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Home Deliver Photo Prints from Smartphones with Kicksend

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Sometimes it feels like technology has antiquated photo prints over the past decade. Digital cameras, memory cards, and online photo albums have enabled us to take and post so many of our memories to share with everyone. Despite the advances in photo power and convenience, many of us still like having physical prints. They fill more »

Square Register Gets an Update, Caters to Restaurant Owners

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Square has updated its iPad app, Register, to better streamline services for small to mid-sized restaurants. Square Register for iPad is a point of sale tool that allows you to wirelessly connect receipt printers, kitchen ticket printers, cash drawers and bar code scanners. You can also customize receipts, reports and tickets, as well as set more »

Vine is Coming to Android “Soon” (Yippee!)

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To all my Android brothers and sisters, our time is almost here. Our days of feeling left out while our iPhone-toting loved ones are comparing their best Vine videos are coming to a close. That’s right, we’re getting our own Vine app too. In conversation with The Verge on Thursday, app co-founder, Dom Hofman said more »

Punky Brewster Raises $2.5 Million for Moonfrye App

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Soleil Moon Frye, the actress best known for playing eponymous lead of the ’80s sitcom Punky Brewster, has entered the tech start-up scene. The Moonfrye app will inspire parents with DIY crafting tips or something. The specific workings of the app are unclear, but it’s basically an outgrowth of her Moonfrye.com blog, which is all more »

Bug in Viber Communication App Bypasses Android Phone Lockscreen (Video) (Updated 4/27 – Glitch Fixed)

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Overall, Viber is a pretty useful app. In my limited experience, I’ve used it to chat and trade photos with friends across the country via Wi-Fi. Basically, it allows users to make traditional phone calls, send text messages and share photos and their location with anyone worldwide; quite similar to Skype but minus video chatting. more »

Google Fiber App is Now Available for iPad, Turns Tablet into a Remote

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The Android app has already been released, but the iPad app for Google Fiber is now available. It doubles as a remote, allowing users to search TV programs, on-demand shows and movies, and schedule recordings. These can also be viewed directly from the iPad. It isn’t yet available for the iPhone, but is reportedly going more »

Swype Keyboard App Exits Beta Phase, Special $1 Price in Google Play

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For those unaware, Swype is a keyboard replacement application made for Android smartphones. Before Thursday, it was available in it’s beta testing phase for free, though not free of some small glitches and bugs within the system. But that’s all cleared up now. Swype 1.5, as it’s now referred to as, also boasts it’s over more »

Found Google Glass Coding Hints at a Wink-Controlled Photography

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Firstly, a small editorial team of Google Glass ‘Explorers,’ or as we know them as, the “lucky S.O.B.’s who got to test-drive Google’s Glass before launch,” have created a Glass-only blog, LivingThruGlass. I recommend following it — it’s a fun blog and perhaps the closest to the high-tech gadget that ‘normies’ like us will ever more »

Hack: Save Instagram Photos Without Sharing Them

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Have you ever wanted to edit your photos with Instagram filters without actually sharing them on Instagram? There’s a simple hack that allows you to do just that. Although your photos are auto-saved to your device as soon as you share them on Instagram, using this hack will allow you to save them without having to more »

Pocket App Celebrates 1 Year with New ‘Send to Friend’ Feature

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So it’s been one year since the inception of the Pocket app or ‘Read it Later’ as it was known previously. Now what’s a better way for a mobile application to ring in it’s first birthday? Well, by adding some new features, of course. And Pocket did just that with a new ‘Send to Friend’ more »