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Review: Deliveroo brings food from restaurants that don’t deliver (and existential angst)

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by Sindy Cator on July 28, 2015 at 4:59 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

We are lazy, pampered, awful people. You’re not? If you’re here reading about food delivery services, you definitely are. Like me, you can press a button and make someone bring you food. At any other time in history that would be seen as so decadent that revolutionaries would be plotting to cut off your head, powdered wig and all. JustEat and its many rivals have taught us that ordering take out food can be so simple that we don’t need to interact with a human being. At a push, you have to talk to the driver. Tuck in at Tuk…

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Facebook ordered to allow Germans to use fake names

Jul28

by Sindy Cator on July 28, 2015 at 4:33 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

If you want to use a pseudonym on Facebook, Germany is where you want to be. The Hamburg data protection authority, which regulates Facebook in Germany, has ruled the service can’t force Germans to use their real names. Additionally, Facebook is prohibited from asking German citizens to provide an official ID. The ruling spawned from an incident with a woman who had her Facebook account blocked for using a fake name. After blocking her, Facebook changed her name to reflect her real identity, and requested a copy of her ID to unlock the account. The Hamburg data protection authority says the…

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AwareCar will tell you where you parked (and remind you to put change in the meter)

Jul28

by Sindy Cator on July 28, 2015 at 4:30 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

There’s a lot you can learn from your car via in-dash dongles like Automatic, but if you’re more interested in interacting with your car, AwareCar may be for you. With an app and a Bluetooth beacon, you’ll get relevant, location-based info — all for $9. The actual hardware is nothing more than a small Bluetooth beacon you slip in your car. The AwareCar team tells us those beacons will normally transmit at 20 meters or so, but the range can drop to 5 meters depending on where you stash it in your car (they recommend the glove box). The goal is…

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Harpoon will help freelancers spear invoicing and time tracking in one handy service

Jul28

by Sindy Cator on July 28, 2015 at 4:00 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev

Freelancers all have the same underlying issues; tracking hours and billing clients. Often, the solution comes via a patchwork of disparate apps and services, but Harpoon is hoping to change all of that with a suite that includes financial planning, invoicing and hour tracking. Harpoon lets its users track hours spent on projects, set financial goals, track revenue, and invoice clients. When an invoice is sent via Harpoon, you’ll know when it was viewed. Information is extrapolated from data you enter (like time worked on the project) so you won’t even have to take time to manually create an invoice.…

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VSCO updates its mobile apps with a new Collections feature for expanded image curation

Jul28

by Sindy Cator on July 28, 2015 at 4:00 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Visual Supply Company (VSCO), makers of digital film emulation presets and camera profiles, has debuted Collections, a new feature for its VSCO Cam apps on iOS and Android. Collections allows mobile users, for the first time, to curate their VSCO profile with images from the community and interact with each other via the app. Curation has long been an essential part of VSCO’s mobile apps, but until now, it has been the sole province of the company’s staff within the apps’ Grid feature. But this highlights only a small portion of the content on the platform. The new Collection feature widens the scope…