Everyone’s (okay, maybe just mine) favorite music app – Spotify -  just received a make-over, along with a couple handy new features.

Spotify users will notices a few changes in the PC version of the app, including a new theme that looks strangely familiar…

Oh yeah, it looks just like iTunes. But the most important Spotify news? Apps! Details after the break. [Read more…]

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Review: FX Photo Studio

by John LaPine on December 20, 2011 · 0 comments

Instragram. Hipstamatic. Camera+. With literally hundreds of “Photo & Video” apps in the iTunes App Store, each with dozens of filters and effects, it can be a daunting task to choose just one.

To help you decide, MacPhun LLC has brought nearly 200 filters and effects together in FX Photo Studio, a Photo app for iOS and Mac. We reviewed the Mac and iPad versions earlier this year. So how does the newly-updated iPhone version hold up? Click through to find out.

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ALT: Nexuiz

by Mark Stephenson on December 19, 2011 · 0 comments

With Christmas being literally right around the corner – if you haven’t finished your shopping yet… Well, let’s hope you budgeted for overnight air – and between sipping eggnog and humming jingle bells, you’re probably feeling the long, reaching arm of nostalgia. And while some may reflect on that one special train set or the sweaters their grandmother always got them, you’re probably reflecting on something else.

Like the first time you played Quake.

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Besides being probably the world’s best search engine, Google wins over our hearts regularly with its fun “Doodles” – those days when the Google logo changes for holidays, events, or anniversaries.

2011 Holi Festival Google Doodle merchandise now available for purchase (via Zazzle)

Now, if you’re a fan of Google’s Doodles, you can get your favorite on a T-shirt, thanks to Google and Zazzle. Details after the break.

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Next week, Facebook will roll out Timeline, a complete redesign of their classic Profile. But the company is allowing users to try it out before it hits all 800 million profiles on the 22nd.

The best aspect of Timeline is that it lets you be the designer: Timeline is a fresh breath from the old Profile design, and you can give your profile a spankin’ new look anytime you’d like with your Cover image and selected “major” updates.

Before the world sees your Timeline, take a few minutes to check out these Timeline Tips.

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Prepare yourselves: Facebook complaints are coming.

The fine folks at Facebook are rolling out the new update to everyone’s favorite social network: Timeline. Timeline is a new way to share information on your Facebook profile. Features, launch information, and details on how you can activate Timeline right now after the break.

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Hello everyone, and welcome to another week of T&R!

This week, we’ve got lots of awesome breaking news. First, the world’s most popular social networking site rolls out a major overhaul. After that, some popular Apple products are receiving new updates soon. Finally, we’ve got hot news on the latest round of Android phones to be released – including one from mother Google herself. It’s been a hectic Thursday, but let’s get to it!

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Holy Lumia, Batman!

by Eugene Liu December 14, 2011

The Nokia Lumia 800 is one of the first Windows Phone 7 smartphones to materialize after its partnership with Microsoft announced in February 2011. Reviews have been mostly positive for this mobile phone. It also appears that Nokia is putting in some serious marketing efforts to make sure this is one of the must-have smartphones. [...]

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Christmas Giveaway: Obihai OBi110 Voice Service Bridge and VoIP Adapter

by Eugene Liu December 12, 2011

Still need some holiday gift ideas? We have the perfect gift for both the techie and non-techie! In the end of May 2011 we tried out the Obihai OBi110 device with Google Voice to make unlimited free U.S. VoIP calls. It’s a device about the size of a 4-port Ethernet switch, but don’t let its [...]

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Watch out, Android, there’s going to be a new open source tablet OS

by Eugene Liu December 9, 2011

It is official — under the leadership and direction of CEO Meg Whitman, HP will contribute webOS to open source. So if you jumped on the fire sale of the TouchPads there’s perhaps less reason now to be worried about their maintainability in the future… Whitman even went as far as saying that new HP [...]

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Tremors and Rumors: Apple TV, Twitter, Adobe

by Bryant Plano December 8, 2011

Hello everyone, and welcome to another week of T&R! This week, we have more tremors than rumors. But before you start shaking in anticipation, you can expect to hear more rumors about the upcoming television from a well-known fruit-branded company (and no, it has nothing to do with oranges)! On top of that, a new [...]

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CES 2012: Been There, Done That, Will Do It Again

by Eugene Liu December 8, 2011

Almost an year ago we attended our first CES in Las Vegas to bring you one of the most extensive event coverages by an independent gadget blog. Some fond memories: the announcement of the “magical” Motorola XOOM, the Lenovo party at the upscale Venetian where we witnessed the jewel-encrusted IdeaPad U110, getting lost in the [...]

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Instagram coming soon to Android

by John LaPine December 7, 2011

Hipsters rejoice: you will soon be able to turn photos taken on your $600 smartphone into photos that look like they were taken with a $20 camera, 40 years ago. That’s right: Instagram, the insanely popular iOS photography app, is coming soon to an Android device near you. Details after the break.

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Flipboard flips onto the iPhone

by Eugene Liu December 7, 2011

Dubbed a “social magazine” app, Flipboard first arrived on the iPad with great fanfare. If you consume content via various RSS feeds, then you know how frustrating and bland the process could be. Flipboard sort of takes RSS to the next level, offering content curation beneath a beautifully designed user interface that takes advantage of [...]

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Review: Wormhole Switch by j5create

by Eugene Liu December 6, 2011

I’ve seen and used many USB cables in my life but none as useful as the j5create Wormhole Switch. It may look like any regular USB cable except with bigger ends (with cool blue flashing LED lights when active), the Wormhole Switch is as close to a Swiss Army Knife as cables go. It’s the [...]

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