TechBlocks wants to develop your app for free, worth $30,000

Does your business need a mobile app?

TechBlocks wants to develop your app for free, worth $30,000. TechBlocks, a full-service consulting and development agency with locations in Vaughn, Ontario and Calgary, Alberta is accepting ideas from any North American business or charity with a bright app idea. Businesses can submit their idea here: http://promo.tblocks.com/mobile-contest and receive up to $30,000 towards their app’s development.  The key criterion is how popular your app idea is with your audience. So the sooner you submit the sooner you can start sharing! A panel of TechBlocks judges will then pick the winner. 

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Compress and convert PDFs for easier sending with SmallPDF

If you’re in the business of sending PDFs through email, you’d want to reduce the file size as much as possible. That’s where SmallPDF comes in. The site is capable of combining and shrinking PDFs from the cloud to make sending the files easier. It can also convert PDFs to other file formats and vice versa. The disclaimer of the service is they store your files for an hour so it’s best you don’t use this for confidential files. 

Sony pushes Android KitKat update to Xperia E1 and Xperia E1 Dual

Sony has begun rolling out the Android 4.4 KitKat update to two of its devices—the Xperia E1 and Xperia E1 Dual. The Japanese tech company confirmed it on their blog and said these devices will get what you’d expect from an Android KitKat update as well as some custom software updates to improve the user experience. It will include Sony’s tweaked status bar and quick settings and the option to move apps from internal memory to the external card. The native apps—such as Messaging, Sony Select, Battery Stamina Mode, etc.—have also been refreshed. The update is rolling out in stages and availability will vary from region and carrier. Just wait a bit for it to reach your device.

Source: NDTV

Yahoo to enable encryption of emails for its users by 2015

Yahoo is joining the campaign to secure your emails by next year. The company’s chief information security officer Alex Stamos said they will offer users the option to send end-to-end encrypted emails by 2015 through a browser plugin. Stamos said Yahoo will bootstrap plugin with Google’s own browser extension to encrypt emails and they will make the two services compatible.

@alexstamos just announced plans to support end-to-end PGP encryption in Yahoo mail at Black Hat pic.twitter.com/j8Icp5Y9EZ

— Fahmida Y. Rashid (@zdFYRashid) August 7, 2014

Source: Mashable