| Distro Issue 50: the travel edition packs geotagging and offline navigation Jul 27th 2012, 13:30  Here at Engadget HQ, we're looking to take a bit of a breather after a long week of analyzing last quarter's numbers. With that said, a road trip or weekend respite of some sort is definitely in order and this week's edition of our e-magazine offers some insight into getting just a bit more out of that next excursion. Front and center, the globe trotting Darren Murph offers some tips for geotagging your shots from that next Blue Ridge Parkway trek and also takes Nokia Drive's offline navigation for a spin on a Lumia 900. The super thin $1,400 Acer Aspire S5 and the sub-$100 Motorola Atrix HD each get in-depth reviews while "Hands-On" is overrun by some new shooters -- including the much anticipated Canon EOS M. Fable: The Journey designer Ted Timmins takes his turn with Q&A, "Switched On" takes a look an Ouya, "Reaction Time" chats about pre-release secrecy and "IRL" has our personal gadget arsenals. That said, we're taking some Friday solace in one of the download links below, where you can grab a brand spankin' new issue of your very own. Distro Issue 50 PDF
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Follow Distro on Twitter Filed under: Announcements Distro Issue 50: the travel edition packs geotagging and offline navigation originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink |  iTunes, Google Play | Email this | Comments | | Facebook's new Recommendations Bar pops up, just wants to be liked Jul 27th 2012, 13:16  Facebook's Recommendations Box sits passively on many websites, allowing us to engage or ignore as we see fit. But too much of the latter option has led to something slightly different: the new Recommendations Bar -- a pop-up variant which, when integrated by your favorite page, plugs site-specific links based on your friends' thumbs and shares. The Bar is similar to the in-house recommendation pop-ups we're all familiar with, but adds a like button for posting the current page to your timeline. It shouts much louder than the Box, so it's no surprise that in early tests the new plug-in produced a three-fold increase in click-throughs. In this case, privacy wasn't an afterthought -- Bar integration, like the Box, is at the site's discretion and sharing pages is very much on your terms. Just try not to accidently hit that like button during your daily scan of Bieber's homepage. Filed under: Internet Facebook's new Recommendations Bar pops up, just wants to be liked originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | CNET | Email this | Comments | | PSA: Samsung's entry-level NX1000 mirrorless cam with 20-50mm lens now available for $700 Jul 27th 2012, 12:45  Samsung's least expensive and most compact mirrorless camera, the NX1000, is finally available for purchase, shipping today for $700. The entry-level kit, which was originally set to hit retailers last month, includes a 20-50mm f/3.5-5.6 lens, a 3-inch LCD (no AMOLED display, sadly) and the same 20.3-megapixel APS-C sensor included with the higher-end NX210 and NX20 -- those models add an AMOLED display and electronic viewfinder, respectively, along with a handful of other enhancements. For photographers who don't need an EVF or higher-end display, the NX1000 should suit most needs, and it's available in both black, white and pink (the two latter models also ship with matching lenses). $700 may seem a bit steep, considering starter ILCs from other manufacturers can cost $600 or less, but retailers and online vendors are discounting the kit to $649 through the end of the month. Continue reading PSA: Samsung's entry-level NX1000 mirrorless cam with 20-50mm lens now available for $700 Filed under: Digital Cameras PSA: Samsung's entry-level NX1000 mirrorless cam with 20-50mm lens now available for $700 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | B&H | Email this | Comments | | Apple buying fingerprint sensor maker AuthenTec for $356 million Jul 27th 2012, 12:07  Sure the financials announced this week weren't as exceptional as some we've seen from the company, but Apple's still clearly in a buying mood. The company's apparently doing a little security shopping, picking up AuthenTec for $356 million, according to the mobile and network security firm. AuthenTec's in the business of content and data protection, including things like fingerprint sensors and contactless payment. Seems Apple's looking to get into that business too. AuthenTec's already worked with a number of high profile hardware makers, such as Samsung, Lenovo, LG, Nokia and Motorola. Apple buying fingerprint sensor maker AuthenTec for $356 million originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Reuters | Email this | Comments | | Archos' Transformer rival reappears: passes federal inspection, forgets its keyboard Jul 27th 2012, 11:38  If you cast your mind back several months, you might recall Archos unveiling a new range of tablets that can pair up with a keyboard add-on. While the French tablet maker kept quiet on the specifics at its debut-- with not even a mention of the hardware's OS -- a filing at the FCC helps plug some of those information gaps. Courtesy of the user manual, we can see that the tablet will be running Android 4.0, while the as-yet unspecified storage capacity can be expanded by microSD. There's a mini-HDMI port that looks like it will require its own proprietary cable, and the keyboard dock? Well, it's absent from this FCC gallery, but it does appear in the user manual, demonstrating a twist and lift mechanism that creates a pop-up stand for the slab. Gaze on in horror as those FCC technicians prise open the Archos 101 xs' shell and scope out the internal works -- it's all in the source below. Filed under: Tablet PCs Archos' Transformer rival reappears: passes federal inspection, forgets its keyboard originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  Arc Tablet | FCC | Email this | Comments | |
