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Developer Aurora Softworks has just updated the Quadrant application for Android to include support for multi-core processors and Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). Despite its popularity, multi-core support was quite poor in previous versions. Devices with such hardware should now score higher than they did before. Benchmarking has long been a good way to judge a [...]

The red hot startup of late, Pinterest, certainly has a friend in Facebook. Users of the pinning site can sign in with an account from the dominant social network. In a new post, Facebook suggests it's Pinterest's inclusion in Facebook Timeline that is driving its growth.

Apple is good at many things, but so far, it has not excelled at "social" Web services. For example, Ping, the music-focused service it launched in 2010, is seen as one of its rare failures. But now Apple has a real chance to do something "social" properly, by turning its huge and growing base of iOS users into a useful social platform, while maintaining appropriate privacy and security. The need for such a service has heightened over the past week by a pretty ugly controversy: Several social iOS apps have been caught uploading the contents of phones' address books to their servers - without asking for permission - in order to make friend-finding easier. The Feds even want to know what's going on. As embarrassing as this is, it's actually a big opportunity for Apple to build something new. Sponsor Like what? Apple is already working on an update that will require apps to obtain explicit permission before accessing your address book, the same way they have to ask for permission to...

The eighth of December in the year of 2011 will forever be remembered as the day that Twitter changed forever. Ok, maybe the redesign it announced last year wasn’t that...

Dabblet, created by Lea Verou, is an “interactive playground” for trying out snippets of CSS and HTML code. It uses -prefix-free, so that you won’t have to add any prefixes in your CSS...

Android phone owners in want of voice transcription software somewhat similar to the iPhone's Siri can now rejoice. The formerly US-only Voice Actions by Google has expanded to the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain, making it easier for users in these areas to speak to their Android phone and get things done more easily and quickly. Though no system is perfect yet, Voice Actions provides a good amount of functionality.

Twitter admits it too uploads and stores contacts from your phone, if you use the "Find friends" feature, without notification. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well. Sponsor Twitter Is The Latest Company To Admit It Uploads Your Address Book While the news that Path was uploading your entire address book to their servers, sans notification, was a shock, it came as an even larger surprise as other companies sheepishly admitted to doing the same. Instagram avoided a PR disaster by quickly releasing an update that includes a privacy upgrade, as they were doing essentially the same thing. And, it's not the only company that has been collecting the data,...

This winter I have got heavily into skiing. In fact, I have even written some cool articles about skiing applications on the iPhone. That was great when I was just getting into the sport, but after a while I needed to dig deeper. I needed to get with other skiers and find out information about tricks, gear and other skiing essentials. I needed a full featured skiing website that could keep me up to date with the latest happenings.

Google announces more Google Plus API hackathons. YouTube explains how to best upload videos through your apps. Plus: Another heavy Google Maps API user says goodbye, music developers and 23 new APIs.

Readers offer their best tips for viewing sites with untrusted connections, using FM transmitters in your car, and getting all your apps back after wiping your phone. More »

This week, Google improved search results for health-related queries. When it detects that you're searching for symptoms of illness, it displays a list of new search queries for health conditions that might be related. Google now crawls the Web and gathers health information from articles, producing this list algorithmically. Clicking an item in this list sends you to a new search for that health condition with the Web results below. Google used to keep its own Google Health database for users to track their health and medical records, but it shuttered that program last year. Google has rolled up many types of searches into its own properties, but in the case of health, it has decided to do things the old Google way and let the Web handle it. Sponsor Universal Search Is Not For Everything Google is the go-to place for most people to find answers online. As that trend became clear, Google introduced Universal Search in 2007, so its search results could display multiple kinds of...

WordPress is an awesome CMS used by a massive community of developers to create sites like the one you see here. But what happens if you develop numerous sites that...

A screencast is one way to artfully describe a tutorial. Using an animated GIF could be a simpler option if you don’t want to climb the learning curve of a screencast tool. Let’s check out how we can use Photoshop (I am using version CS5) to create a quick GIF animation. I am no graphics guru, but the simple steps are easy to follow and can help to enhance our work as bloggers.

Earlier this week, yet another project crossed the $1m milestone in funding crowdsourced via Kickstarter. Yet, the platform only accepts projects from US residents, which means the rest of the...

File this one under “Just in case you were wondering”. Logan Warren decided to put his Starbucks Rewards card to good use. After earning his free cup, he waltzed in...

Sometimes there are apps that make their way into your digital toolbag as if there was always a spot for them and yo just didn’t know it. Tweet Library is...