Of the Google services that come bundled in Android devices, none is more useful than Google Now. By combining search with timely cards that hope to guess your next move before you even make it, Google Now is everything a virtual assistant should be.

Starting today, the service is getting even more powerful and intuitive. Now has always relied solely on data from Google services in the past, but a looming update promises to bring third-party cards from your favorite Android apps. At launch, 40 apps have been approved to post cards in your Google Now feed. This list includes Airbnb, Pandora… more

Most people who cook end up having at least three or four different kinds of spatulas in their drawers. I personally have at least five. However, if I had to do it all over again, I would purchase only one, and that would be a flexible fish spatula.

Flexible fish spatulas are long, exceptionally flat, and very bendy. Many have a slight curve to the spatula so you can angle them under delicate foods. They were originally designed to be able to lift fish fillets, whole fish, and things like crab cakes off of very hot surfaces. Since fish can break apart easily, this spatula’s special design… more

The Nexus 6 is one of the few devices on the market that sports a 1440p “QHD” display. This means that the amount of pixels displayed is higher than almost any other smartphone, which sounds great on the surface, but is not without its drawbacks.

For one, most apps and games are still written with 1080p as their max resolution, since this is the standard amongst current generation devices. And even if an app or game does support 1440p resolution, the graphics processor on your device has to work overtime to track all of those extra pixels, resulting in diminished performance and battery life… more

The camera in CyanogenMod, CameraNext, takes some pretty impressive shots when compared to those offered by HTC Sense and Sony Xperia, but it doesn’t have many of the features that make it a real competitor. Even the Color OS version of the OnePlus One has received better reviews when comparing low-light shots, which implies that it’s not the camera sensor that’s lacking, but the software.

With that in mind, OPO owner adbi08638 sought out a way to make CameraNext a viable alternative to the big guys. His modified camera app contains all of the same features as the stock CameraNext, but with… more

Gatorade and football go hand in hand, from player endorsements to the traditional Gatorade shower that coaches get at each Super Bowl. So, get in the game-day spirit with these Gatorade-infused drinks, desserts, and snacks. The good thing about Gatorade is that it comes in every color of the rainbow—so feel free to make these in your favorite team’s colors.

You’re probably not exercising if you’re enjoying yourself at a Super Bowl party, but hopefully the added electrolytes and energy you’ll get from these treats will help to counteract your beer and salt consumption.

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2015 is quickly shaping up to be the year of the cord cutter, with various media companies finally warming up to the concept of offering live streaming content. In the wake of Dish Network announcing a streaming cable service called Sling TV and Sony unveiling a similar platform in PlayStation Vue, NBC has decided to stream the Super Bowl and all of its festivities online. Before we get to all of the many ways you can stream Super Bowl 49 between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks in Glendale, Arizona online, let’s get NBC’s estimated schedule out of the way first for Sunday… more

Not all smartphone chargers put out the same amount of current. The adapter in your car probably charges your phone a lot slower than the one plugged in at your bedside, and if you use wireless charging, it may be a bit slower still.

Even considering the variance in listed amperage among your chargers, some still degrade with time and take longer to complete a charge. This can be due to a faulty or worn cable, or even a bad AC adapter. Finding the root cause of such issues, however, involves a lot of guesswork and is usually quite difficult.

So, developer Chaitanya Khade created an Android… more

The next time you plan on going on an adventurous road trip, get paid for it! With the the new mobile app called Roadie, from developer Marc Gorlin, you can get paid to go where you’re already going.

Essentially working as a Lyft- or Uber-like service for people’s possessions, Roadie, with its “you scratch my back, I scratch your back” philosophy, brings people together to help one another out with shipping items safer and cheaper from place to place. It’s particularly helpful for shipping larger items that FedEx, UPS, and USPS would charge an arm and a leg for.
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Imgur has just released a brand new feature to make GIFs better than they ever have before. Video to GIF is a tool that allows you to quickly paste any video link, easily select a clip from that video, and turn it into a very high-quality GIF, called a GIFV.

GIFVs are extremely high quality GIFs, so much so that it feels like an actual video embed when viewed on Imgur or any other site. To create a GIF, just paste a video link from YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, or any other video-sharing website into Imgur’s Video to GIF page. After a few seconds, Imgur will provide a simple tool for you to use to… more

Imgur has just released a brand new feature to make GIFs better than they ever have before. Video to GIF is a tool that allows you to quickly paste any video link, easily select a clip from that video, and turn it into a very high-quality GIF, called a GIFV.

GIFVs are extremely high quality GIFs, so much so that it feels like an actual video embed when viewed on Imgur or any other site. To create a GIF, just paste a video link from YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, or any other video-sharing website into Imgur’s Video to GIF page. After a few seconds, Imgur will provide a simple tool for you to use to… more