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Pext makes it easy to create and send custom memes in your messages

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by on May 25, 2015 at 5:07 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches, Product Reviews

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There are many, many services out there for sending messages, and there are also a whole bunch that will bring you a seemingly endless supply of memes at the press of a (virtual) button. And now there’s Pext, which combines the two for iOS and Android users. Launched in beta last week, the idea behind Pext is pretty simple: send a message of a custom image overlaid with your text. Easy, automated meme creation. Once you’ve entered your phone number and verified your account, you just need to start typing and Pext will automatically add an image for you. If you don’t like it, you…

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Inherited type: meet the artist behind the Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud fonts

May25
by on May 25, 2015 at 3:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Einstein, Elizabeth Waterhouse, fonts, Freud, Harald Geisler, Shareables, typefaces

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Someone writing a letter to their therapist in the Freud’s handwriting: That was the image that inspired German typographic artist Harald Geisler to develop a typeface based on the famous psychoanalyst’s script. His vision became a reality following a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2013. He says: It motivates me, because the process is very long, to have that image in mind. With Freud, it was that funny idea that someone could write a letter to their shrink in Freud’s handwriting, to reverse the authority. Now a lot of psychoanalysts I know use the font. One psychology student in Australia even…

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Amazon to start paying ‘proper’ sales tax in Europe following increased pressure

May25
by on May 25, 2015 at 1:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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You know how massive corporations often find clever and completely legal ways of paying less tax than they really should despite it being a reprehensible and predatory way to do business with an entire nation? Well, Amazon has caved into pressure from Europe and will soon start paying tax on items it sells in the UK and some other European countries, according to reports over the weekend. It previously routed those transactions through Luxembourg, known as a favourable location for tax purposes, in order to pay a lower amount overall. However, as a result of changing its reporting procedures, it could…

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When the IoT meets customer relationship management

May25
by on May 25, 2015 at 1:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Business Apps, cms, customer management, Insider, Internet of Things, IoT

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From cars to air conditioning, fridges to fitness bands, there are few ‘things’ that the Internet of Things has yet to start infiltrating. They’ve even started entering business, where the potential for automation and connectedness sees your customer service reps being replaced by an email from your washing machine telling you to change your drain hose. OK, that might be a slight exaggeration, but there’s no better example of the potential for IoT in business than when it comes to customer relationship management (CRM). The Internet of Things, or simply IoT, refers to the ability of any object or device…

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Google has patented a smart teddy and I find that pretty terrifying

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by on May 25, 2015 at 11:51 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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According to this recent United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) filing, Google could be mulling a move into ‘smart’ toys for kids. Spotted by HotHardware and Engadget, the patent looks to make “an anthropormorphic device” (in this instance, a teddy) able to control other devices and respond to verbal cues from children or adults. So far, so only partly creepy. Where it starts to get a bit weird is the filing describing how the teddy moves its head to look at the source of the commands. It would have cameras in it too. Cameras and mics are not traditionally things found in toys aimed…

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