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5 can’t-miss apps: ‘Minecraft,’ Humin, FitStar Yoga and more

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With the shocking Sony hack revelations still coming to light, you may have overlooked some of this week's best new apps.

Luckily, each weekend, we round up our favorite new and updated apps, so you won't miss out.

This week's list includes Minecraft for Windows Phone, Humin's Android debut, an app to simplify tweet storms and Google's redesigned iOS app.

Check out the gallery, above, to see see all the apps that made our list. If you're looking for more, read last week's roundup of snowboard apps.

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By |December 14th, 2014|Apps and Software|0 Comments
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The top 12 in tech of 2014

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Narrowing down the top 12 tech products of the year is no small task. The breadth and depth of the consumer technology world gets larger every year, now encompassing such novel categories as wearables, 3D printing and, uh, dongles.

And yet, in a year where much of the buzz was centered around these new fields, more mature product categories shined the most brightly. Smartphones, laptops and e-readers saw some truly exemplary devices join their ranks. And among software, the most recent iterations of well-known franchises captured our attention the most.

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By |December 13th, 2014|Apps and Software|0 Comments
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Lindsay Lohan’s snarky answer to ‘Kim Kardashian Hollywood’ is hilarious

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Lindsay Lohan is the latest star to lend her name to a mobile game about how to live the Hollywood lifestyle.

But unlike Kim Kardashian's epically successful venture, Lohan's snarky take, Lindsay Lohan's The Price of Fame highlights the ridiculousness of Hollywood.

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YouTube finally lets you make GIFs without leaving YouTube

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Without any fanfare, YouTube has introduced a built-in GIF creation tool for selected videos and channels.

Andy Baio, a former CTO of Kickstarter, first spotted the update on Thursday.

The rollout is limited for the time being. The option appears on videos in the PBS Digital Studios' Ideas channel, as pointed out in the tweet above, under each video's "Share" option. The option is not available on Mashable's channel or several others that we checked.

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If you have ever created short, looping animations, you will appreciate the simplicity of YouTube's tool. At the top is a film scrubber, which displays a series of frames from the video above. The frame tool moves along the strip as the video plays above and can be grabbed and dragged to any point in the video. It defaults to a three-second grab, but can be stretched out to six seconds or condensed to 0.3 seconds. ...

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By |December 12th, 2014|Apps and Software|0 Comments
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Snapchat geofilters: How they work and why they matter

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Snapchat users have long been known to be a creative bunch.

But recently the company has tried to appeal directly to those creative instincts as it announced it was opening up its geofilters feature to everyone.

Geofilters are illustrations that can be overlaid onto photos while in specific locations. It's a feature the company has been experimenting with for some time, though it wasn't available to all users until last week's update

Since then, users have created hundreds of their own specialized illustrations for the app tied to places such as schools, parks, zoos, campgrounds or even entire cities. ...

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