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Skype Qik is Microsoft’s new take on mobile video messaging

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by on October 14, 2014 at 1:23 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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Skype is introducing a new video messaging app for Android, iOS and Windows Phone called Skype Qik. As its name implies, the app is centered around sharing short, spontaneous clips. Taking a cue from ephemeral messaging apps such as Snapchat, each video clip lasts exactly two weeks – quite a long time, compared to some of its rivals – and videos can be erased by the sender at any moment, regardless of whether the recipients have watched it yet. Users can also block video messages from specific contacts, should they desire a little peace and quiet. (This feature is for…

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Just Add Audio: A simple iPhone app that brings royalty-free music to your home videos

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by on October 14, 2014 at 12:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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VideoBlocks, an online provider of stock media for creatives, has today launched its first consumer-focused mobile app. Though VideoBlocks largely focuses on stock video (as its name suggests), with Just Add Audio for iPhone, the company is looking to make adding royalty-free music to your home videos and slideshows a cinch, courtesy of its audio-focused off-shoot AudioBlocks. How it works Once you’ve created an account, you select your videos or photos from your camera roll, and then hit ‘Choose Audio’.     You then select from a list of ‘moods’, which lets you drill down into sounds such as ‘Fun Guitar…

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Google’s new Android ads could be teasing the next Nexus smartphone and tablet

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by on October 14, 2014 at 11:05 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google has seemingly accidentally released three new ads designed to promote the newest members of its Nexus device family. The ads, first spotted by Google+ user Christian Colocho, have since been removed, but not before they were captured and put on YouTube to be preserved forever. In the series of three, the tagline “be together. not the same.” was used in each. While Google doesn’t exactly telegraph the fact, it looks like they’re showing off some new devices. In some shots you can clearly see a comically large smartphone, with a curved rear panel and the new Android L UI displayed on the…

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Grids for Mac is a better way to browse Instagram on the desktop

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by on October 14, 2014 at 10:05 am
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Instagram may be among the most widely adopted imaging social networks, but there’s a limitation to the app’s presentation, especially if you often move back and forth between mobile devices and a desktop or laptop computer. Sure, Instagram itself offers a more or less serviceable desktop functionality, but it lacks a certain intuitiveness and ease of use, not to mention charm and style. And that’s where Grids, a new Instagram client app from Think Time Creations that just hit the Mac App Store, comes into play. If you value the look of your Instagram feed and often check it out on the desktop, the…

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Tesco Blinkbox customers can now get a digital copy of movies when they buy the disc version in store

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by on October 14, 2014 at 9:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates, UK

Tesco’s Blinkbox on-demand streaming service has rolled out support for UltraViolet today, which gives shoppers a free digital copy of a movie when they buy the DVD or Blu-ray version in store. In order to denote specific titles as UltraViolet eligible, Tesco is marking select discs with the UltraViolet logo, meaning that it won’t just work for any movie you buy. It does have major studios like Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, NBCUniversal and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on board though. Provided the disc you have purchased qualifies, you’ll be able to instantly start streaming the movie via your Blinkbox…

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