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Sony has sold 10 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide

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by on August 12, 2014 at 5:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

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Sony is on a roll. During its press conference at Gamescom 2014, the company announced it has now sold 10 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide. To be clear, this is the number of consoles that have been bought by consumers, rather than simply sold to retailers and other partners. It’s difficult to compare the performance of the PlayStation 4 with its closest rival, the Xbox One, because Microsoft hasn’t announced sales figures in some time. The company’s silence is a telling sign, however, and Sony’s latest financial report claims that PlayStation consoles (PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4) outsold Xbox hardware…

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Vine for music videos: Mindie’s iOS app gets more ways to be creative as it finds its niche

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by on August 12, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

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Mindie, the ‘Vine-meets-music’ startup, has been developing nicely since we first covered it in October last year. Today it’s rolling out an update that brings the iOS app, and the platform that underpins it, to a new level of maturity. As a quick recap, Mindie allows you to record a seven-second video loop and then add a clip of licensed music over the top. While that may sounds like nothing more than ‘Vine with pop videos’, the result is a community of often very creative users that do things you can’t do with Vine. Take this video below, for example – it…

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Vine for music videos: Mindie’s iOS app gets more ways to be creative as it finds its niche

Aug12
by on August 12, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

Mindie

Mindie, the ‘Vine-meets-music’ startup, has been developing nicely since we first covered it in October last year. Today it’s rolling out an update that brings the iOS app, and the platform that underpins it, to a new level of maturity. As a quick recap, Mindie allows you to record a seven-second video loop and then add a clip of licensed music over the top. While that may sounds like nothing more than ‘Vine with pop videos’, the result is a community of often very creative users that do things you can’t do with Vine. Take this video below, for example – it…

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Squarespace releases two Android apps, Note and Blog, to help customers manage their sites

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by on August 12, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

After launching a major overhaul of its iOS apps last November, the website building platform Squarespace is doing the same for its Android apps. Today, the company launched two of its four iOS apps on Android in public beta: Blog and Note. The former is a complete app for managing a Squarespace site from a smartphone or tablet; users can easily create and edit posts, as well as moderate comments from multiple blogs. While writing a new post, customers can add photos, videos and format text – Squarespace supports Markdown, as well as its own LayoutEngine – before hitting publish. Note,…

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Squarespace releases two Android apps, Note and Blog, to help customers manage their sites

Aug12
by on August 12, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

After launching a major overhaul of its iOS apps last November, the website building platform Squarespace is doing the same for its Android apps. Today, the company launched two of its four iOS apps on Android in public beta: Blog and Note. The former is a complete app for managing a Squarespace site from a smartphone or tablet; users can easily create and edit posts, as well as moderate comments from multiple blogs. While writing a new post, customers can add photos, videos and format text – Squarespace supports Markdown, as well as its own LayoutEngine – before hitting publish. Note,…

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