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Google Goggles to Translate Text in Photos

by Simon Ng on February 23, 2010

In early January, I had a trip to Japan for my vacation and celebrated the new year. If you have even been to Japan, you know, English is not a very popular language. Particularly, for some local restaurants, there are no English menu nor English-speaking staff to serve you. So, what you get is a [...]

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AndroidLock Lets You Use Pattern to Unlock iPhone Lock Screen

by Simon Ng on February 2, 2010

I guess everyone of you should know about Android, the mobile OS developed by Google and it’s one of the major competitors for iPhone. Personally, I still prefer iPhone OS over Google’s Android. I’m not going to list out the pros and cons of both OS. This is not a post for comparing these two [...]

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Google Goggles – Search the Web by Photos

by Simon Ng on December 13, 2009

Text based search is the most prominent search available on the internet these days. Most search engines, with the exception of a few specialized ones, require text input to be able to crawl their databases for hits on the topic.
Google Goggles is a new application, now available for the Android operating system, that [...]

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Will Google Maps Navigation Come with iPhone OS 3.2?

by Simon Ng on November 1, 2009

With the built-in GPS and Google Maps, iPhone can always show you the current location and the direction to your desired destination. However, there is one big problem with it. When you’re driving, Google Maps can’t show you the turn-by-turn direction in realtime.
There is no shortage of car navigation applications (e.g. TomTom) in App Store. [...]

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