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StumbleUpon for iOS overhauled with new UI, Activity Center and more

Oct09
by on October 9, 2014 at 2:53 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

Content recommendation service StumbleUpon has today rolled out an update for its iOS app in a bid to bring a fresh look and feel to the platform. Alongside a new UI, there’s a new navigation menu to make it easier to access your likes, lists, interests and followers, and a new Activity Center that plays home to all your notifications. The company said it’s also now easier to create custom lists, and general performance enhancements should make the whole thing quicker to use. Once seen as a leading player in the social sharing and content space, StumbleUpon (alongside others like Digg) seemed…

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What must happen to spark mass adoption of connected lighting?

Oct09
by on October 9, 2014 at 2:41 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Beatrice Witzgall is the CEO and founder of LumiFi, a design and technology-centric company enabling people and businesses to unlock the full potential of connected lighting  The connected home and business continues to stir up vigorous debate among the tech community. Is the ‘Internet of Things’ just pie in the sky? Are ‘smart’ gadgets only for the geekiest among us, or gimmicks to fill booths at CES? Connected lighting is one aspect of this nascent ecosystem, which is a reality today. By bringing wireless multi-colored LED bulb technology to a mobile-driven world, companies such as Philips, GE, Samsung and TCP are leading the charge to…

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OpenSignal brings its crowdsourced weather reporting app to iPhone

Oct09
by on October 9, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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In May last year, we brought you news on WeatherSignal, a new crowdsourced weather reporting tool. The Web and Android app came courtesy of the good folks at OpenSignal, the company that creates independent maps of mobile phone network coverage from mobile phone users. As of today, WeatherSignal is available for iPhone users too, as the company looks to ramp up its weather data-collating efforts. The story so far Over on Android, WeatherSignal taps the native sensors on your device to garner more precise data in very localized areas. At the time of writing last year, the Samsung Galaxy S4 was…

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Autodesk’s updated SketchBook drawing apps for iOS and Android unite its phone-tablet mobile platform

Oct09
by on October 9, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

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Since its debut in the mobile space five years ago, SketchBook for iOS and Android has been a go-to app for artists on-the-go. Now, seeking to simplify its burgeoning slate of offerings, the company has announced a new version of its SketchBook app, Autodesk SketchBook for iOS and Android, that unifies the app’s interface and functionality across phone and tablet versions. With this release, there are no longer specific tablet and phone versions of the app, but rather a single mobile version for each platform. SketchBook’s interface will automatically resize as it detects and adapts to multiple screen sizes. Moreover, all the free and paid…

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Task management app Todoist revamps Karma points system and extends it to mobile

Oct09
by on October 9, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates, productivity

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Task management and productivity app Todoist has overhauled the way its ‘Karma’ system works today to introduce a range of new features and bring it to all of the platforms where Todoist is available. In a nutshell, the Todoist Karma score is the accumulation of points linked to your created tasks. Complete a task, earn more points. The idea being that gaining points should inspire you to get more done, and getting a task done late will cause you to lose points. Before today, a user’s Karma was only accessible via the Web, but now it’s available via Android, iOS and Kindle…

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