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Further proving that security through (very, very light) obscurity isn’t a good means of
keeping things secret, a new beta version of Yahoo’s Mobile Front Page (generally known as
just m.yahoo.com) has been found hiding just one character away from the beta announced
to the public back in January.
Where as the public beta can be found at beta.m.yahoo.com, our tipster dug up the new version by
instead navigating to beta2.m.yahoo.com. Unfortunately, it seems we weren’t supposed to see
this just yet; within a half-hour of us reaching out to Yahoo! for comment, the page had become
password protected - but not before we snagged a couple screenshots.
The screenshots you’ll see below are what you’d see on an iPhone - on most other
handsets, the new beta will look more like the current standard mobile front page: white
backgrounds, light image use, etc. The visual changes of the iPhone version from the first beta
to beta 2 are somewhat minimal - at least, they’re much less extreme than the jump made
between the current m.yahoo.com and the first beta. They’ve decreased the gloss on the
gradients, but have rounded out the corners. They’ve also added in a spot for
advertisements above the fold, which I don’t remember being there before.
More notable than visual tweaks, however, is the addition of Yahoo’s oneConnect and
onePlace. oneConnect brings in the notifications and updates from your e-mail accounts (Gmail,
Windows Live, Yahoo) and social networks (Facebook, Flickr, Myspace, Twitter, Dopplr, and a bunch
of others), and allows you to update your status at all appropriate sites in one quick swoop.
onePlace is a similar all-in-one concept but for general information, squeezing together news,
weather, stocks, bookmarks, RSS feeds, and more.
Both oneConnect and onePlace were announced as downloadable applications in the first quarter of
2008, though it seems that an iPhone version of oneConnect is the only thing to have made it out
thus far. This is the first time we’ve seen a browser based version of either.
Oh - and if you’re curious as to what Yahoo had to say on the matter after they locked it
up tight: they’re “constantly working on innovations” but they have
“nothing to announce anytime soon.”
(I’ve removed a bunch of the status updates from image 2 to keep it from making this page
absurdly long. Click the image for the fullsize version.)
[Thanks Matt!]
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At last, here it is, the Meizu M8 finished
product.
Is it just me or does the background music remind one of Zune ads? Got to admit the UI is
sophisticated and beautiful. Screen resolution of the Meizu M8 is crisp. The swiping touch
control is almost as amazing as iPhone’s. It’s one of the best Windows CE 5.0 device
we’ve seen here at PMPToday.
h4Fuel for your HD TV/h4 pstrongRound-up/strong Happy Christmas, the format war is over. Now that
Toshiba has abandoned HD DVD, Sony’s Blu-Ray has emerged as the new standard for
high-definition discs, and the millions of folk who've been watching ye olde standard-def TV
programmes on their HD TVs can go out and buy themselves a Blu-ray player safe in the knowledge
it's not about to become obsolete..../p
MySQL GUI Tools is a suite of
graphical desktop applications for working with and administering MySQL servers. The suite
consists of three tools: MySQL Query Browser, MySQL Administrator, and MySQL Migration Assistant
(available only on Windows). We'll look at the first two to see how well they let us manage MySQL
without using the command line.
This is an interesting hack of a "voice changer" kit. I really like the sounds so far, and I
think know it can be hacked a lot more. It would be cool to stuff this in a project box and add a
few more hacking controls.
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A new site called TweetStalk is in
private beta. It allows you to “follow” Twitter users without them knowing you are
doing it (Twitter tells you when someone new has subscribed to your data). It’s all through
a Firefox Add-On and appears to modify the Twitter page itself via Greasemonkey or otherwise. You
are then able to follow the person without them knowing, and the service provides a RSS feed as
well.
This isn’t as bad as it sounds. Twitter pages are public by default so all the content is
there for everyone to see anyway. Twitter should probably just implement a private follow feature
of some sort to allow this anyway. But until they do, you’ve got TweetStalk.
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