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New iPhone apps worth downloading: Squrl and Resultly updates, RunSanity

Squrl update (Free)

 Search app for finding videos. 

Able to scour YouTube, Hulu, Netflix and more in just a few seconds.

 The latest update for Squrl brings in a lot more streaming capabilities and reorganizes video navigation to improve efficiency. Squrl lets you input your subscriptions services such as Netflix, Hulu and others, and it also includes the ability to search through a number of live streaming TV channels and sites, like Huffington Post Live, Bloomberg, and This Week in Tech. You can also send your favorite videos using social networking capabilities that link the app to Facebook and Twitter.

 If you like to watch a lot of online videos, and especially if you have access to different subscription sources such as Netflix and Hulu, Squrl might be an easy way to navigate it all in one place.

Google’s YouTube app is no longer built in to iOS 6, so you might want to pick that one up.Netflix is also pretty robust for subscribers to that service.

Resultly update (Free)

 Resultly is like a Google Alert generator 

 You can add any interest you want into the app, like finding an apartment in a certain place for a certain price, or wanting to know when news stories about time travel are published. 

Resultly will notify you if anything pops up on the web.

 Resultly sends article alerts while looking out for deals on iPhones, local sales,  stock price changes, apartment availability in your neighborhood, and more. When one of your interests gets a ping, it can notify you on your iOS device, send you an email, or both. The app recently overhauled its user interface and squashed a few more bugs.

If you’re looking for certain key information but don’t want to keep making the same searches around the web every few days to find out what’s changed, check out Resultly.

 Try AmazonLocal for keeping up on deals around your area, and MyApartmentMap if you’re in the market for a new place to live.

RunSanity ($0.99)

 RunSanity is a side-scrolling running game, in which your goal is to grab coins and get as close to obstacles as you can without hitting them to rack up points.

 On its surface, RunSanity is just another running title, but while it handles the basics competently enough, it has a few additional cool social capabilities that make it stand out. 

The game allows you to compete against friends in Challenge Mode, in which you and others run through the same level trying to beat one another’s times and scores. 

The app uses a “ghost” system that lets you see how your friends did on a level, giving you the chance to compete with them indirectly. There’s also a full single-player game, with multiple characters and 20 levels through which to test yourself.

 If you’re a fan of running games, and have friends who are too, RunSanity is a solid pick.

There are lots of running titles out there, but Jetpack Joyride and Canabalt are among the best.

Download the Appolicious Android app

Electronic supercar unveiled

Croatian concept car manufacturer Rimac Automobili is preparing to unveil a prototype of their Concept One electric supercar at the upcoming Salon Prive luxury car show in London in early September.

A Concept One car seen driving down a road in this undated handout released on August 31, 2012. Croatian concept car manufacturer Rimac Automobili based near Zagreb prepares to unveil a prototype of their Concept One electric supercar at the upcoming Salon Prive car show in London in early September.The Concept One has a carbon fiber body an electric motor powering each wheel, and can produce 1,088 horse powers, capable of achieving top speed of around 305 kmh (190 mph) with a range of 600 kilometres (373 miles), making it the world's fastest electric car. Costing around $1 million each, only 13 of these high-end electric cars are expected to be produced per year. REUTERS/Rimac/Handout

1878 audio recording unveiled

The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of an American voice and the first-ever capturing of a musical performance, thanks to digital advances that allowed the sound to be transferred from flimsy tinfoil to computer. The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878.

 

 Oldest recording gets digital treatment 

It's scratchy, but a newly digitized recording made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in 1878 captures the oldest playable American voice and the first-ever recording of a musical performance, according to experts

 

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Take a Look Inside the Nokia Lumia 920 Camera

PureView

The 8.7-megapixel camera in the Lumia 920 carries Nokia’s PureView label, a name the company first introduced in the 41-megapixel Nokia 808 PureView handset earlier this year.

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There’s no denying that the Nokia Lumia 920 has one of the best smartphone cameras out there. Along with our Lumia 920 review unit, Nokia sent us the phone's camera sensor so we could see exactly what’s going on inside the phone.

The 8.7-megapixel camera carries Nokia’s PureView label, a name the company first introduced in the 41-megapixel Nokia 808 PureView handset earlier this year.

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PureView cameras use BSI (backside illuminated) sensors rather than the FSI (front-side illumiated) sensors that are used in older smartphones. The difference between the two lies primarily in the path that light takes to reach the photosensitive area of the sensor. With BSI, light isn’t restricted in the same way as an FSI sensor, allowing more light to get through and photos to look noticeably better in low-light situations.

While most smartphones today use a BSI sensor for improved low-light performance, the Lumia 920 also has a fixed f/2.0 camera aperture in its PureView cameras. The unusually large aperture lets in more light than camparable cameras -- very useful when such light is scarce.

SEE ALSO: Nokia Lumia 920: A Big Phone With a Killer Camera   The camera also includes optical image stabilization, which compensates for unintended movement and eliminates camera shake in videos and photos. Rather than shift a single lens to compensate for movement, Nokia’s PureView cameras shift the entire optical assembly in the camera to help eliminate shake, giving it an advantage over other smartphone cameras out there -- even ones with "normal" image stabilization.

Optical Image Stabilization helps improve pictures in low-light situations, as well as times when you’re trying to shoot photos one-handed and need a little help to keep the shot steady.

With Windows Phone 8 Nokia is taking its PureView technology a step further. Working along with Microsoft, Windows Phone 8 introduces a new algorithm for reducing visual noise and improving the camera’s low-light performance while maintaining a natural look in photos, theoretically further improving pictures taken in challenging situations.

Take a look at some low-light pictures we took with the Lumia 920 below, and let us know what you think of the smartphone’s camera in the comments.

Great in Low Light

All of the photos in this gallery were taken using the automatic settings in the Lumia 920 at night.
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