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Less than 48 hours after teasing us with promises of upcoming ” awesome new features, ” ASUS is now delivering the refresh to Transformer Primes in the UK. Via its Euro Facebook page, the Taiwanese outfit has announced that all TF201 owners in the United Kingdom can expect to see the OTA update anytime now.
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ASUS rolls out firmware update to UK Transformer Primes (update: US, too)
A new release candidate of Adobe’s photographer-centric imaging application Photoshop Lightroom released today aims to squash bugs in the major release that debuted about three weeks ago . Simultaneously, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate adds support for the Canon EOS 5D Mark III digital SLR. Beyond the Canon 5D III support, there are six main changes noted in the new release candidate, described by Adobe as follows: Point Curve adjustments made in Lightroom 3 and before have been restored.
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Lightroom 4.1 release candidate squashes bugs, adds 5D III support
It looks like Google has rolled out a subtle, yet significant change to its Gmail app for iOS , with a new feature that allows users to send emails from alternate addresses.
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Gmail app for iOS now lets you e-mail from alternate addresses
The so-called Value Pack upgrade that was leaked for original Samsung Galaxy S devices after the company announced they would not be upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich (it was later given a passing mention in the Galaxy S II ICS upgrade notes ) has been officially released, at least in Korea. The official Samsung Tomorrow page has a link to Gingerbread and Froyo upgrades for the Galaxy S, as well as the Galaxy K and Galaxy U phones
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Samsung Galaxy S ICS-like ‘value pack’ upgrade officially released in Korea
Amazon has started pushing out an over-the-air update that’ll bring a slew of new features to its budget Kindle Fire tablet . Topping the list of upgrades is new sharing functionality that makes it possible for readers to send passages and notes from within the comfort of a book via social networks like Facebook and Twitter by highlighting and clicking “Share.” Also on the slate is supplemental material powered by Shelfari, letting users find character descriptions, glossaries of of common terms, locations and author information from inside a text. Version 6.3 also brings “print replicas” of textbooks, which include linked tables of contents and Whipsersyncing of notes and highlights
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Kindle Fire update brings sharing, ‘print replica’ textbooks, more to tablet
Tales of leaked Android 4.0.4 builds have been told for months, and we’ve even heard whispers of 4.0.5 coming to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the very near future. We still haven’t seen any official firmware rollouts of either version, until now. Owners of the Motorola Xoom WiFi should be getting their hands on an update to 4.0.4 — also known as build IMM76 — any time now
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Motorola Xoom WiFi gets first official dibs on Android 4.0.4
Like that one friend who cares enough to update everyone about a “killer party” they’re headed to without saying where it is, the official ASUS Facebook page has dropped a teaser that is as tantalizing as it is frustratingly vague. The note promises “awesome new features” in the next update for its Transformer Prime , but has absolutely no details on what that means
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ASUS teases ‘awesome new features’ for Transformer Prime, doesn’t say what they are
Like that one friend who cares enough to update everyone about a “killer party” they’re headed to without saying where it is, the official ASUS Facebook page has dropped a teaser that is as tantalizing as it is frustratingly vague.
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ASUS teases ‘awesome new features’ for Transformer Prime, doesn’t say what they are (update)
A 7.1.1 update to the Windows Phone SDK has just hit Microsoft’s servers today with tools tailored for Tango’s lowered memory support in tow.
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Microsoft releases update to Windows Phone SDK, adds support for 256MB devices
Japan’s Fujifilm Corp. has released updated firmware for two of its digital cameras–the Fuji X-S1 ultrazoom and the large-sensor Fuji X100 –bringing a variety of improvements and new features to both. Release of the Fujifilm X-S1 firmware update had been previewed previously in a statement from the company, noting that it would aim to reduce impact of a known problem with sensor blooming by raising ISO sensitivity in conditions that are more likely to cause the problem
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Fuji: New firmware for X-S1, X100
Virgin Mobile’s feature phone arm just added a third tier, delivering unlimited talk and texting, along with 50 megs of web access for $40 per month. This offering joins Sprint’s other payLo budget offerings, including an entry-level option that includes 400 minutes of talk time for $20 per month, and a $30 monthly plan that delivers 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 30MB of data
(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about .
Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision ) metadata for its talky-TV platform .
If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller
Bicom, makers of the Corian -hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it.
Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell fiber science and apparel design major from Gambia, adjusts the anti-malarial garment on model Sandy Mattei. Who knew mosquito nets could be so fashionable?
Plants , like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone’s blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we’ll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi’s got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company’s servers where it’s then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow
The HTC 4G LTE will finally land in Sprint customers’ hands this week.
Pentax didn’t wait long after a rather conspicuous leak to make the details official: welcome the K-30, the company’s spiritual successor to the long-serving K-r . The camera makes its biggest numerical jump in sensor size, from 12.4 megapixels to 16, but you’re primarily shelling out for a much tougher body that’s both resistant to rain as well as to dust and temperature extremes; one of the cheapest cameras to do so, if you go by Pentax’s word. We’re slightly down on the light sensitivity being unchanged from three years ago at ISO 100 to 25,600, though you can now shoot video at a much higher 1080p at 30 frames per second — and that French catalog was wrong about a drop in burst speeds, which still top out at a healthy 6 fps.
