Switching from iOS to Android: A helpful guide
When I made the switch from iOS to Android, it was pretty easy. I was already using Google services for as much as I possibly could. It was part of the reason I decided to switch. Why use Apple products to access Google services when I could use Google products to access Google services?
So when it came time to transfer over my contacts, calendar, photos, music, email and other services I used Google to log into, it was just a matter of entering my log-in credentials. And because I’m a nerd who likes to plan out technology changes like this, I made a list of all the apps I couldn’t live without, found them in the Google Play store, and bookmarked them so that when I got my first Android device, it would just take a few taps to complete the switch from iOS to Android.
Sadly, not everyone is like me. Some people use other services. Some people use Apple products to access Apple services.
For you unfortunate people out there, Google has created a handy-dandy guide for switching from iOS to Android.
It will take a bit of work, but it will make the switch pretty painless, and at the end of the day, you will have the following data on your shiny new Android device,
- Photos/Video
- Contacts
- Apps
- Music
Are you planning to make the switch from iOS to Android? Let us know in the comments how helpful Google’s guide was.
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Butterscotch Shenanigans releases their Crashlands Alpha trailer showing much more juicy detail
Suffice to say that when I see some news about Butterscotch Shenanigans and their new games, I get a little giddy inside. It’s been awhile since we last reported on Crashlands, but it appears the game is alive and kicking, and kicking ass at that. Butterscotch Shenanigans have just released their Crashlands Alpha trailer and the game is looking pretty impressive with the usual Butterscotch Shenanigans flair. Check it out:
The art style of Crashlands is textbook Butterscotch Shenanigans, which is a very good thing, and the new crafting and scavenging aspect of the game appears to be well endowed at this point. I’d almost say Crashlands is a 2D, top-down version of Minecraft – that is, if I didn’t mention the awesome combat that it possesses. Crashlands has come a long way from Quadropus Rampage, and although there are clear cues from that earlier game, Crashlands appears to have built on that foundation and made something that is significantly more tactical – I mean, seriously, you can tame animals and make them fight for you! I know I can’t wait to try it, but you’ll have to wait till Spring 2015 to play the free-to-play title.
What do you think about Crashlands? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: YouTube via Pocketgamer
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RETRY looks like Rovio Mobile’s latest attempt to make you destroy your mobile device
As if Flappy Bird wasn’t enough, Rovio Mobile has decided to release a new game along the same lines as the virally famous one-button game with RETRY. Assuming a similar genre of 2D side-scroller, RETRY assigns you a plane which you must nurse through a number of obstacles. Naturally, there is only one way to control your plane: hold the screen to spin your propeller, release and your plane will do a loop-de-loop. Sound infuriating? That’s exactly how I felt after just watching the trailer – check it out below:
Much like Flappy Bird, you’re likely to continue playing RETRY if only for the infuriating achievement of finishing one level only to be confronted with another equally patience testing obstacle course. If you are a gluttony for pain, the Play Store link to RETRY can be found below where you can download the game for absolutely free. Now excuse me while I try to punch a hole through the centre of my phone playing this game.
Game: RETRY
Price: Free
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Meets with Top Chinese Official After iCloud Login Harvesting Claims
Apple CEO Tim Cook met with a top Chinese government official in Beijing Wednesday to discuss the security of user data, reports Reuters. The meeting comes after web censorship blog Great Fire claimed earlier this week that hackers worked with Chinese authorities to harvest Apple ID information from Chinese users visiting iCloud.com.
Yesterday, Apple issued a statement acknowledging the attacks on its servers and launched a new browser security guide on its website. The guide stressed the importance of digital certificates, asking users to check for any certificate warnings in their browser and ensure that they are connected to iCloud.com versus a malicious third-party website that resembles the service’s homepage.
China has become an increasingly important market for Apple, as the company now has eleven retail stores in the country and sells the iPhone on all three major wireless carriers. Apple also launched the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in China last Friday following a week of successful pre-orders.
Note: Due to the political nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Politics, Religion, Social Issues forum. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts.
Smart skates can help prevent figure skating injuries
A team of engineers at Brigham Young University are developing smart skates specifically for athletes who spin, jump and do crazy pirouettes on ice. Why? Well, figure skaters land with a force equal to six times their body weight when they jump (according to the team’s paper published earlier), so they’re prone to injuries like broken bones and impacted joints. These special skates can measure how hard the athletes land, enabling them to correct angles or to time their spins better to prevent accidents. Unfortunately, you can’t just put a small analyzer on skates like you would on a baseball bat or a tennis racket to measure the force of a landing.
So, the engineers attached strain gauges and circuits to a pair of ice skates’ blades, along with a device that digitizes and stores the data they collect. While they made sure the components are almost weightless and won’t affect a skater’s performance, the current design’s still pretty raw, as you can see below. The team’s hoping tweak it further — make it more accurate and refine its looks — before it comes up with a product people can actually buy.
[Image credit: Shutterstock / Sergey Nivens]
Via: Motherboard
Source: IOP Science
CeX begins trading in Bitcoin at stores across the UK
Technology swap shop CeX has today become the first UK retailer with a far-flung high street presence to widely support Bitcoin. Earlier in the year, CeX briefly experimented with the cryptocurrency at one of its Glasgow locations, which also became home to Scotland’s first Bitcoin ATM, shortly before it started supporting the virtual tender on its website. And from today, 32 CeX stores across the country will now happily accept payment in Bitcoin, as well as credit you in the cryptocurrency for anything you’d like to trade in. All being well, CeX plans to roll out support to more branches in due course, as well as install additional in-store Bitcoin ATMs at select locations — because petty thieves can’t live on Bitcoin alone now, can they?
[Image credit: Kake Pugh/Flickr]
Filed under: Internet
Via: The Telegraph
Source: CeX
Bowers & Wilkins’ first Bluetooth speaker oozes Brit style
Bowers & Wilkins wants you to keep up appearances with the T7, its first portable Bluetooth speaker. The bespoke UK audio company has certainly nailed the design, with an elegant honeycomb “micro matrix” cabinet designed to reduce vibration and distortion. It’s also got twin bass radiators, high-quality Bluetooth aptX and audiophile electronics and drive units. Bowers & Wilkins has promised intuitive light cues and minimal buttons, plus a whopping 18-hour battery life. The only thing that might give you pause is the $350 price tag, a premium over the beloved, but still-not-exactly-cheap $300 Big Jambox, for example. Still, considering its objet d’art looks, if the sound quality measures up to all of Bowers & Wilkins fancy adjectives, it might be worth the extra 50 bucks.
Filed under: Home Entertainment
Source: Bowers & Wilkins
Activehours: A new way to get paid faster
For years and years, we as people have kept to the tradition of how we get paid; work, work some more, work again, and keep working until payday rolls around and we can actually enjoy the rewards of putting in our time. It can be hard to wait so long until you actually receive the money you deserve every day.
This is where Activehours comes in, a very neat and innovative way to get paid way before our payday comes along. Does this sound crazy? Sure, but it’s true.
Activehours connects with your bank account and where you work, and you take a snapshot of your time sheet for the day or the week, send it in to Activehours and then money is automatically transferred to your bank account whenever you want. You can cash in all your hours worked, or only a few if you wish. The app does not charge you at all or put interest on your transfers, but gives you the option to leave a tip. It’s up to you.
The app itself is very sleek and professional looking. Navigation is simple, and it was very easy to understand all the areas of the app (there really aren’t that many). Establishing connections is very secure (they use 256-bit encryption to protect confidentiality of information) and the app will send a couple test transfers to your bank account to see if everything is working. Of course, the test transfers are empty and contain zero money.
The app is available to workers as well as Uber and Lyft drivers that have direct deposit set up with their employer. The maximum amount you can cash in per day is $100 but can increase the more you use the service and tip the app.
Activehours announced a new feature today called Lightning Pay, where cash-ins can transfer to your bank account in seconds including nights and weekends and marks a new era for the paycheck- On-demand pay.The service is now offered in beta to select users on the Activehours mobile app and is only available for certain banks that support it, so I haven’t gotten to test it out yet.
This app is a really convenient way to get paid when you want to rather than waiting awhile for payday. As a college student, two weeks can seem like forever as I wait for my paycheck, so this app has been helpful for grabbing twenty bucks in time for the weekend. I urge you to try the app out like I have and let us know how it’s treated you so far!
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Apple Maps now lets small business owners add their own info
When Tim Cook apologized for Apple Maps in 2012, he promised to do everything to make the app better. The company’s latest push to improve its navigation app involves putting all the small businesses it can on Apple Maps — that is, with a little help from the owners themselves through a new portal called Maps Connect. The service lets owners add or edit their establishments’ locations and gives them the opportunity to beef up their their profiles with their businesses’ website, Yelp , Facebook and/or Twitter pages. They can even sign up for iBeacon (the company’s indoor tracking tech) installation on the page, though at the moment, Apple’s prioritizing businesses with more than a million visitors every year and offer WiFi throughout their premises.
If this initial crowdsourcing effort makes Apple Maps a lot better (Google, for one, thinks crowdsourcing’s a solid idea to improve its own app, hence the Waze acquisition), we wouldn’t be surprised if Apple launches other, similar projects. According to SearchEngineLand, Maps Connect is only open to folks in the US for now, but the company promises to add more countries in the future.
Filed under: Misc, Mobile, Apple
Via: iMore
Source: Apple Maps Connect
Finally, an open-source smart toothbrush with a subscription plan
But what if you really want to know exactly what you’re doing with that fancy toothbrush via the web or your smart device? That option (which includes a 3-axis motion tracker plus stats via an app), will set you back $150. To be fair, that also grants software access to the accelerometer and built-in microcontroller to do with what you will. The whole shebang is open source, so the hope is the development community will build even more apps to take advantage of the hardware. Of course, none of this will be possible unless the $12,500 crowdfunding goal is reached. But you do want Oral B to have some competition, don’t you?
Filed under: Household, Mobile
Source: CrowdSupply
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