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Instagram for Windows Phone arrives today, landing in the Windows Phone Store complete with Live Tile support. However, the much-anticipated app is lacking a few features compared to its iOS and Android cousins, most notably that video support isn’t present at release. Whereas the existing apps for other platforms allow short video clips to be […]

When we reviewed the Leap Motion controller earlier this year, we found the application selection to be a bit lacking. Since then, the number of apps has doubled from 75 to around 150, and the Airspace store’s newest edition is the coolest Leap app we’ve yet seen. It’s called Free Form, and it’s a 3D sculpting app (not unlike 3D Systems’ Sculpt) built in house at Leap Motion that lets you manipulate and shape digital objects using your fingertips. David Holz, company co-founder and the man who figured out the math behind Leap Motion’s technology, gave us a demo of the app and talked a bit about why Leap built it. Additionally, he showed us a new developer beta software that does 360-degree tracking built to address some of the original Leap shortcomings.

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After jumping aboard the WebKit train and launching a dedicated browser for the iPad, Opera’s now turned its attention to Android tablets. With the release of Opera 18 for Android, the company is quick to note that it didn’t just update and scale up its smartphone browser: navigation and menu buttons have been strategically placed to where your fingers naturally rest and its improved Discover feature lets you swipe between newspaper and magazine content that has been matched to your interests and location. Like with all its browsers, Opera’s Android tablet app comes complete with data-saving capabilities. Off-Road mode is designed to help you stay online when you’re on a public Wi-Fi connection or trying to reduce your data usage, basically when connectivity is less than ideal. Underpinned by Google’s Chromium 31 framework, Opera’s big-tablet app is available on Play Store right now — check the source to grab it.

Filed under: Tablets, Software, Mobile

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Source: Opera for Android (Google Play), Opera Press

While it doesn’t include anything groundbreaking, the newest Dropbox update for Android intros a few handy features. Perhaps most prominent is the new notifications feed, where you can access your latest account activity via the bell icon on the app menu. That could be super useful if you share folders with friends or co-workers, but if not, you can now also email them images and videos from within the app. To do so, simply find the option under the Share umbrella and go to town forwarding your memes. Finally, Dropbox, in hopes of enticing you to shell out for its services, can now auto-fill your credit card details if you take a pic of your plastic. We’ve embedded screenshots of the new features after the break for those who’d like to get a peek before downloading the update.

Filed under: Misc, Mobile

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Source: Google Play

As part of its effort to better leverage KitKat, version 2.1 of Todoist now uses the power of Google Now for adding new tasks to those lists of reminders. The update allows users to speak “OK Google” followed by “note to…” and the item to be completed. For example, you’d speak “note to make dinner reservations” or some such. This voice command will then add the task to a to-do list automatically without the need to access the app or enter it in manually with the keypad. If you’re of the sort that likes motivation on your lockscreen, Todoist also plays nice with DashClock now — a third-party widget for that particular tract of screen real estate. Here, the tally of tasks (with no details) that are overdue, for the day or for the entire week are displayed without unlocking device. Now if we could only get the app to order cupcakes when all our work is done, we’d really be in business.

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Source: Google Play, Todoist Blog