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		<title>Fight the Cold with These 5 Winter Weather Apps</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/06/5-best-winter-weather-apps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter weather is easy enough to ignore during the holidays, when you're warmed up on alcoholic eggnog. But now it's January, and all you've got to look forward to are three solid months of snow on the roads, ice on your car and a serious lack of vitamin D. But cheer up! Wield your smartphone, and use these winter weather apps for iPhone and Android to fight through the cold.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=112789&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle Fire Getting Netflix, Facebook and More at Launch</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/09/kindle-fire-getting-netflix-facebook-and-more-at-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon is flexing the Kindle Fire&#8217;s app muscle ahead of next week&#8217;s launch, promising apps for Netflix, Facebook and Twitter, and plenty of games to boot. Apps are the biggest advantage the Kindle Fire has over Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s Nook Tablet. Although the two tablets have similar specs and similar prices (the Nook Tablet is $50 more expensive at $250), the Amazon Appstore for Android is bigger than Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s Nook app store. Amazon says it&#8217;ll have &#8220;several thousand&#8221; apps available on the Kindle Fire at launch, compared to roughly a thousand Nook apps. (MORE: Nook Tablet vs. Kindle Fire: A Guide to Decide) The inclusion of a Netflix app on the Kindle Fire is particularly interesting because Amazon offers its own streaming video service through Amazon Prime. By hosting a competitor, Amazon&#8217;s creating a genuine app platform, not just a supplement to the company&#8217;s own services. Although Google&#8217;s Android Market—available on neither the Fire nor the Nook—has a much bigger selection, I could see the Amazon Appstore eventually rivaling the Market in quality. Still missing from the Kindle Fire&#8217;s streaming video lineup is Hulu Plus, which will be built into Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s Nook tablet. The Kindle Fire launches on November 15 for $199. Amazon is selling the tablet online, and retailers including Best Buy, Office Depot, Radio Shack, Staples, Sam&#8217;s Club, Target and Walmart will sell the Kindle Fire in their stores. MORE: Kindle Fire Predicted to Sell 5M at Launch, May Outsell iPad 2?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=102377&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s GarageBand Gets a Gig on the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/02/apples-garageband-gets-a-gig-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re walking out of the grocery store when the idea hits you: The Greatest Song of All Time. All the elements are in your head&#8211;drums, bass, guitar, vocals&#8211;and ready to be recorded into reality. But alas, you don&#8217;t have your iPad, so you don&#8217;t have GarageBand! And by the time you get home, the idea is gone. That&#8217;ll never happen again, now that Apple has launched GarageBand for the iPhone. The app is just as capable as its iPad counterpart, letting you record tracks using virtual instruments, sound samples, your own voice or a guitar. And if you already have the iPad app, GarageBand is a free download on the iPhone 3GS or above, or the iPod Touch 3rd generation or higher. (LIST: 50 Best iPhone Apps of 2011) I gave GarageBand a whirl on my old iPhone 3GS. Although certain actions took a few moments to load on this outdated hardware, the instruments were responsive enough, and everything is laid out pretty much like it is on the iPad. Some options are stowed away on separate screens instead of drop-down boxes, as they should be, and there&#8217;s no dedicated Undo button (you&#8217;ve got to shake the device, like you would to undo text), but otherwise I had no trouble creating songs or getting around the interface. This may just be a personal preference, but for some instruments I was actually more comfortable on the iPhone than on the larger iPad. With drums, for example, it found it easier to tap out beats with my thumbs on the smaller, handheld device, instead of laying the iPad down and using my forefingers. I&#8217;m chalking it up to years of playing video games. With that in mind, my only nitpick is that you can&#8217;t wirelessly transfer song files from one iOS device to another. You have to go through iTunes, which is a cumbersome process. Otherwise, this app is good enough to make me regret, ever so slightly, going with Android for my current phone, because you never know when the muse will<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101730&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gmail App for iPad and iPhone Now Available [UPDATE]</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/02/gmail-app-for-ipad-and-iphone-now-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rumors were true, and it&#8217;s finally here: a native Gmail app for your Apple device. You&#8217;ll get push notifications, inbox searching, autocompleting e-mail addresses, photo uploads and—if you&#8217;re an iPad user—a split view with your inbox on the left and your messages on the right. You&#8217;ll also have access to Gmail&#8217;s &#8220;Priority Inbox&#8221; features, message starring, labeling, and spam reporting. The app is compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, provided you&#8217;ve got iOS version 4 or above—which should be just about everyone by now. It&#8217;s available in the App Store here&#8230; UPDATE (2:22pm): And just like that, she&#8217;s gone. Google has updated its blog post with the following: &#8220;Earlier today we launched a new Gmail app for iOS. Unfortunately, it contained a bug which broke notifications and caused users to see an error message when first opening the app. We’ve removed the app while we correct the problem, and we’re working to bring you a new version soon. Everyone who’s already installed the app can continue to use it.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the offending error message, too: Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch [Google]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101698&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Boggle App, &#8216;Queer&#8217; Is a Bad Word</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/01/on-boggle-app-queer-is-a-bad-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first downloaded the Boggle app, I was agog over all the unfamiliar words — AAL, AIS, ANE, etc. — the game showed me I could have found in the 16-letter jumbles. But a few hundred rounds later (yes, I’m obsessed), I’m more interested in the words the good people at Hasbro won’t let me play. FART and CRAP are off limits. So is SLUT, which seems downright prudish. Stranger still is the exclusion of QUEER and POOF. What’s going on here? All of these words are allowed in the Scrabble app, which, like Boggle, is published by Electronic Arts under a licensing agreement with Hasbro. Both games have multi-player modes, so it’s hard to understand why some words are considered too pejorative for the one and not the other. (MORE: Top 10 Must-Have iPhone Games) And what’s so bad about QUEER and POOF, anyway? Haven’t these words been reclaimed by the gay community, not to mention the fact that they also have totally different, non-gay-related meanings? Hasbro responded to my interview request with this statement: “We want our games to be fun for everyone. We try to make family games like Boggle appropriate for all members of the family, so we’ve omitted some words from the app that we think some players might find offensive.” So what do you think, word nerds? Is it just me, or is Hasbro’s overprotectiveness a little insulting? And before you dismiss this as simply a kids’ game, consider that there used to be a Boggle TV show, hosted by none other than Wink Martindale, and played by, you guessed it, adults. Maybe some of the contestants were even — dare I say — queer. LIST: 50 Best iPhone Apps of 2011<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101388&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Must-Have iPhone Games</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/14/top-10-must-have-iphone-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you&#8217;ve just purchased your first iPhone or you&#8217;ve owned every version since 2007, make sure there&#8217;s an icon for each one of these games on your Home screen. Note that we&#8217;ve listed the paid version of each game in the ensuing gallery, but there are often free-to-try versions as well if you&#8217;re not quite ready to make the plunge.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99776&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Android Apps to Overtake Apple in June 2012?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/12/android-apps-to-overtake-apple-in-june-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple may still be the undisputed king of the app stores, but new research suggests that its reign may have less than a year left, barring any surprising developments (and, no, the iPhone 4S doesn&#8217;t count as a surprising development). Currently, according to research from Xyologic, monthly Apple app downloads in the U.S. are nearly double those of Android downloads—494 million versus 279 million in August—with the vast majority of Apple apps being downloaded for the iPhone (417 million, versus the iPad&#8217;s 77 million). But the company&#8217;s analysis suggests that Android&#8217;s app download rate will overtake Apple&#8217;s by June 2012. Android has already overtaken Apple in some overseas markets (namely, the Czech Republic, Poland and Portugal), but it will take until the middle of next year for the same to be true worldwide. Coincidentally—or not, perhaps—that&#8217;s around the same time the Android Market is expected to finally reach parity with the number of available apps in Apple&#8217;s App Store. A quirk in Xyologic&#8217;s research could throw everything into disarray, however; there is no hard data for the Chinese market in terms of Android app downloads. Although estimates are made for downloads through the official Marketplace in China, Android apps are also available in other storefronts, meaning that the 22 million estimate for August could be off by as much as a factor of four. That may give Apple even more reason to think about doing something to boost its own App Store downloads sooner rather than later. MORE: Smartphones, Tablets Account for About 7% of Web Traffic Now [via paidContent] Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99653&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Share a Family Shopping List by Keeping It in the Cloud</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/10/how-to-share-a-family-shopping-list-by-keeping-it-in-the-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live with other people, you know the problem: On Wednesday you notice that you&#8217;re out of milk, but you&#8217;ve forgotten about that by the time your spouse goes shopping on Friday. Or you write a note on that pad on the fridge, but your handwriting is illegible. Or what if the two of you go shopping at different stores and both buy milk? We&#8217;re used to living with these problems, but we don&#8217;t have to any more. Cloud-based shopping list services combined with smartphone apps ease shopping chores. When you use your smartphone to mark what needs to be bought, the rest of the family will see it on their phones as well. Grocery Gadgets: On the Web and In Your Phone At least you can do that with the service I&#8217;m recommending, Grocery Gadgets. You can access the service on your browser for free, but that&#8217;s of limited use because the web site isn&#8217;t mobile-friendly. You probably don&#8217;t want to create this week&#8217;s shopping list on a computer, and you certainly don&#8217;t want to take one shopping. So you&#8217;re best off using Grocery Gadgets on your smartphone. And while that&#8217;s not free, it&#8217;s not exactly expensive, either. The iPhone app costs $4; the Android one, $3. These apps are almost functionally identical, although the iPhone one is prettier to look at. Apps are also available for BlackBerry, Nokia, and Windows Phone handsets. (LIST: 50 Best iPhone Apps of 2011) There are free apps, as well, but they&#8217;re too severely crippled to be useful. There are also no ongoing charges for the service. Grocery Gadgets syncs the data on your phone to the data in the cloud. You and your family will have the same shopping list on all of your phones. Grocery Gadgets has one other fault I want to bring up right now: The user interface isn&#8217;t as obvious as it should be, especially if you&#8217;re moving between the website and a phone app. For instance, the web version has a &#8220;Favorites&#8221; list which contains every<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99382&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Drops &#8216;Is My Son Gay?&#8217; App from Android Market</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/07/google-drops-is-my-son-gay-app-from-android-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responding to a Twitter campaign led by LGBT activist website AllOut.org, Google this week pulled a controversial app called &#8220;Is My Son Gay?&#8221; from its Android Market. The app was released last month to immediate controversy, with many upset by the idea of an app that, following a 20-question quiz, would tell parents whether their sons were gay or straight. Questions included &#8220;Does he like to dress up nicely?&#8221; and &#8220;Does he like diva singers?&#8221;. (MORE: Apple Removes Controversial Anti-Israel App from App Store) According to a statement from French development team Enneme Moi, who created the app to promote Christophe de Baran&#8217;s novel of the same name, the app was &#8220;conceived with a playful approach&#8221; and &#8220;not based at all on scientific research.&#8221; Unsurprisingly, not everyone thought the app was so playful. In a statement from AllOut.org co-founder Andre Banks celebrating the app&#8217;s removal, it was called &#8220;outrageous and only [serving] to further negative stereotypes and homophobia.&#8221; The organization had led a campaign that saw hundreds of members tweet the message &#8220;Demand that @Google &#38; #Android dump homophobic &#8216;Is My Son #Gay?&#8217; app NOW, no excuses! #LGBT&#8221;. Google hasn&#8217;t officially commented on the situation, but both the English and French versions of the app quietly disappeared from the Android Market earlier this week. MORE: Apple Yanks iTunes from &#8216;Christian Values Network&#8217; [via SocialTimes] Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99355&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>App of the Week: At Only 99 Cents, &#8216;Clean Writer&#8217; is a Steal</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/21/app-of-the-week-at-only-99-cents-cleanwriter-is-a-steal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no shortage of writing apps for the iPad: Take accessibility-angled options like Evernote (free) that allow users to add tags and keep everything organized, or more robust packages like Pages ($9.99) allowing for rich formatting and picture embeds. But the productivity app I&#8217;ve come to like the most is Clean Writer, which is currently on sale for 99 cents, and at that price it&#8217;s a steal whether you write for a living or as a hobby. Now, the iPad is obviously not the ideal tool for creating content like a blog post. Compared to other portable machines like the Macbook Air or a Netbook, it simply doesn&#8217;t have the computing power or multitasking abilities to juggle the windows and tabs necessary to carry out an assignment. (MORE: 50 Best iPhone Apps 2011) But upon using Clean Writer I discovered something weird: I found myself actually writing. The app itself is devoid of any superfluous add-ons. Unlike dedicated desktop applications like MS Word—where underlines and formatting at times add little more than clutter—the interface is stripped down to just the essentials. With Clean Writer, you merely boot it up and begin typing (I like to use an external keyboard). You&#8217;re presented with a few minimalist options, like whether you want a light or dark background and three font preferences, but for the most part the app is nothing more than the blank page in front of you. When you&#8217;re ready to save a document you can do so as a .txt file or send it to your DropBox. If you want to save sections of your text, you can highlight them and send as an email. For all the distractions available on the Internet I&#8217;ve found the self-imposed restrictions of Clean Writer refreshing. It&#8217;s elegant, easy-to-use and a bargain for only a buck. Download it here. MORE: See All Apps of the Week Chris Gayomali is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @chrigz, on Facebook, or on Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97878&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Logitech &#8216;Harmony Link&#8217; Turns iPads into Universal Remotes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/21/logitech-harmony-link-turns-ipads-into-universal-remotes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most fully-baked thing about Logitech’s Revue Google TV box from last year wasn’t the Google TV part. It was Harmony Link, Logitech’s technology, drawn from its venerable Harmony line of universal remotes, for controlling an entertainment center full of gadgets from one remote. Now Logitech is readying a stand-alone Harmony Link that lets you use an iPad, an iPhone, or an Android phone as a Harmony remote. The setup includes a flying saucer-shaped gizmo that talks to entertainment devices via infrared and iPads and phones via Wi-Fi, plus iOS and Android apps. And it uses the same online configuration and database of 225,000 devices as traditional Harmony remotes to let you configure it for your entertainment setup with minimal fuss. Unlike similar newfangled universal-remote systems such as Peel and Griffin’s Beacon, Harmony Link emphasizes the iPad over smartphones: Its iPad app is more fully-featured, with searchable, browsable TV listings integrated into the user interface so you can abandon your cable company’s endless grid of listings altogether. (For now, the iPhone and Android apps let you control devices, but don’t have the listings.) I haven’t tried Harmony Link for myself yet, but it looked slick when Logitech gave me a sneak peek recently. It’ll cost $99 and Logitech says it’ll be available next month. MORE: How Google TV Can Be Saved This post originally appeared on Technologizer&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97879&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too Many Flipboards: Google Reportedly Prepping &#8216;Propeller&#8217; News App</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/19/google-propeller-and-too-many-flipboards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is rumored to be making a news reader app, called &#8220;Google Propeller,&#8221; that&#8217;s kind of like Flipboard. And if unnamed sources are to be believed, it&#8217;ll be a leader in the field of Flipboard clones. That&#8217;s right. &#8220;Flipboard clones&#8221; is pretty much a genre of apps now. AOL has &#8220;Editions.&#8221; CNN recently bought Zite. Yahoo is working on a reader called Livestand. And then there&#8217;s Pulse, which actually preceded Flipboard but never gets the same level of respect. Details on Google Propeller are scant, but the app will run on iPads and Android tablets, according to All Things Digital. And it&#8217;s going to be &#8220;mind-blowing good,&#8221; a source tells Robert Scoble. (MORE: Flipboard iPad App Makes a Magazine from Twitter, Facebook) These apps all use the same basic formula: Gather up the news from a bunch of sources&#8211;reputable publications, social media feeds, RSS feeds and individual curators&#8211;throw everything into a slick-looking tablet interface (bonus points if it resembles some form of dead-tree media) and present each article in an easy-to-read format. I hate to be a downer, but enough is enough. What I&#8217;ve discovered with these apps is that you spend too much time curating content and not enough time reading it. You&#8217;ve got to pick the sources and types of news that you like. You&#8217;ve got to create Twitter lists to filter the useful stuff from the junk. You&#8217;ve got to &#8220;Like&#8221; the articles you like so that the algorithms can learn what you like. And every time someone creates a new app, you&#8217;ve got to do all this self-curation all over again. If you put in the effort, the experience can be rewarding. But too often I find myself gravitating toward aggregators with less friction, like Techmeme, Google News or StumbleUpon. Or, I&#8217;ll use apps by individual news services, like NPR or the BBC &#8212; not because I favor those publications over others, but because they save me the hassle of curating the curators. And a lot of times, I just go straight to Twitter because it&#8217;s more<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97351&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon: Digital Door Keys Right on Your Smartphone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/16/coming-soon-digital-door-keys-right-on-your-smartphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday I wrote about a digital Key Ring Rewards app that puts your membership cards (grocery, gym, etc.) onto your smartphone, cutting down on the amount of plastic you&#8217;d carry around every day. But what if I told you that soon you might be able to do the same with your physical door keys too? New door key software—currently under development by a California-based subdivision of Sweden&#8217;s Assa Abloy called HID Global—is being tested in the dorms of Arizona State University as a substitute for plastic entry badges. So far, the response from a small sample of students has been &#8220;pretty positive.&#8221; Here&#8217;s how it would work according to Forbes: &#8220;The software, which interacts with physical ID card readers via an application or by swiping it near a reader, could eventually replace the plastic badges that millions of people worldwide use to securely enter their offices and other facilities.&#8221; They continue: &#8220;Beyond campuses, HID thinks the technology is a match for stores, hotels, homes, offices and government facilities. Because they include NFC, digital key-enabled phones could also be used to pay for public transportation, store electronic event tickets, access hotel rooms and redeem coupons.&#8221; (LIST: The 10 Most Dangerous Celebrities on the Internet) The phones would utilize something called Near Field Communication technology (NFC for short) to exchange data and open doors. The problem, however, is that while a number of manufacturers and carriers such as HTC, Motorola and AT&#38;T are building NFC tech into their products, the adoption rate is nowhere near where it needs to be for the technology to be widely used. (At ASU they&#8217;ve tackled the problem by giving iPhone 4s, certain BlackBerry phones and Android-powered devices MicroSD chips to provide the same capabilities as NFC-enabled handsets.) There are obviously a number of obstacles: In one instance the app was reported to have frozen up, and the student in question had to reboot their phone multiple times in order to get in. Plus, students could negligently forget to charge their phones (hey, it&#8217;s college after all) and lock themselves<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97317&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sports Illustrated &#8216;Rivals&#8217; App Helps You Relive Good (and Bad) Football Memories</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/15/sports-illustrated-rivals-app-helps-you-relive-good-and-bad-football-memories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From our friends over at Sports Illustrated comes a new app detailing 10 of the greatest football rivalries of all time. Aptly named Sports Illustrated Football Rivals, the app is available for free on Apple and Android mobile devices. You&#8217;ll get 300+ pages of historic SI content, along with video and audio features for the following rivalries: Texas vs. Oklahoma Auburn vs. Alabama Florida vs. Georgia Kansas vs. Missouri Cowboys vs. Redskins USC vs. Notre Dame Ohio State vs. Michigan Army vs. Navy Packers vs. Bears Cal vs. Stanford What? No Vikings-Packers rivalry? Oh, that&#8217;s right. Speaking as a born-and-bred Minnesotan, we always thought it was a rivalry. I suspect the Packers found that more amusing than serious, though, like a toddler trying to throw punches at his 19-year-old step brother. &#8220;Look at those little fists fly! He&#8217;s getting dizzy, now! How adorable!&#8221; The app can be downloaded for free from your device&#8217;s app store. More info here, too. LIST: 10 Things You Need to Know About &#8216;Madden NFL 12&#8242;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97112&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now Coming to the iPhone: &#8216;Turntable.fm&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/08/now-coming-to-the-iphone-turntable-fm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turntable.fm, the innovative crowdsourcing music service, made a lot of noise when its beta version launched earlier this year. Things grew so quickly that by its third month of operation the web-only service managed an impressive 207,000 unique visitors—not bad for a startup. By June the company was able to raise $7.5 million in financing and has managed to attract high-profile investors like Kanye West and Lady Gaga. Now, TechCrunch is reporting that the service is coming to the iPhone as many had anticipated (a fact confirmed by co-founder Billy Chasen in the comments). (MORE: Seven Tips For Buying New Headphones) Per their iPhone screenshots the app looks great; it&#8217;s essentially a spot-on recreation of the already popular web interface, which has gone on to attract the likes of celebrity DJs like Diplo and Talib Kweli. As TechCrunch reports: &#8220;We’re told that the company is hoping to release the app next week. It has been in testing with a few dozen people for the past few weeks, and is solid on WiFi connections, but less so over 3G, we’re told.&#8221;  The screenshots indicate built-in integration with Twitter and Facebook, though as Venturebeat points out, it&#8217;s unclear if the iPhone app will link to other music services like iTunes, Spotify, Last.fm or Rdio via the web version. It may just be that particular screenshot didn&#8217;t turn up. No word on an Android version just yet, either. Moving Turntable.fm onto a mobile platform undoubtedly puts pressure on other streaming services like Pandora or Spotify to innovate or risk losing users, as Turntable.fm nails the social element and leverages sharing better than any of its competitors. And as we&#8217;ve seen demonstrated time and time again, it&#8217;s that social element that typically creates stickiness. Yes, the service has a genuinely cool premise that&#8217;s generated a ton of well-deserved excitement. Now let&#8217;s see if they can create some traction and keep the party going. [via TechCrunch] MORE: What Music Service Should You Use? A Quiz Chris Gayomali is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @chrigz, on Facebook, or<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=96351&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Apps Get Offline Access (and I Get Tablet Gmail on a PC)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/01/google-apps-get-offline-access-and-i-get-tablet-gmail-on-a-pc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in February of 2010, Google announced that it was giving up on Google Gears, its neat-but-ultimately-unsatisfying technology that helped make Web services work even when the Web wasn’t available. The company said that it made more sense to concentrate on using HTML5 technologies to build offline capabilities into its Web apps. And now it’s done so, with offline-capable versions of Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs. (LIST: A Brief History of Google&#8217;s Social Networking Flops) In no case is Google delivering a full-blown version of the service in question that requires no Internet connection. It’s released a Chrome Web App for offline Gmail that also adds some offline features to Calendar and Docs. And the great news, as far as I’m concerned, is that the offline Gmail app is basically the tablet version of Gmail. Compared to full-blown Gmail, it’s stripped down–but it’s so nicely done that I prefer it to its fancier cousin, at least for simple e-mail triage. In fact, I spent a lot of time trying to make tablet Gmail work in a Mac browser, then gave up and started running Apple’s iOS simulator to do the job. From now on, all I have to do is run the Chrome app. I might be missing something, but I think that this version of Gmail doesn’t support keyboard shortcuts; if not, I hope Google is working on adding them back in. [UPDATE: It has support for some of them, but not the one I tried.] And the offline features for Calendar and Docs are limited: you can view calendar items and RSVP to them, and view documents and spreadsheets. Google says it’s working to add more capabilities, such as editing, and hopes to bring offline capabilities to browsers other than its own. The single biggest questions about Google’s Chromebooks has always been “What do I do when I can’t get online?” These new offline features don’t render the issue moot, but they’re a step in the right direction. And me, I plan to run the new Gmail<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=95636&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Great iPhone Apps for Foodies</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/31/10-great-iphone-apps-for-foodies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t get me wrong: I hate my iPhone. I only got one after I accidentally left my Droid on a bus. So I&#8217;m not coming to you as a wide-eyed enthusiast, the sort who thinks everything that Apple makes is pure gold. I don&#8217;t play Angry Birds, I don&#8217;t have a set of bejeweled Hello Kitty cases, and every day I think wistfully of the BlackBerry I had a few phones ago. That said, there are some awesome apps on the iPhone, especially for gastronomes. In no particular order, here are 10 of my favorites.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=95586&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>App of the Week: ESPN Fantasy Football 2011</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/31/app-of-the-week-espn-fantasy-football-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some people—like my roommates—fantasy football is as much a part of autumn as the leaves changing color. It means lazy Sundays spent doing little more than plopping down in front of the tube, washing down Digiorno with whatever beer&#8217;s on sale that week while compulsively checking your team after every down. The dedication and meticulousness required to even stay competitive in fantasy football? Pretty much a sport in and of itself. (MORE: App of the Week: The Rapture Detector) But for less hardcore fans (like me), fantasy football&#8217;s kind of like pulling a fifty out of your wallet and setting it on fire, never to be seen again. My point is that to even have a snowball&#8217;s chance in hell of winning the pot, you&#8217;re going to have to get a leg up on the competition wherever you can get it. It requires the sort of relentless stat checking and dedicated waiver watching that smartphones were born for. So ESPN&#8217;s Fantasy Football app? If you want to win, it&#8217;s really a no brainer. It has all the team management tools you&#8217;ll need (you can start, bench, add, drop or claim players off waivers as you see fit), and you can, of course, propose trades to the other owners in your league. There&#8217;s even the requisite message board for smack talk and quoting that week&#8217;s episode of The League. Also handy: You&#8217;ll probably want to enable push notifications for injuries. If, God forbid, your number one pick Adrian Peterson tears something and misses the rest of the regular season, you&#8217;ll probably want to know so you can drop him and head straight to the closest bar. The app also has ESPN&#8217;s little news ticker at the bottom, complete with headlines and links to videos and other important stories. Unfortunately, there isn&#8217;t an iPad-only app, probably because it&#8217;d make too much sense if it existed. Maybe next season. Download it for free here. MORE: See All &#8220;Apps of the Week&#8221; Chris Gayomali is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=95408&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Traffic App by MIT and Princeton Could Change Driving Forever</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/29/traffic-app-by-mit-and-princeton-could-change-driving-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers from MIT and Princeton have developed a smartphone application called &#8220;SignalGuru&#8221; that uses the camera from a dashboard-mounted smartphone to capture images of traffic lights. Once the images are captured, they&#8217;re analyzed to detect whether the lights are green, yellow or red and then that data is passed along to other nearby SignalGuru users. Using the resulting data, the app can relay to a particular driver how quickly he or she will need to drive in order to make the next light. If the next light is already red, the driver can coast up to it slowly instead. (LIST: 50 Best iPhone Apps of 2011) The researchers tested the app in Singapore, which uses dynamic traffic lights that change based on traffic levels and in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which uses dumb, old timed traffic lights spawned from the loins of none other than Satan himself (I live near Cambridge, believe it or not). The results, according to MIT: &#8220;By reducing the need to idle and accelerate from a standstill, the system saves gas: In tests conducted in Cambridge, Mass., it helped drivers cut fuel consumption by 20 percent.&#8221; That&#8217;s pretty incredible, considering it requires no additional modifications to the car itself. The app isn&#8217;t yet available to the public and when it is, it&#8217;ll have some challenges to overcome. For starters, it&#8217;ll face the chicken-and-egg problem most other crowdsourcing apps face: You need to have enough people using it to make the data reliable. If I&#8217;m the only person on Memorial Drive using the app, I&#8217;ll never know which upcoming lights are green or which of them are red. Actually, I&#8217;ll just assume they&#8217;re all red, since they&#8217;re ALWAYS RED. The other obstacle is that the researchers can&#8217;t, in good conscience (and probably legally, too), release an app that tells people to speed up in order to make an upcoming light. Still, the promise of cutting gas consumption by 20% may be enough to get a bunch of people to use this app, assuming it&#8217;s properly marketed. It may not<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=95257&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Track Hurricane Irene on Your iOS or Android Device</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/26/track-hurricane-irene-on-your-ios-or-android-device/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any hopes that Hurricane Irene might swing further east and somehow avoid smacking into the U.S. along the Eastern Seaboard have nearly vanished. While the storm&#8217;s weakened somewhat from a Category 3 (111 to 130 mph winds) to a Category 2 (96 to 110 mph winds), it could well strengthen again before it makes landfall in North Carolina tomorrow morning. Vacationers and others presently jamming North Carolina&#8217;s roads to get out of the way of this &#8220;once in half-a-century&#8221; storm are no doubt doing so with good reason. If you&#8217;re not already tracking the not-so-lovely lady-monster on your mobile device or tablet, you might want to glance at one of the following iOS or Android apps. (PHOTOS: U.S. East Coast Battens Down as Hurricane Irene Approaches) Take Hurricane ($2.99) for the iPhone by Kitty Code. It&#8217;s currently pulling an encouraging four out of five stars across both versions with 1,007 user ratings. It&#8217;s basically a one-stop info-shop devoted to tracking maps, satellite views, five-day forecasts, radar and bulletins related to hurricanes. You can see Hurricane Irene&#8217;s full path, from its starting classification point to its current position and if you want quick metrics on any given storm, all you need to do is tap on one to summon informational pop-ups that detail wind speed, storm speed and direction, pressure and so forth. Like any good iOS app with location service enabled, it&#8217;ll even automatically tell you how far you are from various points in the storm. And if you&#8217;re looking for historical info, it has &#8220;detailed, interactive&#8221; historical hurricane data for the Atlantic (back to 1851) and the East and Central Pacific (back to 1949). The iPad version, Hurricane HD ($3.99), basically prettifies all of the above, offers a more easy-to-navigate interface and adds video and blog updates from HurricaneTrack.com. If you&#8217;re an Android users, the app of choice seems to be Hurricane Hound (free with ads, $1.99 for ad-free), a hurricane tracker that uses Google Maps as its backdrop. It&#8217;ll track both forecasts and locations of Atlantic and East Pacific<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=95044&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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