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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

Mar20
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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Pikock: A multi-platform website creation tool for people who can’t code

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

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Pikock, a French company founded in 2012, has just launched an all-in-one website creation platform that allows users to build and launch sites that automatically adapt to a range of devices without needing to know any code at all. While drag-and-drop website tools are nothing new, they often take a bit of manual tweaking – or you later find that a subsequent update has broken part of the site, or certain elements don’t play nicely together. Pikock claims, however, that it doesn’t just focus on being easy to use. “Pikock focus on simplicity, but also on reliability,” company co-founder Tsifei Chan told…

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