Flickr, one of the most popular photo sharing websites, has finally come to Android. Yahoo held off releasing a native app for a while, frustrating many Android users who love Flickr. Good news for both sides as the app is now available for free from the Android Market, and it's pretty good. With the release, you can take photos from an in-app camera function, filter the images as you see fit and then share them [...]

A new clip for The Adventures of Tintin shows that the film’s creators are making motion capture magic. Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/09/new-tintin-teaser/ T.A.T.u. Talisa Soto Tamala Jones

Bots — like the kind which automate IRC rooms and Google Wave — are a good thing to know about. There are plenty of useful bots worth knowing about, too, including the Google Talk Guru. Just add guru@googlelabs.com to your GTalk buddies, and you can start firing off questions. Lifehacker suggests that the same types of queries supported by Google SMS will work, though we didn’t have any luck getting a response out of the [...]

My Halloween radar recently went off when I came across this great idea and I just had to share it with you all. Cheryl over at That’s What Che Said had the fantastic idea of buying soap, removing the label, and decorating it yourself. She tells you the how to at the link above. I ended up making [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/09/get-clean-for-halloween/ Vanessa Minnillo Vanessa Simmons Veronica Kay

Competition is a good thing, and the browser arena has been a fierce arena for years now. There are at least four “major” browsers each vying for your attention, along with lots of smaller spin-offs (SRWare Iron or Flock, anyone?). While the browser usage charts we share from time to time show overall browser usage amongst the Web at large, Download Squad readers are not exactly the average bunch in terms of browser use. So [...]

If you’re lucky enough to own an Xperia Play — Sony Ericsson’s new Gingerbread-powered smartphone-cum-gamepad — you can now buy PlayStation (PSX) titles from the Android Market. There are five titles currently available, all priced at £3.99: Syphon Filter, MediEvil, Cool Boarders 2, Destruction Derby, and Jumping Flash. They don’t have an American price yet, but that will surely change once the Xperia Play launches in the States. Two important questions remain unanswered: How big [...]

I’m no HP historian, but it looks like the company must have just set a new personal record for how quickly it disposes of its CEOs. Less than a year after putting Leo Apotheker on the job, HP’s board has sent him packing. The news became official a day after rumors began making the rounds that HP’s board was looking for a replacement. Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/73353.html Mýa Nadine Velazquez Naomi Watts

No longer must you be foiled by those pesky packets! We put the new Heinz Dip & Squeeze package to the test. Source: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/09/first-drive-heinz-car-friendly-ketchup-packet/ Robin Tunney Rosario Dawson Rose Byrne

Update: Tech From 10 seems to be offline — but we have lots of images and a hands-on review if you want to see what the new Music app is like. In what is probably a bit of a big-G whoopsie, the folks at Tech From 10 woke up to find a new, test version of Android Market installed on their Galaxy S. Visually, the new version is almost identical. The carousel of featured apps [...]

This is one of those posts that could probably be condensed into a tweet: Apple has released the second Preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. If you’re running Preview 1, it looks like you’ll first receive a small update via Software Update, and then you can download Preview 2 from the Mac App Store. There has been some speculation that Apple is getting close to a release or Golden Master build, but judging by [...]