Spare change can get pretty annoying. If you’re like a lot of people, you’ll let it pile up in your pocket until one day you unload it all on some poor convenience store clerk to pay for a six-pack of beer and a bag of chips. However, a soon-to-be-released smartphone app called Acorns has come up with a solution to this problem: It will let you automatically invest any spare change you have into a diversified portfolio.

In a Mashable article on the app published a couple of months ago, Acorns cofounder Jeff Cruttenden explains how the app “simulates” producing spare change from credit card purchases by rounding your total up to the nearest dollar and investing the leftover amount into your portfolio. The app was designed to make saving and investing as unobtrusive as possible — instead of making sure to set aside regular savings from your paycheck, you can just use on the app to generate a constant stream of small savings every time you buy something with it.

The fee for using the service will be 1% of what you earn through your portfolio and on top of that it will charge you a flat fee of $1 per month for using it. That said, if it helps you save and grow money, it could easily be worth it. The app is set to launch sometime this quarter and you can sign up for news alerts for both the iOS and Android versions of it by going to Acorns’ homepage.

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It’s time to be blunt: If you’re not using a password manager to help ensure that your online passwords are as secure as possible, you’re crazy. Hackers are lurking around every corner of the Internet, devising new schemes and plotting new attacks. Ensuring that your passwords are complex and unique for each and every Web service you use is the absolute least you can do to protect yourself.

But how will you remember all of those complex passwords? That’s where OneKey Pro comes in.

Created by app developer Appxy, One Key Pro is a universal iOS app that will work on both the iPhone and the iPad. Like other password managers, OneKey Pro lets users choose a single password that is needed to access the app. Then, usernames, passwords and other data for an unlimited number of online and real-world accounts is stored within the app.

More information from the app’s description:

With OneKey, you don’t need to remember all the usernames, passwords, web addresses and those boring information in modern life. OneKey provides a safe and simple way to store and manage all your passwords and private information. It can save your credit card details, PINs, bank accounts, notes, web site logins…etc in a highly secure position.

OneKey uses 256bit AES encryption to protect your passwords, accounts, credit cards and more. You can trust that no one else will have access to your most important information.

Secure:
– Secure storage for passwords, usernames, PINs, credit cards and bank info.
– Strong 256bit AES encryption.
– Time-out locks to protect the app from prying eyes.
– Optional auto-lock protects your passwords from hackers.
– Backup and restore data via Wi-Fi and Dropbox at anytime.

Easy to use:
– Standard templates for fast data entry.
– Customize categories and all the details.
– Mark any records as Favorite for quick access.
– Provides search and sort to manage your records.
– No limitation on the number of records.
– Clean and nice interface.

OneKey Pro is typically $4.99 but it is currently available for free for a limited time.

The app’s one big shortcoming compared to rival apps is that there is no desktop companion software, which could lead to a whole lot of manual typing. For the low price of $0 though, it’s hard to complain — and the app is still perfect if your primary device is an iPhone or an iPad.

A link to OneKey Pro’s App Store page can be found below in our source section.

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Google is rumored to be prepping an 8.9-inch Nexus 8 or Nexus 9 tablet – the name of the device is not clear yet – for launch later this summer, and Myce speculates that the tablet has been spotted online already in a Chromium issue tracker report. The device has codename “Flounder,” which is an oceanic fish, and an indication that it may be a device part of the Nexus family considering that previous Nexus devices were also named after fish internally.

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“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is quoted as having said. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.” According to a top patent attorney at Samsung, however, the patent war will soon end and Apple will have accomplished nothing.

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Google has just rolled out a major Google Maps update for mobile devices, available to both iOS and Android users, which brings several interesting features, including the ability to save maps offline in order to access them later without needing an Internet connection. PhoneArena has put together a quick guide on how to save offline maps on Android devices, although the same procedure is available to iOS users as well.

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Remember when we told you to brace yourself because the death of unlimited wireless data in the United States is imminent? Well, the beginning of the end is finally upon us: Sprint, one of unlimited mobile data’s last and biggest and last defenders, has begun to throttle some wireless subscribers with unlimited data plans.

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The Galaxy S5 Prime is supposed to be a higher-end version of the Galaxy S5, which would sport even better specs and more premium materials. Even though Samsung has denied the existence of such a product, more and more reports have suggested the phone will soon launch. While leaked images of the device have not actually been seen until now, a Redditor has posted an alleged Galaxy S5 Prime image that seems to indicate the phone will also have a metal back.

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HTC’s One (M8) and Samsung’s Galaxy S5 are two of the best Android smartphones that will launch in 2014. In fact, they’re two of the best smartphones that have ever existed, period. But there are plenty of other fantastic phones set to debut this year and people in the market for a new handset might want to think twice before rushing into a new contract right now.

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Amazon shoppers who like to review the products they purchase from the giant retailer should know that the companies that sell those products can go as far as to threaten serious legal action against them for negative reviews. Redditor trevely that had criticized a router on Amazon received such a threat from Mediabridge Products lawyers, Ars Technica reports, with the company asking him to remove his negative review of one of the products. Apparently, that review quickly became the “most helpful” negative review on Amazon for the Medialink Wireless Router.

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How would you like to own the best Android phone on the planet for half price up front? On Thursday, for one day only, HTC is selling its brand new flagship HTC One (M8) for just $99.99, or 50% off the phone’s regular up-front price. The sale price requires buyers to sign a new two-year service contract, of course, and it applies to the AT&T, Verizon and Sprint versions of the M8.

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