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  • Alfred workflow creation tool

    Upcoming Alfred 2.0 app adding Workflows, a simple visual tool for creating strings of actions By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Ver­sion 2 of pop­u­lar OS X launch­er app Alfred was announced last week, and we’re now see­ing one of the big­ger new fea­tures that’s set to come with it. Called Work­flows, it’s a set of trig­gers,…

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  • Apps for iPad that let anyone watch cable channels for free

    History, A&E, and Lifetime Channel apps for iPad let anyone watch current episodes for free By Dante D’Orazio, theverge.com It may con­tin­ue to be a pain for cable sub­scribers to watch tele­vi­sion when mobile, but the sit­u­a­tion should be a bit improved now that apps for the His­to­ry Chan­nel, A&E, and Life­time are avail­able for…

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  • Adobe finally gives up on desktop software, embraces the creative cloud

    With 326K Paid Of 1M Total Members, Adobe Adds Teams To Creative Cloud, Subscriber-Exclusive Updates To Photoshop CS6 Darrell Etherington, techcrunch.com Adobe is host­ing an event today to show off some new updates it’s mak­ing for its Cre­ative Cloud offer­ings, but here’s an advance look: The ser­vice is get­ting a num­ber of exclu­sive updates that…

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  • Diabetes prevention goes digital

    NEA-Backed Omada Health Launches Its 16-Week Digital Health Program To Bring Diabetes Prevention Online Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Last Decem­ber, Omada Health raised $800K in seed fund­ing from a host of angel and ven­ture investors, includ­ing NEA, Aber­dare, Kapor Cap­i­tal, Triple­Point Ven­tures and Esther Dyson — to name a few. A grad­u­ate of Rock Health’s first…

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  • Buffer social media turns from websites to mobile streams

    With Over 400,000 Users, Social Media Manager Buffer Gets A Refresh On Web & Mobile, Moves Away From Being A Destination Site Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com Buffer, the social media man­ag­er that allows you to sched­ule posts to Twit­ter, Face­book and LinkedIn, is today launch­ing a redesign of its ser­vice on both web and mobile. The…

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  • Check this online posters

    Checkthis Updates Its Social Posters: Share Visually Compelling Content Without Setting Up A Blog Romain Dillet, techcrunch.com Check­this received a major update today, mak­ing it more than ever a visu­al com­ple­ment to the text-only updates on social net­works. The ser­vice enables users to cre­ate com­pelling posters and share them with their friends. But users now…

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  • Loccit converts your Facebook media into physical stuff

    UK Startup Loccit Sells 8k Facebook ‘Memory Books’ In 48 Hours, Wants To Turn Your Digital Media Footprint Into Physical Stuff Natasha Lomas, techcrunch.com There’s a cot­tage indus­try of star­tups that want to sell your social net­work­ing con­tent back to you in a new form, such as Past­Book and Mem­olane. Loc­c­it, a UK-based ecom­merce start­up…

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  • Scoop.it lets you create your own digital magazines

    Content Curation Startup, Scoop.it, Rolls Out Big New Redesign To Help Businesses & Pros Increase Their Visibility Online Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Scoop.it launched last Novem­ber to give any­one and every­one the abil­i­ty to cre­ate their own dig­i­tal mag­a­zines — to aggre­gate and dis­trib­ute con­tent from across ye olde Inter­nets accord­ing to their par­tic­u­lar inter­ests —…

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  • Artist visualizes his life online

    BigPic: Two And A Half Years Of Computer Use In One Incredible Image By Colin Lecher, popsci.com A map of when artist Marcin Ignac used his computer, when he didn’t, and what he was seeing For a project titled Every Day of My Life, artist/programmer/designer Marcin Ignac used soft­ware to track, mea­sure, and visu­al­ize his…

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  • How to describe environmental science to conservatives

    Concept Of “Purity” Makes Conservatives Care About Environmental Issues By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com Re-framing environmental rhetoric so it appeals to conservatives can really work, a study finds. It’s not that polit­i­cal con­ser­v­a­tives don’t care about things like cli­mate change, recy­cling and deforestation—it’s that they don’t care ab… RT @PopSci: Pro tip: Framing environmental issues in…

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  • Visualizing aging via web app stimulates financial literacy

    Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money By Colin Lecher, popsci.com People save more for retirement when they see older versions of themselves, so Merrill Edge is more than happy to make you look old and wrinkly. Did you know that if you see an age-enhanced ver­sion of your­self, you’re more…

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  • DIY drone filmmaking replaces expensive Hollywood tech

    Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a stylish skateboarding video shot with a drone By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Skate­board­ers have been tap­ing their tricks with jury-rigged video setups since the advent of cam­corders, but the pro­duc­ers of short and beau­ti­ful video Fire­fly took the next log­i­cal step: using a cam­era mount­ed to a hexa­copte… Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a…

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