Love Minecraft? Get the next update free with Windows 10

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Windows 10 is out today and it’s a free upgrade for your computer if you’re already using Windows 7, 8 or 8.1. This might sweeten the deal even more: If you already own Minecraft for Mac or PC, you’ll get a free copy of the new and improved version by upgrading to Windows 10 Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition is a beta version of a new experience. It’s a completely separate version of the game that supports Xbox Live, controller support, game recording and multiplayer with Pocket Edition players. To get the new version, you’ll just need to head to the…

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7 reasons you should make Microsoft Edge your default browser, and 1 reason you probably won’t

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Launch day is upon us and Windows 10 will soon be in the hands of the masses. Along with a whole new OS, comes a new browser – Microsoft Edge, nee Project Spartan. Beyond its lightweight feel and scaled-back appearance, there are some good reasons you might want to give Edge a bit of time before defaulting back to Firefox or Chrome. And one reason you might not. It’s faster than Internet Explorer. And Chrome. If one of the reasons you’re holding back on trying out Edge is because of Internet Explorer’s legacy, then it’s time to drop that and give it a…

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Review: Deliveroo brings food from restaurants that don’t deliver (and existential angst)

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We are lazy, pampered, awful people. You’re not? If you’re here reading about food delivery services, you definitely are. Like me, you can press a button and make someone bring you food. At any other time in history that would be seen as so decadent that revolutionaries would be plotting to cut off your head, powdered wig and all. JustEat and its many rivals have taught us that ordering take out food can be so simple that we don’t need to interact with a human being. At a push, you have to talk to the driver. Tuck in at Tuk…

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VSCO updates its mobile apps with a new Collections feature for expanded image curation

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Visual Supply Company (VSCO), makers of digital film emulation presets and camera profiles, has debuted Collections, a new feature for its VSCO Cam apps on iOS and Android. Collections allows mobile users, for the first time, to curate their VSCO profile with images from the community and interact with each other via the app.   Curation has long been an essential part of VSCO’s mobile apps, but until now, it has been the sole province of the company’s staff within the apps’ Grid feature. But this highlights only a small portion of the content on the platform. The new Collection feature widens the scope…

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Boxer takes on Microsoft’s Outlook by bringing your inbox and calendar together

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Email productivity app Boxer is challenging Microsoft’s Outlook app for iOS and Android with the addition of calendar support. On iOS, you’ll find your calendar integrated right into the same app as your email and contacts. On Android, Boxer has opted to build a completely separate calendar app (currently rolling out). This is because separate apps can ‘talk to each other’ better on Google’s OS and the developers say they wanted to play to each platform’s strengths, although there are strong business reasons for the strategy too, which we’ll get to. Having tried both versions, it all feels so much tighter on iOS. As…

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Lrn for iOS is the app that will get you learning to code

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There are plenty of apps and initiatives designed to help you to code – Codeacademy, Code.org and Code Institute among them – but the truth is whatever approach you take, there isn’t a magic trick to mastering it. I’ve tried lots of methods in the past and found that the biggest issue is sticking with a course. But in the past week I’ve been messing with a new option – Lrn, an iOS app designed to get you started with Javascript – and it’s working. In the same way that the best camera is the one you always have with you,…

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This app makes it easy to move playlists from Spotify to Apple Music

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Moving playlists from Spotify to Apple Music isn’t as straightforward as it should be. Apple doesn’t offer an importer, so you’ll have to use a workaround. There are a couple of fiddly methods – one involving two apps and one that requires you to get down and dirty with JSON. Then there’s the far simpler Move to Apple Music. This app holds your hand through the whole process on your Mac, even if it’s still not quite a one-click affair. Once you’ve logged it into Spotify (or Rdio, which it also supports), you select the playlists you want to transfer. Then…

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This free iOS keyboard puts Instagram into every messaging app

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A couple of weeks back, we wrote about an app that puts Instagram into the iOS notification center. But if you’re a really huge fan, this is even better – an Instagram iOS custom keyboard. Keyfeed is a free custom keyboard that lets you share and like Instagram pictures from any app that uses the keyboard. It’s smoothly implemented – you tap once to share a link to an image, tap twice to like it, and can scroll horizontally through the latest pictures in your feed. That’s it. A simple Instagram keyboard for iOS. If you use Instagram a lot, you’ll like…

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Pandora now lets you listen to an hour of music after you engage with an ad

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Subscribing to Pandora One isn’t the only way to avoid ads in your music session anymore: a new “Sponsored Listening” tool lets you listen to an hour of uninterrupted music if you engage with an ad before your stream begins. http://ift.tt/1ggin0p These ads can be a video or an interactive “rich media unit,” – a slideshow, for example – and require the user to pay attention for at least 15 seconds, although videos can be up to two minutes and a half in length. The idea is that asking users to engage with an ad for an extended period of…

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