Bilton’s Electronic Flight Crusade

It looks like Nick Bilton is on a divine crusade of some sort. A crusade that may rid us of the baseless protocols of air travel.

First this:

Fliers Still Must Turn Off Devices, but It's Not Clear Why - NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/voyFu3

And now this:

Tests Cast Doubt on F.A.A. Restrictions on Kindle and iPad - NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/sOKQFT

Regardless, he's definitely on to something here. I still remember posting something about a snobby flight attendant who nagged me to turn off my device despite it being in "flight mode" (https://plus.google.com/u/0/106526452034734966566/posts/YfQeEfJ5CVF).

Keep it coming and we’ll see some change soon enough.

Dropbox for Android gets the ICS treatment

Getting my cloud on with the new Dropbox App for Android.
New features:

• Favorites: quick offline access to files

• Bulk upload photos and videos

• Rename files and folders

• Single-tap access to all file and folder actions

• Improved gallery view

• Upload from and export to local storage

• Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements

You can download the apk here (http://db.tt/ZAfACYmq).

Movies to watch this 2012

This post is pretty much out of place here but I just went through a bunch of new trailers for some of the upcoming 2012 movies and they’re actually pretty good. I’ll embed each of them and give a little discussion as to what happened prior to what is shown on each trailer.

The Dark Knight Rises - Official Teaser Trailer #2

Pretty much one of the most anticipated movies of 2012, The Dark Knight Rises is the 3rd (and final?) installment of Nolan’s Batman franchise. The series is know for its astounding characters (Joker anyone?) and here’s to hoping that Selina Kyle’s (Catwoman) and Bane’s characters will not disappoint. I wonder if Gordon-Levitt is Robin in this film?

Beautiful iOS

Perhaps the 'pay this, pay that' scheme of Apple before allowing developers to create apps for iDevices is the reason why iOS apps are significantly better than Android's.

When people dish out huge sums of money, they tend to make the most out of it. And that's maybe what leads to beautiful, polished iOS applications.

Photo: Geek.com

Sizing Up the Zeitgeist

Google’s annual Zeitgeist aims to show the stuff that mattered throughout the year by analyzing queries from their Search product. As 2011 comes to a close it was only a matter of time before Google released this year’s edition.

Here are my thoughts on some of the finalist:

Rebecca Black

Black was more popular than Lady Gaga, for 2 weeks anyway.

Google+

The queries for Google+ are pretty dumb e.g. ‘google earth plus’, ‘google chrome plus’, ‘chrome plus’ and ‘msn plus’(really?)

Ryan Dunn

I never knew that the man was dead until I saw this year’s Zeitgeist. My bad, Rest in peace Ryan.

Casey Anthony

This didn’t come as shocking to me or anyone really if you consider the media attention and sensationalism surrounding the trial.

iPhone 5

There’s a little irony here since queries for the nonexistent phone greatly outnumbered those for the iPhone 4S. :)

Adele

This young lady is perhaps one of the most talented musicians of our generation. Not surprised that she’s on the top 10.

東京 電力(TEPCO)

Comparing 'TEPCO' to 'Pizza' searches? C'mon Google, you can do better than that.

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was more popular than Barack Obama this year.

iPad 2

Steve and his babies (one still in conception) are all in the top 10, what more can I say? Long live Steve.