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Twitter for iOS update enables interactive notifications

Jul27
by on July 27, 2015 at 8:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Twitter for iOS is getting a small but useful update that should make the app a bit more convenient to use. First up, Twitter notifications are now more powerful, allowing you to favorite or reply to tweets while using other apps. The update takes advantage of the new APIs introduced with iOS 8, providing richer functionality to push notifications. Twitter’s also making it easier to access your saved drafts. Now when you begin composing a message, you’ll see a quill icon above the typing field that’ll allow you to quickly view previous messages you were working on and complete that…

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Twitter for iOS update enables interactive notifications

Jul27
by on July 27, 2015 at 8:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Twitter_feat_TNW
Twitter for iOS is getting a small but useful update that should make the app a bit more convenient to use. First up, Twitter notifications are now more powerful, allowing you to favorite or reply to tweets while using other apps. The update takes advantage of the new APIs introduced with iOS 8, providing richer functionality to push notifications. Twitter’s also making it easier to access your saved drafts. Now when you begin composing a message, you’ll see a quill icon above the typing field that’ll allow you to quickly view previous messages you were working on and complete that…

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Fall in love with these gorgeous 8-bit GIFs of Japan

Jul27
by on July 27, 2015 at 7:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Design & Dev, Shareables

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Japan is a country caught between two worlds, blending together its feudal architecture and traditional ways with the fast-paced technology that is so core to its modern identity. Somehow, the series of GIFs developed by Tumblr user 1041uuu captures the beauty and dichotomy of Japanese everyday life. Maybe it has to do with the absolutely nostalgic 8-bit treatment? The animation used in each GIF is very subtle — rain drops, a moving skyline, or cherry blossoms falling off of a tree — which adds to the quaint yet hypnotic elements of each scene. Some focus on the more urban areas of…

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Fall in love with these gorgeous 8-bit GIFs of Japan

Jul27
by on July 27, 2015 at 7:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Design & Dev, Shareables

tumblr_nmvrs6ubl71qze3hdo1_r1_500
Japan is a country caught between two worlds, blending together its feudal architecture and traditional ways with the fast-paced technology that is so core to its modern identity. Somehow, the series of GIFs developed by Tumblr user 1041uuu captures the beauty and dichotomy of Japanese everyday life. Maybe it has to do with the absolutely nostalgic 8-bit treatment? The animation used in each GIF is very subtle — rain drops, a moving skyline, or cherry blossoms falling off of a tree — which adds to the quaint yet hypnotic elements of each scene. Some focus on the more urban areas of…

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FocusMotion lets any wearable become your fitness trainer, no matter how obscure the exercise

Jul27
by on July 27, 2015 at 6:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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There are no shortage of fitness wearables on the market, but many of them do roughly the same thing in different packaging: Sleep tracking, motion detecting, heart rate measuring and the like. FocusMotion wants to be the “Siri for understanding human movement,” by offering an SDK that turns any wearable into a fitness trainer. The SDK works with any OS, and uses a fitness wearable’s gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer and Electromyography to understand the wearer’s movements and pace, allowing developers to program apps around human movements – no matter how obscure. In a demo with FocusMotion’s co-founder Cavan Canavan, he showed me…

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