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Chrome beta for Android makes it easy to send web video to Chromecast

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS You no longer have to engage in some hidden setting gymnastics just to send web videos from Chrome for Android to your Chromecast. Google has rolled out a Chrome 35 beta that lets you deliver “some” clips from the browser to a Chromecast-equipped TV. The company hasn’t said just which videos are compatible, but it notes that YouTube support is rough around the edges. Even if your favorite media site is broken, you can…

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Ballmer, Not Nadella, Gave The Go-Ahead To Ship Office For iPad, Which Has Racked Up 12M Downloads

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm Update: I’m hearing that while Ballmer did intend to ship Office for iPad, it was Nadella who picked the date. This makes the below comment technically true, but perhaps slightly confusing.  Office for iPad has seen 12 million downloads to date, and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the decision to pull the trigger and release the suite, according to the company. Microsoft’s Office for iPad team took to Reddit today to check…

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12 million people are already using Office for iPad

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As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA Microsoft’s version of Office for iPad has apparently been a rousing success. So much so, that the company’s taken to Twitter to boast that the productivity suite has topped 12 million downloads. In a week. As the Seattle Times points out, though, Redmond hasn’t said how many Office 365 subscriptions (which are required to create and edit documents) have been sold alongside the free, document-view-only downloads. We reached out to Microsoft for clarification, and, well, weren’t given much. A spokesperson told us…

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Google Is Reportedly Testing A Snooze Button (And More!) For Gmail

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Greg Kumparak   An email comes in. It’s important. Not like, oh-god-drop-everything-or-we’ll-all-die important, but it’s something you should probably answer. But you’ve got stuff to do right now, so you don’t. “I’ll answer this tomorrow,” you tell yourself. By tomorrow, the email has dropped down to the bottom of your inbox, replaced by 100 way less important things. You’d still answer it… if you hadn’t totally forgotten about it. It happens…

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Evernote’s Penultimate for iPad now behaves more like a real notebook

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Penultimate is supposed to mimic a notebook on your iPad, so it only makes sense that the app’s interface should mirror the pen-and-paper experience as much as possible. Right? Evernote thinks so, as it has released a Penultimate update that gets closer to the real thing. You can swipe from off-screen to turn pages, and you can set a color for every pen width; effectively, you now have a collection of favorite…

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Xbox One SmartGlass beta apps bring TV controls to Android, Windows and Windows Phone

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As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAWLER Microsoft only just revealed it would test new TV remote features on the Xbox One and its associated SmartGlass apps, and Windows Phone Central points out that right now anyone can give them a try. All you need is one of the game systems and a device running Android, Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8. We tried out the apps and they install right alongside the standard Xbox One Smartglass apps, although there…

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Office for iPad review: three beautiful apps, each with strong competition

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As reported on Engadget. BY DANA WOLLMAN After loads of leaks — and some serious denial from Microsoft — the company has finally released a version of Office for iPad. It’s not surprising, in a way, given that Microsoft already has Office Mobile for iPhone. And yet, this new trio of apps (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) isn’t at all what we expected. In fact, it’s a lot better. You see, rather than simply blow up the current iPhone app to iPad-sized proportions, the…

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Fly Or Die: Whisper

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Jordan Crook  Whisper | Fly or Die Anonymity is all the rage these days, and so we bring our attention to Whisper. This week, we’re joined by Leena Rao, who has some mixed feelings about the craze around anonymous social sharing apps, like Whisper and competitor Secret. Whisper, based out of LA, launched back in 2012 to be the PostSecret of mobile. All the drama and intrigue was there. Most of the artistry still…

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GarageBand on Mac now lets you export songs as MP3s… again

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As reported on Engadget. BY EDGAR ALVAREZ As meaningful as GarageBand’s mobile life is to Apple, the tune-making app is still considered a valuable piece of real estate on the desktop. However, last yearGarageBand for Mac lost MP3 exporting as a feature, something which unsettled some of its users. The good news: today’s release brings that back, once again allowing you to export those music creations as MP3 files. Additionally, Apple’s thrown in a few Drummers and drum packs from various genres, including songwriter,…

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Google Street View hack turns your city into a post-apocalyptic jungle

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As reported on The Verge. By Valentina Palladino Big cities often suffer from a lack of greenery, but now the website Urban Jungle Street View lets you see how your street would look covered in forest flora. The site’s creator Einar Öberg says on Twitter that he’s “breaking terms of use like it’s no tomorrow” — presumably because it uses the undocumented depth data of the Google Maps API to realistically position 3D trees, leaves, and vines that grow inside…

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