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Dropbox just released a huge update for its iOS app, and it comes with a complete redesign of the user interface, as well as the addition of a new Photos tab that comes with a timeline view of all your automatically uploaded photos and videos. They’ve also streamlined the way that you can upload files to your Dropbox from your iOS devices.

First off, Dropbox went for a more modern UI in its redesign, and everything looks a lot more flatter and square-shaped than before. This certainly isn’t a bad thing, though — it gives the app a more simpler look. However, Dropbox has stuck with their traditional blue interface, which has been around ever since its inception, and we don’t see that changing anytime soon.

The new Photos tab brings up a gallery of images that you uploaded from anywhere and lets you scroll through them and view the thumbnails. That tab, which was added earlier in the Android version, has replaced the Uploads tab, and all uploads are now done through an icon at the top of each folder.

Speaking of uploads and the new upload button, you can navigate to a specific folder and then either send files directly into it or create a new folder for the upload. The new + icon at the top of every page in the app allows you to do this, and frankly, it’s extremely nice to have that feature now, which is probably one of the greatest changes in this UI update.

Dropbox for iOS updates with complete redesign is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We learned back in October what devices Motorola was and wasn’t going to support with an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update. The ATRIX HD was one of the handsets that was promised such an update, and now AT&T has announced that it’s finally coming to ATRIX HD owners and should be rolling out now.

Starting today, AT&T and Motorola are pushing the OTA Android 4.1 update to devices, which will bring a handful of improvements over Ice Cream Sandwich, including Google Now, Project Butter, and improved notifications. Of course, Motorola has also thrown in some tweaks of its own into the mix, like Drive Smart and Quick Settings.

The RAZR M was the first Motorola device to get a bump to Jelly Bean, and that was followed by the RAZR HD and the RAZR MAXX HD. This is also AT&T’s fourth device that runs Jelly Bean, joining the Samsung Galaxy Note II, Samsung Galaxy S III, and the HTC One X+, with more to follow in the future eventually.

The ATRIX HD runs a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor at 1.5GHz with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage (expandable microSD storage available). The update should be live anytime, so if you aren’t seeing a notification for it, head into Settings > About Phone > Software Updates to see if it’s available on your device.

Motorola ATRIX HD Jelly Bean update available now is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Starting tonight, YouTube will begin rolling out a new and updated web interface. They say the new design will be “cleaner and simpler” and will also include an improvement to the Guide, which is a feature that makes it easier to subscribe to the channels. This time around, the Guide will be available across all devices.

In the new layout, YouTube has focused on putting the most important elements at the forefront, with the video right at the top of the page, and the subscribe button, as well as share buttons and video information show up right below the video. Playlists will also now appear directly to the right of the video.

Overall, the new design is definitely a lot cleaner and simpler, and the way that the playlist almost looks like it’s part of the video box is pretty clever. However, it looks like related videos are still located below the video box, requiring that you scroll down further in order to browse them. We almost would prefer that related videos go where the new Playlist sidebar is.

Either way, the new look is definitely an improvement, and you should start seeing it sometime tonight, if not already. YouTube has already rolled out the new look to a select number of users as a beta of sorts, and they say that users are subscribing to 50% more channels overall because of the new design.

YouTube rolling out new layout starting tonight is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you’re all about keeping your applications up to date, especially if you’ve got a giant presentation at a board meeting at the end of the week and use Apple’s suite of iWork tools, you’ll want to pay attention to this wave of upgrades. It’s time first of all for iWork to be updated to version 9.3, this allowing iWork for Mac to support iWork for iOS 1.7 apps. In addition to this, you’ve got Keynote, Numbers, and Pages to update this afternoon as well.

If you’ve made your purchase of any of the following apps via a software box, you’ll be getting this update via your Software Update feature inside of OS X – up in the left-hand corner there under the Apple. If you’ve purchase them through the App Store for Mac, that’s where you’ll be going to grab these updates. The result is the same either way, but the means are certainly different in getting this all to go through and forward.

With Pages 1.7 you’ll be getting a collection of new features including the ability to add reflections to shapes and to lock and unlock objects – simple stuff, game-changing for some. You’ll be able to use Change Tracking to see which bits of body text have been modified in your project, you can accept and reject individual changes just as you would review a document, and you can preserve calculation in tables when you’re importing them from and exporting them to Pages for Mac – hot stuff. You can now preserve tracked changes in documents exported in Microsoft Word or Pages formats, and perhaps most importantly: you can now import Pages and Microsoft Word documents with change tracking (important if you’re going to preserve it) and continue to track these changes to body text.

In Numbers 1.7 you’ll have new compatibility with Numbers for Mac and Microsoft Excel, this beginning with the ability import and export Number for Mac spreadsheets with filters and to turn filters off and on. This update brings in the ability to preserve rich text in tablets when importing and exporting, add reflections to shapes, and lock and unlock objects. You can also now hide and unhide rows and columns.

Keynote 1.7 allows you to work in a newly compatible way with Microsoft PowerPoint and Keynote for Mac with the ability to import and export all Microsoft PowerPoint and Keynote for Mac slide sizes as well as presentation themes, master slides and present styles included. You can now play back all Keynote action builds, add new slide transitions including Shimmer and Sparkle, and preserve calculations in tablet when you’re importing from and exporting to Keynote for Mac. This update adds reflections to shapes, of course, and the ability to lock and unlock objects. Finally it allows new print layout options like printing with presenter notes, with builds, and without backgrounds.

Grab it all from your respective Appstore, be it mobile or desktop, right this minute! Have a peek at our gigantic Apple portal as well for the big jump into the Apple-only news universe.

Apple updates iWork suite for mobile/desktop compatibility is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Google has released an update to its Gmail app for Android, and it brings some welcomed features that have been long yearned for by avid Android users. The app now supports pinch-to-zoom, meaning you can zoom in on emails and read them without squinting, and Google also introduced new gestures that allow you to quickly delete or archive an email by swiping left or right.

Some of the features introduced in this latest update were ones that Android users have been waiting on ever since the G1 days, but finally, Gmail mobile users can rejoice. Other than the pinch-to-zoom and the new swipe gestures, the app now has the ability to “auto-fit” a message to your phone’s screen, and there’s also a new thumbnail view for attached images and videos.

Some of the settings need to be enabled first before you can start enjoying them (including pinch-to-zoom), and the new swipe gestures can be configured to your liking, by either allowing only a delete swipe or disabling the swipes altogether, but if you’re like us, you’ll find that using the swipe gestures makes things a whole lot easier.

This new version of Gmail is only available for phones running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or higher, so older devices are out of luck for now. Of course, Android 4.2 comes with the improved Gmail app already, but for those running the older version of Jelly Bean, or even Ice Cream Sandwich, can now take advantage of the new features. The update is available now in the Google Play store.

[via Android Community]

Gmail for Android updates with pinch-to-zoom for Android 4.0 or higher is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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