Netflix Social Is Finally Here: Share All Those Bad Animes And Kids Shows With Your Friends
Yes, Netflix knows how often you’ve been watching THAT show.
It’s been a long time coming for American users, and already available worldwide for everyone else, but you’ll soon be able to share all of those Netflix programs you’ve been watching with your friends and relatives. Lots of programs and apps share things these days, but there will no doubt be a rush of panic as people realize episodes of Yo Gabba Gabba are suddenly on their Timelines for all to see.
Windows Phone, iPhone, Or Android, I Have The Worst Luck With Cell Phones
Happens to me all the time.
For as long as I’ve been buying cell phones, I’ve noticed one disturbing trend: they would always break on me. I’d end up getting two or three of the same phone before it finally worked out. No joke. Read the rest of this article…
The Nokia Lumia 928 Arrives: Verizon To Finally Get A Cool Windows Phone In April
Imagine this, but in aluminum and on Verizon.
Word has come into The Verge that the previously codenamed ‘Laser’ Nokia Windows Phone for Verizon is indeed the Lumia 928, a variant of the Lumia 920 flagship that launched on AT&T earlier this year. Verizon is definitely better off for it, especially since Microsoft is reportedly swearing a number of dollars to market the thing.
Better Than GPS: Automatic Plugs Directly To Your Car, Improves Your Driving
The Automatic module on the left, the app running on your smartphone on the right.
Between standalone GPS devices and smartphones, there’s been a lot of new functionality added to your car in the past ten years, but little’s actually come from the car itself, it’s merely been a benefit of riding along in a car. Automatic is changing that. For $69.95, you get a module that plugs straight into your car’s data port (they say any car as far back as 1996 will work), even helping you to find it without any additional installation. Now directly connected to your vehicle, the module helps to improve your driving through the provided iOS app (Android, sadly, not out until this Fall).
Tesla’s Model X CUV Delayed A Year Because Model S Is Just Too Popular
It looks like a car, but it’s so much more!
I’m not what one would call rich by any means, but if I were, I’d be pretty hot for a Tesla. The company’s Model S sedan went through the media ringer recently (and got stuck at times), but it appears that the company may be feeling more optimistic now than ever. In fact, they say the potential for Model S sales has become such that they’re pushing their crossover Model S to next year so they can get more cars out.
Apple And Samsung Chasing Wireless Charging For New iPhone/Galaxy S4, But Is It Hot Or Not?
The future.
Apparently, we have a revolution on our hands. Soon, we’ll no longer need to fish for the tail end of a USB cable and plug it into our phones when they run low, and boy do they ever run low these days. Instead, as DigiTimes reports, we’ll be able to take our iPhone 5S and/or Galaxy S4 and place them on an inductive charge pad to let those precious battery bars return to us. Like NFC before it though, a case still needs to be made for its usefulness.
Facebook Is Changing Its News Feed Design, But Relax, It’s Awesome
Everything’s getting bigger in Facebook’s News Feed.
It won’t satisfy everyone, but Facebook’s News Feed is getting a revamp. Unlike the company’s previous big announcement about Graph Search, a feature that still hasn’t shown its usefulness yet, this new feed looks amazing. Influenced by the work they’ve put into their mobile apps, something they’ve been lagging behind on for many years, they’re bringing in a new way of looking at things from your friends and otherwise that’s got bigger pictures, is far more direct, and is a lot more useful. Let’s break down the changes.
RunKeeper May Be My New Favorite App, Demotivated Walkers Unite!
Plenty of stats keep you informed on what’s going on during your exercises.
I’ve mentioned it before, but I am big, fat, and lazy. At the tail end of my retail career, I walked two miles each way to and from work on top of almost ten miles in store, so you can see I got plenty of walkin’ on. Of course, in the two and a half years of call center work that followed, I dematerialized into a pile of human-like goo and grew to a terrible size. Merely scaling the stairs to get into my building would cause me to start huffing and puffing, to say nothing of those in worse condition than I who had been with the company for a decade-plus. Well, with my new job here at FleshEatingZipper, I knew I wanted to change that and I’ve enlisted RunKeeper to help me get back into shape.
EU Fines Microsoft $730M Because 15M Europeans Couldn’t Figure Out How To Download Another Browser
People who use Windows in Europe get to see this.
For those of us in America, this all might seem a little silly. The European Union brought up an antitrust case against Microsoft a few years ago – much like how our government struck out at them in the late nineties – because they were bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. While the charges were ultimately dropped in the US, the EU continued to have a problem with it, so in 2009, Microsoft agreed to pay a massive $1.2 billion in fines and install a variant of the browser ballot you see above for users starting up Windows. Microsoft’s only problem is that it didn’t work for some people, an estimated 15 million people at the determination of the EU, and now Microsoft is back in the hot seat.
Google+ Makes Cover Photos Super Huge, Is Perhaps Compensating For Something
There are so many ‘that’s what she said’ jokes to roll at this point that I’ll just pass.
Okay, seriously. I just snapped a screen of our Google+ profile for that article I wrote and Google is now boosting the size of their Cover Photos considerably. I understand the need to iterate on a social network, especially one that’s so far behind the titan of the industry, but c’mon.
