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Launcher 8 for Android Review: Turn your Android into Windows 8

Jake Bruton
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Launcher 8 for Android Review: Turn your Android into Windows 8

Launcher 8 (fake wp8) is a Android application that turns your boring, dull Android home UI into a fluid, mock-up UI of that of a Windows 8 phone! Developed by the QiHang Team, this application has been downloaded over 5 million+ times, and really turns your Android into something else! Now, I (Jake) of EWT will go into detail of my review and thoughts of the app!  

Installation

The installation process is very easy, smooth, and simple. Just download from the Google Play Store, install, and press your home button and set Launcher 8 as your main action for “Home.” Wa-la! There’s no hacking, modding, or rooting needed to install this application.   Installation is very simple, great work there.  

New UI & Logics

The app’s added new ui and logics is very helpful and astonishing! After installation, you instantly have the power of an Android phone with the look and options of a Windows phone. There are many themes users have made that you can effortlessly download and install, or you can customize yourself!   You can add/edit/remove tiles, re-size, and even use special “widget” tiles that are included in the app. You can bind your installed applications to tiles, change individual tile background colors, names, and more. This application truly gives you control over everything! It also is programmed to work with certain apps, such as SMS, Phone, and Facebook – showing the number of new notifications, missed calls, and new SMS messages. It’s very convenient! The app also has a setting for a customizable lockscreen, which completely overrides the default Android lock screen – you can add custom backgrounds, change the layout, etc to it and add a password. The only problem with the lockscreen in this app is if you had a lock screen set up on the default Android UI before this installation, applications like “Camera” and such will not work correctly, and pressing your Home button will try and take you to the original Android lock screen rather than the Launcher 8 lock screen.    You can, however, fix this by simply going to System Settings -> Security -> Passwords and turning off any locks, pins, etc. You can set your lockscreen pin for Launcher 8 in the Launcher 8 settings.  

Effect on Battery

One of the main, if not the only, downside to this application is the power consumption. You’ll be loosing more and more phone battery life every 2 to 3 minutes even if you’re in idle mode. However, the QiHang team brags that their Pro version is more power efficient. This application really does take a toll on your battery life, my Android has been on the charger more then often since the install.   

Final Thoughts

I believe this is a great Android application for those who want the power of Android/Google products but the look and feel of a Windows product. It has great potential, and I believe it would be even more widely popular if the free version was less battery-consuming. It could use some literary work (the grammar for settings are poor), and some of the ads are a bit mis-placed and annoying, but all around it’s pretty amazing and I’m sure to never uninstall it!  

Final Rating

Price When Rated:

$2.58Free

Our Rating: 4.5

Requires Android:

2.0 and up

Content Rating:

Low Maturity This is a great app, and does everything that it says in it’s description. However, there is room for improvement and the battery drainage is what really kills it from being 5 stars.

Pros:

  • Complete customization; Easy to customize to your liking
  • Downloadable themes; For those living in the fast lane
  • Beautiful and fluid; Includes smart widgets and is beautiful with live tiles
  • Free with minimal ads, and many options and settings to configure

Cons:

  • Drains the battery of your device VERY fastly
  • Lockscreen issues occur if you have the default Android lockscreen already set up
  • Can be a bit laggy once you first boot up your Android

Download So, what are you waiting for? Go download Launcher 8 now, you won’t regret it!

Become Ten times Smarter with Android Smart Tools

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Become Ten times Smarter with Android Smart Tools

Have you ever thought of making your smartphone much more smarter than it is?

Going outdoors or camping, but not knowing exactly where to start? Or you just want to feel secured with a full suite of tools covering lots of different things – measurements of all sorts, flashlights and more?

 Smart Tools has everything you might need in your day-to-day life! On more than one occasion, this awesome android app has got me out of a traffic jam, so it comes highly recommended.

Smart Tools Version 1.7

The latest version of Android Smart Tools comes with 5 Pro sets for a total of 16 tools. In a word, All-in-One

  • Set 1: Length, Angle, Slope, Level, Thread – Smart Ruler Pro 
  • Set 2: Distance, Height, Width, Area – Smart Measure Pro
  • Set 3: Compass, Metal detector, GPS – Smart Compass Pro
  • Set 4: Sound level meter, Vibrometer – Sound Meter Pro
  • Set 5: Flashlight, Magnifier, Mirror – Smart Light Pro
  • Set 6: Unit – Unit Converter

Cons

The heaviest downside of this app is the lack homescreen shortcuts to individual tools. Maybe it’s just me but you pay for this app then realize there are no shortcuts then the author wants you to buy the individual tool apps or be pledged with adverts!  

Pros

This app basically helps you deal with any measurement problem you may encounter. It’s affordable price tag will also give it an edge over similar apps in the play store.  

The best way to understand this app is probably by experimenting with it. Nonetheless, I can guarantee that your $2.55 will be worth it.

Price When Rated:

$3.00$2.55

Our Rating: 3.5

Requires Android:

2.2 and up

Content Rating:

Low Maturity Download

Facebook Calls on Ex-PayPal’s President David Marcus to Run it’s Messenger

Ebenezer Obasi
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Facebook Calls on Ex-PayPal’s President David Marcus to Run it’s Messenger

Facebook doesn’t show ads in Messenger or WhatsApp. Instead, payments could be the key to earning money on chat, especially in the developing world where ad rates are low. If that’s the strategy, Facebook just got the perfect executive to lead the charge. It’s poached PayPal’s president David Marcus to run its Messenger unit.

Facebook hinted that Marcus would be looking outside of ads for how Messenger could bring in revenue, writing in its announcement of the hire that “David is a widely respected leader in the technology industry with a track record of building great products and finding creative ways to turn them into great businesses.” For now, eBay CEO John Donahoe will be the interim PayPal president.

Marcus joined PayPal three years ago when it acquired his mobile payments company Zong for $240 million in cash. Zong let users buy things online through carrier-billed mobile payments.

In a Facebook post announcing his move, Marcus wrote: “While I was in the middle of my thought process about what was next for me, Mark Zuckerberg and I got together. Mark shared a compelling vision about Mobile Messaging. At first, I didn’t know whether another big company gig was a good thing for me, but Mark’s enthusiasm, and the unparalleled reach and consumer engagement of the Facebook platform ultimately won me over. So… yes. I’m excited to go to Facebook to lead Messaging Products.”

Facebook has previously said that it wants its standalone apps to hit at least 100 million users before it starts monetizing them. Messenger now has 200 million users and recent acquisition WhatsApp has 500 million, so they’re both definitely eligible. Both have been focusing on growth and boxing out the competition in the heated messaging space. But since monetization plans can take a while to get mapped out and then revved up, it’s smart for Facebook to start thinking about this now.

Facebook has already made some forays into the payments space. The Financial Times reported in April that Facebook had applied for an e-money license in Ireland that let it handle peer-to-peer money transfers in Europe.

Using Marcus’ expertise could one day help Facebook earn significant revenue from developing nations and the parts of the world it’s trying to connect to the web through Internet.org. In these markets, buying power is smaller in absolute terms because of lower currency values, cost of living, and more modest incomes of citizens. This makes it tough to earn serious revenue from ads. Facebook makes just 11 percent of its revenue from all countries outside of the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia combined.

But one thing people do spend money on in the developing world is fees for payments and remittance. Mobile payments for digital and physical goods are starting to become popular in developing nations. Meanwhile, many migrants send money they earn back to family members in their home countries, but are forced to endure extortionate fees. Facebook could use the ubiquity of its mobile apps, including Messenger and WhatsApp, to disrupt the current players in mobile payments and remittance, earning those fees for itself.

Facebook and WhatsApp already know people’s social graphs so they can chat. Layering payments on top could be relatively simple. It could look a little like a combination of Messenger and Venmo, a slick peer-to-peer payments app that PayPal acquired along with its buy of parent company Braintree. The same way you select to send a photo with a message now, you could eventually add a money transfer.

In the developed world, this might help friends settle up for group dinners or shared taxi rides. But in developing countries, remittance through Facebook could become popular if it costs less and were easier than existing solutions. I’d imagine Zuckerberg’s vision for mobile messaging that he shared with Marcus goes something like “Messaging connects people directly and privately. Along with text and media, another big thing people send one another this way is money. By expanding Messenger to encompass payments, Facebook can bring families, friends, and colleagues closer by eliminating the barriers to sending and receiving cash.”

Amazing Spider-Man 2 Review: Swinging nowhere

Alicia Margretha
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Amazing Spider-Man 2 Review: Swinging nowhere

Every year or two they release a new Spider-Man game. Every year or two I get my hopes up that the developers have made a proper follow-up to 2004’s Spider-Man 2—the only fun Spider-Man game in recent memory. We’re now a decade out from that, and Amazing Spider-Man 2 shares (mostly) the same title as that lone bright spot. Is this the Spider-Man game that will break the long streak of stinkers?

Nope.

Impossible standards

In a way, it’s unfair to developer Beenox to hold them to Spider-Man 2’s standards. See, Spider-Man 2 wasn’t even a very good game. It fell prey to a lot of the movie-game pitfalls—repetitive content, dumb missions, a horrible camera, et cetera.

The swinging, though. Spider-Man 2 was the first game to implement a system where Spidey’s webs actually stuck to walls instead of fastening to some invisible helicopter in the sky. I distinctly remember standing in a GameStop in New Jersey, waiting for my dad to finish up shopping at Home Depot or something, transfixed by the way the swinging worked, probably humming the song from the Spider-Man 2 trailer under my breath. (I think it was Vicarious by Dashboard Confessional? Different times.)

Spider-Man 2 was the first game to make me feel like Spidey, which was a big deal—he’d always been one of my favorite superheroes, and I’ve long thought that web-swinging is a more interesting mode of transportation than flight.

It was easy to put up with all the dumb movie-game garbage in Spider-Man 2 because swinging around Manhattan was such a joy. Keep in mind, this was also an era when expansive open-world games were relatively novel. We’d only had two large-scale Grand Theft Auto games and a handful of knock-offs. There was still a sense of wonder at just moving around an enormous environment, even if you could only enter a handful of buildings and the draw distance was about a hundred feet.

This is what nostalgia results in: impossible standards.

Amazing Spider-Man 2 is not really that bad, compared to Spider-Man 2. Let me rephrase: “Game released this month” is not really that bad, compared to “Game that came out a decade ago.”

After a baffling sidestep into the old “webs attach to skyhooks” mode in 2012’s Amazing Spider-Man, Beenox has brought Spidey back into a world governed by physics. His webs are forced to attach to walls or ceilings, which is a step in the right direction. You also affect speed by releasing higher or lower in the arc of your swing.

Swinging still doesn’t feel quite right, though. I could never quite get the hang of Spidey’s momentum, and it seemed like I swung into walls a bit more often than I’d expect. It also lacks the complexity of Spider-Man 2’s system, which allowed for all sorts of high-level maneuvering by accounting for how long you held buttons. Amazing Spider-Man 2 is at least on par with Ultimate Spider-Man (the second-best Spidey game) though, as far as swinging is concerned.

Roll film

Where Amazing Spider-Man 2 is not on par with anything worth playing recently is in the actual game part. This is where those “impossible standards” come into play. I’m not going to argue that Amazing Spider-Man 2 is any worse than the original Spider-Man 2. But that’s not a high bar.

Amazing Spider-Man 2 has far too much in common with the movie tie-in games of old. Bad camera, bad lip-syncing, bad models, bad mission design—it’s all present here.

Side quests are universally abysmal. Many of them are the same rote, quicktime event-infested tedium we’ve seen in other Spider-Man games—stop the fleeing car full of criminals!—except here you have to load into them. You swing to a location, hit a prompt to start the mission, and then sit and wait for the scene to load instead of having the events trigger organically in the world. You already won’t want to do the missions because they’re boring, but you doubly won’t want to do them when you have to sit through a loading screen each time.

Too bad. You have to do them. If you don’t, Spidey’s reputation goes down and you’re targeted by hit squads that make it an enormous pain to just swing around the city. Apparently “not stopping a crime” is equivalent to “endorsing crime.” It’s asinine, and makes the game tedious even if you’re just there to run through story content.

And the story? For some baffling reason Marvel or Beenox or Activision or whoeverdecided the story shouldn’t really match the story of the film. Maybe they got gun-shy after Amazing Spider-Man spoiled the film for certain players?

Whatever the case, you’re left with an utterly forgettable tale that mostly concerns a bunch of iconic villains doing the least iconic things possible. Some of my favorite villains make an appearance in this game, but they’re given short shrift by lackluster writing and acting.

Another thing: Apparently this game, despite being an official tie-in, couldn’t secure rights to any of the actors. Neither likenesses nor voices are present here. This results in an awkward situation where, for instance, Spidey sounds a lot like Tobey Maguire instead of Andrew Garfield, and Gwen Stacey doesn’t even appear in the entire game. It’s explained away with so much hand-waving.

No, it doesn’t really make sense.

Bottom line

Sorry, true believers. I know you’re holding out hope for a great Spider-Man game, but this isn’t it. It’s good for a few hours of web-swinging entertainment if you need a fix, but by no means does it recapture the magic. (That won’t stop me from getting my hopes up the next time a Spider-Man game comes around, though.)

This review was originally posted on PCWorld. Price When Rated: $40$40 Our Rating: 3.0   Operating System: Windows, Mac

How to Create an Eye-Catching Header Photo for the New Twitter Profile

Ebenezer Obasi
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How to Create an Eye-Catching Header Photo for the New Twitter Profile
Are you promoting your brand on Twitter?

Freaking out about creating a good-looking header photo for your Twitter profile?

You’ve probably noticed that striking visual piece in the Twitter profile layout — a full-screen-width banner image, known as a “Header Photo.”

On Tuesday, April 8, 2014, Twitter blessed it’s users with a new profile layout that includes a full-width header photo.

But you may have noticed that not every header photo is a home run …

Following the release of twitter new profile layout “New You” last month, I have compiled a few image recommendations to help you create a header photo that looks professional, makes a great first impression, and markets your brand’s best assets — without violating the Twitter Image Terms.

What’s new about the “new you”?

Background image -out, cover image -in, summarize the new twitter profile look. The new web profile lets you use a larger profile photo, customize your header, show off your best Tweets and more. Other features included to the new look are:

  • Best Tweets: Tweets that have received more engagement will appear slightly larger, so your best content is easy to find.
  • Pinned Tweet: Pin one of your Tweets to the top of your page, so it’s easy for your followers to see what you’re all about.
  • Filtered Tweets: Now you can choose which timeline to view when checking out other profiles. Select from these options: Tweets, Tweets with photos/videos, or Tweets and replies.

Feeling Un-Cosy? 5 Steps to Setup a Branded Twitter Profile

If you are an existing twitter user, you may find your old profile header photo a little bit un-cosy after migrating to the new look. With the background image feature gone from the profile area, the massive space occupied by the header photo becomes your next billboard.

In this article I’m going to show you how to make the most of this massive space in five steps.

1. Abide by Twitter Image Policy

Twitter reserves the right to suspend/terminate your account if you don’t comply to the rules. One of this rules states that “You may not use obscene or pornographic images in either your profile photo, header photo, or user background”.  Having that at the back of your mind, let’s proceed to the next step.

2. Map out the exact dimensions and shape

The Twitter header photo is not a common image size, and the rectangular composition includes a cut-out for your profile image in the lower left corner.
This means the best-looking header photos tend to be images that are designed to take advantage of the header photo’s exact size and shape.

Shape and dimension of Header area. Click to view full image

Detailed measurements:

  • Official recommended size for Twitter header photo is: 1500 pixels wide by 500 pixels tall.
  • Profile image cut-out: 211 pixels wide by 125 pixels tall, spaced 90 pixels from the left edge of the header photo.
  • Profile image size: 200 x 200 pixels, with a recommended image upload size of 250 x 250 pixels. (Note: Larger images can be cropped).

Important tips:

  • If you upload an image smaller than 1500 x 500, it will be stretched to fit. This will make your image quality appear slightly grainy or distorted. The best practice is to upload an image that’s sized to Twitter’s dimensions.
  • Screenshot measurements reveal that only 321 pixels are visible from a 500-pixel image upload. The top edge appears to be covered by the Twitter header bar. A test with a 321-pixel tall image became distorted when uploaded, so do upload a 500-pixel tall image even though only the bottom 321 pixels will be visible.

3. Don’t hide content behind your profile picture.

Even though you are granted a massive 1500 pixels by 500 pixels to design a Header Photo doesn’t mean that you have all of that to work with. Because of the way that Profile Image are placed on Twitter profiles, there’s a section of your Header Photo that won’t appear unless you click on it.
Note the area highlighted with dotted lines in the image below: That’s the part of the Header Photo that isn’t immediately visible to your Twitter followers.
The dotted area is not visible unless the viewer clicks on the Header Photo
Unless you are hiding a Christmas tree behind your profile image, it is generally recommended to keep the space clear.

4. Decide contents to include in your header photo

Outside abusive and pornographic contents, Twitter currently does not have any rule limiting users on what kind of contents to display on their profile header image. However, it is the best practice to include only text/image that describe or relates to you.
Use high-quality photographs that are in focus, have balanced color and good lighting, or use photo editing software to optimize your images. You can design an image collage or use one big, beautiful photograph — just keep the cover photo shape in mind when setting up your composition.
Australian Football League Twitter profile. Notice the powerful text on the Header Photo
Your company logo should appear somewhere, usually in your profile image, in which case it is not needed as an extra graphic in your cover photo. If you plan to include text, consider its placement when selecting images.
Here are a few image content ideas suitable for brands:
  • Candid photos of customers enjoying your products (be sure to get permission to use their likeness)
  • Your most popular products
  • Icons of awards won
  • Employees in action
  • Company founders
  • Store interior or exterior
  • Branded vector graphic
You might also consider the following type of text to grab your audience attention:
  • Company tagline or short phrase that explains what your business does
  • An impactful word that embodies your brand
  • Inspiring quote
  • Names of people in your photo
  • Photographer credits
  • Image copyrights

5. Upload your profile header header photo

Now is the easy part. Uploading your profile header photo is as simple as ever.
  1. Log in to your Twitter account.
  2. Go to your profile by clicking on “Me” on the twitter main menus.
  3. Just below the header photo area, click on Edit Profile button.
  4. Click on the Camera Icon on Header Photo space and click Upload from the drop down menu
  5. Reposition and scale your header photo by dragging the image and scale bar below it. When done, click Apply.
  6. Finally, save your changes and you are good to go!
Awesome! If you think you did a great job, inspire others by posting your Twitter profile links on the comment section. GoodLuck!

Quickteller – Buy Airtime, Pay Bills and Transfer Funds Easily Online with your ATM Card

Ebenezer Obasi
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Quickteller – Buy Airtime, Pay Bills and Transfer Funds Easily Online with your ATM Card
A lot has been said about Nigerian cashless economy since the turn of last year. While the government seems to delay the implementation of this service, Quickteller has given us a taste of what it means to go cashless.

Quickteller is a company based in Nigeria that allows Nigerians to buy airtime and pay bills online using their ATM card. The website has been around for some time but came to the interest of EwtNet only a few months ago, after the company added MasterCard NG to their list of payment means.

Also read: How to create a US bank account in Nigeria

What Quickteller can do for you?

While a lot of Nigerians are already acquainted to buying airtime through ATM centers, you can ignore the long queue and and follow the shortcut: Quickteller allows you to easily top up your airtime balance online through your account dashboard. Currently supported mobile carriers include:
  • MTN Top-up (Prepaid)
  • Glo Top-up (Prepaid)
  • Airtel Top-up (Postpaid & Prepaid)
  • DexterSim Top-up (Prepaid)
  • Etisalat Top-up (Prepaid)
  • Visafone (Direct Top-up)
  • Starcomms (Direct Top-up)
  • Smile Communication Nigeria (Direct Top-up)
The service also allows you to pay bills such as Government tax, School fees, TV renewal fees, Donations, Tithes, etc.

Also Read: Say Yes! to Airtel Ultimate Opera Mini Browsing

Apart from topping up and paying bills, Nigerians can as well transfer funds or receive funds to their back account directly from Quickteller.

The service saves you a tremendous amount of time, easy to use, mobile friendly and does not apply additional charges to paying bills and buying airtime.

The Down Side

In all ways but one, Quickteller has proven to be flawless in delivering efficient and quality service to Nigerian residents. To help you remember your card details, you can add your mobile phone number to your account. However, as Salvador Dalí rightly placed it, “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” Quickteller has confirmed that it’s no candidate to bridge that saying as the company show it’s own lapses.
Time and time again, Nigerian shopping malls seems to go clueless when it comes to payment processing. Quickkteller, is once again a victim of this circumstances: The payment processor is currently limited to the use of MasterCard and Verve ATM cards. This implies that users whose ATM card parade the VISA logo has no place in Quickteller. You should also be aware that your international MasterCard will not be accepted. However, it is my beleive that this service will be improved sooner rather than later.

Your New Google Glass Comes Without Video Calls Support

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Your New Google Glass Comes Without Video Calls Support

As you set fort to lay your hand on a new pair of Goolge glasses today, let’s quickly give you the heads up on what to expect from Google’s $1,500 pair of glasses.

Although the device will support KitKat and a couple of new features, including new tools for working with photos easier, Google has also decided to remove the option to do video calls from Glass for the time being.

Google says video calls from Glass didn’t live out to the company’s “high standards.” Only about 10 percent of Glass users currently use them, and because of this, the Glass team has made “the hard decision to remove video calls from Glass until the experience is better.”

It’s unclear when this feature will return, but Google tells Glass users to keep an eye out for video-streaming apps in the MyGlass app library for third-party solutions. Given that video calls from Glass were always one of the device’s marquee features, it does come as quite a surprise that Google would remove this, even if just a few percent of its current users use it.

Is Hangout Really Enough?

As for the photo updates, Google now finally bundles photos together so when you scroll through your timelines, it’s not cluttered by lots of photos, and the photos you take are easier to find. Glass now bundles all your videos, photos and vignettes into a single bundle for each day. If you take a lot of photos on Glass, that’s definitely a major improvement.

Despite losing the video calling feature, Hangouts on Glass are still an option for chats, and with this update, Google now allows users to more easily send photos in Hangout messages.

Other new updates include a voice command menu that’s now sorted by frequency and recency, as well as the ability to more easily send feedback about Glass right from the device.

According to Google, there are a few more features in this update, too, but it hasn’t updated its Glass Journal blog yet. We will update this post with a list of all the new features as Google makes this information available.

Freelancer.com Acquires Digital Marketing Marketplace, Warrior Forum for $3.2M

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Freelancer.com Acquires Digital Marketing Marketplace, Warrior Forum for $3.2M

According to a report on Techcrunch, job outsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com has put down a portion of the money it raised from its IPO last fall on buying Warrior Forum, a marketplace and forum for digital marketing professionals.

Freelancer.com filed for an IPO last October, with the aim of raising ~$14.2 million — noting at the time that it intended to use the IPO funds for organic growth and also acquisition opportunities.

It confirmed today it’s spent $3.2 million to buy the 732,000+ member strong marketing community site, Warrior Forum, where marketing professionals swap intel on topics including SEO, mobile marketing, social media, ad networks and more. More than 7.2 million postings have been made to the forum since it was founded, back in 1997.

Freelancer.com said Warrior Forum will be run as an independent site, post-acquisition, with its new parent contributing resources and a dedicated team to help fuel further development of the community site.

Freelancer.com, which was founded back in 2009, has acquired several companies over the years — including tech freelance jobs site vWorker/RentACoder and IT marketplace Scriptlance, both in 2012. More recently (this March) it picked up Polish freelance marketplace, Zlecenia.przez.net.

Google Glass Now Available to Everyone: How to Obtain your Own Pair of Google Glasses

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Google Glass Now Available to Everyone: How to Obtain your Own Pair of Google Glasses

In compliance to Google’s announcement last week, everyone in the U.S. will be able to buy Google Glass today, starting from 9 a.m ET.  “Every day, we get requests from those of you who haven’t found a way into the program yet, and we want your feedback too,” the company wrote in a blog post.

Google Glass is not commercially available yet; it’s been available only to Google Glass Explorers — in other words, only through a very limited beta-testing program.

Now, Google is opening up the program and folks in the U.S. will be able to get the Glass for $1500 + tax. Google has apologized to everyone else, saying it’s “just not ready yet to bring Glass to other countries.”

The price is steep, but at least Google will throw in frames or a shade of your choice.

To get the Glass, you need to be 18 years old, and you need to be a U.S. resident with a U.S. shipping address. Then, go to this address today, April 15, at 9am ET. Be fast, as the number of spots available is limited. You can also sign up for a reminder at the same address.

If you are wondering what this pair of glasses will do for you, poke your cursor on this link to find out.

With LastPass comes the End of entering Passwords Manually in Android Apps

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With LastPass comes the End of entering Passwords Manually in Android Apps

Password management service LastPass, which stores passwords on a secure online service to automatically log users into websites, has rolled out automatic password entry to Android apps and the smartphone’s Chrome browser.

So for LastPass users on Android, the days of manually entering passwords into apps and websites are over.

“It takes the concept of our desktop functionality — recognizing what page you’re on and looking for a match stored in your vault — but is adapted for the Android accessibility feature,” Amber Gott, a LastPass spokesperson, told Mashable. “Once the option is enabled in the LastPass Android app, LastPass can now ‘see’ when you’re on an app login page, and then can hover and let you know if you have a matching login.”


The news comes just a few weeks after competing password management service PasswordBox enabled a similar automatic entry feature. Previously, LastPass users needed to copy and paste passwords from the LastPass app to log into native apps and sites.

The feature is available for apps on devices with Android 4.1 and later and Chrome on smartphones running 4.3 and later. It also supports Dolphin HD and Firefox mobile browsers, too.

Although the functionality adds a big convenience on Android, it’s unclear if and when the feature will ever come to iOS devices.

“Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t have an equivalent that allows us to hook into the OS and securely deliver users their data,” a LastPass spokesperson told Mashable. “We’re still looking into it and hope that further updates to iOS may allow us to implement something similar.”

Click here to download LastPass password manager to your Android smart phone.

Microsoft And Dell Sign Patent Royalty Agreement For Google’s OS

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Microsoft And Dell Sign Patent Royalty Agreement For Google’s OS

Today Dell and Microsoft announced that they have signed an agreement relating to intellectual property, which will see the two companies “license each company’s applicable” patents regarding Android and Chrome OS devices, as well as Xbox consoles.

So Dell will pay Microsoft dollars when it ships devices running Google’s operating systems. The companies mention Xbox consoles because Dell, it turns out, has some IP with surface area to the device. Dell likely got a discount on its royalty payments as a result.

The Android and Chrome OS portion of the agreement are not surprising, other than that they indicate that Microsoft can turn the largest of OEMs into its paying customers, and that it undercuts Google’s mobile platform hegemony and attempt to break into the traditional PC market. How so? Increasing the unit cost of using Android and Chrome OS adds a nip of cost to each unit, making them less profitable for their manufacturer, or more expensive to the consumer. Neither is much of a good option.

And Microsoft directly cashes further into Google’s success, which is one of the more ironical pieces of the technology world at the moment.

This post was originally posted on Techcrunch | Image by Flicker user Alex Schwenke under CC BY 2.0 Licence (Images has been cropped)

Trend Micro CWShredder Review & Free Download

Alicia Margretha
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Trend Micro CWShredder Review & Free Download

A quality product called CWShredder from Trend Micro released to remove traces of coolwebsearch virus from the pc, this was one of the major virus released by hackers it creates auto bookmarks to your browser mostly to the porn and other related websites and it also changes the default home page and when you attempt to change it back it reverts the changes also it impacts system performance too which causes windows to crash and reboot very often this symptom has been noticed on vast number of pc’s. Download CWShredder today from EwtNet and safeguard your pc.

  • Effective hijack removal tool
  • Quick fix for browser related hacks
  • A quality product from major antivirus company
  • Focused on browser protection
  • Improves browser & system speed
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  • Fast and low on using system resources
  • Small size file and quick install
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Trend Micro Hijackthis Review & Free Download

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Trend Micro Hijackthis Review & Free Download

HijackThis is a security tool which generates logs with files that are required and point to malware files & un important files, if you are picky and need control of manually deleting files instead of letting the security software take control of deleting files, hijack this is a good option. But it is extrememly important to use tool with extra caution as you might end up deleting some important files too. Download free Hijackthis tool at EwtNet

  • Lite tool with control over deleting files
  • Fast and effecient
  • Does a good job in finding virus effected files
  • Need good technical understanding to use this tool while deleting files
  • User friendly design

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Download VLC Player For Windows 8,7,XP

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Download VLC Player For Windows 8,7,XP

VLC media player is one of the popular video player out there, it is a open source product which makes it free to download customize the as per your requirements , you could download VLC player for windows,mac,android,IOS devices. VLC media player project has been active from a long time and a series of updates has been pushed to fix error and improve product quality.

It supports large number of input,video,audio formats, specially which aren’t compatible with windows media players, I tunes. This feature make VLC more adaptable and possibly one of the reason for it being so very popular. VLC also has subtitle feature which can be added or removed as and when you need it. it also offers many customization features with awesome skin and interfaces available. VLC has good input & output streaming options too.

 

Some of benefits to Download vlc player

  • Supports multiple input formats
  • Mozilla/Firefox plugin
  • Supports multipe Video formats
  • Supports multipe Audio formats
  • Subtitle/Tag formats
  • A/V outputs
  • A/V filters
  • Choose different interfaces, Skins
  • Active X plugin support
  • Streaming options

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Pick the Best Windows 8 Phone!

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Pick the Best Windows 8 Phone!

While Apple’s iOS and the Android dominate the mobile phone’s operating systems, Microsoft’s Windows, particularly Windows 8, is growing increasingly popular not only with Nokia but Samsung and HTC have taken interest.

Now the consumers are met with the question, “Which is the best Windows 8 phone“ in the market right now?. While we want to give you an answer, it would be best to let you decide. However, we can give you our best 5 Windows 8 phones to check for yourselves, based on the considerations of the phone’s basic functionality, look, capacity and price.

Nokia Lumia 925/1020

Let us begin with Nokia. It has an array of amazing units. Nokia Lumia 925 is perfect for photography. It is equipped with Nokia’s Pureview and 6 Carl Zeiss lenses to provide 8.7megapixels with Optical Image Stabilization that allows you to capture images even on low light environments. It is somewhat lined up up there with the Iphones and Samsung Galaxy S4 with its touch-screen technology of PureMotion HD + Amoled offering you 1280×768 pixels resolution. Nokia Lumia 1020 is the video and photography professional. With its main feature of 41MP camera, your videos and photos are taken in top-class clarity and detail. It is backed by the Nokia Rich Recording that provides distortion-free and stereo sound on your videos.

HTC 8x/8s

HTC also has its wonders with Windows 8 units. It has windows phone 8X and 8S. Windows phone 8X considered as one of the best Windows 8 phone for its high end quality. It has world class camera, perfect fit design, and wide screen with 1,280×720 pixels resolution. Its dual core 1.5GHz processor is capable enough, but there is no option for expanding its memory just like most Windows 8 phones. There is also the HTC Windows phone 8S.Its boldly colored design makes it classy and attractive. It has a high performing battery. Moreover, it has a superb studio quality sound and entertainment. Great photo qualities and camera options are also featured in this one of the best Windows 8 Phone.

 

Samsung ATIV S Neo

Next stop is the Samsung ATIV S Neo. It is Samsung’s best Windows 8 phone, because of its affordability and good performance. It has a wide screen display of 720 x 1280 pixels, 4.77 inches for easy touch and visuals. It definitely provides a good windows 8 experience. It has long life battery of up to Up to 15 h and it has good camera features 8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus that can capture sharp details. However, the phone is a little bulky and heavy. It is not much of a style but still a high end one with reasonable price.

 

Huawei Ascend W1

If you are looking for a very affordable prepaid Windows 8 phone then Huawei Ascend W1 will be the best choice. It may not be a perfect device for some applications, but it has a strong battery life and expandable memory. However, this device has several drawbacks. It has a low internal storage of only 4 GB and low camera specs 5 MP, 2592*1944 pixels. Still, being affordable and practical, this might be perfect for some people who don’t want to stretch more of their budget.

These are the top choices that we can have varying from different types of needs and lifestyle. Windows 8 had made these phones far better than usual ones. Check them out!

The Best Guide For Augmented Reality Apps

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The Best Guide For Augmented Reality Apps

What is Augmented Reality?

Augmented Reality is a relatively new technology that adds value in the real world using digital media and information like videos and 3D models while superimposing in real-time, the camera view of connected glasses, your PC, tablet or smart phone.

Augmented Reality tools have three main categories. Augmented Reality 3D viewers use trackers to place life size 3D models in the environment. Augmented Reality browsers provide contextual information to add value to your camera feed. Augmented Reality games offer interactive gaming experiences.

Benefits of Using Augmented Reality Apps

There are a number of benefits derived from employing augmented reality apps. These include the following.

Presentation Tool
Marketing, design and sales teams benefit from the use of Augment as a powerful visualization tool.

Catalogue Animation
You can bring life to any print content. Your print can be scanned from any location and 3D models, links to your site or videos can pop up.

Here are some of the best Augmented Reality Apps currently on the market.

Amway Augmenter

Amway Augmenter uses image recognition to choose codes and images. Content is then activated to play on the device screen.It is a very easy app to operate. All you need to do is identify the content that you want to augment and hold your device over the image in a way that all of it will appear on the screen. The application does the rest for you.

Visuar Augmented Reality

This is a general purpose augmented reality application. It significantly reduces the cost of marketing and advertising campaigns. Salient features of this application include centering the view in the middle and sawing the interior, take photos and share on social networks and email, change textures and add personal targets in real time, add video texture as well as video, sounds and animations escalate, rotate and move in all perspectives in addition to having your own corporate image and corporate channel.

Acrossair Augmented Reality Browser

This augmented reality browser has been described as the Swiss Army knife of augmented reality. This app has been developed for the iPhone and iPad. Salient features include pinning your location to find your car later, viewing local tweets, viewing geotagged Wikipedia entries as well as hotels, cinemas and many other amenities. Holding your phone horizontally shows your location on map giving you the option regarding the layer you would like to look at.

iOnRoad Augmented Driving

This augmented reality app helps you keep track of your location while on the road while preventing the occurrence of accidents. Features include an audio-visual warning used to detect veering off the road and moving closer to the vehicle next to you. This is done by employing sensors, GPS and the smart phone camera. Operation is simple. All you have to do is mount it on the windshield which activates it automatically once the vehicle is set in motion. Other features include parking location detection allowing you to find your car later via a clicked photo and the area navigation.

R U McSafe Augmented Reality

This augmented reality app is employed to supplement safety and health measures in the work environment. It allows you to utilize your mobile device to view a variety of safety situations in space or real time. All that is required is for you to position your screen over the printed marker that fills the screen when seen from above. You can watch as the 3D appears as if they are right before your eyes. It allows you to interact with the 3D animation through the use of your finger. You can spin the icons and choose the situation you want to view.

Top 7 Best Photo Editing App for iPhone

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Top 7 Best Photo Editing App for iPhone

The best photo editing app for iPhone is determined by the purpose for which the app is used. Instagram has become an established brand though there is stiff competition in the market. Although these apps are not perfect Graphic software, they make user experiences much easier and create more independence with regards to quick editing and can be used on iOS and Android operated phones. There is a wide variety of photo editing apps to choose from but here are the 7 best photo editing app for iPhone on the market at the moment.

PicsArt

Apart from being a photo editing app PicsArt serves the purpose of being a social network for sharing photos. Editing tasks like color adjustments, re sizing and cropping can be undertaken by using the Photo button. Other salient features include Effects that issue specialized tools like red-eye removal, watercolor, pastel and cartoonizer that you can brush on to the image. Conversely, you can snap pictures with a camera tool and paint or draw on an image using a layer-based interface with the Draw tool. It has one of the widest collections of image manipulation tools.

Pixlr Express

Pixlr Express is an all-round photo editor & one of the best photo editing app for iPhone. It has facilities that ensure resizing, cropping and basic cleanup. Other specialized tools providing additional enhancements to your photos include one-touch cleanups, Autofix, teeth whitening and red-eye removal. Striking improvements are ensured by lighting effects and overlays in addition to colour adjustment and other tools that are done with fine-grained control.

Repix

If you are looking for artistic and classical images, this is the right photo editor app for your iPhone. Salient features include adjustment tools and frames including fast and rough image filters. Custom effect brushes are at your fingertips to selectively paint on special effects. Repix is compatible with Samsung’s S-Pen that provides brushes, frames, filters in addition to other tools that are available as in-app purchases.

Adobe Photoshop Touch

This photo editing app incorporates some desktop functions that are employed with the larger app. These include filters, adjustments, selection tools and layers. During editing, there is no loss of detail because there is no downscaling while editing up to 12 megapixels when working on high-resolution photos. Despite being slightly advanced for the novice, this is a powerful editor that makes an exceptional choice.

Adobe Photoshop Express

For those in need of a basic photo editing app, Adobe Photoshop Express is the right tool. Its properties include one-touch filters and Auto-fix for quick edits including slider controls for image enhancements such as shadows, exposure and contrast. In-app purchases allow for the incorporation of additional features like image utilities, special features and advanced filters. The basic package is mostly sufficient for simple editing manoeuvres that include cropping, resizing and red-eye correction.

Snapseed Mobile

Snapseed mobile provides more selective tools with one-touch enhancement through exceptional usability and power. Essential attributes allow you to fine-tune the image using a simple slider as well as quick boosts to colour and contrast including photo clean ups with Auto Correct. Other features provided are ‘Selective Adjust’ mode enabling you to tune concentrated portions of the image using saturation edits, colour and brightness in addition to the Tune Image tool that allows you to alter a variety of image effects like warmth, shadows and brightness. Tilt-shift provides a wide selection of tools and filters as well.

iPhoto

iPhoto is a high-end photo editing app for iOS featuring smart organizational tools that enable you to tag and sort out your photos as well as touch-based tools for adding special effects and cleaning up photos. Brush-based editing tools give you the leeway to use your fingertip in sharpening, darkening or lightening images. You can selectively edit pictures by employing gesture-based and multi-touch tools. Users can order custom photo prints or photo books while you can share photos online as slideshows or web journals.

We believe the list above features best photo editing app for iPhone, we hope this article can help you choose the right app , as always we’d love to hear your comments, suggestions…

The Best Camera Apps for Android

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The Best Camera Apps for Android

Tons of camera apps has been made since the foundation of Android OS. While many blogs and websites has had their say on which app is best, we are going to consider seven Android camera apps that can easily fit in as the best among it’s kind.

In this list we are going to consider features that makes them stand out among the crowd and reasons why they are better than your preferred camera app. From 1 – 7, let’s get the list rolling.

Camera360 Ultimate – The Best Camera App

For sometimes now the position of Camera360 Ultimate has been unquestionable in the marquee of best Android camera apps. The free mobile application is arguable the best camera app around this days and could easily replace any smartphone default camera app.

Features

Camera360 Ultimate of course, was only an upgrade on the old Camera360 app, which was mostly known for its HDR shooting mode. The recent version still has it in there, among some other useful features like photo effects, quick sharing, support for phone-mountable Sony lenses, and a very easy-to-use interface.
  • Easy-to-use Interface
  • Support for Phone Mountable Sony Lenses
  • Photo Effects
  • New Camera Store
  • Basic editing tools, including crop, rotate, etc
  • Photos are classified by time in Camera360 album for easy photo search and management.
  • Safe and smart cloud album for photo storing, managing, editing, sharing and more.
  • Free photo editor featuring tons of filters, unique shot modes, and extras not found in other apps from the genre
  • 1-tap upload to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and more
  • HDR Shooting Mode
  • Real-time digital zoom
  • Hardware tweaking options, including white balance, night shooting modes, ISO, focus metering, exposure, contrast, saturation, and more (as long as your hardware supports it)

The Awesome

The application compared to its competitors is worth over $4 – $5 but has been made totally free by its producers. Camera360 Ultimate makes it easier to choose between normal shot and special effects shooting mode allowing it to function properly on almost every Android device including low end Tecno Android phones.
The latest version of Camera360 Ultimate is loaded with amazing photo tools and features. The good thing about the application is the new camera store where you can manage and add new features to your camera app. You can add features such as Effect Cam, Selfie Cam, Easy Cam, Scene Cam, Funny Cam, Tilt-shift Cam, Color-shift Cam, Audio Cam, etc. Free of charge.

Where It Falls Short

Camera360 Ultimate’s interface is great at guiding you right to the type of shooting mode you may want, but the problem with the app is that it’s gotten progressively bloated and bogged down with features that aren’t too useful and have little or nothing to do with taking good photos—just gimmicky ones. It’s also gotten to be a big of a storage hog, weighing in at 21mb.

6 Worthy Alternative of Camera360 Ultimate

Camera ZOOM FX ($3.00) has been the preferred camera app for many android users but will always face stiff competition against free top crooners like Camera360 Ultimate. The camera app has features such as:
  • Auto-focus and tap-to-focus modes
  • Hardware tweaking options, including white balance, night shooting modes, ISO, focus metering, exposure, contrast, saturation, and more (as long as your hardware supports it)
  • Gesture and multitouch support, including pinch to zoom, tap to focus, and tap to shoot
  • Burst shooting mode that supports up to 20 shots/second
  • Customizable grid overlays (so you can make use of the rule of thirds, the golden ratio, or other composition techniques)
  • Horizon level indicator (never take tilted photos again)
  • Stable shot meter and shooting mode (with crosshairs that flash red when the camera is moving)
  • Customize all the hardware buttons on your phone and assign them to camera functions, e.g. zooming with the volume controls
  • Support for time lapse shots and long exposures
  • Self Timer
  • Voice and sound-activated triggers: Clap or speak to take a picture
  • Silent photo shooting and shutter sound control
  • Over 40 different photo filters and effects, like tilt-shift, vignette, LOMO, retro, toy camera, and Polaroid
  • Dozens of photo presets for one-touch personalization
  • Real-time digital zoom
  • Geo-tagging of photos using your phone’s GPS
  • Preserves EXIF and other metadata with your photos
  • Auto-save of images when you take them
  • Live previews of photo effects and filters before you apply them
  • Basic editing tools, including crop, rotate, etc
  • Non-destructive photo editing features
  • Collage shooting modes, so you can build an instant collage of photos you’ve just taken
  • Quick social media share
Works a bit better than the stock app and offers ISO mode control. Unfortunately, all the photos are cropped to 4:3 instead of 16:9, and there doesn’t appear to be any way to fix it. With its amazing features as mentioned above, Camera ZOOM FX can comfortably sit in our second place for best Android camera app.
ProCapture ($3.99, Free ‘Lite’ Version) is a great camera app for niche photo shooting. The application supports multiple advanced camera shooting modes such as: Timer, Burst, Reduced Noise, Wide Shot and Panorama.

Action Snap Pro ($3.85, Free ‘Lite’ Version) is another niche photo shooting app. Allows you to use both front and primary camera of your android device. ActionSnap supports combining 4 or 9 photos. You can choose a time interval from 0.1s to 5s and start capturing photos by one click only, or you can use the custom mode to take photos one by one.

Camera FV-5 ($4.13, Free “Lite” version) has been around for sometime, but only recently did it get good enough to grab our attention—and boy did it get good. Loaded with tons of features, and the developers has added a lot of useful shooting features over filters and effects. You can now control hardware settings like white balance, exposure time, aperture, light metering, and so on, and the viewfinder even has an RGB histogram right there, updating in real-time. You’ll find all of the other useful features from Camera360 ultimate and other apps here too—tilt-shift shooting, auto-focus and tap-to-focus, long exposure support, the works. Its only drawback is that the interface can be a bit overwhelming as a result of all of the features.

Vignette ($3) midst stiff competition is still around and kicking, and is an excellent option if you’re looking for an elegant shooting interface and more filters and post-processing effects than you can shake a stick at. It looks great, is a joy to use, and like Camera FV-5 can do a lot of things the other apps here can do, including tilt-shift photography, cross process, duotone, LOMO, toy camera, and more. Vignette’s only drawback is that in being elegant and useful, it’s also a bit lighter on features and shooting modes. Still, if other camera apps are overkill but you still want a step up from stock, try it out.

Focal Camera (Free), pretty much at the beta stages and good enough to decorate the bottom area of our awesome list. The application is loaded with  features like HDR shooting, panorama shooting, photospheres, burst shooting modes, self and auto-timers, and more. It’s a bit buggy on some devices, is definitely still a beta, and doesn’t support anything running less than Jelly Bean 4.2, but if you need HDR or panoramas, it’s more than worth a look.

VMware is Looking for a Strategic Partner Business Manager – Kenya

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VMware is Looking for a Strategic Partner Business Manager – Kenya
VMware a visualization cloud infrastructure solution company is currently looking for qualified applicant to fill its position of a Strategic Partner Business Manager, Kenya branch. The full details of the job is contained below.

Job description

The Strategic Partner Business Manager (SPBM) will be responsible for account managing and selling to some of the largest and most strategic corporate resellers in Kenya in order to develop strategic relationships and dramatically increase the revenue driven through each partner.

Main Duties:

  • Create working business plans covering sales training, technical enablement, lead generation and marketing activities, as well as maintaining and increasing partner competency accreditation .
  • Drive large opportunities and incremental revenue through building strategic relationships with key corporate resellers.
  • Establish and grow VMware practices expertise within large corporate resellers to strengthen VMware market place defensibility and growth.
  • Establish Virtualisation and other VMware technologies as a key component of IT strategy that is embraced and promoted by large corporate resellers.
  • Market and sell to the corporate resellers in defined region to ensure that we become a standard part of relevant practices, such as Cloud, and End User Computing
  • Present to and educate the key influencers at the corporate reseller to ensure they are including VMware in their recommended solutions/proposals to customers.
  • Create direct relationships with key corporate resellers management team and map to VMware management and establish contractual relationships with the key partners.
  • Map Solution Providers field organization to VMware field organization, including technical resources where appropriate.

Required Skills:

  • A proven track record in managing corporate resellers for either an enterprise software or hardware vendor, or within sales at a corporate reseller.
  • Demonstrated experience in enterprise software sales with a proven track record of over achieving sales goals.
  • Substantial experience of working in a channel environment.
  • Good presentation skills
  • Ability to work with a portfolio of partners
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills: relationship building, influencing
  • Focus on results with ability to follow through
  • Good attention to detail and reporting skills. The role, responsibilities and geographical focus will change and develop over time along with the company’s rapid growth.

Before you join, VMware will require you to go through a pre-employment screening process. This means that we will want to verify your details and the information you have given us to ensure your suitability for a certain role considering its nature, seniority and other relevant factors.

 
 

MakerBot Itty-Bitty 3D Printer now open for pre-order

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MakerBot Itty-Bitty 3D Printer now open for pre-order

Back at CES 2014, MakerBot announced three new 3D printers: one small (Replicator Mini), one huge (Replicator Z18), and one that’s about the same size as the one they’ve sold for years (now just the “Replicator”). With a new smart leveling system and built-in webcams for monitoring prints, these new models pack a few tricks that the older Replicators don’t.

Since that announcement, though, only the standard Replicator has actually gone up for sale. If you wanted the baby-bear or papa-bear model, your only option was to sign up for more info later.

Good news! Sort of. If you were waitin’ for the Mini-model, pre-orders just opened up. At $1,375 (before shipping and taxes and whatnot), it’s the cheapest 3D printer that MakerBot offers by almost a grand.
The catch: they’re still not 100% sure when these things will ship. They pin their launch window sometime in “Spring”, but don’t get any more specific than that. For people (like me!) who are terrible with seasons: assuming they mean Northern Hemisphere Spring, that’s sometime between March 21st and the end of June.

If you’re just looking to dabble in 3D printing but the upfront cost is a prohibitive factor, the Mini looks like a pretty damned solid option. Just know that the maximum build volume is 3.9×3.9×4.9″ — so if you’re looking to print anything much bigger than a coffee mug, you’ll need a bigger box.

You can find the pre-order page right over here.

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