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Storehouse, the beautiful visual storytelling iPad app, gets a refresh with emphasis on discovery

Jun18
by on June 18, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

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It’s been a couple of months since Apple’s former user experience evangelist and UI designer Mark Kawano launched Storehouse, a gorgeous iPad app that lets you quickly lay out and publish photos, videos and text as beautiful shareable stories. Recently, the app also snagged an Apple Design Award. Now Storehouse has gotten a refresh with more emphasis on discovery features — including the introduction of two new channels, ‘Explore’ and ‘Story of the Day’. Before this, the app only had a single feed at login for users to browse through content from people they follow, and the stories these followers republish. The ‘Explore’ feed shows you stories…

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Personal assistant app 24me for iOS adds ‘smart alerts’ so you never miss an appointment again

Jun18
by on June 18, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Productivity apps are ten-a-penny (or a dime-a-dozen, if you prefer), but ones that can help you prioritize your life tasks and keep you running on schedule are less commonplace. To that end, 24me, a personal assistant app for iOS devices, has added a new feature today which promises to help users get to appointments on time and remember special occasions. The new ‘Smart Alerts’ feature, essentially, will take into account things like weather, traffic and your agenda to tell you exactly when you should be leaving to make it to your meeting – a little like Google Now, but plugged more deeply into…

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Personal assistant app 24me for iOS adds ‘smart alerts’ so you never miss an appointment again

Jun18
by on June 18, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Productivity apps are ten-a-penny (or a dime-a-dozen, if you prefer), but ones that can help you prioritize your life tasks and keep you running on schedule are less commonplace. To that end, 24me, a personal assistant app for iOS devices, has added a new feature today which promises to help users get to appointments on time and remember special occasions. The new ‘Smart Alerts’ feature, essentially, will take into account things like weather, traffic and your agenda to tell you exactly when you should be leaving to make it to your meeting – a little like Google Now, but plugged more deeply into…

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Summer sale! Grab $400 worth of Mac apps and name your own price

Jun18
by on June 18, 2014 at 2:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers

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Just in time to welcome the upcoming summer solstice, check out our most recent Name Your Own Price Mac Bundle. Dubbed “The Summer Blockbuster,” the bundle features a few of our favorite apps like Fantastical, Flux, Gemini and more.  In full, it’s 10 Mac apps worth $400, but you name the price. For any price over $1, you can get Tangerine, DiscLabel and SyncMate. Or, if you beat the average price, you’ll get all 10 apps. This includes Fantastical, a powerful calendar app for Mac, which is one of TNW’s essential Mac Apps. Also included are Flux 4 (

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Fleksy finally launches its keyboard app for the Tizen-powered Samsung Gear 2

Jun18
by on June 18, 2014 at 2:01 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Fresh from the news that Fleksy is in the midst of taking its smart keyboard app system-wide on iOS 8, the San Francisco-based startup has launched a brand new keyboard app for text-messaging on the new Samsung Gear 2 smartwatch, four months after it first revealed plans to do so. Following Samsung’s first Galaxy Gear smartwatch, the Korean giant revealed the second iterations of the wrist-based contraption earlier this year, except the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo run on the Tizen operating system, rather than Android. After an extended beta period, the new Fleksy keyboard app can now be…

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