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Popcorn Time now streams TV shows and is available on Android

May14

by Sindy Cator on May 14, 2014 at 3:48 am

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, popcorn time

Popcorn Time, the open-source service that streams video content from torrenting sites, now supports TV shows and is available for Android devices. The dual announcement yesterday marks a big change from a few months ago, when the original team behind the service closed it down due to piracy concerns. The project was since forked by the Time4Popcorn team, which launched a significant update to the desktop app — adding a dedicated TV show menu, bookmarks and a new design– and an Android app. TechCrunch reports that Google pulled the app from the Google Play store due to “intellectual property violation,” but it is available…

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Exploring the aesthetics of food photography with Instagram star Patrick Janelle

May14

by Sindy Cator on May 14, 2014 at 2:05 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Profiles and Interviews

Lindsay Comstock is a New York-based writer, photographer, and editor. Her work has appeared in American Photo, PDN, and Rangefinder. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been adapted with permission. “Food is the newest frontier in photography,” says Patrick Janelle, a designer for clients including Bon Appétit and co-creator of New York City-based Spring Street Social Society with former Top Chef contestant Camille Becerra. Janelle’s vivid Instagram account (@aguynamedpatrick) — featuring a diary of his daily cortado coffee, shout-outs to his favorite restaurants through inventive food photographs, and his New York slice-of-life imagery — enabled him to quickly amass a following of more than 100,000. We caught up…

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Path for Windows Phone emerges from beta and gets the Path Store and search

May14

by Sindy Cator on May 14, 2014 at 12:26 am

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Path updated its Windows Phone app to version 2.0 today, adding in-app purchase shop for stickers and filters and the ability to run searches on the service. The update also includes the usual set of bug fixes and stability improvements. The beta version of Path for Windows Phone first arrived in January, but the app’s initial release wasn’t completely stable. Today’s release brings the app out of beta. ➤ Path for Windows Phone (h/t Winbeta) Thumbnail credit: Tim Green / Flickr

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Yahoo acquires ephemeral messaging app Blink, service to shut down in the ‘next few weeks’

May13

by Sindy Cator on May 13, 2014 at 11:29 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, yahoo

Yahoo has acquired the team behind Blink, an app for sending self-destructing messages, as first reported by TechCrunch. Blink revealed on its website that it plans to shut down its iOS and Android apps in “the next few weeks.” Blink release its iOS app last April before expanding to Android this February. ➤ Blink is now a part of Yahoo!

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Google Maps just became a one-stop shop for UK public transport data

May13

by Sindy Cator on May 13, 2014 at 10:59 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Google, UK

A little more than a week after Google turbo-charged turn-by-turn directions in Maps for iOS and Android, the mapping service has been given a major dose of transport data in the UK. While commuters and travelers across many parts of the country will already be accustomed to searching for the best transport options directly in Google Maps, with the latest iteration, you should now be able to search every bus, tram, tube, coach, train and ferry across the UK. More than 17,000 routes are included, from Land’s End through to John O’Groats. While national rail data and other public transport…