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Order vintage-style photo prints from your iPhone
With Printic, just choose a handful of photos from one or more sources, and the app will deliver Polaroid-style prints to you door.
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It’s one thing to share your photos on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but sometimes you just want old-fashioned prints. You know, the kind you can stick to your fridge, clip to a board, hang on a wall, and so on. That’s especially true if you want to share fond memories with friends or family members. You know, the kind you get from a wedding, vacation, birthday party, and so on.
Printic turns your iPhone photos into Polaroid-style prints, then delivers them to one or more recipients. It’s a simple concept, done well.
The app lets you choose photos from your Camera Roll, Facebook account, and/or Instagram account. Just tap to select the ones you want (the minimum order is three pictures), then move on to the editing process.
Here you can crop, move, and/or scale each one, change the quantity, and add a caption. (In case you’ve never seen a Polaroid, it has a white border with a larger blank area at the bottom.) But Printic doesn’t have any filtering or other photo-enhancing options a la Instagram. If you want to make any of those kinds of modifications, you’ll need to do so i… [Read more]
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Disney making ‘Star Wars Rebels,’ a new animated show
Concept art released by Disney related to the commencement of production on ‘Star Wars Rebels,’ an all-new animated TV series.
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Disney said today that it has begun production on “Star Wars Rebels,” a new animated television series. It will air in 2014, first as a one-hour special, and then will continue as a regular series.
The special will be shown on the Disney Channel, while the series will air first on Disney XD channels globally, Disney said. It will be produced by LucasFilm Animation.
The announcement that production has commenced on “Star Wars Rebels” comes just two months after Disney shut down “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” a popular and long-running cartoon series. What’s unclear is whether the announcement of “Star Wars Rebels” will do anything to ease the enmity toward Disney that has sprung up in the wake of the “Clone Wars” shutdown, as well as the closure of LucasArts, the video game arm of LucasFilm.
“Star Wars Rebels” is set chronologically between “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith,” the third prequel film, and the original “Star Wars” movie. Disney noted that that is a period in the complex franchise’s story that… [Read more]
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A look back at NASA’s planet-pinpointing space ‘scope
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NASA announced this week that a key piece of gear on its Kepler space telescope has run into trouble. And though the space agency hasn’t given up on a jump-start, the mission may well be at risk.
It’s already gone well beyond its planned duration, however, and presented us with many fascinating discoveries.
In this gallery, we take a look back at that mission — at Kepler’s intriguing quest to find Earth-like, life-friendly planets among the Milky Way’s many stars.
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A look back at NASA’s planet-pinpointing space ‘scope
Verizon Galaxy S4 starts shipping early
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Big Red looks to be feeling the heat to get its take on Samsung’s new Galaxy S4 into the hands of customers.
Verizon customers have begun to report receiving notifications from the carrier that their new Android superphones have shipped earlier than expected.
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While I’ve yet to see video footage, I can only assume that many happy dances have followed receipt of these emails.
The Galaxy S4 on other carriers, including Sprint and AT&T, has been available for a few weeks now.
Originally we were told to expect Verizon to get the Galaxy S4 into consumers’ hands by the end of the month. That date was later bumped up to the 23rd, and it now looks like the phones will arrive even a … [Read more]
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Why this old-school Trekkie loves the ‘Star Trek’ reboots
I pose with a Klingon back when the “Star Trek” ride was still going in Las Vegas.
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SPOILERS AHEAD: The new “Star Trek” movies with J.J. Abrams at the helm have turned into commercial successes, but some long-time Trekkies aren’t thrilled with the direction the franchise is taking. Check out the Reddit responses to Wil Wheaton’s take on Abrams to get an idea of the discussion.
I, for one, am a bit in love with the reboots. Sure, I was suspicious at first. I enjoyed the 2009 “Star Trek” well enough, and thought it clever how it totally wiped out the timeline from the original series and gave itself a new universe to play in for the subsequent films. But it was seeing “Star Trek Into Darkness” yesterday that truly turned me into a fan of the new films. I’m going to tell you why.
My history of Trekkin’ First, let me establish my fandom. My “Star Trek” cred goes way, way back. My mother used to watch reruns with me when I was a baby. Somewhere in elementary school, I got totally hooked on the original series, to the point where I was saving my allowance to buy shiny gold insignias, spending hours poring over blueprints f… [Read more]
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Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse takes on the slow roads
Despite its massive horsepower and torque, the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse behaves nicely cruising on a twisty mountain road.
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I wish I could tell you about driving the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse up to its record-breaking speed of 254 mph. Race car driver Anthony Liu did it. Of course, he drove the Veryon on a 5.6-mile straightaway at Volkswagen’s test track in Ehra-Lessien, Germany, taking the speed record for a production convertible.
On the rural roads in Napa, Calif., the best I could manage was a few seconds of maximum acceleration, making all four wheels grab pavement with neck-snapping force from the engine’s 1,106 pound-feet of torque.
With my foot flat on the gas pedal, I wasn’t looking at gauges or consulting a stopwatch, but Bugatti says the Veyron, in its open-top Grand Sport Vitesse form, hits 60 mph in about 2.5 seconds. I’ve driven cars that hit 60 mph in 3.5 seconds, but those did not prepare me for the Veyron. It is in a completely different class when it comes to stepping off the line.
Put the seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox in first, push the gas, and hang on. There’s no time to tap the paddle shifters, but that’s OK, the car will automatically grab the next gear before redline. No fuel shut-off to worry about.
Behind me, I hear disparate noises, most notably the whoosh of the Veyron’s four turbocharger… [Read more]
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Crave Ep. 121: Wake up to a dancing iPhone
Wake up to a dancing iPhone, Ep. 121
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This week on Crave, we take a look at Tim-e, an iPhone dock that wakes you up in the most annoying ways possible. We salute Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on making space travel cool again and demonstrate Petswitch, which lets you put your face on your cat’s visage.
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Forced to live with BB10, and kind of liking it
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ORLANDO, Fla — Irony may be funny to the gods of Olympus, but it’s a cruel lesson for us mortals. I found this out the hard way at BlackBerry Live 2013. Within minutes of arriving at my hotel I managed to misplace my lovely HTC One test unit. As a result, my backup BlackBerry Z10 was suddenly promoted to first-string smartphone duty.
Comprehending the unthinkable I have to say that within the first hour of realizing my predicament I went through all the classic stages of withdrawal. Initially I denied it — I mean how could this happen to me? Then I became livid, and soon after dejected and listless. Sure, I brought along the Z10 to test any new apps or software I spotted at BlackBerry’s yearly shindig. To lean on the device as my sole form of mobile communication, well, that was a fearsome prospect. I’d have no Google Drive documents, Google Talk, Google Now, or the rest of Android’s laundry list of Google services.
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NASA craft to visit asteroid approved, destination chosen
A rendering of OSIRIS-REx from a NASA concept video.
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NASA’s plan to go poking around on an asteroid, with the ultimate goal of snagging one of the space rocks and towing it closer to earth, is moving forward and a specific asteroid has been chosen to visit and sample in the next few years.
NASA has announced that the Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) passed a key confirmation review Wednesday, approving the spacecraft to move into development phase. Translation: We’re building a new spaceship, y’all!
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Not only does Osiris Rex (nice job on the naming, NASA folks) have a green light to be built, NASA has also chosen and named the first asteroid it will visit and sample. The asteroid now known as Bennu was previously called 1999 RQ36, but was renamed … [Read more]
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Low Latency No. 62: No one is safe
Low Latency is a weekly comic on CNET’s Crave blog written by CNET editor and podcast host Jeff Bakalar and illustrated by Blake Stevenson. Be sure to check Crave every Friday at 8 a.m. PT for new panels! Want more? Here’s every Low Latency comic so far. [Read more]
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