Google Drive wants to back up your photos in iOS

Google Drive for iOS gets an update to make it easier to back up your iPhone photos. The latest update from lets you back up and share photos and videos from the iOS Photos app. You can now use Drive as an extension for the share sheet in iOS. It’s still a manual process to upload photos to Drive but it’s much easier. The update also now lets you open, edit, and save back to Google Drive using other apps.

Source: The Next Web | Download: iTunes App Store (Free)

Google Photos for Android gets Chromecast support

Google has finally rolled out the new features the company announced for its Photos app on Android. The app now supports Chromecast, meaning you can show off those vacation photos and videos using your TV. It’s now also possible for some users to start uploading and subscribing to one album. You can also share animations directly from Photos to WhatsApp. And once you get the new Nexus 5X or Nexus 6P, it’ll let you adjust the speed of slow-motion videos you shoot. Google plans to bring these features to iOS and web in the future.

Source: Engadget | Download: Google Play Store (Free)

Top Score Baseball brings "Moneyball" to amateur teams

With Major League Baseball postseason fever in full effect, the mobile app Score More Baseball has been officially rebranded to Top Score Baseball to better reflect its main value prop. Top Score Baseball simplifies the scoring of baseball games and brings the power of “Moneyball” to amateur, rec, and youth baseball teams, using the same performance-based approach now used by over a dozen Major League Baseball teams.

Season one of Score More Baseball saw over 8,500 downloads, with over 2,000 coaches signing up and registering their teams. The big surprise? For all the talk of which smartphones are the true app platforms, BlackBerry users led the way, accounting for over two thirds of application downloads. Android was second, and iOS was a distant third.

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Boeing's James Bell joins Apple's board

Apple's board of directors has just added James Bell who was the former chief financial officer and corporate president of The Boeing Company.

Bell brings more than four decades of experience in finance, strategic planning and leadership in complex organizations. During his 38-year career at Boeing, he also oversaw Boeing Capital Corporation and Boeing Shared Services, and was interim CEO of The Boeing Company in 2005. 

“James brings a wealth of global, financial and industrial experience from his successful career at Boeing as corporate president and CFO,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “I am thrilled to welcome him to Apple’s board of directors and I look forward to working with him.” Bell said, "

“I am delighted to join the Apple board and look forward to contributing to its continued success in any way I can.”