Meet My Drive – an app that allows you to share files between an iOS device and a Windows PC

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Lineshark Turns Your iOS Or Android Device Into An XLR Recorder/Effects Rig

Connecting your guitar to your iPhone should be fairly simple. With the right adapter you can blow a line in through a standard headphone jack and get some tinny audio. But what if you really want to kick out the jams, as it were? For that you need something that will manage and amplify the signal as it comes out of your guitar and mic.

Lineshark acts as a sort of bridge between your XLR mics (the ones with the three massive pins), guitar line, and your phone. You can play through the Lineshark and manage power and gain using a dial on the front. Similar to the Puc by Zivix, this is some pretty geeky stuff but is a godsend for mobile musicians.

Jed Eaton and Jonathan Mayer created the project and they’re looking for $60,000 on Kickstarter. Eaton has a BSEE from Georgia Tech and works at Cisco while Mayer works at Virtual Graffiti

“Both of us are musicians – we’ve played together since middle school,” said Mayer. “In our day jobs, Jed builds consumer hardware devices and I market and sell enterprise technology. Between the two of us, we have a complete picture of design, logistics, marketing and sales. Jed plays in several local Knoxville bands, and in fact the concept and early prototypes for Lineshark came out of the ‘Band Room,’ a converted garage rehearsal space in Jed’s backyard where local musicians come to rehearse and jam. It’s loaded with mics, amps, keyboards and instruments, and we were always grumbling about having to search for converters and cables to patch instruments and effects boxes together.”

The key to Lineshark is the ability to bring audio back out of a mobile device once it’s been recorded or effects have been added. “Everything on the market was aimed at recording, not jamming or playing together,” said Mayer.

“Our project is an all-in-one audio interface for mobile devices. We connect any instrument, mobile device, and stage setup together in a single interface so musicians can use mobile devices to create new sounds in live performances.”

If you don’t know how this would work for you you probably don’t need it, but if you wanted to use your iPhone as something like an effects pedal, this would be perfect. The team is very close to manufacturing the devices and, given their skills and pedigree, it looks like these guys have what it takes to deliver. Early bird units cost $100 and you can grab one for $150 when those are gone. They plan to ship in July.

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Sony teases 'slimmest' PlayStation device coming to the UK on January 30th

We've had a lucky run with product teasers recently. Instead of being totally vague, they've deliberately given us some inkling of what to expect, and we're hoping that the Sony flyer above -- summoning us to a PlayStation event in London -- does so too. We're told the briefing will introduce UK journalists to the "slimmest" PlayStation device, but we're not told that we're definitely going to witness the launch of a whole new product, which -- to our minds, at least -- suggests we might be looking at the UK launch of the PlayStation Vita TV. At just 13.6mm thick, the Vita TV is the thinnest PS device that we know of and it's currently only available in Japan, so a launch in the UK (or anywhere outside of Asia) could potentially be a big deal. We're gonna go ahead and rule out a super slim PlayStation 4 already, but the other plausible alternative is that the flyer is technically wrong, and that this is the UK launch of the slimmer version of the PlayStation Vita handheld -- in other words, the 2013 Japanese model, which has an LCD screen instead of OLED, better battery life and which is just 15mm thick (20 percent skinnier than the current UK model). In any case, we'll be there at the event on January 30th, with a flask of coffee and a pair of calipers.

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Comcast discontinues AnyPlay in-home IPTV device, preps cloud Xfinity TV apps

Back in 2012 Comcast rolled out AnyPlay, a headless (read: not connected directly to a TV) cable box that turned its live TV channels into internet streams users could watch on iOS or Android devices inside the home. Now in 2014 Comcast is discontinuing the AnyPlay service and nudging customers towards other options like Xfinity TV Go and other new features it will roll out later this year. Like a Slingbox that only worked within the house, compared to other cable TV apps AnyPlay had the advantage of directly supporting all the channels, but the downside of requiring additional hardware. It also looks like the leased Motorola Televation boxes that did the TV-to-IPTV magic will be going back soon, as the mobile apps will disappear from stores after March 31st.

So what's in store for the future? Last week at an investors conference, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts showed off a new Xfinity TV app that brings full live TV, video on-demand and DVR access on phones and tablets. We showed you the app last year, which Roberts revealed is being tested in Boston this month and is scheduled to roll out across much of the country this year. It's all part of the new X1 / X2 TV platform which brings more apps to the TV and "turns mobile devices into virtual TV sets" -- hopefully without blanking them out nationwide. Multichannel News adds that Comcast is also testing out gateway devices from Arris that, like AnyPlay, don't connect to directly to a TV, but will push video throughout the home to TVs and mobile devices alike. Comcast also mentioned that at the end of last year, it added to its total number of TV customers for the first time in over six years. We'll see if these new features -- along with cheap internet combo packages -- can pull in more customers, or if people choose life with another provider, or no traditional TV service at all.

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Snap cholesterol selfies with new smartphone app, device

Few home cholesterol test kits separate out "good" cholesterol from "bad" cholesterol, but a new smartphone app and attachment aims to give home testers a clearer picture of their actual cholesterol health.

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Opera Max beta compresses most of the data going through your Android device

Opera's mobile browsers are quite popular because of their ability to compress data, but it's unfortunately been limited to just that -- the browser itself. This becomes less and less useful as smartphones continue to evolve, since our data usage patterns encompass so much more than just the simple browser: many of us are constantly streaming music, uploading and downloading images and apps, and so on. To lighten the hefty load we inflict on our monthly data allotments, Opera has launched a beta of its new Android app called Opera Max, which compresses most of the information that goes through your device -- websites, images, videos and many of your usual apps (Instagram and Vine immediately come to mind, but the possibilities are wide open).

Opera makes this happen by setting up a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that measures all of the data coming through your device. Data requests are then sent through Opera's servers, though the company tells us that it only measures how much data you use and how much you save -- in other words, it says your information is safe. There's no guarantee on how much data you'll save, but if you're a gulper like us, we suspect it'll be a significant amount. While the company hasn't specified how many beta testers are allowed, it does say that room is limited; if you're into the idea, you'll need to join its Google Plus Community, opt in to the beta and then download the app from the Play Store.

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Mozilla, LG, ZTE, Deutsche Telekom And Others Launch Open Web Device Compliance Review Board To Promote Firefox OS Hardware Ecosystem

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Google's Play Books now supports e-book uploads from any Android device

Google just made it easier to transfer virtual libraries to Play Books, now that you can upload digital tomes straight from Android phones or tablets. Thanks to the software's latest update, there's no need to go the Play website to add EPUB or PDF files to your account. Simply click an e-book through an Android file manager -- or download it if it's attached to an email -- to get the "Upload to Play Books" prompt. The refreshed app also promises to open files more quickly and smoothly, although we didn't notice any significant upgrade in speed when we tested it out. Other than these two changes, the latest version lets you read any book in landscape mode and comes with the ability to dismiss recommended titles. Finally, you can now take the reader's brightness down a notch to make reading in the dark easier for the eyes.

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