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Madefire’s Motion Book Tool lets artists build immersive online comics without coding

Jul09
by on July 9, 2014 at 10:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

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You may already know Madefire’s Motion Book, the free iPad app that lets you view all those fast-action, interactive digital comic books with 360-degree panoramic views, music, sound effects and your choice of motion transport. Today, Madefire has let loose its cloud-based Motion Book Tool, the authoring program behind those works, so that all artists and creators can build and share their own original works. It is available to anyone with a Web browser and an Internet connection, and is free of charge. But that’s not all. Artists who publish through the Madefire Motion Book Tool can also upload and share their work directly…

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Why we still need to promote gender diversity in tech

Jul09
by on July 9, 2014 at 7:09 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Evan Charles is the co-founder of Launch Academy. Our technology and innovation economy isn’t doing a great job of recruiting, hiring or promoting women. And by ‘not doing a great a job,’ I mean it’s failing. By most estimates, fewer than 30 percent of all tech and computer jobs are held by women as of 2014. The further up the management and leadership ladder you look, the more it resembles an old boys’ club. That’s an especially troubling reality for an industry, which believes that decisions such as hiring should be analytically driven, and merit-based. The business world is chock full of…

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Braintree relaunches its SDK with PayPal integration and ready-made UI

Jul09
by on July 9, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Payment platform Braintree today announced a reboot of its SDK with support for paying with PayPal and new UI support. eBay acquired Braintree last September, but it took until today for the payment firm to introduce full PayPal support in its SDK. Early partners that have begun taking PayPal are seeing it account for as much as 11 percent of their transactions in little over a week’s time. With the latest release, Braintree has also added front-end support to make adding payments even faster for its clients. Previously, developers had to build their own UIs to connect to the Braintree SDK, but…

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Use your Android Wear watch to snap photos with the updated Google Camera

Jul09
by on July 9, 2014 at 6:24 pm
Posted In: android wear, Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Google

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The latest Google Camera update features the ability to take a photo using an Android Wear watch as a remote shutter. Selfies just got about 100 times better. The update is available now from Google Play and adds a card to an Android Wear watch that appears when the app is launched on an tablet or smartphone. Tap the card and you get a three second countdown before a photo is taken by your Android device. A preview of the image you shot even shows up on your smartwatch. While notifications are nice, it’s tiny little features like this that…

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Social DJ app Edjing revamped with new UI, deeper Deezer integration and universal search

Jul09
by on July 9, 2014 at 5:53 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Edjing, an app that allows users to mix tracks streaming from Deezer and other music services, has announced a significant update today which brings new social features, a refreshed UI and access to a larger music catalog. The company says that the new version offers access to more than 50 million streaming tracks in total, 30 million of which come from Deezer, while the rest are from SoundCloud. Naturally, you can use locally stored files too. As part of its ongoing relationship with Deezer, the app also now includes Deezer’s own track recommendation tools like Top Charts, Deezer Picks and…

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