I’m sure that most of you know the royal pain of parking in a big city. Fortunately, if you live in Los Angeles, there is an App named Streetline that will help you find a parking space, like iParkMyCar.
It has sensors used throughout the city to detect what city streets have the most open spots. It will even detect “rock star parking”, not to mention whether or not the meters take coins or credit cards.
Google’s Open Spot does the same thing, but it relies on user-contributed data. This makes the data most unreliable when it comes to realtime parking spaces.
Streetline recently announced “a partnership with Siemens’ next-gen traffic management with its real-time parking space location data”. That means that this will be available in many major cities, and its being set up in New York. Considering that a lot of traffic is caused by people looking for parking, this could open up a lot of traffic in major cities.
We just finished reporting on how Kobo is getting a “Reading Life” feature to add an element of social media, and it is now getting Instapaper for its iOS Apps.
In fact, from what I can tell, Instapaper might be the same as the “Reading Life”. It allows the user to save Web clippings as he or she surfs the web, and then store these clippings in a Kobo Library for later viewing. The user can also sync the clippings for many other devices.
Yeah, this sounds like the “Reading Life”. I guess Instapaper is the formal name. I think I neglected to say that the Instapaper feature will record stats on how many books a user reads per month, how long he or she reads, and how far. Publishers are going to pay a lot for that info.
As mentioned before, Instapaper will be an iOS feature. No word about whether it will come to Android, as well as BlackBerry and webOS.
Jimmy Kimmel Live has been doing a bit on his show called This Week in Unnecessary Censorship, which is essentially a bunch of clips during the week that are completely SFW and then modified to be NSFW. This Unnecessary Censorship app isn’t tied to Kimmel, but it is a way of allowing the iOS user to do the same.
If you watch the video above, you will see how the insertion of a little pixellating between a man and man’s best friend can create all sorts of sick suggestions. The App can do that, as well as the black box effect on one’s mouth. You can also see that in the video, and how easy it is to turn any work that ends with a “k” sound into the F-word.
Apparently, it is easy to use like the Nokia N8 video editor, and then the user has the option of posting their unnecessarily censored video to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, or email. I’ve already found a few unnecessary censored vids on YouTube that are pretty hysterical, especially one with the Count from Sesame Street.
You should be able to purchase it on iTunes now for a price of $1.99.
Judging from what we see here, Staples isn’t going to be giving that G Tablet any love any time soon. Apparently, there is some sort of “manufacturing defect” that prevents them from appearing on…wherever this graphic came from.
I can’t imagine what the manufacturing defect could be, or why it would be different from G Tablets shipped to any other store. Maybe because they aren’t. If that is the case, then why am I not reporting on a total recall of the G Tablet?
Well, maybe that is material for a future posting, but I hope not.
I don’t know what is going to be the big item of CES this year. Last year, it was tablets and the year before was e-readers.
I think it might be Android tablets this year, now that the Galaxy Tab is a hit. You’ll see this one here? This is the E Fun Next3, and will be at CES 2011.
The Next3 has a resistive 800 x 600 resolution 8.4 inch display, 600 MHz Rockchip processor, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, 2GB of onboard storage, and SD card slot.
I believe it is slated to hit the e-book reader market like the Nook rather than the tablet market like the iPad, which would have made it popular at the last two CES conferences. The price looks pretty decent for $240.
I’m sure that most of you know the royal pain of parking in a big city. Fortunately, if you live in Los Angeles, there is an App named Streetline that will help you find a parking space, like iParkMyCar. 
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