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Apple buys German augmented reality firm Metaio, may be looking into extensive AR-related projects

I guess they had something Apple wanted. Earlier this month, Apple completed its acquisition of Metaio, a German augmented reality firm that first started life as a side project at Volkswagen, for an as-yet-unknown project. The acquisition was completed with a full transfer of shares from Metaio’s holdings to Apple. Metaio recently canceled its user […]

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TextExpander 5.0 released for OS X, includes new features, iOS companion apps

A cool thing just became that much more useful. Smile has released TextExpander 5 for Mac OS X. The new version, a major upgrade to the popular typing shortcut tool, lets you type abbreviations that expand to whole paragraphs, images and more. TextExpander 5 suggests which frequently typed phrases to abbreviate, saving time. Search on […]

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App Camp for Girls 3.0 Indiegogo launches, worth looking into

If there was one Indiegogo worth getting behind, it’d be this one. The App Camp for Girls 3.0 fundraiser has launched and is looking to raise US$100,000 to finance this year’s App Camp for Girls programs. The fundraiser works to address the larger issue of why only 20 percent of software engineers are female and […]

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Easily upload all your photos to Google Photos (for free)

Apple dropped the ball on photos. Big time. For years, Apple products were my default photo locker, gallery, and sharing tool. Now I’ve switched to Google, but only because Apple forced my hand. My workflow was simple: shoot photos on my iPhone and dSLR, sync everything to Aperture and share from there. Here’s a brief timeline […]