Google Open Sources Two Tools To Import Mail Into Gmail

gmail If you’ve ever been stuck using another email service and want to move over to Gmail, importing all of your mail is a real pain in the ass. Think Apple’s Mail client tied to say, an exchange account. Today, Google open sourced two projects that’ll help make moving over much easier. Here’s what the team said today about it: Do you have an old Thunderbird mail archive… Read More

Google Calendar For The Web Gets A Trash Can

trash_gif You set up a meeting, drop it into Google Calendar. Then someone says “let’s do it another time” and you delete it. Then they say they’re available again. What do you do? You create a new entry. Until now. Today, the Google Apps team released a small but handy feature for the web version of Google Calendar — a trash can. You can now view, permanently delete or… Read More

Lytro Introduces ‘Immerge’ For Cinematic Virtual Reality

Screen Shot 2015-11-05 at 10.15.12 AM Camera maker Lytro is hopping into virtual reality. Today, it announced a product called “Immerge” which the company describes as “world’s first professional light field solution for cinematic VR.”
What does that mean exactly?
Well Lytro wants to provide tools to shoot live action virtual reality. It built its “light field” solution from the ground up. Read More

Stripe Hires Away Twitter’s Romain Huet To Lead Global Developer Relations

Stripe Office At Twitter’s Flight conference, one of the stand-out portions of the keynote was a pretty epic on-stage coding exercise. It lasted about a half hour and turned into a sample project that was immediately made available on Github. One participant, Romain Huet, is leaving Twitter for online payments service Stripe to run its global developer relations team. He joined Twitter in 2013… Read More

You Can Now Jailbreak Your iOS 9 Devices (But You Probably Shouldn’t)

Screen Shot 2015-10-14 at 2.56.11 PM Over the years, Apple has introduced features to its mobile operating system, iOS, that made jailbreaking your device in order to customize and tweak your phone or tablet less appealing. Users now can do things like add widgets, install dynamic (moving) wallpapers, send audio messages, quickly access frequently used controls and, thanks to 3D Touch, invoke shortcuts to installed… Read More