mardi 31 mars 2015

Fire TV And Fire TV Stick Updates For Public Wi-Fi And Other New Features Are Rolling Out Now

GUID-B629F6D6-BB07-4487-967B-F540F9C8260A_en-US Last week we reported that Amazon's Android-powered streaming set-top boxes were getting a substantial update with a handful of much-appreciated new features. According to this Amazon page, the updates for the Fire TV and the cheaper Fire TV Stick are whooshing across the Internet to owners right now. To check for a manual download, head to System, About, then select "check for System Update." Here's all the new stuff for the Fire TV:


New and Enhanced Features: 51.1.5.0_user_515020820



  • USB Storage - If you are running out of space on your Amazon Fire TV, attach a USB flash drive for more space to install games and apps.



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Fire TV And Fire TV Stick Updates For Public Wi-Fi And Other New Features Are Rolling Out Now

Twitch For Android Updated With Windowed Video Player And Audio-Only Streaming Option

unnamed (3) Playing video games is for losers, apparently - these days all the cool kids watch other people play video games. Twitch, the platform of choice for your non-video game-playing needs, has updated its Android client with a few handy features in version 3.2. Both of them come straight out of YouTube's bag of tricks, but that's OK - every video player should let you do this stuff.


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The first thing you'll notice is that Twitch now has a pop-out mini-player that lets you browse for a new stream while watching your current one.



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Opera Browser Beta Updated With 64-Bit Support, Chromium 42 Codebase, Improved Text Wrap, And More

unnamed It's easy to forget that Opera is still out there with all the talk of Chrome and Firefox, but it's still a capable browser. Even more so after it switched to a Chromium base a while back. The beta version of Opera is getting an update today, and it's based on a new version of Chromium with a few added features.


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Here's the changelog for the new Opera beta.






  • Tab synchronization: new view for synced tabs, new layout in Tab manager

  • Improved Text wrap

  • 64-bit support

  • New progress bar

  • Opera Turbo replaces Off-road mode

  • Upgrade to Chromium 42

  • Various stability and usability improvements




The 64-bit support isn't going to make a ton of difference right now as there are almost no Android devices with 64-bit cores.



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Facebook Introduces 'Scrapbooks,' A New Way For Parents To Tag And Organize Pictures Of Their Kids

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One thing that Facebook has not been well-equipped to deal with is children. No, I don't mean teenagers. Most users are familiar with the barrage of photos that accompany each birth in the family of a Facebook friend, which often involves a mess of tagging of one or both parents in every baby photo. For parents themselves, they struggle sorting out photos of their sons and daughters unless they just dedicate albums to the children specifically.



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Facebook Introduces 'Scrapbooks,' A New Way For Parents To Tag And Organize Pictures Of Their Kids

ASUS And Google Announce The Chromebit, A Full Chrome OS Computer On A $100 HDMI Stick

Group_Asus_Chromestick_V1 (1)_1000 The Chromecast is great! Wouldn't it be even greater if it could actually run Chrome, instead of being a point for streaming video and music? ASUS seems to think so. Tucked into an announcement of new Chrome OS laptops, Google posted a preview of the Chromebit on the official Chrome blog. It's basically Chrome OS on a stick: plug it into the HDMI port on your TV, add some MicroUSB power, and you've got access to a full copy of Chrome OS.



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