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One of the highlights of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean is Photo Sphere, which allows you to click a 360° panorama picture. Photo Sphere takes Panorama photos to the next level, and actually gives the viewer a sense of being present on that location when viewing them.

Since Photo Sphere is more than just a normal image, you cannot simply upload it to any website to share with your friends. The only way to enjoy Photo Spheres is to upload them to Google+. Even in Android, only the stock Gallery application is fully capable of opening a Photo Sphere in the right format.

Thankfully, a developer has come up with an alternative way to view and share Photo Spheres on Android devices and the web. SphereShare.net will not only allow you to upload your existing Photo Sphere(s) and share them with your friends, but also allow you to view thousands of Photo Spheres uploaded by users from all over the world along with its relevant location data.

It’s like Instagram for Photo Spheres.

Facebook Home

Remember Facebook Home? The Android-based OS was debuted by Facebook last month, and it received its first update in Google Play yesterday. Despite being downloaded over one million times, poor reviews have been plaguing Home since it became available for download on select devices.

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Reports across the net have hit Twitter that Google’s Services are suffering an outage. According to initial reports, web access to Google Drive and Google Docs is down for many users, and Google’s apps Status Dashboard says everything’s totally fine has been updated to show Google Drive is suffering a service disruption.

Despite the web browser outage, Google Drive and Google Docs are still accessible via mobile apps or a direct link, so it appears that outage is only affecting access while data may not have been lost.

 

Update: It looks like Google has resolved the problem.

SGS4

The Galaxy S4 is now available in nearly every major market around the world, including the United States, Europe, and Asia. Like with the Galaxy S2 and S3, Samsung has released two variants of the Galaxy S4 – the I9500 that uses the Octa-Core Exynos SoC, and the LTE variant that uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC.

If you own the international variant of the Galaxy S4 (I9500), or the Korean variant (SHV-E300S/K) that uses the Exynos 5 SoC, and are looking to root it, here is how to do so the right way.

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Google has reportedly dropped plans to launch a physical Google Wallet card at Google I/O next week. Sources for AllThingsD say that Google initially announced the card in an internal memo that also included the news that Google Wallet head Osama Bedier was leaving the company.

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