Uber’s food delivery service is coming to New York City and Chicago

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Uber has announced that it’s bringing its meal-delivery service UberEats to New York City and Chicago. The service originally launched in August last year as UberFresh in LA. It rebranded as UberEats when it expanded to Barcelona in February this year. UberEats is integrated into the company’s existing apps, with a curated menu that’s updated daily with new options. Uber says you can get food delivered to you “within minutes.” The service is available IN NYC and Chicago 11am-2pm Monday to Friday. You can check out the areas covered in Manhattan here and in Chicago it is available in the…

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Busbud for iOS brings its international bus booking service literally on-the-go

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Traveling by bus in foreign countries is not only one of the more authentic ways to experience the local landscape, it’s almost one of the most economical. Busbud, a Web service that lets you book bus tickets in cities around the world, today is bringing its service on mobile platform with its new iOS app. The app will allow travelers to book bus tickets in North America, South America, Europe and Africa. The results are aggregated from partner operators around the world, such as Megabus, Greyhound, Omnibus de Mexico and more (you can browse through the available cities here). After making a…

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Yallo’s Android app brings call recording, captioning and automatic reconnection to your phone

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Yallo, a voice calling company that wants to add extra functionality to the humble phone call, has officially launched its app for Android devices today. In a nutshell, the dialler lets users access functionality like call captioning (to let people know why you’re calling before they pick up) or recording at the press of a button. The company says recorded calls are archived and transcribed, making them searchable. Yallo also has a ‘Connection Keeper’ feature, which automatically restores dropped calls without you needing to do anything, and you can also add new participants to a call part way through, or switch devices…

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Steam kills paid mods for Skyrim after user backlash

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Last week, Steam launched the ability for developers to build mods that could be sold on the Workshop. The first game to get the new feature was Skyrim, with more to come in the future. Unfortunately for the company, that didn’t go down well. Users responded with a very vocal backlash about the functionality, even going as far as making the top mod on the store a protest about paid mods. In response, Steam has stepped back on the feature and has removed it from the Skyrim workshop. Those that actually purchased a mod will receive a full refund. A…

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Latest Vivaldi browser preview brings useful tab stacking feature, mouse gestures and more

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Earlier this year, former Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner, launched Vivaldi as a new browser for power users. Today, the company has released the latest preview of the browser which adds some interesting new features. The most interesting new feature is the ability to tile browser tabs in a single window. This is particularly useful if you’re using a large screen and don’t want to have multiple windows floating around for individual tabs. It’s a pretty nifty way to view tabs and is something I’ve not seen in other browsers previously. It’s quite useful for comparing two products or following along with an event.…

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Pinterest and Buffer team up to make scheduling Pins possible

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Social marketing app Buffer has teamed up with Pinterest to allow you to schedule pins and managed your presence on the social network. To take advantage, you’ll need a paid Buffer Awesome or Buffer for Business account. You can now pin from websites or upload images through the Buffer app, create a daily Pinterest schedule for posts, and track or measure your posts performance. You will need to authorize your Buffer account with Pinterest to get the new partnership set up. You can do that by logging into both and on your dashboard in Buffer, you’ll see an option to connect…

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Instagram adds emoji support to hashtags and 3 new filters

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Instagram’s latest update has added three new filters inspired by weekend adventures – Lark, Reyes and Juno – as well as the ability to include emojis in your hashtags. Lark de-saturates reds and brightens up landscape images while Reyes adds a vintage feel to your photos. Juno is the best one of the new filters to use on pictures of people as it will cool greens and make light colors glow. With the new emoji support, you will be able to hashtag emojis and search them as you would any regular hashtag.   ➤ Three New Filters and Emoji Hashtags [Instagram]


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Sendish is a cut-throat new photo-sharing app that doesn’t want to see your brunch pics

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Sendish is a new photo-sharing app that is described by its founders as being ‘honestly anonymous.’ Released this week on iOS only, the idea behind it is to promote sharing without apprehension. You take a photo of where you are in the world without any filters or edits and it gets sent around the globe from person to person without any more detail than the location of where it was taken and the time. Sounds good, right? Well, this is where things get a little muddled. The aim of the app is to promote sharing worldwide without having to be…

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The Apple Watch is the simplest way to buy from Amazon yet

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While many early third-party Apple Watch apps aren’t that impressive, a few stand out – Amazon’s, for one. It’s perhaps the most streamlined and straightforward way to buy something from the retailer yet. Here’s how it works… The only thing you can do from the app’s homescreen is tap the search button. This brings up the Watch’s standard voice interface screen, allowing you to say what you want to buy. This isn’t something you’ll always be happy to do in public, of course, but voice is often your only option when it comes to interfacing with the Apple Watch. (Incidentally, while the…

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Timewaste Timer charges you $1 for every hour you waste on Facebook

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Have you ever been regretting spending too much time on social networks, where you only logged in for a second to find out when your friend’s birthday was? Apparently many people have, as there are a myriad of services offering to block all the ‘distraction URLs’ in your browser, or tracking exactly how much time you spend there. A newcomer in this family of anti-distraction tools is Timewaste Timer, a Chrome plugin and service that will take $1 from you every time you spend more than an hour on Facebook per day. All you need to do is install the extension and…

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Skype adds support for Italian and Mandarin real-time chat translation

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Skype announced today today that it has added Italian and Mandarin to its short list of supported languages on its real-time Translator service for voice and video chat. The company launched a preview of Skype Translator for registered Windows users last December, with support for English and Spanish. In addition to the two new languages, updates to the preview include a few interesting features designed to make translated conversations feel more natural. For starters, you can now hear your chat partner speak continually at a low volume while the translation plays at full volume. You can also mute the translated…



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#Homescreen for iOS update lets you check out other people’s apps

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#Homescreen for iOS, the app that lets you share what apps you’ve got installed with friends, has today received a big update that makes it easier to discover new apps and icon layouts. The update introduces a new mode where you can endlessly scroll through other people’s home screens to find out what apps they’re using. It’s a fun way to discover new apps that doesn’t involve trawling through the Apple App Store. Previously, the only way to view other people’s shared home screens was via the web interface. You can share other people’s home screens to Twitter (which seems…



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Who is Happy shares your joy at smoking a joint, but what’s the point?

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The move towards legalizing cannabis usage in various US states and other countries – or at least decriminalizing it – has led to the growth of a few niche services for ‘tokers’ and medicinal users of the little green leaf. One such app, launching today in the US, is Who is Happy, which lets you broadcast your general location each time you smoke cannabis in a bid to show solidarity with other users around the world. In essence, all it allows you to do is monitor your own ‘happiness’ statistics, and those of your country. You can also compare the…



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Dashlane launches online scanner that will identify potential vulnerabilities in your inbox

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Dashlane has launched an online tool designed to make email inboxes more secure – and drive sign-ups to its password manager app, though no account is required to use the scanner service. Receiving an email from a hacked account is a fairly common occurrence for most people, which highlights just how much of a target they are for would-be attackers. As a rich source of personal information and service registration details, they can be incredibly lucrative places for intruders that get past your password. To help bring into focus exactly how much sensitive information – and specifically, how many plain-text…



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How VisaEase helped me get one step closer to obtaining US citizenship

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My friends always seem surprised when I tell them I’m not yet an American citizen. “But you’ve been in this country forever,” they say. “Wait, so you’ve never voted?” The United States immigration policy is a complicated one, to say the least. There are numerous types of visas to get to US soil depending on the purpose of your move, and it’s even more difficult when English is your second language. To help make the process simpler, VisaEase, an Austin-based immigration assistance company, launched an online tool to help make filling out all the right forms less overwhelming. Which, to…



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Snapchat swaps Best Friends list for Friend Emojis and adds a new low-light camera

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Snapchat has replaced the controversial ‘Best Friends’ feature with Friend Emojis that only you can see. With the update that was released today, you will see emojis beside certain contacts in your feed. Here is a breakdown of what they mean: Snapchat used the Snap Channel of the Discover section on the app to announce the new feature rather than sending out a press release or putting up a blog post. As well as telling you who you’re showing love to on the app, Snapchat will now alert you to the people you might be neglecting in a new ‘Needs…



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Swoosh for Android turns your hand into a remote control for presentations

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If you deliver presentations often, this is a neat trick to add to your arsenal. Swoosh for Android lets you control your slide deck with just a wave of your hand. Install the app on your mobile device and the server tool on your desktop, and launch your presentation. Then, place your phone or tablet on a desk and swipe your hand above it to navigate back and forth between slides like magic. Swoosh works with Mac, Windows and Linux desktops and is compatible with a range of presentation tools like Prezi, Slidely, Microsoft Powerpoint Online, Google Slides, Keynote and…



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