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The Pebble Smartwatch's utility was somewhat limited when it launched, thanks to an API that only supported notifications and data going from your phone to the watch, not the other way around. The last update to the API fixed that, and now Pebble has at least some degree of control over a connected phone. Pebble Phone Ringer Switcher from noted developer Faruq Rasid is the first Pebble app we've seen take advantage of this, at least on the Play Store. It's a simple little watch app that allows the user to switch between normal, vibrate, and silent ringer modes.    To get it working, make sure that your Pebble is awake and connected via Bluetooth, and you've got the official Pebble app installed and set up. Done With This Post? You Might Also Like These:Pebble SmartWatch SDK Updated With Two-Way Communication For Watch Apps Pebble Notifier Now Works Without Tasker, Adds Selective App Notifications Switcher Provides An Incredible Gesture-Based App Switching Tool Official Pebble App Adds Music Player Selection, Should Work With Most Music Apps [New App] Pebble Phone Ringer Switcher Is The First Of Many Wrist-Mounted Android Widgets was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

A couple tools, a game and a few odds and ends to keep you busy this weekend We all love to discover new apps, but no matter how much the Play Store tries to highlight the quality ones, with hundreds of thousands to choose from it can be a daunting challenge. The best app recommendations we often get are from friends and family about an app "you just have to try". We try to help out with this app discovery problem every week by showing off one app from each of the Android Central writers -- the ones that we're using on a regular basis. Hang around with us after the break on this Saturday afternoon and find a few new apps to install on your devices for the long weekend. read more

After seeing in a series of images potential changes for Google’s mobile email app, a new screenshot seem to reveal that the Gmail’s web user interface will also be overhauled. The Next Web has an image that indicates a tab-based UI is coming to Gmail at some point in the near future. As you can see in the screenshot below, we’re looking at four different tabs, with each one presumably storing certain types of emails. There are four tabs in the screenshot that read Primary, Social, Promotions and Updates. However, the publication mentions other tabs including Main, Notifications and Forums. In Main, users will reportedly eceive emails from friends, while Social and Offers will include social networking emails and emails from retailers, respectively. The Notifications tab will include emails mentioning bills, dining reservations, flight alerts, and similar important mails. Finally, Forums will include notifications from forums. Apparently each tab will show you that there are new emails requiring your attention, and that “+” sign in the screenshot could indicate that users will be able to create custom tabs as well – although that’s only a speculation from our part. At this point, it’s not clear when the new UI will be rolled out, but we would assume that both the web and the mobile Gmail versions would be updated at the same time. The screenshot for the Android Gmail app below shows some of the same tabs we talked about for the web version, including Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates and Forums. To activate it, you’d have to tap on the three-line menu on the top left side. Before Google I/O, a source told us that a Gmail update was on its way, but Google did not introduce it during the keynote. Will the new Gmail UI arrive once Android 4.3 launches? We’ll just have to wait and see. For now, Google has refused to comment “on rumor and speculation,” according to The Next Web.

According to The New York Times, a vintage Apple-1 computer made in 1976 has sold for a record $671,400 (including taxes and fees) to an anonymous wealthy Far East entrepreneur at a German auction. The previous high was $640,000 for a similar sale back in November at the same auction house in Cologne. The original owner of this auctioned off Apple-1 was a retired electrical engineer by the name of Fred Hatfield living in New Orleans, as he verified this to the NYT by showing a letter addressed to him from 1978 signed by Steve Jobs, which detailed an offer to exchange an Apple II computer for the older machine with an offer to send a $400 check as incentive. Hatfield says he was approached by an interested buyer earlier this year to purchase his Apple-1, which was not in working condition, for $40,000. That buyer went to California and had the Apple-1 autographed by Steve Wozniak who designed the computer. When told of the record auction sale Hatfield said “My God,” and went on to say “Best to him. He’s the one who fixed it up and figured the best way to sell it for all that money. Evidently, he’s very good at this.” As noted in the Steve Jobs biography written by Walter Isaacson, Steve Wozniak said he made history with his early computer prototype, which had its software handwritten by Wozniak himself: After a couple of months he was ready to test it. “I typed a few keys on the keyboard and I was shocked! The letters were displayed on the screen.” It was Sunday, June 29, 1975, a milestone for the personal computer. “It was the first time in history,” Wozniak later said, “anyone had typed a character on a keyboard and seen it show up on their own computer’s screen right in front of them.” The Apple-1 originally sold for $666 ($2,700 in today’s dollars). Now that’s one expensive computer. Check out the video below: [via NYT] Historic Apple 1 Sells for Record $671,400 at German Auction [VIDEO] is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource

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Android developers in Argentina have received a letter from Google informing them that Google will no longer be able to accept payments on behalf of the developers beginning June 27. This applies to both paid apps and in-app purchases, and is likely due to new restrictions by the Argentina government on currency exchanges. Not only will payments come to a halt, but beginning July 27, Google will remove paid apps and in-app items developed by Argentines. Developers in Argentina will still be able to offer free apps, and Android users in Argentina will still be able to purchase apps in the Play Store, however. Google suggests in their letter that a solution for Argentines is to move their accounts to another country without such restrictions. Google hopes to restore payments in the future, but “no specific plans are in place at the moment.” Source: The Verge Come comment on this article: Google no longer able to accept payments for app developers in Argentina Visit TalkAndroid for Android news, Android guides, and much more!

As Samsung continues its march to produce a Galaxy S 4 model targeted at virtually every type of consumer, we continue to try to identify specifics for all of the models slated to hit the market. Our latest bit of information comes from a leaked UAProf file that was discovered on the Samsung domain. The file indicates it is for an SM-C101, which we have confirmed is the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Zoom. We see in the UAProf that the device will have an ARM11 processor and it also confirms the device will have a screen resolution of 960×540 as we reported earlier. The Galaxy S 4 Zoom appears to distinguish itself from other models by packing in a 16MP camera capable of 10X digital zoom. Some have described the device as more of a camera phone than a smart phone. source: Techtastic via: phoneArena Come comment on this article: More details for Samsung Galaxy S 4 Zoom discovered Visit TalkAndroid for Android news, Android guides, and much more!

An anonymous reader writes "Twilio's Jon Gottfried has written an article about the lessons he's learned after six months of developing software for Google Glass. He has some insightful points: 'I expected it to be very similar to building mobile applications for Android. In fact, I began learning to build Android applications in preparation. My efforts were for naught, because the Mirror API is a RESTful web service. This means that developing applications for Glass is actually more similar to building a website than it is to building an Android application.' He also talks about how this fits in with the future of technology: 'I would argue that Google took the only option available to them. The only truly scalable products of the future will be developer platforms. Facebook, Twitter, Twilio, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Arduino – all of these products have been successful in large part by embracing and empowering their developer communities. No company is omniscient enough to imagine every potential use of their products. This gives developers an immense amount of power to define the success or failure of an entire product line.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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A new infographic from Glow New Media reveals some interesting stats such as the 1.4 billion smartphones that will be sold globally this year on a planet with a total population of 7 billion; according to the infographic, mobile internet use rises 66% each year. That explains why the carriers are complaining about clogged pipes...Photos: