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You can now pay for that Microsoft Xbox in bitcoins

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It's now possible to pay for Microsoft products with Bitcoin — just in time for the holidays.

Microsoft customers in the United States can use the digital currency to add money to their online accounts and purchase software, apps and games, including those for Xbox consoles — like Xbox Music — and Windows phones or computers.

No official announcement had been made at the time of writing about the move to support Bitcoin, but Microsoft did quietly post a how-to guide on its website

Bitcoin payments for Microsoft products are currently only supported in the U.S.; users must first add bitcoins to their accounts before redeeming them for regulated U.S. dollars prior to making a purchase ...

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By |December 11th, 2014|Apps and Software|0 Comments
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Nokia Here maps find their way to Google Play

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One of Nokia's strengths, before the major part of the company got acquired by Microsoft, was the fact that its devices came with a solid maps and navigation app called Here.

Now, on Wednesday, Nokia launched Here for Android devices on Google Play. The price? Free

If you've been using Google Maps — also a free, and often pre-installed, Android app — for your GPS navigation needs, you might wonder what would be the point of installing Nokia's offering. But while Maps is more about, well, maps, Nokia Here is much more akin to a standard, GPS, voice-guided navigation app — and those usually do not come free ...

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Iowa may be first state to put driver’s licenses on smartphones

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Iowa residents may become the first in the U.S. to use a smartphone mobile app as their driver's license.

The Iowa Department of Transportation wants to let drivers keep an electronic version of a license on an app, in addition (or in lieu of) the traditional plastic one you'd keep in a wallet

The digital license, which would be free, would be acceptable to use at traffic stops, airport screeners, bars and so on. It would be housed in what Iowa DOT is calling "an identity vault app" and could become a reality by as early as 2015. ...

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By |December 10th, 2014|Apps and Software|0 Comments
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How to search your own tweets on Twitter

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If you've ever wanted to look back on your prior Twitter history and find an old tweet, you know that finding posts from weeks or years past is much easier said than done.

That's because until recently, Twitter didn't provide an easy way to search old posts. Sure, you could manually download your entire archive, but who wants to sift through thousands of tweets that way.

Thanks to Twitter's recent search update, searching your own tweets on Twitter is now both fast and easy.

You can use Twitter's newly revamped ...

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YouTube on Apple TV just got a whole lot better

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The YouTube app on Apple TV just got a few big upgrades, including (for the first time) full access to all of the video-sharing site's content library

Apple's set-top box now includes all YouTube videos; in the past, the catalog was limited and didn't include much of YouTube's more popular content. Searching for a popular music video, for example, might yield results for parodies and covers, but not the song from the original artist. That shouldn't be a problem anymore, according to YouTube.

The YouTube app update for Apple TV also includes a predictive search function, personalized recommendations and the option to subscribe to accounts directly through the set-top box. In a video that highlights the new features (above), YouTube says the upgrade will bring the "full YouTube experience" to users' TVs. ...

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By |December 9th, 2014|Apps and Software|0 Comments
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