InboxVudu’s new iOS app helps you conquer your email to-do list

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Email-first startups are still a relatively rare breed, but Sunrise, Timehop and Product Hunt are all notable examples of services that started off sending out useful emails to users, only later expanding into an app or website. InboxVudu now joins the list, with the added twist that it’s an email-first startup focused on email. After beginning with a daily email picking out to-do list action points from your inbox, it first expanded with a Chrome extension and has now launched an iOS and Apple Watch app. The iOS offering has a ‘Highlights’ tab that picks out the emails it thinks contain requests you…

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Pushbullet adds end-to-end encryption as it continues shift into messaging

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Pushbullet, once a simple tool for sending files between your various devices, has announced that it now supports end-to-end encryption for additional user privacy, as it continues its march towards becoming a fully-fledged messenger. Announced in a blog post, the new encryption is applied across notifications that are mirrored between devices, any text captured by the universal copy-and-paste option and any SMS messages that are sent using the platform. Once enabled (achieved by entering a password on each device), it means that data passed using Pushbullet isn’t visible to the service itself or the company – only encrypted data is…

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Wildcard relaunches as a beautiful way to get the news you care about

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Wildcard, which launched in late 2014 as a way to browse the Web as cards instead of webpages, is launching version two of its app today and it looks very different (in a good way). The original vision was a type of browser that presented data as cards, to help users decipher the information that mattered in a meaningful way. Today’s update changes that focus to hone in on news and nothing more. It’s an attractive update that I’ve been using for the last few days and presents the news in a very readable way. It’s very simple right now, with a…

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Snowball for Android is like an adblocker for your notifications

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Notifications have got significantly better on Android over the past couple of years, allowing you to interact with them without having to launch the app in question. But increasingly, developers are bombarding people with promotions and reminders to use their apps more, often adding little or no real value to the experience. Snowball gives Android users some respite. The app prioritizes critical notifications — like messages, email and calendar alerts — and displays them above unimportant ones like those from games and shopping apps. Snowball makes it easy to manage your notifications and surface important ones You can still act…

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Plex for iOS gets total redesign, better sync and Rotten Tomatoes integration

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It’s been a long time since Plex updated its iOS app, but today it’s announced a major overhaul that brings a number of new features and makes the app available for free. The first thing you’ll notice is the revamp of how the app actually works. The overhauled Plex iOS app The old shelf layout has been dropped for a design that’s more in line with how the Web app feels; it’s broken up into what’s ‘on deck’ and recently added, with the content you were last watching right at the top. In each section you’ll get recommendations similar to how they’re…

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No more swiping: Now, you should choose one out of two people

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Want to meet new people? Ttrot is a new app that can really help. Ttrot is all about connecting strangers online. Simply select the gender and the country or city you’re interested in and the app gets to work. Once you’ve searched, Ttrot shows you two people who match the gender and location you’re interested in. Tap the one you prefer and you can follow each other and enjoy conversations on the public boards within the app. It’s just like relaxing and mingling at a cocktail party with new friends. Whether you want to make local friends, friends from your…

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Corel Painter 2016 launches with innovative brush technologies and interface enhancements

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Corel has launched Painter 2016, a new version of the venerable painting app for Mac and Windows. Released today, the upgrade introduces new brush technologies as well as performance and interface improvements and enhanced learning modules designed to benefit newcomers. New brush tech First, there’s the 131 brand new brushes added to the app, paired with new brush technologies that infuse those brushes with new capabilities. With Audio Expression, Painter’s brushes react to sound so that playing music in the background or directly from your computer allows you to modify the size, angle and color variations of certain brushes. Audio Expressions Another new dimension to Painter 2016’s…

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Corel debuts ParticleShop brush plug-in for Photoshop, featuring dynamic special effects

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Corel has released ParticleShop, a new brush plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. The plug-in — the first in a series of five such packages for Photoshop — provide dynamically generated effects for your images so that brush strokes “spawn, live and die” as you apply them to your image. Painter’s particle brush engine lets the plug-in emit short-lived particles that flow out from the center of the brushstroke across the canvas and then gradually fade if you hold the brush in place. As the strokes flow, they can change path for movement that ranges from controlled to chaotic. Strokes can be applied via a pressure-sensitive tablet, touchscreen or…

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Dreamify for Android creates trippy images from your photos using Google’s Deep Dream tech

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A couple of months ago, Google created a visualization tool to understand how neural networks operate. It also open sourced the code for the Deep Dream project, allowing users to run images and video through it to get some interesting results. With Dreamify for Android, you can do the same with photos from your mobile device. A sample image (left) run through Dreamify made for some interesting results (right) The app lets you take or upload an image, choose any of 12 presets, adjust parameters like iterations and layers, and voilà! A bizarro image that looks like something you might…

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