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‘Wonder’ wants to take on YouTube with a new ad-free video platform for exclusive lifestyle content

Mar13
by on March 13, 2014 at 4:01 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Wonder PL, otherwise known as simply ‘Wonder’, is a new platform for hosting lifestyle-oriented video content that wants to take on Vimeo and YouTube at their own game. Launched today by Sofia Fenichell, founder of Rockpack, the platform has already attracted $1.4 million from investors including Universal Music Group (UMG), Qualcomm Ventures, Alex Creighton (Co-Founder and President of Vice Media), Pascal Cagni (formerly CEO of Apple, EMEA) and Russell Platt (Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Forum Partners). It’s not just cash either. Ahead of launch Wonder lined up content partners in the form of Space NK, The National Film Board of Canada, Universal Music…

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Amazon AppStream is now open to all developers to build complex apps running from the cloud

Mar13
by on March 13, 2014 at 3:39 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

Last year, Amazon Web Services unveiled a new service, AppStream, which would run high-resource apps including “3D games and interactive HD applications” from the cloud. Now Amazon is opening up AppStream to all developers (via VentureBeat). In an announcement today, Amazon says interested developers can use AppStream to build complex apps that run from simple devices, as they won’t be constrained by the compute power, storage or graphical rendering capabilities of the devices. This means developers can take advantage of a feature, known as the g2 instance type, to develop fast, 3D apps that run in the cloud and deliver high performance 3D graphics to…

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Red Giant splashes with new online community

Mar13
by on March 13, 2014 at 12:03 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

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Red Giant, the maker of special effects video and motion graphics software, has jumped into community building with the launch of Red Giant Universe. This new community, which went online as a public beta today, offers members access to a vast variety of free tools for editing, filmmaking, visual effects, and motion design. A year and a half in the making, Red Giant has released 50 new plug-ins simultaneously, with more under development, according to Sean Safreed, Red Giant’s co-founder and CTO, who spearheaded the effort. New members get immediate access to dozens of free tools. All tools in Red Giant’s library of…

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Paper by FiftyThree gets a redesign with new controls and drawing features

Mar12
by on March 12, 2014 at 9:53 pm
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iPad drawing app Paper by FiftyThree has gotten a significant visual redesign to bring it in line with the style of iOS 7 and allow for more detailed drawings. Developer FiftyThree has tweaked the drawing functions when zoomed in to allow for greater detail by also zooming in tools. You can also now create different-sized dots by holding down the draw and eraser tools for varying lengths of time. ➤ Paper by Fifty Three for iPad

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VLC app for Windows 8 arrives in beta, but no support for Windows RT devices just yet

Mar12
by on March 12, 2014 at 9:47 pm
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VLC has finally released a ‘modern UI’ version of its open-source media player for the Windows 8 platform. After raising close to £50,000 ($78,136 USD) on Kickstarter, a beta version is available for anyone with a Windows-powered PC, laptop or tablet with an x86 or x64 processor. The app will play back a range of video and audio formats including MKV, Ogg, MOV, FLAC and MPC, in addition to all of the codecs supported in the regular desktop app, including MPEG-1, H.265, WMV3 and VC-1. VLC is known for taking almost any file type in its stride and, based on…

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