Mobile Photo Connect conference bestows first-ever app awards

Mobile Photo Connect, the three-year old, all-day mobile photo conference held yesterday in San Francisco, featured what has now become its signature event: the Show & Tell in which app developers get four minutes each to tell the assembled crowd about their product. The conference hosted 30 high profile apps and services, in addition to targeted panels, spanning a range of both new and existing apps. The Next Web was part of the first-ever (and certainly not the last) judging panel where I and fellow judges photographer Jen Pollack Bianco, start-up expert Jim Beddows and online photo specialist James Joaquin slugged it out behind the scenes to bestow the…

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Slack is down. Tech companies: Don’t panic! [Update: It’s back]

When Slack stops, it’s like the very fabric of tech productivity unravels. The company confirmed the service is down for some users. So mandatory coffee breaks it is! The TNW team is enjoying this foreign thing called “the outdoors” in the meantime. Will notify when things change! UPDATE: the outage started around 5:12pm EST and remains intermittent. Slack spoke to soon to confirm things were in working order. As of 5:39pm EST, Slack said problems remain for some users, but it’s mostly back. We survived!

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Addictive quiz game Trivia Crack is now available for the Apple Watch

Trivia Crack, the game that lets you compete in timed knowledge competition against other users, is now available for the Apple Watch. With the update, you’ll be able to play games from your wearable, check ongoing games or create new games. Trivia Crack also uses Apple Watch’s haptic engine to give you a buzz for new game notifications. Gameplay isn’t much different on the smaller screen: questions pop up on-screen with corresponding answers, and you’ve got a limited time to respond. Since it’s a watchOS 2 app, it can also be used without an iPhone around. Trivia Crack is available as…

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Free Microsoft course teaches ‘absolute beginners’ to code Windows 10 apps

Ever wanted to code an app, but have no coding experience whatsoever? Don’t worry, Microsoft has you covered. The company is offering an ‘absolute beginner’ series of video lessons for anyone looking to learn how to code a Windows 10 app. More specifically, it’s a series on creating Universal Windows Platform apps that can potentially work on a variety of devices including PCs, phones, tablets, a Raspberry Pi, HoloLens, and Xbox. That said, Microsoft recommends you have some basic understanding of coding in C#, so it suggests you check out its C# Fundamentals series first. The course is laid out in…

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iFixit’s Apple TV tear-down earns it a swift boot from Apple

In the future, you’ll have to wait a bit longer for your Apple hardware tear-down articles. iFixit, whom we look to any time new hardware comes out to see what’s under the hood, lost its developer account after being banned by Apple. The reason for Apple’s decision came after a recent Apple TV tear-down. The crew at iFixit used its developer account to source the hardware, and threw caution to the wind. When a developer is provided with pre-release hardware, they’re not supposed to use it for much beyond making cool apps. If I won the lottery and got my own Apple TV,…

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Washington aurait conseillé la Grèce dans les négociations

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L'édition anglaise du quotidien grec Kathimerini révèle que les États-Unis ont conseillé le gouvernement SYRIZA – Grecs Indépendants dans les mois qui ont précédé l'accord du 13 Juillet sur un troisième plan de sauvetage.

Washington était intéressée à garder la Grèce dans la zone euro et aurait conseillé Athènes d'éviter les attaques à l'Allemagne et d'essayer de créer une alliance comprenante le Royaume-Uni, la France, l'Italie et l'Autriche en convainquant ces pays, en échange de leur soutien, qu'elle était sérieuse au sujet de la mise en œuvre des réformes.

Photo: By The Official White House Photostream (P060809PS-0350) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Microsoft copies Facebook and adds Likes and @Mentions to Outlook

Microsoft wants email to learn some tricks from social media. The company today announced it’s bringing Likes and @Mentions to Outlook on the Web. Indicated by the classic thumbs-up, Microsoft says the Likes are meant to help you endorse a specific email, or bring attention to it. Or as on Facebook, it could simply be used to acknowledge you’ve read something or empathize with it, without having to type a full response. As you might expect, you’ll receive a notification when someone likes an email, and it will show up highlighted a top the message. Meanwhile, you can also tag people…

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QuizUp is becoming an NBC TV gameshow

NBC has revealed that a new 10 episode trivia show based on the popular app QuizUp is in the works. The show will put in-studio contestants in direct competition with viewers at home using their mobile devices. The in-studio players can win up to $1 million if they are successful in the eight rounds. At-home players will receive the money allocated to the round they win only. To be one of the at-home players, you will need to qualify through the app. And even if you don’t make the grade, you can still play along with the TV show in…

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11 fitness technologies that won’t let you skip leg day

Not a day goes by without a new fitness app, activity tracker or connected device promising to turn you into the ultimate athlete or yoga master. Fitness is such an active market that simply keeping track of it on Index probably has me burning more calories than I could eat in a day! Whether you’re a fitness freak or not, there are countless tools available to help you set goals, monitor progress and share your achievements. Fitness technologies make sure you don’t get off track and reduce the chances of a valid excuse to skip a workout. Though most are probably…

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OS X El Capitan is now available for download

Right on schedule, OS X EL Capitan is now available for download. It replaces OS X Yosemite, Apple’s radical redesign of its desktop operating system. El Capitan brings in a Notes app that mimics the iOS version, and new features for Maps and Safari. It also has a nice new window management system that lets you evenly split your screen between two apps. El Cap also rolls Metal into the mix, which is up to 40 percent faster than Open GL. If you’re curious what the new OS is all about, check out our review. It’s an iterative update, but one…

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7 apps that would make terrible TV shows

Popular gaming app QuizUp is officially becoming an NBC television show, so we thought about what other apps would make great, terrible or hilarious programmings. Completely unfueled by lunch, here’s what we came up with. Shazam Shazam the game show is a family-friendly programming that lets you compete to see who can recognize songs at the drop of a hat. If you can’t tell apart your Bon Jovi from your Bon Iver, consider getting a hearing aid or subscribe to a music streaming service (or three.) Crossy Road In Crossy Road the TV show, you’ll compete to get yourself across a…

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Twitter is rolling out more ‘Buy Now’ buttons to your timeline

Twitter is preparing to expand its e-commerce presence in a big way. The company today announced it’s planning to roll out the ‘Buy Now’ buttons it introduced last year to many more merchants and brands. For reference, the shoppable tweets look like this: Fanny packs FTW! This one is exclusive to Brit+Co. Shop to it on Twitter! http://t.co/1vzgotySzE — Brit + Co (@BritandCo) September 30, 2015 The Buy Now button will be available for merchant platforms such as Bigcommerce, Demandware and Shopify, including brands like Best Buy Adidas, PacSun and many more. Previous stalwarts included Fancy, Stripe, Gumroad and Musictoday. When…

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OpenStreetMap just got a big boost thanks to Maps.me

Russian internet company Mail.ru Group has announced that its Maps.me mapping app has been open-sourced, making it available for developers to freely embed maps in their own apps. Based on data from OpenStreetMap (OSM), Maps.me offers fully offline navigation, which the company says makes it ideal for use by humanitarian groups, activists and volunteers in rural areas of disasters or political conflict. Often, these are the least mapped areas of the world, and those with the worst infrastructure for providing connectivity; the company says OSM’s crowdsourced approach make it ideal for these under served places. And now that it’s open source, humanitarian organizations can modify…

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Foursquare now lets you make OpenTable reservations without leaving the app

Foursquare has partnered with OpenTable since 2012 to make restaurant reservation times available for viewing, but today a small update will allow users to book tables straight within the app. Before, when there were OpenTable options on a Foursquare listing, you were redirected to the mobile Web or another app. With today’s update, users can browse availability and reserve a table without leaving Foursquare. The app pulls in your name and phone number from your Foursquare account to make booking fast and easy. Foursquare says the integration is powered by Button, a mobile startup that allows different apps to connect with…

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OpenStreetMap just got a big boost thanks to Maps.me

Russian internet company Mail.ru Group has announced that its Maps.me mapping app has been open-sourced, making it available for developers to freely embed maps in their own apps. Based on data from OpenStreetMap (OSM), Maps.me offers fully offline navigation, which the company says makes it ideal for use by humanitarian groups, activists and volunteers in rural areas of disasters or political conflict. Often, these are the least mapped areas of the world, and those with the worst infrastructure for providing connectivity; the company says OSM’s crowdsourced approach make it ideal for these under served places. And now that it’s open source, humanitarian organizations can modify…

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