Microsoft’s new IFTTT integrations let you back up photos to OneDrive and more

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Microsoft has announced that it’s launched Office 365 channels on IFTTT’s app connection service, allowing you to to trigger functions in your favorite products, like automatically backing up your photos to OneDrive cloud storage. There are now IFTTT channels for Microsoft’s Mail, OneDrive for Business, Calendar and Contacts. The company has created 30 recipes with triggers from various apps to initiate functions in its own services. Among the list is this useful recipe save iPhone photos taken in a specific location, like a conference or team-building exercise venue, to your OneDrive. There’s also one to remind you to hit the…

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Google’s Snapseed app update adds refined brush functionality and more language support

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Google has been steadily at work improving its Snapseed mobile photo editor, and has just let loose additional enhancements. In addition to some squashed bugs, the app’s brush now lets you work with a finer tip size and deeper zoom. The app also now offers quick access to its own online resources in the Help & feedback menu, such as links to Snapseed’s YouTube channel and Google+ page. The new version of Snapseed also supports a host of new languages: Catalan, Greek, British English, Spanish (Latinoamérica), Finnish, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Malay, Norwegian, Portugese, Romanian, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. This update to both iOS and Android versions is available on the App Store and Google Play store now. ➤ Snapseed…

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AccuWeather’s new AccUcast service is like Waze for weather

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We’ve all been there; you check your favorite weather app to see what’s going on outside, only to find the info was off when you leave home. A new feature in the AccuWeather iOS app called AccUcast lets users like you submit weather conditions to provide a real-time contextual view of your environment. AccUcast is like Waze, only for weather. If it’s cloudy where you are, just report it via the AccuWeather app. Areas where rain, wind or snow are reported will have a small pin. When you zoom out, the pins become a color-coded area on the map. You…

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Square’s Dashboard iOS app supercharges your business analytics

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Square wants to help business owners keep better track of their sales wherever they may be, so today the company is introducing the Square Dashboard app for the iPhone. The app provides real-time analytics on the performance of all your business locations, so you can make “in the moment” decisions about how to handle your business – that might mean staying open an extra hour, promoting an underselling item, or letting employees go home early on a quiet day. Besides real-time analytics, you can check daily performance summaries and comparisons to your business’ sales the previous. It’ll also provide insight…

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FlashChat: the anonymous chat app just got smarter

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Last year, we told you about FlashChat, a clever app that let’s you communicate anonymously with others using the same Wi-Fi network as you. Available on iOS and Android it was an intelligent way of chatting to people nearby without having to worry about there being any record – all chats are deleted when you leave the Wi-Fi network. It meant you could chat to people at music gigs, museums, or even quietly bitch about someone in your office with a colleague, all without them knowing who you are. This year, FlashChat is back, with version 2.0. Instead of being…

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TVibes for iOS lets you share videos with groups of friends

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TVibes, a new iOS app released today, lets you upload and organize your personal videos into broadcast channels. The goal is to enhance the way you share, manage and discover cloud-based videos on your mobile device. While there are plenty of opportunities to shoot and share video via popular apps like YouTube, Vine or Vimeo, TVibes is designed as a video-only platform that lets you share high-quality footage with a select group of people. It also aims to solve the problem of ‘non-sharing’ for people do not want the entire Internet witnessing their baby’s first steps. The app lets you choose your audience and assign levels of access to…

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Indian Uber rival Ola launches Android app for local grocery deliveries

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Indian cab company Ola has launched a new on-demand grocery delivery service today. Dubbed Ola Store, the service is available in select neighborhoods in Bangalore, via an Android app. The company has partnered with local offline retailers like Namdhari’s Fresh and PNP Retail for its new offering. Ola Store’s interface is clean, but small fonts and images make it a bit difficult to browse The app offers a wide range of groceries including imported dairy products as well as frozen meats and seafood. I was pleasantly surprised to find that prices were on par with those found at my local supermarkets.…

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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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