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Giphy now lets you share GIFs on Twitter that point to other URLs

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by on May 14, 2014 at 3:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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If you love GIFs, you’ve probably heard of Giphy. The site offers a gargantuan database of short animated images, helping you easily find and link to the perfect internet skit at a moment’s notice. On Twitter, many brands and publishers upload images to complement an important link. Posting two URLs is pretty inefficient, however, and gives you even fewer characters to write a tweet. Enter Giphy. The company has effectively smashed the two together. You can now find any GIF on Giphy and then pair it with a link of your choosing. The site will create a shortened URL which, when…

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Google Calendar can now show Hebrew calendar dates alongside Gregorian equivalents

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by on May 14, 2014 at 3:33 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider, Middle East

Following the addition of the Persian calendar early this year, Google Calendar today gained support for the Hebrew calendar. As a result, you can now display Hebrew dates alongside Gregorian ones: To enable the Hebrew calendar, go into Settings, click on the General tab, and select it as an Alternate calendar. The Hebrew calendar is lunisolar, meaning it bases its months on lunar cycles and its years on solar cycles. See also – Google now lets you download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data Image Credit: Johannes Eisele/Getty Images

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Google Calendar can now show Hebrew calendar dates alongside Gregorian equivalents

May14
by on May 14, 2014 at 3:33 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider, Middle East

Following the addition of the Persian calendar early this year, Google Calendar today gained support for the Hebrew calendar. As a result, you can now display Hebrew dates alongside Gregorian ones: To enable the Hebrew calendar, go into Settings, click on the General tab, and select it as an Alternate calendar. The Hebrew calendar is lunisolar, meaning it bases its months on lunar cycles and its years on solar cycles. See also – Google now lets you download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data Image Credit: Johannes Eisele/Getty Images

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Rovio launches ToonsTV iOS app for Angry Birds cartoons and more, but only in Finland for now

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by on May 14, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

One week after Rovio launched a new Flappy Bird-style game in Finland, Canada and Poland, the Finland-based Angry Birds’ creator has quietly introduced yet another mobile app into the fray. ToonsTV has been the broadcasting home of Rovio’s popular animated series Angry Birds Toons for a while already, with users able to watch within Angry Birds mobile apps, as well as on the Web, smart TVs, set-top boxes, and through some traditional TV networks. And now it has its very own standalone iOS app, though it’s restricted to Finland for now. Optimized for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, ToonsTV is…

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Rovio launches ToonsTV iOS app for Angry Birds cartoons and more, but only in Finland for now

May14
by on May 14, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

One week after Rovio launched a new Flappy Bird-style game in Finland, Canada and Poland, the Finland-based Angry Birds’ creator has quietly introduced yet another mobile app into the fray. ToonsTV has been the broadcasting home of Rovio’s popular animated series Angry Birds Toons for a while already, with users able to watch within Angry Birds mobile apps, as well as on the Web, smart TVs, set-top boxes, and through some traditional TV networks. And now it has its very own standalone iOS app, though it’s restricted to Finland for now. Optimized for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, ToonsTV is…

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