HTC’s One X AT&T Not Support Unlocking Bootloader

HTC’s One X AT&T - Just if we anticipation manufacturers accept fabricated accord with devs and others who wish to accept the abandon to actualize their own smartphone acquaintance with the Android OS on their phones, it is acutely actualization that HTC’s One X AT&T is exempted from it, as the bootloader of the buzz is bound and HTC’s official unlocking apparatus reportedly not working.

The Verge got in blow with a adumbrative of the company, and here’s what HTC has to say on the matter:

“HTC is committed to listening to users and delivering customer satisfaction. Since announcing our commitment to unlockable bootloaders, HTC has worked to enable our customers to unlock the bootloader on more than 45 devices over the past six months. In some cases, however, restrictions prevent certain devices from participating in our bootloader unlocking program. Rest assured, HTC is committed to assisting developers in unlocking bootloaders for HTC devices and we’ll continue to unlock additional devices in the future.”

From the account above, it’s harder not to jump into the cessation that AT&T is allotment of the “restrictions” that anticipate the bootloader on the HTC One X from getting unlockable. Seeing that these are harder times for HTC, as the architect tries to about-face several abode of missteps and misfortunes, we’re academic their easily are rather angry for the time getting and accept to accede to the appeal of the carrier partner.

Though this agency you can’t clearly alleviate the bootloader on your AT&T’s HTC One X, we’re abiding an another band-aid or two will be provided by the development association eventually rather than later. After all, one unlocking band-aid for the all-embracing adaptation of HTC One X has already been found.

Facebook launches 'action links' for greater app interaction

Facebook introduced a new feature today designed to help developers engage users more deeply with their app content.

In addition to "liking" and "sharing," the social network's customizable "action links" give users a third way to interact with content when users' Open Graph stories appear in news feeds, timelines, or tickers.

Facebook demonstrated how the new links could be used by using the geo-location app Foursquare as an example. When users check in at a location using the app on their Timeline, their friends can already like or comment on the post. But the new feature allows developers to add customizable links, such as a link that says "Save this Place," allowing friends to save the place to their Foursquare to-do list.

In another example, Facebook showed how design site Fab.com adds a "Fave this Product" that adds the product to users' favorites lists.

"Action links tie one action to another, and can be part of any Open Graph story," Facebook's Alex Wyler wrote in a company blog announcing the new feature. "Developers can designate an action link for any action they define, which will then appear throughout Facebook."

Developers interested in creating their own action links can get more information at Facebook's documentation page.

Facebook organ donation advantage causes a ripple

Facebook architect Mark Zuckerberg’s advertisement that the amusing arrangement will be acclimated as a apparatus to arch the gap amid agency donors has sparked absorption a part of those who charge organs in the UAE. 

Currently, Facebook is acceptance its users in the US and Britain to use their Timeline page to active accompany and families that they are registered agency donors, or links to organisations that will annals them. The anthology application, admitting not yet accessible in the UAE, has aloft some alloyed reactions from users in Dubai.

Asus Zenfone Blog bent up with a few alive amusing media users allurement them as to what they anticipate of the application. Though a few bidding alarm in aegis apropos on uploading such acute agreeable on the Internet, the majority said that it is a abundant apparatus to save lives. 

“If it is traveling to advice those who charge them, again why not,” asked Indian civic and broker Jitender Bhatia. 

“I anticipate the advantage on the website have to be encouraged. I am not acquainted of the donor rules actuality in the UAE, but the alone added way humans can acquisition out that there are agency donors is by searching online, and in added countries through bi-weekly ads,” added Bhatia

Another Indian national, Sarita Madan Raj, angrily against the abstraction of administration claimed bloom annal on the Internet. She is a medical transcriptionist by profession. “It’s not a safe convenance to upload claimed medical abstracts online. The affairs of abusage are actual high. I can abode an ad on a website that is accurately advised for such affidavit and accord alone my email as a acquaintance requirement. But no, I do not assurance any amusing media with such information,” said Madan Raj. 

Brazilian civic Marcelo Machado said: “I would announce the anthology advantage to accompany and family. I anticipate it is a acute apparatus and it’s aswell a accelerated way of overextension information.” 

There are several actor humans out there who crave organs and if the anthology advantage will advice them out, again so be it, Machado added. 

American civic Don Wagner said: “Sure, why not? Everything is traveling agenda nowadays and it is but accustomed that something of this attributes would go reside as well.”

On the aegis apropos in the use of the registry, Wagner said that it is a little chancy to column bloom annal on the amusing networking website. “I charge to analysis out how safe the advantage is, afore I go advanced and use it,” said Don. 

The UAE Ministry of Bloom had accustomed displace of organs from reside or asleep donors in May 2010. A accounting accord of the donor and/or his aboriginal and additional amount ancestors is binding if the organs are crude afterwards the donor’s death. 

A advantageous donor can accord organs afterwards active accounting accord is presented and accurate by two witnesses

Runkeeper is partner Pebble, first smartwatch app

The Pebble smartwatch has been a runaway success story for Kickstarter’s crowdfunding model, with almost $8 million pledged for the project so far. Now Runkeeper, a popular app for measuring and tracking your fitness, is joining in on the fun as Pebble’s first app partner at launch.

Pebble integrates with your Asus Android smartphone via Bluetooth, and uses its E-Ink display to show information like incoming call data, calendar entries, and social media updates. After years of failed attempts at a truly useful smartwatch, it looks like Pebble has struck a chord with consumers with its elegant design and customizable app experience.

Jason Jacobs, CEO of Runkeeper, wrote on the AndroidCourt blog today: “We know that many of you are always looking for ways to make your fitness tracking easier, and with Pebble integration, you won’t ever have to pull the phone out of your pocket or armband – you can just see and do everything you need right from your watch.”

As one of the more than 53,000 people backing Pebble, I’m glad to see the company is already building up its app ecosystem. Runkeeper has already proven itself as one of the most useful exercise apps on the market, so it seems like a perfect fit for Pebble.

Notably, Pebble was initially rejected by venture capitalists when it was seeking funding. But now with its massive Kickstarter success, the company is able to turn its dream into a reality without giving up any equity.

Pebble still has two weeks left in its Kickstarter pledge round, which means the company could see close to $10 million in pre-sales at this current rate. The smartwatches are scheduled to ship sometime in September (though I’m hoping the extra funds will help the company get it out earlier).

Google Docs puts design font and center

Google added a whopping collection of 450 fonts to its online document service Google Docs today - thus freeing your text from years of enslavement by the likes of Arial, Courier New, and the universally reviled Comic Sans.

Well, you know what Comic Sans? We’ll just see how comical you are within a sea of equally goofy font style options now available to co-workers, friends, and family members who have zero grasp of basic design principles.

Google Docs users can add the new font styles by clicking on the font menu in the tool bar and selecting the “Add fonts” option at the very bottom. From there you’ll see the entire menu of web fonts available, such as Economica, Princess Sofia, Jolly Lodger, Happy Monkey, Dynalight, Wallpoet, Lobster one, Lobster two, and Esteban. All of your chosen fonts are displayed alphabetically in a sidebar to the right. You can click the “X” to remove any font you decide you don’t plan on using. That sidebar will then appear in the “font styles” tool bar when you’re working within a doc.

And even with all the new font options, if the white document background isn’t doing for you anymore Google has added over 60 new document templates for you to choose from.

The full list of Google Docs updates is listed below, via the Google Docs blog:

• Google Drive launched as a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all your stuff.
• There are now a few more options for inserting images in Docs, including inserting from Google Drive, searching for images from the LIFE Photo archive, or taking a snapshot with your webcam.
• Charts in spreadsheets now has support for minor gridlines and options to customize the formats of axis labels
• Accessibility in Docs got better with support for screenreaders in presentations and with the addition of NVDA to our list of supported screenreaders.
• From File > Page setup… you can now set the default page size for your new documents.
• It’s now easier for speakers of right-to-left languages by automatically showing bidirectional controls when you type in a language that might use them.
• Apps Script had many improvements, including
  • A new ScriptService for programmatically publishing your scripts and controlling when they run.
  • A new function to find the root folder of someone’s Drive.
  • An increase in the allowed attachment size in emails from 5MB to 25MB.
  • An increase in the size of docs files you can create from 2MB to 50MB.
• There are now over 60 new templates in our template gallery.