Dropbox shuts down Mailbox and Carousel

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 26^th to retrieve any email you need from Mailbox before it shuts down for good. Carousel gives you until March 31^st to do some downloading or transferring once Dropbox makes that available (which we think they will).

Source: Dropbox | Via: SlashGear

Facebook closes the doors on its Creative Labs

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 23^rd. 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

Adobe’s mobile version of Lightroom is now free

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)

Google Search on Android brings more detailed entertainment-related results

Your search on your favorite artists just got a bit more detailed on Google for Android. The app will now show you tabbed results pages for your favorite artists, TV shows, and the like. For example Android Central tried out The Avett Brothers. The results showed an overview that had things like songs, albums, and upcoming events. Each of these items even get their own tabs so you can delve further in what you want to find out. You even get the option to listen to these artists on your installed music apps.

Android smartphone and tablet users should be seeing this feature now. iOS users have to wait for a bit for the feature will roll out on iOS soon.

Source: Google | Via: Android Central