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Evernote Food has been updated for iOS devices to bring in a bunch of new features to food lovers and chefs alike. The new updates will help you customize and personalize your cookbook to your own liking. If you have a recipe that you’re just dying to share with your friends and family, there are new sharing options to help you do that. And if you need to get reservations quickly at a nice restaurant, just head to the built-in OpenTable app to make them.

Evernote Recipes allows seamless recipe transfers to the app from your native Evernote app. If you have a bunch of recipes saved up in Evernote notes, you can sync them to Evernote Food. You can choose how you import your recipes, whether its by tags, or by entire notebooks. Your recipes will stay organized the way you kept them in the original Evernote app, so you don’t have to worry about going through that long process again.

After you sync all of your recipes, you can easily share those recipes with any friend or family member. Just scroll on over to the recipe you want to share and send them to others via Twitter, Facebook, or email. And lastly, you can now make reservations straight from your Evernote Food app. The OpenTable system has been integrated with the app, so you can now make reservations at your favorite restaurants within minutes. Also included are FourSquare ratings, so you can see just how popular a restaurant is before you dine there.

Evernote Food is an all-around great app that combines all of the important aspects of food apps into one, single app. You can make a cookbook, have a restaurant wish list, keep track of meals you’ve cooked, and more all with Evernote’s renown organization capabilities. Unfortunately, the Evernote Food update today is limited only to iOS devices, so Android users, you’ll have to wait a little while before you can take advantage of these great features.

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Evernote Food for iOS updated with a bunch of new features is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We’ve known that the update would be coming eventually, and it looks like today’s the day. Apple has released iOS 6.1.3 to the masses, and it fixes that stubborn lock screen vulnerability, as well as comes with a ton of map improvements in Japan. The update has begun rolling out, and you should be seeing it soon on your iDevice.

The lock screen exploit was originally discovered last month, and it allows anyone to bypass the lock screen with a bit of clever swiping and tapping maneuvers. From there, prying eyes can look at your contact list and even your photo library, both of which could contain sensitive information. However, this latest update patches it right up.

The update also patches up some of the exploits used by the Evasi0n iOS 6 jailbreak, so if you plan on jailbreaking your iOS 6 device, may this be a warning not to update to iOS 6.1.3. However, if you’re already jailbroken, then you probably don’t have a lot to worry about, other than the fact you won’t be able to update to the latest version.

Other than that, you have some other small bugfixes and improvements that come with the update, but the lock screen fix and the map improvements in Japan are the big two. However, the Evasi0n patch is also noteworthy for those interested in tapping into their iPhones and iPads, and the dev team behind the jailbreak doesn’t have any plans to support iOS 6.1.3 anytime soon, sadly.

Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 with lock screen fix, Evasi0n patch is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Back in 2011, Purina Friskies brand cat food launched the first game for the iPad was specifically designed for cats. That particular game had little fish that swim around the screen and change direction each time a cat smacks them with a paw. Friskies is now holding a contest seeking people to develop games specifically made for cats.

The Games for Cats Hackathon is offering prizes to developers of the top three apps and the chance for the champion to have their game marketed by Purina Friskies. The contest will be held on March 23 and 24th this year in California with up to 75 game programmers working in teams of up to five to develop their own game. The Grand Prize winner will take home $15,000(USD).

The second place winner will get $3,000 and the third place winner will get $2000. Friskies has also announced another game for cats that is available to download called Happy Wings. This game has birds, moths, and dragonflies flittering across the screen for cats to whack at. Of course, your cat must own an iPad or Android tablet to take advantage of these games.

Wired reports that Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, 26, has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for exploiting an AT&T security hole three years ago. His bid to stay out of prison has failed. Instead, he’s going to get 3.5 years in the slammer. More »

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins has dismissed the iPhone for slowly innovating, arguing that while BlackBerry 10 owes iOS for its groundwork on touch devices, Apple’s aging UI leaves it passé. “Apple did a fantastic job in bringing touch devices to market, they did a fantastic job with the user interface” Heins told The Australian Financial Review as the Z10 made its debut down under, but argued that “the rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don’t innovate … you can be replaced pretty quickly.” That’s something Apple should fear, Heins argues.

“The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old” he concluded. In contrast, Heins claimed, BlackBerry 10 is better at multi-tasking than Apple’s phone, .

The CEO wouldn’t be drawn on specific sales figures, pointing out that BlackBerry is in a quiet period ahead of announcing its latest financial results. However, he did re-confirm that the company is considering the potential for licensing BlackBerry 10 – assuming it could find other manufacturers sufficiently interested in using it on their own devices – but said that, right now, the focus is on the roll-out of the Z10.

Hardware we shouldn’t expect to see delivered any time soon is a tablet, though. Here, Heins gives Apple a little more credit: “Kudos to Apple, I think they really managed to own that space, so it doesn’t make sense for me to just take this head on” he conceded. “I need to figure out, for my enterprise customers, for my consumers, for my BB10 audience, what can I do that provides them a mobile computing experience in the form factor of a tablet, which goes beyond just the puristic tablet experience.”

That stance echoes comments by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, who has repeatedly said that the Finnish firm will only wade into the tablet space once it can find a sufficiently unique angle to take with it. “I think the profit pool is very very thin,” BlackBerry’s Heins mused.

BlackBerry CEO: iPhone is old news is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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