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iOS 9 lets you receive iPhone calls on your Mac without being on the same WiFi network

Jun10
by on June 10, 2015 at 9:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Continuity – the ability to hand off your iPhone calls and text messages to your Mac, iPad or Apple Watch – was one of the coolest features to come with OS X 10.10 Yosemite. It’s pretty limited, however, in that your phone and other devices need to be connected to the same WiFi network for it to work. It looks like that’s changing with iOS 9. A T-Mobile rep informed us that an update to Continuity in iOS 9 – including the current developer beta – will let you to receive phone calls on your Apple devices even if they’re…

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Everything we know about Oculus’ big event tomorrow

Jun10
by on June 10, 2015 at 8:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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Gamers and tech enthusiasts have always been keen for virtual reality — something that seems to be perpetually on the horizon but never fully realized. Tomorrow, Oculus is taking another step toward making VR real for the masses with a pre-E-3 press extravaganza outlining the details of its new Rift VR headset. Oculus will take the wraps off information about its consumer model from a live event in San Francisco tomorrow at 10:00 am Pacific time. It will be livestreamed via various sources, including on Oculus.com or its official Twitch channel. In anticipation, Oculus VR has unveiled a new website and logo. Oculus Rift, which as acquired by…

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Twitter now allows you to shoot and upload landscape videos

Jun10
by on June 10, 2015 at 7:51 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Sharing video via Twitter just got a lot better, as the social platform now allows users to shoot and share landscape videos. Prior to this announcement, all video uploaded to Twitter had to be in portrait mode. If they were in landscape, Twitter would trim them to square. New! Capture, share and expand your view of the world with landscape video on Twitter: https://t.co/BGLNEWaCjI pic.twitter.com/tZoZaJliiw — Twitter (@twitter) June 10, 2015 To use the new landscape mode in the Twitter app, simply select to add a photo to your post. Select the camera icon, and click the red video button. Turn your…

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Reddit has banned 5 subreddits under its new guidelines to prevent harassment

Jun10
by on June 10, 2015 at 7:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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In another move to eliminate trolling and hateful commentary, Reddit has banned five subreddits that violate harassment rules. The subreddits — which all have terribly offensive names, even if you’re not the target of such vitriol — violate “rules based on their harassment of individuals”, according to Reddit. Only one of the subreddits had over 5,000 members. This is the latest ploy by Reddit to make the forums more user-friendly, and leans heavily on its fresh harassment policy. Instead of relying on moderators to decide what defines harrassment, Reddit created rules to determine what was offensive. Those rules now extend beyond user…

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PennyOwl wants to help your kids get savvy with their finances

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by on June 10, 2015 at 6:05 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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As mobile devices slowly take over children’s toys, allowance app PennyOwl is on a mission to help parents raise money smart kids. The app officially launches today in the US for iOS and Android and is free to download. The aim of PennyOwl is to get children started on managing their finances the right way. There are many pocket-money apps out there already, such as iAllowance, but PennyOwl differentiates itself by letting kids learn with real-money and its newsfeed feature. The content shown on the newsfeed is chosen to teach kids about finances in an age-appropriate way, using examples that would appeal…

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