Hands-on: Layar Reality Browser 2

Augmented reality officially blows our minds, with Layar leading the way for this amazing mobile technology. Layar Reality Browser 2 has been quietly unleashed in the Android Market, so we hit the streets to try it out.

What does it do?
Layar Reality Browser 2 is a platform, with an API that other services can use to build their own layers, that is, content overlaid on the real world and viewed through the phone's camera. There are over a hundred layers available already, which you can easily browse by featured and popular tabs.

We tried out Brightkite, which displays user-generated content such as photos and notes. There are also various layers tied into Web sites, such as a local area search tied into Google, Wikipedia articles and Twitter. Tweetmondo (pictured) allows you to spot nearby users or tweets posted hereabouts, with one-touch follow and reply options.
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Adobe's next Lightroom drops PowerPC support

Adobe Systems, taking the same course with its forthcoming Creative Suite applications, will offer the next Mac OS X version of Photoshop Lightroom only on Intel-based machines.

Apple has chosen to discontinue support for Macs using PowerPC processors beginning with its next operating system, version 10.6 a.k.a. Snow Leopard, which is due to arrive in coming weeks. Adobe said last week that its next Creative Suite will follow suit. The CS family includes programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, DreamWeaver, and Flash Professional.

Lightroom, which is for editing and cataloging photos, isn't part of the suite, but it's headed the same route.
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Google Chrome 4.0 for OS X: 34 percent faster than the competition

Safari, eat Google's dust--its Chrome Web browser--under its developmental title Chromium--has hit version 4.0 on the Mac, and our tests confirm it's the fastest browser in the world on both PC and now on Mac OS X.

Version 4.0 for Mac adds features we tested and discussed last week when the beta landed on PCs: An even faster version of Google's V8 Javascript engine, themes to skin Chrome in pretty colours, and a customizable "speed dial" homepage.

But despite its 4.0 moniker and its impressive speed, Chrome for Mac is still riddled with bugs. Big ones, like those spiders in Eight Legged Freaks, only even more hellacious.
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Adobe Creative Suite drops PowerPC support

It's probably time you said goodbye to your PowerPC-based Mac.

Adobe confirmed that future versions of its Creative Suite will run only on Intel-based Mac computers. There will be no support offered for PowerPC based systems.
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Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word

A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of its premier products, in its current form due to patent infringement.

Judge Leonard Davis of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML," according to a statement released by attorneys for the plantiff, i4i.

Microsoft said it was disappointed in the ruling and that it would appeal the verdict.
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