Google Calendars Missing Sports Schedules for All Sports --- Football, Hockey, Baseball, Basketball, etc.

They were there this afternoon, but they're missing at 7:50 p.m. CDT Wednesday, September 11, 2013. No sports calendars are available when a user browses "Interesting Calendars" via the Google calendar app.

All sports listings are missing from calendars that added sports schedules via the setting for creating a new calendar or for the embedding of a calendar.

The headers for Holidays, Sports and More were there, but no sports categories existed under the sports header.

When checked at 8:15 p.m. CDT, the sports listings had re-appeared in calendar and settings controls.

Facebook Adds Ability to Embed Status Updates, Photos and Videos with Embed Code for Blogs

Facebook has officially added the option to embed status updates, photos, or videos from its users on any site. You cannot embed the two-to-four photos that represent a photo album.

The new embed command is located by activating the little down arrow that activates the drop down menu already used for reporting a post or marking it as spam -- or if it is your own post, where you boost, hide, make a date change, or delete the post.

Readers that are reading an article with a Facebook embed are able to Like, Comment or Share right from the embed. People that aren't inclined to use Facebook can still take a look -- right in the blog article.

Twitter and Instagram features already included the embed feature, which was a desired feature of Facebook by many. Unfortunately, Facebook's first version does not scale like Twitter's version. For example, Twitter can be embedded in a 300-pixel-wide column, but Facebook overflows a 300-pixel-wide column.

Jenny Harrison Leaks Out CNN Info About CNN App for Google Glasses

Weather anchor Jenny Harrison shows us what weather forecasting is like from her perspective through Google Glass.

CNN is developing an app for Google glasses that will display breaking news in your field view, and will also facilitate submitting images or video using CNN's iReport.

Asthon Kutcher and Josh Gad Talk About Steve Jobs' Legacy

In the new film 'Jobs', Ashton Kutcher plays Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs and Josh Gads is Steve 'Woz' Wozniak. Both actors talk about the legacy of the late innovator.

Jobs is an American biographical drama film based on the life of Steve Jobs, from 1971 to 2000. Jobs is scheduled for release in theaters on August 16, 2013.

Steve Jobs is portrayed by Ashton Kutcher, and co-founder Steve Wozniak is played by Josh Gad. John Sculley is played by Matthew Modine.

The film includes scenes resulting from over three days of filming on location at Jobs' childhood home in Los Altos, California.

See also ...
jobsthefilm.com

Obama and Patents in the Apple-Samsung iPhone War

Christopher Carani, a partner at McAndrews, Held & Malloy, discusses President Barack Obama overturning an order barring shipments of some older iPhone models into the U.S. He speaks with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West."

Two types of patents: stand essential patents, and non-standard essential patents.

Problems arise because if devices are to be interoperable, some type of patent is always going to be involved for the success of the device.

Federal Court Approves Warrantless Tracking of Cell Phones, XKeyscore Explained

Federal court approves warrantless tracking of cell phones. Brian Duggan, technologist for Open Technology Institute, weighs in on the new ruling and XKeyscore.

On Tuesday, the Fifth Court Circuit of Appeals ruled that law enforcement does not need a warrant to obtain your cell phone location information. Cell phone towers are able to track a mobile user's device and prior to this ruling, the information was only accessible with a warrant through the telecommunication companies.  The 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the third federal appeals court to decide the privacy issue. The 5th Circuit covers Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

Google "Street View" Camera Trekker to Climb Mount Fuji

CNN's Diana Magnay and crew join Google team to map the climb to Mount Fuji.

A trekker will carry a 15-camera, 18 kg device that constantly takes photos to create a virtual tour of climbing Mount Fuji.

Mount Fuji is an active stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707–08, and is located on Honshu Island. Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft).

Mount Fuji is one of Japan's "Three Holy Mountains"  along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku. Mount Fuji is considered a Special Place of Scenic Beauty, a Historic Site, and was added to the World Heritage List as a Cultural Site on June 22nd, 2013.

Two Networks Are Considering Pulling Their Broadcasts Off the Air Because of Aereo Antenna Farms

Besides Dish Network's ad-skipping Hopper DVR, there is a new threat to over-the-air television. Aereo. Aereo is a technology company based in New York City that allows subscribers to view live and time-shifted streams of over-the-air television on Internet-connected devices.

TV networks so far have been unable to get an injunction on the service.

Since October 2012, Aereo can be installed on Mac & PC using a compatible browser, and iOS devices including the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Apple TV (2nd & 3rd Gen) via AirPlay.
A Roku video player can be used when one of the Apple mobile devices is also present.

As of April 2013, Aereo is only available in New York. The company has announced that it is coming soon to Chicago.

And now there is a threat to Aereo. It's called Filmon.com, which is already available in Chicago. Filmon.com includes CBS, NBC, ABC, CW and Fox.

Both services use antenna farms. Aereo is able to provide this service by leasing to each user an individual remote antenna. Thousands of them are stored in a data center in Brooklyn where it also houses its data servers.

FilmOn is an Internet based television provider owned by FilmOn.TV Networks Inc. FilmOn.TV Networks was founded by Alki David in 2006. FilmOn and Alki David have been involved in several legal issues over programming including the carriage of major U.S. broadcast channels, such as CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox. The legal issues resulted in requiring FilmOn to drop these channels in 2011, only to return in 2012 after appeals were lodged in Federal Court and FIlmOn launched its FilmOn Air X antenna farm.

News Corp President Chase Carey has mentioned the possibility that the media company could convert its Fox broadcast network "to a pay channel" to prevent its content being "stolen" by Aereo, he said, "is pirating our broadcast signal."

Another over the air network channel is also considering shutting down their over the air system and going "all cable."

See also ...

aereo.com

filmon.com

Activity Monitor: What Is Free, Wired, Active, Inactive, and Used Memory in RAM

Understanding Memory Use with Activity Monitor (from MacMost.com).

You can use Activity Monitor to see how your Mac is using memory. But what do free, active, inactive and wired mean? How about page ins and page outs? Plus, learn to use them to figure out if you need more memory.

"Free memory" is the amount of memory you have available in system memory or RAM.

"Wired memory" is the hardware memory that your computer needs to use at a minimum to operate.

"Active memory" is the amount of memory that is being used in RAM right now.

"Inactive memory" is an amount of memory that might have just been used

"Used memory" is the total of all used memory -- Wired, Active, and Inactive

"Free memory" plus "Used memory" equals the size of your installed RAM memory.

If you see a lot of "Page outs", that means that your RAM is overloaded and you computer needs to use a lot of Virtual Memory -- swapping memory on the hard drive.

"Page ins" is memory being used in RAM. Page outs -- memory from outside the System Memory or RAM memory.

"Swap used" is how much virtual memory is being used.

VM size is the disk space available in your hard drive. The amount can be used to swap memory as needed to run and application or process.

New Samsung Galaxy Makes Buz That Makes Apple Appear to Be Following

Samsung introduced its new smartphone, the Galaxy S-4 at New York's Radio City Music Hall on Thursday. The phone is seen as a contender to potentially become the top-selling smartphone.

Biggest news is Air Gesture -- touchless control of the screen.

Larger, sharper screen -- a 5-inch (130 mm) Pentile RG–BG Full HD Super AMOLED screen with 441 pixels per inch.

Front and Rear cameras can work simultaneously. The rear camera is a  a 13-megapixel back camera.


The Galaxy S4 uses Google's Android mobile operating system with its custom TouchWiz "Nature UX" graphical user interface (GUI).  The Galaxy S4version sold in the United States will contain a 1.9 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 APQ8064T processor.

First, it will be interesting to see how many complaints of accidental commands arising from use of this phone.  Imagine your fingers accidentally dialing someone at midnight when your putting your phone in the charger. Hmmm ... Apple iPhone 4s and now the Samsung Galaxy S4. It's a palindrome, sort of.

Official website ...

samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxys4