Episode 252 – Give Us Ten Million Dollars or You’ll Never See Your Co-Host Again

By | May 26, 2015

Jere wonders what might happen to Guru on Vacation.

Show Notes

  • Google I/O is this week. Will we be hearing about Macademia Nut Cookie?
  • Android News
    • A Google Summer of Code project looks to share your phone’s location with your computer to provide more accurate location data to the GNOME Geolocation service GeoClue. Current Geolocation sharing apps on the Play Store are only compatible with select apps.
    • Flawed Android factory reset leaves crypto and login keys ripe for picking
  • App News
    • Roman Nurik’s FORM Android Wear watch with Muzei integration is now available. (Play Link)
    • Dropbox is getting a Material Design makeover.
    • Chromecast App adds backdrop history.
    • Skype updated, improves IM experience.
    • HTC Mail App hits Google Play. (Play Link)
    • Facebook Messenger will now remind you who people you communicate with infrequently are.
    • Adblock Plus launches a modified version of Firefox for Android
    • Someone launches a Gmail client for Android Wear
    • tinyCam Monitor is a full featured network/IP camera monitoring app.
  • The Asus ZenFone 2 is very intriguing
  • In Other News
    • This guy put Windows XP on an LG G Watch…why, just because.
    • You can now cast not to a Chromecast, but to an active Hangouts conversation.
    • Google updates Hangouts Chrome app with an interface similar to the Android interface.
    • Google is ready to announce new photo service separate from Plus.