“Controlling your home theater system used to be easy—you simply told your kid to turn the knob and presto, Honeymooners.”
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Happy Birthday! Alex Beltrán via Facebook
Iran Clamps Down On ‘Illegal’ VPNs – Ahead of June’s Presidential Election
Iran, like Pakistan, in 2011 decided to make use of VPNs illegal, claiming the move was necessary for “security reasons” and to “stop militants” (easier spying is of course just coincidence). Reuters notes that the Iranian government have lately been clamping down harder on VPNs, hunting down and shuttering “illegal” VPNs. The country allows only official, surveillance-ready VPNs to operate. The clamp down comes as Iran prepares for its presidential election in June. Iran also filters or bans Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube significantly.
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Come join us Easter weekend, great message, great worship and receive the good news, He is Alive!
Apple belatedly patches App Store vulnerability
“Last July, a security researcher at Google discovered a number of vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS App Store that stemmed from Apple’s failure to implement HTTPS encryption.”
Redbox and Verizon hope to follow in Netflix’s footsteps and launch original programming
“It’s been just over a month since the highly-anticipated Netflix original series House of Cards launched, but the series has already found critical acclaim and is the most-watched piece of content available to subscribers.”
Mozilla won’t bring Firefox to iOS until it can use its own rendering engine
“If Mozilla ever does make an iOS version of Firefox, it won’t just be a skin for Safari. Jay Sullivan, the company’s vice president, told an audience at SXSW that Firefox won’t be coming to Apple’s platform until Cupertino relaxes its stance toward third-party browsers.”
Netflix changes its public API program by ending it, will no longer issue new dev keys
Once upon a time, Netflix was proud enough of its public API which enabled third-party services and apps to serve up its data and content in different ways that it opened a gallery to display them. Unfortunately, times have changed since 2009 — the old App Gallery is gone and now, so is public API access for new developers. A blog post indicates the API is now focused on supporting Netflix’s official clients on the many devices its customers use to stream movies, not hobbyist projects for managing ones queue or finding new movies to watch. While those already in place should still work since existing keys will remain active, the developer forums are being set to read-only, no new keys are being issued and new partners are no longer being accepted.
The move is reminiscent of recent changes by Twitter, where as each company has grown it’s decided having control over the user experience through its own official apps outweighs allowing the community to build and extend access as it sees fit. We’re sad to see the program go, as many of these tools assisted Netflix members in ways the official website and apps either never did, or no longer do after the features were removed. Even though Netflix relies on its own secret sauce for recommendations, we’ve always found it hard to beat InstantWatcher’s curated lists (by year, Rotten Tomatoes rating, critic’s picks, titles most recently added by other users and more) to find a video, and FeedFliks was indispensable for monitoring exactly how valuable the service is until its features were cut down by API changes. They provided an edge the competition like Amazon Prime and Redbox couldn’t match, but we’ll have to wait and see if this change is noticed by enough subscribers to matter — we’ve seen how that can go.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Via: TechCrunch
Source: Netflix Developer Blog
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Endomondo adds a couple premium features
“Fitness app Endomondo got itself an update today that brings a pair of new premium features, as well as a couple nuggets for the cheap seats. New for those who shelled out for the full version are “Heart Rate Zones” and weather information in the workout summary area.”
Twitter for Android update shows top tweets for search results, smoother animations in Discover tab
“The official Twitter for Android app has been upgraded in the Google Play Store with a couple of significant changes in tow. The biggest change will come in search results. You’ll now see a “Top Tweet” when searching for terms related to past events.”
