Though chock-full of delicious knowledge, traditional cookbooks are far too portly for the modern kitchen. Instead of dedicating valuable shelf space to dozens of cooking anthologies, let them live in the cloud or in your tablet. Here are 10 ways to digitize your recipe collection as suggested by the Gizmodo community
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Yahoo wants to make browsing its mobile video content feel more like channel surfing on the old-fashioned tube. The new iOS app out today should help.
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Remember the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch unveiled a week ago?
Snapchat certainly does, and the ephemeral messaging app has released an app specifically for the wrist-worn gadget. Called Snapchat Micro, the app lets users send snaps directly from their wrists.
Users can take a picture with the Galaxy Gear’s 1.4-megapixel camera, which is capable of taking 10-second 720p videos. Perfect for Snapchat’s 10-second video limit, AMIRITE?
Within the Snapchat Micro app, users can take a picture, choose a time limit, and decide which friends to send the image to. If you’d like to add a drawing or a caption, the snap will automatically be open on your Galaxy Note phone waiting for your creative additions.
“Our team is constantly looking at ways to reduce the time between our experience of a moment and our ability to share it,” said Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel. “The Snapchat Micro app is an experiment we’re really excited about.”
Snapchat is one of around 70 apps that will be available on the Galaxy Gear smartwatch at launch.
Judging from the reader comments when we initially reported on Commercial Break’s beta launch, a lot of people wanted to see an Android version and more functionality for sports. Well, the devs appear to be listening. With the app’s new “Live Events” feature, you can follow multiple upcoming live broadcasts (ballgames or otherwise) and get push notifications before they start and when they return from an ad-break. The app is now available at Google Play, and both it and the iOS version support a majority of (not blacked-out) nationally televised pro and college football games, as well as the upcoming MLB playoffs. Could the app use any more improvements? Speak up and speak often — it won’t be in vain.
Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment, HD, Mobile
Source: Commercial Break
Web browsing on the iPad—or any tablet for that matter—is far too frustrating of an experience for what’s really one of the device’s most basic uses. Safari for iOS was designed with an iPhone in mind, so anything larger becomes an awkward mix of sweeping gestures and pointed tapping. Opera’s newly launched iPad-only browser, Coast, wants to fix that.
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Hackathon hacks can lead to fully fledged apps and companies. Other times they are intended to be nothing more than a great hack. 300ft is certainly that: a neat hack, built overnight at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF hackathon, which pulls in “close to live” aerial imaging from UAVs (aka drones) so the user can check how busy a prospective outdoor leisure location is before heading out.
The hack team behind 300ft deployed a fleet of drones over “the most popular places in San Francisco” — such as the marina and the piers — to pull in up-to-date imagery (hours old, rather than a real-time stream) to flesh out their app.
“You can dig into any one of these [several San Francisco locations] and view the latest data we’ve collected, oftentimes just a few hours old,” said 300ft hack team member Mark McSpaddan, also director of technology at travel technology company Sabrelabs, presenting the hack on stage (see video below). “Each image has time, geolocation and thanks to Weather Underground’s API weather data as well.”
The 300ft app is a neat hack in another sense, neatly combining aspects of the work done by the respective companies of the duo behind it, McSpaddan and Bret Kugelmass, co-founder of UAV imaging service startup Airphrame – with the former providing the travel tech, and the latter company delivering the eye in the sky capability.
300ft isn’t intended to become a business in its own right. But its creators are confident that services relying on real-time aerial imaging are very much coming down the pipe. Just don’t expect drones to be delivering pizza or tacos or burritos any time soon. “The pizza drone story is a completely unreasonable use of the applications of drones,” Kugelmass told TechCrunch in a backstage interview. “Same with the tacos, same with the burritos. That’s not happening.”
“It might happen at some point, but that’s in the distant, distant future,” he added when pressed. So sorry guys, no pizza-on-your-head deliveries just yet.
“This was just a great hack,” Kugelmass continued, discussing what the team had done with 300ft. “Airphrame’s business is separate. Sabre’s business is separate, this was just a great chance to come together and explore what’s possible in the future… UAV technology will be used for things other than the transport of heavy goods at first.”
Airphrame, which was founded more than a year ago, already has commercial customers for its UAV-powered aerial imaging capabilities although Kugelmass said it’s not currently disclosing customer names on confidentiality grounds. He did confirm that Airphrame’s customers are “commercial sector” entities though, not government agencies.
So, even though the 300ft hack itself isn’t going anywhere after today it likely anticipates a future wave of apps and services that will make commercial use of UAV technology. Military tech does have a habit of trickling down into commercial products, so expect to see more apps leveraging drone-powered near real-time aerial imaging capabilities in the not too distant (but potentially slightly dystopic) future — especially as the cost of the necessary hardware continues to come down.
Returning to the 300ft hack, it started as “some sketches and some things we had experimented with”, said McSpadden. “And then yesterday Bret sent his Airphrame crew out and they gathered a tonne of data [including the Americas’ Cup boat race].”
McSpadden added that one possible use-case for a drone-powered app in the travel sector could be to provide hotels with an information service they offer their customers, telling them which beaches are the least crowded, for instance. “A concierge with that kind of knowledge would be much more valuable,” he added.
While BlackBerry did originally state that BBM for iOS and Android would be released by the end of the summer, no specific dates were mentioned, although an earlier rumor did suggest a release by the end of this month. Well for those still wondering about the fate of the app, you’ll be pleased to learn that the app has since been submitted to the Apple iTunes App Store, which means that it’s only a matter of time before it is reviewed and thus made available for download.
This was confirmed by BlackBerry’s Senior Strategic Account Manager, Alex Kinsella, who in a tweet confirmed that the app was submitted to Apple about two weeks ago. Assuming that is the case, we’re wondering why it is taking so long for Apple to review and approve the app. Kinsella did not mention anything about a Google Play Store submission, but hopefully the app will be released on both platforms simultaneously. BBM for iOS and Android was recently demoed at the Toronto International Film Festival, so hopefully we will be able to get a release date soon.
BBM Submitted To iTunes App Store Two Weeks Ago original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Word on the street has it that BlackBerry could be set to release BBM for iOS and Android towards the end of this month, and so far we’ve seen leaked screenshots along with videos that have since been removed. However we’re guessing that the app could be close to being released as BlackBerry has decided to demo the app in public during the Toronto International Film Festival. This is according to reports of those who went for the festival and noticed Android and iOS devices on display.
It turns out that this was a public demonstration of BBM running on iOS and Android and while no videos were allowed to be recorded, those who tried the app out claim that it is a pretty smooth experience. The UI for iOS and Android is said to not differ too greatly from the original app running on a BlackBerry smartphone, so for those who have transitioned from BlackBerry to iOS or Android, this should not be too foreign a concept for you guys.
The app is said to be on demo this week and is available for you to try out at the BlackBerry Experience building, so for those living in Toronto, you can hit it up and check it out for yourselves!
BBM For iOS And Android Demoed At Toronto International Film Festival original content from Ubergizmo. 
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It’s crazy to think about how much we use our preferred apps. We track runs, take notes, dip into our endless RSS streams, sort Tweets, or use Shazam to keep from embarrassing ourselves when we don’t recognize a song. Okay, that last one might just be me. Whatever. The point is that we’re intimately acquainted with these little software nuggets on our computers and smartphones and we know them inside and out.
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Well, it’s Friday, and despite it only being a four-day work week for many of you, we’re still proud of you for making it to the end. Here are the best of the best Android apps we found this week, one for each day of working our fingers to the bone.
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