Left Side of Brain

Archive for the Left Side of Brain

Android 2.0 gets Google Maps Navigation

Posted October 30th, 2009 with Comments disabled

Google's new Google Maps Navigation (Beta) for Android 2.0 provides many great enhancements to the old Google Maps application such as turn-by-turn directions and voice search.

Student builds creepy Guitar Hero playing robot type thing

Posted October 27th, 2009 with Comments disabled

SlashGear -- Minnesota West Technical College engineering student Pete Nikrin made a robot that plays Guitar Hero pretty well. It is said to get 100% accuracy in Trials, 98% in Medium mode, 95% in Hard mode and 80% in Expert mode. I bet it can't beat me in Madden though.

Google Social Search lets you search social web content

Posted October 26th, 2009 with Comments disabled

Official Google Blog -- Google releases their Google Social Search experiment today. This new Google Labs experiment provides Google search results from a combination of your Gmail chat buddies, your Gmail contacts, and people you publicly connect to on social sites such as Twitter and FriendFeed. To sign up, go to Google's Experimental Search page or [...]

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It is only natural for someone who likes to write and hear themselves speak to have a journal (or blog). Here, you will be able to see my thoughts and observations on things like fine art, illustration, graphic design, web design, and gadgets and computers.