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Twitter has announced a deal with the Seven Network, and the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) to live stream the 2017 Emirates Melbourne Cup. The main race won’t be geoblocked, so our friends overseas will also be able to tune in. to an Australian and global audience. As well as...
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Twitter is experimenting with increasing the character limit for tweets from the long-standing 140 character limit, born from the service’s SMS origins, to 280 characters. Twitter says this gives you more characters to express yourself. In a post by Twitter Product Manager, Aliza Rosen and Senior Software Engineer, Ikuhiro Ihara. One...
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Instagram’s have announced some pretty staggering usage numbers. Globally they’re now have 800 million users with 500 of those coming back every single day. In Australia, there’s more than 9 million active users each month, pretty impressive given the 24 million population, many of those who are under the...
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Twitter has today made two major announcements at the All That Matters conference in Singapore. Twitter wants to be known as the first place you go to see what’s happening, and are now pushing heavily into premium live and in-stream video content. These partnership deals range from sports, news and...
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Snap Inc, creators of Snapchat, have finally made it easy for people to get Spectacles, by offering them through Amazon. The US$129.99 price tag will get you a pair of glasses that capture video from your perspective in the world, freeing up your hands to interact with people, sporting...
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When Twitter began, internet across the world collectively sucked and so compressing the hell out of content made a lot of sense both for their bandwidth costs and the data consumption of users. Its now 2017 and the world has moved on. Sure not everyone has the best connection,...
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Convicted Bali Drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has joined Instagram. After being convicted and sent to jail way back in 2004 for famously carrying more than 4 kilograms of marijuana in her boogie board bag, Corby has returned to Australia. Update Corby’s account is now passing 150,000 followers as she continues to hide...
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Facebook has quickly become the place to buy and sell second hand goods. The Marketplace happened fairly organically with users creating groups for local area buy, swap, sell groups and posting photos of their goods with a description and price. Over the years Facebook has moved to support this...
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When it comes to professional gaming, this weekend marks a major milestone for Australia. For the first time, Sydney will host a world-class esports event, the Intel Extreme Masters 2017. Twitter today announced that it has partnered with the world’s leading esports companies, ESL and DreamHack, to live stream esports events...
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The second major update to Windows 10 has begun rolling out to the world. Known as the Creator’s Update, this update has surprisingly little for creative users. The most creative feature addition is 3D Paint which allows users to creation and edit 3D objects for the first time, in an...
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It seems LG were holding out on us. Their 360 camera actually had another great feature built in and its just been unlocked with the latest software update. Spatial audio captures the audio of an environment from multiple microphones and that audio gets baked into the 360 video. This...
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Daniel Richardson an Aussie ex-pat who now calls London home, has a pretty incredible job. He’s one of the guys behind the scenes that makes magic happen on-stage. As a lighting designer, programmer and operator, he leverages wysiwyg software from CAST Software to designing and program spectacular lighting for international...
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Twitter Australia has a new feature today, specifically designed to help commuters know about transport delays ahead of time. Inevitably there are delays in the system, it may be from maintenance, congestion, emergencies or even strike action, but you need to know if your train is going to be...
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Amazon Go is a brand new, unique shopping experience located at 2131 7th Ave, Seattle, WA, on the corner of 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street. Currently open to Amazon employees in a Beta program, the revolutionary supermarket will open to the public in early 2017. So what makes Amazon Go so different...
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Instagram is fun and cutesy right? While there’s a few ads in your stream, its not serious business right? Well from next week, things are definitely getting serious. Many of the things we take photos of are products and especially the brands that are on Instagram. With mobile making such...
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When you engage with Twitter, you’ll follow #tags and there’s something very broken right now. Hashtags or searches in general on Twitter aren’t smart enough to distinguish intent or context of the user. As a power user, I live with TweetDeck on a second monitor for much of the...
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Windows 10 shipped 1 year ago today. That means the offer to upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7, 8, 8.1 for free is ending. There’s no extensions, no exceptions, this is the end people, consider this your 3rd and final warning. This update is unlike any other, Microsoft...
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Twitter has just announced a new feature, Stickers. Stickers allow you to get creative by augmenting a photo with their in-built photo-editing tool that allows you to choose from hundreds of accessories, emojis, and props. When you upload a photo with a Sticker to Twitter, the information about your sticker is preserved,...
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Microsoft’s GabeAul has just announced the latest build of Windows 10. Released to the fast ring of Windows Insiders, the new build features a few new additions, but importantly, plenty of new fixes. As we approach the 12 month anniversary of Windows 10 being released to the public, we...
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Since Twitter’s inception back in 2006, there’s been this magic 140 character limit which correlated to the length of a SMS message in the US, one way users could interact with the service. Now that we’re sharing Tweets that include text and photos, GIFs, videos, polls, links and live...
Twitter has announced a deal with the Seven Network, and the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) to live stream the 2017 Emirates Melbourne Cup. The main race won’t be geoblocked, so our friends overseas will also be able to tune in. to an Australian and global audience. As well as...
Twitter is experimenting with increasing the character limit for tweets from the long-standing 140 character limit, born from the service’s SMS origins, to 280 characters. Twitter says this gives you more characters to express yourself. In a post by Twitter Product Manager, Aliza Rosen and Senior Software Engineer, Ikuhiro Ihara. One...
Instagram’s have announced some pretty staggering usage numbers. Globally they’re now have 800 million users with 500 of those coming back every single day. In Australia, there’s more than 9 million active users each month, pretty impressive given the 24 million population, many of those who are under the...
Twitter has today made two major announcements at the All That Matters conference in Singapore. Twitter wants to be known as the first place you go to see what’s happening, and are now pushing heavily into premium live and in-stream video content. These partnership deals range from sports, news and...
Snap Inc, creators of Snapchat, have finally made it easy for people to get Spectacles, by offering them through Amazon. The US$129.99 price tag will get you a pair of glasses that capture video from your perspective in the world, freeing up your hands to interact with people, sporting...
When Twitter began, internet across the world collectively sucked and so compressing the hell out of content made a lot of sense both for their bandwidth costs and the data consumption of users. Its now 2017 and the world has moved on. Sure not everyone has the best connection,...
Convicted Bali Drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has joined Instagram. After being convicted and sent to jail way back in 2004 for famously carrying more than 4 kilograms of marijuana in her boogie board bag, Corby has returned to Australia. Update Corby’s account is now passing 150,000 followers as she continues to hide...
Facebook has quickly become the place to buy and sell second hand goods. The Marketplace happened fairly organically with users creating groups for local area buy, swap, sell groups and posting photos of their goods with a description and price. Over the years Facebook has moved to support this...
When it comes to professional gaming, this weekend marks a major milestone for Australia. For the first time, Sydney will host a world-class esports event, the Intel Extreme Masters 2017. Twitter today announced that it has partnered with the world’s leading esports companies, ESL and DreamHack, to live stream esports events...
The second major update to Windows 10 has begun rolling out to the world. Known as the Creator’s Update, this update has surprisingly little for creative users. The most creative feature addition is 3D Paint which allows users to creation and edit 3D objects for the first time, in an...
It seems LG were holding out on us. Their 360 camera actually had another great feature built in and its just been unlocked with the latest software update. Spatial audio captures the audio of an environment from multiple microphones and that audio gets baked into the 360 video. This...
Daniel Richardson an Aussie ex-pat who now calls London home, has a pretty incredible job. He’s one of the guys behind the scenes that makes magic happen on-stage. As a lighting designer, programmer and operator, he leverages wysiwyg software from CAST Software to designing and program spectacular lighting for international...
Twitter Australia has a new feature today, specifically designed to help commuters know about transport delays ahead of time. Inevitably there are delays in the system, it may be from maintenance, congestion, emergencies or even strike action, but you need to know if your train is going to be...
Amazon Go is a brand new, unique shopping experience located at 2131 7th Ave, Seattle, WA, on the corner of 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street. Currently open to Amazon employees in a Beta program, the revolutionary supermarket will open to the public in early 2017. So what makes Amazon Go so different...
Instagram is fun and cutesy right? While there’s a few ads in your stream, its not serious business right? Well from next week, things are definitely getting serious. Many of the things we take photos of are products and especially the brands that are on Instagram. With mobile making such...
When you engage with Twitter, you’ll follow #tags and there’s something very broken right now. Hashtags or searches in general on Twitter aren’t smart enough to distinguish intent or context of the user. As a power user, I live with TweetDeck on a second monitor for much of the...
Windows 10 shipped 1 year ago today. That means the offer to upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7, 8, 8.1 for free is ending. There’s no extensions, no exceptions, this is the end people, consider this your 3rd and final warning. This update is unlike any other, Microsoft...
Twitter has just announced a new feature, Stickers. Stickers allow you to get creative by augmenting a photo with their in-built photo-editing tool that allows you to choose from hundreds of accessories, emojis, and props. When you upload a photo with a Sticker to Twitter, the information about your sticker is preserved,...
Microsoft’s GabeAul has just announced the latest build of Windows 10. Released to the fast ring of Windows Insiders, the new build features a few new additions, but importantly, plenty of new fixes. As we approach the 12 month anniversary of Windows 10 being released to the public, we...
Since Twitter’s inception back in 2006, there’s been this magic 140 character limit which correlated to the length of a SMS message in the US, one way users could interact with the service. Now that we’re sharing Tweets that include text and photos, GIFs, videos, polls, links and live...
