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		<title>Next iPhone Interface Reportedly Described as &#8216;Black, White and Flat All Over&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/24/next-iphone-interface-reportedly-described-as-black-white-and-flat-all-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at 9to5Mac.com, Mark Gurman reports that Apple&#8217;s design honcho Jony Ive has quite a drastic change in store for the next version of iOS &#8212; the software that runs on the iPhone and iPad. Gurman has a solid track record with Apple rumors, and this latest one reveals: &#8220;Sources have described iOS 7 as &#8216;black, white, and flat all over.&#8217;&#8221; &#8220;This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements,&#8221; says Gurman. The problem, it seems, is one of longevity. According to Gurman: Ive stated that software designs filled with physical metaphors do not stand the test of time, according to a person familiar with the design meetings. According to this person, Ive also shared that because iOS’s current applications have several differing designs, Apple’s users could become confused. For example, the current yellow notepad-inspired Notes app contrasts significantly from the silver-textured Maps, blue and white Mail, and casino-inspired Game Center apps. This isn&#8217;t the first time we&#8217;ve heard about the rumored flattening-out of iOS, but Gurman&#8217;s piece is definitely worth a read, as it contains what he believes to be several additional changes to the software. Me? I&#8217;m fine with iOS flattening out and becoming more modern-looking. I&#8217;m not completely convinced that it won&#8217;t throw certain segments of the iPhone-owning population into a tizzy, though. What&#8217;s really long overdue is a complete revamping of the selection of stock ringtones. I know you can download your own ringtones, but man, are the standard ones bad. The robot one gets me every time. Bad, bad, bad. Jony Ive’s new look for iOS 7: black, white, and flat all over [9to5Mac]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163455&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Useful Mac Keyboard Shortcuts</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/24/the-most-useful-mac-keyboard-shortcuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Robert E. Calem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In architecting its latest operating system (OS) for Macs — OS X version 10.8, also known as Mountain Lion — Apple liberally mimicked iOS, the operating system that runs the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Many functions and features in Mountain Lion are accessed and controlled by swiping, flicking, tapping and pinching on the surface of a trackpad (or on the top of Apple&#8217;s accessory Magic Mouse), as well as by pointing and clicking. But like operating systems of yesteryear, when trackpads and mice were far less integral, Mountain Lion also lets you use a keyboard alone to summon a feature or function. In fact, Mountain Lion contains so many &#8220;keyboard shortcuts&#8221; — combinations of key presses that invoke a command — that an Apple webpage lists hundreds of them. What follows here is our choice of the most useful keyboard shortcuts in Mountain Lion (and all OS X versions, starting with OS X 10.2 Jaguar), plus a selection of our favorite ways to control the Mac OS with trackpad swipes, flicks, taps and pinches. Keyboard Shortcuts Shortcuts for navigating among applications, open windows and the desktop Command Key + Tab – Move forward to the next most recently used application in a list of open applications Command Key + Q – Quit the frontmost application Command Key + W – Close the frontmost window F9 Key – Tile or un-tile all open windows (for quick selection and access) F10 Key – Tile or un-tile all open windows in the currently active (frontmost) application F11 Key – Hide or show all open windows F12 Key – Hide or display Dashboard (Note: Holding the F12 key when the computer is first starting up also ejects a removable disc — CD or DVD — from the drive) Shortcuts to use within open applications and windows Command Key + N – Create a new document in the frontmost application Command Key + P – Display the print dialog box Command Key + S – Saves the active document Command Key + Shift Key + S – Display the Save As dialog box Command Key + T – Opens<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163423&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google to Add Galapagos Islands to Street View</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/23/google-to-add-galapagos-islands-to-street-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 16:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Jason Dearen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8212; Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world&#8217;s largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution. Soon it will take only the click of a mouse or finger swipe on a tablet to explore some of the Galapagos Islands&#8217; most remote areas, surrounding waters and unique creatures. Mountain View, Calif.,-based Google sent hikers to the Galapagos with Street View gear called &#8220;trekkers,&#8221; 42-pound computer backpacks with large, soccer ball-like cameras mounted on a tower. Each orb has 15 cameras inside it that have captured panoramic views of some of the most inaccessible places on the Galapagos. Crews from The Caitlin Seaview Survey worked with Google to capture 360-degree views of selected underwater areas too. &#8220;We spent 10 days there hiking over trails &#8230; and even down the crater of an active volcano,&#8221; Raleigh Seamster, the project&#8217;s leader for Google Maps said. &#8220;And these are islands, so half of the life there is under the water surface. So (we brought) Street View underwater to swim with sea lions, sharks and other marine animals.&#8221; Google is processing the footage and is trying to stitch it together. It hopes to post it to Street View later this year. The cameras captured the nesting sites of blue-footed boobies, the red-throated &#8220;magnificent frigatebirds,&#8221; swimming hammerhead sharks and, of course, the island&#8217;s giant tortoises. Scientists working with Google are exploring the footage for other species and hope to update the pictures regularly throughout the years as they study the effects of invasive species, tourism and climate change on the island&#8217;s ecosystems. &#8220;We hope that children in classrooms around the world will be trying to discover what they can see in the images, even tiny creatures like insects,&#8221; said Daniel Orellana, a scientist with the Charles Darwin Foundation. &#8220;We can use this as an education experience for children, and there is a huge opportunity for rare discoveries.&#8221; Orellana and others supervised the Google trekkers and helped guide them<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163399&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mailbox: Still Beautiful, Still Clever, Now on the iPad</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/23/mailbox-still-beautiful-still-clever-now-on-the-ipad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of nifty new iPhone apps are instantly greeted by enthusiastic throngs of users, but when an e-mail app called Mailbox debuted in February, being excited over its arrival became a particular obsession in iPhone nation. Its creators put prospective users into a reservation queue that grew enormous, helping to reduce the strain on its servers while also stoking demand even further. I wasn&#8217;t startled by the rapturous reception: Mailbox is a beautifully-designed piece of software with clever tools intended to help you grind your inbox down to zero. But I didn&#8217;t use it all that much myself: I do 95% of my e-mail on my iPad, not my iPhone. And now I can, without forgoing Mailbox. The app, which was acquired by cloud-storage superstar Dropbox in March, is arriving on the App Store today in a version that brings all the iPhone edition&#8217;s goodness to the iPad&#8217;s larger screen. I was briefed on the news by Mailbox cofounder Gentry Underwood and have been living with the new version for a few days. As before, Mailbox works only with Gmail (for now), supports multiple accounts and lets you see them all combined into one inbox. Four gestures let you wrangle messages right from the inbox list with a quick flick of your finger: Swipe a message a little to the right, and it gets archived; Swipe it further to the right, and it&#8217;s deleted; Swipe it a little to the left, and you can postpone dealing with it by telling Mailbox to put it back at the top of your inbox at a certain point in the future, such as Later Today, Tomorrow, Next Week or a date you specify; Swipe it further to the right, you can add it to a list &#8212; Mailbox&#8217;s version of standard e-mail folders. And other than standard stuff like the ability to compose new messages and reply to incoming ones, that&#8217;s almost all the features Mailbox has. But the ones it does have work great and look great; this is one of the most<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163325&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Flickr Is Worth Another Look</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/21/the-new-flickr-is-worth-another-look/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 23:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To get people interested in Flickr again, Yahoo is letting its terabytes do the talking. The photo service, which Yahoo acquired in 2005, is now offering a whopping one terabyte of free storage, with no size limits. Users can also upload 1080p videos, up to three minutes long, counting toward the overall storage limit. A new website and Android app have launched alongside the new storage offering as well. That&#8217;s enough to get me interested, at least. I&#8217;ve never had much use for Flickr before, but I&#8217;m taking a second look in light of Yahoo&#8217;s largess. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned after spending the day loading old photos onto Flickr&#8217;s website by the gigabyte: Flickr vs. Facebook vs.Google+ Your main options for storing lots of photos online&#8211;that is, more than the handful of gigabytes offered by storage services like Dropbox and SkyDrive&#8211;are Flickr, Facebook and Google+. Each service has its own benefits and drawbacks. Facebook and Google+ both offer unlimited storage for your photos, but with a resolution limit of 2048 pixels wide. Google+ lets you store photos at full resolution, but these count toward the 15 GB of free storage on your Google account. If you just want to back up pristine copies of your photos to the cloud, neither of these options are ideal due to their resolution restrictions. Where Facebook and Google+ shine are their sharing options. Given Facebook&#8217;s dominance in social networking, storing your photos there is the best way to make sure they&#8217;re seen by friends, family and acquaintances. Google+ sharing offers a more controlled environment. The ability to group your contacts into &#8220;circles,&#8221; and then only share with the circles you want, is a powerful way to restrict who sees any given photo or album. On the downside, the folks you share with may never stop by Google+ to take a look. By comparison, Flickr seems more useful for archival purposes. You can upload your photos without squashing them down to a lower resolution, and most people won&#8217;t have to worry about the one-terabyte storage limit<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163158&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo Reboots Flickr, Offers One Terabyte of Storage</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/21/yahoo-reboots-flickr-offers-one-terabyte-of-storage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Fresh on the heels of its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo says it is rebooting its languishing photo-sharing site Flickr with plans to make it &#8220;awesome&#8221; again. Yahoo Inc. said at an event in New York City&#8217;s Times Square on Monday that it is now offering users 1 terabyte of online storage for free. One terabyte is 1,024 gigabytes &#8211; enough to store more than 500,000 images at a resolution common to most smartphones. Yahoo has redesigned the Flickr website to emphasize photos rather than text or white space, as was the case previously. Photos are bigger and shared in full resolution rather than compressed into a lower quality. Flickr also launched a new Android app to follow the December unveiling of a new iPhone app.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163156&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter 101: Understanding the Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Harper / Techlicious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re online—and reading this!—you&#8217;ve probably heard of Twitter. But just what is Twitter for? How does it work? And how do you get started using it? Whether you want to start using Twitter yourself or just want to know what it is, we&#8217;ll help untangle the mysteries of this social networking site. Just what is Twitter? On Twitter, you&#8217;ll find friends and family as well as celebrities, companies and strangers who may share your interests. News networks (like @AP and @CNN) will post breaking news announcements, companies may hold giveaways, celebrities post announcements on what they&#8217;re working on and everyone has conversations. Like any social network, what you get out of Twitter is based on who you follow on the site, and you can follow anyone else using Twitter (so long as their account isn&#8217;t private). Think of Twitter as a big, open room—with all of Twitter&#8217;s 200 million active users chatting away inside fromall over the world. You can roam around and listen to what everyone&#8217;s talking about or just chat with a small group of your friends. Twitter is considered a micro-blogging service, which means the posts made to Twitter have to be an extremely brief, 140 characters or less. Unlike Facebook, which has lots of options that allow you to keep your information private, Twitter is a predominately public space. Though you can make your Twitter account private, meaning only people you approve can see your messages, you only have two options—to be completely public or completely private. You may not think 140 characters is very much to get something across, but these brief messages are perfect for sharing small updates, little bites of everyday life. And while each message is short, you may find yourself replying to other people—and them replying to you—which turns a single short message into a longer conversation. Twitter also lets you easily share links, photos, and videos, which you can post for your friends—or everyone— to see with or without comment. Twitter terminology Elizabeth Harper / Techlicious Twitter isn&#8217;t exactly a foreign<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163115&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Location-Enabled Apps to Try This Summer</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/20/four-location-enabled-apps-to-try-this-summer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it: location-enabled apps are not going anywhere. With more than 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones worldwide, a new crop of geo-location apps are announced every month. Regardless of user hesitation and drawn out privacy battles, which includes a recently proposed &#8220;Apps Act&#8220; to make privacy policies more transparent, a continued surge in mobile traffic means that location-enabled apps are bound to be a permanent fixture on smartphones. So if you have yet to embrace geo-location, here are four free apps to help ease into the inevitable. Ribbon While living in the Fiji Islands, Ribbon founder and California native Tony Alfaro resorted to using an excel spreadsheet to keep track of friends and family when he made his annual trips to the U.S. So Alfaro hatched a plan to coordinate his future trips with travel plans of friends and professionals by combining a calendar with Facebook&#8216;s social graph. The &#8220;Ribbon feed&#8221; allows users to see future trips, invite others along as well as see friends&#8217; trips displayed with pins using a &#8220;TimeMap.&#8221; The app also organizes trips by city, eliminating privacy hesitations about revealing exact locations. Rather than perusing Facebook to see which friends are living where, you can use Ribbon to organize and plan meet-ups with old college roommates, colleagues and friends. The app also allows you to manage privacy settings to allow certain people to see your trips, naturally filtering out those residual Facebook friends you haven&#8217;t gotten around to unfriending. Though it&#8217;s only available for iOS at the moment, an Android release is expected this month. Link: Ribbon [iTunes] Tinder Tinder, a dating app that rolls off the tongue and easily doubles as a verb, has propagated the idea of meeting potential hook-ups or dates through an anonymous game of &#8220;hot or not.&#8221; It&#8217;s a simple concept of matching geo-located users by pressing a green heart to like or a red X to move on. Once two users are matched, the app introduces the users in a private chatroom to carry on a conversation. There are no profiles involved,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162975&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Says App Store Hit 50 Billion Downloads</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/apple-says-app-store-hit-50-billion-downloads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) &#8212; Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008. Apple Inc. said Thursday that the 50 billionth download was a game called &#8220;Say the Same Thing&#8221; by Space Inch. The App Store had 500 apps when it first opened. It now has more than 850,000 individual apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The store hit the 10 billion downloads mark in early 2011 and 25 billion in March 2012. The 50 billion milestone does not include updates or re-downloads. Apps range from newspapers and magazines to games, business tools and travel applications.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162948&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Play Music All Access Review: It&#8217;s Not a Spotify Competitor After All</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/google-play-music-all-access-review-not-a-spotify-competitor-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get this out of the way: Google Play Music All Access is a terrible name, rolling off the tongue like a mouthful of marbles. I&#8217;m not sure what Google was thinking here, adopting such a clunky moniker for a fledgling streaming music service whose media-decreed rivals go by punchier handles like Pandora, Spotify, Rdio and Grooveshark. Why not something simpler like Google Music, leaving &#8220;All Access&#8221; to describe one of the subscription tiers? Even the name Google Play sounds catchier and more appropriate for something that dishes up tunes, but then Google already uses those two words (somewhat incongruously) to describe its entire digital distribution platform, from Android apps, devices and games to books, magazines and music. Google Play Music All Access it is then, and I&#8217;ll henceforth be referring to it as GPMAA for sanity&#8217;s sake (or, as I&#8217;ve been pronouncing it out loud, &#8220;gup-mah&#8221;). Google unveiled GPMAA yesterday at its annual I/O conference during an over three-hour developer-focused keynote, though of that time, the company only devoted a few minutes to touch on the service&#8217;s basic features. As suspected, GPMAA represents Google&#8217;s attempt to offer a subscription-based music service, streaming &#8220;millions&#8221; of songs &#8212; intermingled with up to 20,000 more, uploadable or song-matched from your personal library &#8212; for $10 a month ($8 a month if you sign up by the end of June). Chris Yerga, Google&#8217;s engineering director who steered this part of the keynote, explained that GPMAA would include common music streaming features like curated playlists, album recommendations and a build-your-own-radio-station feature. In other words, GPMAA isn&#8217;t a wildly new product so much as another limb stitched into an existing framework. Google hopped into the music game in late 2011 with Google Music (later, Google Play Music), the company&#8217;s answer to Apple&#8217;s iTunes music store, the twist being that you could also upload up to 20,000 of your own songs and stream all of that to multiple Android devices. The service never really took off, though, and no surprise: Given the choice between having to curate your own music library (where you’re<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162884&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Things Google Play Music All Access Needs to Match (or Beat) Spotify [Updated]</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/5-things-google-music-needs-to-match-or-beat-spotify/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports that Google may launch a streaming music service to rival Spotify&#8217;s as soon as this week, possibly to coincide with the Google I/O conference that&#8217;s kicking off today and runs through Friday. Why now, out of the blue? I/O notwithstanding, the Journal&#8216;s sources claim Google has signed deals with Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group  and Warner Music Group for unlimited access to &#8220;certain libraries&#8221; of their music catalogs. Google&#8217;s existing music service, Google Play Music, works like iTunes&#8217; music store with a twist: In addition to purchasing music through Google&#8217;s online storefront, you can upload (or &#8220;song match&#8221;) up to 20,000 of your own songs, then stream them to multiple Android devices &#8212; a &#8220;roll your own&#8221; music approach that initially sounded cool to musicophiles like me when Google touted it back in May 2011. It never really took off though, and in hindsight, it&#8217;s easy to see why. Given the choice between having to curate your own music library (where you&#8217;re paying for every song or album and limited by what you own and limited by where you can listen) and throwing a few bucks at a pre-fab service that simply works, elegantly and immediately on nearly any device, giving you instant listening access to an unprecedented single-source spectrum of music, which would you pick? (FOLLOW-UP: Google Play Music All Access Review: It’s Not a Spotify Competitor After All) We&#8217;re awash in streaming music nowadays, kicking through oceans of compressed audio as we sample potential purchases in iTunes or preview entire albums in browsers or groove to unthinkably vast song libraries in the cloud beamed to tiny apps that live on our smartphones and tablets. Google&#8217;s obviously a heavy-hitter, so anything it does in this space is newsworthy, but I&#8217;m not yet convinced the company understands what it takes to pull together a compelling service. Google Play hasn&#8217;t been that service, and I&#8217;m not sure a Google &#8220;Hey, We Can Do What Spotify Does, Too!&#8221; Music service distinguishes itself enough for anyone to bother. Bearing that in mind, here&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162820&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Poised to Show Off Latest Devices and Services</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/google-poised-to-show-off-latest-devices-and-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Michael Liedtke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8212; Google is expected to use its annual software developers&#8217; conference to showcase the latest mobile devices running on its Android software, while also unveiling other features in its evolving product line-up. The gathering, scheduled to begin Wednesday morning in San Francisco, provides Google Inc. with an opportunity to flex its technological muscle in front of a sold-out audience of engineers and entrepreneurs who develop applications and other features that can make smartphones and tablets more appealing. (MORE: Complete Google I/O Coverage on TIME Tech) Reporters from around the world also will be on hand, giving Google a chance to generate more hoopla about its latest innovations. The company, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., made a big splash at last year&#8217;s conference by staging an elaborate production to highlight the potential of Google Glass &#8211; an Internet-connected device and camera that can be worn on a person&#8217;s face like a pair of spectacles. Google co-founder Sergey Brin wowed the crowd last year by taking to the stage and then engaging in a live video chat with a group of skydivers who were in a dirigible hovering above the convention. When they jumped, the skydivers&#8217; descent to the rooftop was shown live through the Google Glass camera. Some of the developers in attendance last year paid $1,500 apiece for a Google Glass prototype that was delivered to them in March. Google hasn&#8217;t spelled out what its executives will discuss during this year&#8217;s opening keynote, which is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. PT and last for nearly three hours. Given that Google Glass is now being tested by the developers who bought the &#8220;Explorer&#8221; edition, the device might not be one of the featured attractions. It&#8217;s a safe bet the spotlight at some point Wednesday will shine on Android, which already has been activated on more than 750 million devices around the world. Google gives the mobile operating system away, making it easier for gadget makers to sell their devices at prices below Apple Inc.&#8217;s iPhone<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162813&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ongoing Coverage of Google&#8217;s I/O Conference</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/google-io-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, May 15, Google is kicking off its I/O conference in San Francisco &#8212; the biggest three days of the year when it comes to news about Android, Chrome, Glass, search and other Googley matters. My colleague Jared Newman and I will be there for ongoing coverage, beginning at 12pm ET/9am PT on Wednesday, when the conference begins with a three-hour keynote. Join us then and throughout the week for our take on the show, its announcements and whatever new gadgets debut, all on this page.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162779&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gmail at Nine: The Evolution of an Essential Web Service</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/gmail-at-nine-the-evolution-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004, when Google introduced Gmail, it wasn&#8217;t instantly obvious to everyone why the search engine phenom would want to get into the e-mail business. Actually, given that the company made its announcement on April 1, some people wondered, momentarily, whether the news was a hoax. Even once it was clear that Gmail was the real deal, Google felt the need, in the Gmail FAQ, to answer the burning question &#8220;Why is Google offering email? I thought you were a search company.&#8221; The era of people being confused by Gmail was so brief that it&#8217;s easy to forget such an era ever existed. Gmail quickly became not just one of Google&#8217;s core services but one of the web&#8217;s core services &#8212; the webmail client that came to define webmail clients even though it was far from the first one. Like most things Google does, Gmail hasn&#8217;t been without its controversies, but it&#8217;s still one of the company&#8217;s great success stories. I recently chatted with Alex Gawley, the service&#8217;s product manager, about Gmail&#8217;s first nine years &#8212; and a little bit about where it might be going. First, to refresh your memory, here&#8217;s an infographic-based history of Gmail that Google distributed last month, complete with major milestones such as 2010&#8242;s Priority Inbox, probably Gmail&#8217;s biggest innovation since the ones that got it started: Google One of the reasons Gmail took the web by surprise was that it wasn&#8217;t necessarily obvious that web-based mail was ripe for reinvention. Nine years ago, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail were good, popular and deeply entrenched; they seemed to have the market as it existed all sewn up. Gmail shattered that assumption because it was the first major web-based e-mail that aspired to be good enough to be someone&#8217;s primary inbox. &#8220;From the very start, [Gmail] was about pushing the boundaries of what an e-mail product might be for people,&#8221; Gawley says. &#8220;Back in 2004, most webmail providers were giving people a few megabytes of storage. They were thought of as this interesting quirk. A gigabyte of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162701&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ABC Declares War on Cord Cutters with Live-TV App — Delayed Streaming to Follow</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/abc-to-stream-live-tv-in-fight-against-cord-cutters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABC is really hoping you&#8217;ll hang on to your cable subscription, and is taking a couple of new steps to make sure of it. This week, the network will add live streaming video to its iPhone and iPad apps, the New York Times reports. However, the feature will only work if you have a cable or satellite-TV subscription. That&#8217;s not all. The report also claims that in the future, ABC will &#8220;withhold its most recent TV episodes from the free versions of Hulu and ABC.com, further limiting access to paying subscribers of cable and satellite providers only.&#8221; ABC&#8217;s existing iOS app offers on-demand TV shows only. The addition of live TV will let cable and satellite subscribers watch local news or talk shows in real time, and from anywhere within their local broadcast area. The Times’ story mostly focuses on this new feature, describing the work that went into it and how ads will work. But the idea of delayed streams for ABC shows is more mysterious. The Times’ story doesn&#8217;t say when ABC will begin holding back its streams, or how long nonpaying viewers will have to wait to see new episodes. An ABC representative would not provide any additional details to us. At the moment, Fox is the only major broadcast network that delays new streaming episodes on Hulu and its own website. To get next-day streaming, you must subscribe to Hulu Plus or have a cable or satellite subscription. (Not surprisingly, the delay caused a big spike in piracy for Fox shows a couple of years ago.) ABC has been interested in the idea for a while. In 2011, Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of Disney (which owns ABC), said the company would &#8220;push the window back or make access to the programming more difficult or later, except if customers are authenticated as a subscriber.&#8221; If ABC follows through, it&#8217;ll amount to a big pushback against cord cutting, the concept of throwing out your cable or satellite subscription in favor of cheaper streaming options. Nielsen Although cord cutting isn&#8217;t new,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162641&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Simplifies Free Storage into a Single 15-Gigabyte Chunk</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/google-simplifies-free-storage-into-15-gigabyte-chunk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously sliced and diced into varying increments and doled out between Gmail and other Google services, the search giant has simplified things by melting its free storage offering into a single 15-gigabyte chunk to be used as you see fit. Per the Google Drive Blog: [I]nstead of having 10 GB for Gmail and another 5 GB for Drive and Google+ Photos, you’ll now get 15 GB of unified storage for free to use as you like between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos. With this new combined storage space, you won’t have to worry about how much you’re storing and where. For example, maybe you’re a heavy Gmail user but light on photos, or perhaps you were bumping up against your Drive storage limit but were only using 2 GB in Gmail. Now it doesn’t matter, because you can use your storage the way you want. You can check your current storage here and purchase more if you need it. You may not see the 15-gigabyte clump right away: Google says the changes &#8220;will roll out over the next couple of weeks.&#8221; Bringing it all together: 15 GB now shared between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos [Google]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162648&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Blue: Undoing a Mistake Is Never a Mistake</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/windows-blue-undoing-a-mistake-is-never-a-mistake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 05:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was confused by Microsoft&#8217;s decision to remove the Start button from Windows 8, and make it impossible to boot directly to the classic Windows desktop. But I&#8217;m equally confused by the notion that there&#8217;s any downside to Microsoft&#8217;s upcoming Windows Blue undoing those bold-but-bad decisions, as it now seems likely it may. So I&#8217;m glad to see that at least one smart Windows watcher &#8212; ZDnet&#8217;s Mary Jo Foley &#8212; has the same take: Windows Blue, from all leaks and tips I&#8217;ve received, is not a do-over. (If it were, it would take Microsoft a lot longer than nine or ten months to deliver it.) And ignoring customer confusion isn&#8217;t a virtue; it&#8217;s stupidity. This armchair pundit finds it refreshing to hear Windows honchos admit that Windows 8 isn&#8217;t selling as well as they hoped and that they want to make its successor more comfortable, familiar and usable for the Windows installed base.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162626&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on MoviePass</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/more-on-moviepass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 20:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in March, I wrote about MoviePass, a service which lets you pay a flat fee and go to dozens of movies a month, at almost any theater in America. Its creators aren&#8217;t partnering with theaters; instead, they&#8217;ve come up with a clever system involving a location-aware smartphone app and a Discover debit card configured so that you can only use it to pay for movies, and only after you&#8217;ve checked in using the app. The company ends up paying full price for tickets, but hopes to turn a profit by selling related items such as DVDs, providing data to marketers and maybe, eventually, striking deals with theaters. Brent Lang of The Wrap has a good story on the service and how the movie-theater business is reacting; it was unhappy about an earlier incarnation but isn&#8217;t actively fighting this new version, at least for now: A previous test of the service in San Francisco came undone when theaters refused to accept vouchers that MoviePass gave its customers. The concern at the time was that MoviePass would try to influence ticket prices. AMC Theaters publicly decried the service, while Landmark Theatres CEO Ted Mundorff told TheWrap, &#8220;We are not interested in outside entities setting ticket prices for us.&#8221; The debit card under the new plan works independent of exhibitors. Users will pay $25 to $40 a month, based on geography, for which they can see one 2D movie a day at 93 percent of theaters nationwide. All they need to do to set up the card is download an iPhone or Android app. Using a card provided by MoviePass, I&#8217;ve gone to a couple of movies in the San Francisco area in the past few weeks: the whole process worked without any hiccups and was no more complicated than buying tickets from a service such as Fandango. You have to be an avid filmgoer for this to make sense &#8212; if you go three or more times a month, you should save money &#8212; but if the startup manages to make<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162563&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Huggies Device that Lets Babies Tweet When They Pee</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/finally-a-huggies-device-that-lets-babies-tweet-when-they-pee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is important: a device, masterfully dubbed &#8220;Huggies TweetPee,&#8221; that attaches to your baby&#8217;s derriere, then relays Twitter-like alerts to your smartphone to let you know when it&#8217;s diaper change time. No, that&#8217;s not Spanish you&#8217;re hearing in the ad above &#8212; they speak Portuguese in Brazil, and the spot&#8217;s the work of a Brazilian ad agency &#8211; but it is an honest-to-goodness device made by Huggies (yes, that Huggies) that you clip to the front of your child&#8217;s diaper, after which it monitors the vicinity for sudden changes in humidity levels, dispatching tweet-style alerts to an app on your smartphone. Like (courtesy Google&#8217;s translation): &#8220;Time to change!!!&#8221; &#8220;Oops, did a few drops.&#8221; &#8220;All OK here.&#8221; The alerts can be sent via text messages or through social networks, according to the ad. It also keeps track of each diaper change, you know, for parents who like to toilet-trend-watch (it&#8217;s not clear if it automatically detects the change or that you have to manually enter this info). As Digital Trends notes, given the messaging intervals displayed in the ad video, the device, which resembles a tiny ovoid bluebird, probably checks at preset intervals &#8212; it&#8217;s not clear if it&#8217;s capable of alerting you on the fly. (It&#8217;s also not clear that&#8217;d be desirable, since your baby may only have piddled a little and doesn&#8217;t require an immediate change &#8212; no one wants an app that nags &#8220;Change me!&#8221; every 15 minutes.) Huggies claims the device is ergonomic (both &#8220;comfortable&#8221; and &#8220;safe&#8221;), that it&#8217;s easy to shift from diaper to diaper, that it can send alerts to anyone with permission to receive them and that you can even use the app to order new diapers (Huggies-only, surely) after it&#8217;s notified you your existing stash is low; yes, it&#8217;ll tabulate your diaper count, probably sending that info back to some master control database, which isn&#8217;t creepy at all. Undocumented, presumable bonus feature: Detecting spit-up that&#8217;s somehow found its way from your baby&#8217;s mouth past arms and short-sleeved onesie to soak the bottom of a pair of cargo<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162531&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Weather Apps for iPhone and Android</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/best-weather-apps-for-iphone-and-android/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 09:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Elizabeth Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With our high-tech tendency to watch TV using DVRs, TV on demand and streaming media, there are some things we miss: like the local news. And though we get most of that news from our favorite online news sources, the local weather report is something we sorely miss—we just don&#8217;t miss it quite enough to remember to catch the local news for the forecast every night. Fortunately, there are quite a few apps to keep us on top of the local forecast and help us remember to pack our umbrellas—or carry our sunglasses—when we need them. WeatherBug If you want to know everything there is to know about the weather, WeatherBug is the app for you. When you launch the app, it immediately displays current local weather, including temperature, dew point, humidity, sunrise, sunset, wind, pressure and any active weather alerts for the area. A toolbar along the top lets you switch from the current forecast to a more detailed forecast, hourly forecast, or 7-day forecast. A toolbar along the bottom lets you access weather radar, live webcams in your area, lightning strike information and the pollen count. We especially like the live weather webcams, though if you&#8217;re checking weather on the go, be careful not to kill your data plan watching live video. Want weather for another location? The button in the upper right lets you enter new cities and even select the weather station you&#8217;d like data from. Not enough info for you? Hitting the button in the upper left brings up a menu which offers lifestyle forecasts, including: golf forecast, outdoor nature forecast, aches &#38; pains forecast, beauty forecast, game day forecast, pollen, family forecast, and fitness forecast. In short: you&#8217;d be hard pressed to find weather information WeatherBug didn&#8217;t offer. Price: Free (with advertisements) on iTunes, Google Play Store and BlackBerry App World. $2.99 ad-free version on iTunes and Google Play Store. AccuWeather Though it doesn&#8217;t offer anything you won&#8217;t find in WeatherBug—in fact, it offers slightly less information across the board—we think AccuWeather&#8217;s interface is a bit easier to navigate. The main screen offers the current<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162508&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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