XBMC for Android app revealed; source code available now, beta APKs soon (video)

Surprise surprise, after popping up on the iPad last year, XBMC developers revealed tonight that they've created a version of the media center that runs as an Android app. Currently the team has it stable on the Pivos XIOS DS set-top box, and posted a video (embedded after the break) showing it running on a phone and a tablet. Of course, the different varieties of Android hardware audio and video decoding is mostly a software only affair, but universal hardware decoding is in the plan. The tr…

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Should you boycott Apple?
What's right for me might not be for you.
On July 4th, I declared independence from Apple, weeks after pledging to boycott the company's products. The independence story is among my post popular posts (based on pageviews), and it's most-Liked and most-commented. I inadvertently tapped into some surprisingly strong emotions about the fruit-logo company and unmeaningly joined the boycott Apple movement. Looks like I'm not the only person mad about recent patent bullying, although other boycotte…

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Pigs beware: Angry Birds Trilogy coming to 3DS, PS3 and Xbox 360 later this year
Despite already being a massive success story on the Android and iOS platforms, Rovio's clearly not planning on slowing down its Angry Birds adventure any time soon. Speaking to IGN earlier today, the company's Executive Vice President of Games, Petri Järvilehto, told the site that the Angry Birds Trilogy is headed — in physical form, no less — to the 3DS, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 later this holiday season. Sadly, Järvilehto didn't say how much we'll have to spend on the bird-slinging tri…

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Android 4.0.4 coming soon to Galaxy S II i9100
Bell’s Galaxy S II i9100 got bumped to Android 4.0.3 in May, long before that of its competitors, and now it looks like Samsung has started the ball rolling on another update. Apparently hitting Russian handsets now, Samsung has issued a bump to ICS 4.0.4, fixing a number of issues with the initial release.
While it’s not known if or when the Bell variant will receive such an update — the carrier approval process typically takes some weeks — we’re hoping that it comes sooner than later. We fo…

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Want a new way to view the items in your folders?

Click on the arrow next to My Drive in the left-hand navigation of your Google Drive on the web to display a list of your folders. Then, select Open option from the drop-down menu next to a folder. 

You can copy the link to the entire folder from your address, click through photo previews without having to open them separately, and scroll between open views of the items in your folder using the up and down arrows on your keyboard when in the sidebar.

open up an alternate folder view via the dropdown next to the folder title

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