SimplePrints’ new Photo Magic service lets you create photo books by text message

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Would you rather hold a photograph in your hand or view an electronic version on your mobile device or computer? It’s hard to generalize, but a third alternative, the photo book, is almost always a popular choice. SimplePrints, a mobile book publishing outfit that’s been around for several years on both iOS and Android, has just launched a new service, Photo Magic, that makes it even easier  to create photo books via an “SMS Concierge” photo book service.  Targeted at millennials, Photo Magic employs warm and sensitive human being to create your photo books for you, at your direction. “In a nutshell, we…

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Adobe’s Lightroom for Android update brings faster, more streamlined image editing

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Lightroom Mobile for Android, Adobe’s companion app for Lightroom on the desktop, just got an update. In addition to squashing a fair number of bugs, an Adobe blog post cites several new additions to the app’s feature set. Users can now edit images more quickly by copying image adjustments and pasting them onto a different photo. A redesigned crop tool lets you quickly adjust, align and auto-straighten the image. A new Segmented view in Collections provides an easy way to find, view and interact with your photos. With the new version, Adobe has added Raw file support for the Panasonic Lumix CM1 Communication Camera. Lightroom on…

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Meerkat Map uses app’s API to show streams around the world

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If you’re a fan of streaming app Meerkat, then you know it’s a little hard to look at where in the world other people are streaming. That has now changed with the Meerkat Map, a global view that shows you where people are streaming, so you can hop in and peek at a world different from yours. The app, which is hosted on Github, takes advantage of Meerkat’s API, which the company released in May. It’s very similar to the Global List already available in Meerkat’s competitor, Periscope: it groups streams in aggregate, so you can see from a zoomed out…

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Instagram finally brings its search functionality to the Web

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Let’s face it, Instagram’s hub on the Web has traditionally kind of sucked. Thankfully, that’s finally starting to change. Recently, Instagram introduced a much easier-on-the-eyes design and started storing high-res images, and today it’s finally allowing you to search for images.   You can now look up anything from hashtags, locations and usernames right from the desktop.  Tags and locations are getting their own pages too, so you can see the most popular related images. The update is rolling out to everyone today. While it’s weird that it even took so long for the relatively basic functionality to be available…

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Microsoft Hyperlapse now allows longer video clips, works on older Windows Phone devices

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Microsoft’s Hyperlapse app for smoothing and editing video footage captured on your mobile has been updated to add new features and extend compatibility to older Windows Phone handsets. Among the newly supported devices are the Lumia 920 and Lumia 1020, both of which shipped with Windows Phone 8.0, rather than version 8.1, which was previously required to run the app. Along with extended handset support, Hyperlapse on Windows Phone now has an increased video recording limit (for longer clips) and tweaks to the algorithm to make it easier to use. You will still need a device with at least 512MB…

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Find your Reddit soulmate with this tool that scans which subreddits you like

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It’s a day for Reddit tools. Earlier I wrote about one that’ll show you what was on the frontpage when you first signed up, now here’s one that shows you redditors with similar interests. Built by MoederPoeder, based on an idea that popped up on /r/SomeoneMakeThis, Checkly.io compares your subreddit choices with those of others who sign up for the tool. You can then see what interests you share and message them. Subreddit soulmates discovered by Checkly.io Smartly, it discounts the ones you’re subscribed to by default when you join Reddit to make sure it’s only your personal choices that count. It…

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Figure1 is medicine’s answer to Instagram for crowdsourcing diagnoses

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Being pegged as the ‘Instagram for Doctors’, Figure1 for iOS and Android is a growing hit among medical professionals and lay people alike. The photo-sharing network, aimed at health professionals, is free to download and lets health care workers upload photos, X-rays, scans, charts and other details of patients’ illnesses or maladies to get advice or pose questions on diagnoses and care. Figure1 gives workers in the medical industry instant access to clinical information from centers and hospitals all over the world, as well as the expertise and experience of the staff that goes with it. Besides being able to post…

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Spotify’s new ‘Discover Weekly’ feature brings you two hours of tailored music every Monday

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Spotify want to help make it easier to find new music you’ll enjoy listening to. The streaming service today launched the Discover Weekly playlist, which contains a personalized selection of songs based on your listening habits. Now when you log into Spotify, you’ll see Discover Weekly at the top of the playlists section of the app. It’s not jut a collection of the songs you already like either; Spotify says the playlist will sometimes try to nudge you in new directions and take into account the habits of people with similar tastes as well. Your Discover Weekly selection is updated…

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Which app store optimization tool can you actually trust?

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App developers are familiar with the importance of App Store Optimization – the holy grail of organic traffic. After all, most downloads stem from basic App store search, and making sure your app is among the first options presented to users is the best way to drive traffic more organic than Wholefoods. Performing a solid keyword research is a crucial part of ASO (some might say it’s the only part, and they’d be absolutely wrong, but that’s for another post), and yet many developers still believe they can do it all on their own – just give them the right…

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