Update to VSCO Cam photo app for iOS adds support for non-English languages

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The language of images may be universal, but photo app maker Visual Supply Co. (VSCO) is acknowledging that non-English speaking users of its mobile photo filtering apps might need a bit more help with newer versions. An update released today to VSCO for iOS now supports 9 languages in addition to English. Similar multilingual support is on the way to the Android platform shortly. With the new language support, VSCO says it seeks to better serve the 80 percent of users who reside outside of the US, and is taking a phased approach to which languages are added to which platforms. The first phase…

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Venmo now supports shared group accounts

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Venmo is making it easy to manage payments between multiple people. The transactions service is has announced a beta for group accounts. Group accounts essentially act as separate account several people can share for things like paying dues or collecting money for an event. Aside from the usual social Venmo features like commenting or ‘liking’ a transaction, groups also let you add managers to help keep everyone in check. Its a neat addition that could help give it a leg-up over competitors like Square Cash, which traditionally only focus on transactions from person to person. To try it out, you can visit…

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Speak into your microphone and this site turns your words into GIFs… seriously!

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This is one of those occasions when the headline really does say it all. Give Giftawk – a simple site making use of clever APIs – access to your microphone, say something and it’ll grab GIFs from Giphy that it thinks represent those words. It’s hilariously addictive: Realistically, @brokenbottleboy is Straight Outta Norfolk It’s been bumping around the Web for a while – it popped up earlier this summer – but it crept back onto Twitter today. It was created by Etoxin using the Giphy and Webkit speech APIs. ➤ Giftawk [by Etoxin] Read next: This subreddit recreates whole movies with…

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Final Fantasy VII arrives on iOS

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Are you a Final Fantasy fan and own an iOS device? Then you’re in for a treat: Square Enix has just released Final Fantasy VII to the App Store. We knew it was coming: Back at E3, Square Enix announced that the title – arguably its most iconic game – would be coming to iOS devices this summer. It may not be the full remake Square announced at the same event, but we’re sure it’ll make some fans happy while they wait for that to arrive. There’s little info on any new features – it appears to be the same…

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WhatsApp Web is finally coming to iPhone

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WhatsApp Web, which allows you to send messages via the service to your friends from your computer, is rolling out to iPhone users now. iPhone support quietly appeared overnight The WhatsApp website’s list of supported devices quietly gained iPhone today and a user on Reddit spotted the menu option on their iPhone, using it successfully to set up desktop messaging. To check if you have the feature already, head into WhatsApp, then settings and look for WhatsApp Web in the list. Support for pairing with your computer appears to be rolling out right now — it doesn’t appear for me, for…

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Knock Knock: A clever contact-sharing and chat app that will have you tapping your phone

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The team behind contacts management app Humin has today launched a new offering called Knock Knock. Aimed at a college-age crowd, it allows easy contact details sharing and instant group chat. All each person has to do is make a ‘knock knock’ tapping gesture on their phone screen. The knocking gesture, which can be made even when the phone screen is off and the app isn’t active, will initiate an instant Bluetooth connection to pair you up with other app users in the vicinity. You can then choose exactly what contact information you share with each person – be it your…

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5 highly specific niche dating apps

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They say there are plenty of fish in the sea. The digital sea, however, is sometimes too full of fish. Online dating services help to narrow it all down to a small pond of fish that interest you. Companies like Grindr and JDate saw opportunities in catering to a specific community as online dating was becoming more popular. Social acceptability appears to be bittersweet for online dating, however. Whereas in the past it came with social stigma attached, it has since come into the mainstream only to find itself at the center of controversy. Recently an article made the rounds…

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Mailbox for Mac has been updated but that’s bad news for many users

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Mailbox for Mac quietly got a big update for the first time in months today from version 0.3 right up to to 0.7, with a new design and a number of improvements. It’s now sporting a much cleaner design, snappier animations and feels like a more fully-fledged app than the previous version. Small touches like icons in the settings have been tweaked and the app overall loads much faster. Unfortunately the new version appears to have a number of bugs and no longer supports any version of OS X below Yosemite. Users on Twitter and the Mailbox forum are complaining that…

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Relocating or just nosey? Knocker now makes it easy to explore the UK property market

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Knocker started as an iOS app designed for a very specific situation – exploring the property market around you, wherever in the UK you happened to be. It was apparent that the neat-card based interface could work for other use cases though, so today, it’s been expanded with a search feature that allows you to have a nosey at properties all over the country. Property search apps tend to be quite involved, with lots of variables to work through before you get to see what’s on the market. Knocker, on the other hand, simply asks you ‘Where would you like to…

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