Daily Archives: August 15, 2014

Top 10 Android app updates this week: Uber, Dropbox

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Welcome back to our weekly Top 10 Android App Updates column, where we take a look at the most frequently upgraded apps for the week. We’ve found that one of the best ways to discover useful apps is to find the ones that are actually being updated by the developers rather than selecting the apps with the most installs. As in the past, we’re going to filter out minor updates for the super-popular apps that have over 10 million installs, but we’ll make exceptions for apps that have had significant updates. We hope you enjoy this weekly feature and that you discover some apps that end up being useful.

Dropbox – Version 2.4.3

Dropbox

What’s new in this version:

  • In-app previews of Word, PowerPoint and PDF files
  • New search experience that tracks recent queries and shows typeahead suggestions
  • View-only permissions for shared folders for Dropbox for Business users
  • Cache performance enhancements
  • Lots of bug fixes and improvements
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Xbox One SmartGlass Beta – Version 2.4.1408

Xbox One Smartglass

What’s new in this version:

  •  Share and post activity feed items
  • Post status updates to your activity feed
  • See your activity feed on your profile
  • Display messages in a new conversations view
  • Record game clips
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Mailbox – Version 1.1.0

Mailbox

What’s new in this version:

  • – Now translated into 19 languages, including Chinese (both Simplified and Traditional), Danish, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish (both European and Latin American), Swedish, Thai and English
  • Swipe and hold to create an Auto-swipe pattern
  • Batch swipe
  • Print your emails (Android 4.4 and up)
  • View spam and mark messages as spam
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Amazon Kindle – Version 4.6.0

Kindle

What’s new in this version:

  • Read books in immersive full-screen mode (Android OS 4.4+)
  • Tap the bottom right corner of a page to lock orientation
  • Control playback from the lock screen while audio is playing in the book
  • Choose system brightness in reader settings
  • Navigate table of contents by sub chapter
  • Pair with Bluetooth devices (Permission)
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Box – Version 3.2.1

Box

What’s new in this version:

  • Introducing Box Notes on Android! Including the ability to bold, italic, underline, bullet, number list, indent, outdent, and cut/copy/paste.
  • New Recently Opened files list
  • New options for shared links: set expiration dates and prevent downloading
  • New client settings that admins can control: copy/paste, opening into other apps, and automatic content uploading
  • Ability to pull to refresh a folder list
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Seagate Media App – Version 2.7.0.14

Seagate Media

What’s new in this version:

  • Play to Chromecast, LG TV* and Roku* (*require newer devices)
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Uber – Version 3.9.1

Uber

What’s new in this version:

  • We’ve rebuilt the app from the ground up, and — simply put — it works much faster and better. Expect enhanced performance, revamped design, and easier access to your favorite features like Fare Split and Share My ETA.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Google+ – Version 4.5.0.729

Google Plus

What’s new in this version:

  • Cast a slideshow of the photos, videos and links shared to your stream, directly on your TV
  • Edit Auto Awesome Movies on select devices (http://goo.gl/TPy8Gr)
  • Additional bug fixes and performance improvements
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

HTC Sense TV – Version varies

HTC Sense TV

What’s new in this version:

  • Sense TV Sports now support American Football (NFL, NCAA)
  • Sense TV Sports now support Tri-Nation Rugby
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

iHeartRadio – Version 5.1.0

iHeartRadio

What’s new in this version:

  • For You – Find a new world of stations you’ll love, based on the music you listen to.
    New Player – Go to Settings > Player Display to unlock it.
    Search – Rebuilt and lightning fast. Millions of tracks, thousands of stations.
    Listen longer with more battery life and fewer bugs.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 shows up in AnTuTu benchmark

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Qualcomm really loves to tease its upcoming mobile processors early, even if they’re not coming out for a long long time. We’re still playing with the Snapdragon 801 and waiting patiently for the all powerful Snapdragon 805 to come to mainstream devices, but it looks like Qualcomm is already testing the Snapdragon 810 processor. Or at least, so an AnTuTu benchmark says.

According to AnTuTu, the rig with the Snapdragon 810 contains an impressive 4GB of RAM, a WQXGA (2560×1600) resolution display, an Adreno 430 GPU and Android 4.4.2. Interestingly enough, the processor was clocked from 200 MHz to 940 MHz, not reaching anywhere near its possible limit. Considering the Snapdragon 801 goes all the way to 2.5 GHz, this chip was just scratching the surface of its potential in these benchmarks.

Apparently the results are good considering the low clock speed. But the processor is still a long way out, as it will not ship until at least the first half of 2015, most likely on the later side of that. So don’t get too excited, as we won’t see this kind of power for a while.

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You Can Get Hacked Just By Watching This Cat Video on YouTube

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You Can Get Hacked Just By Watching This Cat Video on YouTube
The only thing you need to do to render your computer’s secrets — your private conversations, banking information, photographs — transparent to prying eyes is watch a cute cat video on YouTube. Do that, and you’ll catch the interest of a nation-state or law enforcement agency that has $1 million or so to spare.

August 15, 2014 at 2:48PM
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