April 19, 2013
Twitter has released a new service called #music which uses tweets and artists' Twitter accounts to help users discover more artists that match their tastes. The service uses iTunes to deliver short previews of each song along with a link to purchase, and you can also connect your Spotify or Rdio accounts to listen to full tracks that way instead.
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April 19, 2013
Google is battling Facebook comments by bringing its very own Google+ comments to Blogger blogging service. Google+ comments are currently only available within Blogger blogs, but can be a very useful feature for bloggers that use Google's platform for generating their content, opening up some interesting ways to interact with their reader base.
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April 19, 2013
Google has announced some new features to YouTube’s iOS app, and live streaming is by far the most popular one. The new feature lets you tune into live broadcasts on YouTube and stream them to your device as and when they happen. The other changes announced by Google are aimed at enhancing performance and usability to better manage your YouTube entertainment.
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April 18, 2013
Popular photos-editing app Aviary has announced on Wednesday the release of a completely re-imagined version of it's iOS app. Aviary 2.0 comes with a new, streamlined interface, and plenty of new editing features and performance improvements.
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April 18, 2013
Crowd-funding website Kickstarter is going for an even better experience by launching a new feature called Video Mode. Video Mode is designed to let users discover new products in full screen by watching the slew of video pitches uploaded to the service. Kickstarter has over 75,000 videos uploaded at this point, so there is plenty of content available to watch.
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April 18, 2013
If you have been standing in the virtual line to get your hands on popular iPhone app Mailbox, we have some good news for you: your wait is over. The developers of the now Dropbox-owned app announced yesterday that you can start using the latest version of Mailbox immediately after you download it from the iTunes App Store.
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April 17, 2013
iDevice users may have missed out on Home for Android, but a recent update to Facebook's iOS app brings some brand new goodies that make up for it. Included in this update are new features called "Chat Heads" and "Stickers" along with a reworked news feed.
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April 17, 2013
Netflix's developers have officially announced their intentions to switch the service's playback interface from Microsoft Silverlight to HTML5. The announcement came shortly after Microsoft revealed that support for Silverlight 5 will stop in 2021, giving the media-based company no choice but to find an alternative.
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April 17, 2013
Every once in a while, Google shakes up our world and changes the most basic feature of all its services: the Google menu bar. An experimental new menu bar design replaces the current black navigation strip with a dropdown icon menu similar to the Chrome OS app launcher. The feature has been part of Chrome's dev channel for Windows since February, and now Google Operating System has discovered a way for everyone to try it out on their favorite browser.
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April 16, 2013
A group of hackers have attacked 90,000 smaller WordPress blogs using a simple brute force method. The attacks have been ongoing for about a week, and the number of blogs targeted is quite substantial. The default "admin" username and some common passwords allowed hackers to jump in and get access to all these blogs with minimal effort involved.
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April 16, 2013
SugarSync has just released a massive update to its iOS application with a spanking new layout. The update also includes a greatly improved menu system that streamlines access to files stored in the cloud through the service. The overall goal of the new design is simplicity, with everything placed in what should be the most logical and convenient location possible. The look and feel also matches the app's desktop counterpart, right down to the color scheme.
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April 16, 2013
SendHub — the business-focused calling and messaging app — was released for Android on Monday after a high demand from users. Since its first arrival on iPhone nearly a year ago, SendHub's developers have received nearly 30 request per day for an Android version. The core features of the app include calling and texting over WiFi, 3G, 4G or cellular voice networks, group messages, auto-responders, contact lists, and more.
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April 13, 2013
The Bing vs. Google race has just become tighter with the launch of Bing's new Pinterest integration. The new feature adds a handy "Pin it" button to every image result on Bing, making it possible to pin it to your Pinterest boards without needing to go to the actual website, or even open the full-size version of the image.
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April 13, 2013
Starting this week, Facebook users in the United States can share the things they are watching, reading, listening to, eating, drinking, or feeling through status updates. Yes, you could do that before, but with his new enhancement, which adopts some of the features of places like GetGlue, you can keep your friends specifically informed on what you are up to in terms of entertainment.
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April 12, 2013
This week has seen several minor yet useful updates to Google's Chrome Web browser for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad as well as the browser's beta channel on Android. The latest version for both platforms includes fullscreen support, and the iOS update also adds Google Cloud Print and AirPrint while the Android version of Chrome has received client-side certificate support and long-press tab history.
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