Office 2016 for Mac brings the first overhaul of Microsoft’s tools on OS X in 5 years

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Microsoft’s plan to broaden the appeal of its subscription-based Office 365 service took another step forward today with the official launch of Office 2016 for Mac. Already available across Windows, Android and iOS devices, the introduction of a new version for OS X – the first in five years – brings a wealth of new features and a modern look and feel. Among the updates are new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. Some of the changes apply across more than one of the apps. For example, the redesigned Ribbon brings the Mac versions in line with the appearance…

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YoVivo for iOS blends photo aggregation with entertaining audio-visual elements

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These days, the biggest photo-based challenge isn’t necessarily where or how to store your images. There are plenty of places — from Flickr to Google Photos to Dropbox to Instagram to Facebook and beyond — vying for your pixels. The real issue is finding the pictures you care about when you want to see or share them. The operative question is more like: Where did I put that? Over the last couple of years, photo aggregators like Trunx and Kwilt, with hooks into the major photo repositories, came to the rescue. Now, alongside those comes YoVivo, a free app for the iPhone, which launches…

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Wildcard helps you break the ice and meet people at events or in new places

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When I moved from New Zealand to Amsterdam a few months ago, I wished there was some sort of app like Tinder but for making friends. It can be hard to meet new people and Wildcard offers the first compelling way to do it, for iOS and Android. Yes, it might as well be “Tinder for making connections” but it’s very well implemented. Wildcard connects with Twitter to pull in your bio (which can be edited independently) and allows you to set a “goal” or reason that you’re on the app. I set mine to “I want to make friends in…

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Tired of Reddit drama? Disqus now you lets create your own forum

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Disqus is known for its hosted comments service, but the company has been hard at work building a community forum of its own for chatting about all sorts of things. And now, you can create your own channel to discuss whatever you’re interested in. User channels are moderated by creators who want to manage their own little communities. You can start, edit and close discussions, moderate comments, blacklist users, and invite your most active members to new chats. Creating a channel on Disqus These channels are hosted on Disqus’ site, which is growing into a hub for discussing everything from movies…

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WhatsApp on the Web now lets you manage your chats, contacts and groups

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WhatsApp on the Web has been updated to include a few new features that allow you to have more control over your chats and group conversations that take place in a Web browser. First launched in January, the Web interface lets you carry out WhatsApp chats via a desktop or laptop but always approached things in a pretty cut-back, simplistic way. Now, there are a few more options you can select in the browser version, like editing your profile photo and status message, and a few small UI tweaks. The settings icon now also provides access to options like deleting…

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Affinity Photo, a new Photoshop challenger, makes its debut in the Mac App Store

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While the beta version of Affinity Photo — launched in February as an independent challenger to Adobe Photoshop — was extremely smooth, usable and bursting at the seams with high-end features, it was still a beta and needed a bit of polish. Not anymore. Today, Serif has released the final version in the Mac App Store. Affinity Photo features numerous high-end capabilities such as Raw processing, PSD import and export, 16-bits per channel editing and ICC color management. Liquify Unlike many image editors catering to a mid-market of photo enthusiasts, this package targets the pros with a full CMYK workflow and open system color palettes,…

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SayWhat is Urban Dictionary meets Vine for slang

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It’s not easy keeping up with every new term in the lexicon of today’s youth — I felt old just writing that — but thankfully, there’s a new app to help you make sense of all the slang you hear on the streets and on the Web — with videos. SayWhat for Android and iOS lets you look up what a word means in 10-second videos which are contributed by its community. You can either search for a term or browse through the feed of recently uploaded definitions. Create your own definitions for terms, look up terms you don’t know…

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Periscope for iOS can now block other users’ messages in peace

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A new update to livestream app Periscope for iOS now lets you block the crap out of anyone who is bothering you without fear of repercussion, which honestly seems like it should have been in there in the first place. Periscope update 1.1.12, released yesterday, allows users a little more privacy when blocking a troll who has left nasty messages on a broadcast. Now, when you block someone’s message within a livestream, that message will appear as blocked to you only. This means that when you tap a crappy comment and block that person into oblivion, the message will appear as…

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Pinterest announces new integrations with IFTTT and Polyvore

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Pinterest has announced its first round of integrations — with IFTTT and Polyvore — built on its new Developers Platform. Since launching the platform a few months ago, the network has worked with developers to take advantage of Pinterest APIs to help people do more with their pins. According to a new blog post today, you can now log in to other apps using your Pinterest account. The Pinterest Channel on IFTTT, for example, lets pinners connect their account to hundreds of products and devices. You can automatically save pins to a board from actions in other apps  — from liking an Instagram photo, upvoting a Reddit post or favoriting an…

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