DU Speed Booster is the best-kept secret weapon for cleaning trash off your Android phone

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Android is a powerful, flexible operating system, but the wrong combination of apps — or simply too many apps — can eat up system resources and leave your phone feeling sluggish and difficult to use. That’s where a speed-boosting cache cleaner can be a life saver. As an Android user browsing the Google Play store, the hard part is gauging the efficacy of these apps and choosing one that works well. With that in mind, we’ve selected a relatively popular (but not yet “household name” popular) app to put to the test: DU Speed Booster. DU Speed Booster promises to…

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Outlook for iOS can now open and edit attachments with Office apps

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Microsoft has updated its Outlook and Office apps for iPhone and iPad to allow users to open and edit attachments in Word, Excel and PowerPoint more easily. Outlook users can now open Office documents that they receive as attachments in their respective apps. In case you don’t have them installed, Outlook will prompt you to download them with an App Store link. You can now open documents directly in Office apps using Outlook What’s especially nifty is that after you’ve edited the the document, tapping Back will return you to Outlook with your file attached in a reply, ready to go.…

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Swarm 3.0, over-gamified, missed its chance with me

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Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who, over time, forgot the little things that mattered? And, when you purposefully address that he or she doesn’t take you out anymore, that person careens, full-blown, so hard into the other direction that it’s almost too obvious how far they want to address their failures? That, everyone, is Swarm’s latest incarnation in a nutshell. After spending nearly a year in existence without a single gamified feature (a mistake so glaring it never left my mind every check-in), the folks at Foursquare seem to have overcorrected for the error. First, Swarm revived…

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Yoroomie wants to help you find the perfect roommate before you even move

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Finding a roommate you get along with often seems like winning a lottery. Instead of leaving it up to chance, Yoroomie wants to make it a vetting process by creating a social forum just for finding someone to split the cable bill with. The missive is simple; you create a profile, and find a new roommate based on the area you want to live in (which makes it perfect when relocating to a strange new place). If you find someone who seems like a decent fit, all profiles have a chat feature so you can start conversing straight away. Yoroomie…

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Google Photos will trigger your nostalgia with new Timehop-like feature

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Google wants to help you take a stroll down memory lane. The company is today introducing a feature that allows you to resurface photos and videos from the current calendar date in previous years. The feature is thankfully opt-in, so you won’t have to be reminded of your embarrassing behavior at parties or that old terrible haircut. Once you activate the feature, you’ll see cards in the Assistant view that will showcase a collage of photos, people and places from that date. These can then be shared through email or social media, although the photos are kept private until you…

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Flipboard now lets you curate your Cover Stories feed by voting articles up or down

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Flipboard is making it easier for users to dictate what they want to see in their Cover Stories feed. A new thumbs up/thumbs down voting scheme will curate more of what you like, and let you banish articles you don’t. It’s technology pinched from Zite, the popular news reader Flipboard purchased last year. As you come across articles you like, simply vote on whether or not you’d like to see more. To vote, just click the new carat at the top right of your screen, and you’ll see the voting options. The curation is crowdsourced; Flipboard monitors what other readers…

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Google supercharges Android Wear with interactive watch faces

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Google is about to make your Android Wear watch faces a lot more useful. The company is today adding support for interactive watch faces, which allow you to access more information or change settings right from your time display without needing to open up a separate app. It showed off a few third party examples that have already implemented the new functionality. One watch face called Bits allows you to choose from a variety of at a glance information, allowing you to add weather, mail or calendar complications. An Under Armour watch face will let you see info like your step…

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Giphy Cam aims to make your crazy impulses easier to capture

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Life is hard. But it would be infinitely harder to imagine what it would be like without all those goofy looping GIFs that now, more than ever, keep us giggling. Even if you never made a GIF in your life — and never intend to (never say never) — you already know Giphy as the master of a vast repository of all kinds of animated craziness. And today Giphy aims to get you into the act with the release of Giphy Cam, its own GIF maker. No longer must you rely on your own resources to create GIF animations for Giphy,…

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Instagram quietly removes option to post to your Photomap, killing stalkers’ dreams

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It appears that Instagram has quietly removed its “Add to Photomap” option with its most recent update. While you can still tag images with a location, they won’t be fed onto the map anymore. You can also finally tag images with locations other than where you are posting from, on iOS anyway. I recently wrote about the dangers of having the feature turned on after well-known British Formula One driver Jenson Button and his wife Jessica Michibata had their holiday home broken into and a very pricey engagement ring stolen, not long after a photo of the ring had been posted…

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