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| Instagram on iPhone Gets a Fresh Filter, Facebook Login, Apology | | Kevin Systrom has had quite the busy week. Fresh from nixing his revamped terms of service that caused such a stir on Tuesday -- and doing a 180-degree turn on those terms of service Thursday -- the Instagram co-founder has launched a significant update to his iPhone app. The update adds a brand-new photo filter, "Mayfair", which brings the app's total number of filters up to 20.
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| Instagram Updates Its Terms of Service Based on User Feedback | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:54 PM | Christina Warren |
| Instagram has formally updated its Terms of Service, making changes based on user feedback. The photo sharing site -- which Facebook purchased in April -- introduced its plans for new terms of service on Monday. Users reacted negatively to the new terms, threatening to boycott the service and delete accounts if the terms weren't amended.
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| Adobe Acquires Behance to Further Its Creative Cloud Ambitions | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 4:12 PM | Christina Warren |
| Adobe announced Thursday that it has acquired Behance, the leading online platform for creatives who want to display and showcase their work. The terms of the deal weren't disclosed. With Behance, Adobe is looking at bringing community features to its Creative Cloud platform. Creative Cloud is Adobe's subscription based service for professionals that offers access to desktop software as well as online tools and storage place.
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| Apple's 6 Simple Rules for Designing a Killer iOS App | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 3:42 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Among iOS developers, the day that you finally submit your app for Apple's approval can be a tense one. Even when you've seemingly followed the guidelines, polished the code and passed every field test, Apple can still reject your app for almost any reason. Not so with Spun [iTunes link]. At first glance, Spun appears to be a simple local news-and-information app with an eye-catching user interface.
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| Boeing Creates 360° 'Dream Pass' Video of its 787 Dreamliner | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 3:41 PM | Charlie White |
| Attention wannabe pilots: Here's your chance to experience the next best thing to flying Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner. The company created the Boeing 787 Dreamliner "Dream Pass," a 360-degree online video that lets you take an immersive virtual ride in the plane's flight deck, and tour its wings and engines.
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| Boeing Used 20,000 Pounds of Potatoes to Test Its In-Flight Wi-Fi | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 2:36 PM | The Atlantic |
| How do you ensure an even distribution of Wi-Fi throughout an airplane's cabin as that cabin moves through the air at 35,000 feet and 500 mph? When engineers at Boeing attempted to test different Wi-Fi system designs, they needed to either stock the plane full of warm human bodies or find something else to use in their place. The answer? Potatoes -- 20,000 pounds of them.
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| Which Tech Companies Made the Most Money in 2012? | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 2:29 PM | Matt Silverman |
| All of our favorite tech giants made big moves in 2012, but how did the dollars and cents shake out? Which companies pulled in the most cheddar, and which are growing at the fastest clip? Our friends at Statista have broken out the income, revenue growth and stock performance of some Internet and tech heavyweights.
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| 4 Mobile Apps Every Reporter Should Use in 2013 | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 1:20 PM | International Journalists' Network |
| With smartphone costs dropping as the devices become more readily available worldwide, it is easier than ever to have a reporting toolkit at your fingertips. It's also easy to feel like you're drowning in a sea of apps. To simplify matters, here are four apps that fulfill most of a mobile journalist's video, audio and language needs: 1.
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| 6 Holiday Gift Ideas for Dad | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:02 PM | Sam Laird |
| Solid holiday gift ideas for Dad can be hard to come by, but look no further. This guide has you covered.
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| This Is How a Turntable Really Works | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 11:38 AM | Lauren Hockenson |
| The turntable is one of the longest lasting technologies still in popular manufacture today. No matter how many technologies attempt to replace it -- the 8-track, the cassette tape, the CD or the MP3 -- there's still a healthy group of folks who say no sound is richer and more full than when a vinyl record is played.
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| JBL OnBeat Venue LT: First Lightning Speaker Dock Delivers Huge Sound | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 11:31 AM | Charlie White |
| There have been three iOS devices released with the new Lightning connector, but until now, there were no speaker docks with which to charge them. Enter the first Lightning-equipped speaker dock, the JBL OnBeat Venue LT. It charges your iPad 4, iPhone 5 and iPad Mini, and plays audio either directly through the Lightning port, over an auxiliary port or via Bluetooth.
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| Apple Patent Related to Pinch-to-Zoom Invalidated in Preliminary Review | | Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| An Apple patent that paved the way for pinch-to-zoom functionality on the iPhone or iPad should not have been awarded in the first place, said the United States Patent and Trademark Office in a preliminary ruling made public late Wednesday. The patent is among six that lie at the heart of Apple's most recent lawsuit against Samsung, one of its top competitors in the mobile phone and tablet marketplace.
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