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Jawbone’s fitness-obsessed wristband appears to be closing in on the retail finish line. The Up pairs with what appears to be an iOS app, (no news on whether an Android version is in the pipeline), and will pile on the guilt about your disgustingly sedentary lifestyle. You can have the luxury of feeling like a weight loss reality show contestant by scheduling “get up and move” reminders when you’ve succumbed to watching back-to-back mediocre sitcoms with a Doritos family bag chaser. There’s also a sleep tracker and a challenge tab to plot your amazing weight loss journey (or descent to an early demise) against friends and family. It’ll monitor what you eat, and even tell you which foods “help you feel your best.” (We think it’s cake.) No word on price or arrival date just yet, so you’ll just have to put up with Autom until we hear more.

[Thanks, Luke]

Jawbone’s Up wristband warms up at AT&T store, wants you faster, stronger originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on December 28, 2010 by CyberNet.

Picture this: an awesome song from a cellphone commercial has been stuck in your head all day. You want to look it up on YouTube so you can hear the full song, but you don’t know the song’s title.

SoundHound is an app for iOS, Android and Nokia phones that helps you identify these songs. Simply hold your phone’s microphone near the music source and let the app collect a 20-second sample.

After processing your sample, it will show you the best match it could find with the title and artist, the album cover, a song preview and sometimes even lyrics.

While SoundHound has been around for a while, its biggest drawback was that the basic version could only identify a certain amount of songs per month. This week they announced that they were dropping the song identification limit, presumably because they can earn more revenue by going ad-supported and making money from iTunes partner links than by charging people for the service.

SoundHound’s song identification powers are not limited to Top 40 music. I’ve tried it out on a bunch of radio stations (both FM and online) that play oldies, independent Canadian music, classical and ambient. All of them did better than expected.

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Exceedingly popular iPhone photo app Instagram is celebrating its big (version) 2.0 with the addition of a number of new features. At the top of the list is Live Filters, which let you view images through effects in real-time, before taking a photo. Filters have been sped up post-picture taking as well, as has the tilt-shift function. The revamped app also introduces the Amaro, Rise, Hudson and Valencia filters and high-res photos at up to 1936 x 1936 on the iPhone 4. The app is getting a new icon and a few smaller tweaks like the ability to turn off borders. That long-awaited Android app is still conspicuously absent, however.

Instagram goes 2.0, gets even more filter-happy originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There’s been a fair amount of news on the Photovine front recently — none of it particularly flattering for Google, or its now shuttered Slide branch. But users of the mobile app-based photo service can now continue sharing their pics using Piictu — a slightly different, yet remarkably similar service that launched well before its Google counterpart. What initially began as a fun side project for co-founder Jon Slimak, Piictu has apparently gained quite a following, prompting its creators to add some polish to the service and push it out of beta. We’re not quite sure what to expect for its future, but Google’s involvement with its Piictu competitor appears to have helped the original service gain some traction, despite its indy status. Jump past the break for the announcement from Piictu, or hit up our source link to download the iOS app.

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Piictu survives Google’s Photovine, launches out of public beta originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It popped up in private beta earlier this summer, but Slide’s Photovine is now open to the public, available as a free download on Apple’s iOS App Store. Surprisingly there’s no Android app yet — a curious move considering Google (Slide’s parent company) isn’t known to exclude its own mobile platform with new product rollouts. Huff Post went hands-on with the app, summing it up as “Instagram meets Piictu,” also noting the bizarre exclusion of an option to add your Gmail contacts — though you can import your friends from Twitter and Facebook. It’s probably safe to say that an Android app will be coming soon — or perhaps some other indication that Google and Slide do in fact share the same roof — but for now, iPhone owners can slide on down to the source link to get their photo sharing fix.

Photovine grows out of private beta, begins sprouting on iPhones everywhere originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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