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Say you are working in an app on your Android device right now and need to launch another right away even though you are not finished yet in this one. Maybe you want to post on Facebook or Twitter, check emails, make a quick call or reply to a chat message.How do you open the second app then? Many users are probably tapping on the menu button to open the main Android menu, to search for and launch the app that they want to use at this point in time.The launcher app SwipePad provides you with the means to do the very same thing right from within the app you are currently working in.Let me show you how it works. The app uses a hot corner system that triggers its interface. The hot corner is located in the upper half of the right screen border by default. When you hold down your finger there for a moment you will notice a vibration that indicates to you that you can now swipe to the left to open the launcher menu.A swipe on any app icon here loads the application right away on your device. You can then do whatever you want to do in the app, and click on the back button afterwards to go back to the previous app you worked in.The first thing that you may want to do after installation is to add apps to the launch area so that you can select them easily from here. This is done from within the options or when you are using the app. You can swipe to empty portal spaces right away to add a new app icon to it, or edit existing spaces as well in case you want to replace an app with another one. SwipePad uses color codes to distinguish between loading an existing app (blue) and editing it (orange).The preferences the app makes available allow you to change the hotspot location from the right edge to eight other locations around the screen. Here you can also disable the haptic feedback and enable sound feedback.The free application is good for a single launch pad that can contain 12 apps in total. The developer of the app makes available add-ons to increase the number of pads that you can use or the number of apps per pad.TipsThe default top right hotspot location is probably not the best. I prefer a lower right location instead as it is less often used to display action buttons or other interactive contents.You can change the size of the hotspot. This can be useful if you have a hard time activating it, or activate it by accident every now and then. This can be done in the Hotspots menu in the apps' preferences.VerdictSwipePad is an unobtrusive application for most of the time and only there when you need to launch another app on your device. It offers a fast way to do so that is less obtrusive than having to work your way through the device's menus to find the app you are looking for.The post SwipePad: launch apps without leaving the window you are working in appeared first on gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials.

One of the most memorable opening credits of all time has to be the Star Wars text scrolling in a 30-45deg perspective towards the horizon. It’s a classic and it has been subject to all sorts of exercises and tutorials. I have never done anything related to this but last Friday while playing with CSS I was inspired to create the same effect for my personal site.

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In Blogger Dynamic View, there’s a template style called Sidebar which is the only style allows you to view the full contents of a post while also keeping the list of post titles visible (in the [left] sidebar). Most, if not all the time, your post titles will be too long to fit in the sidebar, thereby only showing you a small portion. Here’s a nice trick that’ll allow you to show a little bit more of your post titles by adjusting the width of the sidebar. From your dashboard, go to Template. Click on Customize and then on Advance. Scroll down and choose Add CSS. Copy the following code below and then paste it on the last or available line. .sidebar #sidebar{ width: 250px !important; } .sidebar #content{ margin-left: 250px; }      Press Enter after the last character of the last line. Click on the Apply to Blog button. You can adjust the width of the sidebar by changing the highlighted value (250px) in red accordingly. NOTE: Be sure that the two values are the same. Otherwise, it will mess up your template. Also don’t set the width of the sidebar too large as you’ll end up with very little room for your content area, which will pose as a problem to viewers with a small screen display. In other words, use caution. And that’s all there is to it. You’re done! Preview your template to see if you’ve chosen just the right value for the width.

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Robin Good's insight:Ditto is a FREE, automated weekly backup of Twitter, Facebook and Gmail with integrated search capabilities.To curate, means also ability to archive, preserve and safely store the data/information/content available in your newsradar/collection/lineup. As a matter of fact, if you decided to follow-up on an academic pursuit of your data-curation interests, you would be immediately confronted with the learning of the best methodologies, tools and workflows utilized to preserve and archive digital data. In addition, given the times we are in, and who controls our data, you can never know what happens next, and whether you are always going to be able to access both your account and the data that's in it.For these reasons I think it is relevant for anyone involved in professionally managing content / data, such as a content curator does, to have the ability to easily and automatically backup all of his Twitter / Facebook data as well as his own Gmail.With Ditto, you can export all of your backed up data from Facebook, Twitter or Gmail, into a handy PDF file.Free to use. (max 3GB of archive space can be used - if you leave out your Gmail, that's plenty of space.)Find out more: https://ditto.norton.com/ Try it out now: http://ditto.norton.com/services See it on Scoop.it, via Content Curation World

It looks like the movie and event ticketing website BookMyShow has added support for Apple’s Passbook feature in its iOS app (Hat tip – Sahil Rizwan). As indicated by a screenshot put up by Rizwan, these passes seem to display all the important details present on the ticket including movie or the event name, date & time and Booking ID among others and users will get an option to add their tickets to the Passbook app after booking their tickets through the iOS app. Its currently not clear if this option is also available on its website and whether the company plans to extend this service to other platforms like Android. We have contacted BookMyShow for more details on this development and will update the article once we get a response. For the uninitiated, Apple Passbook was released along with iOS 6 in September 2012 and allows iOS users to store boarding passes, movie tickets, retail coupons, loyalty cards, and other passes. The app allows both location and time-based passes and these passes can be added through iOS apps, emails, or websites from participating airlines, theaters, stores, and others. Other similar initiatives include Google Wallet, Samsung Wallet and 500 Startups-backed WalletKit. Online travel agent Cleartrip had added support for Apple Passbook in January 2013, offering paperless tickets for flight, hotel and train bookings. It had also enabled location and time-based Passbook notifications and offered support on Android through third-party apps such as PassWallet and other apps available from the Google Play Store. However, besides Cleartrip and now BookMyShow, we wonder why digital businesses in India haven’t launched a similar integration yet. If more companies start offering a similar integration to its customers, services like Apple Passbook will become more useful in the country. Related: 500 Startups Backed WalletKit Debuts Its Mobile Pass Builder Platform

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MediaCorp, one of Singapore’s two largest media companies, has poured $40 million into Reebonz in a deal that values the designer brand flash-sales site at about $200 million. This is the first time that MediaCorp has invested in an online retailer, according to a story on Channel News Asia (a site that is also owned by MediaCorp). The media conglomerate hopes that Reebonz will help it tap into the Asia-Pacific region’s booming e-commerce market, which eMarketer says will make $1.3 trillion in 2013, leading the world in B2C online sales. “We see great alignment between what Reebonz does and what MediaCorp has–audiences, content targeted at the luxury market and our star power. We are confident that by collaborating closely with Reebonz, we’ll see even more breakthroughs from the retailer,” MediaCorp CEO Shaun Seow said. Reebonz was founded in 2009 and has raised a total of about $79.7 million from investors including Vertex Asia Investments, Granite Global Ventures, Intel Capital, Matrix Partners China and Infocomm Investments. MediaCorp’s investment in Reebonz is notable because it follows its main rival Singapore Press Holding’s decision to take a $1.4 million, or 27.8% stake, in restaurant booking site Chope. Both companies are much better known for operating newspapers, magazines and other traditional media outlets than investing in startups.