File-sharing service Infinit launches on iOS and Android, lets you send files to all your devices

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Infinit has launched apps for its file-sharing service on Android and iOS. As with the company’s desktop apps, there’s no limit on the size of files you send to friends or to your other devices. The app currently allows you to to only share images and video from your mobile devices, but you can receive various file types sent from Infinit’s desktop clients. Infinit is useful for sharing large video files and entire photo albums without having to compress or trim them — a boon for those with newer phones that shoot 4K video and high-resolution images. You can share…



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Google’s Cloud Console for Android lets you manage your App Engine projects on the go

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Google has launched Cloud Console for Android, a new app for Android that lets developers manage their projects hosted on the company’s Cloud Platform from their mobile devices. Currently in beta, Cloud Console lets you look up the status of your apps, set up and receive incident alerts, manage your Cloud Platform resources and get performance stats from Google’s Cloud Monitoring service. You can customize the dashboard view to include all the information you need at a glance, including monitoring graphs and billing estimates. The app also lets you tracking incidents via Cloud Monitoring, and add comments to issues so…



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Spylight for iOS lets you buy the clothes from your favorite TV shows

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Have you ever been watching a TV show or a movie and wondered where you could buy the clothes? Well, Spylight is the answer. Spylight is a nifty new app for iOS that allows you to “shop the screen” quite literally. There are two ways you can do it – by holding your phone up to the TV while the show or movie is on, the app will identify it by syncing with the audio and show you the clothes that are available, or you can opt to browse the database of hundreds of TV shows and movies, and the…



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Here’s how to add a ‘Follow me on Meerkat’ button to your site

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Livestreaming app Meerkat has just added a helpful tool to generate a ‘Follow me on Meerkat’ button that you can easily add to your site or blog. Just visit this page, enter your username, choose a button style and copy the code snippet from there. You can then paste it into your site’s CSS template or add it to the footer of your blog, and voilà! Here’s what it looks like on my personal site: Your fans can now follow your livestreams on Meerkat just by clicking the button, provided they’re logged into Twitter on their browser. ➤ Follow button…



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Juice for iOS helps you share content your Twitter followers will love

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It’s not easy being good at tweeting. You’ve got to understand your audience, curate interesting content and ideas to share, and be consistent with your posts. If you’re like me and have trouble engaging your followers, Juice for iOS is here to help. Currently in beta, the free app from Twitter curation service Paper.li analyzes your followers’ interests and serves up a bunch of articles that they might enjoy, every day. You can check them out yourself and then share them with just a couple of taps. The majority of my followers are tech enthusiasts and people in the industry,…



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Steller for iOS brings pro design sensibility to easy storytelling app

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One way imaging apps differentiate themselves is how they segment and target their audience. Steller, which is releasing a major update to its iOS app today, views its users as mobile storytellers specializing in short, multi-page artistic tales that make primary use of images, video and text. With Steller, the emphasis is on elegant design but with an ease of use derived from new tools and enhanced browsing. It looks significantly different than the app that debuted last year — lighter and friendlier. It’s an easy app without being too simple — you can figure it out with a few…



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Nintendo: The reluctant mobile superpower on a collision course with Apple

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Brendan Lyall is the CEO of Grow Mobile The news that Nintendo and DeNA have partnered to produce mobile games together has led to a glut of articles, think pieces and speculative lists about what the future holds. The thought of Mario Kart on an iPad has been enough to lead to a worldwide rush of excitement, evidenced in the corporate landscape by the 27 percent jump in Nintendo’s share price following the news. While the news has been presented as a total volte face from Nintendo, the truth is a little different. The inherent caution the company has towards…



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Photo-sharing app EyeEm lets users sell their images through a new Market

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EyeEm, the photo-sharing app that has built a creative user community and featureset that sets it apart from the ‘Instagram clone’ crowd, has today launched an easy way for its users to sell their images to individuals and businesses. EyeEm Market is launching with over 50 million images, and photographers can add their images on an individual basis by opting them in. Revenues from each sale are split 50/50 between EyeEm and the photographer. Images will cost $20 for a standard license (unlimited impressions for editorial and commercial use on a website, social network or online ad, plus print at…



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Hang w/ updates Facebook live streaming and adds in-line video player

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Live streaming app Hang w/ has improved its integration with Facebook by adding new features and an in-line video player. This isn’t surprising with the hype around streaming apps like Meerkat in recent times. The new updates mean that you can stream videos live to viewers while they are being filmed and they will be available immediately for playback on Facebook when the stream has stopped. It’s not necessary for people to have the Hang w/ app to view the videos either. Videos can now be streamed simultaneously across five platforms as well – on the iOS and Android apps,…



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Facebook tests showing you more auto-playing videos after the one you’re watching ends

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Facebook is testing a new feature that allows it to autoplay videos related to whatever you’re watching once the first one ends, according to Recode. While it has already been autoplaying videos in your Feed for sometime now, and has been offering related video suggestions since Q3 2014, this is the first autoplaying of titles that we’ve come across in this way on the social network. According to the report, the feature currently only works for some users accessing the service via iOS and Android devices. Of course, there’s no guarantee that the feature will ever be offered more widely,…



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Drupe for Android lets you hit up your favorite contacts with two swipes

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The idea of opening an app to get in touch with a contact is kind of unintuitive to me — I first think of who I want to connect with before figuring out which tool is best for the job. Drupe for Android simplifies the process with a simple always-on launcher for your contacts. Drupe shows up as a column on dots on the side of your screen — all you have to do is swipe right to reveal a menu of contacts along with a bunch of communication options like phone, SMS, email, Google Hangouts, Skype and more. Just…



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Yelp now lets you book outdoor activities, bottle service and a round of golf

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Yelp has added a raft of new business categories to its booking and ordering services in the US. The platform now lets you reserve your place at a VIP table at a nightclub, set up a round of golf at your favorite course, try a new outdoor activity like skydiving, send flowers and even make an appointment with a legal consultant. The company has teamed up with Vimbly, GolfNow, BloomNation, Vagaro, TableList and LegalZoom to expand its offering. Yelp says its customers have already made about 1.5 million bookings since its platform launched. It’s a big move for Yelp, which…



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Edgee wants to squeeze a new content format in between tweets and blogs

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Ever wanted to share more than 140 characters but didn’t feel like writing up a full-fledged blog post? Take a look at Edgee, a new content creation platform that lets you combine text, images and embeddable media into a standalone page. The Web app is simple enough to use — just name and categorize your edgee and begin adding content by typing or pasting links. You can then resize and rearrange elements as you like, and share the page with others on social networks. You can also browse edgees created by the community. Choose from a range of categories like…



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850 Sports News Digest for iOS and Android brings you global sports updates in 30 words or less

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I’m not really into sports, but I occasionally get caught up in the drama and excitement of major tournaments like the ongoing Cricket World Cup. Whether you’re a fair-weather fan like me or are all about your favorite sport year round, 850 Sports News Digest makes it easy to stay up-to-date on happenings in your favorite sports. Available for Android and iOS, the app covers soccer, cricket, rugby, tennis, golf and motorsport. You can customize the layout to only show stories about the sports you’re interested in, and receive updates on matches as well as related news. Articles covering games…



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Design Shots is a minimalist Dribbble client for iPhone

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If you need a daily design inspiration fix, you can’t do much better than Dribbble, the community for pixel pushers across the globe. Design Shots for iPhone lets you browse Dribbble submissions without distractions — and its latest version adds a bunch of useful features. The app displays popular and new designs, as well as rebounds (graphic responses to submissions) and playoffs (group rebounds) in an almost invisible interface. With its recent update, Design Shots now offers search, 1Password integration for easier logins, a zoom view for shots and attachments, and the ability to share comments with a long press.…



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CircleBack keeps your contacts up to date effortlessly

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CircleBack brings accuracy to your contact data by blending artificial intelligence and collective intelligence. Keep your contacts clean and up to date.



Let us paint a picture. You’ve just had a business brainwave. You reach for your rolodesk – or the smartphone equivalent – to send a note to a business associate who said the last time you met him, “I can make things happen, fast” over and over. Yet, when you send the email, it bounces back with, “this email address is no longer in service.” Dream. Over. But, before you set fire to your ideas of grandeur, there is another way. CircleBack is the world’s first artificially intelligent contact manager. Tucked behind the simple interface is an AI engine that…



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Deezer’s high-quality ‘Elite’ streaming service is now available worldwide – but still only on Sonos

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Deezer’s ‘Elite’ high-quality music streaming service is now available to users around the world following a brief US-only stint at the end of 2014. First launched in September, the 35 million FLAC track library is now open to users in Latin America, Europe and anywhere else that you can normally access Deezer – it’s still a Sonos hardware-only affair though. The company says the resulting music is five-times the quality of a standard MP3. In the UK, the service will cost £14.99 per month for 12 months, or £120 per year if you choose to pay up-front. There’s also a…



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SignEasy’s iOS extension lets you sign documents without switching between apps

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If you deal with paperwork often, you’ll love this: SignEasy just launched an extension for iOS that lets you sign documents and send them out without having to switch between apps. The app lets you draw and add a signature, as well as text, images, dates and checkbox symbols to documents in a range of file formats, including PDFs, Word files and JPGs. When you receive a document in your inbox, collaboration app (such as Slack) or cloud storage space, just tap the Share icon and find the SignEasy button in the menu. You can add elements and edit or…



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