As reported on TechCrunch. by Greg Kumparak Congratulations, Planet Earth! We made it another 365 days without crashing into the sun. Go team! It’s the end of the year, and that means three things: booze, ridiculous sunglasses with numbers on them, and lists. Lots and lots of lists. You’ve seen our list ofbest/worst gadgets of the year. Up next? The Best Mobile Apps Of 2013. Now, to be clear: there’s not a lot of science here.…
As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington Android app AllCast has just left beta, and is now available as a full version for all to try out. There’s a free version and a paid license, so you can find out if this Swiss army knife of media streamers for Google’s mobile OS works for you. It accomplishes the impressive feat of letting you stream from your Android phone or tablet to the Apple TV, or any other…
As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT Though CyanogenMod has gotten plenty of ink lately for its Oppo N1 hookup andGoogle Play approval, it’s still first and foremost a modding outfit. In fact it just marked 10 million downloads of its custom Android ROMs, according to its latest stats. That marks a lot of folks wanting to un-skin some models, or give others like Samsung’s Galaxy S (shown above) new life. That model, along with the Galaxy SII…
As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris So long as you have a supported TV Netflix will start streaming movies and TV shows in 4K soon, but only to certain TVs. “We’re not naming specific manufacturers,” Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt tellsStuff, “but we have several of the major TV vendors who are going to be producing 4K-capable TVs — they’ll be announcing them at CES [in early January].” The high-resolution streams won’t be coming to…
As reported on Engadget. BY JAMIE RIGG As Apple’s finally put its redesigned Mac Pro up for sale, the company’s also seen fit to update editing software Final Cut Pro. Version 10.1 optimizes rendering and playback for the new Mac, but for users of other “select” Macs, the most significant change will likely be the addition of 4K monitoring over Thunderbolt 2 and HDMI. Since 4K playback requires a lot of bandwidth, it’s probable only new Retina MacBook…
As reported on Engadget. BY ALEXIS SANTOS Sure, the year might be winding down, but the folks at Evernote have still managed to sneak in another update for their Android app. By wielding the upgraded application, users can edit notes without fear of losing text styling they’ve applied in the program on other platforms, and view attachments in-line with their digital scrawlings. External keyboard support has been baked in as well, alongside recognition for key shortcuts for creating notes, bullets, numbered lists…
As reported on Wired. BY JOSEPH FLAHERTY Automatic has developed a new quantified-self gizmo that promises to save drivers thousands of dollars per year and stall the greenhouse effect by reeducating drivers in real-time. Photo: Automatic Do you know how much money it costs you to slam on your brakes? Or the annual cost you incur by speeding? Probably not, and even though the average American drives 13,476 miles per year, aside from a brief driver’s ed…
As reported on The Verge. By Russell Brandom SecDev’s new project could stop botnet-powered fraud for good. Should we let it? The internet is, on balance, a very hostile place. More than 70 percent of all email traffic is spam, and a fair portion of that is malware and phishing attempts. One 2012 censuscounted 1.5 billion browser-based malware attacks. A recent Team Cymru map of globally compromised computers showed nearly all of Italy lit up, with southeastern Europe glowing from the…
As reported on Engadget. BY BILLY STEELE Until now, the dapper stylings of Misfit Wearables’ Shine activity tracker have eluded the Android faithful for logging steps, calories and sleep. The outfit has announced a version of the Shine app for devices running Google’s OS (4.3 and later) that also sport Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity to be used alongside the aluminum-clad gadget. This bit of software allows users to sync the $120 clip-on wearable, set goals and monitor visual summaries…
As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA CheapCast is a great way to get some of Chromecast’s functionality for free, sure, but it’s been lacking a few of the Google dongle’s features since the app launched. If you’ve been hankering to beam browser tabs to your TV (via an HDMI-or-WiFi-connected mobile device, of course), CheapCast’s latest update enables just that.Android Police notes that this seemingly only works with tabs and not fullscreen casting, while DRM’d services like Netflix and Google Play Movies “actually…