Photokeys for iOS lets you create custom keyboard themes from your photos

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Photokeys, a brand new iOS keyboard, lets you set unique keyboard color combos derived from your photos. You can either shoot a new photo or pull one from your Camera Roll. The app automatically selects the major colors in the image and assembles them into a five-color palette. The app chooses the colors, but you can intervene to place the color markers wherever you want. A little smily face button lets you set the palette “mood” to Bright, Indifferent or Dark. Each color is then assigned to a certain part of the keyboard: Background, text button background, text button color, functional button…

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Want to compete with WhatsApp, Facebook and Line in messaging? Here’s how

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The mobile messaging space is close to saturated with major services like WhatsApp, Line and Facebook’s Messenger. But smaller players believe there’s still room for niche apps that cater to specific needs. Speaking at the Rise Conference in Hong Kong today, Jonathan Caras, CTO of video messaging platform Glide and Micha Benoliel, co-founder and CEO of Firechat developer Open Garden shared insights on where their apps can fit in. Neither app competes directly with the likes of WhatsApp and Messenger. Caras, whose app facilitates quick one-on-one and group video chats, believes that “there’s space for different apps to be your…

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Medium’s latest iOS app update notes are a t-shirt contest

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Tech hipster-orientated blog platform Medium has a habit of experimenting in its iOS app update notes. The latest set takes the trend up a notch. Last time it was a transcript ripped straight from the developers’ Slack conversations. This time, it’s a competition: Spot the significant change among the bug fixes and you could win a t-shirt. Hunt through Medium’s app to find the change and win…a t-shirt If you’re that desperate to get a new t-shirt, get looking now. ➤ Medium [iTunes App Store] Read next: The truth about blogging on Medium








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Handpick’s Smart Groceries marries meal and grocery delivery

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If you’re living in San Francisco, every startup is looking to get to your heart by way of your stomach. From pre-made ready-to-heat dinners made from chef’s recipes to full-on DIY gourmet meals three times per week, startups are racing to acquire a share of mind and meals from busy professionals who really don’t have the time to cook. Today, another company enters the fray: Handpick, a recipe-recommendation service for iOS that helps you make use of what you already have lying around in your kitchen, has introduced Smart Groceries — a subscription-free meal delivery service. The service, which serves…

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Kaboom lets you send self-destructing messages to social networks

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If you’re concerned about the content you put online, you might consider using an app that destroys content after a certain amount of time. But destructive apps rely on a careful ecosystem in order to really be, well, destructive. You can’t really take them and plop them somewhere else, like Facebook or Twitter. That’s the need that Kaboom, a new app by Anchor Free, tries to fill. The app, which launches today, allows users to share messages to social networks as well as over text and chat apps like LINE and What’s App. “We launched Kaboom because today we want users…

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Apple Music’s first Snapchat story gives a peek inside the studio

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Apple Music has launched its first Snapchat story and it’s incredibly well put together. The company has coordinated the story across its global studio locations, from London to LA. It’s got top-notch production quality for being just a Snapchat story: it shows music synced across snaps in multiple locations and features interviews with Zane Lowe and Julie Adenuga. Here’s the video, which we grabbed right out of Snapchat so you can enjoy it right here, without it disappearing forever. It’s a good lesson for brands looking to use Snapchat on how it can be done well if executed correctly. You can view Apple’s…

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Numerous: This clever app tracks the numbers that matter to you – and helps you act on them

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Up until today, Numerous offered an iOS app that allowed you to track all sorts of numbers in one place – from your Twitter followers, to your mortgage rate to your current distance from home. Now it’s received a big update that turns it into a platform, with an API for developers and IFTTT integration for end users. Oh, and it’s now available on Android too. The IFTTT support is particularly interesting here. Now you can set up actions based on numbers tracked in Numerous. Examples provided by the company include ‘If my Tesla’s battery charge goes below 25 percent, then…

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Bazaart photo app for iOS now integrates with Adobe Creative Cloud

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With the explosion in mobile photography, it’s become critical for people be able to move back and forth between mobile and desktop environments with minimal friction. Bazaart, an iPhone photo collage app, brings such integration closer to reality with a new upgrade that connects directly with the desktop version of Photoshop for the Mac. New import and export options let users easily switch between Bazaart on mobile and Photoshop on the desktop at will via your Creative Cloud account. Designed for an audience of photo enthusiasts, Bazaart makes compositing easy — you can remove the background from a photo manually or automatically and then…

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Dashlane brings its one-touch password changer to iPhone and Apple Watch

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Changing your passwords regularly may well be good practice, but in the real world, few people bother. In fact, in the real world people still use passwords like 1,2,3,4,5,6. Dashlane users, however, have had access to a nifty one-touch password changer feature that automatically alters passwords across a range of sites. And now that works on iPhone and Apple Watch too. That means that if you get an alert that a specific site has been hacked while you’re out and about (and therefore your password may have been compromised), you can simply swap it out for a new one in a few…

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