Humble Bundle For Android is BACK again!

If you are not aware, Humble Bundle is a game bundle where you can pay the amount you want to download the games for your OS. All the collected proceeding will be donated to charity of your choice (either the EFF of Child’s Play Charity). This time round, they are introducing games for the Android platform.

Android games in this bundle include:

• Zen Bound 2
• Avadon: The Black Fortress (Android version is tablet-only)
• Canabalt
• Cogs

If you pay more than the average (which stands as $6.17 as of this post), you will also receive Swords & Soldiers, a vibrant side-scrolling strategy game.

Most, if not all, of these games are making their debut in the Android platform. If you get it now, you will also be among the first to play the games, not to mention that it would cost you $57 just to get them all in the Play store.

If you don’t own an Android device, the games are also available for Linux, Windows and Mac and all the games soundtrack are also included in the bundle.

What are you waiting for? Go get it now!

Humble Bundle For Android 2

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If you are not aware, the FLV format is the most commonly used video format in the web. The FLV format is very popular and used by YouTube, Hulu, VEVO, Yahoo! Video, metacafe, Reuters.com, and many other video & information websites.

FLV To MP3 Converter allows you to extract the audio component of the video and convert it into a MP3 file. Other than FLV, it also supports file formats like MP4, MPG, FLV, WMV, MOV (for input) and MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, and FLAC (for output).

Grab the software while it is still available.

This giveaway will be closed on Oct 25th, 2011.

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Mango

Mango is the codename for the next major update of Windows Phone. It adds more than 500 new features to the existing version and makes the phone more intuitive and user-friendly. The Mango release will be available for free to Windows Phone 7 customers and is scheduled to ship on new phones later this year.

Some of the major update include:

• Silverlight 4 as core platform
• IE9 as the main web browser
• Live Tile enhancements: use of back of tiles and ability to update Live Tiles locally
• Deep linking into apps from notifications and Live Tiles
• Deep integration of calendar, contacts and social networking sites (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and several others)

Surface 2.0

The more interesting announcement in the event is the release of the Surface 2.0. For those of you who are not aware, just imagine a high-end computer with a wide and sensitive touch screen embedded in a table. That’s Microsoft Surface.

For this latest release of Surface, Microsoft has partnered with Samsung to debut the Samsung SUR40 (running Surface 2.0). Unlike previous version of Surface that were bulky and heavy, the Samsung SUR40 is definitely more “table-like”, more lightweight and come with more powerful hardware specs.

The Surface SUR40 has a 40-inch full HD display powered by an embedded 2.9GHz AMD Athlon II X2 dual-core processor and the AMD Radeon HD 6700M Series GPU with DirectX 11 support. The Surface 2.0 is built on top of Windows 7 technology. At only 4-inches thick, the Samsung SUR40 can be used as a table or mounted to the wall.

The Surface make use of a new PixelSense technology that is able to recognize fingers, hands, and objects placed on the screen, enabling vision-based interaction without the use of cameras. The sensitive screen is also able to detect more than 50 point of contacts at different corners at any given time. These two features make it great for multiple people interaction.

Check out the video below showing a multiplayers tower defense game:

The introduction of byte tags also make the Surface a useful tool for identifying items., such as namecards, shoes, cup etc. Basically, it can recognize anything as long as it is programmed to read the byte code assigned to the item.

For example, a small shoe show in the video is tagged with a byte code. When the shoe is placed on the screen, it will detect the code and show the various shoes design and color.

In short, retailers can make use of this byte tag to let their customers obtain information about their products fast.

Samsung SUR40 is currently available for reservation at a price of US$8600. Would you get a touch screen table at this price?

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Remember the Humble Indie Bundle where you can play any price you want for 5 great indie games? Well, it have returned again, with more exciting games. Humble Indie Bundle 2 now comes with Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Osmos and Revenge of the Titan.

For those who have not heard of the Humble Indie Bundle, this is a game bundle where you can pay what you want to buy the 5 games in the bundle. The full price for the bundle cost $85. The money collected by the developers will be donated to charity. You can choose to how the money is divided: between the game developers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or the Child’s Play Charity.

Braid

Braid is a platform game in a paintery style where you manipulate the flow of time to solve the puzzle.

Cortex Command

Machinarium

If you like puzzle games, Machinarium will captivate you. The setting is rich and visually appealing, complete with a likable robot protagonist. The background scenery looks hand- drawn and inert, but much of it is interactive and necessary to complete the puzzles.

Osmos

The objective in Osmos is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax… good things come to those who wait.

Progress from serenely ambient levels into varied and challenging worlds. Confront attractors, repulsors and intelligent motes with similar abilities and goals as you.

Revenge of the Titan

Revenge of the Titan is a combination of tower defense and real-time strategy. You can build towers to defense against the invaders. At the same time, you can collect resources and upgrade your towers.

All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Grab your Indie bundle now!

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For those who are not aware, the Breeze platform is a new iPhone app from Standard Chartered Bank that lets you manage your money right from your mobile phone. Unlike most online banking app, Breeze comes with feature such as issuing bank cheque over the phone, pay bill on the go, reminder and wishlist.

Note: Breeze is currently applicable for Singapore and Malaysia only

Here’s the press release:

11 October 2010, Singapore – Standard Chartered upped its ante in its hiring strategy by leveraging on new social media in its latest “World’s Coolest Intern” competition. This is an innovative recruitment drive for talent in Asia to help promote greater awareness of Bank’s latest online and mobile innovation, Breeze, in the social media space, like Breeze Blog and Twitter.

The winner of this competition will work with the Group Remote Banking team, based in Singapore for six months to develop and implement a social media communication strategy for Breeze for six months.The winner can look forward to an attractive prize package which includes a SGD 30,000 six-month employment contract with Standard Chartered, and more importantly, valuable learning experience with some leading social media experts including Google, Christophe Langlois from Visible Banking and prominent blogger, Goodstuph’s Pat Law. Google is supporting Standard Chartered with technical knowledge and training in Search and Display advertising. This internship will offer the winner the opportunity to gain deeper knowledge and insights and develop core digital communicator skills.

The recruitment for the role of the ‘World’s Coolest Intern’ will be conducted entirely online. The contest is open to recent graduates or undergraduates in their final year across Asia. Applicants can apply from outside of Singapore, but if successful, will be based in Singapore for the duration of the internship.

For those who are up to the challenge, here’s the application procedure:

1. Follow @StanChartBreeze on Twitter
2. Create a blog post, video, podcast (it’s up to you really) explaining what makes you uniquely qualified to become the ‘World’s Coolest Intern’, make sure to mention breeze blog link so that we can track it (http://breeze.standardchartered.com/blog)
3. Direct Message us the URL of your post, so we can take a look and see what you’re all about

Applications for the ‘World’s Coolest Intern’ role close on 15 October, 2010 (4 more days to go), so you’ll need to act quickly. Remember, it is open to all recent graduates and undergraduates in Asia.

For more detail, check out the World Coolest Intern site.

Disclaimer: MakeTechEasier is in no way affiliated with Standard Chartered Bank

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The “about:labs” page has been around for the Linux build for quite some time, but unlike the Windows version, nothing was available. In the latest update of Google Chrome, the “about:labs” now comes with several features like Tabbed Settings, Remoting, Page Info Bubble, Disable outdated plug-ins, XSS Auditor and Background WebApps.

Here’s a short breakdown of what each feature does:

Tabbed Settings

Instead of a new window, the Chrome Settings is now opened in a new tab.

Remoting

Allows Remoting Client support.

Page Info Bubble

The page info is now shown as an info bubble instead of a dialog window.

Disable outdated plug-ins

As its name implies, disable outdated plugins to reduce security vulnerability

XSS Auditor

Enables WebKit’s XSS Auditor (cross-site scripting protection). This feature aims to protect you from certain attacks of malicious web sites. It improves your security, but it might not be compatible with all web sites.

Background WebApps

Run installed web apps in the background at system startup and even after all windows are closed.

Activating about:labs features

1. Ensure that you are using a dev build of Google Chrome (you can get the deb file here)

2. Open a new tab and type “about:labs” (without the quotes) in the URL bar.

3. Choose the feature you want and click the “Enable” link.

4. Restart Google Chrome

That’s it.

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Earlier today, Facebook has released the Facebook Places that allows you to check in your location from your mobile device.

Ever gone to a show, only to find out afterward that your friends were there too? With Places, you can discover moments when you and your friends are at the same place at the same time.

You have the option to share your location by “checking in” to that place and letting friends know where you are. You can easily see if any of your friends have also chosen to check in nearby.

The Facebook Places is only available for iPhone users at the moment. Android and other mobile device users can also access the check-in feature via the mobile FB site: touch.facebook.com. There is one criteria though: your mobile browser must support HTML 5 and geolocation.

With the Facebook Places, you can tag your friends (just like how you tag your friends in a photo). When you are together with a bunch of friends, you can tag all of them in your check-in. You can also post update on your checkin to inform others what you are doing.

When it comes to Privacy issue, your check-in status will only be shown to your friends, unless you explicitly change the setting to “Everyone”. You also have the choice to turn off the ability for friends to check you in at Places.

The check-in service is currently available in USA. Other countries will have to wait as Facebook “expects to make it available to more countries and on additional mobile platforms soon“. We will see.

I do not have the luck to try it in my country yet. If you are one of the lucky few who are situated in USA, own an iPhone and pro location app, check out the Facebook Places and let us know your experience in the comments.

via Facebook blog: Who, What, When, and Now…Where

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Canonical is pleased to announce the release of uTouch 1.0, Ubuntu’s multi-touch and gesture stack. With Ubuntu 10.10 (the Maverick Meerkat), users and developers will have an end-to-end touch-screen framework — from the kernel all the way through to applications. Our multi-touch team has worked closely with the Linux kernel and X.org communities to improve drivers, add support for missing features, and participate in the touch advances being made in open source world. To complete the stack, we’ve created an open source gesture recognition engine and defined a gesture API that provides a means for applications to obtain and use gesture events from the uTouch gesture engine.

uTouch 1.0 will be included in all iteration of Ubuntu Maverick, including the desktop and netbook edition.

With the release of the gesture API, it is now the developer’s jobs to bring multi-touch application to the platform. The future looks good for Ubuntu, what do you think?

via Canonical Blog

Image credit: myuibe

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