Google is catching up with iOS finally, as it launched a HTML 5 optimized Music Beta player for iOS 4. 9t05Mac shared this web app and few screenshots. When you first access music.google.com, Google will ask for the allowance of 25mb to be stored on your device. Once you agree, you will be presented with a full run down of all of the artists you uploaded to the service. Once you have selected a preferred song, you are taken to a “Now Playing” page. It works like a music app.
Twitter has launched an HTML5 based Twitter.com for the iPad. This launch should be completed by this week. TechCrunch first found this new version. Here is more from them:
The app is full HTML5 and an improvement over the current one-paned experience of the Twitter mobile site on the tablet. Not surprisingly it is reminiscent of a hybrid of Twitter.com and the mobile apps and was based on Twitter’s HTML5 client for iPhone and Android, Twitter mobile engineer Manuel Deschamps tells me. The HTML5 web app will be rolled out to all users within the week, eh hem, beating Facebook which has yet to launch its own HTML5 initiative Project Spartan.
Twitter rep Carolyn Penner said earlier, “The HTML5 app provides a great option for people who prefer to use the browser over native apps. Its two-column view is consistent with the Twitter experience you’re used to (on Twitter.com), and it takes advantage of touch gestures and other device capabilities.”
Over the weekend Apple launched iCloud.com. Beta developers can now do their testing with their apps. Its open for non developers well. I logged in just a while back. It looks so damn pretty guys. Last week Apple took live iWork beta with iCloud support, for developers, for testing as well. Also, The price for for additional storage: 10GB extra will cost $20 a year, 20GB will cost $40 and 50GB (total 55GB) will cost $100 a year. You get 5GB of storage for free, but your music library, apps, video content and photo stream do not count against that 5GB.
9to5Mac put some more light on this new development:
The website is in beta and features all new web apps for Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and more. In addition, it appears that iCloud.com will offer a portal for users to view their iWork documents that are stored in the cloud via iCloud. On top of all of this Find my iPhone is an integrated web application. As you will see, the interface for the website is very iPad and iOS-like. We also have a video walkthrough after the break.
Check out few screenshots that I took. Just love the look and feel:
Did you notice Google on your iPad? It looks sexy. The new icons are bigger and you can filter search results in a cool way. The search button located below the search box provides quick access to specific types of results like Images, Videos, Places, Shopping and more. Just tap to open the search menu and select an option to see results in one category
Running a query by visiting www.google.com in your iPad’s browser produces an iPad-optimized layout in search results. For image results, improvements include enhancing the viewing experience such as enlarged image previews, continuous scroll, and faster loading of image thumbnails.
Android phones have already been gifted Google+ but we cannot download Google+ on iPhone yet. Google has just submitted its Google+ to the App Store for approval. Google employee Erica Joy sent out the following update, as reported by Mashable:
The Google+ iPhone app has been submitted to the App store (no not today, sometime prior to today) and is awaiting approval.
Currently Google+ for iOS can only be accessed via their web app.
Techcrunch is covering Googles Inside Search event in San Francisco and Google has just revealed a cool looking Google homepage for Google Mobile. This new shortcut is placed right on www.google.com home page and you can see it when you access it via Safari or other mobile browsers. Basically with this icons you will be able to find local restaurants, coffee shops, bars and more. Hitting one of the shortcuts lets you see a map of all the restaurants, coffee shops, etc in your area as well as their individual place pages. Pretty cool stuff:
You might soon see a revamped Google search site on smartphones. iSpazioand and phoneArena have noticed the changes, pointing out that big new icons have replaced the smaller top links. 9to5Mac reported this a while back – the new icons are visible upon running a search query on an iOS device. Basically these icons function the same as the smaller textual links which are currently there.
Clicking the More link pulls even more big icons for quick access to YouTube, Gmail, Maps and other popular Google services
Yesterday Google announced that their iOS app for search is now 20% faster and the interface has been improved further. In March Google Search received a fresh interface and gestures that refined search results. Yesterday’s update to version 0.8.2.6553 makes the app “20% more responsive” and disables the “Just Talk” voice-activated search function by default
This version of Google Search app is up to 20% more responsive as you type search queries and interact with it. As part of the speed improvements, a feature called “Just Talk” will now be off by default. Just Talk allowed you to search via voice just by bringing the phone to your ear and speaking rather than tapping the microphone icon. Turning off this feature may improve app performance, though you can easily re-enable it under the Settings > Voice Search menu
Additionally when searching on a phone, the small screen sometimes makes it difficult to read small fonts or to tap precisely on a link. To help you read and tap with ease, we’ve made the font of our search results bigger and the entire search result is now a tap target rather than just the link.
Google has updated its mobile search app for iPhone and iPod touch with a brand new look and a new name. Its now called Google Search app. The revamped new search brings new interface for searching images, news, places etc. Its a free app and here is the App Store link.
First, you’ll see that there are now more ways to interact with the app. When browsing through search results or looking at a webpage, you can swipe down to see the search bar or change your settings. For those who use other Google apps, there’s an Apps button at the bottom of the screen for rapid access to the mobile versions of our products.
We also included a new toolbar that will make it easier for you to filter your results. You can open this toolbar by swiping from left to right — either before you search or once you’ve got your results.
If you leave the app and come back later, you’ll be able either to start a new search right away (just tap in the search box to type, hit the microphone button to do a voice search or tap on the camera icon to use Google Goggles) or get back to exactly where you were by tapping on the lower part of the page.
Finally, there are a number of improvements we’ve made to everything else you love in the app, including Google Goggles, Voice Search, Search with My Location, Gmail unread counts and more. There’s a lot in the app, so we’ve added a simple help feature to let you explore it. Access this by tapping the question mark above the Google logo
Google has just launched Cloud Printing for all kinds of iOS and Android devices. What is a Cloud Print? Well according to Chromium.org, Cloud Printing lets you print from any device, OS or browser without having to install custom software or proprietary drivers. The idea is simple. You open a Google document on your iOS device, select print and the document is sent to your printer over the internet. The feature is compatible with devices running iOS 3.0 or higher.
Macrumors goes on to throw some more light on this feature. The service allows users to print documents and emails directly from Gmail’s mobile interface:
Imagine printing an important document from your smartphone on the way to work and finding the printout waiting for you when you walk in the door. Just open a document in Google Docs or an email in Gmail in your mobile browser and choose “Print” from the dropdown menu in the top right corner. You can also print certain kinds of email attachments (such as .pdf or .doc) by clicking the “Print” link that appears next to them.
Currently this feature is working well in the US. But there is a catch, TUAW reports that, while this new service shows promise, these is one catch for Mac users. To setup the Cloud Print system, you need to connect your printer to Google Cloud Print. Currently, this configuration step can only be done on a Windows PC. Google confirmed that it is working on a solution for Mac and Linux users and promised that it would be available soon.
Macrumors goes on to say that, Apple is of course working on its own wireless printing technology, AirPrint, for iOS devices. But while AirPrint can offer support across a broad array of applications, it does require that the iOS device and printer be located on the same wireless network, whereas Google Cloud Print can enable printing to anywhere.
Google just announced something very significant, a full desktop version of Google Docs word processing service will now work on the iPad too. The desktop version should be used on the iPad for advanced document edits such as font or alignment changes.
For basic use of Google Docs it is recommended that users use the newly revamped mobile version. The desktop version working on the iPad is also especially helpful when you want to do some spreadsheet editing and creation, as shown after the break
Google launched its Google Instant feature for iOS 4 devices last month for the US region. Yesterday it went International. With this feature as you type in Google’s search box, the result would start showing up. Its now available in 28 languages and 30 countries worldwide.
When we launched Google Instant for mobile in beta back in November, we announced that we would be supporting additional countries and languages, beyond just the U.S. in English. Today we’re happy to let you know that Google Instant for mobile is now available in 28 languages and 40 countries worldwide.
And if you dont like this feature, you can turn off my tapping a link on Google’s mobile page.
