The transparent design of this hard shell gives your HTC One M8 clear protection that lets the original look of your device shine though! It includes a shock absorbing bumper that fits inside the shell for extra protection against drops, and it’s extremely slim, making it easy to slide in and out of your pockets.

CARROT Weather is a new app in the CARROT line. Like the rest of the CARROT apps, Weather puts you at the mercy of a twisted robot, this time, for your forecasts.

Weather features what the developer calls “eerily accurate” forecasts and weather readouts. You can get your current weather, as well as forecasts for the next hour, rest of the day, and for the next three days from the hovering platform at the bottom of the screen. Swipe up to get a more detailed look at your current weather, as well as a seven-day forecast. That contains data points like wind speed, humidity, and barometric pressure.

The personality of the app shines through in the “weather scenes.” You’ll find scenes above your forecast, and you’ll get one of several scenes based on the current weather. For instance, you might see someone encased in a block of ice if it’s cold, or a person looking through a telescope on a clear night.

There are a number of secret joke locations as well. They don’t really mean anything, but are fun to find. You’ll unlock them by look at the weather for certain real locations, like Cupertino, California. Secret locations include Mount Doom, the Moon, and even Apple’s R&D Labs.

CARROT Weather is a universal app for iPhone and iPad, and available now on the App Store.

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Custom smartphone case maker Casetify has now expanded to include selling custom bands for the upcoming Apple Watch for the price of $50.

The company’s website includes a user interface for customers to upload a photo from their Facebook, Instagram or their local PC to be used as the basis for the Apple Watch band design. There’s also the option to use a pre-generated design provided by Casetify. After the design is applied to the band, the user can also select from a number of color filters that can be applied.

Casetify is also offering four limited edition Apple Watch bands with pre-generated designs. It states:

A selection of high-quality silicon bands hand-picked by our designers. The Launch Collection represents highly sought after designs, available in a limited quantity in sizes 38mm & 42mm.

For the next 48 hours, Casetify is offering 20% off the price of an Apple Watch band with the promo code “WATCH20″. Shipments of the first bands are supposed to happen in June. Apple has already announced that replacement bands for the Apple Watch will be priced between $49.99 and $449.

Source: Casetify

Atari announced the launch of Atari Fit for iOS and Android. Available now, Atari Fit incentivizes device owners to get fit while earning points to unlock games.

It’s an interesting move from the renowned video game publisher, attempting to bridge the gap between fitness apps and casual mobile games. As well as offering health goals, the app motivates folk to get fit with a gamified mobile experience, combining elements from both fitness and gaming industries. A perfect marriage for those who find exercising a chore.

The app itself was also developed in collaboration with fitness expert Michael Porter, a certified personal trainer and performance enhancement specialist. Over 100 exercise and 30 workout plans are included in the experience, with customizable programs including full-body workouts, running programs and conditioning routines.

Highlighted features include:

• Support for wearables (Fitbit, Jawbone, etc.) by connecting to Apple HealthKit, earn in-game rewards.
• Connect with Apple HealthKit, Runkeeper or Facebook and receive useful data.
• Join a team and workout together or race against each other.
• Post your achievements to social media.

Atari Fit is set to challenge you regardless as to how fit you may be already. It’s also a cool concept and one we know many casual gamers will enjoy. Atari games unlocked through Atari Fit include the likes of Pong, Super Breakout, and Centipede. It’s simply an added bonus that you’ll be keeping fit in the process.

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See the press release below for more details.

Now that it’s possible to add our own, personal music collections to Xbox Music using OneDrive, we run into the potential problem of duplicate tracks. If you upload a song or album you already have in your Xbox Music library, it’s unlikely you want it to show up twice. Fortunately, there’s a really easy way to get rid of the duplicates.

Is the Dell XPS 13 the right laptop for you? Check out these reviews to find out.

It’s been a few months since Dan has given his hands-on with the Dell XPS 13, and lots of other owners have weighed in with their opinions. We’re rounding up critic opinions and giving a brief tour of the Windows laptop so folks considering a purchase can get a comprehensive perspective on whether or not it’s the right move for them. Of course, we welcome existing owners to sound off in the comments with their own experiences as well.

Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff has started a new, Star Trek-themed event with today’s update.

The event sees the crew of the USS Enterprise enter the game, travelling back in time to 2015 in order to protect Stewie Griffin, the genius baby of the Griffin family from the Borg. Here’s what you’ll find in the update:

• Engage in actions with your favorite Starfleet members, including Spock, Data, Worf, and more, all while embarking on deep space adventures and asteroid shooting. Pew pew!
• Interacting with the transporter to send your crew on missions across the galaxy? We got that!
• Creating cool stuff with the replicator? We got that too!Getting rid of hairy tribbles? Hell yeah, we’ve got that!
• But danger looms around the corner. The Borg have recruited Bertram (yes, Bertram!) as their new leader and are preparing to assimilate both Quahogians and those aboard the USS Enterprise!

The event runs from today, March 19, through April 30, and features characters from both Star Trek: The Next Generation and the original series, including Captain Picard, Data, Worf, Geordi La Forge, and Captain Kirk, all voiced by their original actors.

You can download Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff from the App Store now.

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Just because you’ve bought a Mac doesn’t mean you have to buy an iPhone too. Here’s how to get your Windows Phone and your Mac working together.

Windows Phone runs a distant third behind iOS and Android in terms of U.S. marketshare, but Windows Phone isn’t something to ignore. A lot of Windows Phone handsets are inexpensive and work quite well. The appellation “Windows Phone” may give you a sense that such a device is not to be used with a Mac. But they can coexist quite happily.

W.F. writes:

“I just got my first Mac but I’m still using a Windows phone. Do I have to buy an iPhone if I want to sync data and listen to music from my Mac?”

The short answer is no, you don’t need an iPhone. You might need some additional software, but the good news is that it’s free.

I’ll admit that Apple tries to make it easy to have an iPhone and a Mac together; iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite introduced Continuity, a new set of features that makes it seamless to go from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac, or vice versa.

Having said that, Microsoft has taken steps to make sure that Mac users and users of Apple’s iCloud services aren’t left out in the cold.

The first thing to know is that you can set up your Windows Phone to access your iCloud account, so you can send emails, access calendars and see contact information that’s shared on your Mac, in the cloud.

All you need to do is tap on the Settings app on your Windows phone, go to email accounts and tap add an account. Select iCloud, enter your account information and password, and off you go — your Windows Phone is now synced to your iCloud account. Any changes you make on your phone should be reflected on your Mac, and vice versa, without any manual syncing.

Of course, that’s only one piece of the puzzle. W.F. wants music from his iTunes library on his Windows Phone too. Fortunately, Microsoft offers a free Mac app for download that helps. It’s not perfect, but it gets the job done.

Windows Phone is a free app available for download from the Mac App Store that helps you sync media files from your Mac. It can sync photos and videos you’ve recorded on the phone back to your Mac, too. It also lets you put movies, TV shows and podcasts in your iTunes library on the phone, and browse media files that are already on your devices.

It’s important to note that the Windows Phone app only works with files that are free of DRM, or digital rights management (copy protection) features, so TV shows and movies you’ve downloaded from the iTunes Store won’t work (music should, though — Apple stopped copy-protecting music from iTunes years ago). But if you’ve “ripped” stuff yourself from DVDs you own using tools like Handbrake on your Mac, they should work just fine.

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If you’re a Windows Phone user and you’re looking for the best Windows information, make sure to check out our sister Mobile Nations site Windows Central!

If you have a question or need help with something iOS or Mac related that you just can’t figure out, I encourage you to drop a question in our iMore forums, no registration required!

Role-playing game fans can find plenty of mobile Final Fantasy games on the market, with several more like Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius and Final Fantasy Legends: The Space-Time Crystal due out this year. On the whole, they range from re-releases of classics to mash ups of characters from various games to original titles bearing the Final Fantasy name. But there has never been a mobile Final Fantasy MMO in the vein of Final Fantasy XI and XIV… until now.

Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix and the Korean branch of Nexon Corporation (Maple Story) have announced plans to bring the first massively multiplayer online Final Fantasy — Final Fantasy XI — to mobile platforms in 2016. The mobile version will feature both single-player and online multiplayer gameplay.

Originally released on PC in 2002, Final Fantasy XI is Square-Enix’s longest-running and most successful MMO to date. Nexon Korea plans to recapture that magic on smartphones and tablets while adding some improvements of its own:

• Improved single-player functionality
• Enhanced battle system
• Easier party organization
• New in-game events and features
• New character art style

Seeing as how Final Fantasy XI Mobile is still a long way off, much about it remains up in the air. The chief question is how it will be monetized. Existing versions of the game charge players a $13 monthly fee. Subscription models don’t tend to work well (or at all) on mobile. But will the mobile game be entirely free to play, or will it be premium with in-app purchases?

Hopefully we’ll find out well before Final Fantasi XI Mobile launches next year. The game will be released in North America, Europe, Japan, Korea, and parts of Asia.

In other Final Fantasy XI news, Square Enix plans to release a three-part final scenario to the PC game this year. After that, only bug fixes and content balance updates will be released. Additionally, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2 versions of the game will stop being supported in March 2016. They’ve had a good run!

Hugo Barra, the VP of Xiaomi Global, says a project by Microsoft to run a ROM of Windows 10 on the Mi4 smartphone is an “experimental program’.

Barra offered more details on the Xiaomi Mi 4-Windows 10 program, which was announced by Microsoft earlier this week at its WinHEC 2015 hardware conference in China, on his Google+ account.