Tag: BUBBLES

Nokia Bubbles is an experimental new way to unlock your Symbian phone and quickly perform common actions at the same time. When a phone with Bubbles is in sleep mode, you can hit the "apps" key to bring up a cluster of floating bubbles that serve as shortcuts for actions like opening an app or returning a recent call. When you drag a bubble to the lock icon in the center of the screen, your phone ...

As far as concepts go, Touch the Bubbles is dead simple: use your mouse to move the cursor around and smash all the colorful bubbles into nothingness. Piece of cake. Things get a little trickier, however, once the play area starts to evolve. Glowing red hotspots will kill you, and you're going to have to navigate through quite a few of them as you progress through the game. They're not just ...

Some of the applications I use most often aren't desktop apps, they're web apps that I access through a web browser. Gmail, Google Reader, and Google Docs, for example. GMDesk is an Adobe AIR-based client for these and other Google-based services. It's based on the idea that you shouldn't have to fire up a web browser just to check your email. The concept is sound, but the execution leaves a bit ...

Trying to figure out whether to see Indiana Jones or Sex in the City this weekend? Why not just skip the movies and catch up on some of the week's best software news? Windows 7 says hello world, then runs and hides away After months of speculation, Microsoft has finally lifted the veil of secrecy surrounding Windows 7. And by lifted the veil, we mean one tiny little corner. We now know that ...

Have a couple of web-based applications that you need quick and easy access to on a regular basis? You could set your browser homepage to Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Facebook, or Zoho Writer. Or you could use Bubbles to create a desktop shortcut that will open your web page almost instantly in a site-specific web browser. We first looked at Bubbles a few months ago, but this week the developers released ...

Like having Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Flickr, and other web services at your fingertips, but don't feel like keeping RAM-hungry Firefox open all day? Bubbles is a Windows application lets you run web services in their own individual windows, no Firefox, Opera, or Internet Explorer required. When you first run Bubbles, you'll see a list of web sites which you can open with the application. You can also ...

I am amazed at the fact that much of an actor's work requires developing a good thinking face. It isn't enough to be good at talking, facial expressions, and the like. You have got to be able to look like you're thinking. I'm sure we've all seen one too many movies where the thinking either didn't look great or didn't turn out being a good thought once the plot had played out. If so, BubblyPly ...