Ashley Feinberg

Flowboard, Cut the Rope: Time Travel, and More

This week’s crop of iPad apps helps you get your work done quick and easy so that there’s plenty of time left over for fun—which you’ll find down below as well. Enjoy. Flowboard: Photo collages and scrapbooking can be dull, arduous processes that don’t transfer well to your digital life. And most web and mobile…

Flowboard: A Quick, Beautiful Way to Gather Your Thoughts

Photo collages and scrapbooking can be dull, arduous processes that don’t transfer well to your digital life. And most web and mobile apps meant to translate the process will often take just as much time, but Flowboard lets you create an easily shareable, beautiful product in a matter of minutes. What does it do? Lets…

NASA Just Found the Two Most Perfect Planets for Life Yet

Ever feel like you’re all alone in this big, ol’ universe? Don’t. Because NASA has just discovered two prime planet candidates that fulfill nearly every condition necessary to life that we’re aware of. And according to William Borucki, chief scientist for NASA’s Kepler telescope, these two are the best bets we’ve ever found. There was…

The Top 40 Vines from the Tribeca Film Festival Will Convince You That Vines Are Actually Great

Barely even four months old, Twitter’s Vine video service has already delighted the film world to the point that the Tribeca Film Festival is giving ephemeral attention spans their very own Vine competition. And the people were ready. After sorting through over 400 Vines or approximately 40 minutes-worth (for those of you keeping score at…

Twitter #Music Hands On: A Celeb-Stalking, Music Discovery Dream

The celebrity-hawked Twitter Music app is finally here. And what’s good enough for Ryan Seacrest is good enough for us kind of. Opening the app prompts you to sign in using either your paid Rdio or premium Spotify account—in other words: shove off, moochers. Any non-subscribers will have to satisfy themselves with iTunes previews. But…

Strophes: The Beautiful Lyrics Reader Is Finally Mobile

While lyric reading app Strophes has already been in the Mac App Store for a while, more often than not, it’s when you’re on the go that you’ll need to whip out lyrics at a moments notice. So whether want to sing along or end a friendly argument about the correct words (or lines… or…

This Fully Loaded, Column of a Kitchen Is Actually Becoming a Real Thing

With populations growing and cities overcrowding, space-saving designs are amassing a huge, highly lucrative following. The only problem is that they often stay just that—designs. But after being unveiled at the recent Milan Furniture Fair, at least one innovative appliance is leaving concept land to become a reality: Ecooking, a fully functional, vertical kitchen. https://gizmodo.com/the-tiny-transforming-apartment-that-packs-eight-rooms-5967622…

Every Library Should Come With This Built-In Slide

It’s no secret how the recently built Panorama House, which stretches along the hilltop like a beautiful, stone accordion, got its name. But while the outside is lovely to behold, it’s what’s hiding within that really caught our attention: an awesome library-slide crossbreed in a stadium seating body. Moon Hoon, the South Korean architect who…

Piki: A Turntable.fm’s Music Sharing App That Depends on Your Friends

You may already be familiar with Turntable.fm’s standalone app that lets you and your friends stream and listen to music together, but their newest offering for iOS is a different kind of music-sharing beast altogether. https://lifehacker.com/how-and-why-to-use-turntable-fm-your-new-favorite-musi-5818493 What does it do? Just like practically every other music sharing app on the market, you can pull up…

New Nano-Suits Can Help Bugs Survive a Space-Like Vacuum

Human space travel comes with a host of problems, not the least of which is our general inability to survive in a vacuum without, you know, dying. But a new technique that’s done wonders for fruit fly larvae and could one day lead to the same for humans may have solved that problem. By bombarding…

Outlook.com for Android users will find a major, long awaited app overhaul, conversation threading and all.

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Today’s Facebook iOS Update Brings Chat Heads to Your iPhone

Upset that you won’t be able to know the joys of your friends’ floating, disembodied heads on your screen, iPhone users? Fret no more, because while you won’t be getting the entire Facebook Home experience, the Chat Heads feature should be hitting iOS devices sometime later today. https://gizmodo.com/what-are-facebook-chat-heads-5993646 The update was announced by Facebook CTO…

The Gesture Control of the Future Will Be in HP Computers This Summer

Leap Motion isn’t just going to be a stand-alone product. The motion-control brand just announced a partnership with HP, meaning that, sometime this summer, you’ll be seeing several HP devices with Leap Motion technology bundled right in. https://gizmodo.com/leap-motion-hologram-the-future-of-awesomeness-5989216 The original device was already set for a May launch, but in what’s most likely a bid…

Snapchat is now handling almost four times Instagram’s load at over 150 million photos a day—that’s a lot of dick pics.

Minibar: A Classier Cocktail App to Get You Drunk in Style

Cocktail apps are nothing new, but as they generally appeal to a demographic practically willing to drink gasoline so long as it’ll give ’em a buzz, none really offered the refinement and knowledge we were looking for. Nothing, that is, until Minibar. What does it do? Takes note of what you have on hand and…

A Beautiful Wooden Book Rest for Old School Readers

The world is overrun with iPad, tablet, and e-reader accessories, but the old school book market isn’t dead yet. So for the luddites and bibliophiles out there, this beautifully simple and fully adjustable reading rest will be a welcome addition. Crafted from Canadian Alder, the rest folds flat, making it travel-friendly and great to use…

Filing Your Taxes Online Was Even More Terrible in 1991

If you’re one of the many tax-procrastinating thrill seekers who waited until the last minute to get cracking, there’s a pretty good chance you spent most of that time cursing TurboTax’s powers that be. It might have even been enough to make you yearn for a simpler time, a time when we weren’t dependent on…

Comcast Is Going to Start Encrypting Basic Cable Data

There are about to be some very unhappy Comcast customers scattered around the country—because the cable provider has just begun to notify customers in several of its markets that it’s about to start encrypting basic cable data. In other words: time for a new box, suckers. In an email to GigaOM, Comcast confirmed the change:…