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• MacBreak Weekly 351: There Will Always be Donuts
• The Xbox One hears all, sees all, and steals Google's dreams
• Ready for an all-new iMore show? It's coming your way tomorrow!
• Still want an iCEO plushy? Throwboy gives you one last chance on Kickstarter!
• Unity game engine goes free for iOS and Android, BB10 and WP8 to follow
• Is Flickr and Vimeo integration headed to iOS 7?
• Battle of the Bulge Lite (free) for iPad Out Now, Full Game on Sale Too
• Bright Weather review: Even bad weather can look good!
• Contest: Win a Free iPad Insight Branded Mobile Cloth for Your iPad
• How to download individual classes with iTunes U for iPhone and iPad
• iPad Basics: How to Change the Font in the Notes App
• See what Microsoft has in store for the Xbox with Windows Phone Central!
• Price Drops: Flickr Studio for iPad Free Today Only
• Deal of the Day: 51% off the Qmadix Epic Snap-On Cover for iPhone 5
• Android Central is live at CTIA in Las Vegas!
• Google Chrome app launcher making its way to the Mac
• The ultimate luxury hotel room now comes with 24-carat gold iPads
• Flickr gets overhauled with a new UI and 1TB free storage. For everyone!

MacBreak Weekly 351: There Will Always be Donuts Posted: 21 May 2013 10:55 PM PDT Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Alex Lindsay, Chris Breen, and I talk about Tim Cook testifying to congress, new Macs made in the USA, perhaps a Retina MacBook Air, and more. Download and subscribe: TWiT.tv

The Xbox One hears all, sees all, and steals Google's dreams Posted: 21 May 2013 08:38 PM PDT Google is a company with many stated ambitions. They want to catalog the world's information. They want to bring you info before you know you need it. They want to build the Star Trek computer. That kind of omniscient service requires an omnipresent awareness. Google's presence is felt just about everywhere. Google is the dominant search engine on desktops and in mobile. Google builds the operating system that powers an increasingly percentage of smartphones. Google offers an email service and a social networking service and instant messaging so much more. Google has fingers in every pot they can reach, though how far they've successfully plunged said fingers varies. When it comes to the living room, however, where Google's fingertips have just barely grazed the surface of the stock, Microsoft is ladling out the soup like it's their job. And with the newly-announced Xbox One that ladle is getting even bigger. A picture of you To build that omniscient Star Trek computer, Google needs buckets and buckets of data about you. They get a lot of that just by your using Google's services. Your search queries are tabulated and your email contents are collated, and your friend patterns are analyzed. Even just using Google services through a desktop yields a tremendous amount of data about your being. If you're using Google services on your mobile device, such as an Android device or by using Google Now on an iPhone, Google learns even more about you, including where you go, how long you stay there, what you search for on the go, and more. Of course, those settings can be switched off, but the default behavior is for Google to know. Google's picture of you can be stunningly accurate and prescient. Google takes all of this data and builds a picture what it thinks you as a person look like. With some massaging of that data - telling Google that, no, I am in fact not interested in more on that topic, it was just a search for article research, thanks - Google's picture of you can be stunningly accurate and prescient. I carry both an iPhone and an Android device (specifically, a Nexus 4) on a regular basis, I use Gmail for work and personal, I search with Google dozens of times a day, and so forth. Google Now has built an interesting picture of me. It knows when I'm going to be flying, it knows when to offer up nearby restaurants and what I'm likely to like, it knows how far it is to my house and how long it will take thanks to traffic, and it knows that the weekends are the most likely time I'm going to go to the theater, and when I do I'm likely to check out the latest science fiction or mindless action flick. But the behavioral tracking offered by a smartphone only extends to when I use it (excepting location tracking when I'm just carrying it around, of course). To be as omniscient as Google aims to be, more data is required. There's never enough data to accomplish what Google wants to accomplish. That means Google needs to know more about you. By and large what Google knows about us are things that we either tell Google directly (by way of our searches) and what we let Google know (Gmail, smartphone location tracking, etc). Google's getting more personal with experiments like Google Glass, but even that requires that you be wearing the device for it to be collecting more information. And really right now the Glass experiment seems to be more focusing on delivering content directly to your eyeball than pushing more data about yourself to the Google cloud. That could change eventually, but it's not the reality of Glass right now. Frankly, as with many Google projects, the end game with Glass isn't exactly clear for us, and we aren't certain it's clear for Google either. Your couch, the beachhead Where Google has failed to make its mark, though, is beyond the smartphone and the desktop. The holy grail in Google's hardware trifecta isn't Glass - it's the living room. Google has tried time and again to make Google TV a success, but they've run into tremendous roadblocks of poor consumer awareness (and thus adoption) and severe interoperability problems that plague any effort to unify home entertainment with a single device. Microsoft, for all their troubles, has actually established a covert beachhead in the living room hardware space with their Xbox game consoles. Being the cash-rich technology behemoth with long-term vision that they are, Microsoft has been more than willing to play the long game when it comes to living room technology. To wit, in less than ten years Microsoft's Xbox has become an accepted part of many home entertainment set-ups, getting favorable comparisons to long-time gaming companies like Sony and Nintendo. It cost them many billions of dollars to get it rolling, but now the Xbox is a gaming force with which one must contend. With Microsoft's just announced and coming-later-this-year Xbox One, they're pushing up off the beach and into full home entertainment domination. It's an impressive piece of hardware - essentially it's a powerful and optimized gaming computer for your home theater stack - with some interesting features. The Xbox One features an HDMI pass-through so you can plug in your home cable box and control it (with IR blasters - joy) and a Blu-Ray drive. Games can be downloaded or purchased in stores, but purchasing in stores is more just like buying a gift card to download it later. The Xbox One is the omnipresent surveyor of your living room. It sees all and hears all. But most interesting is the new Kinect sensor. The depth-sensing, body-tracking sensor bar is even more accurate and detailed than before, going so far as being able to detect the movement of your wrists and your heartbeat from a distance. But what's possibly more interesting is that it's always on. If you walk up to your TV and say "Xbox on," Kinect is already listening, it hears you, and it boots up the Xbox. The Kinect camera uses facial recognition to determine who just told it to turn on, and can log you into your account and have all of your games and media at the ready. The Xbox One is the omnipresent surveyor of your living room. It sees all and hears all. That can sound pretty scary, and in reality Microsoft isn't likely to use this for nefarious purposes. Being evil with all that data can destroy consumer trust in your product, and the dollars all that data was supposed to be used to pry from wallets will go elsewhere. But the ramifications of having an always-on camera and microphone in your living room, and having that attached to a device that knows what you're watching and is connected to the web, can be far-reaching. See all, hear all, know all This kind of all-aware technology can offer a massive trove of data on your habits and preferences that a company like Microsoft or Google - or Apple, for that matter - would kill to have their hands on. While Google will use it to better target advertising and maybe sell you some content from the Google Play store, Microsoft and Apple aren't so invested in the advertising game (though they do have fingers dabbling the surface of those pots, so they're not entirely innocent here). Microsoft and Apple are more interested in selling you content - books and movies and television shows and games and music. Having computers and tablets and smartphones and corresponding software and services ecosystems can go a long way towards building that picture of who you are, what you like, and what you're apt to buy. On a micro scale, Netflix used that kind of data from the viewing habits of their users to construct the House of Cards series to be perfectly-suited to what the average Netflix user is likely to watch, and likely to watch a lot. They want to take all the data they can to build a picture of you. The end goal for all three is to offer products that better suit your needs. On the macro scale, Microsoft, Apple, and Google want to take all the data they can to build a picture of you. The end goal for all three is to offer products that better suit your needs, and thus are more likely to remove dollars from your wallet. Google just so happens to be the only one that's really upfront about their ambitions here, with a bravado and willingness to toe up to and even occasionally cross the creepy line in the goal of better serving you. That creepy line act can induce some uncomfortable feelings, however, but that's the price of dealing with Google, it seems. But the living room has remained elusive to Google and Apple. Google has tried hard and failed to gain a foothold on that beach. Apple treats it like a hobby, offering up just the Apple TV. It's a fine device, but it's merely a portal to content you either already own or have to seek out. Microsoft owns a wide swath of that beach, and with the Xbox One they're going to be able to push deeper into uncharted and unclaimed territory. If anything, Microsoft has the persistence to pull it off, and things are coming together as far as the Microsoft ecosystem is concerned. Windows 8 may not have been the blockbuster success that Microsoft was hoping for (and Windows RT has been an outright failure thanks to poor messaging and, well, conceiving), and Windows Phone has failed to make a real splash outside of the already tech-aware segment. But Xbox and the living room, Microsoft has succeeded beyond what anybody predicted possible a decade ago when the original black box launched. Be, know, do Whether or not the push for environmental awareness from Google and Microsoft is a good thing or bad thing is up for debate, and it all comes down to how its used and your own personal comfort levels with such uses. In the end, it's all going to be geared towards making money, either by directly selling you goods, building a service that's so customized to your needs that switching becomes an unfathomable task and insurmountable barrier, or by selling that data to advertisers to offer you the service at no cost. You've got to pick your poison with the awareness that the company's awareness of you comes entirely with the goal of lining their own pockets. It's capitalism. And through better data comes better products. There's a reason House of Cards has been such a smash hit for the Netflix crowd, and it's because the data showed Netflix exactly what they needed to make it a smash. Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all driving to build that next smash hit, be it a gaming console that knows everything about your entertainment habits and preferences and can offer up games, movies, and music that suits your tastes; a predictive cloud service with an awareness of where you are, who you're with, and what you're doing so it can make suggestions of where to eat, when to leave to be on time, and what you'll need to know before you get there; or an integrated software ecosystem that shares and manages your data and has your media ready at a tap. Whether or not this crosses the creepy line is your own personal call. When it comes to these sort of predictive services, Apple is behind the ball, at least with their publicly-announced products. Where Siri has slowly evolved as a personal assistant at your beck and call, Google's Now has become a personal assistant that's eager to answer your question before you've even asked it. Microsoft's voice controls aren't quite as advanced as Siri and their predictive services fall far short of what Google offers. But they've conquered the beach of the living room and are poised to learn more about you than you might ever have realized. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Ready for an all-new iMore show? It's coming your way tomorrow! Posted: 21 May 2013 05:26 PM PDT The iMore show has been an overwhelming success, reaching more of you, in more ways, then many of us here on the site could have possibly imagined. However, it didn't include you as much as any of us have wanted. Increasingly the iMore show had become more about awesome interviews and less about our even more awesome community. So, tomorrow, we're changing that. A lot. Now, the current iMore show isn't going to go away. It too will change. It'll get a new name, and become something closer akin to Debug and Iterate. More on that later, though! For now, here's what's happening with the NEW iMore show: We're changing the day and time. We're moving it back to Wednesday and we're moving it to the afternoon, Eastern Time. We're still working out the details, and we'll announce the exact time tomorrow. That's right, no more conflict with Game of Thrones, Mad Men, or whatever else you were watching! Peter Cohen will be our new, fairly consistent co-host, but other members of the iMore and Mobile Nations families will be joining us from week to week as well. Also, we're not going to be abandoning guests entirely. We aim to have some fantastic folks join us as well to help round out the shows and keep up the variety. And yes, that mean's we're changing the format. As much as being able to do a one man show is important as a last-ditch backup, and as much as I enjoy interviews, what makes iMore great are the many voices we have here. So, we're switching back to the panel-type format we used to use, and that our other site-shows like Android Central and CrackBerry use. The subject matter we cover will expand from mostly news and hot topics to a better balance of news, apps, accessories, and... Q&A. Yours, the communities, is the most important voice we have and part of our new panel will be YOU. What that means is that we'll be using the chatroom more than ever before, but what's more -- you'll be able to send us audio and video questions or comments and we'll play them live during the show. Want to be on the new iMore show tomorrow? Here's what you need to do RIGHT NOW: Grab your iPhone, iPad, or the device of your choice and record a short (30 second) video asking us your question. Upload it to the internet, and send us the link -- Don't send the video file itself, just the YouTube, Dropbox, or other video hosting link -- to imoreshow@imore.com. While we prefer video -- it's a video show! -- audio is fine as a fallback. Just use Voice Memo on iOS, or whatever recording app you like best, ask the question, and email the audio file to <imoreshow@imore.com). That's it! That's all you need to do to be on the all new, all encompassing iMore show! We'd also love to hear any other suggestions you may have for the show as well. So, run -- don't walk -- to the comments and let me know. If you could have your dream iMore show, what would it be? What segments would we include? What guests would we invite on? What kind of Q&A would we do?

Still want an iCEO plushy? Throwboy gives you one last chance on Kickstarter! Posted: 21 May 2013 02:52 PM PDT Remember that iCEO plush toy that was all the geek rage awhile back? Turns out there are a few hundred of the little jobbies left, but the only way you can get one is by backing Throwboy's new Chat Pillows on Kickstarter. Supporting us doesn't come without geeky perks. From a handwritten note direct from Roberto to our insanely great iCEOs out of our secret stash(!), you're in for amazing rewards as a Throwboy backer. Check em' out below! iCEO comes in at the $100 mark, and, of course, I just backed exactly that. But there's a wide range of options and price points, and some fairly awesome pillows to be had, so check them all out and then tell me which one, if any, you went for. Source: Kickstarter

Unity game engine goes free for iOS and Android, BB10 and WP8 to follow Posted: 21 May 2013 01:55 PM PDT Unity, the multiplatform game engine, has gone free to use for iOS and Android. The company made the announcement at its Unite Nordic conference in Malmö, Sweden, according to Keith Andrew of PocketGamer. Unity started life as a Mac-specific development platform, but nowadays developers can also create content using Windows PCs, and deploy on a total of ten different platforms including the Web. Up until now, delivering content onto iOS or Android platforms has required you to pay $800, regardless of which license you're using. Unity said it plans to offer the same deal for developers interested in deploying to Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10 platforms as well. Unity helps game developers create 2D and 3D games alike. It's the engine that powers games like Madfinger's Dead Trigger 2, Rovio's Bad Piggies, Imangi's Temple Run 2, and many others. The company has long offered "Unity Free" and "Unity Pro" licenses in order to accommodate indie developers. Unity Free is a "no strings attached" deal - you can use the tech to develop your game without paying any royalties or license fees. Once you start raking in money, you're required to upgrade to the Pro license, which costs money. The Pro license also includes access to a number of functions and features that aren't accessible for free - graphics and audio improvements, 3D modeling enhancements and more. Developers who have recently forked out the cash to deploy to iOS and Android will be eligible for discounts to help recoup their costs.

Is Flickr and Vimeo integration headed to iOS 7? Posted: 21 May 2013 01:52 PM PDT iOS 6 came with some social integration built in, Twitter and Facebook, and if the latest rumors turn out to be correct we could be looking at social photo and video integration in iOS 7. The rumor points towards the recently revamped Flickr and video sharing service Vimeo coming on board. The story comes by way of 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman: "Both Flickr and Vimeo will now also be integrated deeply into the new operating system, so users will be able to sign into the respective networks via iOS 7′s built-in Settings application. Like with iOS's Facebook and Twitter ties, Apple customers will be able to log-in one time into each social network and have full sharing access." Presumably that would also mean that as with Twitter and Facebook, other third-party apps would be able to hook into Flickr and Vimeo by way of an instant log in. It's important to remember also, as the source points out, that any feature currently in testing could still be removed prior to the release of iOS 7. Interesting stuff, for sure. Does either of these two social options get you excited? Source: 9to5Mac

Battle of the Bulge Lite (free) for iPad Out Now, Full Game on Sale Too Posted: 21 May 2013 12:56 PM PDT Battle of the Bulge Lite was released on the iPad App Store yesterday. This is the new, free version of the superb Battle of the Bulge strategic wargame for the iPad. This new Lite version of the game offers unlimited play of one of the game's most interesting scenarios – 'Race to the Meuse', with all its features and modes of play. Here's a little more on Battle of the Bulge Lite and its notable features, via its App Store page: Battle of the Bulge is a historical wargame, designed specifically for iPad. It's a turn-based simulation in the spirit of traditional board wargames. Pieces represent actual military units fighting on the terrain of the famous WWII battle. • Play three ways: online through Game Center, vs. computer opponents, or Pass & Play • Unlimited play of "Race to the Meuse," a short, tense fight in the opening days of the battle •... Read the whole entry... »         Related Stories Battle of the Bulge Lite (free version) for iPad Coming Soon Notable New iPad Apps: MLB.com Home Run Derby Battle of the Bulge iPad Game Updated: Adds New Scenarios and New AI Opponents   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Bright Weather review: Even bad weather can look good! Posted: 21 May 2013 11:32 AM PDT Anyone familiar with Android may well have come across LevelUp Studio. They are responsible for the excellent Twitter client Plume and the extremely popular Beautiful Widgets. Excellent apps for Android users, and now they have brought at least part of Beautiful Widgets to iOS with their new weather application; Bright Weather for iPhone. We're not short of weather applications on iOS, but I for one will happily welcome talented developers from other platforms into the iOS fold. It's a crowded space, but there's still room for a good application to stand out. So, is Bright Weather worth a look? Let's find out. Bright Weather pulls in its data from Accuweather, but the UI is all their own. The main view is packed with information, yet doesn't feel at all cluttered. That's due in part to the large weather animation that sits front and center. That's where your current weather conditions are found: current temperature, daily highs and lows, the RealFeel and what sort of weather you're experiencing that day. Clouds float effortlessly behind all of this, and if you're lucky enough not to be in a dreary part of the UK, maybe even some sun. Top of the display is your current location and time, along with the time since your last refresh. Down the bottom is a weekly forecast highlight. The menus for Bright Weather are all tucked away in a slide-out bar on the left hand side. Very Android like, but fits perfectly with the design of the app. It keeps everything tucked out of sight until you need it, and I like that. Inside the menu you'll find the settings, along with all the more specialised weather information. One of these categories is an hourly breakdown of conditions for your location, for the current day. You get a temperature, a general conditions, and a windspeed. Another category that's interesting, is Lifestyle. This one gives you indicators on how suitable the weather is for a range of pursuits from mowing the lawn right up to going Skiing. Luckily, as you'll see here, I didn't much fancy going to the beach today as it's not great out. That and it's a 35 mile drive. If you're into seeing the moon phases, you're catered for too. Settings are well catered for in Bright Weather. As you'd want, you can alter the units, clock, wind speed units, turn on the animations and set it to refresh on start. Nothing out of the ordinary, but all the important stuff is covered off. You can also manage your locations under a separate menu item, and removing one takes nothing more than a swipe and a tap. So, what else is there to know? Well, Bright Weather is a free download from the App Store, with an optional in-app purchase of $0.99 to remove the ads. There's currently no iPad version, though the developer has confirmed to us that one is in the works, most likely as an update to the main app with a universal solution. A couple of the menu options, like 'More Info' take you out of the app and into Safari to the Accuweather website. The information is good to have, but its a disjointing experience to be taken away from the main app and into Safari to access it. The Good Well designed, good looking UI Fast refresh upon opening the app Lifestyle category a nice touch for quick glance information Animations are nice! The Bad Leaving the app to go into Safari for some information Current lack of iPad support The Bottom Line Bright Weather is an excellent start at developing for iOS from a well respected Android developer. Bright Weather is great to look at, quick at getting you the latest information and free to download. The ads don't really get in the way too much, but I liked it enough to pay to get rid pretty early on. The lack of iPad support is a tad frustrating, but we know that it's coming, so it's an inconvienience at the moment and nothing more. It'll look fantastic on the iPad when it arrives. Leaving the app to go into Safari is more frustrating though, and I do wish there was a better way of handling the information it takes you away to get. It's a really nice app, and I've been thinking whether it'll replace my current go-to, Yahoo! Weather. It's quite possible, you get the same sort of information delivered in a slightly different, but still beautiful in its own right sort of way. I really hope LevelUp is here to develop for iOS for the long haul, we could see some great things from them. Free - Download Now

Contest: Win a Free iPad Insight Branded Mobile Cloth for Your iPad Posted: 21 May 2013 09:53 AM PDT 6 Free Mobile Cloth Combo Packs To Be Won (one large and one small) Contest Deadline: Friday May 24, 2:00PM US Central It's contest time again. This time we've got one of the least glamorous but hardest working and most useful iPad accessories up for grabs. If you've been following this site for any length of time you know that I'm a big fan of these Mobile Cloth cleaning cloths. If you somehow missed my past mentions of them, check out my post when I first came across them, and asked how excited you're allowed to be about cleaning cloths. The short story is these are by far and away the best cleaning cloth for the iPad and all my touchscreen devices. Winners of this contest will receive a combo pack of the big and small Mobile Cloth – with the iPad Insight logo on them, so you'll never forget which site you need to visit every day. :) Hit the break to see how easy... Read the whole entry... »          Comments I could put one on my cat's paw. Then he could be cleaning ... by Sharon A. I am a scrupulously clean man. Immaculate. Crisp. A block of ... by Kevin I've been using and disgarding microcloths for my iPad since I ... by Nick Osdale-Popa Hi! I just happened to get this tweet on my iPhone & was ... by Lorilei Potvin I need these because I have 30 3rd grade students using 10 ... by Brian Esse We soooo need these in my house…. My daughter's ipad mini and ... by Brandy Nolan Related Stories Dino Walk Contest – Winners Contest: 5 Free Promo Codes for Dino Walk: Continental Drift To Be Won Moko Slim Fit for iPad mini Contest – Winner   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

How to download individual classes with iTunes U for iPhone and iPad Posted: 21 May 2013 10:14 AM PDT iTunes U lets you subscribe to courses quickly and easily but there may come times when you don't necessarily want to subscribe to an entire course. You're also given the option to download individual classes within those sections if you choose too. Here's how: Launch the iTunes U app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad. Tap on the Catalog button in the upper right hand corner in order to view the store. Now find the section that you'd like to download an individual course from and tap on its name. Instead of tapping on the Subscribe button, just tap on the Download button next to the individual course within that section that you'd like to download. The difference between doing this and subscribing is that you will only be given what you've specifically chosen. You also won't get automatically downloaded courses when they're available for that course. It's a nice way to pick and choose content you want instead of having to weed through all a course has to offer within your iTunes U library.

iPad Basics: How to Change the Font in the Notes App Posted: 21 May 2013 09:13 AM PDT Here's a handy tip for newer iPad users. If you don't like the default font in the iPad's built-in Notes app, it's very easy to change it. You don't have a broad range of choices, but there are 3 fonts you can choose to use with the iPad Notes app. Here's how to select the one you want: – Open the Settings app. – Tap on the Notes item in the left sidebar, just below the entries for iCloud and Mail, Contacts, Calendars. – Tap on one of the 3 font names in the Font window – Noteworthy, Helvetica, or Marker Felt. That's it. A very basic tip I know, but I see the question of how to change the iPad Notes font come up relatively often in support forums – so I thought I'd share. Happy font selecting. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: iPad Basics, ... Read the whole entry... »         Related Stories How To Import Instapaper Articles into Pocket The 3 Fastest Ways to Get Photos from an iPad to a Mac or Windows PC How To Setup Google Contact Sync on the iPad   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

See what Microsoft has in store for the Xbox with Windows Phone Central! Posted: 21 May 2013 09:06 AM PDT CTIA isn't the only event happening today, up in Redmond at Microsoft HQ we're being treated to a first look at what's next for the Xbox. Besides the gaming, the Xbox has steadily been increasing its attack on the living room, and Xbox Live has gone cross-platform with the release of Wordament on iOS. Then of course there's Xbox Smartglass, so already Microsoft has our attention before announcing anything new. Our good friends over at Windows Phone Central will be covering the whole event with a liveblog, and we've got you hooked up with the link below. Also worth a read is their "What to expect..." post, but keep it locked to Windows Phone Central for all the news as it happens. Xbox Event Liveblog at WPCentral.com - Live 10AMPT/1PM ET What to expect from the next generation of Xbox

Price Drops: Flickr Studio for iPad Free Today Only Posted: 21 May 2013 08:39 AM PDT Flickr Studio for iPad is available for free today only (5/21/13) – to celebrate 'the new Flickr'. That's down from its standard price of $4.99. Yahoo announced the new Flickr yesterday, including an upgrade on all accounts to 1TB (!) of free storage. The Flickr Studio app is designed specifically for the iPad and offers a good set of features to work with and manage your own photostream and explore those from your contacts and the Flickr community as a whole. Here are some of the notable features: YOUR PHOTOS All your Flickr photos and videos, one smart app. With Flickr studio you can instantly browse your stream, sets, collections, groups, tags or find any photo with the powerful search! AND EVERYONE ELSE'S TOO! But Flickr Studio is not just YOUR full photo collection. Use it to view photos from your contacts, or any Flickr user for that matter – Even... Read the whole entry... »         Related Stories Best Free iPad App of the Week: Google+ Notable New iPad Apps: MLB.com Home Run Derby Notable New iPad Apps: Beethoven's 9th Symphony   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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Android Central is live at CTIA in Las Vegas! Posted: 21 May 2013 07:01 AM PDT Another week, another mobile show. This time up is CTIA in Las Vegas, where the mobile industry gets together to show off all the stuff that makes the mobile world work. There's also likely a few more consumer friendly items lurking too as well as news from Sprint and Verizon. Phil, Andrew and Anndrew from Android Central are on the ground in Vegas all week covering the event, so for all the best the show has to offer, be sure to pay them a visit. Android Central at CTIA Las Vegas

Google Chrome app launcher making its way to the Mac Posted: 21 May 2013 05:16 AM PDT Anyone who has ever played around with Google Chrome OS will be familiar with the app launcher. Chrome runs nothing but web apps, but the app launcher provides the impression of a more regular OS, as you don't have to open a browser window to launch anything. Work has already begun on porting the app launcher to the Chrome browser for Windows, and now it seems, the Mac as well. Francois Beaufort of the Chromium team at Google has shared the news with us on his Google+ page. So, we can try it out right now, but it's not something that any old average user can turn on. You need to download the latest Chromium build, and you need to be comfortable in using switches. Once you're past all that, you should have a functional app launcher to play around with. It's a neat little addition to Chrome, though how useful it is will ultimately depend on how much you live inside the browser. If you decide to give this a shot though, drop into the comments and give us your thoughts. Source: +Francois Beaufort

The ultimate luxury hotel room now comes with 24-carat gold iPads Posted: 21 May 2013 04:16 AM PDT The Burj Al Arab in Dubai is one of the most luxurious hotels in the world. Staying there requires a healthy bank balance, but the luxury speaks for itself. Recently, the hotel installed Macs in each room at the all-suite hotel, in an effort to offer a "thoroughly modern guest experience." Their latest trick; 24-carat gold iPads in every room. The iPads come emblazoned with the hotel logo on the rear, and are offered to guests upon checkin as a 'virtual concierge.' They also offer up information on the hotel services, restaurant menus and the spa facilities. But, you don't have to leave Dubai without your very own gold iPad, oh no. Produced by Gold & Co of London, if you so desire you can purchase your very own 24-carat gold iPad from the hotel boutique. Just make sure you don't leave it on the plane. It's great to see the iPad continue to be adopted in such ways, though the gold isn't likely for everyone. Money aside, would you like to get your hands on a 24-carat gold iPad? via Macworld UK

Flickr gets overhauled with a new UI and 1TB free storage. For everyone! Posted: 21 May 2013 03:30 AM PDT Yahoo! sure has been busy, as the very same day as they announced their acquisition of Tumblr, Flickr got a major overhaul at a press event in New York City. The headlines; a brand new and much better looking UI and 1TB of storage. For free. For everyone. That's right, 1TB. Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer writes: "Photos tell the stories — stories we're inspired to relive, share with our friends, or capture simply to express ourselves. Collecting these moments is a part of our everyday. Since 2005, Flickr has become synonymous with inspiring imagery. Today, we're thrilled to take Flickr even further with a beautiful, completely re-imagined experience that puts photos front and center. When it comes to photography, technology and its limits shouldn't hinder the experience. So we're also giving our Flickr users one terabyte of space — for free. That's enough for a lifetime of photos — more than 500,000 original, full-resolution, pixel-perfect, brilliant photos. Flickr users will never have to worry about running out of space." Flickr is also adding support for 3 minute video clips shot at full 1080p resolution. And, because you've got all that space to fill, as with photos, you get to upload as many video clips as your storage will allow. And, as part of the new photostream experience, the new slideshow mode lets you kick back and enjoy your photos without touching the computer. With all this free goodness, it would be easy to pass over the two paid options that Flickr now employs. Free accounts will see advertisements, but if you really don't like them and want them to go away, it'll cost you $49.99 a year. If 1TB of space just isn't quite enough for you, there is an option to double it to 2TB, and that'll run you for $499.99 a year. For an insane amount of photographs. So, have you taken a look around the new-look Flickr yet? How do you like it? Source: Yahoo!

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