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Garmin’s new app turns Sony’s Smartwatch 2 into a tiny sat-nav

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As reported on Engadget. BY DANIEL COOPER We like the idea of hooking our watches into our phones, so when we wander around foreign lands, we don’t look like as much of a tourist. Garmin agrees, and has launched a navigation app specifically for Sony’s Xperia devices that’ll push real-time directions straight to the SmartWatch 2. Acting like a premium sat-nav, the app offers offline maps, walking directions, real-time traffic and active lane guidance. It’ll launch in March, and when you’re…

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Alcatel’s ‘smartbook’ concept: a laptop powered by a smartphone over the air (video)

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As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAI At MWC, Alcatel was kind enough to give us a preview of its working “smartbook” prototypes. The idea isn’t too far off from Motorola’s doomed Lapdock or the first-gen ASUS PadFone, where an Android phone powers an otherwise brainless laptop. What’s different with Alcatel’s implementation is that instead of having to physically dock the phone somewhere, you hook it up to the laptop wirelessly: video signal over WiFi, and keyboard plus trackpad input over…

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Google offers its help to monitor deforestation in near-real-time (video)

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As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA Google is no stranger to humanitarian work, and its latest effort is helping keep an unflinching eye on the world’s trees. For its part in the Global Forest Watch, the search giant is providing tech (namely, Earth and Maps) that allows virtually anyone to monitor deforestation on a massive scale. Let’s say you want to peek at how much of Brazil’s rain forest has been clear-cut in since 2008. You can do that. Even better,…

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Microsoft rebrands Office Web Apps as Office Online because it’s an online version of Office

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As reported on Engadget. BY JAMIE RIGG Use Office Web Apps much? Us neither, which is probably why Microsoft’s answer to Google Docs felt it needed a makeover. Following SkyDrive’s recent rebrand to OneDrive, Office Web Apps has received similar treatment, and now asks you to call it Office Online. Microsoft hopes this new title more accurately reflects what Web Apps was/is: an online version of Word, Powerpoint, Excel and others, free to SkyDriveOneDrive users. Furthermore, Office Online is now located…

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Make the world your instrument with Mogees and a smartphone (video)

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As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA It’s been awhile since we heard from the Mogees camp, but the device has finally hit Kickstarter. As a refresher, Mogees is a musical tool that uses a special mic to pick up surface vibrations and translate them into sounds via a mobile app. It’s sensitive enough to register everything from light finger drags on glass and coins moving around on a table, it comes in Android and iOS flavors…

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How to Use Your Google Maps — Offline

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As reported Wired. BY PRANAV DIXIT Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired   To access one of Google Maps’ best hidden features, you have to know the magic word. Well, it’s a phrase, really, and that phrase is: “OK Maps.” Enter this phrase into the Google Maps app and the portion of the map that’s currently visible on your screen will be saved directly to your device. Once saved, you can access that map even without a data connection.…

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The weird world of ‘Flappy Bird’ clones

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As reported on The Verge. By Andrew Webster The end is just the beginning Flappy Bird is gone. The mobile gaming sensation was pulled from both the iTunes App Store and Google Play by creator Dong Nguyen, but in its place an army of clones has arrived. A quick search for “flappy bird” in the App Store, for example, brings up names like Splashy Fish, Fly Birdie, City Bird, and Flying Flappy Unicorn Bird. Most of these games are simply reskinned…

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Flappy Bird’s creator says he pulled the app for your own good

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As reported on Engadget. BY MATT BRIAN If you were hoping Flappy Bird would find its wings and fly back onto the App Store or Google Play, its creator has some tough news for you. Less than 48 hours after he pulled the explosively popular game, developer Dong Nguyen briefly emerged from his self-imposed exile to talk to Forbes about why that little bird will flap no more. According to Nguyen, the game was designed to help people relax, let players blow…

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My Secret Life

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Ryan Lawler Open the app to see what’s new. Check updates that have been posted on the secrets I’ve commented on first. Click through each of them. Go into the main feed, read down to where I last left off. Scroll back to the top, pull down to refresh. Head back to updates. Lather, rinse, repeat. That’s been my life over the past week, as Secret has become all-consuming devourer of my time…

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Steve Wozniak: Apple Should Make an Android Phone

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As reported on Wired. BY MAT HONAN Steve Wozniak. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED   At the Apps World North America conference in San Francisco, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gave WIRED a wide-ranging interview, touching on everything from his preferred iPhone 5s color (he has all three) to the fictional operating system in the movie Her. But his most interesting comment by far was a heretical recommendation for his former company: Apple, he thinks, should release an Android handset. “There’s nothing…

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