A lot of people are talking about Google Goggles. That is a search by Image Search in Android. You can take a photo of Landmark, Books, famous artwork and even a Logo by an Android phone. Then it can recognise the image and convert to text. For example, they took a photo of London Bridge and it will do a google search on London.

In Australia, HTC Magic has not a ROM update yet, that is Android 1.5. Google Goggles requires Android 1.6+, so that is not for me to test yet!

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Picasa 3.6 is avaliable to download now. This version supports Collaborative Album, you can upload the photo to your friends' ablum. Moreover, it got name tag recommendations. The feature I like most, there is an option to preserve original JPG compression quality when the user upload the photo to Picasa Web Album!

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I like to use Ubuntu Remix more than Chrome OS in a netbook environment. No Doubts, Chrome OS is much faster than Ubuntu Remix, even Ubuntu Remix is already optimised for Intel Atom. I like it, because that is a OS with full features. In some situations, for example, I am on a travel in the rural area, or in a hotel room with a daily internet over $20 per day, I do not prefer to have a netbook always online. For Chrome OS, I nearly cannot do anythings, but I still want to do some basic tasks, such as editing a word document or some photos. For Ubuntu Remix, there are GIMP and OpenOffice built-in. I can still stay offline. In my situation, I will choose to use Ubuntu Remix rather than Chrome OS, because I can choose to not online.

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Last week, I was so busy to prepare my trip to Sydney and Canberra. Thus, I have not time to download the Chrome OS image file. Last night, finally, I got some free time to download the image from gdgt.

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I started to use Google Listen. It can search the podcast, even I found some Hong Kong Podcast too. Moreover, it can subscribe by using a URL of xml file. That is very good. I turned my Android phone to an "Internet Radio".