Netflix price hike will soon affect long-term subscribers

You may or may not remember that Netflix increased its prices from $7.99 to $9.99. This two-dollar hike was what new subscribers have been paying since October. Now, the long-term subscribers will be paying the same amount. Netflix will start emailing affected customers to inform them of the increase happening next month. If you’re adamant to pay the extra money for your subscription, Netflix will let you keep your existing $7.99 subscription but that means you get the SD service and it can only be accessed on one device at a time. The $9.99 price tier will let you keep your existing HD plan.

Another issue Canadian Netflix users have to deal with is the sudden crackdown on border-hopping or using VPN or SmartDNS services to trick Netflix into thinking they were accessing the site from the U.S., thus giving them access to U.S.-exclusive shows. With all of these changes will you be leaving Netflix?

Source: The Verge + HuffPost Canada Business

YouTube to stream the first weekend of Coachella live

YouTube is bringing the world to the Coachella concert by streaming various days of the week-long concert.Canadian music fans can get closer to the music they love and catch performances from emerging artists to the biggest acts on Coachella’s YouTube Channel from April 15 to 17 on any screen they watch YouTube.

Starting Friday, April 15th at 6:30 pm ET, YouTube will live stream performances from over 70 acts, from emerging artists to some of today’s biggest artists.

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BlackBerry plans to release two more Android smartphones

BlackBerry isn’t ready to give up on the Android market yet. According to its CEO John Chen, they plan on releasing two more Android-powered smartphones: one with a physical keyboard and another with a full touchscreen. Chen told Abu Dhabi’s The National that this would be different from the Priv will be mid-range devices. Chen admitted to The National that releasing the Priv was a misstep. “The fact that we came out with a high end phone [as our first Android device] was probably not as wise as it should have been.” It wasn’t well received by even the company’s enterprise customers who found the $700 USD price tag a bit too steep.

The new BlackBerry devices are rumored to be code-named Rome and the Hamburg and will be pushing for a sub-$500 price off-contract. It’ll be marketed as the only truly secure Android devices.

Source: The Verge

Add simple annotations to photos with This for iOS

Looking for an easy, no-fuss way to add annotations to photos? This by Tinrocket is an app that will let you do just that. The app takes a minimalist approach to annotation. You just get one font choice, two colors, three sizes, and seven different pointer options; making it easy to add any labels or descriptions you want to for a specific shot.

Source: Lifehacker | Download: iTunes App Store ($2.79)