Staffordshire 'grot spots' targeted with smartphone app

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A new app allows people in Staffordshire to nominate "grot spots" for criminals to clean up.

The smartphone program was developed by Staffordshire and West Midlands Probation Trust after winning funding in an Ordnance Survey (OS) competition.

Users send a picture of a place that needs attention and the app geo-tags it so probation can pinpoint the location.

It then notifies them once the work is complete. The trust won OS's GeoVation challenge competition in 2012.

Team spokesman Jason Davies said: "This app is free and it's easy to use. We hope it will make the public feel more engaged in decision-making and make the punishment and rehabilitation of offenders more visible and meaningful to people in their communities."

Google Sneaks Chrome OS Features Into Windows 8

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Google’s making head way these days pushing an app ecosystem out of the web browser and straight onto your desktop. It would seem that Google’s push to control the desktop doesn’t just stop with Chromebooks and full fledged desktop apps however. With the latest dev channel update of Chrome, Google is adding Chrome OS elements to the browser. When activated in Metro Mode, the browser acts just Chrome OS. You can drag, minimize or even expand windows. Heck, the app launcher is there as well allowing you to launch apps and shortcuts just as you would normally.

Windows 8 allows browsers, if they’re set to default, to run in a Metro environment. Although, it cannot be extended to Windows RT, aka the mobile version of Windows. Given that it was discovered and currently resides in the dev channel of Chrome, there are bugs and glitches. Even as such, it appears that Google has made its intentions perfectly clear. Even with the popularity in an ever increasing mobile ecosystem, Google wants to push its desktop ecosystem as well.

There’s no telling when the stable or beta versions of the browser will see this functionality as there is extensive testing that needs to be done. While some would suggest that desktop computing will soon be a relic of the past, it appears that Google is just getting started.

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