Episode 181 – And What Was the Name of His Other Leg?

By | January 6, 2014

Once again, a slow news week, so why not a Youtube video of a flash mob?

Show Notes

  • In Other News
    • Google bumps Bump, kills off mobile tap-to-share app.
  • Guru Plays with his Pebble…Pebble Apps
    • The Official Pebble App (Play Link)
    • Pebble Dialer (Play Link)
    • Notification Center for Pebble, uses the 4.3 Notification Listener over the Accessibility Service (Play Link)
    • Glance for Pebble, adds Weather, the ability to send pre-configured text messages, etc. (Play Link)
    • Music Boss for Pebble – Allows you to better control multiple music apps with the Pebble, control volume, and more. (Play Link)
    • Pebble Connect with httppebble. httpebble allows the watch to pull down requests from online. Such support will be part of the SDK 2.0 standard, still in beta (Play Link)
    • PebbleDash adds a watchface with DashClock extensions. (Play Link)
  • App News
    • Newsblur App updated with a completely rewritten parallel network stack and improved performance. (Play Link)
    • Pandora update brings alarm clock feature. (Play Link)
    • Dogecoin Wallet now on the Play Store. Perhaps Bitcoin isn’t enough. (Play Link)
    • Dashclock updated to 1.6 with new customization options (Play Link)
    • Bitspin, the team behind Timely, the alarm app that supports multi-device syncing, have joined Google. Timely premium content is now free. Will app be abandoned?
    • News+ is a new extensions based news reader that offers Google News support as well as support for a variety of RSS reader services via extensions, voice reading, auto-sync, offline reading, and more. The developer’s other app, Greader, supports Feedly and The Old Reader without extensions. (Play Link)
  • AirDroid vs. MightyText
  • Pushbullet

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