Deal: Lifetime subscription to IDrive Mobile Backup for only $10, Hiku Mobile Shopping List for just $59

Whether you’re looking for an easy way to back up your phone’s data or a more convenient way to create a grocery list, the Android Authority Deals Store has you covered! Right now, you can save 79% on a lifetime subscription to IDrive’s Unlimited Mobile Backup service, as well as 25% off the Hiku Mobile Shopping List! Take a look below for more details.

IDrive’s mobile backup solution allows you to back up contacts, photos, videos, calendar events and more with support for up to five devices. Your backup information is then stored safely and securely in the cloud, with 256-bit AES encryption. The service works with Android 2.2 or higher, and also supports Windows Phone and iPhone for those with multiple platforms in your household. Thanks to the Android Authority deals store you can get lifetime access to the backup service for just $10. Not bad at all!

Have you ever left the grocery store and realized you forgot to pick up numerous items? You’ll never have to run into that situation again, thanks to the Hiku Mobile Shopping List. For just $59, you’ll receive a small barcode scanner that will allow you to scan the barcodes of items you know you’ll need to pick up at the store. If you don’t happen to have access to that item’s barcode, however, the Hiku barcode scanner will also let you speak the name of your item. All items you enter into the scanner will combine to make one big digital shopping list that you can view and edit on your mobile device. This is certainly an interesting and fun way to perform an everyday task that isn’t normally all that enjoyable.

If you’re interested in any of these awesome promotions, check out the links below.

• Buy a lifetime subscription to IDrive Unlimited Mobile Backup for $10
• Buy the Hiku Mobile Shopping List for just $59

Watch the first full-color HD videos of Earth from space

It’s no longer a challenge to get astonishingly sharp photos of the Earth from space, but video? That’s another matter. UrtheCast is about to open the floodgates, however. It just released the first batch of full-color, high-definition video of Earth recorded from the International Space Station. In many ways, the extremely sharp footage (with detail down to 3.3 feet) of Barcelona, Boston and London is like an internet mapping site come to life — all those pathways are suddenly full of moving boats and cars. The Iris imaging system that recorded these movies won’t be fully operational until the summer, but the preview suggests that its customers will get plenty of insights into traffic and other activity that’s harder to track from the ground.

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The best of Public Access Vol. 1

When we introduced Public Access just over two weeks ago, we dubbed it “community storytelling at its weirdest.” It appears y’all took the “weird” to heart. You told us your stories about “Growing up geek,” showed off your haiku skills with poetic takedowns of your ISPs and shed some light on everyday app addictions. I, for one, feel like I know you better than I ever wanted expected. (“Gun Waving Toddlers” anyone?)

This week, we waxed nostalgic about a Commodore Amiga 2000 that runs hot and cold — literally, it controls the heating and AC — for Grand Rapids Public School district. Why not write a love letter to your first computer? Whether it was a love-hate relationship or a torrid affair, we’ve all loved and lost. We know it’s hard to unpack the baggage. But we believe in you.

Or you could just take a look back at best of Public Access after the break.

RECOMMENDED READING

“My phone now has earned the twitch status of my wallet, my hand reflexively tapping whatever pocket it should be in, creating a giant flux of anxiety if it’s not there. Worse still, inside sits tiny voids of dependency that exist to control the tire fire that is my brain.” — Ed Zitron, My horrifying digital dependencies

See also: For your app-roval: For the News Junkies by Miné Salkin

Technology and geekdom kind of rolled up on me initially. I was in a college journalism program and year one, we were hacking away at typewriters. I even remember my professor hitting me on the knuckles with a ruler and how mortified I was. The next year, the personal computers were in and the typewriters out. There was no discussion of what had just happened. I am not even sure the journalism program realized what a watershed moment had occurred. — Chris Caroll, Growing up Geek

See also: Growing Up Geek OR Unleashing the Genie In The Gadget by Pierre Fontaine

“Though there have been significant challenges along the way, [Moore’s] law has proven remarkably prescient in predicting a key element in the ongoing innovation cycles of the chips we find in the heart of all our devices: how small the transistors would get and, therefore, how many we could fit within a reasonably-sized silicon die.” — Bob O’Donnell, The new semiconductor challenge: Doing more without Moore

IT’S HAIKU TIME, Y’ALL!

“Charter, you hurt me

Blackouts, back to the Stone Age

Why won’t you love me”

Jason Bradley, Charter Internet Haiku — Please Love Me

See also: PenTeleData — My ISP Haiku by Thomas Harrison
& Throttle Me Gently — Haiku by Gil Rimon

The homepage is coming soon! in the meantime you can check out the latest from Public Access right here. Not a member? Apply, and keep the weird alive.

YOUR DOSE OF INSPIRATION

Love and PCs: The story of your first computer
Tell us about your first memories of using a computer. Was it a desktop? Laptop? Or something much larger? Whether it was a love-hate relationship or a torrid affair, we all have a story to tell. If you can remember the model, dig up a pic and include it in your post.

IT nightmares
With a device as old as the Commodore Amiga 2000 running its heating and cooling, the folks of Grand Rapids Public Schools have no doubt had some unique IT issues. Whether you were the one providing the advice or the one who needed an emergency reboot, tell us about your worst IT issues and how you survived them.

Pro tip: Create a new, original headline for every post to make it stand out.

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Pandora For Gaming: The GameOn Project Launches On Android

These days, games are as much an integral part of owning a smartphone as making phone calls are. Which is not to say that everyone is an avid gamer (Spoiler Alert..I am!) but I can assume that many have at least one fun game used to pass the time, when time permits. Finding said games though can be difficult in today’s saturated market, as everyone and their brother is trying to publish something on the Play Store in hopes of being the next Angry Birds. While not all bad, you can’t always tell what is going to be fun and what is going to be a waste of time.

Regardless of which side you are on when it comes to gaming addiction, we can all agree that it would be nice if games were just chosen for us with the idea that they had been matched to our gaming preferences. Wait, what is that I hear? There is and it’s available now!? Crazy. The GameOn Project can be best described as a mixture between Pandora and hundreds of gamer’s. You see, the way The GameOn Project works is by using their property algorithm, like Pandora, to match you up with games that they system feels you would enjoy. What makes it stand out from other similar systems though is that instead of just having you select a genre or a few similar games, it learns from you and from other users! The system launched a while back for other platforms and today it is making its way over to Android!

“Ok, we need to lighten the mood“

Let’s say that you and random person have both been playing and selecting similar games for the last week, The GameOn Project would pick up on that and if the other play selected, let’s say “Game One”, then The GameOn Project might be inclined to showcase it to you if the other player liked it. Now imagine that happening with hundreds and thousands of users and you have a very powerful system. You can try the app out for yourself using the link below and make sure to drop us a comment below telling us what you think about The GameOn Project!

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FCC levies its largest fine in history against AT&T

We’ve been dealing with network providers throttling data speeds for a few years, ever since the exit of unlimited data plans, and the introduction of data tiered plans. Well AT&T seems to have finally gotten a little bit of what they deserve with the latest ruling from the Federal Communications Commission.

According to the filing that was released today, the FCC is slapping AT&T with a $100 million fine for throttling data speeds to customers with unlimited data plans. This will mark the first time that the FCC has levied a fine this large against any company.

Within the report, the FCC has claimed that AT&T intentionally slowed data speeds for those who are still rocking the older unlimited data plans. These users experienced speeds that are lower than what every other customer receives which is where the violation lies.

Tom Wheeler, FCC Chairman, after experiencing a tremendous amount of heat over the whole Net Neutrality issues that have been around for the last year or so, seems to be on the side of the consumer, although this was a prepared statement.

Consumers deserve to get what they pay for. Broadband providers must be upfront and transparent about the services they provide. The FCC will not stand idly by while consumers are deceived by misleading marketing materials and insufficient disclosure.

Now, there will be an appeal by AT&T for sure, so although the $100 million fine is the largest ever levied against a company by the FCC, this number could drop. Also worth noting, the consumers that have been affected by the drop in data speeds from AT&T, will not reap any of the rewards, instead, any judgement will be nested into the U.S. Treasury.

Let us know your thoughts on the reports and fines found by the FCC, and whether this is a start of things to come for these mobile service providers who attempt to bully around the consumers.

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