Shoto photo app launches on Android and iOS

A new app is launching in the UK today that uses a combination of location and phonebook details to automatically create albums of all the photos taken together by a group of friends at a given place and time.

Known as Shoto, the aim of the app is to solve the problem of never getting to see the photos that other people have taken an event, like a wedding or a office party. However, it also includes privacy controls that let the user select which people at the event get to see their pictures.

When the user downloads Shoto, all of the photos on their phone are automatically organised into albums and backed-up in the cloud. Shoto looks at the user’s phonebook and the geotags on their photos and matches these albums with those from friends that were also present in the same location at the same time.

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Deal Aggregator 8coupons Acquires Clipless App To Aid In Move To Mobile

Only a few months after its debut, mobile couponing app Clipless for Android has already been acquired by deal aggregator 8coupons, which had previously served as a data source within the app, along with other providers like Yelp, Groupon, Amazon Local, Foursquare, LivingSocial, and more. Clipless founder CEO Michael Barnathan, who was also acting as CTO of CoatChex (aka the Shark Tank startup which turned down Mark Cuban), is now leaving CoatChex to become 8coupons’ new “Head of Mobile.”
8coupons, for those unfamiliar, has to date delivered over 13 million deals across all verticals, including local, national, goods, and travel. It covers all local deals, including both “daily” deals and “everyday” deals like card-linked offers and zip-targeted offers from partners like Valpak and Money Mailer, among others. Today, its network of around 600,000 deals from over 500 sources are made available both on the web for consumers, as well as to developers through an API.
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Gadgets developers Microsoft Microsoft’s Mobile Platforms Suffer From Flagging Developer Interest

Appcelerator, a company that supports multi-platform development, released its quarterly developer report today. The survey helps track market interest in the various platforms, tacking changing winds.
The third-quarter report details Microsoft’s difficult market position: The percentage of respondents (developers, CIOs, etc.) that are “very interested” in building apps for Microsoft’s smartphones and tablets is low. Twenty-five percent said that they were very interested in building for Microsoft’s tablets, while 26 percent expressed strong interest in building for Microsoft’s smartphone platform.
As CiteWorld reported, those numbers are down several percentage points from the start of the year. Even as its new platforms have matured, Microsoft has lost developer interest in Windows Phone and its tablet efforts.
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Apple Employees Jokingly Referred To Gold iPhone 5s As ‘The Kardashian Phone’

Internally, the gold iPhone 5s was jokingly referred to as ‘The Kardashian Phone’ by some Apple employees. This fact was tweeted out by the NYT’s Nick Bilton today and we confirmed the nickname with our sources. Yes, we asked this question of our sources.Apparently this was not a serious ‘code name’ or anything, just an internal joke. Kim Kardashian, of course, has a well-known connection to gold iPhones. The reality star actually had an iPhone 5 that was anodized gold long before Apple’s ‘champagne’ device hit the market, as you can see in the image below.
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Kindred Prints Lets You Create Photo Books From Your Phone, Pay On Subscription

A number of companies today are attempting to bring the photo album to the mobile era, often through apps which let you organize, then print and ship customizable photo books. The latest to attempt to break into this space is Palo Alto-based Kindred Prints, a mobile software company which offers photo printing apps for iPhone and Android.
The company was founded by Stanford grad students Alex Austin, Mike Molinet, and Mada Seghete just this June. Austin led development on three iPhone apps and has worked in startups before. Molinet has experience delivering consumer products to market, and Seghete was previously Director of Product for Yola.com.
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iPhone 5s Review: Apple’s Latest Smartphone Goes For (And Gets) The Gold

Apple’s new iPhone 5s is set to go on sale this Friday, Sept. 20, and the phone is already generating a lot of buzz. The 5s is the more advanced of two new Apple iPhones, and offers a lot of technical advantages over the iPhone 5c also launching the same day. Apple has worked some behind-the-scenes magic with its latest and greatest, and made some design changes for the better, too, all of which adds up to a new smartphone market king.
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This Dock Turns Your iPhone Into a Bedside Lamp

The iPhone's Flashlight function eliminates the need for a standard flashlight — assuming of course, your phone has enough battery — and a London-based design team has now used that function to create a bedside lamp.
Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay, the talent behind Raw Edges Design Studio, created a few simplistic stands that use the iPhone and its flash to create a makeshift lamp. They recently showcased their designs at the London Design Festival.

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Apple's Jony Ive Designs Special Edition Red Mac Pro

 

Few of us have had the chance to test the speed and performance of Apple’s new Mac Pro, but the device is already winning praise for its bold design. Now, Apple’s design chief Jony Ive has revealed a special customized version of the Mac Pro that is set to go on auction next month. 

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16 Best Free Mac Apps

1. Adium

Adium is an amazing communication app that brings together all of your chat accounts onto one platform, including Facebook Chat and Gchat. You can download and add plugins to customize the app, allowing you to change elements such as font style and speech bubble color.
There's also a small, animated Adium icon that lives in your dock. The green duck tells you who has chatted you and holds up a wooden "Away" sign to match your away status

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Buffer Users' Facebook and Twitter Feeds Spammed After Hacking

 

Buffer, the social-media management service that lets users schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook and Google+, has been hacked.
As a result, Buffer users who have authorized social sign-in through Buffer or linked their accounts to their social profiles, may have inadvertently sent out unauthorized spam messages.
When alerted to the situation on Twitter, Buffer sent out the following message:

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How the NBA’s SportVU ball and player tracking tech changes the face of sports

Tonight sees the return of the NBA, but along with LeBron’s continued dominance and Derrick Rose’s return, comes a new breed of technology and influence. Each team in the NBA now has access to the SportVU, a camera system so technologically advanced that it has opened the door for Big Data to invade and shape the NBA, and subsequently, the sports world.

From hardcore Fantasy sports players to casual fans of individual sports, almost everyone is aware of how stats-intensive sports are in modern times. If it’s a thing that happens, you can give it a fancy acronym and start tabulating how many times that thing took place. Baseball is the stats-heavy sport, but the NBA has been on the forefront of the digital revolution for quite awhile now — allowing clips to remain on YouTube, introducing the mobile League Pass, making a hard push into the podcasting and blogging space with the acquisition of the former Basketball Jones team, and working with TNT on a live multi-camera user-chosen view with TNT Overtime. So, it’s only right that LeBron’s league ushers in the age of data and technology.

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ET deals: $499 for Dell Inspiron One 2020 all-in-one

When it comes to the concept of an all-in-one PC, a lot of technically inclined people might raise the question, “why bother?” Most of us may not mind plugging in and routing the wires associated with a traditional desktop and are OK with accepting the limitations of a laptop, but an all-in-one PC makes a lot of sense for a lot of users, especially those of us who just want a simple PC with a small footprint.

All-in-one’s have gained a lot of popularity over the last few years, as the designs get sleeker and the prices lower. With the deal today you can get a complete PC with 20-inch multi-touch screen and everything you need in one order for $500. You will be hard-pressed to get a comparable desktop, much less an all-in-one, anywhere else
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