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SoundCloud for iOS update adds related tracks playback and better playlist management

Jul02

by Sindy Cator on July 2, 2015 at 3:32 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

SoundCloud for iOS is getting a few updates to help you customize your music experience. Now you can use a ‘play related tracks’ option to create an unlimited stream of similar music on the platform. You can also now repost and share music you’ve liked, or songs you find while doing a search. Meanwhile, liked tracks and playlists are getting a shuffle option should you feel like mixing things up a bit. You can also now curate these lists right on your phone. Tapping the three dot meny button will open a list of options that will allow you to modify your tracklist. The updated SoundCloud…

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Remember Facebook’s Rooms app? It just got a big update

Jul02

by Sindy Cator on July 2, 2015 at 2:35 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Things have been relatively quiet for Facebook’s Room app – a platform that mashes up forums with subreddit-like ‘rooms’ anyone can create – since its launch last October, but today it recieved a notable upgrade on iOS. Now users can add photos and videos to their comments, which should make for a much more vibrant overall community. Moderators can also now pin posts to the top of a room, as well as unban users who’d previously been forbidden access. There are also some interface improvements; scrolling through posts is now quicker, for instance. The update is rolling out to iOS users today via…

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Beet for iOS is a refreshingly strong rival for Snapchat

Jul02

by Sindy Cator on July 2, 2015 at 2:19 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Beet is a social video app for iOS that lets you take quick videos you can share in the form of Stories. And no, it’s not the same as Snapchat. The app’s founders have a very different goal – to help people regain online spontaneity by telling the stories of their life through quick and emotive, montage-style video clips. Each video can only be six seconds long and you can add as many clips to it as you can fit. Your profile displays all of your moments (unless you’ve deleted them) in circular icons and any new Stories you create are displayed…

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Will the LGBT rainbow flag become an official emoji? You can affect the debate

Jul02

by Sindy Cator on July 2, 2015 at 2:02 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

The group that decides which emoji make it to your next phone is debating if the LGBT flag should be added, following the United States Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage across the country. The Unicode Consortium kicked off a debate on June 26 when Noah Slater, community manager at ASF, suggested adding the LGBT flag on the group’s mailing list. Slater references that Facebook, Twitter and other social networks have adopted LGBT emoji and says it should become part of the standard: It is Pride Month and the US just legalised queer marriage in every state. No better time to start a…

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Ruby on Rails training from BaseRails : Get your 2-year subscription

Jul02

by Sindy Cator on July 2, 2015 at 1:05 pm

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In recent years, Ruby on Rails has become one of the most popular frameworks for web-app development. BaseRails teaches it from the ground up, using projects to give you hands-on practice. Over seven courses, you learn first the fundamentals, and then the more advanced end of coding with Ruby. Along the way, you are given guided assignments, such as building a web scraper to collect data, or a restaurant review site. These projects require you to apply the skills you have learned in the video tutorials, and they make perfect additions to your development portfolio. As you improve, you learn…