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Madefire updates Motion Book Tool to let authors add animations to their stories

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by on October 30, 2014 at 11:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Updates

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Madefire has added a new and heavily requested feature to its Motion Book Tool for creating interactive digital comics: animated sequences. An update to the tool now lets artists insert short animations (sprites) into their Motion Books. Playback and visibility of those sequences are controlled via the tool’s standard effects. Madfire also revealed today that it will soon launch video export functionality in the Motion Book Tool, which will allow users to publish a book not only as an interactive story but as a “playthrough” video. The launch date of that feature has yet to be determined. Currently, Motion Books are interactive reading experiences in which…

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Deadline for iPhone taps HealthKit to predict when you’re going to die

Oct30
by on October 30, 2014 at 10:10 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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If you need a stark reminder of your mortality as Day of the Dead approaches, the new Deadline app for iOS will do the trick. The $0.99 app combines the new HealthKit SDK from iOS 8 with a bit of personal information in order to estimate how much time you have left in life. This is basically the quantified self version of The Death Clock. Of course, Deadline can’t promise accuracy, but developer Alaric Cole, who also created the Fitly app for tracking your steps, told me he used algorithms similar to the ones insurance companies use to generate the estimate….

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Deadline for iPhone taps HealthKit to predict when you’re going to die

Oct30
by on October 30, 2014 at 10:10 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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If you need a stark reminder of your mortality as Day of the Dead approaches, the new Deadline app for iOS will do the trick. The $0.99 app combines the new HealthKit SDK from iOS 8 with a bit of personal information in order to estimate how much time you have left in life. This is basically the quantified self version of The Death Clock. Of course, Deadline can’t promise accuracy, but developer Alaric Cole, who also created the Fitly app for tracking your steps, told me he used algorithms similar to the ones insurance companies use to generate the estimate….

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Mark Zuckerberg is hosting an AMA on Facebook, November 6

Oct30
by on October 30, 2014 at 9:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Have you ever wanted to ask Mark Zuckerberg something? Maybe you want to know when the long-fabled dislike button will be added, or perhaps you just want to know his favorite color. Well, you could get the chance next Thursday. As TechCrunch notes, the Facebook CEO will be hosting a his first-ever public Q&A session on November 6. It will last one hour, and will be streamed so you can see Zuckerberg’s responses live. You can submit your questions on this Facebook post, or you can like the questions you most want to see answered to gain them some extra visibility….

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Mark Zuckerberg is hosting an AMA on Facebook, November 6

Oct30
by on October 30, 2014 at 9:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Have you ever wanted to ask Mark Zuckerberg something? Maybe you want to know when the long-fabled dislike button will be added, or perhaps you just want to know his favorite color. Well, you could get the chance next Thursday. As TechCrunch notes, the Facebook CEO will be hosting a his first-ever public Q&A session on November 6. It will last one hour, and will be streamed so you can see Zuckerberg’s responses live. You can submit your questions on this Facebook post, or you can like the questions you most want to see answered to gain them some extra visibility….

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