Watch or cast Amazon Instant Video from your device, other Flash content too
We all know how great Amazon Prime is with its free two-day shipping, Prime Music and unlimited Prime Instant Video steaming. The only problem with subscribing to the service is that unless you want to always use your desktop or laptop or have a Kindle Fire, iOS device, set-top box or gaming system to steam it on, you’re out of luck getting the most out of the service officially from Amazon. Amazon still hasn’t released an app for Android to steam its video service.
Although that’s true, there’s still a way to watch Amazon Instant Video on any Android device and now to cast it to your Chromecast. This can be done with Adobe Flash and Dolphin Browser. Adobe may have stopped supporting Flash for Android, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still work and on Android 4.4 KitKat too!
Here’s how to get Amazon Instant Video as well as any Flash video working on your Android device:
- Go to “Settings” >> “Security” >> make sure to allow “Unknown sources”
- Download the modified KitKat.Adobe.Flash.Player.11.1.apk on your device and install
- From the Google Play Store app, download Dolphin Browser
- Open Dolphin Browser and make sure “Dolphin Jetpack” is switched on
- Go to “Customize” >> “User Agent” and select “Desktop”
- Go to “Web Content” >> “Flash Player” and select “Always on”
- In the address bar (still in Dolphin Browser) navigate to Amazon and login to your account as you normally would
- Once in the Instant Video section, go into settings and change the video playback from “Silverlight” to “Flash”
- Select a move or TV show and enjoy Amazon Instant Video!
- Activate Android display mirroring by going to “Android Settings” >> “Display” >> “Cast Screen” if it’s not in your Quick Settings yet
Please note that Google just flipped the switch to allow Android devices to be mirrored to a Chromecast. If you have a supported device, see here for more info, you can mirror your screen and with this, watch Amazon Instant Video on your big screen along with sound as well! If you don’t have mirroring available yet, it may be coming to your device soon as Google rolls out the feature that’s currently in beta.
There you have it… a way to watch Flash content, specifically Amazon Instant Video, on your Android device or on your TV with your Chromecast.
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TSMC Now Shipping A-Series Processors to Apple for Future iOS Devices
Chip manufacturing company TSMC started shipping processors to Apple in Q2 2014, reports the Wall Street Journal. After exclusively sourcing its processors from Samsung, Apple last year struck a deal with TSMC that would see the manufacturer begin supplying A-series chips for Apple’s iOS devices.
Apple’s deal with TSMC is a win-win situation for both companies with Apple reducing its reliance on Samsung for iOS device components and TSMC receiving a boost financially from Apple’s hardware orders.
The development means Apple doesn’t have to rely solely on Samsung for microprocessors, a critical component that controls applications running in smartphones and tablets. By securing an additional supplier, Apple will have more leverage when it comes to price negotiations with its chip suppliers in the future. Through the deal, TSMC adds a high-profile customer that could help support expensive research investments the manufacturer needs to move to advanced technology and will likely boost its overall revenue this year, analysts said.
In line with previous reports, TSMC allegedly began mass producing chips for Apple using its 20-nanometer process earlier this year and is working with the company on future 16-nanometer designs. Apple also is rumored to be working with Samsung on next year’s A9 processor which could use a 14-nanometer design.
India plans to build the world’s largest floating solar farm
Solar farms need three things: sunlight, photovoltaic panels and a huge expanse of land. It’s the third in that list that’s hampering green efforts in countries like India, where space is scarce and therefore very expensive. That’s why India is copying Japan’s (pictured) idea of building floating solar farms out on the water, saving a fortune in land costs and helping to prevent evaporation in the hottest months. A partnership between India’s national hydroelectric company and Kolkata’s college of renewable energy plans to build a 50 megawatt floating solar farm — one of the world’s largest — at some point in the future. Before that, however, a small pilot project will be constructed in a lake in Kerala in south-west India later this year which is expected to generate around 12 kilowatts of power. While we can’t cover all of the world’s oceans with solar panels, it does seem like a clever fix while scientists continue to work on the supercritical steam issue.
Filed under: Science
Via: Gizmodo, Cleantechnica
Source: The Economic Times
Sonos now streams SoundCloud music collections
Sonos owners looking for more off-beat tracks than Spotify or Google Play Music offer can now access a SoundCloud beta program. SoundCloud likens itself to an audio version of Vimeo or Flickr: a platform for new artists, established acts like Macklemore, comedians and others to share tracks. Users can listen to unlimited music for free, download up to a hundred songs, join groups and even comment on specific parts of a song. If you’ve got a Sonos device like the Play:1, you’ll be able to access SoundCloud by heading to the “add music services” section in the latest Sonos iOS or Android controller app. From there, you’ve got a stupefying array of choices — 12 hours of music is loaded to the site every minute.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Internet
Source: Sonos
FreedomPop plans to bring freemium mobile data to Europe and beyond
FreedomPop — a freemium wireless carrier startup — has been trying to upend the way people pay for phone service in the US for what seems like ages now. Turns out the US was only part of the plan. The company confirmed today that it’s setting its sights abroad with a free data plan currently being tested in Belgium, with launches in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and parts of Asia expected to follow. Not quite familiar with FreedomPop? The long and short of its raison d’etre is to give you free wireless data (500MB a month) in hopes that you pay extra for bolt-on features. Those new users in Europe and Asia should be able to nab that same deal, though FreedomPop notes in a statement that the particulars could “change slightly by market”. At the very least, they’ll be able to use a FreedomPop companion app to make voice calls and fire off messages on the fly — Whatsapp and its ilk probably aren’t too worried, but maybe they should be. The potential rub for those far-flung users is that they can’t actually buy phones from FreedomPop like one can in the States. Still, with unlocked devices prevalent in seemingly every country but the US, that shouldn’t be too much of a setback.
Source: FreedomPop
Apple Placing Unprecedented Amount of iPhone 6 Orders, First Batch Estimated at 68 Million Units
Taiwan’s Business Weekly (Google Translate, via GforGames) reports that Apple has placed an extraordinary amount of orders for the iPhone 6 ahead of its launch this fall, which is said to be twice as large when compared to orders for the iPhone 5 in 2012.
The paper also states that Apple’s first iPhone 6 order will consist of 68 million units, with the device finally entering mass production later this month. This is consistent with earlier rumors about the mass production of the 4.7-inch device, although it is unknown if this newest report is referring to joint production of the 4.7-inch and larger 5.5-inch iPhone 6.
Apple is likely pushing for a large initial order of the iPhone 6 in order to avoid the supply issues that surrounded the launches of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5. While some reports have suggested that Apple may launch the 5.5-inch version of the iPhone 6 after the 4.7-inch version due to issues with display technology and battery life, a recent report from Bloomberg suggested that both devices could launch simultaneously.
In addition to a larger display, both versions of the iPhone 6 will most likely feature a thinner, curved-edge casing along with a faster A8 processor and improved camera. Following the trends of the past two iPhone launches, it is also likely that Apple will reveal and launch the iPhone 6 in September.
Google Play Games 2.0 rolling out now carrying features and improvements [Download]
New update to Google Play Games is rolling out as we speak. It is bringing a number of features and improvements, let’s see what we get in this 2.0 update.
As far as new features go we get level-up notifications and XP ranking, along with that you might notice a few UI tweaks in the app. Inbox, which was up to now reserved for game invitations only, has been tweaked and now includes separate tabs for invitations, quests and gifts. Play Now, Players and My Games screens have also been tweaked. All in all they’ve slightly changed the looks and the functionality of the app itself.
The official version of the update is 2.0.11 and if you don’t want to wait until they push it to your device you can download the .APK here, all you need is an Android 2.3+ device and you’re good to go!
Via: AndroidPolice
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Alleged Motorola device shown on video running Android “L”
Video of an alleged Motorola device running Android “L” leaked, courtesy of TK Tech News. They say the video was sent to them and that they’ll meet their source soon.
The device is wrapped in paper tape and we can’t see much expect for the screen. They claim this is not the Moto X+1 device though, rather some other upcoming Motorola smartphone. It could be a Droid device or maybe some other variation of Moto X+1. At one point in the video the device is placed next to a Nexus 5 (1:45 mark in the 1st video) and we can see it has at least 5″ screen, although it looks even bigger than that. Some sort of a phablet maybe? We actually doubt it considering it doesn’t look that big, but who knows.
We can’t say much at this point. This might as well be fake considering they could just load Android “L” developer preview on a device along with Motorola’s boot animation (2nd video). Hopefully we’ll get to see the device without that paper tape all over it in the near future. What do you think?
Source: TK Tech News
Via: PhoneArena
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Android L’s quick settings might be customizable once the OS gets released
The beauty of Android si the ability to customize it. Even without rooting the phone you have an incredible level of customization that you can apply on your device, unlike some other platforms which allow you to do very little when ti comes to this *cough* WP and iOS *cough*.
Non-rooted Android devices can’t do much when it comes to customizing built-in quick settings at the moment but that might change once Android “L” is launched. Certain user requested some feedback on this in the official Android previews issue tracker, actually he requested this feature and a member of Android “L” project responded to this. He seemed intrigued by the idea, so intrigued that we might actually see something like this once Android “L” is released or in the future updates to it.
This of course doesn’t have to mean absolutely anything, but it might. I personally would definitely welcome a feature like this, how about you?
Source: Code.Google
Via: PhoneArena
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[DEALS & STEALS] Get the Moto X for $299 ($100 off) until July 16 on Net 10
Moto X might not be the newest device but it is still quite powerful. Not only that but it is one of the first devices (after Nexus ones) to get the newest Android updates and it still packs some awesome features no other device has.
If you’re one of those people who doesn’t need to have the newest and the shiniest devices all the time you might want to get this offer. You can now get the Moto X for $100 off by visiting Motorola’s official website and selecting Net 10 as your carrier, after which you’ll of course proceed with the remaining steps (customizing it via Moto Maker to your pleasing) and get it shipped your way.
You have until July 16 to take them up on this offer. Please note that cases are 50% as well. This seems like a nice offer if you’re not waiting for Moto X+1 or something like that.
Source: Motorola Mobility (Twitter)
Via: AndroidPolice
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