Instagram finished the week with a significant update to its app (App Store). The 2.1 update now has Lux, an image adustment option that automatically brings out details in highlights and shadows in a rough equivalent to high dynamic range (HDR) shooting. Read more...
7 Epic Videos of Gadget Destruction (Mashable)
Mashable - 1. Kid Breaks iPad Outside the Store Here's a video of a group of teenagers who buy an iPad at Best Buy, then smash it with a bat in front of all the people in line waiting to buy their own. Some sense of humor they have. Read more...
RIM: BlackBerry App World more profitable than Android
RIM's Developer Relations VP Alec Saunders made aggressive claims about the state of BlackBerry App World at his company's DevCon Europe keynote on Tuesday morning. He contended that the store was the second-most profitable mobile app store after Apple's own and that Android lagged behind significantly Read more...
Briefly: Word Lens gains French support, FMC iPad training
Quest Visual has updated its augmented reality translation tool, Word Lens, with the ability to translate between French and English. Read more...
First look: Autodesk Inventor Fusion for Mac
After a successful year on the Mac App Store, Autodesk is continuing to focus on the Mac platform for its 2012 product lineup. MacNN talked with Autodesk product managers this week in San Francisco, where the company provided an early peek at its Inventor Fusion modeling software for Mac OS X... Read more...
Apple plans a ‘GarageBand for e-books’ with McGraw-Hill
Apple's New York City education event is nothing less than a rethinking of how publishers create e-books as a whole, leaks divulged Monday. Read more...
Scupteo creates 3D ceramic artwork from photos
Sculpteo has unveiled a cloud-based 3D printing engine. With it and an app running on an iPhone or iPad, (free, App Store), an individual can snap a photo and recreate a 3D likeness on an piece of ceramic... Read more...
Mac App Store reaches first anniversary with over 8,900 apps
The Mac App Store is today celebrating its first anniversary. At first the storefront was only accessible through a Snow Leopard update; access has since been built into OS X Lion, which itself was originally made available as a Mac App Store download. Read more...
Google Translate gets iPad support, Android handwriting
Google has put out two key updates for Google Translate. The iOS version (App Store now supports the iPad natively, using pop-overs for language selection and otherwise taking advantage of the extra screen real estate. Features are otherwise the same as on iPhones and iPods, where it can translate between 60 languages, most of which have spoken translations... Read more...
SugarSync update for Android, iOS auto-syncs videos
SugarSync has updated its apps for both iOS and Android devices. The new releases provide enhanced backup, synchronization and access of photos, videos and files across multiple platforms (free, Android Market, App Store). SugarSync offers the apps in conjunction with its cloud storage service... Read more...
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