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Thursday, March 06, 2014

drag2share: The Co-Founder Of Flickr Made A New Personalized Version Of Yelp

source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/businessinsider/~3/oscofhRCQ-k/how-to-use-findery-app-iphone-2014-3

Caterina Fake, the co founder of photo site Flickr, unveiled a new app today called Findery.

iPhone owners can use this free mobile search engine to discover and share interesting notes about locations they visit.

"It's not about reviews or venues. Its really about the meaning of the place, spirit of the place. We're trying to make technology more human" Fake told to Business Insider over the phone.

Findery identifies your current location and will send you a slew of public or private notes written by other people in the app's network relating to a restaurant or bar.

These notes can range from personal stories or historical information instead of generic restaurant reviews.

It launches today for iPhone. See below to learn how to use it.

Here's the main page of the app.

How To Use Findery

The app will take you through a brief demo before taking you to the account page. Create a username and password but the username has to be comprised of numbers and other characters.

How To Use Findery

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drag2share: Samsung's wearable blitz may not be over: here comes the 'S-Circle'

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/06/samsung-s-circle-fitness-wearable-leak/

Compared to the glitz surrounding its latest Gear smartwatches, Samsung's more basic fitness bands have so far failed to garner much attention. The electronics giant doesn't seem to be giving up on this cheaper sort of wearable, however, because an unannounced model called the "S-Circle" has just cropped up at the FCC, having already appeared at the Bluetooth SIG a while back. The FCC paperwork confirms the device's model number (EI-AN900A) and description as an "activity tracker," as well as its inclusion of Bluetooth Low-Energy, and all of this points to it being a member of the same family as the S Band (shown above) and Heart Rate Monitor Band that launched with the Galaxy S4 last year. There's at least some chance that the S-Circle will combine these functions into a single low-cost device, transmitting both movement and heart rate data to Samsung's S-Health app, but that's just optimistic speculation on our part. Either way, it looks like Galaxy S5 owners who care more about muscle tone than Moschino may have the option of another accessory pretty soon.

Filed under: Cellphones, Wearables, Mobile, Samsung

Via: Samsung Updates

Source: FCC

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drag2share: Opera's Android browser catches up to rivals with support for webpage video chats

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/06/opera-android-browser-version-20/

Given Google's Chrome dominance, it's easy to forget that there are other Android browsers. Opera is one of the also-rans, and it's just brought a new version with a nice round number, 20, for your consideration. It's touting WebRTC as the main hook, which lets you do video calls straight from Opera to any recipient with another WebRTC browser. That includes Opera, Chrome or Firefox, since the latter two apps have actually supported WebRTC on Android for quite awhile. Other additions include a new UI layout that you can customize for tablets or phones, an update to the Chromium 33 core (yes, Opera now uses WebKit), search improvements and a new download manager. It still claims to use less data than other browsers thanks to its off-road function, so if you're pushing that hard carrier limit, check the source.

Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Software, Mobile

Source: Opera

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Article: Flipboard Acquires Social Magazine Zite From CNN

Flipbooard today announced that it is acquiring social reading mobile magazine Zite from CNN. In addition, Flipboard has entered into a strategic partnership with the cable news giant, one of the largest TV and news publishers in the world owned by Time Warner. All of CNN's worldwide coverage wil...

http://readwrite.com/2014/03/05/flipboard-acquires-social-magazine-zite-from-cnn

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Article: F-Secure report shows once again why you should stick to the Play Store for app downloads

Finnish security company F-Secure published its Threat Report for the second half of 2013, which includes a section dedicated to mobile security issues. According to the company, threats in the mobile space are almost entirely surfacing within the Android ecosystem, with 97 percent of malware ide...

http://www.androidauthority.com/f-secure-malware-report-353918/

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Article: Kirabook 13-i7s-touch Ultrabook Review

The first generation of Toshiba's Kirabook was an ambitious shot at creating a high-end product with MacBook-like buzz. That slim 13-inch magnesium-alloy laptop was even the first post-Retina PC we'd seen with a better-than-HD screen resolution -- a feature now becoming increasingly common in the...

http://www.cnet.com/laptops/kirabook-13-i7s-touch/4505-3121_7-35835199.html?subj=cnet&tag=title

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Article: Opera for Android 20 brings WebRTC support, configurable layouts, and redesign

0 by Bogdan Petrovan on March 6, 2014 8:33 am Opera for Android is receiving a sizeable update today, bringing support for WebRTC-based video chatting, new UI layouts, a redesigned speed dial page, and a smarter download manager. The new Opera for Android allows you to jump in video chat sessions...

http://www.androidauthority.com/opera-android-webrtc-layouts-354414/

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drag2share: 'Wello' iPhone case can track your blood pressure, temperature and more

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/06/wello/

Last year, Scanadu caught our attention with Scout, its simple-to-use tricorder-style health monitor. Now a new iPhone case promises to make monitoring your vital signs even easier. Called Wello, the case has sensors built in that can give you a picture of your overall health after holding it a special way for just a few seconds. The slim device measures your heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, and blood oxygen levels and displays the ECG waves from your heart -- you can even test your lung function through a small included attachment you blow into.

Designed to be both fast and simple to use, the prototype we tried out this week was ultra-light, and thinner than the Speck case on one of our iPhones. Readings are done with your hands in a comfortable position, and the health tracker was able to return our vital signs as well as a fancy ECG graph of our heart in just a few seconds. Out of the box, you'll be able to pair it with your Wi-Fi scale and fitness tracker, so you can keep an overall picture of your health in the same place. Over time, additional add-ons could become available for the case to test for other things like glucose. Everything you track can be viewed on a daily, weekly, or monthly scale so you can see at a glance if your health starts to change.

Founder and CEO Hamish Patel has been working on the technology behind Wello for two years. He told us that he sees the device not only being useful for people in the US, but even more so for people in developing countries where access to health services are limited. When the $199 device ships this fall (pending FDA approval) it will be available for the iPhone 4S, 5, and 5S in 35 countries. Android users can also use Wello, but as a standalone device rather than a case for their phone. All of the tech for Wello is contained in a removable card roughly the thickness of your average business card. Azio plans to make the card available for other manufacturers to include in cases, so you might ultimately see Wello come to a third-party Android case, or even a different iPhone case.

Wello is open for pre-orders today in United States as well as Canada, China, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Kingdom and across the EU. Early buyers can earn $10 for each person they get to pre-order -- depending on how many people you refer, tracking your health could be not only easy, it could be free.

Filed under: Cellphones, Science, Mobile

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Wednesday, March 05, 2014

drag2share: New HTC One dual-lens camera shown off in detailed leak

source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/05/htc-dual-lens-camera/?utm_source=Feed_Classic_Full&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget&?ncid=rss_full

Leaked images and videos of the HTC One's successor are a dime a dozen, so we've already seen every possible nook and cranny of the device. Why, then, are we reporting on the latest find by @evleaks? It gives us the closest and clearest look of HTC's rumored dual-lens camera setup so far, which is shaping up to be one of the most intriguing features on the phone. It features a smaller lens just above HTC's standard lens and dual-LED flash, but the purpose of is still a complete mystery. Plenty of theories exist, and we reported on the most likely possibilities demoed at Mobile World Congress last week. Ideas include the ability to cleanly magnify distant subjects without using digital zoom, enhancing low-light performance (which was an area HTC focused on with the One), quicker autofocus and the ability to change a picture's depth of field. Whether or not these particular benefits show up, it's hard to dispute that a parallel-lens setup is indeed coming to HTC's new flagship smartphone

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drag2share: You can now mirror your Android screen on Chromecast, if you have a Nexus 5

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/05/mirror-for-android-chromecast-support/

Koushik Dutta demos Android screen mirroring on Chromecast

Cyanogen's Koushik Dutta has been teasing the prospect of mirroring your Android screen on Chromecast for a few weeks, and today you can finally try the feature -- if you have the right smartphone, that is. An updated version of the Mirror for Android beta includes early support for mirroring to either a Chrome browser or Chromecast, but only if you have a Nexus 5. Google's phone is the sole device with the hardware video decoder needed for this mirroring technique, Dutta says. You also have to get root-level access to the operating system with the current release, although that won't be necessary in the future. Provided you meet the app's exacting requirements, you can give mirroring a spin at the source link.

Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment, Mobile

Source: Koushik Dutta (Google+)

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drag2share: A Coloring Book That Puts Kid-Designed Fashions On a Virtual Catwalk

Source: http://gizmodo.com/a-coloring-book-that-puts-kid-designed-fashions-on-a-vi-1536251814

A Coloring Book That Puts Kid-Designed Fashions On a Virtual Catwalk

Right Said Fred knew the appeal of the catwalk, and now kids can get in on the glitz and glamor with this new coloring book from Crayola that lets them design custom clothes and then see their creations virtually modeled. And it goes without saying that an iOS tablet or smartphone is required, but not included.

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drag2share: OnLive reborn: can the cloud gaming company find footing with two new services?

source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/05/onlive-cloudlift-onlive-go/?utm_source=Feed_Classic_Full&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget&?ncid=rss_full

In early August 2012, OnLive employees told us that the cloud gaming company was close to falling apart. Despite creating an impressive service rooted in a futuristic idea -- playing bleeding edge PC games on the highest settings, remotely, streaming from the cloud to virtually any device -- a cocktail of financial issues all crested at once. The result was mass layoffs ("at least" 50 percent), including lead evangelist and company CEO Steve Perlman. OnLive had a new owner, venture capitalist Gary Lauder, and a renewed directive to become profitable. Then, the company went silent.

"My focus has been on turning this from proof of concept into a real business."- Gary Lauder

Its services continued operating -- business as usual, as it! were -- and as media, we didn't hear a peep. The usual trade show appearances and interview opportunities dried up. Our last post about OnLive before this was in February 2013. Today, that's changing: the company is re-opening the lines of communication, announcing two new initiatives in CloudLift and OnLive Go.

The first, CloudLift, takes the cloud streaming concept of OnLive and applies it to games you already own. By logging in with a Steam account (required, at least for now), games you've got attached will be "unlocked" in the cloud, playable using the OnLive client or Microconsole anywhere else (including save data that syncs between devices). Of course, not all games registered or bought through Steam will work with CloudLift; just 20 games are launching with the service today, with "dozens more planned." Lauder told us OnLive's game onboarding process has been streamlined significantly, specifically with the intent to bring more games, more rapidly to OnLive.

The First 20 Games

Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY	Batman: Arkham City GOTY
Batman: Arkham Origins	Darksiders II
Dead Island GOTY	Dead Island: Riptide
LEGO The Lord of the Rings	Metro 2033
Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition	MX vs. ATV Reflex
Painkiller: Hell and Damnation	Red Faction: Armageddon
Saints Row IV	Scribblenauts Unlimited
Strike Suit Zero	The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
The LEGO Movie Videogame	The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief
Truck Racer	Type: Ri! der

Interested? OnLive's hoping you're interested enough to drop $15 every month for the functionality (there's also a seven-day trial). It goes live today.

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drag2share: How to make a mini crossbow with just a bottle cap and popsicle sticks

Source: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/how-to-make-a-mini-crossbow-with-just-a-bottle-cap-and-1536563253/@caseychan

How to make a mini crossbow with just a bottle cap and popsicle sticks

Here's some fun you can have at home with little to no effort: make a mini crossbow from a bottle cap, two popsicle sticks and a rubber band. You can fire off flaming arrows, toothpicks, skewers, Q-tips and more with just your thumb.

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drag2share: Chrome beta for Android lets you send web videos to your Chromecast

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/05/chrome-34-beta-android/

Chromecast support in Chrome beta for Android

Want to stream any web video from your smartphone to your Chromecast? Grab the beta release of Chrome 34 for Android. The browser includes experimental support for sending embedded clips to Google's media stick, saving you from launching a native app just to watch something on a TV. As you'd expect, there are some compatibility hiccups at this early stage. YouTube works well (surprise!), but other sites are hit and miss -- you're best off sticking to videos from major, HTML5-friendly hosts like Vimeo. If you're willing to live with some inconsistencies, though, you can try the streaming feature today.

[Image credit: WhyYouPaul, Reddit]

Filed under: Cellphones, Software, HD, Mobile, Google

Via: Liliputing

Source: Reddit, Google Chrome Releases

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drag2share: Here's How A 'Bitcoin Bank' Was Robbed Of Every Single Coin It Held Online

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/flexcoin-robbery-2014-3

bitcoin banned graphic

Yesterday we wrote about Flexcoin, the latest Bitcoin site that had to shut down after a massive theft that wiped it clean of every single Bitcoin it held online.

The company has now posted an explanation of how it happened:

During the investigation into stolen funds we have determined that the extent of the theft was enabled by a flaw within the front-end.

The attacker logged into the flexcoin front end from IP address 207.12.89.117 under a newly created username and deposited to address 1DSD3B3uS2wGZjZAwa2dqQ7M9v7Ajw2iLy

The coins were then left to sit until they had reached 6 confirmations.

The attacker then successfully exploited a flaw in the code which allows transfers between flexcoin users. By sending thousands of simultaneous requests, the attacker was able to "move" coins from one user account to another until the sending account was overdrawn, before balances were updated.

This was then repeated through multiple accounts, snowballing the amount, until the attacker withdrew the coins. (Here and Here)

Flexcoin has made every attempt to keep our servers as secure as possible, including regular testing. In our ~3 years of existence we have successfully repelled thousands of attacks. But in the end, this was simply not enough.

Having this be the demise of our small company, after the endless hours of work we've put in, was never our intent. We've failed our customers, our business, and ultimately the Bitcoin community.

Please direct any and all questions to admin(at)flexcoin(dot)com and we will reply to you as soon as possible.

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