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EyeEm revamps its iOS app to put photos first, with a clever ‘EyeZoom’ feature

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by on August 7, 2014 at 8:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

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EyeEm, the photo-sharing startup aimed at photographers rather than casual snappers, has today rolled out a completely revamped iOS app. The main goal here is to bring the iOS app into parity with the recently-launched Android redesign. As such, the photos are bigger and there’s been careful consideration given to details like fonts sizes, ensuring the images are the main focus. The ‘hamburger menu’ (which many developers have found to be a false economy) is gone, replaced by smarter use of tabs.       A first in the iOS app is ‘EyeZoom’, an interesting new approach to zooming a photo. Rather than just use the…

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Inside the invisible audience: Why your social media posts are more popular than you think

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by on August 7, 2014 at 6:42 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Social Media

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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. Awesome news: 490 people saw a tweet I sent out this week! Awesomer still, 16 people either clicked the link, left a reply, or favorited the tweet. And as for the other 474 people? I couldn’t tell you. Did they enjoy the tweet? Did they notice it? Did it delight them? Did it—eep!—offend them? And perhaps most importantly, what can I learn from these quiet observers so that, when I send my next tweet, those 474 followers find a reason to click, reply, retweet, or favorite? Meet social media’s invisible audience—and the inevitable questions that this crowd elicits. The invisible…

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The new Foursquare app already has over 15 million user-added ‘Tastes’

Aug07
by on August 7, 2014 at 6:16 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Social Media

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In less than 24 hours, the new Foursquare app’s “Tastes” has already acquired over 15 million user-generated recommendation items. The Tastes feature acts like tags for your personal preferences. If you like tacos, you can search and add a tacos taste to personalize the apps’ business recommendations. Foursquare says that they started with 25,000 tastes at launch. The massive growth is where users decided to add their own unique tastes like Korean tacos or all-night karaoke bar to the app. Once all your Tastes are in the app, when launched it shows places that meet your criteria based on its algorithmic interpretation of your…

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Check who can see your Google Drive files with WhoHasAccess

Aug07
by on August 7, 2014 at 6:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

One of the most useful aspects of Google Drive is its sharing capability; being able to collaborate on documents through the Web is undoubtedly neat when working with a team. But if you use Google’s apps frequently, it’s easy to forget who has access to what files over extended periods of time. For all you remember, that creepy guy you used to work with three years ago might still have access to sensitive information. WhoHasAccess is a Web app that looks to help you keep track of who can see your files. Instead of having to individually sort through dozens of old…

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Microsoft will stop supporting older versions of Internet Explorer from January 2016

Aug07
by on August 7, 2014 at 5:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Microsoft is hoping to push users to more recent versions of Internet Explorer by slowly dropping support and security updates for older iterations. From January 12, 2016, Microsoft says it will continue to support the following operating system and browser combinations: Windows Vista SP2 and Internet Explorer 9 Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Internet Explorer 9 Windows 7 SP1 and Internet Explorer 11 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1and Internet Explorer 11 Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11 Windows Server 2012 and Internet Explorer 10 Windows Server 2012 R2 and Internet Explorer 11 On that date, the company will cease providing technical…

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