While plenty of people are in love with Spotify’s all-you-can-stream desktop app, its mobile products have left many — including our own Jared Newman — wanting more. Today, Spotify filled a huge gap in its offerings by …
Apps & Software
Glimpse: A Facebook-Powered Pinterest Clone Without the Human Feel
Pinterest, which lets you collect and share images and links from around the web, is quirky, addictive — and wildly popular. So it’s not surprising that it’s also proving to be influential. It sure influenced Glimpse, a new …
HomeOS: Microsoft Works on Bringing Smart Homes to the Masses
Pop quiz: What’s the easiest way to wire up your entire home for smartphone and tablet controls? Unless you’re quite tech-savvy, chances are you haven’t the slightest idea.
It’s a problem that Microsoft Research wants to solve …
How the Software Industry Is Being Reborn
It seems like you can’t go anywhere in Silicon Valley without hearing about someone who’s making an app. Apps are all the rage these days and software engineering is one of the hottest jobs all over the world. But in the not too …
Dropbox Gets Automatic Photo Uploads, Offers 3 GB Incentive
We might just have a cloud storage feature war on our hands, folks.
Following this week’s launch of Google Drive and an overhauled Microsoft Skydrive, Dropbox is adding automatic photo uploads to its online storage service. …
How to Choose Between Cloud Storage Services like Google Drive and Dropbox
Cloud storage is in the spotlight this week with the launch of Google Drive and the relaunch of Microsoft’s Skydrive. Along with competitors such as Dropbox and SugarSync, you’ve now got lots of good choices for storing files …
Google Sells SketchUp (Wait, Google Sold Something?)
Google’s “spring cleaning,” which involves the company reassessing stuff that’s not core to its activities, continues. It’s selling SketchUp, a really nifty program for creating 3D models of buildings, to Trimble Navigation. …
Video: Wherein Songs Are Skipped by Chucking Stuff at a Poster on the Wall
Agency Republic, billing itself as “a digital creative agency based in Battersea, London” has cobbled together quite a digitally creative way to enable anyone in the office to skip over unwelcome songs that have been added to the …
Will Google Drive Snoop Inside Your Data? Google Needs to Be Clearer
Upload your private diary, novel manuscript, amateur movie or digitally crafted song to Google’s new Google Drive and it’s totally impervious to company tinkering, right? Not necessarily. In fact the way things are currently laid …
5 Reasons to Give Google Drive a Shot
Google Drive, the company’s answer to online storage tools like Dropbox, Box.net, SugarSync and Microsoft’s SkyDrive, arrived yesterday afternoon as forecast, though with little ceremony.
It wasn’t…then suddenly it was, …
Gear4 Renew SleepClock Review: It Knows When You’re Sleeping
Over the last six nights, I’ve learned that I’m not a great sleeper. I need at least a half hour to doze off, and I’m likely to stir from my slumber a few times or more during the night, which in turn prevents me from getting …
Long-Awaited ‘Google Drive’ Cloud Storage Service Finally Launches
It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally here. Google’s oft-rumored, long-awaited “Google Drive” is ready.
Even Google acknowledged the mystique that’s been surrounding the product, writing, “Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may …