Clean up your phone's irritating app notifications

A new year is a good opportunity for taking stock of your life and making changes, but they don’t have to be major. For example, I’ve decided that 2016 will be the year my phone annoys me a lot less.

You know how it is; you install an app and it asks if it can send you push notifications. You say yes (because notifications might be useful, right?) and before you know it you’ve got 20, 30 or more apps all notifying you about things that either can wait until you next open the app or that matter more to their developers than they do to you.

• Someone you don’t know followed you on that service you haven’t really used since you tried it a couple of times six months ago
• Your lives have renewed, come back and play this game!
• Someone retweeted your tweet

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In India, Pay bill through Twitter Soon

Twitter users in India may soon be able to pay their bills though the micro-blogging site, the media reported.

The company has announced a partnership with India-based startup Lookup to enable users send a direct message to @lookuplite in order to book appointments, inquire about services and make transactions with businesses, Techcrunch reported.

Lookup lets retailers and consumers chat with each other through direct messaging. It boasts of 1.2 million registered users despite listing merchants from Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.

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Altwork Station always puts you in a position to work

I’m a big fan of standing desks. Although their direct benefits over sitting are some what iffy, they encourage you to move around and be just a little more active.

And yet, even though I’ve spent most of my work hours standing for about a year now, I still sometimes need to sit down when writing a longer post, and other times I’m even more productive from the comfort of my own bed.

Basically, I work better in different positions depending on what I’m doing, but it’s inconvenient having to constantly switch my desk height and chair position.

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Santa Tracker 2015 : Track father of Christmas's present deliveries

Every year, we get the official Santa trackers from Google and Microsoft to keep track of where presents are being delivered.

This year’s no different, and Google today fired up its Santa tracker, kicking off with Wellington, New Zealand, which has already started Christmas.

If you search ‘santa tracker’ you’ll also see where Santa is right now in your search results, and it’s adorably designed.

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WhatsApp to support video calling feature soon

 

It was just this year that WhatsApp finally added voice call support, but now it seems the popular messaging app is looking to outdo itself by adding video support soon.
German Apple blog Macerkopf claims that WhatsApp is working on the feature, and provides allegdly leaked images of video calling in action.
 

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Google brings its interactive 360 degree videos to YouTube

Remember Spotlight Stories? Released back in May, they were interactive, 360-degree videos published by Google to help promote new methods of immersive storytelling. Now the company is gearing up to propel the medium further by publishing new stories onto YouTube.

First up is a holiday themed short film called ‘Special Delivery,’ created by Aardman Animations of ‘Wallace and Gromit’ fame. Google says there are 10 subplots, three potential ways of seeing the ending, and ’60+ moments where you can decide to follow the story in different ways,’ which you trigger by moving your phone around and focusing on different parts of the video.

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Pigment : True coloring book experience for adults without crayons

Pigment - The ONLY true coloring experience for iPhone and iPad from Pixite Apps on Vimeo.

Adult colouring books have become exceedingly popular this year so it’s not surprising to see them get transformed into apps — what’s surprising is how good Pixite’s app version, Pigment, really is.

The idea behind adult colouring books is that they help you stay focused, reduce anxiety and bring a new sort of mindfulness to your life.

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The World's first website is 25 year old today

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On December 20, 1990, British scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee hosted the first website in the world on his NeXT computer at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). Today marks its 25th anniversary.

After inventing the World Wide Web in 1989 as a way for institutes around the globe to share information, Berners-Lee launched the first-ever website with a description of how to set up a server and how to access content shared by others.

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College Life vs.The Working Life

College Life vs.The Working Life

Watch an amazing documentary on a man who brought internet to the mountains in Nepal

HIKING FOR EMAILS from Clemens Purner on Vimeo.

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Google Launches Equity-Free Accelerator Program For Mobile Startups

Google announced that it’s launched an equity-free accelerator program for mobile startups in India, Brazil and Indonesia. As part of its Launchpad initiative, the tech giant is offering mentorship, support, training and up to $50,000 in funding without taking equity in the companies.
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Start your professional chatting with new Xros app, Its really easier like whatsapp

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There are plenty of choices when it comes to ways of collaborating with colleagues online, but new app Xros makes it easier to work with people outside your company while avoiding email. Using a minimal but polished interface you can create private one-to-one or group chats that let you share text, images and file attachments from cloud services. Continue reading...

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Watch how Apple’s Swift evolved into an open source powerhouse

Evolution of Swift from Bart on Vimeo.

After going open source, Swift’s popularity seemed to grow exponentially overnight. A new video posted to Vimeo visualizes how Swift came to be, and walks us through the language taking shape leading into it hitting GitHub.

If you know a bit about programming, the video shines. From .cpp files down to Swift mastermind Chris Lattner bouncing around the map early on, it’s a hard look at just how Swift was founded. It doesn’t walk through Swift going open source, but gets us from August 2010 to December 3, 2015. Continue reading...

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Google Code-in features real coding challenges for kids to Develop their Coding Skills

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Google Code-in announced a real coding challenge for kids. Google Code-in invited Pre-university students ages 13 to 17 to take part in the contest. The motive of this challenge is to introducing young mind to the world of open source.

In the past five years, over 2,200 students from 87 countries have participated in Google Code-in.

If you want to participate or work with a real open source software organization while earning cool prizes? Check out the Google code-in webpage.

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