Sound off! What are your favorite apps for traveling abroad?
It’s summertime. Besides the living being easy, it’s the perfect time for some much needed rest and relaxation. The next time you head out of town on vacation, you’ll probably rely on your smartphone to help get you around. What are some important applications that make traveling and communicating easier? Which translator apps help you order food? Are you using VoIP to stay in touch with relatives? Do you rely on Airbnb to figure out where you’re going to stay each night? How do you keep track of your flights? Head over to the Engadget forums and share your favorites!
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GameStop’s trade-in pricing is now less confusing
You’ve brushed up on memorizing lines of dialog from Goldeneye, yeah? Well good, because they’ll come in handy now that GameStop has confirmed the specifics of its new system for selling back the games you no longer want. The outfit has issued a press release that it’s moving from a ten price-point system for trade values down to four: cash, credit and cash or credit with its in-store loyalty system — the latter of which will net the most for your transaction. What’s it all mean? Well, apparently there are now over 100 titles that are worth at least $20 should you want to pre-order Destiny come August 18th. We wouldn’t count on any of them being more than a year old, though.
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Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment, HD
Source: GameStop
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Dropbox for Android finally gets a smarter search system
With cloud storage options becoming as numerous as actual clouds peppering the sky, it’s nice to see app developers hunkering down to make serious improvements. That’s exactly what the folks at Dropbox did with their latest Android app update — it packs the ability to preview documents (perfect for all those lengthy, similarly titled PDFs you’ve got kicking around) but the biggest draw here is the app’s much-improved search system. Need to find a pesky file hidden in a certain folder? That’s a cakewalk now. Hazy on the exact name of the photo you’re looking for? The app suggests filenames while you peck out your furtive queries, and highlights potential matches while you type. If anything, the only sore spot here might be the brief wait involved: the update hasn’t hit our devices just yet, but Dropbox says it’ll trickle out into the wild over the next few hours.
Source: Dropbox
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