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IMPORTANTE
Para todos los usuarios de Android con versiones anterior a 2.3!
Se encontraron 20 aplicaciones desde el Mercado Android infectadas de un virus bastante peligroso.

BBC informando:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12633923

Explicación Virus:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03/02/update-on-the-malware-monster-droiddream-is-an-android-nightmare-and-weve-got-more-details/

Posible soluciones y lista aplicaciones:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=977154


Lista de alguna de las aplicaciones infectadas:
* Falling Down
* Super Guitar Solo
* Super History Eraser
* Photo Editor
* Super Ringtone Maker
* Super Sex Positions
* Hot Sexy Videos
* Chess
* ????_Falldown
* Hilton Sex Sound
* Screaming Sexy Japanese Girls
* Falling Ball Dodge
* Scientific Calculator
* Dice Roller
* Advanced Currency Converter
* App Uninstaller
* Funny Paint
* Spider Man


Personalmente… wipe, format card, flash nueva….

Android is becoming a popular target for writers of mobile malware

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You can build many different types of apps with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like MoleMash or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.

But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android's text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud.

To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior.

The App Inventor team has created blocks for just about everything you can do with an Android phone, as well as blocks for doing "programming-like" stuff-- blocks to store information, blocks for repeating actions, and blocks to perform actions under certain conditions. There are even blocks to talk to services like Twitter.

Hace unas horas salieron unos tweets que había programado antes. Una serie apuntando errores comunes al usar palabra en ingles en lugares equivocados por su parecido a palabras en español (conocido como "falsos amigos").

La pongo aquí porque por un lado esta muy recortada (cada una debía caber en un tweet, con espacio para el tag y algún estilo común, y no podía poner cientos y cientos.

Por otro lado he limitado la lista a los errores en cuestión y por lo tanto muchos matices no los incluyo (o incluso cuando una palabra *podría* usarse de cierta manera pero no suele hacerse y se malinterpretaria si se usase así).

Como tal eso significa que hay amplio espacio para aclarar, corregir, matizar e interpretar, que anda que no nos gusta.

La lista original es esta, sin tocar. Solo he añadido números para referencia de la linea a criticar/aclarar/complementar.

1.-Enormity, en inglés, significa "acto de retorcimiento extremo", es despectivo. Sería como "hijoputismo". #FalsosAmigos

2.-Actually, en inglés, significa "de hecho". "Actualmente" es "currently". #FalsosAmigos
3.-Adept, en inglés, significa "especialista", en español es "principiante" #FalsosAmigos
4.-Casualty, en inglés, significa "baja", como las de guerra. #FalsosAmigos
5.-Comprehend/"Comprehensive", en inglés, significa "exhaustivo", "detallado". #FalsosAmigos
6.-Advise, en inglés, significa "aconsejar", "Advice" es "consejo". "Avisar" sería "warn" o "inform" #FalsosAmigos
7.-Affront, en inglés, significa "ofender", no "afrontar" (que sería "to face"). #FalsosAmigos
8.-Much en inglés significa casi lo mismo que "mucho" en español, pero las raíces son totalmente diferentes #FalsosCognados

9.-Bland, en inglés, significa "soso", "no interesante". #FalsosAmigos
10.-Candid, en inglés, significa "sincero". #FalsosAmigos
11.-Casual/"Casually", en inglés, significa "informalmente", "descuidado" #FalsosAmigos
12.-Constipated, en inglés, significa "estreñido". Nunca, jamás, "constipado". #FalsosAmigos
13.-En inglés, taza es "cup", taza grande es "mug", vaso, copa, cristal y vidrio son todos "glass" #FalsosAmigos
14.-Discuss, en inglés, es siempre "debatir" amistosamente, conversar, no una disputa, "Argument" sí vale como disputa. #FalsosAmigos

15.-Compromise, en inglés, significa "término medio", usualmente cediendo parte. #FalsosAmigos
16.-Courage, en inglés, es solamente "valor". Nunca "cabreo". #FalsosAmigos
17.-Deception, en inglés, es "engaño". "Decepción" sería "disappointment". #FalsosAmigos
18.-Ultimate, en inglés", suele significar "lo más", "lo mayor", "el extremo". También "conclusión", no "último" #FalsosAmigos

19.-Inhabitable, en inglés, significa "habitable". Esto debería ser obvio, no imagino por qué la confusión ;) #FalsosAmigos

20.-Library, en inglés, es "biblioteca", "Librería" es "bookshop". Todos saben esta, pero es muy común equivocarse #FalsosAmigos

21.-Realize, en inglés, es "darse cuenta" o "convertir algo en realidad". #FalsosAmigos
22.-Succeed, en inglés, es "tener éxito", pero "successive" sí es "sucesivo". #FalsosAmigos
23.-En inglés, "army" es el ejército, "navy" es la armada. #FalsosAmigos
24.-Eventually, en inglés, significa "tarde o temprano", "Eventual" significa "inevitable". #FalsosAmigos
25.-Gracious, en inglés, es "cortés", "amable" o "considerado". "Gracioso" es "funny". #FalsosAmigos
26.-Genial, en inglés, es "amigable", "simpático" #FalsosAmigos
27.-Ingenuity, en ingles, es "resolver problemas de forma original e inesperada". "Ingenuo" es naive, naivete #FalsosAmigos.

28.-Grand, en inglés es imponente, "Grande" sería "large", "largo" sería "long". #FalsosAmigos
29.-Presume, en inglés, es "asumir". "Presumir" sería "brag" #FalsosAmigos
30.-Resignate, en inglés, es "renunciar", "quit" también. #FalsosAmigos
31.-Diversion, en inglés, es "distracción" o "desviación", nunca "diversión". #FalsosAmigos
32.-To be Educated en inglés significa "ser culto". "Ser educado" es "to be polite" #FalsosAmigos
33.-Expedient, en inglés, significa "rápido", "eficiente", "oportuno". "Expediente" es "file" #FalsosAmigos
34.-Fastidious, en inglés, significa "puntilloso", "exigente". "Fastidioso" sería "irritating" o "annoying" #FalsosAmigos

35.-Fabric, en inglés, significa "tela" o "tejido". "Fábrica" sería "Factory". #FalsosAmigos
36.-Intoxicated, en inglés, significa "borracho" o "groggy", no envenenado ("Poisoned") #FalsosAmigos
37.-Misery, en inglés, significa "desgracia" o "sufrimiento". "Miseria" sería "poverty" o "squalor". #FalsosAmigos
38.-Quiet, en inglés, significa "callado", sin relación con movimiento como "quieto" ("still"). #FalsosAmigos
39.-Sane, en inglés, significa "cuerdo". "Sano" sería "healhy". #FalsosAmigos
40.-Espada en inglés es "Sword", Spade" es pala, "Pail" es "palangana". #FalsosAmigos
41.-Sympathetic, en inglés, significa "comprensivo, compasivo. "Sympathize" es "compadecerse", "condolerse" #FalsosAmigos

42.-Ingles->Españól: Abstract->resumen, Résumé->currículum, curriculum->plan de estudios,resume->continuar #FalsosAmigos

43.-Disparate, en inglés, es "dispar", "distinto". El español "Disparate" sería "Nonsense". #FalsosAmigos
44.-Finalmente, "traduce" en inglés no es una palabra común, pero significa "calumniar". "Traducir" sería "translate" #FalsosAmigos

If there’s one entertainment device that people know and love, it’s the television. In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*. Recently, however, an increasing amount of our entertainment experience is coming from our phones and computers. One reason is that these devices have something that the TV lacks: the web. With the web, finding and accessing interesting content is fast and often as easy as a search. But the web still lacks many of the great features and the high-quality viewing experience that the TV offers.

So that got us thinking...what if we helped people experience the best of TV and the best of the web in one seamless experience? Imagine turning on the TV and getting all the channels and shows you normally watch and all of the websites you browse all day — including your favorite video, music and photo sites. We’re excited to announce that we’ve done just that.

Google TV is a new experience for television that combines the TV that you already know with the freedom and power of the Internet. With Google Chrome built in, you can access all of your favorite websites and easily move between television and the web. This opens up your TV from a few hundred channels to millions of channels of entertainment across TV and the web. Your television is also no longer confined to showing just video. With the entire Internet in your living room, your TV becomes more than a TV — it can be a photo slideshow viewer, a gaming console, a music player and much more.

Google TV uses search to give you an easy and fast way to navigate to television channels, websites, apps, shows and movies. For example, already know the channel or program you want to watch? Just type in the name and you’re there. Want to check out that funny YouTube video on your 48” flat screen? It’s just a quick search away. If you know what you want to watch, but you’re not sure where to find it, just type in what you’re looking for and Google TV will help you find it on the web or on one of your many TV channels. If you’d rather browse than search, you can use your standard program guide, your DVR or the Google TV home screen, which provides quick access to all of your favorite entertainment so you’re always within reach of the content you love most.

Because Google TV is built on open platforms like Android and Google Chrome, these features are just a fraction of what Google TV can do. In our announcement today at Google I/O, we challenged web developers to start coming up with the next great web and Android apps designed specifically for the TV experience. Developers can start optimizing their websites for Google TV today. Soon after launch, we’ll release the Google TV SDK and web APIs for TV so that developers can build even richer applications and distribute them through Android Market. We've already started building strategic alliances with a number of companies — like Jinni.com and Rovi — at the leading edge of innovation in TV technology. Jinni.com is a next-generation TV application working to provide semantic search, personalized recommendation and social features for Google TV across all sources of premium content available to the user. Rovi is one of the world's leading guide applications. We’re looking forward to seeing all of the ways developers will use this new platform.

We’re working together with Sony, Logitech and Intel to put Google TV inside of televisions, Blu-ray players and companion boxes. These devices will go on sale this fall, and will be available at Best Buy stores nationwide. You can sign up here to get updates on Google TV availability.

This is an incredibly exciting time — for TV watchers, for developers and for the entire TV ecosystem. By giving people the power to experience what they love on TV and on the web on a single screen, Google TV turns the living room into a new platform for innovation. We're excited about what’s coming. We hope you are too.



*Nielsen, Three Screen Report, Fourth Quarter 2009

Update 2:26PM: Updated to include more information about other developers.
Update on 5/27/2010: Updated to include additional information about partners.

Posted by Salahuddin Choudhary, Google TV Product Manager

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
—Herman Melville, Billy Budd

Orange, red? I don’t know what to believe anymore!
—Anonymous, Color Survey

I WILL EAT YOUR HEART WITH A FUCKING SPOON IF YOU AKS ANY MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT COLORS
—Anonymous, Color Survey

Thank you so much for all the help on the color survey.  Over five million colors were named across 222,500 user sessions.  If you never got around to taking it, it’s too late to contribute any data, but if you want you can see how it worked and take it for fun here.

First, a few basic discoveries:

• If you ask people to name colors long enough, they go totally crazy.
• “Puke” and “vomit” are totally real colors.
• Colorblind people are more likely than non-colorblind people to type “fuck this” (or some variant) and quit in frustration.
• Indigo was totally just added to the rainbow so it would have 7 colors and make that “ROY G. BIV” acronym work, just like you always suspected. It should really be ROY GBP, with maybe a C or T thrown in there between G and B depending on how the spectrum was converted to RGB.
• A couple dozen people embedded SQL ‘drop table’ statements in the color names. Nice try, kids.
• Nobody can spell “fuchsia”.

Overall, the results were really cool and a lot of fun to analyze.  There are some basic limitations of this survey, which are discussed toward the bottom of this post.  But the sheer amount of data here is cool.

Sex

By a strange coincidence, the same night I first made the color survey public, the webcomic Doghouse Diaries put up this comic (which I altered slightly to fit in this blog, click for original):

It was funny, but I realized I could test whether it was accurate (as far as chromosomal sex goes, anyway, which we asked about because it’s tied to colorblindness) [Note: For more on this distinction, see my follow-up post]. After the survey closed, I generated a version of the Doghouse Diaries comic with actual data, using the most frequent color name for the handful of colors in the survey closest to the ones in the comic:

Basically, women were slightly more liberal with the modifiers, but otherwise they generally agreed (and some of the differences may be sampling noise).  The results were similar across the survey—men and women tended on average to call colors the same names.

So I was feeling pretty good about equality.  Then I decided to calculate the ‘most masculine’ and ‘most feminine’ colors.  I was looking for the color names most disproportionately popular among each group; that is, the names that the most women came up with compared to the fewest men (or vice versa).

Here are the color names most disproportionately popular among women:

1. Dusty Teal
2. Blush Pink
3. Dusty Lavender
4. Butter Yellow
5. Dusky Rose

Okay, pretty flowery, certainly.  Kind of an incense-bomb-set-off-in-a-Bed-Bath-&-Beyond vibe.  Well, let’s take a look at the other list.

Here are the color names most disproportionately popular among men:

1. Penis
2. Gay
3. WTF
4. Dunno
5. Baige

I … that’s not my typo in #5—the only actual color in the list really is a misspelling of “beige”.  And keep in mind, this is based on the number of unique people who answered the color, not the number of times they typed it.  This isn’t just the effect of a couple spammers. In fact, this is after the spamfilter.

I weep for my gender.  But, on to:

RGB Values

Here are RGB values for the first 48 out of about a thousand colors whose RGB values (across the average monitor, shown on a white background) I was able to pin down with a fairly high degree of precision:

The full table of 954 colors is here, also available as a text file here (I have no opinion about whether it should be used to build a new X11 rgb.txt except that seems like the transition would be a huge headache.)

The RGB value for a name is based on the location in the RGB color space where there was the highest frequency of responses choosing that name.  This was tricky to calculate.  I tried simple geometric means (conceptually flawed), a brute force survey of all potential center points (too slow), and fitting kernel density functions (math is hard). In the end, I used the average of a bunch of runs of a stochastic hillclimbing algorithm.  For mostly boring notes on my data handling for this list, see the comments at the bottom of the xkcd.com/color/rgb/ page.

Spelling and Spam

Spelling was an issue for a lot of users:

Now, you may notice that the correct spelling is missing.  This is because I can’t spell it either, and when running the analysis, used Google’s suggestion feature as a spellchecker:

A friend pointed out that to spell it right, you can think of it as “fuck-sia” (“fuch-sia”).

Misspellings aside, a lot of people spammed the database, but there were some decent filters in place.  I dropped out people who gave too many answers which weren’t colors used by many other people.  I also looked at the variation in hue; if people gave the same answer repeatedly for colors of wildly varying hue, I threw out all their results.  This mainly caught people who typed the same thing over and over.  Some were obviously using scripts; based on the filter’s certainty, the #1 spammer in the database was someone who named 2,400 colors—all with the same racial slur.

Map

Here’s a map of color boundaries for a particular part of the RGB cube.  The data here comes from a portion of the survey (1.5 million results) which sampled only this region and showed the colors against both black and white backgrounds.

The data for this chart is here (3.6 MB text file with each RGB triplet named).  Despite some requests, I’m not planning to make a poster of any of this, since it seems wrong to take advantage of all this volunteer effort for a profit; I just wanted to see what the results looked like.  You’re welcome to print one up yourself (huge copy here), but keep in mind that print color spaces are different from monitor ones.

Basic Issues

Of course, there are basic issues with this color survey.  People are primed by the colors they saw previously, which adds overall noise and some biases to the data (although it all seemed to even out in the end).  Moreover, monitors vary; RGB is not an absolute color space.  Fortunately, what I’m really interested in is what colors will look like on a typical monitors, so most of this data is across the sample of all non-colorblind users on all types of monitors (>90% LCD, roughly 6% CRT).

Color is a really fascinating topic, especially since we’re taught so many different and often contradictory ideas about rainbows, different primary colors, and frequencies of light. If you want to understand it better, you might try the neat introduction in Chapter 35 ofThe Feynman Lectures on Physics (Vol. 1), read Charles Poynton’s Color FAQ, or just peruse links from the Wikipedia article on color.  For the purposes of this survey, we’re working inside the RGB space of the average monitor, so this data is useful for picking and naming screen colors. And really, if you’re reading this blog, odds are you probably—like me—spend more time looking at a monitor than at the outdoors anyway.

Miscellaneous

Lastly, here are some assorted things people came up with while labeling colors:

Thank you so much to relsqui for writing the survey frontend, and to everyone else who sacrificed their eyeballs for this project.  If you have ideas and want to analyze these results further, I’ve posted the raw data as an SQLite dump here (84 MB .tar.gz file). It’s been anonymized, with IPs, URLs, and emails removed.  I also have GeoIP information; if you’d like to do geocorrelation of some kind, I’ll be providing a version of the data with basic region-level lat/long information (limited to protect privacy) sometime in the next few days. Note: The ColorDB data is the main survey.  The SatOnly data is the supplementary survey covering only the RGB faces in the map, and was presented on a half-black half-white background.)

And, of course, if you do anything fun with this data, I’d love to see the results—let me know at xkcd@xkcd.com.

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Whee! New favorite video up at Funny or Die. One of my personal favorites, as it features shirtless James.

Another favorite vid is up at Funny or Die! This one features the lovable Jon Brence in cheetah underwear. Enjoy!