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Get a beautifully minimal Amazon homepage with this Chrome extension

Jan20
by on January 20, 2015 at 3:39 pm
Posted In: amazon, Apps, Around the Web, chrome, Chrome extensions, Clearcut, Insider

If you find the Amazon homepage just too busy, here’s a handy solution. Clearcut, a new Chrome extension, strips the page back to just the search box and the top right hand menu with access to your account details, Amazon Prime, the shopping cart and your Wish List. The one downside is that Clearcut only works for Amazon.com right now, not international versions of the site. ➤ Clearcut Read more: Amazon to Push into Movie Theaters with 12 Original Titles per Year

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Snappy Ubuntu Core arrives for connected devices ahead of smartphone launch next month

Jan20
by on January 20, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Gadgets, Insider, Product Launches

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Canonical is today bringing Snappy Ubuntu Core out of the cloud and into physical devices with the reveal of Snappy Core for smart devices. First announced in December 2014, Snappy Core is a new lightweight Ubuntu distribution designed for the cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) specifically. Before today, only the cloud image had been revealed, but now the company is showing off its work on real connected devices. Among the first wave to use Snappy Ubuntu Core on devices will be “pioneers in robotics, drones and open hubs for connected things,”the company said. With this launch, Ubuntu is looking…

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Pond5 is putting 80,000 photos, videos and sound clips into the public domain today

Jan20
by on January 20, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Launches

Finding royalty-free video, photos and sound clips may be getting a little easier following the news that Pond5 is releasing a huge number of items into the public domain. Announced today, the Pond5 Public Domain Project has been conceived with content “specifically for media makers,” Pond5 said. Included in this first batch of content are 10,000 video clips, 65,000 photos, “thousands” of sound recordings and “hundreds” of 3D models. In the collection you’ll find things like George Meliés’ 1902 movie A Trip to the Moon, footage from the 1952 Helsinki Olympic games, NASA rocket launches and 5,000 previously unseen video clips. Pond5 said there are also notable speeches from historical…

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Pond5 is putting 80,000 photos, videos and sound clips into the public domain today

Jan20
by on January 20, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Launches

Finding royalty-free video, photos and sound clips may be getting a little easier following the news that Pond5 is releasing a huge number of items into the public domain. Announced today, the Pond5 Public Domain Project has been conceived with content “specifically for media makers,” Pond5 said. Included in this first batch of content are 10,000 video clips, 65,000 photos, “thousands” of sound recordings and “hundreds” of 3D models. In the collection you’ll find things like George Meliés’ 1902 movie A Trip to the Moon, footage from the 1952 Helsinki Olympic games, NASA rocket launches and 5,000 previously unseen video clips. Pond5 said there are also notable speeches from historical…

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Airtame’s Chromecast-like HDMI dongle for the enterprise starts shipping today

Jan20
by on January 20, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Launches

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Airtame‘s HDMI streaming dongle, similar to Google’s Chromecast, is due to start shipping to early backers of its Indiegogo campaign from last year to begin beta testing. The project raised an impressive $1.3 million on Indiegogo after setting out with an initial goal of $160,000, clearly proving demand for its business-focused, platform agnostic answer to wireless HDMI streaming. Billed as the enterprises’s answer to the Chromecast, its strength lies in its claimed multi-platform credentials – Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android and Windows Phone are all supported, allowing you to easily send your screen to any HDMI-equipped display. As it’s primarily aimed at businesses, there’s…

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