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Shazam mobile update adds in-app music player, deeper Spotify integration and ‘Shazam Counts’

Dec10
by on December 10, 2014 at 1:34 pm
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Shazam has today updated its mobile apps and desktop platform that bring a number of new features for users, such as more personalized music news for registered users and a quick access ‘Hall of Fame’ for the platform’s most Shazamed users. Other notable updates include deeper spotify integration that allows users to listen back to full tracks on Spotify from within Shazam, and its own new in-app Music Player that lets users quickly listen to the Shazam charts. The Spotify integration also allows you to automatically add Shazamed tracks to a specific playlist. Rounding off the list of changes is…

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DeviantArt unveils first mobile app for iOS and Android

Dec10
by on December 10, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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DeviantArt, the online social community for artists and art enthusiasts, today released its first mobile app, expanding the experience of its Website to hand-held devices. Users of DeviantArt for iOS and Android can both access the same artistic content and have a platform to communicate and submit art works on-the-go. DeviantArt has admittedly taken some time to develop its mobile app, though it already optimized the site for smaller screens years ago. “We didn’t jump into mobile apps right away because we wanted to take ample time to understand and design the mobile experience for visual art in order to genuinely…

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eBay’s iPad app gets bigger images, improved profiles and a more curated browsing experience

Dec10
by on December 10, 2014 at 12:35 pm
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eBay has today announced that its iPad app has been revamped to make it easier for people to browse and discover items for sale with minimal effort. Among the changes are simplified navigation and checkout, a more refined photo gallery with larger images, improved seller profile pages and new item view details. The company also said it had made the ‘My eBay’ section easier to use. eBay said the changes would eventually roll out to all devices (and the desktop), and that other new features for buyers and sellers are on the way. This new iPad app is available in eight languages…

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Google Hangouts for Android overhauled with new ‘smart suggestions’, stickers and more

Dec10
by on December 10, 2014 at 12:08 pm
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Google has today announced a new version of Hangouts for Android that brings 16 new sticker packs, new video calling filters and smart suggestions. This latter feature will recognize key words or phrases in your chat and make contextually relevant suggestions, like if you type “where are you?” when trying to meet up with someone, it will present a one-tap option to share your location on a map. Alongside new penguins, pirates, koala and cat stickers (among others), the company also introduced a range of new filters that can be applied to video conversations, including sepia, vignette, black and white, and…

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Wakie’s alarm clock that lets you get woken up by strangers is now available for iPhone

Dec10
by on December 10, 2014 at 10:16 am
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We know, we know, you’ve long been hankering for the time when you could arrange a phone call with a perfect stranger to wake you up in the morning. If you’re an Android or Windows Phone user, of course, you’ve had this option since September, but poor old iPhone owners have been left out of the action until today. Now, however, Wakie is available to download for iOS devices, meaning that the sound of a stranger’s voice first thing in the morning doesn’t have to be the forerunner to a pang of regret. While the whole reason behind it is…

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