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Madefire Motion Books arrives on Android

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by on July 24, 2014 at 10:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches, Product Updates

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Madefire’s Motion Books, the digital comics publishing platform that combines images, sound and interactivity, has launched on Android and is now available on the Google Play Store. Titles are available via in-app purchase. In addition, Madefire has announced a new Print Books category designed to offer an authentic comics reading experience, featuring simple page view, pinch and zoom navigation for a large catalog of comics and graphic novels. A new interface for all storefronts promises to make it easier to navigate and discover books. Publishers such as IDW, Valiant, Oni Press, Top Cow, Liquid Comics, and others have signed on to the new Print Books category…

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Pinterest shares diversity numbers: 40% female, 50% Caucasian

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by on July 24, 2014 at 8:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Pinterest today released a diversity report for its organization, revealing that it’s composed of 40 percent female employees and 50 percent Caucasian. The figures were shared by Pinterest engineer Tracy Chou, who called for greater transparency last year about the proportion of women tech employees in the industry. Since then, a number of major companies have piled on to share their diversity figures, including Google, Facebook and Twitter. In terms of gender ratios, Pinterest fared noticeably better than other tech companies. While just 21 percent of its tech segment is female, that’s better than Twitter’s 10 percent and Facebook’s 15…

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Why stress sucks and how to escape it

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by on July 24, 2014 at 8:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's, LifeHacks

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This post originally appeared on the Crew blog. I’ve never been good at dealing with stress. In high school, I used to pluck out my own eyelashes. That’s how bad I was at dealing with stress. People would be like, “Oh Andrea why don’t you have eyelashes?” And I would be like, “BECAUSE THEY GIVE ME ALLERGIES!” I took my social studies final with a wet paper towel over my eye because I was convinced it would block out any allergens. That’s where I was in my life at that time. I had no idea how to cope with stress,…

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Watch the first trailer for Halo: Nightfall, the live-action digital series by Ridley Scott

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by on July 24, 2014 at 8:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

Microsoft has released the first trailer for its upcoming Halo: Nightfall live-action digital series, which Ridley Scott is working on as an executive producer. Not to be confused with the show Steven Spielberg is working on – that’s a separate digital feature – Halo: Nightfall will come bundled with the upcoming Halo: The Master Chief Collection video game for Xbox One later this year. The trailer reveals a new element that can selectively wipe out humans, which protagonist Jameson Locke, a an agent for the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and his squad must seek out and destroy. It’s typical…

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Google updates Gmail for iOS with the option to save and insert attachments from Drive

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by on July 24, 2014 at 7:28 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Product Updates

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If you regularly access Gmail from your iPhone or iPad, Google just made it a whole lot easier to save and retrieve files from Google Drive. Inside an email, you can now tap the paper clip icon to attach a new file and select ‘Insert from Drive.’ The corresponding app will launch and you can browse your files at leisure. Once you’ve found the document you need, press the arrow icon in the top right-hand corner to quickly attach it. “The apps will even tell you if your file isn’t shared with the person you’re sending it to so you…

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