Joshua Goldman

Perfectly Clear for Android makes your pictures look right

Screenshot by Joshua Goldman There are several Android photo-editing apps with autocorrection, but none of them are as good as Athentech’s Perfectly Clear for iOS. Perfectly Clear for Android, however, seems to top it. Perfectly Clear basically does one thing — autocorrect photos. If you’re looking for filters or editing tools, you’ll have to look …

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The 12 best Android camera apps around

Urbian’s Retro Camera is a favorite, but Pudding Camera is seeing more use these days. Screenshot by Joshua Goldman/CNET As the de facto point-and-shoot camera reviewer for CNET, I spend a lot of time living in the world of automatic snapshots and easy post-shoot editing. While I can tell you several ways a separate point-and-shoot is better than a smartphone …

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Vizio Co

Vizio First teased at CES 2012, Vizio’s Google TV plans are now moving forward with the launch of the Co-Star Stream Player. While we’re still waiting for Google TV to fulfill its promise, the Co-Star makes the most of the platform’s current capabilities by combining live TV and streaming services. Along with wired and wireless Internet connections for Web surfing …

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TiVo and PayPal pair up for purchases through TV

Forget picking up your laptop or tablet to make purchases while watching TV, TiVo users can do it with their remotes. A new partnership with PayPal will give TiVo users the ability to explore interactive ads and buy products directly through the interface using their PayPal account. How it seems to work is you’ll pop into an ad, buy a …

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TiVo focusing on whole

At the 2012 NCTA Cable Show, TiVo announced the eventual availability (again) of a TiVo IP set-top box for viewing content on secondary TVs and a new streaming box for use with mobile devices. The TiVo IP set-top box (yes, that’s what it’s being called for now) works as an extender for a TiVo Premiere Q DVR. Connect the box …

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TiVo update brings new Netflix, YouTube apps, parental controls

TiVo’s been on a roll with keeping its promises lately (though I probably just jinxed it by saying that). First, it updated large sections of the HD interface in January, and then it actually started rolling out Comcast Xfinity On Demand support, and now comes a software update with shiny new apps for Netflix and YouTube. Well, new to TiVo …

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Comcast starts rollout of video

If the inability to access video-on-demand (VOD) channels has kept you away from TiVo (and not its service fee), you may soon have to find another excuse. At least if you’re a Comcast Xfinity subscriber. An automatic software update will be pushed to TiVo Premiere users in the Bay Area starting today and over the coming weeks adding access to …

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The secret behind Nokia’s 41

When Nokia announced the 41-megapixel 808 PureView smartphone at MWC 2012, CNET’s associate editor Lynn La said “it is a phone that has so many megapixels, its megapixels have megapixels.” That, it turns out, was a pretty accurate statement. But, before I get into what that all means, judging by comments I’ve read there seems to be some confusion about …

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DirecTV takes its TiVo HD box nationwide, but will its users care?

TiVo and DirecTV’s on-again, off-again, really off-again, kinda on-again relationship is now completely back on again. After a 10-city rollout in December of a new TiVo HD box to DirecTV customers, the satellite TV provider is making the box available nationwide. The TiVo HD box mainly gives users access to TiVo’s excellent interface and features such as WishList Searches so …

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LG 84

Looks like LG has already given up its TV goodies for CES 2012. (Credit: LG) First, it said it’s bringing the world’s largest (at least for now) 55-inch OLED TV, and now along for the ride is an 84-inch 3D ultra-definition 4K TV, another world’s largest. The 3D UDTV has four times the “resolution clarity” of a full HDTV (3840×2160 …

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