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Disney is working on bringing its animated characters to life – as robots

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by on May 26, 2015 at 5:06 pm
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In 2008, Disney unleashed an animatronic Dinosaur – named Lucky – on to the streets of Disney California Adventure Park at Disneyland. Lucky was such a huge success with park goers that he started to tour other parks, such as Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Walt Disney World Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, and even The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles in an effort to test both the feasibility and the feedback of such a character. The success of Lucky – as well as the animatronic singing and dancing characters in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction – has captured the attention of the…

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Rename your Mac screenshots into something useful with Tiny for Mac

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by on May 26, 2015 at 4:41 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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If you’re like me, you take a lot of screenshots on your Mac as you work throughout the day. Taking screenshots is as easy as Cmd+Shift+4 and click and drag. But when you take these screenshots, the file name is simply something like “Screen Shot 2015-05-25 at 9.29.43 AM.”  In other words, the name doesn’t really help you figure out exactly what you took a screenshot of. Sure, you can always see what it is in a Finder window with Cover Flow view on, but that still doesn’t change the name. With Tiny for Mac (listed today on Product Hunt), you can…

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Watch now: Brian Solis on the future of business

May26
by on May 26, 2015 at 4:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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No one will remember your failures, but everyone will remember your success. Digital marketing analyst Brian Solis thinks we are living in very disruptive time and this is the time to change the future. Digital disruption is happening to us and it is happening because of us. Brian says that the rules are there to be broken because it isn’t the past that can hold us back. It’s the future and how we undermine it today. We’ve just added Brian Solis’ talk from the TNW Europe Conference 2014 to our TNW Video site and you can watch it right now…

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iOS 9 to reportedly support Force Touch, fix shift key and open up Apple Pay to Canada

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by on May 26, 2015 at 3:27 pm
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A new report by 9to5Mac claims that Apple plans to support force touch in iOS 9 for future addition to the iPhone 6s, along with a number of other enhancements to existing features in tow. Apple Pay and Passbook will reportedly gain Canadian support in iOS 9, although the infrastructure and agreements with Canadian banks may not be finalized in time for launch. Alongside this, the company plans to tweak the keyboard to work better in both landscape and portrait keyboard mode and will make it easier to tell when the shift key is selected. Apple’s WWDC event kicks off on June…

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7 great in-app messaging tactics that boost user engagement

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by on May 26, 2015 at 2:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Consider for a moment the idea that by 2016, 2 billion global citizens will be tilting their necks down to learn, play and produce with their smartphones (according to eMarketer). They are the both the creators and consumers, the buyers and the sellers. And they have information coming at them from every which way, meaning it is time to have your brand stand out above the notification noise. In-app messaging is an obvious brand-building tool for the ability to share a direct, personalized message. However it does need to be implemented and executed with expertise. If not done well, this tool…

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