HBO Now is finally hitting Android and Fire OS devices

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HBO Now is no longer exclusive to iOS on mobile. The company announced it’s bringing its internet-only streaming offering to Android and Fire OS tablets. New customers can download the app right from the Google Play Store or the Amazon Appstore. Amazon also notes that Now will be arriving on Fire TV soon as well, so you can watch ‘Game of Thrones’ right in your living room without a cable subscription. Sorry Fire Phone users – no support for you. The Android and Fire OS support joins existing availability on the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. As with before, the…

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Enlight photo editor launches on the iPad

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Lightricks’ photo-editing app Enlight is now available on the iPad, complete with new, tablet-centric features. The app, already available on the iPhone, is now universal, so both versions are available from the same place and at the same price. Updates to the iPad version include enhancements to the Heal tool, which lets users to fix defects and clone parts of an image with greater accuracy. There’s a seamless workflow for functions like Instafit, Duo Filter, Target, Tilt-shift, Crop and Re-fit to enhance the user experience. The app can also animate sessions to capture the creative process and share it with others. The app should work fine…

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Angry Birds 2 catapults into app stores on July 30

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Rovio has revealed that the next installment of the infamous Angry Birds will be released worldwide on July 30. Simply named Angry Birds 2 – even though it’s technically the sixteenth variation of the game – it’s the first official follow-up to the smash hit original, which was launched in 2009. The original Angry Birds has now been downloaded over 3 billion times and spawned numerous spin-offs and mashups, so it’s only right to be excited about what Angry Birds 2 has in store. Rovio didn’t give much detail about the game, but teased more information coming on July 28, two days before it…

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Flipagram seals licensing deals with major music labels like Sony, Warner and Universal

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Flipagram, a smartphone app that lets you create photo-video narratives complete with musical accompaniment, is now adding even more audio goodness to the mix. The company announced it has sealed global licensing deals with several major and independent music labels and publishers that will let users access millions of clips to use in their Flipagrams. Deals sealed with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music, Merlin and The Orchard, along with music publishers such as Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group and BMG allow full-catalog use of song clips in Flipagram photo-video stories. The National Music Publishers Association has also helped facilitate Flipagram’s new licensing agreement with…

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Lightroom Dashboard displays a visual history of your shooting habits in the browser

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I suspect most photographers have a decent grasp on the cameras they use and what kind of shooting they tend to do. But to see it quantified, complete with charts and graphs, may be a little jarring — though educational. If you’re interested in what your Lightroom catalog reveals about your shooting habits and methodologies, have a look at the new Lightroom Dashboard, a free online utility that you can access directly from your browser. The dashboard was built by San Francisco-based software engineer Cheyne Wallace, a photography enthusiast. He states in the About section of the site, “I built this tool so I could…

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PopKey’s mobile GIF keyboard now lands on the desktop

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Just when you thought you were overdosing on GIF animations (could that ever really happen?), PopKey has taken its mobile GIF keyboard and put it right on the desktop for your viewing pleasure. The desktop version of PopKey sits in your menu bar — I’m using it on the Mac, but there is also a Windows version — and as you click on the magenta octopus icon, the app interface drops down to show you a grid of the latest Trending and Featured GIF animations. You can move the slider down to browse for the perfect GIF. For a specific GIF,…

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Yik Yak will now let you share faceless, appropriate photos

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Anonymous, location-based app Yik Yak — which has largely gained traction with teens and college kids — announced today that it will allow its users to share photos anonymously, too. You know, as long as those photos are appropriate and don’t contain a single human face. It seems that the folks at Yik Yak want users to take photos that “describe the world” around them: From showcasing the prime loot to be found at your local yard sale, to sharing the view of campus from your dorm window, to the yakker who used a pic to help locate the owner…

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BitTorrent strengthens Sync API, takes on cloud storage for businesses with Onehub partnership

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BitTorrent Sync, a torrent-based alternative to file-sharing in the cloud, is getting some notable upgrades for developers and businesses with updates to its API and a new partnership with OneHub. Back in 2013, BitTorrent released an API for Sync to help developers leverage its torrent-based abilities in their own apps. Today it’s bringing out version 2.0 of the kit, along with a host of new features: You can embed the Sync file-sharing engine to your tools and controlling it with the API You can now create custom reports on Sync status across multiple devices, send notifications when files arrive on…

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8tracks is rolling out an update design focused on helping you find new music

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8tracks, the profitable underdog in the music streaming world, has launched a redesigned Web app, to make it easier for listeners to discover new music and playlists. The refresh puts greater emphasis on the site’s DJs, who create its playlists. It algorithmically surfaces the most suitable ones based on your listening habits and learns from your searches and likes. The company has historically focused on human curation. Its new approach combines that with algorithms in an advantageous way. The resulting recommendations are presented on a cleaner homepage that reveals the people behind the playlists. The updated search engine now offers…

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