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• Microsoft launches a public beta for its new Facebook app for Windows Phone 8
• Game Dev Tycoon publishers create a nifty surprise for players who pirate the game
• Minecraft creator Notch releases a free Web game in honor of Ludum Dare
• Plan, shoot and cut your own video shorts with Directr for iPhone and iPad
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Whether you're a professional photographer or an amateur food journalist, chances are that you have more than a handful of photos spread across social network sites like Facebook and Google+ as well as smart devices like phones and tablets. With so many pictures in so many places, finding a specific photo can be a chore. NeroKwik offers a welcome solution to this problem. By consolidating all of your images to be accessible from any platform in one app, NeroKwik makes finding, rating, and sharing your photos much easier.

Popular photos are larger than the rest.

Here's how it works:

• 1. Install the NeroKwik app on your iOS or Android device.
• 2. Create an account and link it to your Facebook and/or Google+ profile.
• 3. The app will scan your device as well as your social media account and arrange all images that it finds in one place, listed by date.
• 4. Rate images and create interacti... [Read more]
  
  
  

Everyone has their two cents about new software releases, but this time your unsolicited advice is, well, being solicited. Today Microsoft has invited Windows Phone 8 users who also happen to be Facebook fans to test out its official Facebook beta for Windows Phone 8--prior to its release. The existing app can remain on your phone alongside the beta version.

Get buggy with it: test out Facebook beta for Windows Phone.

The redesigned 7MB app now includes requested features such as support for high-resolution photos, post sharing, and Facebook Timeline, and it also moves away from the "Metro" style interface of the standard Facebook app for Windows Phone 7 and 8, aligning itself more with the conventional interface used in the Facebook for iPhone and iPad and Facebook for Android apps.

Are the new features enough to distinguish Facebook on Windows Phone? How about that new look? Let us know in the comments below, and let Microsoft know your opinion by submitting feedback via the Facebook beta app's settings. Microsoft clai... [Read more]

Experience the most realistic coral reef you'll find without having to purchase an actual aquarium. Sim Aquarium Premium brings stunning 3D fish to your desktop against an equally fantastic 3D backdrop of coral reefs. You can watch live clams, swaying coral, lifelike sea anemones, and over 30 gorgeously detailed fish species. The ... [Read more]

CERN's original Web browser running on a NeXT machine in 1993

Two decades ago today, the European particle accelerator called CERN gave birth to the what's known as the open Web -- a technology that anyone can build without paying licensing or royalty fees.

But as the Web has grown ever more popular and sophisticated, proprietary technology poses a challenge to that philosophy of openness. The challenge is most clear in the area of video, where patents and copy protection are at odds with the Web's openness.

Tim Berners-Lee, a physicist at CERN, started developing what he called the World Wide Web in 1989. After CERN released the software for free on April 30, 1993, the Web spread like wildfire to become a global publishing medium.

On Tuesday, CERN republished the world's first Web site as part of a project to reconstruct its earliest Web content and spotlight its move toward openness.

Early openness Berners-Lee and CERN chose to follow the royalty-free footsteps of earlier Internet technologists. In opting for openness, they helped ensure seminal software such as the TCP/IP networking standard spread... [Read more]