Monthly Archives: September 2015

Fresh Meat: 10 new Android apps worth checking out

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New apps need lovin’ too, right? Every day there are thousands of additions to the Google Play store, but many go unnoticed and never receive the attention they deserve. We’ve shown in the past that this community can discover great apps and propel them to new heights. Our weekly Fresh Meat column highlights new apps with fewer than 100,000 installs. Browse our new Android app picks below and let us know which ones you enjoy.

Minimal Todo

Minimal ToDo

Description: Minimal todo is a very light and useful app, allowing you to add todos easily and quickly. It follows the Material guidelines completely.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Oink

Oink

Description: The Oink app is a free to use app that allows families to setup and manage payments for all family members. Teens and tweens can manage their funds using the COPPA compliant Oink app.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Pay with Rewards

Pay with Rewards

Description: MasterCard Pay with Rewards ™ allows you to use your rewards to reimburse purchases at millions of participating locations worldwide. This app allows you to connect an eligible MasterCard card and configure when and where your rewards will be redeemed for purchases.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Android Pay

Android Pay

Description: Android Pay is the simple and safe way to pay with your Android phone at over one million store locations across the US (and soon in apps).

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Adobe Captivate Prime

Adobe Captivate Prime

Description: With the Adobe Captivate Prime App, take your learning with you, wherever you go. Download your training, consume it even when you are offline and be assured of your progress getting tracked.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Misfit Link

Misfit Link

Description: The Misfit Link app lets you use any Misfit Flash or Misfit Link to take a selfie with your phone camera app; control your music with Spotify, Pandora, Soundcloud, or Google Play Music; or advance slides in a presentation.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Inkboard

Inkboard

Description: Inkboard is an easy and fun way to draw on pictures or blank canvas with life-like creative tools. Draw on photos using realistic drawing tools: Pens, markers, highlighter, pencils, crayons and erasers.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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FanDuel

FanDuel

Description: FanDuel brings you one-day fantasy sports leagues for real money. Winners get immediate cash payouts. No season-long commitment. Join public leagues or play with friends. Over $10 million paid out every week! Entry fees start from $1.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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CBS All Access

CBS All Access

Description: Watch full episodes of your favorite TV shows live & on-demand with CBS All Access! Stream your local CBS broadcast (select markets) or catch up on full seasons of hit shows like NCIS, The Good Wife, The Young and The Restless & ad-free classics like CSI:Miami.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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 TPG by American Red Cross

TPG by American Red Cross

Description: The TPG App is the mobile version of the Compendium of Transfusion Practice Guidelines, a review of blood usage guidelines published in English in peer-reviewed journals from the Red Cross.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Séptimo aniversario de Android: Analizamos su historia hasta el momento

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Tal día hace 7 años…

Google y los creadores de Android (Andy Rubin, Rich Miner y Chris White) anunciaban el lanzamiento oficial de un nuevo Sistema Operativo: Android 1.0 Apple Pie. Un mes después podíamos ver el primer dispositivo móvil con Android: el HTC Dream. Este terminal, con una pantalla táctil de 320 x 480 píxels y 256 MB de memoria con teclado físico, sería el inicio del SO más usado hoy en día.

Su competividad con iOS siempre le ha caracterizado, incluso se han acusado de copiarse mutuamente, es la llamada “Guerra de patentes”. De hecho, hoy en dia son prácticamente las dos alternativas más famosas a la hora de escoger un móvil. ¿Cómo ha conseguido Android llegar hasta ese punto?

La compra de Google y sus versiones

Android nació en octubre de 2003, en Palo Alto, California. En aquel entonces Symbian, iOS y Windows Mobile eran los tres SO para móviles más usados.

Fue en 2005 cuando el “gigante” Google (que tenía la gran necesidad de comprar un SO para hacer frente al auge de iOS) compró Android por tan solo 50 millones de euros. Gracias a los recursos de Google, Android pudo salir adelante y sacó más versiones. Todas esas versiones tienen nombre de “dulces”:

  • 1.0 Apple Pie: El Android más “primitivo”, pero que integraba navegador web, Google Maps y Bluetooth.
  • 1.1 Banana Bread: Muy poco desarrollada. Permitía adjuntar archivos en mensajes o reseñas cuando buscabas negocios en el Maps.
  • 1.5 Cupcake: Avances destacados como el teclado virtual (hasta ahora solo eran teclados físicos), aparición de los Widgets, la auto-rotación y poder grabar y reproducir vídeos.
  • 1.6 Donut: Lo más destacado fue la posibilidad de integrar la Síntesis de Voz que permitía que Android “hablará” además de entender tu voz.
  • 2.0 Eclair: Posibilidad de utilizar flash en tus fotografías o establecer fondos de pantalla animados.
  • 2.2 Froyo: Integración del dictado por voz y la posibilidad de mover aplicaciones a una tarjeta externa (MicroSD)
  • 2.3 Gingerbread: De las actualizaciones más vendidas. Muy utilizada en su día. Orientado para videojuegos entre otras características: posibilidad de presionar, mantener la pantalla además de copiar y pegar. Soporte para dos cámaras: aparición de la cámara frontal además de la trasera.
  • 3.0 Honeycomb: No destacó mucho. Integraba Android para Tablets por primera vez. Interfaz mejorada.
  • 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich: Por primera vez aparecen los botones “Software“, es decir, no son físicos. Posibilidad de hacer capturas de pantalla. Grabación a 1080p.
  • 4.1 Jelly Bean: También forma parte de las versiones mas utilizadas hasta hace unos años. Destaca por el incremento de velocidad, la integración de Google Now, y algunas mejoras de en seguridad.
  • 4.4 Kit Kat: Actualmente la versión más usada. Se pule la interfaz: barra de notificaciones y navegación transparente, widget de música en la pantalla de bloqueo, nuevas transiciones y aparición del modo inmersión.
  • 5.0 Lollipop: Si Kit Kat mejoraba la presentación, en Lollipop se re-diseña de manera brutal. Se introduce el Material Design, notificaciones en pantalla de bloqueo, barra de notificaciones no llega se despliega del todo, animaciones sin retrasos y naturales, modos personalizables de prioridad de notificaciones… Cambios destacados en la batería: aumento de su duración y integración del modo “Ahorro de batería”. Mejorado también para relojes y pulseras inteligentes.
  • 6.0 Marshmallow: Aún no ha salido al mercado. Solo en fase preview. Habrá la posibilidad de leer la huella dactilar.

Androids físicos

Android en datos

Desde su primer lanzamiento hoy hace 7 años, Android tardó 3 años en convertirse el SO para dispositivos móviles más utilizado. En 2010 superó al iPhone en ventas, y en 2013 por cada 100 mobiles vendidos, 90’2 funcionaban con Android. Esto es debido básicamente a que aproximadamente el 90% del código de Android esta bajo licencia “Apache“, es decir, libre y abierta a todo el mundo. De esta forma, Android se asegura de su actualización por parte de terceros y su continuo crecimiento a parte de ser más barato; al contrario de como es iOS.

Datos Android 2015

Resumiendo: Android surgió como la alternativa sencilla, eficaz, libre y con opciones a desarrollarse, características que no tenían en parte los otros sistemas operativos del momento, y provocó que creciera de manera exponencial hasta su séptimo aniversario. Quien sabe que nos deparara Android en un futuro…

¿Y tú? ¿Tienes Android en tu dispositivo?

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LG’s Nexus 5X leaked again, color schemes shown off for good measure

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Earlier today, an image leaked that showcased the Nexus 6P and all of its colored options, preparing those waiting to see what Google officially announces on September 29 for their color of choice. Now the Nexus 5X from LG has received the same treatment in a pair of leaks.

The first of which showcases the front and back of the handset, showcasing that familiar black front, along with a white back plate that features a camera that sticks out a bit, a fingerprint reader, that bold Nexus logo, and the standard camera flash.

LG Nexus 5X color leak

The other image shows the back of the handset again, but this time with a little more color. Below the Quartz White option there’s the Ice Blue and Charcoal Black variants. Just as it was with the Nexus 6P leak, we can’t see the front of the colored options, but the safest bet at this point is that they’ll be black, too.

If you could buy any of the three options right now, which color would you go for?

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Get the Galaxy Note 5’s ‘screen off memo’ feature on Note 4, Note 3 and Note Edge

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Screen off memo on the Galaxy Note 5. Photo: SamsungThe Galaxy Note 5’s new “screen off memo” feature, which lets you jot down notes while the device is asleep, has been ported to the Galaxy Note 4, the Galaxy Note 3, and the Galaxy Note Edge. So long as you have a rooted device, installation is easy. Screen off memo is activated when you

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4chan’s New Owner ‘Rick Rolls’ His Minions: 7 Things We Learned About Hiroyuki Nishimura

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On Tuesday, new 4chan owner Hiroyuki Nishimura held a Q&A for his community. Naturally, 4chan users treated it as a hazing ritual.
Nishimura gave as good as he got, indicating he knew exactly what he was getting into. The founder of 2Channel, the anonymous Japanese culture message board that inspired Christopher Poole to build 4chan, he’s the man Poole called “the great-grandfather of all of this.”
See also: How The 4chan Sale Returns The Controversial Forum To Its Anime Roots
4chan usernames are both anonymous and temporary, so the original Q&A is already gone from the boards. However, the 8 p.m. ET session is preserved for posterity on an unofficial 4chan archiving site and in a 41-page Google Document, racial slurs, swearwords, and all. If that’s a bit racy or lengthy for you, I’ve collected some of the highlights.
4chan’s new owner is pretty hard to troll. 
Nishimura opened the conversation with an open poll asking users to pick his next username. Just as Poole went by “moot” on 4chan, Nishimura plans to have a moniker, too.
Not surprisingly, 4chan users outdid themselves, submitting outlandishly obnoxious suggestions for Nishimura, from the culturally offensive “Hiroshima Nagasaki” to the obligatory 4chan stab at his sexuality, “Faglord” to Asian (albeit inaccurate) slurs such as “gook.”. Nishimura, unfazed, responded in kind, answering the question, “How small is your penis?” with, “Same as yours.”
Nishimura’s English is good and his 4chan literacy is even better.
A Japanese citizen, Nishimura learned English while studying at Central Arkansas University as an exchange student. When a 4chan user asked him whether it was easy to learn English, Nishimura replied, “easier than French.”
Nishimura told users that he’s spent time lurking 4chan “since met moot.’” When asked if he would be making any major changes to 4chan, Nishimura responded, “What is significant other than .” (This is a 4chan-born meme called Rick Rolling that users are more than familiar with.)

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Leaked blurry photo shows HTC One A9 in a white color scheme

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A blurry photo of HTC One A9 made the rounds online, showcasing the handset in a white color scheme. The mid-range smartphone is expected to debut at the end of this month, on September 29 alongside a high-end HTC device.

Despite the photograph’s subpar quality, the upcoming One A9 clearly resembles a lovechild of Apple iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy S6. The handset appears to pack a metal body, as well as a fingerprint sensor that’s integrated into its home button.

Rumored specs of HTC One A9 include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 chipset, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of expandable memory, 13MP main camera with OIS, and 4MP front-facing snapper. A 5″ 1080p AMOLED display and 2,150mAh battery are also said to be on board. Past report suggests that the handset will boot Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box.

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Pebble’s new smartwatch is Round and super slim

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Pebble Time Round is the thinnest smartwatch so far. Photo: PebblePebble’s latest smartwatch forgot it’s hip to be square. The Pebble Time Round has a circular display that hopes to appeal to traditional watch wearers, and compete round rivals like the Moto 360 and Samsung’s upcoming Gear S2. Its all-metal design is also the thinnest and lightest Pebble has crafted to date. Despite that slender form factor,

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