Photo by JOHN HAEGER Oneida Daily Dispatch Kurt Wanfried holds a community lab about blogging on Saturday, July 23, 2011.
ONEIDA — Blogging gives everyone a voice.“If you don’t think a news service is covering something you find important, you can start a blog and get the information out that you want,” said Dispatch Editor Kurt Wanfried at a blogging community lab over the weekend. “We can only get reporters to so many places.”And it’s even easy. while Wanfried prefers using Blogger, there are an abundance of sites that allow anyone to speak up and have their voice heard on myriad issues, from politics, food, fashion and parenting, to name a few.Some of the sites interested bloggers can check out are WordPress (wordpress.com), Blogger (blogger.com), LiveJournal (livejournal.com) and Xanga (xanga.com).“you could be writing about knitting or how to do geneology or how to fix cars; whatever you can think of can be a topic,” said Wanfried. “That probably wouldn’t find its way to the paper. now we have all this space. That’s the beauty of the Internet: There’s all this space.”the Dispatch already has several bloggers, including Wanfried and the Dispatch’s contributing writer Mike Jaquays, but the paper is always interested in hosting more. the more topics available, the more readers can enjoy.“you used to have to be a bonefide reporter to get stuff out there, and now anyone can do it,” Wanfried said.Those interested in writing a blog for the Dispatch are welcome to contact Wanfried at 363-5100 ext. 137.
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In addition, the report shares several tidbits that have been surfacing about iOS 5, most notably brief word that Apple is indeed planning to roll out a “completely revamped” notifications system and “widgets” that would presumably provide quick access to information without the need for launching dedicated apps, much the same as Dashboard widgets in Mac OS X.
The other big news for iOS5 – and yes, I’ve completely buried the lede here, thanks for reading! – two things: completely revamped notifications and widgets.
The iOS notification system has been one of the more highly criticized aspects of the platform, although optimism regarding a potential revamp rose earlier this year amid claims that Apple had acquired an unnamed development firm specifically to assist with the revamp.
As an example of how widgets might be employed, designer Jan-Michael Cart earlier this month released a concept video demonstrating his vision of widgets on iOS.
One other item of interest included in TechCrunch‘s report today is the claim that the Nuance technology rumored to be deeply integrated into iOS 5 will surprisingly not make its way into the Voice Control component of the platform, although things could change between now and the final release of iOS 5 later this year.
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Alongside today’s release of iOS 4.3, Apple also pushed out Safari 5.0.4, bringing a number of enhancements to the company’s Internet browser.
This update contains improvements to stability, compatibility, accessibility and security, including the following:
- Improved stability for webpages with multiple instances of plug-in content
- Improved compatibility with webpages with image reflections and transition effects
- A fix for an issue that could cause some webpages to print with incorrect layouts
- A fix for an issue that could cause content to display incorrectly on webpages with plug-ins
- A fix for an issue that could cause a Screen Saver to appear while video is playing in Safari
- Improved compatibility with VoiceOver on webpages with text input areas and lists with selectable items
- Improved stability when using VoiceOver
Safari 5.0.4 is available via Software Update and Apple’s Safari download page.
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Google Inc.’s Voice calling application has won approval to be on the iPhone after more than a year of haggling with Apple Inc.
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Apple today released Safari 5.0.3 for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Leopard, as well as Windows 7, Vista, and XP, bringing a number of minor fixes and improvements to users of Apple’s Internet browser. The update is also available for Mac OS X Tiger users as Safari 4.1.3.
This update contains improvements to usability, compatibility, stability, accessibility and security, including the following:
- More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field
- More accurate results in Top Sites
- Fixes an issue that could cause content delivered with the Flash 10.1 plug-in to overlap webpage content
- More reliable pop-up blocking
- Improved stability when typing into search and text input fields on www.netflix.com and www.facebook.com
- Improved stability when using JavaScript-intensive extensions
- Improved stability when using VoiceOver with Safari
For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
The update is available through Software Update or via direct download from Apple’s site.
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Google Voice is finally available for the iPhone.
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Google Voice is finally available for the iPhone.
A Google Voice for iPhone app finally clears Apple’s gauntlet. (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) When Google announced Google Voice for iPhone earlier today, we wasted no time putting the VoIP telephony app through its paces. Google Voice for iPhone (download) delivers much of what we expect from a native Google Voice app. In an absolute sense, it’s a terrific app because it brings …
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Google today announced that its official Google Voice [App Store] application for the iPhone is now available.
With this native app, you’ll continue to have access to all the major Google Voice features on your iPhone, like:
- Cheap rates for international calls
- Free text messaging to U.S. numbers
- Voicemail transcription
- Display your Google Voice number as caller ID when making calls
In addition to these benefits, the app provides some features that make using Google Voice on your iPhone a much better experience:
- With push notifications, the app will alert you instantly when you receive a new voicemail or text message
- Most of your calls will be placed via Direct Access Numbers, making them connect just as quickly as regular phone calls
After Apple tweaked its review guidelines for the App Store back in September, it began accepting Google Voice-related applications, and the company reportedly approved the official Google application late that month, but it has not been available until today.
Google and Apple famously squared off over the Google Voice application, with Google claiming that Apple had rejected the application, citing duplication of the core functionality of the iPhone, while Apple claimed that it had merely not made a decision on the application, leaving it limbo for over a year.
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Google Inc.’s Voice application has won approval to be on the iPhone after more than a year of haggling with Apple Inc.
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Google Voice app finally approved for iPhone