidApps review)
A significant December update to this social blogging app on Android and iOS devices served as an early holiday present to its passionate and vocal adherents. Beyond sharing photos, users can now tell the world about what music they are listening to and other activities they are doing. The app’s new design and “Automatic” feature, which recognizes when users deviate from routine schedules, also separate Path from the pack.
And finally, we present the five best games to arrive to Android devices in 2011. Notably, they all first appeared on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
26. Cut the Rope (full AndroidApps review)
While not a household name like Angry Birds, Cut the Rope is among the most addictive and popular mobile games of all time. The graphics and music are superb, and Cut the Rope is optimized and plays very well on larger Android tablet devices. This is another multi-platform grand slam for (Angry Birds) publisher Chillingo.
27. World of Goo (full AndroidApps review)
One of the most original and well-crafted physics-based puzzle games around finally made its way to Android devices in late November. Originally an indie hit on PCs, World of Goo is a construction game in which users must connect goo balls together to build structures so that other goo balls can get to the end of each stage. The abstract art and imagery alone make it worth the five bucks to download.
28. Where’s My Water? (full AndroidApps review)
A clever and addictive puzzle game by Disney, Where’s My Water? combines whimsical design with killer gameplay. Players are tasked with keeping a sewer-dwelling alligator named Swampy clean and pristine while guiding him through urban terrain. Easier said than done, particularly with Swampy’s alligator buddies standing in the way.
29. Plants vs. Zombies (full AndroidApps review)
This classic title from PopCap, which was acquired by Electronic Arts in July, first came to Android earlier this year via the Amazon App Store. It was sold exclusively on Amazon until early December. Fans of the cartoony tower defense game will enjoy tapping into Plants vs. Zombies on Android devices.
30. Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD (full AndroidApps review)
The best racing game available for Android devices, Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD combines plenty of cars and game modes — including a psychedelic “Adrenaline” boost — with superlative visuals and gameplay. This one deserves the checkered flag.
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