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Relook for iOS applies sophisticated touch-ups to portraits

Jun04
by on June 4, 2015 at 2:37 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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With the explosion of selfies — this phenomenon will not fade anytime soon — the emphasis is no longer on how to capture pictures of yourself and your friends but how to make everyone look their best. Let’s face it, even extremely attractive people have days when their look could stand some improvement. Sumoing, the company behind Camo and Repix, has released a new app called Relook, which is designed to enhance whatever native beauty subjects might possess. Its non-destructive retouching technology is engineered to diminish the appearance of pores, wrinkles, oil and highlights while at the same time preserving a natural look…

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Twitter hid behind its developer agreement to shut Politwoops down, and it could get messy

Jun03
by on June 3, 2015 at 11:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Politwoops, a website which caches deleted tweets from politicians, has been shut down by Twitter. Speaking to Gawker, Twitter says Sunlight Foundation, which ran the site, violated its developer agreement. Earlier today we spoke to the Sunlight Foundation, to tell them we will not restore Twitter API access for their Politwoops site. We strongly support Sunlight’s mission of increasing transparency in politics and using civic tech and open data to hold government accountable to constituents, but preserving deleted Tweets violates our developer agreement. Honoring the expectation of user privacy for all accounts is a priority for us, whether the user is…

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Google’s Android keyboard can now sync your custom dictionary across devices

Jun03
by on June 3, 2015 at 11:47 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Google’s Android keyboard is receiving a few nifty new updates today. Chief among them, the app can now sync your custom dictionaries across devices. Android Police spotted the update with version 4.1 of the keyboard app, which appears to be rolling out to users today. The feature appears to be disabled on devices using Google Apps for Business however; the option is greyed out on my own device, even though I have a regular Gmail account as well. It’s a neat feature if you own multiple Android devices or tend to buy new phones frequently; having to re-teach autocorrect that…

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Google’s notification menu no longer has Google+ branding

Jun03
by on June 3, 2015 at 10:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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Google has made another move away from social, changing “Google+ Notifications” on the web to “Google Notifications.” In addition to the new header text in the notification drop-down pane, Google+ post notifications now have their own icon. Previously, notifications from other Google properties like Blogger had icons while social updates did not. Though Google has said social is still important for them, there seems to be an ongoing effort to relegate it. At I/O last week, Google Photos was announced — essentially a standalone version of the popular Google+ Photos app. Similarly, the Google+ link on google.com was replaced with an icon in…

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