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Bellringer 5/13

Some people hire florists and caterers when planning their wedding. Former Google employee Brit Morin brought on a programmer to create a custom app.

That personal app grew into Weduary, a real product that helps people design wedding sites, and Morin went on to create her own lifestyle how-to company called Brit + Co., which combines crafting, homemaking and a bit of tech.

In the year since it launched, Brit + Co. has created tons of step-by-step posts, filmed how-to videos staring Brit, brought in user-generated projects and started selling merchandise such as crafting starter kits, books and subscription boxes called Brit Kits. For $20 a month, Brit + Co. will deliver a Brit Kit box filled with crafting materials and instructions for projects such as gloves that work on touchscreen devices.

Last week, Brit.co entered its newest stage by branching out into content aggregation with a feature called Brit's Picks. The company is pulling in posts from 25 popular crafting and style sites, including Style Me Pretty, Oh Happy Day and Smitten Kitchen, and hand-picking the best posts to share with the Brit.co readers.

Inspired by the Maker movement and the tech culture of Silicon Valley, Morin wanted to combine her interest in technology and crafting with the popular Maker movement.

Bellringer

Smart phones may cost more than $200.
usually the buyer just signs up for a 2 year contract and ends up paying 200.00 for the phone they want, but that might change over the years and the price might end up costing more.

Bellringer

The heart of the Sense home screen is not too different from a news aggregator such as Flipboard. You choose the topics you want in your feed, connect your own social networks, and let Sense do the rest. The end result is a never-ending Mondrian of information.

The idea has the potential to be really great, but in practice it feels a bit limited. For starters, you're confined to a handful of news sources hand-picked by HTC, which means that you can't toss your favorite blogs and sites into the mix. Nor can you view any other vital information from your phone on the home screen, such as text messages, chat notifications or Google Now cards. It seems like a missed opportunity.

Also strange is HTC's decision to mess around with the Android standard for navigation buttons. Unlike what you'd fine on the Nexus phones or even the Galaxy S4, the HTC One has only two touch sensitive navigation buttons along the bottom -- back and home. And while they mostly work fine, if you've been a long time Android user, you may find yourself awkwardly reaching for the multitasking button that isn't there. (Pro Tip: double-tap the home button).

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Apple has elicited a lot of hand-wringing by investors and fans alike lately, even as its chief competition Samsung seems to be prompting nothing but applause. Turns out selling a wider variety of phones and tablets is a good strategy after all.

While Apple was on its way to the company's first profit decline in almost a decade during the first three months of the year, Samsung's net profit grew 42 percent in the same period to 7.2 trillion won -- about $6.5 billion U.S. -- from 5 trillion won a year earlier. It was a record-setting quarter for the Korean consumer electronics maker.

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