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Manual camera features and intuitive notifications are coming to new LG Android phones

Apr07
by on April 7, 2015 at 6:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Mobile, Product Updates

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LG today announced the latest version of its custom Android user interface, ahead of the launch of its upcoming G4 phone that will be unveiled later this month. The new features in LG UX 4.0 include Quick Shot, which lets you shoot pictures anytime — even when the display is off — just by double-tapping your phone’s Rear Key. There’s also a Smart Bulletin that aggregates information and widgets in one place for easy access. The camera app now has a Manual mode with a range of shooting options for great control over how your shots turn out. LG has…

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Twitter, please don’t advertise on my profile page

Apr07
by on April 7, 2015 at 4:28 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Opinion

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You may have noticed a new test on Twitter in recent times: ads showing up on profile pages, hidden amongst the user’s normal tweets. The new ads are officially a “test” according to the company, but they’ve started appearing a whole lot more often on the site lately. It’s starting to look like Twitter will adopt them soon, but I’m hopeful they don’t. There’s still a chance they’ll reverse course. Twitter is entering a dangerous no man’s land with this change. I, and many others, don’t want my face to be shown alongside brands I don’t necessarily support or endorse. It means a loss of…

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Hands on: Friendly new Adobe Acrobat DC and mobile companion apps present a unified front to users

Apr07
by on April 7, 2015 at 4:01 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Launches

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Let’s face it, no one uses Adobe Acrobat for fun. First developed as a PDF authoring tool in 1993, its technical presence now figures heavily in publishing as well as a vast range of professional enterprises. Adobe has now made available the 12th version of Acrobat, now called Acrobat DC, for Adobe’s new Document Cloud platform, integrating desktop and mobile apps and services. The new Document Cloud is analogous to Adobe’s other clouds – Creative Cloud and Marketing Cloud — whose primary goal is to keep tools and documents close at hand so users can work on and interact with them from anywhere at anytime. New…

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Hands on: Friendly new Adobe Acrobat DC and mobile companion apps present a unified front to users

Apr07
by on April 7, 2015 at 4:01 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Launches

acrobatfeat
Let’s face it, no one uses Adobe Acrobat for fun. First developed as a PDF authoring tool in 1993, its technical presence now figures heavily in publishing as well as a vast range of professional enterprises. Adobe has now made available the 12th version of Acrobat, now called Acrobat DC, for Adobe’s new Document Cloud platform, integrating desktop and mobile apps and services. The new Document Cloud is analogous to Adobe’s other clouds – Creative Cloud and Marketing Cloud — whose primary goal is to keep tools and documents close at hand so users can work on and interact with them from anywhere at anytime. New…

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