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Microsoft Buys Acompli Email App

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Microsoft has announced on Monday that it will purchase the email startup app called Acompli. The news is not a big surprise because it was already announced on other tech blogs before Microsoft’s official statement, but since Microsoft confirmed, it means it’s true. The news confirms once again that Microsoft is pretty serious in showing its support for mobile operating systems, others than its own.

Microsoft will supposedly buy the Acompli email app for more than $200 million. Acompli email app is an Android and iOS email client and received praises for being a very efficient way to connect with the Microsoft’s and Google’s mail services.

Zimbra and VMware people claim that people check their emails on their phone a lot but do not take much action.
Rajesh Jha, Microsoft Vice President said in an official statement about the purchase of the Acompli email app that:

“In a world where more than half of email messages are first read on a mobile device, it’s essential to give people fantastic email experiences wherever they go. The Acompli team is passionate about this quest.”

Jha also said that Microsoft will combine the features of Acompli email app with other mobile efforts built by the Outlook team.
Microsoft VP said that the new app will focus on important email features:

“Acompli app provides innovative ways to focus on what’s important in your inbox, to schedule meetings, and work with attachments and files.”

Javier Soltero from Acompli wrote on his blog that their new app

“will become part of Microsoft’s ambitious effort to re-imagine productivity for the mobile era.”

Soltero added that:

“18 months ago we started building a team and a product around the idea that we could make mobile email better. Today that journey continues as part of a larger organization with the technology, talent, and market reach that will help us take the vision of Acompli to hundreds of millions of mobile users across the world.”

Microsoft and Acompli email app are hoping to make a great team together and really improve the way email apps function at the moment.

Samsung Milk Video Is the Latest Video App

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It looks like Samsung has been trying a lot of areas lately, and its latest app is called Milk Video, a new social video app that was launched today.
Samsung Milk Video app can be used on Galaxy devices and it comes as a follow-up to the latest Internet radio service launched by Samsung called Milk Music. Samsung said that with the Milk Video app, the company wants its users to discover the latest and the coolest videos on the internet, while using the Samsung devices like the Galaxy smartphones and tablets.

Samsung vice president in charge of content and services, Kevin Swint said of the new Milk Video service that:

“Discovery happens in very haphazard and random way. This experience leaves a lot of people feeling like they’re always the last one to see the video that everybody is talking about. We thought we could solve that.”

The videos you can find on the Milk Video app are curated by people from Samsung whose job is to find viral videos from all categories, including entertainment and sport, and show them to the Samsung user. The videos are selected from various popular sources like YouTube, and Samsung said that they have partnered with other video sources like Buzfeed, Vice, Funny or Die and College Humor, to provide content for the Milk Video app.

Samsung said that some of the video sources like Red Bull Studios and Funny or Die will also make special videos exclusively for the new Samsung video app.
Through these partnerships and exclusive videos, Samsung hopes that the new Milk Video app will be different than other available video streaming apps. Samsung also said that Milk Video will have no ads.

The Milk Video app allows users to share the videos and user can follow each other in order to see the most popular videos trending among their friends.
For now, the Milk Video app only supports a Facbook login, but Samsung said that the users will be able to log in with a Samsung account in the near future.
Milk Video is a free app, just like Milk Music, but it’s only available for users of Samsung Galxy smarpthones.

PastBook App Is The Latest Tool To Build Your Photo Book

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pastbook app for iphoneIf you want to build a photo book using your smartphone or other mobile devices, there are a number of tools out there specially designed for doing this. Apps like Mosaic, Shutterfly, and Printic are just some of the photo book builders applications available on the internet. If you are not completely satisfied with these apps or you simply want to try out something new, the PastBook app is the one for you, if you are an iPhone user, that is.

Most of the photo book apps share similar features: you have the option to select the photos from your social networks or from your phone gallery, customize the order and the layout, then you checkout and place your order. The new PastBook app offers a couple of different tools with its service. Firstly, besides letting you ad photos from Facebook or from your iPhone’s Camera roll, you have the option to invite your family and friends to add photos to an album, too. You can do this by sending them a private link in a text message, email, on Facebook, Twitter or even via a QR code.

After you create the album PastBook app also gives you the possibility to share that album privately via a link or you can even download the album as an e-book, in PDF format. This is a cool option, especially for users who just want a casual album, like for a school project or to give it to a friend as a nice gift.

If you want a more professional looking photo album you can make a 24 page book for $19, free shipping everywhere included. The PastBook app also gives you the option to print large photo books up to 500 pages for $92. This means approximately 1000 photos for album.

PastBook app – design and other features

The app looks modern and has a minimalist design, although the fonts are a little too small and it’s sometimes difficult to see it on the iPhone screen. Other than that, it’s an easy to use app, it lets you rotate the photos quickly, delete them or set different pictures as the cover of your album. If you want to purchase the photo albums you can pay via PayPal or by typing you credit card info. All in all, the PastBook app is fun and easy to use and can easily compete with other photo book tools available at the moment.

You can get the new PastBook app for iPhone here.

 

Entrain App Can Help With Jet Lag

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entrain app jet lagFrom Wikipedia: “Jet lag, medically referred to as desynchronosis, is a physiological condition which results from alterations to the body’s circadian rhythms resulting from rapid long-distance transmeridian (east–west or west–east) travel on high-speed aircraft. It was previouslyclassified as one of the circadian rhythm sleep disorders.”

Fortunately, as it has been the case with a plethora of situations, there is a new app for this condition: Entrain app is designed especially to help people who travel by plane to adjust to new time zones. You might ask how does this work? It’s quite simple. The app lets you know when to manipulate the exposure to light in order to adjust to new time zones faster, by cheating the circadian clock. This is because light is very important and it influences people’s circadian clock and the way this regulates our bodily functions, such as sleeping.

The circadian rhythm is our master biological clock which actually dictates when to go to sleep and when to be more alert. When we travel across time zones our body clock has to reset itself – its strongest regulator is the light exposure.

The Entrain app designs lighting schedules for its users, based on their own itinerary. All of these schedules follow one basic rule: we must be exposed to the brightest light at one point in the day and to darkness at another point.

Depending on where your destination is, the app may suggest that you expose yourself to a bright outdoor light, late at night. Same goes for the darkness scenario: if you need to go outside into bright daylight when your schedule knows that you should do some night time activity like sleeping, you can wear pink tinted glasses.

Entrain app – how does it work?

When launching the Entrain app it will ask you to type in the time you usually wake up and the approximate hour you go to sleep at night. The app then asks you to select a light exposure that is typical for you: low indoor, bright outdoor, low outdoor and bright outdoor. Based on these criteria, the app will model your circadian clock. We can’t wait to test it and tell you if it actually works.

You can download the Entrain app for from the iTunes store.

What are your opinions on this new tech invention? Do you think this could really be the cure for jet lag? Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.

 

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