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| 5 Best Tablet Apps for Doodlers | | The transition into a paperless world has been pretty rough on us doodlers. Until recently, the market was rife with clunky, low-functioning drawing apps that didn't exactly fulfill our inherent need to sketch. Considering the fact that doodling during verbal exchanges has been shown to improve our attention spans and memory, an intuitive drawing app is essential to the wandering mind.
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| Pirate Bay Co-Founder Wants to Build an NSA-Proof Messaging App | | Peter Sunde, co-founder of BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay, needs your help to create a private messaging app. Called Heml.is (Swedish word for "secret"), the app is an elegant messaging app for iOS and Android that uses end-to-end encryption to make sure no third party — governments and ISPs included — can intercept the users' communication.
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| Google Maps for Android Debuts New Design, Better Navigation | | Google has updated Maps for Android, adding several new features, including a new design for the app. The new version — for both smartphones and tablets — got a cleaner interface that's similar to that of the app's iPhone version, which launched last December. Other features include enhanced navigation with live traffic updates, incident reports and traffic rerouting.
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| Foursquare Targets Feature-Phone Users With New Nokia App | | Foursquare unveiled a new app designed for feature phones on Tuesday, specifically targeting Nokia's range of Series 40 handsets. S40 is a software platform used on the Finnish company's line of mid-range feature phones, as well as on its Asha series, which are marketed as low-end smartphones. Foursquare will be preloaded on new Asha devices worldwide when they hit the market in several months.
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| Will.i.am Is Planning a Fuzzy Robot Invasion | | Tuesday, July 09, 2013 10:31 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Entertainment multihyphenate Will.i.am is steering his next creative endeavor into hairier territory. Or ... fuzzier. Apparently, after a trip to Harrods in the UK, the musician-designer-dancer-producer was inspired by a toy dog to create a hybrid contraption that's a stuffed-animal-music-player. Tech implantation ensued: The toy dog, Frankenstein-style, was reborn with a speaker for a stomach and a wireless brain.
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| iOS 7 is Already Changing: The Differences You Need to Know | | Tuesday, July 09, 2013 5:25 PM | Christina Warren |
| On Monday, Apple released the third beta for iOS 7 to developers, which packed a subtle yet important change to the company's mobile operating system: An updated default font. The first two iOS 7 beta releases featured a brand new default typeface, Helvetica Neue Light for all on-screen text. This is a change from the Helvetica Neue (regular) typeface used in all previous versions of iOS.
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| AutoTrader's Motion-Controlled App Revolutionizes Shopping for Cars | | Tuesday, July 09, 2013 4:08 PM | Emily Price |
| Shopping for a new car online just got a little more physical. AutoTrader released a new app Tuesday for the Leap Motion Controller that lets customers browse through cars and check out the interior of vehicles online, all without laying a finger on their computers.
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| Google Fixes Dangerous Android Security Hole | | Tuesday, July 09, 2013 9:59 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Google has issued a fix for an Android security hole that could potentially allow attackers to convert almost any Android app into malware, ZDnet reports. The vulnerability, discovered by Bluebox Security, has actually existed for a while, dating as far back as Android 1.6.
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| Apple Releases iOS 7 Beta 3 and Other News You Need to Know | | Tuesday, July 09, 2013 9:01 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Beats headphones are about to get a major music upgrade: The electronics company is launching a streaming service with AT&T. AllThingsD reports that Microsoft is set to announce a major restructuring.
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