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Product design community Forrst rebrands as Tavern with a focus on daily questions

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by on July 1, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev

ZURB has relaunched Forrst, the product design and development community it acquired last  January, as Tavern with a new focus on design discussions to improve their skills. Instead of submitting their own work, designers will now head to the site to answer a daily question submitted by the community. Users will have 24 hours to answer the question, after which it will be archived to form a knowledge base for other designers. Currently, Tavern is being tested by a limited group, but you can request an invite. ZURB says it will let more people in every week. Design work submitted to the…

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Germans can now customize their own Moto X Android phones

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by on July 1, 2014 at 7:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Google, Insider, lenovo, motorola

Everything’s coming up German this week. First they advance in the World Cup and now they can get their hands on customized Moto X smartphones. The Moto Maker online store opened today in Germany. Android-loving Germans can now customize their own Moto X phones with different colors and even wood backplates. The phones start at €1 and are delivered in about seven days. The Moto X was the flagship offspring of Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility. The 2011 deal, and the phones it spawned, didn’t quite yield the results both companies were expecting. In January of this year, Google announced…

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Yahoo adds news, sports scores and weather to its Yahoo Mail iPad app

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by on July 1, 2014 at 6:53 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

Yahoo today rolled out an update to its Yahoo Mail iPad app, adding a raft of extra content, including news, weather, finance, sports and videos, to the email client. The iPad version follows similar upgrades to Yahoo’s Android and iPhone mail apps. While other Web companies have focused on unbundling their mobile offerings in favor of a suite of slimmer, single-use apps, Yahoo has taken the opposite approach by packing more into its mail app. Yahoo Mail for iPad now includes the company’s vertical-specific Digital Magazines. The other content is located under the Today tab. ➤ Yahoo Mail for iPad

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Shuttersong photo-video app now on Windows 8

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by on July 1, 2014 at 6:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

Shuttersong, the iOS photo-audio app that merges an image and an audio clip into the same file, is now available for Windows 8. Shuttersong lets you combine 15 seconds of voice, music or sound within any digital photo and then share it via email and social networks. The Windows 8 app features system-wide gestures for playing music and sharing Shuttersong files. Users can also access their photo library on their device or in the cloud, or create Shuttersongs from archived images. The app is now available for free in the Windows Store for use on all Windows 8 tablets, PCs, all-in-ones, and more. ➤ Shuttersong for…

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New Yo channel on IFTTT actually makes Yo kind of useful, almost

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by on July 1, 2014 at 5:36 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Yo is dumb. What’s dumber is that the developer raised $1 million for an app that sends a message with a single word “Yo,” to your contacts. That’s it. That’s all it does. Now it’s being combined with arguably the most useful tool on the Internet, the cloud-based scripting service IFTTT (If This Than That). It doesn’t make the messaging platform any smarter, but it does add functionality to those messages thanks to the power of scripting. The new IFTTT Yo channel already has some pre-created recipes like turning on your Hue lights off, Tweeting and toggling a WeMo switch. Just…

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