Google Play Books App Thingamajig Updates

The Google Play Books Android App has updated to include now standard features of other ebook reading apps.  Matching the Kindle App and... other ebook apps, Google Play Books now allows highlighting and commenting of content, features that have been available only on the desktop version in Google's Chrome browser.
Finally, no longer staring with futility at electronic text, wishing you could tell that book what you really felt.  No more sleepless nights unable to remember that one sentence of Twilight that really pissed you off.  Google has once again liberated the masses, offered the ability electronically that any asshole with a pen could do with a normal book.  Halelujah, we are saved.
Also, the Apple version of the app has not been updated with these features, so they can suck it.  If you are reading this on an iPhone/iPad, I of course do not mean you. 
Google updates Android books app to match rivals - CNET (blog)

Android 'Jelly Bean" and "Key Lime Pie"? What's Next?

So Android Ice Cream Sandwich is here continuing Androids naming convention of sweets and others are already starting to speculate the further confectionery type names.  So here we go with our own guesses:

5.   Jelly Bean
6.   Key Lime Pie
7.   Lemon Square
8.   Mounds
9.   Nougat
10.  Orange Slices
11.  Peanut Brittle
12.  Quarters
13.  Razor Blade-filled Ring Pops
14.  Sugar
15.  Tea, sweet
16.  Unicorn Pie
17.  V Brand Gelatin Mice
18.  Whopper
19.  X-rated panties
20.  Yogurt with peanuts
21.  Zagnut

Asus confirms Android 5.0 Jelly Bean name?
Android 6.0 is Key Lime Pie?

Wanna Read Shelves With Your Phone?

 

See the future!

A computer science professor in Ohio has developed an Android augmented reality app that will read a shelf of books and tell if they are in order or not.  Using a QR type label above the call number of the books, the phone's camera picks up the info on each item, does some number crunching, and shows the viewer which items are out of place.  Kinda like a "this one is not like the others" but all visual (see above).

Hit the jump for a video of the app at work.

Fast Company

Google's Mixed Media Might Murder MiTunes!

The Android Market, Google's current online application store, might be getting an upgrade of music and movies.  As the website thinq tells us, recent URL's for android music and movies have been showing up, directing for now to the Android Market.  One can only put two and two together to see that Google is going for four and taking it to the man, which in this case is Itunes.

If Google can do this right, they can be the first to trump that fruity company in mobile entertainment.  Honestly, I just can't look towards Microsoft for that anymore.  Microsoft and Apple are like divorced parents at this point, while Google seems like that cool older cousin that lives in a van in the driveway that knows Kung Fu.  At this point in my electronic endeavors, I wanna know Kung Fu.