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There's a loophole in the new Mac apps that can be easily exploited, giving savvy users access to paid apps for free.
It won't work for every paid app, but we tested the process with Angry Birds and it worked.
We first spotted the simple hack through Y Combinator News, which linked to instructions on Pastebin.
The instructions are pretty straightforward and simple, if you really don't want to shell out $5 for Angry Birds. But, you probably should, it's a fair price.
For developers worried about this hack affecting them, we also saw instructions on how to prevent it on Craftymind, also via Y Combinator's news feed.
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Users who conduct searches for local businesses on Bing will soon be able to "walk through" the interior physical locations on the Bing Maps site before visiting them in person.
The feature is provided through a partnership with Everyscape, which has signed up several hundred businesses in more than 30 cities. The company also offers Everyscape Eats, which has interiors of more than 500 restaurants. Those will show up in Bing Local results as well.
The walkthroughs only show up in local search results when users look for a participating business. They're not yet integrated with Bing's Street Side--its equivalent to Google Street View, which shows street scenes as you navigate through a map on Bing Maps.
The Everyscape walkthroughs are one of several minor improvements Microsoft rolled out this morning at a Search Summit event in San Francisco. No single feature will probably be enough to get users to switch from Google, but the steady trickle of updates could eventually help move the needle a bit.
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... to your blog, but it's never caught on the way more game-centric location apps like Foursquare and Gowalla have. Latitude reported 3 million active users earlier this year, but Foursquare has since passed it up, aided by the launch of Facebook Places. This update to the Google Maps Android app gives Latitude something the other guys don't have: the ability to temporarily see a friend's...
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