Hipstamatic is coming to Windows Phone 8. The new Oggl app was shown off at Nokia’s London event with a WP8 UI. We don’t know whether this is a Lumia exclusive or not, but it’s arriving with the Lumia 925, regardless. There are several filters, in…
Klingons to invade Bing translator, BIjeghbe’chugh vaj bIHegh!
Though some may look down on Star Trek’s fictional Klingon language and invoke the infamous phrase uttered by William Shatner — “Get a life!” — Microsoft’s Bing translation team doesn’t see it that way at all. As part of a marketing join-up with…
Nuance Dragon Notes brings quick, spoken memos and messages to Windows 8
Sometimes, the smallest and simplest apps make the most sense. Take Nuance’s new Dragon Notes for Windows 8, for example. Unlike its NaturallySpeaking cousin, it’s not a universal tool: instead, it’s narrowly focused on the voice dictation of memo…
Glympse posts its free location sharing SDK in Android, iOS and web flavors
Glympse has been gradually spreading the reach of its location sharing platform, but mostly through special deals like those with BMW and Ford. It’s time to fling the doors open: the company has posted a public version of its Lite software develop…
SkyDrive update brings photo timeline, more efficiency-minded features
Perhaps to celebrate passing the 250 million user mark, SkyDrive is rolling out an update which introduces some nifty time-saving features. Now, you’ll be able to view all your photos — across folders and albums — in a timeline view, with images…
Amazon Cloud Player scores a dedicated PC app, Mac version in the works
Amazon’s Cloud Player may have been accessible on PCs through browsers since its launch, but today Bezos & Co. have given the service a desktop app of its own. Once installed, the free program will detect and add music from iTunes and Windows …
Facebook Home ‘Airplane’ ad brings one traveler’s News Feed aboard — literally
Sure, Facebook had a weird ad with Blink-182 for the HTC Status, but its sneak peek at its newest TV spot for the First and Home is on another level. Posted today on its Facebook profile, the campy piece literally brings one traveler’s feed to life i…
Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows to boast OpenCL support
Premiere Pro has already been tearing through video with OpenCL on Macs for a year, and now AMD and Adobe have teamed up to bring support for the open standard to Windows with the software’s next version. Not only does the duo claim it’s the first ti…
Webkit’s Chromium-specific code to be removed in effort to streamline
Now that Chromium has pledged its allegiance to Google’s new Blink rendering engine, Webkit is set to have the now-unnecessary Chrome-specific code stripped from it. Apple Webkit developer Geoffrey Garen kicked off a conversation on the project’s mai…
Facebook responds to Home privacy concerns, specifies what it will and won’t know
Some of the discussion about Facebook Home since its debut yesterday has related to concerns that it gives the social network too much access to user’s information, and now Facebook has responded. Its blog post specifies that Home is subject to the s…
