Windows 8 Explorer to feature Ribbon UI, SkyDrive and Mesh integration?

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Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott have posted a second look at some of the early changes which have surface in Windows 8 milestone 3. First there was the restyled Welcome Screen, and now it appears that Microsoft is toying with bringing the Ribbon UI to Explorer.

The Ribbon, like in Microsoft Word and Excel, is context-aware, adding tabs for specific tasks which apply to the folder you're viewing -- such as library or picture management. You can also make out two new buttons in the status bar, which allow you to change the current folder's view style.

It's clear from all the placeholder images and repeated elements that this is very much a work in progress, but featuring the Ribbon more prominently in Windows 8 would certainly be a logical progression for Microsoft. It's slowly become more ubiquitous, moving beyond Office and into Wordpad, Paint, and several of the Windows Live Essentials applications.

There's more to the screenshots than the Ribbon UI, however. Our friend Long Zheng has noted two interesting elements in the images: Web sharing and sync (image after the break). That would likely mean users will be able to quickly upload files to SkyDrive and synchronize using Live Mesh right from Explorer in Windows 8. That's not a total surprise considering many of the earliest leaked images of Windows 8 showed Windows Live integration on the desktop.

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Tour the Wired Office in Google Maps Street View


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If you want to know what Beer Robot, the Wired office kegerator, is thinking, all you have to do is follow @BeerRobot on Twitter. And if you’d like to see Beer Robot’s surroundings, you can now head over to Google Maps. Earlier this week, Wired became the first newsroom in the world to be documented on Google Maps’ Street View, after a photo crew stopped by our San Francisco headquarters to shoot both the print and digital sides of our operation.

As with any Street View map, you can navigate through a virtual tour of our office using the familiar directional arrows. The side of the building with cubicle walls, dry bar, and poster-size reproductions of recent Wired covers is where the magazine happens. The side with the open layout, Beer Robot, and (underused) ping-pong table is home to our online team.

We’ve actually been contemplating creating our own 360-degree office panorama to share on the web. So when Google spokesman Nate Tyler called a couple of weeks ago with the interior Street View proposal, he had a pretty easy sell. We gave his team full access to our offices, meeting rooms, work spaces, and hallways. All we asked was that Google blur out our faces and monitors. The results are pretty amazing. You can even navigate through doors to go between the two sides of the building

Google has been mapping interior spaces in Street View for a while now, showing things like governmental buildings, restaurantsmuseums, and 30,000 pieces of art. And since last October, independent photographers and businesses have been able to upload their own panoramas to Street Views, a project that has delivered a large number of dentists’ offices and surprising interiors like Japan’s Okubo Iwami silver mine and Akiyoshi limestone cavern. The shoot at Wired is part of a plan to expand into offices and workplaces, which, while not exactly places just anyone can walk into, are still of interest to Street View’s product manager Evan Rapoport, who described these views as “aspirational travel.”

“I would make two comparisons here,” Rapoport said. “One would be Antarctica and another would be the White House. These are places where most people will never get to go. The White House is open for public tours but most people will never get there. And there’s a number of other examples I could give you and I would say the Wired newsroom is like this too.”

While this wasn’t a part of the original vision for Google Maps, Rapoport said it was a logical next step for the search giant. ”If you want to start to rely on a technology, you need it to be ubiquitous,” Rapoport said.

Google’s Timothy Wang sets up his camera to shoot a Street View panorama of Wired’s office. Wired is the first newsroom to be included in Street View. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired

Google’s Timothy Wang snapped the Wired newsroom using a Canon Rebel T1i, an 8mm Sigma Fisheye lens and a 360 Precision tripod mount that snaps the camera into place every 90 degrees to line up shots. It’s a fairly mid-range setup, not nearly as wowing as the 15-lens Trekker backpack and Street View cars Google is known for. But the decidedly off-the-shelf kit lets the shooter move through tighter spaces without causing a disturbance. Wang shot more more than 500 photos during his visit to Wired while we all worked.

So welcome to Wired. And apologies in advance for the mess. I blame my coworkers.

Google’s Timothy Wang takes a light reading inside of the Wired newsroom in his Street View shoot. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired

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Deal of the Day: 53% on the Qmadix Snap-On Cover w/ Holster for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4

Deal of the DayToday Only: Buy the Qmadix Snap-On Cover w/ Holster for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 and save $15.99!

The Qmadix Snap-On Cover is form-fitted to your iPhone and is made of an impact resistant polycarbonate designed to keep your device safe from drops. The back of the case is textured to allow a better grip and leaves cutouts for all of your device's features, including the screen. Comes equipped with a durable swivel clip holster.

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Victorinox offers refunds for secure USB drives in light of discontinued software updates

Victorinox offers refunds for secure USB drives in light of discontinued software updates

Software support and security certificates are coming to an end for Victorinox's line of secure USB drives, but the firm announced on Facebook that it's offering customers full refunds until December 31 if they'd like to return their products in light of the developments. In order to avoid losing data, owners of the flash drives should perform a backup before the encryption application meets its untimely end on September 15th. However, files stored on non-encrypted areas of the device will remain accessible without further action. The Slim, Secure and Presentation Master storage sticks can still be used as run-of-the-mill thumb drives after the cut-off date, but the Swiss Army Knife maker's application will no longer be able to scramble or unscramble their contents.

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Adobe Revel 1.5 released with new UI, text captions and auto-syncing albums

Adobe Revel 1.5 released with new UI, text captions and auto-syncing albumsAdobe's cloud-based photo storage and editing app has been enjoying its new name since it hopped off the Carousel, and now it's appreciating a feature bump too. Version 1.5 has just hit the virtual shelves of the Mac and iTunes stores, complete with a new UI and the option to log in using Facebook or Google accounts. Functionality wise, the update adds text captioning for your snaps and the ability to create albums which auto-sync across your devices and can be shared with others via the web. Alright, so the update isn't revolutionizing the service, but we're sure those that currently subscribe are reveling in it.

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Google holds back on open-sourcing Honeycomb, heralds massive shift for Android

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Google, in an interesting but not entirely unexpected twist, will not be open-sourcing Android 3.0 Honeycomb for the foreseeable future.

Historically, Android is usually open-sourced via the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) a few days or weeks after the code is finalized. While this departure from the norm won't affect OEMs like HTC and Motorola that have access to internal builds of Android, small-time developers will likely have to wait months before rolling their own distributions.

As to why Google is holding back Honeycomb, its reasons are actually rather rational. Honeycomb, while originally intended to run on all mobile form factors, is only ready for deployment on tablets. "To make our schedule to ship the tablet, we made some design tradeoffs," says Andy Rubin, the head of Google's Android group. "We didn't want to think about what it would take for the same software to run on phones. It would have required a lot of additional resources and extended our schedule beyond what we thought was reasonable. So we took a shortcut."

In other words, Google wants to prevent OEMs and homebrew developers like Cyanogen from rolling their own smartphone versions of Honeycomb -- it doesn't want to see the same bitter-tasting tabletified bastardization that occurred with Android 2.1 and 2.2 last year.

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Doodle Jump adds ninja theme and in-app purchases

The classic endless jumping game Doodle Jump has had a big update that includes a bunch of new unlockables and a big change in its pricing structure. There's now a store built in, where players can buy new outfits with different abilities. For example, a sumo outfit stomps platforms to shake off enemies off the screen, a shadow outfit which hides you from monsters, and another which enables double jumping. Coins are now peppered throughout levels to help you acquire your new items, upgrades to the propellor hat and jetpack, and one-off power-ups.

If you've never played it, Doodle Jump has you perpetually ascend by leaping on an endless series of platforms. The controls are deceptively simple, since all you really have to do is tilt your iPhone or iPad to drift towards your next target, but the challenge of landing on firm ground without falling and avoiding enemies can make things rather challenging. 

Good on Doodle Jump for keeping things fresh after this long, and as a fan of ninjas, this theme gets my personal seal of approval. Are any of you guys still playing Doodle Jump, or have you burned out on that one years ago? Is it a terrible thing that basically every game, paid or otherwise, is drifting towards in-app purchases?

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How Secure is My Password lets you know just that

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We've all heard it before; you need to select a lengthy password, one that's hard to guess. Not a dictionary word. And it has to have some capital letters in it too, and some digits, and a symbol or two won't hurt either.

That's a handy set of rules to keep in mind, but How Secure is My Password helps us understand why they're important.

It's basically like a full-screen version of one of those password-strength meters websites sometimes use. But instead of showing you a bar going from "weak" to "strong", it shows you an estimation of how long your password would take to crack. That's a much more visceral way to understand why your password is strong.

For example, when I entered "rabbit", it came back with "your password is one of the 500 most common passwords. It could be cracked almost instantly". "rabbit5" would take two hours, "$rabbit5" would take 38 days, and "$rabbitZ5" would take 237 years. It's quite enlightening to see what a difference three simple characters can make.

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Scarlet Motors promises an open EV design process

Scarlet Motors launching today, promises an open EV design process

It's not every day that you see a new EV manufacturer get started; it's even less common when the company promises a switch-up of the typical automaker's formula. Scarlet Motors has made its formal debut with an aim towards the same kind of openness in its electric sports cars that founder Julien Fourgeaud would be familiar with from his days at Nokia and the Symbian Foundation. In addition to giving a peek behind the curtain, Tesla-style, Finland-based Scarlet wants future (and eventually current) drivers to influence the design choices themselves, both through a dedicated community as well as Facebook and Twitter. We'll get more details in time, but those that just can't wait can sign up to the community beta and help shape what might become their next ride.

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