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Google Slides and Drawings now have basic image-editing tools built in

Mar25
by on March 25, 2014 at 4:38 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Product Updates

If you use Google Drive‘s browser-based PowerPoint rival Slides, or its Drawings tool, you’ll find some new features today that will allow you to fix up images to make them look just the way you want them. There’s a basic cropping tool, plus numerous shaped masks. You’ll also find a range of colored borders available. Google says the feature is rolling out over the next couple of hours, and it’s already showing up in Sheets for us. ➤ Edit images right in Google Slides and Drawings [Google Drive Blog] Don’t miss: Google starts rolling out new Sheets with offline editing, speed improvements,…

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HTC One (M8) Google Play Edition confirmed: Pre-orders start today, will launch in ‘coming weeks’

Mar25
by on March 25, 2014 at 4:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Launches

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The new HTC Gallery app may have given us a heads-up earlier today, but the Taiwanese smartphone maker today confirmed that its new One (M8) Android handset will be available as a Google Play Edition too. The handset will feature the stock Android experience, similar to the Nexus range and the HTC One Google Play Edition released last year. The company said it will be up for pre-order later today and then available from the Google Play store “in the coming weeks.” While HTC has made great strides to improve the Sense UI, BlinkFeed and its set of exclusive apps, there…

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Google trials a new ‘visual’ way to view promotions in your Gmail account

Mar25
by on March 25, 2014 at 4:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

It’s been almost a year since Google announced a new way to automatically organize your inbox using tabs called ‘Primary’, ‘Updates’, ‘Social’ and ‘Promotions’. And today, Google has revealed it’s introducing a new way of displaying images specifically within the Promotions tab. The idea here is that promotional emails typically have many images embedded, be it an item of clothing or new mobile phone. By rolling out a new grid-style view of this tab, Google hopes to make things a lot prettier and appealing. And it may even help appease e-marketers who were critical of the way this new tab…

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Microsoft and Computer History Museum release source code for MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0, Word for Windows 1.1a

Mar25
by on March 25, 2014 at 4:24 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Microsoft today released the source code for MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 as well as Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a. With the help of the Computer History Museum, the move means means this code is now available to the public. MS-DOS was a renamed version of 86-DOS, written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products and initially released in August 1980. Microsoft hired Paterson in May 1981, bought 86-DOS 1.10 for $75,000 in July, and renamed it MS-DOS. Microsoft released the first DOS-based version of Microsoft Word in 1983. In 1989, Word for Windows arrived, and within four years was…

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HTC One (M8): Where and when it will be available in the US, UK and Canada

Mar25
by on March 25, 2014 at 4:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Mobile, Product Launches

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HTC today unveiled its latest flagship Android smartphone, the One (M8), and now we’ve got the lowdown on exactly where and when it will be available. Taking a page from Apple’s playbook, the handset will be available online in the US later today through the following carriers and online retailers: Amazon, Appalachian Wireless, AT&T, Best Buy, Bluegrass Cellular, Car Toys, Cellcom, Chat Mobility, Cincinnati Bell Wireless, Costco, Military Exchange, Net10 Wireless, Pioneer Cellular, RadioShack, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and Walmart. If you’re living in Canada, the device will be available online through Best Buy, Bell, Costco, Future Shop, Koodo, Rogers, SaskTel,…

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