The google maps application on the iPhone and iPod Touch have been great, but they lack one nice feature, street view. The 2.2 Beta which has been seeded to developers has been said to contain the update which adds street view to Google Maps. Also in the Beta which was seeded tonight to developers is a line-in app.
Lala is currently in beta and includes 50 free songs when you sign up for free. The service allows you to listen to music online for free and if you want add it to your library with a higher quality bit rate it is only 10 cents per song. If you then wish to download a 256Kbit DRM free MP3, it costs an additional 79 cents. Lala allows you to download a connector which imports the music you already have purchased on your Mac or PC, so you can listen to it anywhere online.
LaLa includes over 5 million songs and does not require any credit card to sign up or try it out. The very easy to use lala is worth trying out and if you don’t like it you can still listen to your 50 free songs any time you like.
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Slingbox will soon be offering Sling.com to its user, but for now it is in beta. The current Slingbox allows you to watch your television you already have via streaming to your PC or Mac. Sling.com wants us to share our videos and will have deals with networks to allow us to watch content online. However you will be able to use Slingcatcher to watch the content from Sling.com. You can now sign up for the beta and try it out for yourself.
Now where is that iPhone app they showed off some time ago?
The picture above is a supposed leaked picture of the new Windows 7 Beta. The site who had originally posted the pictures was asked to take them down, so this does have some credibility. Windows has been trying to regain its following and one way to do that is to make Windows 7 look nothing like Vista and make it less system resource intensive. The plan for "7" if correct, will offer just the OS with nothing else installed. You can then go and download the add-ons for free from windows live if you so choose. A beta should be available soon to the privileged few and we should know more then.
Windows 7 is just about to hit beta and be released to some people who attend WinHec or at least that is what we hear. The new update to the interface is now being called "Windows Scenic"" and is based on the Office 2007 Ribbon interface. This is a good thing considering the "Ribbon" was quite a nice surprise to the Office user and is well thought out. The new interface of each window will present you with a few icons which are smartly grouped into categories and removes the clutter of the current user interface.
Not much more information at this point, but if this is the direction of Windows 7, Microsoft is clearly making sure "7" is not met with the same negative press that Vista received.
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