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Forza 5 Box Art Shows What Xbox One Game Packages Will Look Like is a post by Shawn Ingram from Gotta Be Mobile.A new image from Microsoft’s Major Nelson shows the box art for Forza Motorsport 5, one of the few announced Xbox One launch titles. The image shows the box art of Forza Motorsport 5, which is surprisingly simple compared to the box art of many current generation video games. The box art simply shows a sports car turning a corner on a racetrack with a castle in the background and the logo of the game floating in the sky above it. Read: Xbox One: 5 Exciting New Features The box ast also shows that Xbox One game boxes will look very similar to Xbox 360 game boxes. Microsoft will keep green as a major color for the console, even though it doesn’t use green on the console itself or on the Xbox button on the controller. The plastic case will stay green, and the banner on top of the box art is green as well. The spine of the case is a simple gray with white lettering and the same green bar from the front of the box. It seems that Microsoft is applying its flat design language to the boxes of Xbox One games. The box art doesn’t include any mention of the Kinect sensor, so it’s not clear what Kinect game boxes will look like. Microsoft won’t use the purple branding for Kinect titles on the Xbox One, but that doesn’t mean it won’t use something to distinguish Kinect-enable games from other games. Read: Microsoft Xbox One vs. Sony PlayStation 4 http://youtu.be/r46D1lRpO1k Unfortunately, while we now know what the box of Forza Motorsport 5 will look like, we don’t know how much the game will actually cost. As a launch title, Forza Motorsport 5 serves as a showcase of what the Xbox One is capable of. The announcement trailer of the game showed impressive lighting effects and beautiful cars with a fantastic amount of detail. The game may look different when gamers actually get a chance to play it, but so far it look pretty impressive.Forza 5 Box Art Shows What Xbox One Game Packages Will Look Like is a post by Shawn Ingram from Gotta Be Mobile.

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Crowdfunding of new tech products through sites like Kickstarter and indiegogo has become the go-to method for anyone with a brilliant idea, but little cash to get things up and running. We have probably covered dozens of projects over the last couple of years (some good, some not-so-good), as many of these ideas are amazing [...] Misfit Shine Activity Tracker From IndieGogo Drops Android Support... Click the post title to continue through and join the conversation!

New submitter home-electro.com writes "In the era of total CAD and CAM, is it even possible to come up with a fundamentally flawed design ? Turns out, yes. This a fascinating engineering SNAFU. Spain's newly built submarine is 100 tons too heavy, which means it is unable to float. 'Unfortunately for the Spainards, Quartz reports that they have already sunk the equivalent of $680 million into the Isaac Peral, and a total of $3 billion into the entire quartet of S-80 class submarines. If Spain hopes to salvage its submarines, it must either find some weight that can be trimmed from the current design or lengthen the ship to accommodate the excess weight, The Local notes. Though the latter option is more feasible, it is expected to cost Spain an extra $9.7 million per meter.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Starting June 27th, Android app developers living in Argentina will no longer be getting paid by Google when someone makes a purchase of one of their paid apps, or makes an in-app purchase that they used to get paid for; a letter from Google to developers confirmed that the payments will stop after the final checks go out on July 22nd...

How To Customize the iPhone Notification Center for Productivity is a post by Troy Frommer from Gotta Be Mobile.Notifications are a helpful feature of the iPhone that keep users alerted with important messages. But too many notifications are unnecessary and more of a nuisance than are helpful. By default many notifications are in notification center, which is the best place to receive alerts. While notification center is a great tool, it loses its utility when overrun with too many pointless alerts. By fine tuning which alerts go into notification center, it will decrease the amount of times your iPhone buzzes, and keep the important notifications at the top. How to Customize Notification Center. Tap Settings. Select Notifications. On the next screen are the notification settings for all the apps installed on the iPhone. The first option to choose from is how to sort the apps. By choosing to sort manually, it is up to the user to decide how the apps will appear in notification center. For the most control use manual because notifications appear by your choice. Sorting by time places notifications in order of the time that they occur. While this has its perks, the manual sort offers greater control and customization of the two sorting options. Tap Manually. Next are two categories of apps, those that are In Notification Center and those that are Not In Notification Center. Apps under the In Notification Center group appear in the pull down menu from the home screen. The advantage of this is the quick access to messages, reminders or any other alert that occurs on the phone. While this is convenient, the disadvantage of this is that if too many apps are in this menu it becomes cluttered and unusable. Apps that are Not In Notification Center do not display in the drop down menu. Although you may not want all of your apps in notification center they can still alert you other ways. Under the In Notification Center list, notifications will appear in the order they are in the list. To change this order, tap Edit in the top right. Tap and hold next to the app you would like to move. Continuing to hold down, drag the app where you would like it in the list. Once finished, tap Done in the top right. Besides just organizing how apps appear in Notification center, there are many other options to consider changing. Some of these include sounds, alert type, and badge icons. To view these settings, tap on any app. On the next page are the settings for the selected app. While most of these are the same for all apps, they may or not all be available. The Notification Center option determines whether that app is in notification center. Show limits the number of notifications an app will show, which is handy for apps that tend to send a lot of alerts. Alert style is how an app will tell you when a new update is available. Banners are the most popular because they don’t need the user to select an option, while alerts make the user select an option. Badge App Icon is the number that appears on an app when there are multiple updates available. An example of this is on the messages app, a 1 appears in the top right corner when there is a new message. Sounds decide whether an app can play a noise to alert the user. One last option is whether an app can send a notification to the lock screen. This is convenient, but for sensitive emails and messages it is better to disable this feature. Other built-in notifications are Government alerts. AMBER Alerts are notifications when there is a child abduction and the public can help. Emergency Alerts are for weather updates and other emergency related events in your local area. While it is up to the user whether they take advantage of these alerts, it’s recommended that they stay on.How To Customize the iPhone Notification Center for Productivity is a post by Troy Frommer from Gotta Be Mobile.

The Samsung Galaxy S IV may be a marginal upgrade from its predecessor, but is it still impressive enough to edge out the rest of the Android competition?

The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is a very desirable phablet-style of smartphone, meaning it has a larger display than a lot of other phone offerings. Although the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is likely to release later this year the Galaxy Note 2 is still a hugely impressive device and is now available at a competitive price at Carphone Warehouse. We recently looked at a comparison of the Galaxy Note 2 and LG Optimus G Pro and also looked at what the Galaxy Note 3 may offer over the Note 2, although of course the Galaxy Note 3 might not be announced for several more months yet. For now though the Galaxy Note 2 is one of the most dominant larger-screened smartphones available so if you’re considering buying it from Carphone Warehouse we’ll give you all the gen. You can now purchase it from Carphone Warehouse with an upfront price of £99 on a two-year contract with Three at £20 per month. That means the whole package will end up working out at £579 or £24 monthly overall, which we think is reasonable for a phone of this stature. The £20 monthly package offers 500 minutes, 5000 texts and unlimited data according to ITProPortal. For that you’ll get a smartphone powered by a 1.6GHz Exynos 4412 quad-core processor, with a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED HD display with resolution of 1280 x 720, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. There’s also an 8-megapixel rear camera and S Pen Stylus while it runs the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system skinned with Samsung’s TouchWiz UI. If you’re not persuaded to buy the Galaxy Note 2 as you’re wondering about the Galaxy Note 3 you can see more about that and a video summary here. In the meantime we’d appreciate your thoughts and comments on this Galaxy Note 2 price at Carphone Warehouse. Do you think it’s a reasonable price for the Note 2? Maybe you were thinking of buying it but are now considering the Note 3?

The BlackBerry Q10 smartphone is the first BlackBerry 10 device with a QWERTY keyboard and as such is finding its niche in the market. If you’ve decided to purchase this smartphone we thought we’d let you know of a luxury exclusive edition although it does come at a price. Previously we let you know of another BlackBerry Q10 bling edition but by comparison that one ‘only’ cost £1597, around $2480. We thought that was expensive but this new luxury exclusive BlackBerry Q10 makes that almost seem cheap. This one was created by Alexander Amosu and has a price tag of £20,000 (approximately $30,250). This very special Q10 is only available in limited numbers although we can’t imagine too many people will be able to even think about purchasing it. The casing features 18 carat white gold and 700 VVSI diamonds to the tune of 4.7 carats. Customers can also choose from 18 carat yellow, rose, silver and platinum with colored diamonds. For an extra touch you can have your name etched on the Q10 in 18-carat gold. Specs of the Q10 include a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 3.1-inch Super AMOLED display with resolution of 720 x 720 and 330 ppi, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage (expandable via microSD). It also has an 8-megapixel rear camera with 1080p video capture, 2-megapixel front-facing camera and 2100 mAh battery. We’re really interested to hear from readers about this luxurious BlackBerry Q10 designer model. If you had money to spare could you be tempted to spend this much money on a phone? Maybe you’d find it hard to justify spending anything near that amount on a device? Let us know by sending your comments. Source: Alexander Amosu Via: GSM Arena

The built-in Calendar app on iOS does its job pretty well, but if you feel like having a change there are plenty of options out there. One of these is Fantastical. This app gives a simpler interface than the built-in app but doesn’t skimp on functionality. Read on to find out more. Continue reading →