Signlily lets you use sign language on iOS

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When it comes to communicating on mobile for Deaf people, sign language isn’t really an option unless using video messages. That’s about to change with the release of Signlily, a sign language keyboard app for iOS (coming soon to Android). The keyboard uses emoji-style hands portraying accurate signs and shapes. US-based nonprofit ASLized created the app with a team of Deaf people using American Sign Language (ASL) as their primary language. Sign language varies from place to place and doesn’t always translate perfectly to English so even though a lot of Deaf people use email, text and handwriting as well, the option…

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Rove around Mars with the NASA Curiosity Simulator

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NASA’s Curiosity rover is busy looking for signs on life on Mars. Its ground crew has also been beavering away on a simulator to let you see what it sees on the planet. Experience Curiosity puts you in control of Curiosity in a simulated 3D environment based on data from the actual rover, as well as NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). You can click around to move Curiosity across the red planet’s surface and get a close-up view through each of its cameras. The simulator lets you free-drive Curiosity and also send it to three preset destinations where it’s previously…

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Here’s what Luigi does while Mario is away

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Luigi lives a relentlessly terrible life. Always playing wingman to Mario as his brother trails to the wrong castle yet again in his relentless pursuit of Princess Peach, always in the second best Mario Kart, always having to make a small talk with Toad at parties. Now finally, you can get a real insight into the melancholy of the less super of the Super Mario brothers. Ennuigi is a Web game by Metafilter’s Josh Millard that reveals the bleakness of Luigi alone time. There are no bad guys, no adventure, just smoking and moping. Down in the hole with Luigi The…

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Wunderlist for Mac now lets you add to-dos and reminders without switching apps

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Microsoft’s recently acquired to-do app Wunderlist just got a neat update on OS X, which lets users add tasks with a global keyboard shortcut. No matter what app you’re currently using, you can hit CTRL+Option (Alt)+W to invoke Wunderlist’s new Quick Add feature and click the + button to add a new to-do without having to switch apps. You can also add a due date and reminder by simply adding some context to your input. For example, entering ‘Meet Jim tomorrow’ will automatically set up a reminder for the next day. The Quick Add bar also has a search button…

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Line’s parent company launches V, a new Periscope-style broadcasting app for celebs

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Ah, the celebrity culture! We simply can’t get enough of the lifestyles of the famous — whether or not they’re rich, though generally they appear to have abundant amounts of cash and really interesting lives. Naver, the social network behind the Line messaging app, has launched its own celeb live video broadcaster called V, joining Facebook Mentions‘ new Live feature. V lets you watch personal videos of your favorite famous folk on your phone. You can follow people, watch their videos and use comments and hearts let others know how you feel. A Popular tab — one that displays many hearts — shows…

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Bestie, a new selfie app from Camera360 maker, strives for that natural look

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Selfies are ubiquitous, so why not take the best ones possible? There are plenty of apps out there that seek to improve your looks — YouCam Perfect and FaceTune immediately come to mind, but there are tons of others. One might think that with the wide variety of selfie apps out there, someone would happen on the perfect one and we’d be done with the genre. No way. The fact that people have different selfie goals for different occasions seems to keep this category brisk. Some apps aim to enhance your natural looks while others try to beautify by changing your looks or adding makeup that you…

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Google updates Keep and Slides, allowing you to present on video calls and export notes to Google Docs

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Google has rolled out a couple of small but useful changes to its Keep and Slides products. First up, Slides now lets you carry out a presentation to a video audience, which means your colleagues on the other side of the world can join in with your presentations the same as people in the room. To use it, you just need to tap the present button on an Android device and select the video call option – you get to see who is on the call before you begin, too. On the Keep side of things, Google is now allowing…

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Facebook takes on Periscope and Meerkat, but only celebs can stream

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If you want to livestream your life, you have no shortage of options nowadays: Meerkat, Twitter’s Periscope,  Hang w/, and now Facebook. Well, if you’re rich and famous, anyway. Starting today, public figures can now stream video using a new, creatively-named ‘Live’ feature in Facebook Mentions. If you haven’t heard of that app before, don’t feel too bad: it’s an iOS-only app built so famous people like athletes, musicians, politicians and other celebrities to communicate directly with their fans. You need to be one of the select few verified users for it to work at all. Once a stream begins…

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Add emoji search to Mac OS X’s menu bar

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There’s already a pretty easy way to bring up the emoji keyboard in OS X – ctrl + cmd + space – but here’s a nice addition to your arsenal: Emojibar. The app, which is still really in its beta form, is a lightweight launcher that sits in your Mac’s menu bar and allows you to quickly search for the ideal ideogram for your current conversation. Get simple emoji search right in the menubar It’s based on the Web service Emoji Searcher, is free and comes in handy if you like using emoji but don’t have my colleague Owen Williams’ encyclopaedic…

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