If you own a netbook you most likely only browse the web and check email. A full on Windows or Hackintosh OS isn’t really needed, just the web browser. Jolicloud wants to be your netbook’s OS and change the way your netbook works. Today Jolicloud has released their version 1.0 and is making it available for all users.

I have used Jolicloud only briefly and in that brief amount of time I came to love the OS. The OS is focused on the web and works a lot like Chrome OS, focusing on web apps. The web apps are just so simple, and they run smoothly on a netbook. Setting up services like Wi-Fi, 3G modems, video settings, audio settings, keyboard drivers, and mouse drivers are a breeze.

The questionable Yosion Tehnology company proved to be legitimate today, when a Chinese tech website called PConline posted a video review for it. So as promised, the Apple Peel 520 has an additional battery and SIM card, and once your iPod touch is encased, you can make and receive calls and text messages.

The Motorola Flipout has been out for a while in Europe but until now has yet to hit North America. Well now all Canadians may rejoice that they will be receiving the Motorola Flipout before Americans because it is now available on Rogers for $30 Canadian on contract.

The Motorola Flipout is an oddly shaped phone that rotates to expose its keyboard. Coupled with Android 2.1 and Motoblur to round off the import specs, it is an alright, although not astounding, smartphone to have in your pocket.

Apple has just released a “try before you buy” section to their iPhone/iPad App store. The new addition to the App Store allows you to try apps before buying, Apple’s way of combating piracy. The section of the app store is full of “Lite” apps, a way for to developers to give users a free version of the app but of course it won’t be as featured packed.

I think this was a smart move by Apple. Many iPhone and iPad users have convinced themselves that jailbreaking is okay, because they are just trying an app, not actually buying them. This could also be good for developers who would like to offer a preview to an app you would normally have to buy. What else will Apple add to combat privacy?

Since the launch of the Nexus One, Google made it clear that this was the ideal image of an Android phone. Ideal image meaning the way Google would like every hardware company to make their Android handsets. After a few months of the Nexus One being in the publics hands, Google quickly stopped selling it because it didn’t take off. Today Google has announced that the Nexus One will be the official developer phone.

Any developer can buy the Nexus One for $529, directly from Google’s Developer site. I think Google chose the Nexus One, again, because this was Google’s ideal image for an Android phone. Google will most likely always keep the phone updated with the current Android OS.

Paypal is the web’s best payment platform. Paypal allows you to hook up your credit cards, debit cards, and bank accounts to send money online. Tonight Paypal has launched their new Android app, similar to their iPhone app, that allows users to bump phones together to send money. PayPal is using Bump Technology’s API to make it possible, just like their iPhone app.

The app also offers a great feature “split the check”, that will calculate your dinner bill in half, so you can split dinner cost fairly with a friend.  Once the cost is calculated simply bump phones together and your friends half of the  dinner check will show up in your Paypal/bank account. Of course this app could also be used to collect money in other cases.

Y-Combinator funded Mixpanel has introduced an API to allow for real-time analytics on Android.

The new API is not your usual page-view type of analytics API, although they do claim that you could build that in your application. But rather, it specializes in following how users interact with data. As you can see from the video, it is perfect for feedback forms such as polls. However, I could also see it used in A/B testing to test button placement or to compare feature placements in an Android application.

As if uploading a file on your Dropbox wasn’t easy enough, Send To Dropbox has released a website that allows you to to send a file to your Dropbox via email. This could be useful if you are at a library or on a friends’ computer that doesn’t have Dropbox already installed.

Dropbox is one of my favorite tools ever. Dropbox allows you to sync files to the web, at the same time keeping everything synced up between all of your computers and mobile devices. With Dropbox you will never lose a file, considering it is in more then one place, as long as Dropbox is on all of your devices. Dropbox also offers file sharing, allowing groups to work on a certain file together.

In an interview with reporters last night, Google’s Eric Schmidt told reporters that the company is activating 200,000 Android handsets each day. That means per month, Google activates around 6,000,000 Android devices.

Personally I believe it’s the fact that Android is on so many carriers and there are so many choices. Users who don’t want to switch over to AT&T for the iPhone or they just don’t like the iPhone at all, have a variety of choices of very good phones.

MyTown, the popular geo-location app for the iPhone that you lets you check into locations, and even buy the locations like a real world monopoly has gone global. Today, MyTown is going global by adding venues in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. To do so, MyTown is using the Google Maps API to do the check ins.

MyTown differs from Foursquare because it is more like a game. If a user checks-in at a real world location they can earn points, levels, and cash to “buy” real world places.

When you’re a young geek, money isn’t exactly ubiquitous.  That isn’t to say it is non-existent either.  The younger you are, the smaller chance there is that you’ll be employed or lay claim to a continuous source of income.  Thankfully for us, any squalid cash flow we may establish remains almost entirely disposable.  Now, if only games and gadgets weren’t so darn expensive…

Take a look at a handful of the best deals in video gaming as I go over my top 5 bargain bin games.  Enjoy!

The Galaxy S has already made it way onto AT&T and T-Mobile and is now headed over to Sprint with the Epic 4G, on August 11th.

Jake Smith covered the Epic 4G in his post a couple of days ago:
“The Epic 4G is racked up with one of the best screens on the market. You could even say this is better then Apple’s Retina Display. The Epic 4G has a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen….