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October 10, 2013
CoachGlass ‘Madden NFL 25’ app for Xbox shows defense is the best offense

Quoting the saying, “Offense wins games, defense wins championships,” Engadget posted about how the CoachGlass companion app to “Madden NFL 25” differentiates itself from the “Ask Madden” feature, “by resorting to data collected from the Madden community, as well as recently used plays, to make its suggestions.

October 10, 2013
Choosing technology for your business? Make sure you do these three things first

Anyone in business knows a few things from the get-go when they’re shopping for new technology: They want to save money, gain some efficiency, and get something that does what it’s supposed to. Cindy Bates provides some tips on what you can do to increase your odds of achieving those things with your purchase.

October 10, 2013
App of the Week: Facebook gets a major update on Windows Phone 8

With Version 5.1, you can now attach photos to your messages, save and share photos, “unfriend,” “unlike,” @tag inline and more. It’s also easier to check in at your favorite spots thanks to navigation improvements, and the performance updates make all of the app’s features speedier and more responsive than ever.

October 10, 2013
Get inside the head of a Microsoft researcher who can riff on processors, Aerosmith and Godzilla

If you want to get inside the head of a researcher who works on fast, scalable storage systems for datacenters, check out James Mickens’ essay, “The Slow Winter.” Mickens, a researcher in the Distributed Systems group at Microsoft’s Redmond lab, riffs on a variety of topics that don’t seem to have much to do with each other, but he makes connections between air travel’s heyday, the hard working (and harder partying) glory days of being a hardware architect and touring with Aerosmith.

October 10, 2013
Outlook.com updates its Android app with features you asked for

In fact the update includes over 150 improvements, including server-side search (so you can search through all of your email, even if the messages aren’t on your phone), the ability to download all your mail (no matter how old), support for all your aliases, the ability to choose from 11 colors to personalize your mail app the way you like it, and more.

October 10, 2013
New version of Fresh Paint lets you make wall-size canvas prints of your creations

With the free Fresh Paint app for Windows and Windows Phone, it’s easy to create vivid digital paintings that that look like masterpieces – even if you don’t have traditional artistic skills. Now, thanks to a new update, you can also put those masterpieces created in Windows 8.1 on high-quality, ready-to-hang canvas prints from CanvasPop.