Andres Valera

My Dream Gadget

Let’s start as the famous speech from MLKJ (with all my respect);

I have a dream that my four little gadgets (Razr V3, PSP Slim, Ipod Nano, TomTom One) will one day live together into one device.

I’ve been looking for a while for one single gadget to replace my mobile phone, portable gaming console, MP3 player and my GPS, but since my last hope was the iPhone 3G, and is really far from meet my humble expectations I decided to write this post with the requirements for what I think will be the next All-in-one gadget.

From my point of view the next big thing it’s not about the hardware, it’s all about the software and the ability to allow third parties to develop software and accessories.
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Tags: Apple, design, Google, iPod, PSP, Skype, Sony

Mashable released Google Map Wish List

Doug Hamlin from Mashable just released an interesting 8 Ways to Improve Google Maps. Take a look at the headline of their wishes:

• Travel suggestions
• Offline mode
• Make it more social
• More options for MyMaps
• Map quantitative data
• Layers, layer, layers
• GPS data
• English please

I agree with most of this suggestions but the from my point of view the MUST HAVE for the next release of Google Maps has to possibility to upload data from your GPS to Google Maps to review/share your trips (GPS Data).

Take a the complete article here

Tags: Google, Maps

GTalk chatback badge

A few days ago Google launch a new service that allow you to put in your blog a small badge, so your visitor can chat with you via gTalk.

The setup is really simple (I installed in five minutes), first, you go to http://www.google.com/talk/service/badge/New , configure your badge and copy the badge HTML code and pasted in your blog. If you have WP, like I do, and a widget enable theme, just add a text widget to the sidebar and paste the HTML code in it.

I think this is a great tool to get to know your visitors, so from now on… let’s chat

Tags: Google, Gtalk