Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 7/20-7/26

Netflix to let you indulge in your guilty pleasures with ‘privacy mode’

Render of HTC's Android Wear smart watch appears online

Review: Nio Tag

Sights and sounds from Honda Indy Toronto 2014

iTunes Festival to return to London this September

Don't look now, Sony's Walkman is trying to make a comeback

Motorola Moto E now available contract-free from Staples for $179

Crackle to debut new series ‘Sequestered’ on October 14

YouTube iOS app gets YouTube Mix

Yahoo is buying Flurry

Linksys wireless range extenders boost signal up to 10,000 square feet

Line adds hidden chat feature to messaging app

Xiaomi debuts new Mi 4 flagship device

Preview: Mac OS X Yosemite Public Beta

BlackBerry BES10 now available as a hosted service

Uber makes a Windows Phone debut, misses a few features

Screenshots of the Samsung Gear VR Manager app surface

Foursquare tipped to release Swarm app for Windows Phone soon

Sony Pictures to create a ‘The Last of Us’ movie

Google Translate creates community to help with translations

Marvel announced ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ cartoon series

Microsoft unveils Web version of ‘Settlers of Catan’

Imoji turns your selfies into emojis

Want to have emojis made entirely out of your silly expressions? Imoji is bringing you that possibility. It turns your selfies or any other shots into textable emojis. It’s a silly concept but would surely break the monotony of the emojis you see out there right now. All you need to do is sign up and choose a photo online or take one yourself. And then you use a Photoshop eraser-like tool to erase the background and then save your emojis. You just need to drag it into the middle of the screen and iMessage it to your unsuspecting friends.  If you don’t want to use your mug, there are a variety of famous faces to choose from as well.

Source: Gizmodo

Microsoft unveils Web version of ‘Settlers of Catan’

Fan of the game Settlers of Catan but can’t carry the board game around with you? Microsoft has just co-developed a Web version of the game. And you don’t have to be using Internet Explorer to play the game. Any browser with HTML5 support can run the game. The game is currently in beta so don’t expect it to be polished and perfect.

You currently can’t play with a computer opponent or a random online player. You would need to find and invite at least two other friends to play using Facebook or email. You can take turns asynchronously with time limits so the game keeps going and you can opt to receive email notifications to know if your opponent takes a turn. You can also use the built-in Skype-powered voice chat. There is also an auto-trade and auto-roll feature to help keep the game going.

Source: Engadget

Marvel announced ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ cartoon series

Marvel looks like they’re confident they have a hit on their hands with the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy movie. The studio just announced that they will air a new cartoon series based on the characters on Disney XD. This will join Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers Assemble on the channel. They didn’t announce a release date on the show yet but Creative Director Eric Radomski said the characters will make appearances in other Marvel cartoons to keep the characters in the viewer’s minds.

Source: io9