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NPD: Sony’s PlayStation 4 outsells Microsoft’s Xbox One for sixth month in a row

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by on July 17, 2014 at 10:53 pm
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Sony’s PlayStation 4 again took the top spot for retail game console sales in NPD’s market research estimates for June, widening its lead on the Xbox One. The PS4 also beat out its rival for retail software sales, placing as the top platform for some of the most popular games including Watch Dogs, UFC and FIFA 14. Console sales across all platforms were up 200 percent year over year, and the Xbox One and the PS4 combined to sell 80 percent more units than their predecessors during the period. Nintendo had some good news in June after its Mario Kart 8 game…

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Evernote updates Web Clipper for Chrome to be more efficient, take up less space in your browser

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by on July 17, 2014 at 9:41 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Today, Evernote updated its Web Clipper Chrome extension with what it calls a more “thoughtful layout.” The updated extension’s footprint has been reduced by only showing relevant features at a moment. The floating control panel resides in the top right hand corner of your browser window with the Save button prominently displayed within all features when needed. For fans of screenshots and annotations, those tools are hidden until needed and saved images can be quickly shared to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, email and a link copied to your clipboard. Additional features include integration into Evernote notebooks and tags via a drop-down…

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Former Apple Design Award winner launches Hours to help ease the pain of time-tracking

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by on July 17, 2014 at 9:35 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Notching up an Apple Design Award is nothing to be sniffed at. Family-run design studio Tapity won the prestigious gong way back in 2011 for its education-focused Grades app, before going on to launch an equally stupendous follow-up in conjunction with Sonico the following year called languages. Earlier this year, Tapity also launched a Flappy Bird-style game called Buffalo Wings. Today, Tapity introduced its latest iOS offering going by the name of Hours, which is a really beautiful and sleek time-tracking app for iPhone. While anyone with a need to manage multiple timelines will find this useful, it’s perhaps more…

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Steady app for iPhone calms shaky video while you shoot

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by on July 17, 2014 at 8:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

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One of the most vexing aspects of shooting hand-held video is the twitchy, jumpy footage it often produces. Poor image stabilization, or none at all, will ruin a shoot by making the results impossible to watch. Stupeflix’s Steady for iPhone, released today, lets you shoot stable video in square or 16:9 recording formats while walking, running, riding a bike or any other moving activity via a simple set of controls within the app. Point, choose flash or no flash, and front or back camera, and then hit the big red button to start recording. That’s it. Choose which parts of the video are in slow-mo. While you…

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Twitter snaps up CardSpring, a platform for helping developers connect apps with consumers’ credit cards

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by on July 17, 2014 at 8:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media

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Twitter today announced it has acquired payments infrastructure company CardSpring. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Currently there is no indication Twitter will be shutting down operations before folding them in. CardSpring says it will continue to grow its platform and work with its publisher, financial, and retail partners “to create new, innovative commerce experiences for consumers.” CardSpring wants to build a payment platform that enables digital publishers and retailers to create the next generation of commerce for hundreds of millions of offline shoppers: We see the intersection of payments and digital media as an opportunity to revolutionize…

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