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Adblock Plus publishes Acceptable Ads manifesto, with support from Reddit and others

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 12:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Adblock Plus today unveiled a set of guidelines for its “Acceptable Ads” initiative in the form of an online manifesto. The company’s goal is to define how a reasonable ad should look and behave so that ad blocking can only encompass annoying ads. The manifesto has five basic tenets: Acceptable Ads are not annoying. Acceptable Ads do not disrupt or distort the page content we’re trying to read. Acceptable Ads are transparent with us about being an ad. Acceptable Ads are effective without shouting at us. Acceptable Ads are appropriate to the site that we are on. The manifesto has…

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Autographer’s life-logging camera now has its very own Android app

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 11:21 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Updates

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OMG Life, the company behind the Autographer life-logging camera, has finally released an Android app compatible with the device. Announced today, the app allows people who own the camera to preview images in chronological order, use multiple shots to create GIFs or stop-frame videos, tag images or share them on social channels directly from an Android device. Launched at the end of last year, the camera has until now only been compatible with iOS devices, so it’s good to see an Android version finally arrive. In addition to today’s launch, the company said there will be a waterproofing kit available…

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Autographer’s life-logging camera now has its very own Android app

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 11:21 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Updates

Autographer
OMG Life, the company behind the Autographer life-logging camera, has finally released an Android app compatible with the device. Announced today, the app allows people who own the camera to preview images in chronological order, use multiple shots to create GIFs or stop-frame videos, tag images or share them on social channels directly from an Android device. Launched at the end of last year, the camera has until now only been compatible with iOS devices, so it’s good to see an Android version finally arrive. In addition to today’s launch, the company said there will be a waterproofing kit available…

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UK bank account holders can now register for Paym’s system to pay IOUs with just a mobile number

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 10:14 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, UK

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The UK’s Payments Council has today announced that the Paym system that will allow UK bank account holders to make payments to friends and family using just a mobile number is available for pre-registration ahead of its launch on April 29. Essentially, what the service will allow is person-to-person payments using just a mobile number – there’s no need to remember the sort code or account number of the person being paid, meaning it should be quicker and easier to reclaim odd bits of money that you have lent to people here and there. “Friends tend to make IOUs on a…

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Lingua.ly helps you learn new languages simply by browsing the Web

Apr02
by on April 2, 2014 at 9:41 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Reviews

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“You push a button, and the world’s yours. You know how they talk about the world getting smaller? Well, it’s thanks to these that it is. Everywhere now is our own neighborhood.” This prophetic pronouncement was made by Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan way back in the hippie sixties, so it’s clear this wasn’t him talking about the Internet (he was talking about telephones). The underlying sentiments, however, very much ring true today regarding this global village we call the Web. However small the world may be getting, figuratively speaking, there is still the inherent language barriers to circumvent. There are…

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