Daily Archives: October 16, 2015

Top 10 Android app updates this week: Lyft, BaconReader

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Welcome back to our weekly Top 10 Android App Updates column, where we take a look at the most frequently upgraded apps for the week. We’ve found that one of the best ways to discover useful apps is to find the ones that are actually being updated by the developers rather than selecting the apps with the most installs. As in the past, we’re going to filter out minor updates for the super-popular apps that have over 10 million installs, but we’ll make exceptions for apps that have had significant updates. We hope you enjoy this weekly feature and that you discover some apps that end up being useful.

VLC for Android – Version 1.6.0

VLC

What’s new in this version:

  • We’ve worked a lot to improve the internal decoding speed and the interface speed, and at the same time, prepare for Android 6.0.
  • The number of permissions needed were reduced, especially for KitKat (4.4) and more recent.
  • We’ve accelerated the video playback speed, for 4K support.
  • The interface was cleaned and speed up, with more Material look.
  • And a few new features, like USB auto-detection, better audio/video sync or better chapters support.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Lyft – Version 3.14.0

Lyft

What’s new in this version:

  • Take a trip down memory lane. We’ve added your ride history, complete with details about every trip, to the app.
  • See the price breakdown, check out the map, report lost items, request a review, or pay a tip for every Lyft ride you’ve taken.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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BaconReader – Version 5.0.1

BaconReader

What’s new in this version:

  • ALL NEW MATERIAL DESIGN UI
  • Fixed downloading gifv files
  • Fixed audio pausing when playing gifv and gfycat
  • Fixed Image cache no such file error
  • Changed Reply/Comment icon
  • Fixed ‘Hide Read Posts’
  • Fixed Expand/Collapse comments
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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YouTube Gaming – Version 1.1.0

YouTube Gaming

What’s new in this version:

  • Mobile Capture! Live stream or record your mobile games. Host your stream with your selfie cam and record your commentary with your phone’s microphone. (Supported devices on Lollipop+)
  • Faster discovery of live streams for games in your collection
  • Support your favorite creators with Fan Funding (tap “$” and choose your tip)
  • Easy video bookmarking with Watch Later
  • Import existing subscriptions from YouTube in Settings
  • Performance improvements and bug fixes
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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CloudPlayer by doubleTwist – Version 1.0.9

CloudPlayer

What’s new in this version:

  • Added Android Wear support. Control playback from your fancy watch.
  • Added Android Auto support. Vrooom!
  • Added support for AllPlay streaming devices.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Yahoo Mail – Version 5.0.0

Yahoo Mail

What’s new in this version:

  • Add Outlook, AOL or multiple Yahoo mailboxes and easily switch between them.
  • Attach multiple photos and videos, all at once.
  • Search across all of your messages, contacts, files and photos, faster than ever.
  • Use Smart Views to sort your emails by categories.
  • Press down on the compose button to quickly compose a message to yourself.
  • Stay in the know with news from Yahoo and the Yahoo Magazines.
  • Enable Account Key for password-free sign in.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Tumblr – Version 4.8.0

Tumblr

What’s new in this version:

  • More substantiated visuals.
  • Sturdier, more erect pixels.
  • Reversed out-of-frame colors.
  • Smoothed the visible plane.
  • Re-proportioned user actuations.
  • Divulgated temporal errors.
  • Future-proofed for Android: Tangerine.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Health Mate – Version 2.10.50

Health Mate

What’s new in this version:

  • Spotify integration: Wake/Sleep to favorite songs & playlists
  • Internet radio: Wake/Sleep to favorite stations
  • Personalize alarms & set multiple alarms per day
  • Snooze via push notification
  • New widget tracks environmental data 24/7
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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NPR One – Version 1.5.0.3

NPR One

What’s new in this version:

  • Sharing stories that you heard on NPR One now include story and podcast images on social media. Now you can give your friends one more reason to listen to the stories you just shared with them.
  • Google Sign-in no longer requests permission to access your friends or circles—we’ve never used that info, anyway.
  • And we’ve updated the sign in screen to make it simpler the next time you sign in.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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Flipboard – Version 3.3.13

Flipboard

What’s new in this version:

  • Enjoy more content with related story suggestions at the end of articles.
(Playboard) | (Play Store)

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New Study Suggests Personal Twitter Posts Decrease Social Interaction

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“I feel like I shouldn’t be reading this,” a friend told me a few years ago after having read a personal story I’d published. “I feel like I shouldn’t know this about you.” I was proud at the time, because that response was exactly what I’d hoped the story would provoke. I didn’t have a particularly developed philosophy about writing, the Internet, or its relationship to confessional intimacy. But I felt by instinct that online writing should reflect the indecency of self-indictment, the disquieting failure of experience to cohere into a poignant anecdote that could become a tool in someone else’s life journey.

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Steve Ballmer Is Investing in Twitter. (This Just Gets Better and Better.)

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Steve Ballmer Is Investing in Twitter. (This Just Gets Better and Better.)
Earlier today, a Twitter account linked to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that he had bought a 4 percent stake in the San Francisco social communications company that he used to deliver the investment news.

October 16, 2015 at 03:33PM
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‘Beasts of No Nation’, la primera película distribuida por Netflix, se estrena hoy

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A Netflix las series de televisión y los documentales se le han quedado cortos, quiere más. Es por eso que hace un tiempo anunció que produciría su primera película y no solo eso: también distribuiría otras que se encargaría de estrenar al mismo tiem…

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El Samsung Galaxy Note 5 llega oficialmente a Europa

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Samsung Galay Note 5 imagen prensa

Cuando fue anunciado que el Samsung Galaxy Note 5 no llegaría a Europa hubo muchas reacciones negativas hacia Samsung, puesto que se trata de un gran terminal con unas características envidiables. La empresa surcoreana ha recibido mucha presión para traer la última iteración de su afamado phablet equipado con el S Pen a nuestro continente y, finalmente, parece que ha cedido bajo el empuje de los usuarios. Después de obtener rumores que indican que Rumanía podría recibir las primeras unidades de este tope de gama en enero del año que viene, parece que Samsung ha accedido a comercializarlo un poco antes.

Samsung Galaxy Note 5, en preventa

El sitio web de Samsung en Ucrania ha estado ofreciendo reservas para el Galaxy Note de 32 GB desde el 9 de octubre. Por lo que hemos podido averiguar, parece que la compañía está incentivando la adquisición de este terminal ofreciendo a la primera oleada de compradores un pack de extensión de batería. El precio por el que está a la venta el dispositivo es de 19.999 grivnas ucranianos, lo que se traduce en unos 826 euros. Ucrania es el único país europeo que vende el Galaxy Note 5 directamente desde Samsung, al menos por el momento.

Samsung Galaxy Note 5

Si no recuerdas las especificaciones de este tope de gama, te refrescaremos la memoria rápidamente. El Galaxy Note 5 monta un procesador Exynos 7420 de ocho núcleos (el mismo que monta el Samsung Galaxy S6) acompañado de 4 GB de RAM y dispone de una de las mejores pantallas del momento, una AMOLED de 5,7 pulgadas con resolución QHD. Presume de una excelente cámara trasera de 16 megapíxeles, y otra delantera de 5 megapíxeles. Su batería, de 3000 mAh, es uno de los puntos más criticados del flagship de Samsung, sin embargo la empresa asegura que realiza una extraordinaria gestión de la energía, además de disponer de carga rápida. Otra de las características más útiles de las que dispone el Note 5 es su S Pen, del que tendremos que asegurarnos de no introducirlo al revés dentro del terminal, ya que puede quedar inservible.

El Samsung Galaxy Note 5 es uno de los mejores terminales de este año, por lo que cuando Samsung declaró que no llegaría a Europa, muchos se quedaron atónitos (entre los que me incluyo). Uno de los principales culpables de la estrategia de Samsung se debe, en su mayor parte, al Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+, un terminal muy parecido en especificaciones al Note 5, con la diferencia fundamental situada en los bordes curvados del mismo. Quizás, la intención de Samsung fue la de potenciar las ventas del hermano casi gemelo del Galaxy Note 5 sin la distracción de éste último.

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Six Sony devices will jump straight to Android 6.0 from Android 5.0

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Sony has updated its support pages to indicate the fact that at least six of its devices will not be receiving updates to Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. Instead, these will jump from 5.0 straight to Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

The devices in question are the Xperia Z3+, Xperia Z4 Tablet, Xperia C4, Xperia C5 Ultra, Xperia M4 Aqua, and Xperia M5. The support pages for all of these now list Android 6.0 Marshmallow as the next version of the OS that they’ll get, even though they’re all still running 5.0.

Given the fact that Marshmallow is already launched, this makes sense. If Sony were to work on the Android 5.1.1 update for these devices first, and only then start developing Marshmallow, you can imagine how late that would come out. Even so, you probably shouldn’t expect any of them to taste Marshmallow this year.

It’s unclear why Sony hasn’t already released updates to Android 5.1.1 for these smartphones and the Z4 Tablet, but now it’s certain that it won’t go this route at…

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The Rise of Marketing And Transparency In Recruitment

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With the HR Tech Conference about to hit with a bang, top of mind for a lot of us are questions of need and want. If we could have anything we wanted in terms of HR Tech, what would it be? To better push employee engagement — with some kind of magical Big Brother-like metrics that ping us when employees start to lose interest? To finally relegate those creaky file cabinets in Storeroom B to things of the past, by allowing us agile and responsible access to the Cloud? What about big picture planning, endless processes and admin: can tech just do that so we don’t have to?

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