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6 startups: Our favorites from the 500 Startups Demo Day, Batch 10

Oct22
by on October 22, 2014 at 12:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur

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At the presentation of its tenth batch of entrepreneurs, the 500 Startups team advanced 29 new businesses, hoping to catch the eye of the press and anyone with a big pile of cash. The adult version of show-and-tell was heavy on sports and fitness, ad sales, local businesses and big data. But only a few caught our eye during the event. Here they are. Gymtrack After that initial free personal trainer session at the gym, working out can devolve into a hodge podge of random tasks with zero input. Gymtrack wants to fix that by adding its proprietary accessories for hardware, wearable…

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Autohotkey for WordPress Blogs

Oct21
by on October 21, 2014 at 11:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Keyboard

I’ve added some autohotkey dealies for when I’m writing blog posts. If you’re blog isn’t about Excel and/or doesn’t use the CodeColorer plugin, they won’t be of much use to you.

;
; AutoHotkey Version: 1.x
; Language:       English
; Platform:       Win9x/NT
; Author:         A.N.Other 
;
; Script Function:
;	Template script (you can customize this template by editing "ShellNew\Template.ahk" in your Windows folder)
;

#NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.

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GroupAdd, DDoEPosts, Add New Post ‹ Daily Dose of Excel — WordPress - Mozilla Firefox
#IfWinActive ahk_group DDoEPosts
:*:ccvb::
    SendInput [cc_vb][/cc_vb]{left 8}
	Return
	
:*:ccivb::
	SendInput [cci_vb][/cci_vb]{left 9}
	Return
	
:*:pmw::
	SendInput PMW
	Return
	
:*:vbe::
	SendInput VBE
	Return

The first one expands brackets so I can paste in VB code. The second does the same but for inline vb code.

The third and fourth take common abbreviations and expand those so the definition appears when you hover over them. More of those to come, I’ll bet.

Awesome.

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Blizzard’s Hearthstone card game is coming to iPhones and Android smartphones in early 2015

Oct21
by on October 21, 2014 at 8:54 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Earlier today, gaming giant Blizzard offered a status update on the mobile versions of its popular Hearthstone digital card game. The company expects to release an Android tablet version by the end of the year, followed by iPhone and Android smartphone editions in early 2015. Blizzard revealed that it’s taking the extra time for the smartphone version to ensure that the game’s interface scales down to the smaller screens. Hearthstone’s iPad app would be the main reason I’d buy a new iPad, but now I can hold out until next year to just play it on my phone. Maybe I’ll…

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MobileX Labs launches its app building platform Nativ as an open beta

Oct21
by on October 21, 2014 at 7:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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App creation platform MobileX Labs has announced the open beta for Nativ, its newly rebranded toolkit for building and marketing native mobile apps without having to code. Previously dubbed MXL Build, Nativ is free to use, with premium services starting at $49 per month. Once apps are built, MobileX helps customers create marketing micro-sites for their products. MobileX first released a minimum viable product of its app builder a couple years ago. In order to bootstrap the company, co-founders Dan Novaes and Kiran Panesar then used their own service to create simple apps, such as an Instagram client, that could quickly bring in…

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Google Docs, Sheets and Slides for iOS updated with Incoming view for shared files

Oct21
by on October 21, 2014 at 7:26 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google

Google has updated its Docs, Sheets and Slides iOS apps to include a new “Incoming” section that shows all the files that others have shared with you. The Docs app has also received support for headings styles, better shortcuts when using a Bluetooth keyboard and improved copy and pasting between Docs and Slides. ➤ Google Docs, Sheets and Slides [iOS]

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