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Android's Design Principles And The Calculus Of The Human Pleasure Response

# 2013-05-19 08:22:56, TechCrunch
Android UX and interaction design leads Helena Roeber and Rachel Garb gave a talk at Google I/O this year about the Android Design Principles (ADP) they helped create and introduced back in 2012 with the launch of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The ADP foll three simple principles, essentially "enc...

How Hike, India's Fast Growing Mobile Messaging App, Is Banking On SMS & Local Diversity To Beat The...

# 2013-05-18 08:45:23, TechCrunch
It’s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app Hike is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its 5m registered users. Those numbers sound insignificant when you stack them up against the big beasts of the messaging space – WhatsApp claims 200m+ monthly a...

EyePaint, WWF Together, and More

# 2013-05-17 12:00:00, Gizmodo
It's been a long week, and you deserve a break. Fortunately, this week's set of apps for iPad are full of fun and relaxation, and there's even app ready to do the work for you. Lucky you.Read more...

Festival Ready, Beer Hunt, and More

# 2013-05-17 12:00:00, Gizmodo
The summer season is just about to be upon us, and this week came bearing a whole slew of apps ready to make sure you're having maximum fun while maintaining maximum responsibility. We hope.Read more...

Google Play In-App Purchase Revenue Growth Jumps 7X In One Year, Subscription Revenue Growing 2X Eac...

# 2013-05-17 09:18:13, TechCrunch
Google held a session today at I/O 2013 about how to make money on Android, and in the initial few minutes it shared some updated stats around Google Play revenues and how those are progressing. Not surprisingly, the big growth is coming with in-app purchases, though Google's recently launched subsc...

Social Trip Planning App Tripshare Converts Travel Inspiration To Bookings

# 2013-05-17 06:27:29, TechCrunch
Tripshare, an iPad application for travel planning, is joining a crowded space. But its CEO knows a little something about the industry – Bob Dana was the former employee No. 1 and first CFO of Virgin America. He once wrote the business plan and feasibility study for Sir Richard Branson in 2003. ...

How to voice dial with AutoVoice

# 2013-05-17 05:15:11, Pocketables
AutoVoice is neat, but to be able to use it for everything, it’s important to be able to tie it into existing voice control services. One of those services was unknown to me until I saw a question about it on Reddit, namely the voice dialer. This is a very specific part of the Google The post How ...

Vevo Dostępne Po Polsku

# 2013-05-17 03:52:59, TechCrunch
Vevo, popularny serwis muzycznych teledysków, ogłosił oficjalną dostępność w Polsce. Usługa, wcześniej niedostępna w tym regionie geograficznym, będzie zawierać video-clipy najpopularniejszych polskich gwiazd jak Brodka, Pezet, a może i nawet David Hasselhoff.

Life-Tracking App Expereal Is Your Personal Weapon Against Cognitive Biases

# 2013-05-16 16:17:35, TechCrunch
Emotions play tricks on our memories, making our recollections of events much happier or heart-wrenching than they actually were. Smartphone app Expereal seeks to cut through those cognitive traps by allowing you to rate your day on a 10-point scale and organizing that data into easy-to-read charts.

MessageMe Raises A $10M Series A Led By Greylock As It Gears Up For Money And Premium Services In It...

# 2013-05-16 15:19:29, TechCrunch
MessageMe -- a messaging app that launched in March with a little Facebook controversy thrown in -- has raised another $10 million, according to an SEC filing earlier today. The Series A round was led by Greylock Partners; and as part of it, John Lilly, the ex-CEO of Mozilla who is now a partner a...

Google+ New Photo Features Hands-On: Fun, But Unreliable

# 2013-05-16 13:38:28, Gizmodo
Amongst the slurry of updates Google announced yesterday at I/O was a new feature set for Google+ designed to make your photos better, prettier, and more fun, without you really having to do anything. It's ambitious, and it sounds cool. Unfortunately, in its current implementation, it's hit and miss...

Pay.me: Get All the Money You Deserve When Selling Online

# 2013-05-16 12:00:00, Gizmodo
Most people have sold at least something online at this point in their lives. It's an easy way to get rid of crap you don't need and make a little cash in the process. But there's inevitably a dip in the joy of your newfound wealth when you realize that your chosen platform has taken their fair sha...

PSA: The Original Karateka Is Now Available For iOS And Android

# 2013-05-16 10:54:27, TechCrunch
I remember waking up 6am, going downstairs, and firing up my Atari 800XL. The disk labeled Karateka inserted, the drive would grunt a few dozen times and the screen would flash. Suddenly, with barely any warning, the opening titles would appear and then the music would start - six notes to signal a ...

eBay Updates iOS Apps With Revamped UI, Drivers License Scanning For Sign-Ups, And A Whole Lot More

# 2013-05-16 09:08:19, TechCrunch
eBay has just updated its mobile app with a whole host of new features and a revamped look. To start, the refreshed UI makes it clear that eBay wants a more heavy-duty offering for its mobile users. You can now enjoy larger photo views, a better system for auctions that are about to end, and the add...

Google Glass to get CNN, Elle, Twitter, Tumblr, Evernote and Facebook apps soon

# 2013-05-16 07:41:00, Engadget
The I/O news faucet hasn't quite dried up yet. During the San Francisco conference today, Google chatted up some new Glass apps. The new applications will come packaged as "Glassware," delivering CNN breaking news alerts, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts, Evernote reminders and articles from E...

Google Glass Just Got Some New Glassware (Aka Apps)

# 2013-05-16 07:39:00, Gizmodo
While Glass is flying under the radar at I/O, Google has just announced that CNN, Elle, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Evernote are joining the "Glassware" fray. Previously, only Path and The New York Times were the only other apps available for Glass.Read more...

BBM app for iOS and Android won't run on tablets at first

# 2013-05-16 07:09:00, Engadget
Tablet users eager to hop on the BBM bandwagon with BlackBerry's standalone app will have to tamper down their enthusiasm. Vivek Bhardwaj, head of the BlackBerry Software Portfolio, told TrustedReviews that the company will focus exclusively on smartphones running iOS 6 and Android 4.0 or above ...

iOS Review: BrightNest makes finding a start to spring cleaning a breeze

# 2013-05-16 06:00:00, TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
I'm not an organizational wizard. Neither is my wife. We've got busy schedules, artistic personalities, and cleaning is often the last thing on our minds. Worst of all, when we do finally find time to clean things have usually gotten so bad we don't know where to start. Enter BrightNest. BrightNe...

PebbleKit SDK update enables two-way communication for Pebble apps

# 2013-05-16 05:00:00, Engadget
Pebble released an SDK update today which lets developers create apps that support two-way communication via Bluetooth. While the new software (called PebbleKit) was hinted at before, it represents a major step forward for the platform by allowing third-party developers to send / receive informa...

An important note about chaining together commands in AutoVoice

# 2013-05-16 00:57:09, Pocketables
The ability to chain together commands in AutoVoice is one of the advantages it has over the stock Get Voice action, but there’s also a problem with this system that is caused by Tasker itself, can be hard to understand, and can cause a lot of issues. Luckily, it’s also easy to fix! To chain The...

How to import tasks / profiles / scenes / projects into Tasker [Video]

# 2013-05-16 00:14:56, Pocketables
I often see people having issues with importing something to Tasker, and I sometimes include downloadable files in my articles so that I also need to explain how to import them. To avoid having to repeat the same instructions over and over, here’s a quick tutorial video that shows you how you do i...

With Google Play For Education, Google Looks To Challenge Apple's Dominance In The Classroom

# 2013-05-15 20:30:40, TechCrunch
Google I/O, the company's sixth annual developer conference, got officially underway in San Francisco on Wednesday, and it was an eventful day. It took the company every minute of its epic three-hour keynote to unfurl a laundry list of announcements and updates, seemingly across every product catego...

Google Wallet’s new Gmail integration allows you to send money as an attachment

# 2013-05-15 17:52:23, Pocketables
In a very quiet announcement today, Google revealed a new service that combines the features of Gmail and Google Wallet into one. In the next few weeks, a dollar sign will begin appearing in the attachments area for people who use Gmail and Google Wallet, which will allow users to send money easily ...

Google’s unified messenger is called Hangouts, replaces Talk and more

# 2013-05-15 16:06:22, Pocketables
It’s been more than a year since we started complaining about Google’s lack of unity with regards to its chat services, noting that there were too many different services that did essentially the same thing. A unified messaging solution from Google was rumored for some time under the name Babble...

The App Store's 50B Downloads Vs. Google Play's 48B: Android Closes The Gap

# 2013-05-15 13:10:48, TechCrunch
Apple had a bit of a head start when it came to mobile software sales, since it launched its App Store earlier than the Android Market (which would later become what we call Google Play today). But the gap was more pronounced in terms of downloads when they kicked off, but lately the gap has been cl...

Twitter Archiving Service TweetBackup Hits The Deadpool As Owner Backupify Focuses More On Enterpris...

# 2013-05-15 12:30:21, TechCrunch
Time for a back-up plan for your Twitter back-up plan. Backupify -- the Cambridge, MA cloud-based backup, search and restore provider for online services -- is shutting down TweetBackup, a company originally founded in Sweden that Backupify acquired in 2010 for an undisclosed amount. Tweetbackup ...

Google Play Books now allows users to upload their own books

# 2013-05-15 10:31:02, Pocketables
One new feature that wasn’t announced during the Google I/O 2013 keynote, but that I just discovered, is the ability to upload your own personal PDF and ePub files into Google Play Books. When accessing the updated Google Play Books Android app on your smartphone or tablet, you’ll notice thereâ€...

How to preview the new Google Maps announced at Google I/O

# 2013-05-15 10:18:36, Pocketables
At the end of the Google Maps overview earlier today at the Google I/O preview, Brian McClendon stated that everyone could sign up for a preview at maps.google.com/preview. Unfortunately, this isn’t working right now, but users who want in on the fun can actually go to google.com/maps/preview....

The new Google Play Music and Google Search are live in the Play Store right now!

# 2013-05-15 09:24:19, Gizmodo
The new Google Play Music and Google Search are live in the Play Store right now!Read more...

Chrome for Android is all about making you faster Google I/O 2013

# 2013-05-15 08:54:36, Pocketables
Chrome for Android has some interesting changes coming that some of the beta testers have had a chance to play with already. These are aimed at making things more usable, more data efficient, better-looking, and you 26.8% cooler to those you’re attracted to. Chrome for Android aims at using less d...