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Flubit’s new Chrome extension makes it easy to find a better a price for online shopping

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by on January 15, 2015 at 3:41 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches, Product Reviews

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Flubit is an offers platform that lets you request better prices for specific products by allowing it to manually create better offers for you. For example, perhaps you need those special bin bags from Amazon, or that headphone splitter cable you keep forgetting to buy. While you could just log on and grab those in one click, going via Flubit’s platform gives you the potential opportunity to get them at a lower price. Despite having been up and running since 2012, it was only this month that the company decided to streamline the process with the release of its Chrome extension. Better…

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Google Search now directly links you to brands’ social profiles

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by on January 15, 2015 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Google is always trying to make information quicker to access on its search engine. Now, when you look up a brand, you’ll see links to its social profiles provided right through its information card. Google’s been adding social profiles to its Knowledge Graph cards for celebrities and other famous persons since November, but it’s nice to see brands and companies added to the mix. Interestingly, Google doesn’t list Google+ first, although it will directly showcase recent posts on its own social network. You should see the links appear for major brands on both desktop and mobile. It’s a welcome addition; it could save you some time…

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Complete is a new task app where the community helps you get things done

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by on January 15, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Everything’s done in public these days so why not put your task list up for public view too? Complete, a new app for iOS, aims to do just that, roping in the community to help you get things done. Admittedly, the idea of my to-dos with strangers sounded odd to me. Why would people care? But, Complete connects you with people who encourage you to get it done or can help you along the way with your task. The idea is that when you share a task you want to get done — like “find a desk to work at in town” —…

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Watch this guy play Streetfighter 2 and drums at the same time

Jan15
by on January 15, 2015 at 2:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, drums, Guile's theme, Insider, Shareables, Streetfighter 2, youtube

Most of us struggle to bash the buttons on Streetfighter 2 in the right order to win a bout but Todd Bryanton aka LilDeuceDeuce manages to do that and play a cover of Guile’s Theme on his Maschine music control interface at the same time. If you want to try doing the same, Bryanton explains in the description of his video that he mapped the Streetfighter controls onto his Maschine using a program called ControllerMate. ➤ Street Fighter 2 (Guile’s Theme) | LilDeuceDeuce | Maschine Plays [via Digital Destruction] Read next:  Relive Your Favorite MS-DOS Games In Your Browser, Free  

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Amazon’s first pilot season of 2015 is now available to stream in the US, UK and Germany

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by on January 15, 2015 at 2:31 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

Amazon Studios, the original content arm of the retail giant, has announced that its first pilot season of 2015 is now available to view for Prime subscribers in the US, UK and Germany. Among the new hour-long shows available to view now are Cocked, Mad Dogs, Man in the High Castle and Point of Honor. There are also pilots for two half-hour shows to watch, called Down Dog and Salem Rogers, alongside a documentary series called The New Yorker Presents. Also in the mix are a range of new kids shows, including four animated pilots and two live-action shows. All…

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