Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 11:05AM 
It seems Apple is jumping head first into the accessories game. First it launched the Smart Keyboard for the iPad Pro and now they've just announced an iPhone 6S Smart Battery Case. Similar in look and feel to many battery cases in the market, Apple's solution is designed from the ground up for use with the iPhone 6S.
Monday, December 7, 2015 at 7:17PM 
It seems to be a bad day for lesser-known apps by big companies. Dropbox is closing the door on two of its apps: Mailbox and Carousel. The email app and photo app are both getting the boot because they don’t get enough users to warrant Dropbox to keep them on. The company has decided to bring popular features of these apps into its main app and its Paper app. Key features of Carousel will be brought to dropbox and bits and pieces of Mailbox will make its way to Paper. There will also be “new ways” to collaborate and communicate with Dropbox.
You have until February 26th to retrieve any email you need from Mailbox before it shuts down for good. Carousel gives you until March 31st to do some downloading or transferring once Dropbox makes that available (which we think they will).
Monday, December 7, 2015 at 7:08PM 
Facebook's Slingshot is one of the app's getting the boot.
You might not be familiar with Facebook’s Creative Labs but that team’s been responsible for introducing the social network’s standalone apps like Slingshot, Rooms, and Riff. All of these together with said team have been shut down. The three Creative Labs apps have been pulled from iOS App Store and Google Play Store. Slingshot was Facebook’s Snapchat-like service; Riff was for “riffing” on viral videos; and Rooms was the company’s anonymous chatroom app. Users who already have the apps can still use it. Those who use Rooms can continue to do so until December 23rd. There’s no final posting day set yet for Slingshot or Riff.
Even though Facebook is disbanding its Creative Labs division, some of the features developed by the team are being integrated into Facebook’s main app. For example, Paper, a Creative Labs’ creation, is being used as an inspiration for the look of Facebook’s Instant Articles project. This goes to show that while Facebook is a successful social network, it doesn’t mean all their projects meet the same level of success as the others.
Source: MacWorld
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Now you don’t need an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription to use Adobe Lightroom on Android. As Adobe says, “anyone can take advantage of the organizational, editing, and sharing abilities” of this tool. Lightroom lets you edit photos with a variety of tools to use and share these using different services. You can revert these changes at any time and copy edits to other photos, which will help you save time batch editing shots.
If you do have a subscription, you gain access to more features like being able to organize, edit, and share photo across mobile, web, and desktop, including photo edits. iOS users have had free access to Lightroom since October. It’s good that Android’s getting the same treatment.
Source: Droid Life | Download: Google Play Store (Free)
