HP/Palm webOS 2.0 and beyond

According to the latest press event on 9-Feb-2011, HP will release S, M and L size webOS devices on this summer (my report in Japanese). The webOS might be numbered 2.2 for Veer and Pre 3, and 3.0 for TouchPad (clearly stated on wikipedia). In addition to the news for new device, webOS 2.0/2.x will not be released for original Pre and Pixi (by tough decision).

Yet another solution for YouTube black-out problem on Mac Safari ; User-Agent

Since about a week ago, we can not watch YouTube video by Mac Safari.

Once the problem occurred, it cannot be solved by re-installing Flash player, clearing Safari history, nor clearing Safari Cookie.

I found a temporally solution.

• Change the USER-AGENT of Safari other than [Safair 4.0.5 - Mac] (for example, [Safari 4.0.5 - Windows]) from [Develop] menu If [Develop] menu item on your Safari, use [Preferences...] => [Advanced]

Other solutions are exists, but I think there are some disadvantages;

• Change the Safari application from 64-bit to 32-bit Apples decided the default is now 64-bit. If you forget to switch back from 32-bit to 64-bit, performance penalty or missing new features will become the problem.
• Change the YouTube to HTML5 mode You can change YouTube to HTML5 mode by visiting youtube.com/html5 . If the html5 version of video is provided, the problem will be solved. Some or many videos are Flash (FLV) only.
• Use embed mode of YouTube If the url is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABCXYZ&feature=aaa then, rewrite it as http://www.youtube.com/embed/ABCXYZ You can watch the video in Safari windows as full scaled.

I do not know the problem came from the Flash War, I hope Apple or YouTube solves the root cause early.

[2011-02-21 2:50 JST] Added 4th solution.

[Japanese version]

Google Instant for Images, Videos, Blogs, and Updates (realtime search)

Today, Google enables Instant capability for Images search, Videos, Updates, News, Books, Blogs, and Discussions.

Google Maps and Shopping Search are not yet.

For Google Realtime Search (Updates Search for Twitter, etc) search result is updated according to your input, and the same time the result is scrolled down realtime.

Google Instant provides Arrow Key Navigation

Do you find the small blue rectangle located left of Google Instant search result entry? (see red square on screen image)

I found that it is used by cursor (arrow) key navigation function provided by Google Instant.

• Up and Down arrow keys let you move up and down the rectangle and select one of the result
• Return key let you jump to the result
• At the bottom of screen, you can also select Next and Previous button

Arrow key navigation will help you speeding up your google-ing.

MobileMe is the pioneer instead of Google Instant

Many of us think the Google is the pioneer at Instant search technology derived from Google Wave.

However, Apple renewed MobileMe Web service on June, with instant search capabilities for Mail and Contacts.

When you start typing at search field, MobileMe starts searching and display search result instantly.

Google Translation has been similar to Google Instant/Wave

Recently, Google announced to launch the brand new technology called Google Instant (TechCrunch article 2010-09-08).

It is said as newest technology at many news sites or blogs.

However, I found that Google Translate also have similar capability (instant result display) since it adds some new features on 2010-08-30.

It also provides pronunciation.

I think instant capability is more useful on Google Translate than Google Instant Search.

rumor: Millions of devices watching this streaming could use FaceTime

Today's Apple keynote will be broadcasted via streaming.
My rumor "Millions of devices watching this streaming could use FaceTime."
Recently Jobs stated "Apple will ship tens of millions of FaceTime-connected devices in 2010."