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September game console sales up 200% over 2013 with PlayStation 4 still beating the Xbox One

Oct17
by on October 17, 2014 at 12:40 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

Fueled by the launch of the new Bungie game, Destiny — and the bundling of consoles and games — Microsoft and Sony’s console sales did pretty well in September. According to NDP Group, industry analysts, console sales were up 200 percent for September 2014 versus the same time last year. Overall hardware sales were up 136 percent. Of course, a lot of the year-over-year growth has to do with the fact that neither the PlayStation 4 nor Xbox One were available in September 2013. Both consoles launched in November of that year. But both devices accounted for 85 percent of hardware sales…

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Tweets from accounts you don’t follow will soon appear in your timeline

Oct17
by on October 17, 2014 at 12:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media

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Twitter loves experimenting with its service. One of those experiments involves dropping tweets in your timeline from accounts you don’t follow. That one is actually here to stay. Today Twitter posted that in recent tests, people enjoyed seeing tweets from accounts they don’t follow in their timeline. Trevor O’Brien of the Product Team posted: For example, we recently ran experiments that showed different types of content in your timeline: recommended Tweets, accounts and topics. Testing indicated that most people enjoy seeing Tweets from accounts they may not follow, based on signals such as activity from accounts you do follow, the…

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Adobe releases plug-in to ease Aperture-to-Lightroom photo library transition

Oct16
by on October 16, 2014 at 11:40 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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With the eventual demise of Apple’s Aperture photo management software on the horizon, Adobe is wasting no time offering up Lightroom as an alternative. Although users still have plenty of time to make a decision, Adobe has released its Aperture Import Plugin for Lightroom 5, designed to make it easy for Aperture users to move their photo library into Lightroom from either Aperture or iPhoto. The plug-in requires Lightroom 5.6 or later on the Mac and can be downloaded from Adobe’s website. A couple of months ago, Adobe put out a fact sheet detailing migration techniques in advance of the new tool. The following data…

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OS X Yosemite review: Macs finally play nice with iPhones

Oct16
by on October 16, 2014 at 10:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, OS X Yosemite, Product Reviews

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Now that Apple has moved to an annual OS X release, Mac users can expect regular iterative improvements to their desktop operating system instead of occasional ground-breaking shifts. OS X 10.10 – named for California landmark Yosemite National Park – includes several sorely needed advances that help your Mac play nicely with your iOS devices, but it’s still basically the same OS you already know, just with a nicer coat of paint. First revealed back in June at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, OS X Yosemite moves slightly toward Apple’s flat new design style, which first showed up in iOS 7. However, Yosemite doesn’t take…

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Google introduces .SOY Web domain for Latino audiences

Oct16
by on October 16, 2014 at 10:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Google just announced it is bringing a new domain name to the Web: .SOY. Not to be confused with the popular vegetarian alternative to meat, the new domain means “I am” in Spanish, and is intended to be used for Latino “identity and expression”. The company has also set up a sort of central hub for the domain, iam.soy, where you can find out more about the new sites with the domain, check domain availability and then purchase from name registrar partners it if you want. This follows other recent news of custom top-level domains, such as the new .NYC domains. If…

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