Updated Moto Hint shows its face on Motorola’s website
It’s been almost a month since Motorola was in the middle of their price-slashing spree. Caught in the midst of this price-slashing spree, was the Moto Hint, Motorola’s Bluetooth ear-piece. This was dropped from the normal price of $149.99 down to $79.99 indicating a possible refresh.
Later in the same day, a new Moto Hint magically appeared out of nowhere, on Best Buy’s website. However, the new Hint that appeared, had some changes in tow. According to the listing on Best Buy’s website, the changes that could be found were not cosmetic. Instead the new Moto Hint had the following improvements:
- Bluetooth 3.0 + EDR Technology
- CrystalTalk noise and wind-canceling technology
- Voice Control
- Rechargeable Battery up to 17 hours of talk-time
The original Moto Hint was still available via the Motorola website, for the reduced price of $79.99, however today, the updated version can be found. In addition to the improved battery life, and updated features, the Moto Hint also features a new price tag. Instead of being sold for $149.99, like the original version was, this updated Hint can be purchased for $129.99.
While $20 may not seem a lot, we can definitely agree on the fact that the $150 was a steep price for a blue-tooth earpiece. Regardless of what the Moto Hint can do. Let us know if you’re thinking about picking up the new Moto Hint, and if not, what bluetooth headset/ear-pieces do you use?
Source: Droid Life
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Apple Adds New Flyover Locations Around the World to Maps
Apple today added 20 new Flyover locations to Apple Maps on Mac and iOS, highlighting new cities and landmarks in the United States, Austria, Denmark, Netherlands, Italy, Hungary, Spain, France, Mexico, Sweden, Puerto Rico, and Japan. With the new additions, there are now more than 150 Flyover locations available in Apple Maps.
For those unfamiliar with the Flyover feature in Maps, it lets users see photo-realistic 3D videos of select areas, which they can zoom, pan, and rotate through to get a close up look at notable landmarks and points of interest. Some of the locations below were previously available as Flyover destinations, but have just been officially added to Apple’s list of Flyover locations.
Budapest, Hungary
Here’s a full list of the new Flyover destinations:
– Graz, Austria
– Aarhus, Denmark
– Rotterdam, Netherlands
– Bobbio, Italy
– Turin, Italy
– Budapest, Hungary
– Cádiz, Spain
– Chenonxeaux, France
– Dijon, France
– Millau, France
– Nice, France
– Strasbourg, France
– Omaha Beach
– Ensenada, Mexico
– Loreto, Mexico
– Gothenburg, Sweden
– Malmö, Sweden
– Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
– Sapporo, Japan
– Rapid City, SD
Flyover was first introduced alongside iOS 6 in 2012, and over the course of the last three years, Apple has been steadily adding new Flyover locations to the Maps app. As of February, some Flyover locations have been updated with real-time animated landmarks, making the Flyover experience more immersive, and many Flyover locations have an additional City Tour feature that walks users through different landmarks.
Apple Adds New Flyover Locations Around the World to Maps
Apple today added 20 new Flyover locations to Apple Maps on Mac and iOS, highlighting new cities and landmarks in the United States, Austria, Denmark, Netherlands, Italy, Hungary, Spain, France, Mexico, Sweden, Puerto Rico, and Japan. With the new additions, there are now more than 150 Flyover locations available in Apple Maps.
For those unfamiliar with the Flyover feature in Maps, it lets users see photo-realistic 3D videos of select areas, which they can zoom, pan, and rotate through to get a close up look at notable landmarks and points of interest. Some of the locations below were previously available as Flyover destinations, but have just been officially added to Apple’s list of Flyover locations.
Budapest, Hungary
Here’s a full list of the new Flyover destinations:
– Graz, Austria
– Aarhus, Denmark
– Rotterdam, Netherlands
– Bobbio, Italy
– Turin, Italy
– Budapest, Hungary
– Cádiz, Spain
– Chenonxeaux, France
– Dijon, France
– Millau, France
– Nice, France
– Strasbourg, France
– Omaha Beach
– Ensenada, Mexico
– Loreto, Mexico
– Gothenburg, Sweden
– Malmö, Sweden
– Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
– Sapporo, Japan
– Rapid City, SD
Flyover was first introduced alongside iOS 6 in 2012, and over the course of the last three years, Apple has been steadily adding new Flyover locations to the Maps app. As of February, some Flyover locations have been updated with real-time animated landmarks, making the Flyover experience more immersive, and many Flyover locations have an additional City Tour feature that walks users through different landmarks.
Indie games are vast, varied and very 80s in this Megabooth trailer
There is no single definition of an “indie” video game. “Indie” doesn’t mean free, cheap, mobile, 8-bit, 3D, platformer, shooter or any other thing. Thanks to the recent, rapid evolution of game-making technologies, more people than ever are able to craft and sell their own video games with help from friends and without involving a large publisher. That’s what “indie” means — independent, but not alone.
The development community has plenty of avenues for people to gather and support one another, and one of the largest such organizations is the Indie Megabooth. Every year since 2012, the Megabooth has set up stalls at PAX East and PAX Prime showing off a selection of stellar independent games. It started with 16 games in 2012, took a trip around the globe in 2014, and will now boast a lineup of more than 70 games at this year’s PAX Prime from August 28th to 31st. The list includes beautiful digital board game Armello, intense Xbox One game Below, gorgeous space shooter Galak-Z, poetic point-and-click That Dragon, Cancer, wacky competitive game Gang Beasts (shown above), and tons more.
- Armello – League of Geeks
- Awesomenauts – Ronimo Games
- Barkley 2 – Tales of Game’s
- BELOW – Capybara Games
- Butt Sniffin Pugs – SpaceBeagles
- Captain Forever Remix – Pixelsaurus Games & Future Crayon
- Chasm – Discord Games, Inc.
- D4 – PLAYISM
- Darknet – E McNeill
- Death Road to Canada – Rocketcat LLC
- Distance – Refract
- Due Process – Giant Enemy Crab
- Eco – Strange Loop Games Inc
- Galak-Z – 17-BIT
- Gang Beasts – Boneloaf
- Hyper Light Drifter – Heart Machine
- Infinifactory – Zachtronics
- Kathy Rain – Clifftop Games
- Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes – Steel Crate Games, Inc.
- La-Mulana 2 – PLAYISM
- Ladykiller in a Bind – Love Conquers All Games
- Mini Metro – Dinosaur Polo Club
- Moon Hunters – Kitfox Games
- Mushroom 11 – Untame
- Nova Blitz – Dragon Foundry
- playsets. – the playsets team, llc
- Rising Thunder – Radiant Entertainment
- Shoot Shoot Mega Pack – Jon Remedios
- Sometimes Always Monsters – Vagabond Dog
- Stonehearth – Radiant Entertainment
- That Dragon, Cancer – Numinous Games
- The Magic Circle – Question LLC
- The Westport Independent – Double Zero One Zero
- Through the Woods – Antagonist
- To Leave – Freaky Creations
- Tumblestone – The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
- Ultimate Chicken Horse – Clever Endeavour Games
- Universe Sandbox ² – Giant Army
- Viking Squad – Slick Entertainment Inc
- Wattam – Funomena
- XING: The Land Beyond – White Lotus Interactive
- YIIK: A Postmodern RPG – Ackk Studios
Plus, check out the accompanying Minibooth and the rest of Indie Megabooth’s plans for PAX East right here.
Source:
Indie Megabooth
Tags: hdpostcross, Indie, IndieMegabooth, megabooth, PAX, PaxPrime
LastPass is now free on mobile, but cross-device syncing costs extra
If you’ve been wanting to play around with LastPass on your mobile device without paying the $12 annual fee for premium support, today is your day: the password manager just added mobile to its free tier. What’s the catch? You only get it on mobile. Starting today, LastPass users will get unlimited use of the password manager on desktops or smartphones or tablets — but if you want to sync passwords between your devices, you’ll have to pony up for a subscription.
There’s an extra caveat, too — existing free LastPass users can continue using the service as they always have, but new users will be locked into the devices they start on. If you start using LastPass free on your phone, for instance, you won’t have free access on your desktop. Check out the company’s official announcement for the full run-down of subscription changes.
Filed under:
Cellphones, Mobile
Via:
Android Beat
Source:
LastPass
Tags: lastpass, mobilepostcross, passwordmanager, passwords
Netflix is making ‘Mascots,’ a film from Christopher Guest
A group of “unusual” men and women with big heads and furry suits? We’re in. #Mascots is coming to Netflix in 2016. pic.twitter.com/zKl9L1LChg
— Netflix US (@netflix) August 11, 2015
[Image credits: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP]
Filed under:
Home Entertainment, Internet, HD
Via:
Variety
Source:
Netflix (Twitter)
Tags: ChristopherGuest, Film, hdpostcross, hdpostmini, Mascots, minipost, Mockumentary, Movie, Netflix
Makerbase knows who built your favorite website
Makerbase, a new site from Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani and former blogger Anil Dash that’s being billed as the IMDb of web design, has just launched. Just as IMDb maintains archives of the people that help produce television shows and movies, Makerbase focuses on those that create the sites and tools that make the web what it is. You won’t find listings of corporate stuffed shirts and legions of VPs here. Instead you can get information on the likes of Tracy Chou of Pinterest or Buster Benson from Locavore.
The service currently is likely to be of more use to journalists and aspiring web developers than it is for people who can’t remember what company Sergey Brin founded. Still, it could prove to be a useful networking tool for the web development community. You know, like LinkedIn but not terrible. Plus, the web itself and the technology used to build it (not just the cat videos that it contains) is becoming more deeply ingrained in pop culture. So we can expect to see more and more of these people becoming household names — looking at you Shingy — and this site wants to be where you turn to research who the rest of the office is talking about over the water cooler.
“At a surface level, it’s fun to see who makes the apps and sites we use every day, and fun for hackers and creators to be able to list all their work,” Dash told TechCrunch. “But at a bigger level, this is a powerful tool for opening up opportunity in the industry, because it shows the network and connections between people, and maybe even offers those who aren’t in the industry a glimpse into who’s making things and a chance to gain access.”
[Image Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto]
Filed under:
Internet
Source:
TechCrunch
Tags: anildash, database, GinaTrapani, imdb, Lifehacker, locavore, makerbase, pinterest, TechCrunch, webdevelopment
Pushbullet adds end to end encryption for Notification and SMS mirroring and Universal Copy and Paste
Pushbullet, the app that, amongst other things, lets you reply to your text messages from your computer and push files back and forth from your phone, has added end to end encryption. Users will now be able to safely push files and copied text back and forth from their PCs without fear of Pushbullet taking a peek.
In Pushbullet’s brief existence, the heroes behind the app have consistently added features suggested by the community. There was an initial pushback from the developers in adding end to end encryption but the company added it after realized that enabling people to take charge of their security wasn’t a bad thing.
“We know how important keeping this information private is, which is why we’ve alway used secure connections (https) like Gmail and Amazon. Secure connections do have a shortcoming for us though, the data is still visible to Pushbullet. To help you protect your privacy and ensure that nobody but you can read your data, we’ve added support for end-to-end encryption.
End-to-end encryption means your data is encrypted before it leaves your device, and isn’t decrypted until it is received by another of your devices. This means we at Pushbullet only forward encrypted data. By setting up end-to-end encryption, you can be confident that your data is only readable when it’s shown to you.“
Pushbullet is an extremely powerful app that will generally make your life much easier if you switch back and forth between your computer and cell phone a lot. My favorite feature is being able to text from my computer and have it go through my phone. A recent update brought full threaded SMS conversations with message history. It’s very easy to just reply on my computer screen instead of taking my phone out.
The other features that Pushbullet offers are just as convenient. Baked into the app is the ability to see all notifications that show up on your phone, universal copy and paste from your phone to your computer and back, and as well as sending yourself files.
Pushbullet is available for Android and iOS along with browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari across Windows and OSX. The app is so popular that fan-made versions have popped up to take advantage of the features offered by Pushbullet. You can find unofficial versions for Windows Phone, Ubuntu, and Blackberry.
Source: Pushbullet blog
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Intel’s Skylake Processor Lineup for MacBook Air Unveiled
Details on Intel’s upcoming 15-watt 6200U – 6600U Skylake processor lineup were shared today by Fanless Tech, giving us a look at what we can expect from the processors that will likely be used in Apple’s next MacBook Air update.
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The 2.3GHz i5-6200U and the 2.4GHz i5-6300U chips are appropriate for the lower-end MacBook Air models, while the 2.5GHz i7-6500U and the 2.6GHz i7-6600U would be used in the higher-end MacBook Air models. All four chips include Intel HD 520 graphics. With Skylake, Intel has opted to simplify its graphics naming scheme, adopting 3-digit numbers instead of 4-digit numbers.
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It is not clear when Intel plans to release the Skylake chips appropriate for the MacBook Air, but with full specs now available, it seems launch is imminent, perhaps planned for next week’s Intel Developer Forum.
According to the information available, 28-watt chips appropriate for the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro will not be launching until 2016. Launch dates are equally unclear for the rest of the Skylake lineup, as today’s leak only covers chips that would be used in the MacBook Air.
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Intel’s Skylake processors are expected to offer a 10 to 20 percent boost in CPU performance over Broadwell, plus lower power consumption and improved Intel HD integrated graphics performance. Better energy efficiency will also lead to up to 30 percent longer battery life.
Two New iPhones Spotted in Analytics Data Cast Doubt on Possible iPhone 6c Launch
Ahead of the launch of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, mobile app marketing platform Fiksu saw just two new iPhones in its data logs in July, casting doubt on this morning’s rumors suggesting an iPhone 6c launch is still a possibility.
Last month, Fisku began seeing two unknown iPhone models in its logs, with the identifiers “iphone8,1″ and “iphone8,2,” which likely correspond to the next-generation 4.7-inch iPhone and the next-generation larger-screened 5.5-inch iPhone, expected to be called the “iPhone 6s” and the “iPhone 6s Plus,” respectively. The current iPhone 6 Plus is “iphone7,1,” while the iPhone 6 “iphone 7,2.”
Fiksu’s data includes 87 unique “iphone 8,1″ devices and 67 unique “iPhone 8,2″ devices, with no hints of a third unidentified model that might represent the rumored smaller-screened iPhone 6c, suggesting such a device is not being tested. While the absence of a third iPhone model in Fiksu’s data does not entirely rule out the possibility of an iPhone 6c launch, when combined with previous rumors, the release of such a device alongside the iPhone 6s and the 6s Plus seems unlikely.
Rumors indicate that while Apple did initially consider launching a 4-inch iPhone 6c in 2015, those plans were scrapped due to concerns the device could cannibalize sales of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, which Apple wants to offer as a lower-cost solution when the next-generation iPhones are released. Other rumors have suggested the iPhone 6c was never intended for 2015, with Apple perhaps planning to launch a smaller-screened phone in 2016.
Despite rumors that have seemingly ruled out an iPhone 6c launch, well-known mobile phone leaker Evan Blass or @evleaks sent out a tweet last night hinting that Apple might still release an iPhone 6c. “Sounds like iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, and 6c will all arrive concurrently,” he wrote, without providing additional information.
According to Fiksu’s data, the “iphone8,1″ and “iphone8,2″ in its logs are using a wide range of apps, including travel, games, and lifestyle apps. While the majority of usage is coming from the US, the site has also seen hits from Germany and Brazil.
Apple is expected to launch its next-generation iPhones in September, likely on September 9. The iPhone event may also see the debut of new iPads and it is said to include the new Apple TV.
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