Google Canada launches nationwide ‘Doodle 4 Google’ contest for students

Canadian K-12 students are invited to join the first “Doodle 4 Google Canada” competition with the theme “If I could invent anything, I would invent…” The national winner will have their doodle featured for a day on Google.ca homepage, be part of a Doodle exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in March 2014, and receive a $10,000 scholarship plus a $10,000 grant for their school.

Entries are now being accepted until Dec. 31. Regional finalists will be picked and will receive a trip to Toronto where the top five regional winners and overall winner will be announced at the special Doodle exhibition. For more information about the contest, check out the Doodle 4 Google Canada site.

Evernote for BlackBerry 10 gets update, adds checkboxes and image and audio attachments

Evernote recently updated its BlackBerry 10 app to add new features. Some of the new functionalities include the ability to add checkboxes to notes, which can help when your list making. Evernote now also supports photo and audio recording attachment to notes. The update also added performance upgrades and two-step verification.

Twitter outs tablet-optimized Android app, first roll out to Samsung slates

Twitter finally unveils the official app for Android tablets but it’s first coming out on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition). The app features a landscape view displaying both timeline and content of expanded tweets, allowing you to view article previews or media without leaving your Twitter stream. Other features include multi-screen viewing support, home screen widget, and illustrator tool to draw on photos.

What if you don’t own a Galaxy Note 10.1? Expect the update to reach you by the year’s end.

Flickr for iOS update adds auto-upload

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A new update for Yahoo!’s photo sharing service, Flickr, on iOS introduces Auto Upload. Automatically uploaded photos are set to private at first unless you manually share them. Once you activated the feature, 25 of your most recent shots will be uploaded in full resolution. Afterwards, each new photo you take will be treated the same. Auto Upload works over data or Wi-Fi.

Another feature added to the app is Auto Straighten via the in-app editor. Bug fixes for Google sign-in problems are also included in the update.