Remains of the Day: You Can Now Automate Google Drive with IFTTT [For What It's Worth]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5940428/remains-of-the-day-you-can-now-automate-google-drive-with-ifttt

IFTTT adds a Google Drive Channel, Wal-Mart is testing a new mobile payment system, Amazon adds more movies to its Prime Instant Video library, and CyanogenMod 10 will get new Quick Message feature.

• IFTTT Introduces Google Drive Channel The popular web automation service If Then Then That has launched their Google Drive Channel, which will now allow users to automate certain tasks using Google's storage solution and office suite. Some new Google Drive recipes include saving your tweets to a spreadsheet, backing up your Instagram photos, and copying tagged Facebook photos to your Google Drive. [Twitter]
• Exclusive: Walmart Tests iPhone App Checkout Feature Wal-Mart is testing a new payment system that would allow shoppers to scan items using their iPhones, put them in bags while they continue to shop, and then quickly pay at a self-checkout counter. The system would also include features such as allowing shoppers to create lists and seeing which items are in stock. [Reuters]
• Amazon and EPIX Announce New Prime Instant Video Agreement – Prime Instant Video Selection Has More Than Doubled Since the Launch of Kindle Fire Last Year Amazon has added more than 3,000 movies to its Prime Instant Video collection, including popular titles like The Avengers, Iron Man 2, Thor, The Hunger Games, and Pananormal Activity 2. [Amazon]
• You Spoke, We Listened The CyanogenMod team is launching a new feature in their Jelly Beanified CM10 build called Quick Message. It will display a pop-up notification whenever you receive a text message, and will allow you to reply from within the pop-up. Quick Message will appear soon on an upcoming nightly build. [Google+]

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Haiku Deck Is The Easiest Way to Create Gorgeous Presentations with an iPad [Video]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5940617/haiku-deck-is-the-easiest-way-to-create-gorgeous-presentations-with-an-ipad

iPad: Haiku Deck makes creating beautiful presentations a cinch and a joy, whether you have design skills or not. You can quickly apply new layouts, photo backdrops, and font styles to get the perfect look for your pitch or story.

The free iPad app comes with a handful of themes to quickly stylize your deck, and additional themes are available for purchase at about $2 a pop.

In addition to the themes, Haiku Deck lets you dress up your slides with background images from millions of Creative Commons licensed photos (easy to search through using keywords) or you can import your own.

To add text, change the layout, reorder slides, or do anything else, it's just a matter of tapping and swiping. The app is designed for simplicity and the navigation is intuitive and fluid.

Most importantly, the presentations Haiku Deck creates are simply stunning. Audiences will be grateful you use this app; rather than slides stuffed with too many ideas, ugly clipart, and other hallmarks of terrible business presentations, the Haiku Deck slides are elegant and emphasize your points.

Presentations can be shared via email, Twitter, or Facebook, and shared decks can be viewed in any browser (at Haikudeck.com). Decks can also be exported to PowerPoint or PDF.

You can download the app now on iTunes and have a beautiful presentation in less than half an hour.

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NVIDIA working on Linux support for Optimus automatic graphics switching

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/05/nvidia-linux-optimus-driver/

Linux godfather Linus Torvalds may have a frosty relationship with NVIDIA, but that hasn't stopped the company from improving its hardware's support for the open-source operating system. In fact, the chipset-maker is working on the OS' compatibility with its Optimus graphics switching tech, which would enable laptops to conserve power by swapping between discrete and integrated graphics on the fly. In an email sent to a developer listserv, NVIDIA software engineer Aaron Plattner revealed that he's created a working proof of concept with a driver. There's no word on when the Tux-loving masses may see Optimus support, but we imagine that day can't come soon enough for those who want better battery life while gaming on their mobile machines.

Filed under: Laptops, Software

NVIDIA working on Linux support for Optimus automatic graphics switching originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:29:00 ! EDT. Pl ease see our terms for use of feeds.

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Contour+2 review: the best consumer helmet camera on the market

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/05/contour-plus-2-review/

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• Contour+ helmet cam goes official, bringing 1080p video with wider viewing angle
• Contour+ vs. GoPro HD Hero2: through the desert and into the skies
• Contour's new mount, watersports kits help bring its cameras with you in the water, snow or dirt

It's been a little while since the two major players in the helmet cam industry, Contour and GoPro, refreshed their wares. Contour launched its Contour+ and Roam models last summer, while GoPro delivered the HD Hero2 late last year. As our extensive testing can attest, both companies put out great cameras, but with Sony about to get in the game with its $199 Action Cam, the pair need to raise their games -- and that's exactly what Contour is doing with the Contour+2.

This logically named fol! low-up t o the Contour+ is a big step forward on many levels, still delivering 1080p recording while offering many design and software improvements, including the ability to use your smartphone not just as a viewfinder, but to start and stop recording, too. Plus, at $400, it's $100 cheaper than last year's offering -- and that's despite coming with a fully waterproof case. Join us as we put it through its paces.

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Contour+2 review: the best consumer helmet camera on the market originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Watching 49 Quadrocopters Fly and Swarm Across the Night Sky Is Pretty Freaky [Video]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5940510/watching-49-quadrocopters-fly-and-swarm-across-the-night-sky-is-pretty-freaky

There's something unnerving about watching quadrocopters fly and dart around. It gets even creepier when the quadrocopters team up and become a giant swarm, morphing into different shapes like a living organism. So you can imagine what watching 49 quadrocopters littering the sky feels like. It's like seeing aliens on Earth.

The awesome show was blasted on the sky of Linz, Austria. According to DVICE, The AscTec Hummingbird quadrocopters teamed up for a show called, "The Cloud in the Web" and was programmed by Ars Electronica Futurelab and Ascending Technologies GmbH. I would probably pee my pants if I saw these flying killers in the sky. [AEC.at via DVICE]

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