CrunchGear Week In Review: Indoor Games Edition

Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear: Strange Video: Happinet Lets You Play Table Tennis Against Invisible Opponents Sweet DIY Book Light The Infinite Loop Tablet Holder: Actually A Cool Idea Day 1: My Week In The Nissan Leaf Weekend Giveaway: A Kobo eReader Touch (And Some Gift Cards)

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/27/week-in-review-indoor-games/

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iPhone Live show tonight at 9pm EDT, come chat!

The best dang iPhone and iPod touch show in the ‘verse hits the net again tonight! Special guests: Steve Sande and Erica Sadun, of Talking to Siri and http://www.tuaw.com fame. Time: 6pm PT, 9pm ET, 1am GMT! Place: http://live.tipb.com/live/ (You can watch from iPhone via Ustream Viewer app...

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Dropbox Is Working On Ways To Move Beyond File Folders

Screen Shot 2011-11-10 at 7.06.53 PMDropbox CEO Drew Houston talked to Gigaom's Om Malik this evening at the GigaOm RoadMap conference and let slip some key insights about his company's product roadmap, namely that he wants to get past the metaphor of a file folder as Dropbox's sole organizing principle. Houston described the idea of a file folder that syncs as "Chapter 1" for the company, "We think it?s just the first step ...[In the beginning of Dropbox] we didn?t want to call Dropbox 'back up' or even use word like 'sync' ... [Because] it?s not storage as much as it is an experience."

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Google Acquires Katango, The Automatic Friend Sorter

katango2Back in September we broke the news that Google was in talks to acquire Katango, a small Kleiner Perkins-backed startup that launched this past summer. Today, they've made it official: Katango just announced that it's been acquired by Google, and that it'll be joining the Google+ team. We're also hearing that Google isn't only acquiring Katango for their talent ? it's interested in their technology as well. Katango is a logical fit for Google, though their initial product was focused primarily on Facebook. The startup first debuted an iPhone app in July, setting out to made it easier to selectively share with various groups of friends on Facebook. Facebook's List feature has long allowed users to share certain pieces of content with different friends, but it did little to automate the process of actually breaking your friends out into different groups.

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Viktoria Barz Emma Sauter Rosemarie Ramsauer Jörn Domenighini

iOnRoad for Android: When Phones in Cars Make Them Safer, Not Deathtraps [Android Apps]

Typically when we're talking about using your smartphone while driving, it's either for maps or because it's making your car into a death trap. iOnRoad is a pretty darn good attempt at using your phone to make you safer. More »


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Corsair unveils Performance Pro Series SSDs, loads 'em with 6Gb/s Marvell controllers

SandForce-equipped SSDs are seemingly all the rage nowadays, but lest we forget that others, like Marvell, have some peppy controllers of their own. Step up Corsair, who's just announced its new Marvell-equipped line of SATA 3 Performance Pro Series 6Gb/s SSDs. These 2.5-inch storage slabs can achieve 515 MB/s read and 440 MB/s sequential write speeds, and sports a TRIM-like "built-in advanced background garbage collection," which company deems helpful for RAID setups. Notably, desktop users will be pleased to know that the drives will mount into 3.5-inch slots via an included adapter. If you're interested, $280 will snag you a 128GB version, while $530 doubles the capacity to 256GB. You'll find more details in the press release past the break.

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Corsair unveils Performance Pro Series SSDs, loads 'em with 6Gb/s Marvell controllers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hello Expense is a simple, reliable expense tracker for Android

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A good mobile application is a fine balance between simplicity and functionality. You're using it on the go, so you don't have a lot of time to sit there and fumble with the phone to figure it all out. But you also need it to be powerful enough to let you do whatever it is you're trying to get done.

Hello Expense is one mobile app that gets it right. It's an expense tracker that lets you use your Android-powered phone to quickly log the money you spend and then analyze it and see where it all went.

I recently had the chance to use it in a real-life situation - a road trip that took a few days and involved quite a few expenses. Logging each expense took seconds, and at the end of each day I could get a great overview of how much money I spent on each category so far.

Categories and tags are user-configurable; the app also sports its own number pad to make number entry easy, regardless of what keyboard you're using.

Hello Expense is a simple, reliable expense tracker for Android originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Intel's Haswell detailed: three different GPUs, single-chip solution for ultrabooks

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The demo of the 22nm Haswell running on a tiny solar cell at IDF was impressive, but it didn't really give us any idea what shipping products might look like. Well, a few slides popped up over at Chiphell that give us a few more details about how the tock, to Ivy Bridge's tick, is shaping up. For one, were looking at three new on-die GPUs, dubbed GT1, GT2 and GT3 -- the latter of which may be a higher performance part than we're used to seeing out of Intel. We also know that Haswell will have three variants: desktop, laptop (both of which are two-chip solutions with a separate controller hub) and ultrabook, which packs both the CPU and the controller in a single package. If you're in the mood to dig a little deeper hit up the source links.

Intel's Haswell detailed: three different GPUs, single-chip solution for ultrabooks originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ZENandTECH 22: Critical

Criticism is everywhere. But how well do we handle dishing it out, and how well do we take it? Georgia and Rene talk about why criticism exists, and how to get better at giving and taking it, especially in our modern, often anonymized internet world — from constructive to...

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Edith Berner Lea Linden Kevin Fickenscher Amelie Schweizer