Gumroad now lets you rent movies directly from content creators

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Gumroad, the indie sales platform for digital product sales, now supports video rentals. The new feature allows content creators to offer their films for rent for up to 30 days. Viewers have a month to begin watching the videos they rent. Once you begin watching a film, it’ll be available to stream for 72 hours. They’ll also receive warnings ahead of the expiry date. Of course, you can also offer your video for sale by enabling the option on your product page. Users can stream videos on Gumroad’s Android and iOS apps, or in a desktop browser. The company launched…



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Hype OS X app for HTML5 animation adds responsive layouts and physics support in Pro update

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Tumult’s Hype app for OS X, which lets Web designers create HTML5 animations, is getting an update as well as a Professional upgrade with features like responsive layouts, reusable symbols and physics support for objects. Version 3 arrives as a free update for Hype 2 owners and adds more timing functions and Web accessibility support, as well as a redesigned interface to fit in nicely with OS X Yosemite. Hype Professional, which is available as an in-app upgrade for $49.99, makes it easier to build responsive sites and create animations more easily. You can create multiple scene variants to handle…



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Flashgap won’t let you see photos from your night out until midday the following day

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Are you in fear of waking up a little blurry on the events of your St Patrick’s Day celebrations tomorrow? Flashgap is an app that can help refresh your memory. In essence, it’s a time-delayed photo sharing app that allows you to create a shared album with friends during any event or night out, but photos taken through the app disappear immediately and are only later revealed to you at midday the following day. The idea for Flashgap was born through inspiration from the movie, ‘The Hangover’, and then created by four students in France. The founders used the credits…



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Lookback acquires QuickCast, releases new app tester recording tools for Android and Mac

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Lookback, the app testing feedback recording service for iOS devices, has acquired QuickCast, a company that makes a screen recording app for OS X. It’s also released new tools to record beta tester feedback on Android devices and Mac desktops. QuickCast has been updated and renamed Lookback for Mac. It lets users record their screen, face and voice as they use apps and browse sites on their desktops, in order to deliver app testing feedback and bug reports to developers. The tool is compatible with Safari and Chrome, and uploads recordings automatically to Lookback’s site for companies to view and…



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Secure your pot of gold with 1Password’s St. Patrick’s Day sale

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Microsoft’s voice assistant Cortana is reportedly coming to Android and iOS devices soon

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Microsoft will soon make its voice-activated digital personal assistant Cortana available as a standalone app for Android and iOS devices, reports Reuters. Cortana is currently exclusive to Windows Phone devices, but will come to Windows 10 for desktops this autumn, and subsequently arrive on mobile devices powered by Google and Apple. Microsoft will beef up Cortana’s capabilities before rolling it to other platforms. The company is working on an advanced version of its voice assistant, incorporating research from an artificial intelligence project called Einstein. There’s no word yet on just when Cortana will launch across platforms. We’ve contacted Microsoft to…



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Foursquare updates Swarm with private messaging, ditches Plans feature

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Foursquare’s location check-in app Swarm has been updated with a new private messaging feature. The latest version also does away with the Plans tab, which allowed users to publicly request their contacts to catch up with them. The direct messaging system lets you chat with your contacts one-on-one or in a group to meet up. You can also send out a blast to reach all your contacts, similar to what you could do with Plans. When you send a message, your location will be displayed on a map so recipients know where you’re chatting from. You’ll also get read receipts…



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Wunderlist adds list folders and updates its iOS, Android and Mac apps with new design

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Wunderlist has updated its cross-platform to-do list app with a new feature — folders for lists. It’s also refreshed its iPhone, Android and Mac apps with a fresh look. With folders, you can now group a bunch of related lists and keep them separate from others. For example, you can now collate your grocery and household repair lists into a ‘Home’ folder, and avoid scanning them while you’re looking at your lists for managing projects at work. This feature is available across Wunderlist’s desktop, mobile and Web apps. The iPhone app gets a handy new Quick Add button, which lets…



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The 15 best Android apps that use material design

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Google’s Material Design aesthetic is supposed to be the new standard for Android design, but not all apps have made the transition to the catchy new look. That’s a shame, because it brings a level of beauty and polish to Android that hasn’t existed until the new design scheme was rolled out with Android Lollipop. Fortunately, several developers have put it into practice and cranked out some rather good looking apps. If you want to find out what Material Design is about, then grab one of the following apps or custom launchers from the Play Store to experience it for…



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How Wikiwand plans to make money while building a better Wikipedia experience

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Wikiwand made a name for itself in 2013 adding a streamlined interface and useful features to Wikipedia via a browser extension. The company has since raised $600,000 in funding, launched an iPhone app and has an Android version in the works. TNW spoke with founder Lior Grossman to find out about Wikiwand’s approach to designing a more usable encyclopedia, and making money off Wikipedia’s Creative Commons-licensed content. How did you go about translating the Wikiwand Web experience to mobile? We began by researching how people are using Wikipedia on mobile, as opposed to on the Web. We soon found that…



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