Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Google TV live show overlay anomaly

On 02/28/12 around 12:30 PM, I was watching X-Play on G4 channel.
They were doing a segment on UFC Undisputed 3 featuring UFC fighters Erik Koch and Urijah Faber.

During the segment, a poll appeared on the screen asking "Which of these fighting styles is the most effective?", with "Boxing", "Muay Thai", "Jiu-Jitsu", and "Wrestling" as options.

At first, I thought this was one of these Twitter or SMS polls and after a few seconds, the results would appear on the screen. However, the poll was not changing. After ten seconds or so, I became curious and clicked one of the arrow buttons on my Logitech Revue keyboard controller. To my surprise, the highlighted poll option changed from "Boxing" to "Muay Thai"!

By some means, Google TV was aware of the show I was watching and presented some enhanced content as an overlay.

Mind. Blown.

notice the poll overlay?

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Quickly Save Gmail Pictures to Picasaweb

Want to quickly copy a picture someone e-mailed you to one of your Google+/Picasaweb albums?
Do this:

1 -- click "Share" for the image you want to save to your albums
2 -- click "Cancel" on the Google+ share pop-up
03 -- visit your Picasaweb albums and see that this picture has been added to a Photos From Posts sub-album and you can copy/move it to whatever Picasaweb album you want. Awesome.

I am a big hunk, by the way.