Microsoft just released a giant “Patch Tuesday” bulletin for the month. Weird thing about this update? More than half of the bugs found in Microsoft products were reported by none other than Google engineers. More »
Great news for those people who love to lie around, but also need to get some work done…
Thanko made it possible for you to work hard while relaxing flat on your back. It’s a folding desk with up to a 70cm top panel, clips and belt. You can strap your laptop (up to 5kg) or a book or magazine to the desk, and while you are on your back, relaxing in bed, you can work or read.
And there is no need to worry about your computer overheating. Just plug in the table’s small fans through …
We knew it would be coming, and now it looks like it’s finally here. Slacker Radio has completely overhauled its service by introducing a completely new design and tacking on some new features. This time around, Slacker is looking to catch up in the music-streaming market by taking on Pandora and Spotify for the internet radio crown.
Slacker says that they have 10 times more music than Pandora does when it comes to live streaming music, and they have over 200 special genre stations used for music discovery, something that should get Spotify a little nervous at this point. Slacker even said that its shuffling capabilities are much more advanced than Pandora’s, noting that users will noticed less repetition.
The site’s overhaul is mostly cosmetic, though. The new look is presented in a blue and grey combo, and the site’s navigation is much quicker and easier this time around. Overall, everything’s larger: larger icons, larger text, and simple easy-to-find controls to fine-tune your music to the level that you desire.
Slacker has 13 million songs in its catalog, which puts it right up there with Pandora and Spotify, but with only 500,000 paying subscribers, Slacker is looking to bolster its user base, and this redesign and new brand may just do the trick. By going directly after the big competitors, Slacker may just create a stir and get avid music listeners to switch over.
[via The Next Web]
Slacker Radio gets overhauled redesign to take on Pandora and Spotify is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Not since the tennis ball has a product promised to so radically change the face of pick-up kickball games. Gone are the days of kids having to place two backpacks side-by-side to create an impromptu goal because Golme’s new Urban Pac backpack features a five-foot wide pop-out net. More »
Flickr is one of the more popular photo sharing services out there. The photo service allows users to upload photographs that anyone can see and to upload photographs privately they can only be viewed by specific users. The photo sharing site recently ran into an issue where photographs marked private were made available to the public.
Flickr notes that it was performing routine site maintenance and identified a bug in software that could have changed the view settings on some photos from private to public. The company says that photos were visible between January 18 and February 7 of 2013. Flickr says that it put additional measures in place to prevent this sort of problem from happening again.
The software problem affected some images uploaded between April and December of 2012. The company says that overall the bug impacted only a small percentage of the photos uploaded to the sharing service. However, Flickr boasts an average of about 1.4 million public photos uploaded daily during 2012 meaning that millions of private photos could have been viewed by the public.
It remains unclear exactly how many users were affected by the bug and some users affected by the bug report that Flickr was unable to tell them if people viewed their private photos. The company set privacy settings for any potentially affected image to private. However, that could mean that photographs people meant to be public are now unavailable for viewing.
[via Information Week]
Flickr flaw flaunted private pics publicly is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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After reaching 300 millions monthly users, Opera decided that it was time to switch to the WebKit engine for future versions.
No matter where you are, hailing a taxi isn’t always easy, and when you’re not willing or able to flash them to get them to slow down, it can be frustrating, especially in a foreign country. There are a few different apps that allow you to hail taxis, but this new system by TomTom looks pretty interesting.
The free TomTom Taxi app was based on terminals that TomTom had installed in Amsterdam, allowing people to hail taxis to specific terminals. The app will call a taxi to your location, and will automatically let you know how long it will take for it to arrive. The app even lets you learn about specific drivers, and lets you order your favorite driver – if you actually have one.
There are already several Taxi-ordering apps available, including HAILO and Taxi Magic, but this is the first to incorporate TomTom’s award winning GPS and map tech.
TomTom Taxi is available now for the iPhone, and is coming soon for Android devices. For now, there’s no indication whether TomTom will extend this service beyond the Netherlands, but I can see this being useful almost anywhere.
[via Ubergizmo]
Pandora is the leader in streaming music mostly because it got there first. But use it for a while, and you realize the service’s catalog—not to mention its features—are limited. On paper, Slacker Radio is superior, and today, the five-year-old service is launching an overhaul aimed at proving it’s superior. More »
If you were a fan of Slacker‘s old-school black and gold aesthetic, you can mourn its passing today. The internet radio service has just undergone a rebirth, with a brand new white and burnt orange logo and a completely revamped design — on web, mobile and Xbox — in an effort to reintroduce itself to the mainstream and stave off competition from the likes of Pandora, Spotify and Rdio. The new look is decidedly simpler and more approachable, with a prominent search box and a distinct blue and white theme that carries its way throughout all interfaces. Indeed, the smartphone apps are explicitly designed to mirror the site, not just style-wise but functionally as well. For example, you can continue a song on the phone right where you left off in the browser.
The pricing structure remains the same — there’s a free ad-supported version, a Radio Plus $3.99 a month option and a $9.99 per month Premium plan. The new iOS and Android apps should be available today, with Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10 versions to come. For more on the relaunch and a few thoughts from Slacker’s execs, join us after the break.
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