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Amazon is reportedly working on a ‘Prime for apps’ subscription service

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by on March 20, 2015 at 9:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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While Amazon has worked hard to promote its Android app store, let’s face it: if you’re not on Fire OS, you’ll use the Google Play Store almost all the time. But it looks like Amazon may have a trick up its sleeve to get users onto its marketplace instead. According to a report by TechCrunch, based off apparently leaked documents, an Amazon ‘Unlocked’ subscription will provide a range of apps and related in-app purchases free of additional charge. TechCrunch describes it as Amazon Prime for apps. Some of the highlighted app partners include Sega America – its Sonic Dash game…

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Online version of the 808 drum machine is your ticket to drop dat bass

Mar20
by on March 20, 2015 at 6:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches, Shareables

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The Roland TR-808 is the go-to drum machine for hip-hop. Artists like Afrika Bambaataa, the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Kanye West, Outkast and others have used this machine to create some of your favorite songs. Hell, even Marvin Gaye used an 808 on his amazing track, Sexual Healing. Now you can recreate all those songs and create few of your own with an online version of the 808. Because we know ya’ll wanted that 808 can you feel that B-A-S-S, bass. The HTML5 version of the instrument has all the percussion sounds you’ve heard in these songs along with the ability…

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Google Docs now lets Google Apps admins distribute add-ons for entire teams

Mar20
by on March 20, 2015 at 5:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

After launching an add-ons store for Google Docs last year, Google is now giving Google Apps administrators more control over how to distribute those add-ons to their teams. The changes affect both developers and managers. Devs can now make their add-ons available for installation across entire domains, making it easier for customers to find through the Google Apps Marketplace. Admins on the other hand can now install add-ons for their entire team in just a few steps. Should they want more limited distribution, however, they can also now whitelist add-ons for a specific team or entire domains. Interested admins can…

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Set the tone: the importance of sound in viral videos

Mar20
by on March 20, 2015 at 5:04 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Social Media

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Andrea Lehr is a Promotions Supervisor at Frac.tl. Working with her creative team, she enjoys sharing their latest innovative and unique research with other content marketers. Content marketing continues to rise in popularity among digital strategists, and this is no surprise when you look at search trends over the last seven years; between January 2008 and November 2014, the number of Google searches for the term “content marketing” increased 700 percent. Because the Internet is full of written content, successful strategists realize that they need to create content for multiple channels in order to stand out from the rest of…

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Win a modern server solution for your business!

Mar20
by on March 20, 2015 at 4:49 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Competition, Offers, sweepstakes

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This post is brought to you by Microsoft. Don’t leave your data unprotected when support for Windows Server 2003 ends. Here’s your chance to win free server licenses from Microsoft to get you started.

It’s the end of an era. Microsoft is pulling the plug on its support for Windows Server 2003 – which has kept the wheels turning for thousands of small and mid-sized business worldwide. The work horse of the past era will officially celebrate its retirement on July 14, 2015. Without future security updates and patches, your servers are wide open to anyone – or any bot – wanting to have a pop at bypassing your online security. That means that for all those companies still on those servers, it’s high time to start jumping on to a more modern equivalent, such as Windows…

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