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Twitter wants to help you celebrate its 8th birthday by rediscovering your very first tweet

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by on March 20, 2014 at 1:50 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

As Twitter gears up to celebrate turning eight-years-old, the social networking giant now wants to help you easily find your first ever tweet. Using this little tool, not only can yo rediscover your own first tweet, however, you can also enter any username to see their first ever musing on the platform…including celebrities, politicians, and all the rest. Moreover, you can even retweet your first tweet directly too, so you can likely expect to see a plethora of ‘my first tweet’ tweets hitting your timeline throughout today and tomorrow. Related read: Twitter’s latest experiment hints that it will remove @ replies…

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Facebook for BlackBerry 10 finally lets you sort the News Feed by Most Recent and Top Stories

Mar20
by on March 20, 2014 at 1:33 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

The Facebook for BlackBerry 10 app received an update today, although in terms of features it’s still far behind its iOS and Android counterparts. Version 10.4 adds News Feed sorting for the first time, so you can finally filter your stream by Top Stories or Most Recent. Similar to the Facebook for Android app, you can alternate between the two by opening the side menu and tapping the settings icon just to the right of the News Feed selection. Emoticons are now supported too, so you can quickly send smiley faces in a comment or private chat. The app also offers…

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Quick 4 Minute Workout: The iPhone app for when 7 minutes is just too long…

Mar20
by on March 20, 2014 at 1:12 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Reviews

One of the most recent fitness crazes to come to the fore is the 7 Minute Workout, a short and snappy high-intensity session spanning 12 exercises of 30 seconds each, interjected with a series of 10 second breaks. But what if you don’t have enough time for even that? Well, here’s a 4-minute workout for you. From the same folk that gave us Quick Fit, an iPhone app that delivers more than just a 7-minute workout, the Quick 4-minute Workout adopts a similar philosophy. It’s built on the principles of Tabata, a high-intensity interval training (HIIT) program that was apparently…

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Samsung’s latest Galaxy PRO tablet ad trashes the iPad, Surface and Kindle

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by on March 20, 2014 at 1:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Videos

Once again, Samsung has released an advert that promotes its own products by bashing its closest competitors. In this instance it’s the iPad, Surface and Kindle, as Samsung attempts to establish its Galaxy PRO range as the best choice for both professional and casual use. The iPad is knocked for lacking side-by-side multitasking, while the Surface takes some heat for looking like a “laptop”, complete with keyboard and battery dock. Amazon’s Kindle is slammed for focusing on ebooks, before Apple takes one final blow for the pixel density in its Retina Display iPads. These tactics are nothing new, of course….

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Russia’s Mail.ru Group targets Western gamers with four ‘triple-A’ MMOs for Windows

Mar20
by on March 20, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Russian giant Mail.ru Group launched My.com as a US-focused subsidiary last year, focused on offering free email and messaging apps subsidized by the revenues from free-to-play mobile games. Now the company is expanding into ‘triple-A’ PC game publishing. My.com is announcing today at GDC that it will launch four free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) games this year for Windows PCs. Armored Warfare is a tank combat game, Skyforge and Evolution are both RPGs, while the first to launch will be World of Speed, a social racing game with team play and auto clubs that players can join. Speaking to us at…

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