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Oscar Pop! The 2015 best picture nominees in Pop Art poster style

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by on February 20, 2015 at 6:50 pm
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Jordan Roland is a staff designer and illustrator for the Shutterstock blog. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. With days to go before the 87th Annual Academy Awards, it’s time for what’s become an annual tradition. Each year, the challenge for our designers is to create Pop Art-inspired posters for the Best Picture nominees, and each year poses a wonderful set of problems to solve. This seems to be the year of the individual, with personal stories of triumph, heartbreak and determination holding strong throughout the list of nominated films —…

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EasilyDo’s smart assistant gets a business-class upgrade with Salesforce integration

Feb20
by on February 20, 2015 at 6:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

EasilyDo’s smart assistant for Android and iOS received a business-focused upgrade today, which aims the lives of enterprise users a little easier. Primarily, the newly launched Business Edition focuses on Salesforce integration and will automatically log any contacts in the user’s phonebook or email contacts to the CRM. It’ll also log correspondence, meaning old email threads and contact history are easily accessible. The updated version will also allow users to sync any notes from Evernote to the appropriate Salesforce accounts and scan business cards to add the details directly to Salesforce. There is a premium subscription fee of $25 a month…

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Get a Lifetime Of Unlimited Mobile Backup From IDrive for just $10

Feb20
by on February 20, 2015 at 3:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers, TNWDeals

Our smartphones are now a huge part of our lives, and store plenty of  important contacts and files, and our favorite music and photos. IDrive’s mobile backup lets you store them safely in the cloud for easy retrieval from any device and desktop – and we’ve got a great deal on this must-have service. With IDrive, you can easily back up contacts, photos, videos, calendar events, SMS history, call logs, apps and more from up to five devices, all with a single tap. Access your files and data whenever you need them on your desktop or other devices, and restore…

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Kevin Rose’s photo and video sharing app Tiiny is shutting down

Feb20
by on February 20, 2015 at 2:38 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Kevin Rose, North Technologies, Product Updates, Tiiny

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Kevin Rose announced last month that he’s stepped down from Google Ventures to focus on North Technologies, his startup focused on creating new mobile apps. Now it looks like one of the projects it launched last year, video and photo sharing app Tiiny, is shutting down. Marc Hemeon, Rose’s co-founder at North, posted a comment on Product Hunt after someone noted similarities between the design of new video chat app Pop and Tiiny’s grid layout. The original comment has been replaced with an innocuous “heart you :)” but we grabbed the original longer statement before it was deleted. Hemeon wrote: “We have…

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Kindlebox lets you send eBooks direct to your Kindle with Dropbox

Feb20
by on February 20, 2015 at 2:15 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, LifeHacks

Kindlebox is a free web app that makes transferring eBooks to your Kindle easier. The app connects a Dropbox folder to your Kindle and sends books and other readable files over automatically. You’ll need to authorize the app in your Dropbox and Amazon accounts to get it working. Transferring files to and from the Kindle was already pretty easy, but if you use Dropbox, this is definitely a handy addition. ➤ Kindlebox

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