Guru raises tribute to John Pintard…the New Yorker who invented Christmas, learns about watch bands and Jere talks about his new Nexus 5.
Show Notes
- In Other News
- Presidential Committee delivers 300 page document of recommendations to revamp U.S. surveillance. Suggestions include: Stop blanket collection of American phone call logs, orders for the NSA/CIA to monitor an individual should not come from either organization, a promise to no longer subvert commercial encryption, stop collection of zero-day vulnerabilities, etc.
- IEC looking to offer a single standard for notebook/laptop chargers, as they attempted to do with microUSB as a mobile charging standard.
- In China, people are paying $13 to be locked in a room and forced to solve puzzles to get out.
- Jere and the Nexus 5
- Guru learns about watchbands.
- Guru gets 4.3 on his Galaxy S3s.
- Platform News
- App News
- Hulu Plus app updated with better TV season management and more. If you like to pay for streaming ads, try it out. (Play Link)
- Apex Launcher updated with KitKat enhancements. (Play Link)
- Fitbit for Android now works with Motorola and Nexus devices, requires support for Bluetooth LE. (Play Link)
- Rom Manager pulled due developer agreement violations as it used third-party in app purchases. While Rom Manager predated the requirement to use Google’s in app purchase tools, it never adapted to this until now.
- Ingress has been formally launched and is now available without an invite. (Play Link)
- Translate.com releases new mobile apps to translate text, voice, and images of text between 75 different languages. (Play Link)
- AP Mobile app gets redesign. (Play Link)
- IMDB app updated, adds Oscar Coverage, Editorial Lists, and Trivia. (Play Link)
- Press gets large update. Supports Feedly, Feed Wrangler, Feedbin, and Fever. (Play Link)
- Dropbox update adds support for creating and managing shared folders.
- Amazon Kindle app adds collection support, font options, and book rating suggestions.
- Floating IM app Lilypad updated with Holo UI, still buggy, (Play Link)
- Netflix App adds profile support.
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