Markbook is another place to save content you probably won’t read later

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I’ve previously written about my struggle to read all the articles I’ve saved for later. Things haven’t got easier since, but I still appreciate tools that help me curate content to read at some point, and Markbook’s a new one that tech enthusiasts will enjoy. The Web app pairs with a Chrome extension to collect links from your favorites and upvotes on Twitter, Product Hunt, HackerNews, Github and Medium. It then lets you organize them into collections for easy reference. Markbook in action What’s neat about Markbook is that once you’ve installed the Chrome extension, you don’t need to set…

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Why a guy who rapped about HTML and a former ‘Masterchef’ contestant built a property app

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Each week we’re profiling one company that has been selected for Boost – our early-stage startup growth program. Catch up with these companies in person at The Next Web Conference in New York on November 18. It’s hard to knock Knocker, the app I previously described as “Tinder for UK property,” because it does its job so smoothly. Built upon data from Zoopla, the iOS app makes swiping through available places to let and buy, incredibly easy and actually enjoyable. The app was created by two Manchester-based entrepreneurs Jon Grant and Sam Easterby-Smith. I dropped them a line to find…

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Wattpad, a community for writers, appears to have been hacked

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Wattpad, a community where both published and aspiring authors can share stories, appears to have been hacked. A few users are reporting the company sent an email out to its members earlier today informing them it identified a breach back in May: so I’m not familiar with wattpad but it just got haxxored http://pic.twitter.com/l9a1lJ0aEM — ಠ_ಠ (@MikeIsaac) August 6, 2015 If you’re not familiar, Wattpad is largely known for its extensive fan fiction catalog, although categories range from Romance to Mystery to ‘Werewolf’ and pretty much everything in between. The community is made up of over 40 million uses who’ve…

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Darkroom 2 for iOS adds granular color editing tool and filter sharing via Instagram

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Darkroom, an app many already like for editing photos on iOS, has been updated. Version 2 brings in an embarrassment of new tools and features, with an improved color altering tool and the ability to share your custom filters. The color tool now lets you choose distinct color profiles in your photo, and adjust the hue, saturation and luminance of each. The filter sharing feature lets you forward your presets to others, but does so in a unique way. When you post a picture to Instagram, others can take a screenshot of your photo, and an on-image QR code automatically makes…

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GameOn rallies sports fans with news, stickers and trash talk

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Sports fan culture is binary: either you get it or you don’t. For those willing to go down the rabbit hole for their favorite sport or local team, there’s endless amounts of blogs, publications, columns and hot takes to sink your teeth into. But there isn’t really an efficient way to connect with other fans of the same sport, outside the comments section of blogs, a fantasy league chatroom or countless message boards devoted to the topic. GameOn, an app for iOS and Android that comes out of beta today, is designed to fill that hole in a sports fan’s toolkit by providing private…

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Carrot’s smartass weather app comes to Mac

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Carrot’s special brand of apps insult you to get fit, motivate you to do your task list or tell you the weather in unique ways. Now, the company is bringing Carrot Weather to the Mac for the first time. Just like the mobile app, Carrot Weather for Mac taps into Dark Sky’s accurate rain predictions to deliver the weather in entertaining ways. It talks using Siri’s voice to tell you today’s weather, complete with jokes, insults and actual predictions. Notifications from the app tell you if it’s going to start raining or if there’s severe weather on the way. Carrot Weather for Mac…

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HBO Now can stream to Chromecast starting today

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If you’re a Chromecast owner that loves some ‘Game of Thrones’ or ‘Silicon Valley,’ you’re in for a treat: you can now stream HBO Now content to everyone’s favorite Google dongle. The changelog for the most recent version of the iOS app mentions the new support, in addition to newly-implemented push notifications and the expected bug fixes. There’s no Android support as of the time of writing, but we’d imagine it’ll arrive soon. Update 11:54 AM ET: It’s on Android now too. TechCrunch notes that Roku support will also likely arrive in due time. While HBO no longer lists Roku under…

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This experiment instantly tells you how real your Twitter followers are

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Beneath the surface of Twitter – and frequently bursting up into view – are the armies of spam bots and zombie accounts. Use any one of the many follower analysis tools out there you and you’ll quickly discover that many seemingly massive names on the social network have followings inflated by fakers. While there are already lots of ways to see how real your followers are, here’s a ridiculously simple little experimental service that makes it possible to simply tweet someone’s @name at a friendly Twitter bot and get analysis back. @brokenbottleboy about 66.38% of their followers are active (MAUs), and…

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Stay secure online with a lifetime of TigerVPN Lite

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If you want to stay private and secure online, using a Virtual Private Network is essential in today’s hacker-heavy world. The unlimited bandwidth of TigerVPN Lite means the protection doesn’t affect your browsing preferences and routines. By routing your data via intermediary servers, TigerVPN makes it almost impossible for anyone to trace your online activity. You can choose from 15 nodes, which are spread across 41 countries on 5 different continents. This means you can select a nearby server for maximum speed, or go elsewhere to access region-locked services, such as Netflix and Skype. The servers are optimized for a…

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