Chrome now works on Retina displays, looks good doing it
It’s all good. Retina display users on Macbook Pros — thus being Mac owners — can now take advantage of the new high resolution Google Chrome browser. And now, with all of the epic pixels, you can enjoy everything there is on the web, just many, many times sharper. Also added to Chrome 21 (for those of you keeping track), webcams can be accessed without asking permission or using Adobe Flash, which is both a great addition but a security concern. Anyways, get the new Google Chrome here. Via: Google
The new Samsung Music Hub is built around the idea that Samsung wanted a very centralized way of providing music to their own Samsung devices. By doing this, they’ve used California-based company mSpot. The music service features several features that keeps users busy, including turning queues to playlists on the fly, a recommendation engine, up to 100GB of uncached storage for songs uploaded, lyrics listings for songs from the Music Hub or your own library, caching music if not near a wireless cell connection (as well as pre-caching for the next song in a playlist), and what is really described as a “gapless music experience”. Users can also import their music or to change audio quality (the standard being 64kbps and the higher quality will be able to gain access to 160kbps sound quality).
Previously available for only iOS and desktop users, Spotify Radio has been added to the Android version of the app, and features the exact same qualities. There are a limited amount of skips per month and an occasional advertisement, but it’s probably the best radio you cam get right now. Plus, it’s free for all users, including premium users that already pay for Spotify. Radio stations are generated through the user “liking” and artist or picking an artist from a list. Songs you give a “thumbs up” will be saved to their own playlist, so it’s all really neat and organized.
Since Mountain Lion has been available for only 4 days now on the Mac App Store, it’s seen 3 million downloads. On top of the low $20 price for upgrading, the new features and ease of upgrading also easily draws users in. As Apple put it:
What you see above is supposed to be the upcoming “iPhone 5″, with all of the changes rumored over the past few months, including the new dock connector, screens size, color scheme, and design. Many more photos display even the different home buttons in black or white, and closer looks at what seems to be the upcoming next iPhone, but of course, it isn’t proven yet.
It is that time of the decade again — every 4 years, a summer Olympics. And in this case, the London 2012 Summer Olympics, which is currently being broadcasted worldwide, but efficiently over the internet, via NBC web and mobile apps. So with that being said, please watch (and enjoy!) the Olympics
This is the Battlefield 3 Aftermath DLC. And from the video seen after the break for Armored Kill, it is probably mesmerizing. Its brilliance of explosions and the theater of war displayed cannot be put into words, but somehow, I as the writer must somehow conjugate them for you. So, as a Battlefield 3 Premium player, you’ll have 2 weeks of early access to the Aftermath DLC, which include a new (unannounced) game mode, 4 new maps centered around Tehran (an earthquake-stricken Iran), as well as new vehicles based around both American and opposing forces improvising. As put simply:
In case it hasn’t become apparent to the avid social media user already, both Twitter and Google Talk (which works inside of Gmail and Google+) have gone down today, or at least are experiencing occasional outages. This of course is very frightening for someone who relies on both of these popular services for their daily function, but fret not, engineers from both companies are currently working on fixes so that both Twitter and Google Talk will be functional later today.