Google+ will AutoAwesome your year in pictures and videos
With the year wrapping up, it’s always great to look back on what you accomplished in the past year.
Facebook does this for you with its Year in Review feature and now Google is going to do just the name with with Google+ and #AutoAwesome
You may be familiar with some of the most recent #AutoAwesome features, such as the newest that adds falling snow to your photographs, but Google just announced one more feature, the “#AutoAwesome year in review.”
As with all Google+ updates, your account will be updated automatically, as long as you’ve been uploading photos and videos all year, and you will be notified when your version is ready to share.
Google will then automatically sort through you photos, choose the best content and create a sideshow made up of your photos and videos from the year.
Notifications about the update are expected to start rolling out in the next week or so.
via +AnilSabharwal
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Disney locks down a Christmas deal, 12 apps on sale for $0.49
Looking to fill your phone or tablet full of Disney games to keep your kids entertained before the holiday festivities? I know I am. It looks like Disney pulled in some favors and has managed to get, for now, 12 games in the their Play Store portfolio on sale for $0.49. Last I checked, but I could be wrong, the lowest price you can list an app for is $0.99. So, what do you look to gain? Well, you could hit up their developer page and take a look at all their apps for yourself, or just check out the ones on sale in the list below.
- Disney Christmas Tree
- JellyCar 3
- Monsters University
- Monsters, Inc. Run
- Temple Run: Oz
- Temple Run: Brave
- Toy Story: Smash It!
- Where’s My Mickey?
- Where’s My Mickey? XL
- Where’s My Perry?
- Where’s My Water?
- Wreck-it Ralph
There are also a number of other games that have always been free, but are offering in-app purchase sales.
- Seven Dwarfs: Queens Return – 15% extra gold
- My Muppets Show – 30% extra Diamonds
- Disney Hidden Worlds – 30% more gems
Better get to business, I’m sure the little ones will appreciate it. I wonder if it’s only 12 apps to hint towards the 12 days of Christmas, or if its just a handy coincidence.
Island Of The Lizard King Is Tin Man Games’ Fourth Fighting Fantasy Gamebook
Last week, gamebook developer extraordinaire, Tin Man Games, released the fourth chapter of its Fighting Fantasy franchise, Island of the Lizard King. The Australian outfit has released multiple great stories in the past year, like the most recent addition to the Gamebook Adventures series, Curse of the Assassin, and is keeping up the steady stream of great stories and well-made gamebook apps.
This latest adventure puts you in the shoes of a hero who will attempt to rescue prisoners from the clutches of the Lizard King on Fire Island. The book includes a lot of wonderful hand-drawn illustrations and the neat ability to switch between retro black and white reading and full colour reading.
Island of the Lizard King is available for purchase on the Play Store now for $5.99, so if you’ve got a bit of time to burn or want to relax with a book with RPG game aspects over Christmas, there are few better choices than this newest Fighting Fantasy gamebook.
Game: Island of the Lizard King
Price: $5.99
Press Release
Will YOU become the hero of Fire Island?
Tin Man Games’ fourth Fighting Fantasy digital gamebook app, Island of the Lizard King, arrives on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad today, following a recent Android release on Google Play and the Amazon Appstore for Android.
Kidnapped by a vicious race of Lizard Men from Fire Island, the young men of Oyster Bay face a grim future of slavery, starvation and a lingering death. Their master will be the mad and dangerous Lizard King, who holds sway over his land of mutants by the strange powers of black magic. Will YOU risk all in an attempt to save the prisoners?
Smart phone and tablet users can now take a voyage to the infamous Fire Island. Tin Man Games has taken the classic Fighting Fantasy solo adventure and transformed it into an interactive digital experience, using their critically acclaimed gamebook engine. With animated page-turning, dynamic links, an automated adventure sheet to show changing stats and inventory, the reader can also roll physics-based 3D dice to bravely fight the myriad of strange denizens that inhabit the jungles and swamps.
Ian Livingstone, co-creator of the Fighting Fantasy series and author of Island of the Lizard King, said: “It’s been a pleasure to work with Tin Man Games on this project. They have succeeded brilliantly in capturing the essence of Fighting Fantasy, re-imagining Island of the Lizard King for digital audiences. The new features are great, auto-mapping in particular, and readers will need all the help they can get to deal with the Gongchong and Lizard Men who are looking forward to welcoming hapless victims to their island!”
The Island of the Lizard King app makes good use of the latest smart phone and tablet hardware, using the increased screen space of tablets to read horizontally or vertically. A retro mode has been included for nostalgic Fighting Fantasy fans, which displays the classic black and white illustrations, while those readers who want full colour can see those same images beautifully rendered.
Fighting Fantasy: Island of the Lizard King is now available to download from the iOS App Store, Google Play and Amazon Appstore for Android. It costs $5.99 USD/£3.99/ 5,49 €.
‘Evasi0n’ Untethered Jailbreak Updated for Newer iPhones, iPads and iOS 7.x
The popular Evasi0n jailbreak has been today updated for iOS 7.x., marking the first time users have been able to deploy an untethered jailbreak on any device running iOS 7.0 to iOS 7.0.4, including newer devices such as the iPhone 5c, iPhone 5c, iPad mini with Retina Display, and iPad Air. The method allows for users to jailbreak their devices to make use of unauthorized like themes, tweaks, and apps from sources other than the App Store.
However, Cydia administrator Jay Freeman noted on his Twitter that he was not informed about a new version of Evasi0n before its release, also indicating that the build of Cydia installed with the new jailbreak is not official and may lead to some compatibility issues with existing downloads on the service. However, users on our forums are actively pointing out which Cydia apps are compatible with the new jailbreak, and it is recommended you look there for specific information.
Evasi0n is available now for OS X and Windows as an untethered jailbreak, with users only having to apply the method once. Tethered jailbreaks requires users to have their devices connected to a computer each time they restart.
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BLU’s Life Pure smartphone delivers 1080p, a 13-megapixel camera and 32GB of space for $349
BLU Products can offer a lot of smartphone for the money, but its devices seldom come with the sharp screens and ample memory that you’d expect from rivals. The company is closing that gap with its new Life Pure, however. The $349 unlocked handset carries the same 5-inch, 1080p screen that you’ve seen on flagships from the past year, including the HTC Droid DNA; it even stuffs in a 13-megapixel rear camera, a 5-megapixel front camera and 32GB of storage, giving it more overall media prowess than a similarly-priced Nexus 5. With that said, you won’t want to chuck your reference Google phone out the window just yet. The Life Pure is running on a slower 1.5GHz quad-core MediaTek chip (albeit with 2GB of RAM), doesn’t include LTE and uses Android 4.2. This isn’t an early adopter’s phone, then. Still, we can see some buyers trading performance for features when the Life Pure goes on sale in the near future.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Source: Virtual Press Office
Apex Launcher 2.2 Exits Beta And Enters Play Store To Bring KitKat To All
After spending just a month in the beta stage, Apex Launcher 2.2 has exited the prototype stage is now available for all on the Google Play Store. This update is designed to bring Apex Launcher in line with Android 4.4 KitKat and its competitor custom launchers to take advantage of all the new goodies that KitKat has introduced. The full list of improvements, as seen on its Play Store page, include:
- Kitkat scroll indicator (homescreen & drawer)
- Kitkat quick search bar style
- Kitkat folder style
- Transparent status bar option (Kitkat)
- Icon font option (Android 4.1+)
- More Kitkat visual tweaks
- Fixed icon/shortcut disappearing
- Other bugfixes
- Updated translations
While you will need KitKat to use some of the cooler things like transparent notification bars, there’s still a lot for you to enjoy like icon fonts customization and the like. As always, Apex is a free app to download with a $4 upgrade fee should you choose to accept; Play Store links are below for your convenience.
Who’s liking what they see from Apex Launcher 2.2? Let us know what you think about the KitKat improvements.
Source: Android Police
Application: Apex Launcher
Price: Free
The best HDTV deals of the week: 12.22.13
With Engadget’s new tools, you can track price drops on thousands of devices every day, and once a week we feature some of the best deals right here. But act fast! Many of these are limited-time offers, and won’t last long.
Have all of your shopping wrapped up already? No? Well, we’re here to lend a hand. You’ll decide quickly in order to make sure one of these HDTVs arrive ahead of the holiday, but a trio of worthy options with attractive price cuts await on the other side of the break. Be sure to visit our product database to monitor prices on these gadgets and more as they move around. Join us and add the gadgets you’re shopping for to your “Want” list; every time there’s a price cut, you’ll get an email alert!
Price: $798 (regularly: $1,300)
Buy: Amazon
Vizio’s 42-inch E-Series smart HDTV sees a $500 discount here, enabling you to save significant coin and nab built-in Netflix and Hulu streaming at the same time. According to our price drop tool, this is the lowest price on the unit in a month, too.
Price: $1249 (regularly: $2,300)
Buy: Abe’s of Maine
Matching its 90-day low, the LG LA7400-series 55-inch offering sees a $1,050 price cut just ahead of Christmas. The display’s ultra-thin bezel and 240Hz refresh rate make it a worthy consideration, especially at a lighter hit on the ol’ wallet.
Price: $3,298 (regularly: $4,000)
Buy: Amazon
If you’re after a much larger unit for viewing those holiday pastimes, this 70-inch Sharp option should do the trick. Outfitted with the company’s Quattron color tech, this HDTV is also WiFi enabled for streaming that Home Alone marathon later this week.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
iPhone 5s and 5c to reach China Mobile on January 17th, 2014
Finally. Following a false start a couple of weeks ago, Apple has confirmed that the iPhone 5s and 5c will reach China Mobile on January 17th, 2014 as part of a multi-year deal. As hinted earlier, both smartphones will support the carrier’s TD-LTE and TD-SCDMA networks. Pricing isn’t available just yet, but customers can pre-register starting on December 25th. The partnership is Apple’s largest yet, at least in terms of sheer numbers — even if only a small fraction of China Mobile’s 700 million-plus customers buy iPhones, they’re bound to significantly improve Cupertino’s bottom line.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Apple
Source: Business Wire
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