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Battery cases are handy because they’re attached to your phone, meaning that you can turn them on and off whenever you need the power and don’t need to bother with extra cables or bring around with you an extra gadget which is usually the case with power banks. That being said if you’re after a battery case for the Sony Xperia Z3, you’re in luck.

Mugen has recently announced an extended battery case designed for the Sony Xperia Z3 in mind. The battery case itself comes with a 3,700mAh battery under the hood which is 600mAh more than the battery in the Sony Xperia Z3, meaning that you should get a full charge and then some for those emergencies.

Now the case will not come cheap as Mugen has priced it at $89.50, so unless you absolutely need the extra battery, you could save yourself a fair bit of money, but if you want that peace of mind knowing that your phone won’t die on you while you’re out and about, then $89.50 could be a small price to pay for such a convenience.

As it stands the Xperia Z3 packs a 3,100mAh battery under the hood which is a pretty big one. Sony is boasting a 2 day battery life, although most tests conducted have revealed that it falls short of 2 days, but it comes pretty close which is still good enough, but for those who travel often and don’t have access to charging ports, battery cases are a good alternative.

Mugen Extended Battery Case For Sony Xperia Z3 Announced , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

Using your browser to perform a quick search usually sees Google being used as the default search engine, and why not? After all Google is one of the biggest search engines around at the moment, so it only makes sense to use their services, right? Well there are alternatives, such as Yahoo and Bing, and the good/bad news for Firefox users is that Mozilla has recently announced a partnership with Yahoo.

This five-year partnership will see Firefox browsers turn to Yahoo’s search engine as the default browser on its mobile and desktop version of the browser. The partnership will also see Yahoo roll out an enhanced new search function for Firefox users which will also support the Do Not Track function which was included in the latest Firefox release.

According to Mozilla’s CEO Chris Beard, with Firefox users searching the web an estimated 100 billion times a year, this will prove to be a huge boon for Yahoo which at the moment has ceded market share to the likes of Google. For example only 10% of web searches are made through Yahoo, so with the partnership with Firefox, we expect that those numbers will be seeing significant gains.

Beard also wrote, “We believe it will empower more people, in more places with more choice and opportunity to innovate and ultimately put even more people in control over their lives online.” It should be noted that the switch to Yahoo will only affect the US version of Firefox as Mozilla will rely on other search engines for different countries, such as Yandex for Russia.

Yahoo To Become Firefox’s Default Search Engine In New Deal With Mozilla , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

Freemium apps have gotten a lot of flack in the past for being misleading. This has led parents to believe that these so-called free apps won’t cost them anything, only to find out that their kid has racked up thousands of dollars in in-app purchases. Now app stores like Apple’s iTunes App Store have evolved over the years to indicate that apps have in-app purchases, and the latest move by Apple is a step towards making freemium apps seem less misleading.

If you were to launch the iTunes App Store, you will notice that apps that were once labeled as “free” are no longer labeled as such. Instead, as you can see in the screenshot to the right, they are labeled as “get”. This makes it less misleading as it makes it more obvious that these apps aren’t exactly “free” per se.

According to App Annie VP Marcos Sanchez, he’s not completely sure if this could change buying habits, but acknowledges that there could be some impact. “I’m not completely sure, but one could argue that it is a more ‘action’ oriented, pro-active word, which could have a positive effect as a call to action. Small changes can sometimes have a positive impact.”

The change in the iTunes App Store follows in the footsteps of Google who in July, made similar changes to the Google Play Store in which freemium apps are no longer labeled as free, although these changes were applied to apps downloaded in Europe due to pressure put on the company by the European Commission.

iTunes App Store No Longer Listing Freemium Apps As “Free” , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

 Logitech is slowly but surely turning the iPad into a Microsoft Surface – which is good news for those who envy some of the Windows device’s productivity features, but not its software or overall form factor. The new Logitech Keys-To-Go feels a lot like the keyboard included in the Microsoft Type Cover, and now there’s a stand/case called the AnyAngle that essentially mimics… Read More

WASHINGTON (RNS) Like the lawmakers he lobbies on Capitol Hill, the Rev. C. Welton Gaddy has a foot in two worlds — Washington during the week, his hometown on the weekends.

So when Gaddy boards a flight each Friday from Washington to Monroe, La., he ignores the person sitting next to him. It may not seem very pastoral, but in fact, it is: He has a sermon to write.

Gaddy, a progressive defender of religious freedom, will retire next month as president of the Interfaith Alliance. But he plans to continue as pastor of Northminster Church, an Alliance of Baptists congregation that his members describe as an island of liberalism in a sea of Louisiana conservatism.

For 16 years, the former Southern Baptist has worn two hats — preaching most Sundays and advocating for equal treatment of people of all beliefs on weekdays in Washington.

“A lot of the people in Washington who talk about religion don’t understand religion; it’s more of a subject of theoretical discussion,” said Gaddy, 73, in an interview in his small office near Georgetown. “And I think that’s why it has been important that I have my one foot in a local congregation and one foot in a national agency.”

Gaddy’s views — supporting interfaith relations and opposing government-endorsed prayer — are a far stretch from his Tennessee childhood, where his fundamentalist parents looked down on the faith of local Presbyterians because they didn’t go to church on Sunday evenings.

He grew to not only see the merit of Christians worshipping together but, as president of the Alliance of Baptists, organized a ceremony of apology at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for sins of “complicity” and “silence” about negative stereotypes of Jews.

A few years later, in 1998, he took the helm of the Interfaith Alliance, which aimed to demonstrate that “the Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of the world don’t represent all Christians.”

He expanded its mission beyond frequent critiques of the religious right to a range of other issues. On his “State of Belief” weekly radio program and podcast, he recently interviewed now-pro-LGBT evangelical ethicist David Gushee and discussed the first-ever Muslim Friday prayers at Washington National Cathedral.

“We’ve drawn inspiration from the fact that he always suggests that one needs to be proactive about these things, not just reactive,” said Sabi Singh, a Sikh layman who is president of the Interfaith Alliance of Oklahoma.

The Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, called Gaddy a role model for religious leaders who might otherwise be reluctant to enter church-state battles.

“I think that his position as a preaching pastor in Louisiana made it easier for other clergy … to interject themselves into these controversies,” said Lynn, who co-authored a 2008 book, “First Freedom First,” with Gaddy, a onetime board member and president of Americans United.

Gaddy has watched the evolution of religious freedom battles with great concern.

“Honestly, one of the most difficult parts of leaving this office is that I think religious freedom in our nation is under more attack and in more danger than it was 25 years ago,” he said.

He accuses conservatives — including those in the Southern Baptist Convention he left behind — with playing a role in those attacks.

“The Catholic bishops and the Christian evangelicals have done to religious freedom what they did to the Bible: They co-opted the language of it,” Gaddy said.

His sparring partners in Washington and Southern Baptist circles agree on threats to religious liberty, but for entirely different reasons.

“He’s correct that religious freedom is in more trouble … not only the last 25 years but in my lifetime — but for totally different reasons than the ones that Welton would cite,” said the Rev. Richard Land, former head of the Southern Baptists’ Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

While Gaddy supports same-sex civil marriages, for example, Land opposes them, and worries about state laws that compel bakers, florists and photographers to provide wedding services for same-sex couples.

But Land said he and Gaddy are “respectful adversaries”: “With him, it was issues. It was not personal attack.”

Gaddy is particularly proud of his office’s work on hate crimes legislation, and he recently attended a White House ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Still, other goals remain elusive, especially getting the Obama administration to halt a Bush-era policy that allows faith-based groups to hire and fire based on religion while receiving government funding.

“When they formed the task force on making the (White House faith-based) office constitutional, they asked me to be on it,” he said. “The day they called I said, ‘You know, I still want it closed.’”

Despite those differences, the White House included Gaddy on that task force.

Even as he waged church-state wars, Gaddy spent about 20 hours each week preparing the sermon he preaches to a congregation of about 125 each Sunday.

“He doesn’t mince his words with us at all, but then again we’re not a real typical congregation,” said James Yeldell, chair of the church council at Northminster, where Gaddy said Republicans, Democrats, gay and straight worship side by side.

“I don’t want to put adjectives in front of the church,” said Gaddy. “The church is a house of worship, open to everybody.”

After racking up more than 1 million frequent-flier miles, Gaddy hopes to travel with his wife, Judy, as others pick up the mantle of fighting for religious and human rights.

“I’ll keep working on them in one way or the other and keep writing about them and talking about them,” he said. “I don’t have the sense that either Jefferson or God is wringing their hands because I’m leaving.”