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You can now go from Couch to 5K on Android

Jul23

by Sindy Cator on July 23, 2015 at 4:42 pm

Clear Sky Apps has undergone a makeover recently and rebranded itself to Fitness22. The developer is best know for its lifestyle and fitness apps like Couch to 5K Runner and Sleep Pillow Sounds, and now it’s releasing them on Android as well. Android users can download Couch to 5K Runner and Push Ups 0 to 100 now and the company says that soon its entire suite of apps will be there. Fitness22 has also released four new apps with tailored exercises for women – Great Abs, Great Butt, Great Legs and 7-Minute workout. Promising quick results, all of the apps requires 10…

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Twitter should copy Slack’s emoji favorites right now

Jul23

by Sindy Cator on July 23, 2015 at 4:29 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion

What do you mean when you favorite something on Twitter? That you like it? Simply that you saw it? That you want to save the link for later? Right now, that little star has a plethora of meanings. But I think I know how to fix that: Slack’s emoji favoriting feature, which lets you respond to a message with whatever emoji you fancy selecting, is the perfect solution to this particular Twitter intention gap. Emoji of @boris responding to picture of @boris. Yep. The great advantage of bringing emoji favoriting to the social network would be freeing up the ‘star’…

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Meerkat will soon let GoPro users livestream via its iOS app

Jul23

by Sindy Cator on July 23, 2015 at 4:20 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

The next time someone hijacks your Meerkat stream, they may be in high definition. At VidCon, a conference for online video creators, Meerkat announced it would soon allow GoPro streaming. According to CNBC, Meerkat will allow streaming directly from a GoPro so long as it’s linked to an iPhone with the Meerkat app. Currently, only the GoPro3 and GoPro4 will be supported. No word on Android support yet, but if history tells us anything, we’ll see the feature land there in a few months. For Meerkat, high definition may be the first true killer feature that separates it from rival Periscope.…

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Slack gets Google Calendar integration to stop you forgetting meetings

Jul23

by Sindy Cator on July 23, 2015 at 3:59 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

This might be Slack’s most useful integration yet: Google Calendar is available from today. The integration can remind on both a group and personal level. For example, as a team you can add a shared Google Calendar to a channel so meeting reminders are dropped there for everyone to see. If you’d prefer reminders just for yourself, you can add your personal calendar and Slackbot will happily directly message you reminders instead. The integration can also post calendar summaries so you (or the entire channel) can get a daily list of what’s on the agenda. To set up Google Calendar, just head over…

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This is how Britain responded to ‘Star Wars’ in 1977

Jul23

by Sindy Cator on July 23, 2015 at 2:55 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables

There was once a time when ‘Star Wars’ was just another odd science fiction caper from a weird director with an ill-advised beard. This week’s arrival of 500,000 archive clips on YouTube from British Movietone and the Associated Press has revealed a lot of things – including a weird dog training regime and a demo of the first modern synth – but for geeks, this clip about how ‘Star Wars’ was received in Britain, when it was released in 1977, is the best so far. Drink in the plummy announcer declaring: “The attendance at ‘Star Wars’ has been astronomic. In…