Discovery links up with Meerkat for live video streams during Shark Week

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If you’re familiar with Discovery’s Shark Week – now in its 28th year – you’ll know that the channel often uses it as an opportunity to test out new digital ideas, as well as an excuse to show wall-to-wall programming about sharks. This year, it has joined up with Meerkat to offer embedded live streams for viewers via the Discovery site. Meerkat only rolled out embeddable streams for users towards the end of last month. Of course, you can also access the same content via the Meerkat app by following @SharkWeek. While the embedding feature isn’t totally new, it’s interesting to…

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Pogoplug Personal Backup: Get your 3-year subscription from TNW Deals now

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Online backup is the safest solution for storing precious photos, videos and documents. To ensure nothing gets left out, Pogoplug offers unlimited storage across multiple platforms. The service covers as many phones, tablets and computers as you own, with apps available for Windows, OS X, iOS and Android. The software requires little by way of setup, and once installed, it automatically backs up all the content on each device. Everything you upload is protected by military grade 256-bit SSL encryption. The apps allow you to access your uploaded files wherever you have an internet connection, and you can stream media…

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Streaks for Android helps you stick with your habits using Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity trick

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I have no problem getting on a diet, jotting down my thoughts in a journal and generally picking up any healthy new habits — sticking with them, however, proves to be a major challenge. That’s where Streaks comes in. This habit tracker for Android is ased on comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘don’t break the chain’ productivity method. The idea is to mark every day that successfully complete a task and try to keep the ‘chain’ going for as long as possible. The app lets you add tasks that you intend to complete daily and asks you if you’ve tackled it at…

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This Cardboard version of Flappy Bird for Android lets you play as the bird in 3D

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Here’s the latest title to make my list of games I’m terrible at but love playing. Cardboard Flappy for Android is a 3D version of the challenging mobile game Flappy Bird in which you attempt to navigate past endless obstacles — only this you literally get a bird’s eye view of your flight. The original 2D version had you tapping the screen to guide a bird through gaps in vertical pipes as it continuously flew to the right. This time, you see what the bird sees: pipes, pipes and more pipes with gaps at varying heights for you to slip…

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Game of Thrones keyboard app lets you troll your friends with hundreds of quotes

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If you’re missing Game of Thrones since its fifth season finale, new app – Game of Quotes – might help fill the void. The  keyboard app for iOS comes preloaded with hundreds of quotes from the good folk of Westeros right back as far as the first episode. Once activated, you can send the quotes direct from within your messages to your friends. It includes some gems from Tyrion like: And some life lessons courtesy of Baelish: While season six seems like it’s an eternity away, Game of Quotes will certainly help ease the wait. ➤ Game of Quotes Read next: Here’s…

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Here’s how you can see who deleted you on Facebook

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Who Deleted Me on Facebook is an iOS app that lets you keep track of your friends list. Similar to Who Unfollowed Me for Twitter, it tells you when friends have disappeared from your list and whether they’ve deactivated their accounts or actually deleted you. When you download the app, it won’t show you friends who have deleted you in the past, it only starts tracking from the time you activate it. As well as keeping track of the frenemies who might have deleted you, it also shows your newest friends, people you have chosen to block and a ‘last…

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Minecraft: Story Mode trailer from Telltale is the Lego Movie meets Wreck-It Ralph

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There’s a new Minecraft game incoming and it’s just got its first preview at Minecon in London. ‘Minecraft: Story Mode‘ is an adventure game, by Telltale Games, home of the classic ‘Monkey Island’ as well as ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Walking Dead’ tie-ins. Like those titles, Story Mode will play out across a series of episodic releases that will take you to various parts of the Minecraft world including the Nether, the Farlands and the End. And, again, as with those games, the choices you make will affect how the narrative plays out. The plot as described by Telltale and…

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GarageBand is great but SoundTrap is a collaborative music app for everyone

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The past week has been dominated by Apple Music news, but how about creating some tunes rather than just listening to them? GarageBand is a brilliant bit of software – the polar opposite of its eternally-frustrating cousin iTunes – that makes composing songs on iOS and OS X really easy. But the trouble is, it’s an Apple-only affair. Soundtrap is a new browser-based music creation programme that harnesses the same simple but powerful approach and combines it with an HTML5 interface and video features that make it easy to collaborate with other musicians wherever they are. Continuing Sweden’s track record for…

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9 retro-style Photoshop plug-ins impart a vintage film look to your photos

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Do you remember shooting with film? Most people who handled a camera before around 1998 will recall having to choose from a huge variety of black & white or color films. Back then, you had to have a fairly discerning vision about your final pictures because films and slides had distinctive characteristic effects, such as Kodak’s Kodachrome’s vivid colors or TRI-X’s moody, grainy monochrome. Today’s digital cameras offer color palettes, rarely giving a recognizable look or personality. The key differentiator now is software. Installed apps on the desktop, plug-ins to host applications and mobile apps, essentially take the place of film stocks. That should…

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