Google Cloud Print enables any application (web, desktop, mobile) on any device to print to any printer.

Applications submit print jobs to the service via the web-based common print dialog or API offered by the service. Google Cloud Print then sends the print job to the selected printer which the user has previously registered with the service. A new class of cloud-aware printers connects directly to the service and offers the best user experience. Legacy printers connect to the service via a proxy.

An interesting spinoff of the CloudPrint concept is that leveraging OpenID (Google adopted OpenID some time ago) a user could potentially go to any printer at any location and use their Gmail account, Facebook account or Flickr account to send a print job.  The potential is quite staggering.

There are obvious security considerations but since the printers need to be registered with the Google CloudPrint service to work, you are enabling this functionality at your discretion and undoubtedly ACL’s will be built into the solution.

You can read more at;

http://code.google.com/apis/cloudprint/

First stop, iPhoneLand. The phone that does everything. As Apple says, “it can do that too”. After a bit of research I came across iFitness app. It is an application for keeping track of your exercise activities, which also comes with handy pictures for different types of exercises, from back to shoulders to stomach to legs. At the cost of $1.99, I was a bit skeptical about getting it, even though its two bucks I was going to waste money on something that might potentially be useless.

The next step was to find a few reviews to read up on and decide whether I should get iFitness or not. The one that I found to be the most useful and straightforward was from this web blog Diet and Things.com. It gave a nice overview of the app and even gave me more screenshots to see than the ones available from the app store.

Here is the article on iFitness iPhone App from Diet And Things. Reading the article, I became more and more convinced that iFitness could be an app ideally suited to get me going with my exercise routines. I’ve been using it for a week, and all of you will complain right away that a week’s worth of testing is not enough and I would agree with you, and it seems to be working well. Getting into my second and three week will be a true test of how it performs in terms of its usefulness. I will post an update a month or so from now to give the final verdict on this app.