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Google Keyboard for Android now makes suggestions and corrections based on what you type in other Google apps

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by on March 19, 2014 at 8:25 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider, Mobile

Google today updated its Google Keyboard app for Android, adding a new Personalized Suggestions feature under the hood that lets it grab data from other Google apps and services. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play. While the changelog merely talks about an option to switch the keyboard color scheme (white and blue) as well as the usual “bug fixes and stability improvements,” DroidLife points to the above message once you install the update. Essentially, Personalized Suggestions uses data from other Google apps and services to improve the keyboard’s suggestions and corrections. The data is stored…

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Prism for iPhone has a fascinating new take on photo filters

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 8:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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The color wheel has nothing on Prism, a new iPhone app that lets you roll your own photo filter combos based on the colors in your original shot. There are plenty of photo filter apps for the iPhone—more than enough by any objective measure. But I’d argue that such image enhancements—which often sport names like Holga, Toy Camera, or simply a year from the past century—have been partly responsible for the depth and variety of the bustling iPhoneography scene. Lots of photographers eschew filters, but they do serve a creative purpose. And that’s why a mysterious newcomer called Prism from…

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The common elements of good storytelling

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 7:33 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Paul Jarvis is a Web designer and bestselling author, who’s obsessed with nature and hairless rats. His latest book, Everything I Know, is a guide to freelancing as a creative professional. My favourite activity while I lived in Tofino, BC was attending my artist friend, Roy Henry Vickers’ storytellings. His art gallery is a large room, set mostly in cedar, with an inset middle area where people can sit at several levels and listen. Roy Henry is First-Nations, so his culture is one of passing information to the next generation through story. And he does it well. So well, that the handful…

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Watch two developers swap faces in real time with Kinect

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 6:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Shareables

Have you ever wondered how it would feel like to swap bodies with your friend? Now you don’t have to wonder anymore. The second-generation Kinect sensor for Windows is powerful enough to let you trade faces: The project comes from Apache, and in the video description the team notes an important caveat: “As the Kinect doesn’t track head rotation it means that both users need to be looking in the same direction for the illusion to work best.” Still, we can imagine many use cases for this technology, such as the Kinect capturing multiple faces in real time and putting…

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PlayStation 4 update to add rich video editor, 720p Twitch streaming, HDCP off option, and more

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 4:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Updates

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The Xbox One has already received a few firmware updates and it would seem the PlayStation 4 is about to follow suit. Sony today detailed an upcoming patch for its new console that will allow players to turn HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) off at any time. At the moment, this protection means that players can’t record footage using an external capture device. They can stream a session with Twitch or distribute a short clip with the Share button, but vloggers and video producers couldn’t record and edit longer gameplay sessions. Once the update lands this will no longer be…

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