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You can now play Tetris on your Roku

Nov19
by on November 19, 2014 at 10:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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YES! Tetris is the heroin of video games. You can’t just play one game. You have to play at least five games. Okay, maybe ten. Starting today you can play the highly addictive game on the Roku 3 and Roku Streaming stick with HDMI. The game is free to download if you just want to play in Marathon mode. But if you more than one game playing option, it’ll cost you $4.99. Apparently it’s the 30 year anniversary of the game. That’s 30 years of having that song stuck in your head and learning how to cram boxes together. The game…

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Mozilla switching default Firefox search engine to Yahoo

Nov19
by on November 19, 2014 at 10:05 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Mozilla has announced on its blog today that its default search engine will be changing to Yahoo for US customers. The company stated on its blog that “Google has been the Firefox global search default since 2004. Our agreement came up for renewal this year, and we took this as an opportunity to review our competitive strategy and explore our options.” After evaluating partnerships, Mozilla said that one stood out from the rest: Yahoo. Yahoo will become the default search engine for the US beginning in December, featuring an “enhanced Yahoo search experience.” In Russia, the default search engine will become…

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Google Maps now lets you embed Street View and Photo Sphere panoramas directly into websites

Nov19
by on November 19, 2014 at 9:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Google’s Street View and Photo Sphere tools are pretty nifty ways of sharing the ‘feel’ of a place, giving you a 360-degree perspective of the location. Unfortunately, viewing them generally involves navigating away to a dedicated page. To make things a bit easier, Google Maps’ updated Embed API is now letting you integrate Street View and Photo Sphere panoramas right into webpages. Google previously began allowing you to embed Maps snippets earlier this year, but the functionality didn’t extend to the panoramas. It’s not as simple as just visiting Google Maps and sharing a location though – to create the embed code, you need to…

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5 steps for making a B2B blog run smoothly

Nov19
by on November 19, 2014 at 8:52 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, How-To's, Social Media

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Sean Work is the Inbound Marketing Director at KISSmetrics.com. This post originally appeared on the Mention blog. A highly trafficked business blog is a godsend. It’s a marketing channel entirely within your control. If you look at your other online marketing options, they aren’t as appealing. For example, pay-per-click advertising is subject to price swings. SEO is subject to algorithm shifts. And, we all know how out of hand social media can get. When you have a great blog, you have your own online publication. Its value is generally underestimated, and its use is always underexploited. After all, you can place…

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Pocket for iOS gets 1Password support, Dynamic Type and improved sharing

Nov19
by on November 19, 2014 at 8:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Pocket‘s “read it later” app  is getting a few new features in an update for its iOS iteration today. First up, the app gains support for the 1Password extension, which should make logging into your accounts easier if you use the service. The app also now takes advantage of iOS’ Dynamic Type feature. Text size throughout the app will now adjust to your system font size settings rather than being fixed to a predetermined size. Finally, Pocket says it’s worked some magic on the Pocket Share extension to make saving and sharing noticeably quicker than before. You can grab the update from iTunes now. ➤ Pocket [iOS]

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