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Create your own Harlem Shake videos

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Create your own Harlem Shake videos


Create your own Harlem Shake videos

Posted: 12 Mar 2013 09:54 AM PDT

"Con los terroristas..."

(Credit: Baulin Roman)

My guess is the whole Harlem Shake craze is just about winding down its 15 minutes of fame.

14:51...14:52...14:53...

But wait! While there's still a shred of interest left, you've got time to make your own videos. Free Android app Harlem Shake Creator Lite and iOS app Harlem Shake Creator HD (both from the same developer) make it ridiculously easy.

In case you've been off-planet for the past month or so, a Harlem Shake vid starts out with a single person, usually masked for no particular reason, doing a little jig to the eponymous song by Baauer. Other people in the scene remain oblivious to the action, until around 15 seconds in, when...well, see for yourself in this representative example. (Even CNET employees got in on the action.)

Typically, if you wanted to create a video of your own, you'd need to buy... [Read more]

DoubleTwist for Android adds MagicRadio

Posted: 12 Mar 2013 09:00 AM PDT

(Credit: Screenshot by Jaymar Cabebe/CNET)

DoubleTwist, one of our favorite music players for Android, today gets a new feature that could help the app lure users away from competitors like Pandora or Spotify.

Called MagicRadio, DoubleTwist's new feature is meant to be a "holistic" music discovery service that can take into account your overall musical tastes as it programs stations for you to enjoy. The company hopes this add-on can attract users who are looking for more-nuanced stations than a Pandora search box and a simple artist name can produce.

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Google Now starts arriving in latest Chrome, Chrome OS

Posted: 12 Mar 2013 08:24 AM PDT

(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET)

Google has begun putting flesh on the bones of a skeleton it's been building to add Google Now to Chrome and Chrome OS.

Google Now is starting to work its way into Chrome via the about:flags page for enabling features that aren't necessarily ready to be turned on by default.

(Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)

The latest raw builds of the browser have an option in the about:flags panel to enable the Google Now system. "Sadly, we still can't play with it yet because the Google Now server URL still remains secret," commented Chrome watcher Francois Beaufort, who spotted the change.

The infrastructure dovetails with a new rich notification system being built into Chrome and Chrome OS, a mechanism that will let developers use HTML-formatted pop-ups. That will be handy for Google Now notifications, which often display graphics like maps and weather icons.

CNET reader Michael Ortiz has noticed the new no... [Read more]

Microsoft backs away from Flash ban in IE10

Posted: 12 Mar 2013 05:17 AM PDT

An about-face in Internet Explorer 10 shows Microsoft is not merely backing off from its hostility toward Flash Player, but actually warming up to the Adobe Systems browser plug-in for competitive reasons.

In September 2011, Microsoft declared that browser plug-ins are a relic from the Internet's early days, calling them bad for battery life, security, reliability, and privacy, and said that it would ban them when IE10 was running with Windows 8's Metro user interface, now called the "immersive UI."

But Microsoft gave Flash a reprieve in May 2012 by building a special version of Adobe's plug-in directly into IE10. It only worked, though, on sites that were specifically authorized through a Microsoft whitelist when browsing with the immersive UI on Windows 8 and on either the immersive or traditional "desktop" interface on Windows RT.

Yesterday, Microsoft loosened its Flash policy again, this time enabling Flash by default on both Windows 8 and Windows RT. Now, instead of using a whitelist to enable Flash only where Microsoft permitted it, the company now uses a blacklist to block Flash "in the small number of sites that are still ... [Read more]

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