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Google rebuts French global 'Right to be Forgotten' request

Google has responded to France's request for the European "Right to be Forgotten" law to be expanded to cover all Google search pages, suggesting it to be a bad idea for Internet users as a ...

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Briefly: AT&T offers $500 switching bounty, This Is My Jam closing

After recently completing its acquisition of DirecTV, AT&T is already attempting to capitalize on the relationship between the two companies by tempting DirecTV subscribers to switch phone ser...

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Chrome 46 for Mac claimed to have major performance improvements

An upcoming update to Google Chrome may allow MacBook users to use their batteries for longer, according to a report. Version 46 is said to have made a number of improvements to the Google-produced br...

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Apple reportedly updating Genius Bar, Workshop appointments system

Apple is allegedly preparing to make some changes to the way it handles Genius Bar and Workshop appointments, as it merges its online and physical stores into a more integrated experience. Arriving we...

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Briefly: Google Map Maker relaunches, Samsung Galaxy Note 5 flaw

Google is making its Map Maker tool available to more countries with an increased level of oversight, as part of a second wave of its reopening to the public. Temporarily shut down in May due to carto...

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Mozilla tests Firefox for iOS in New Zealand in preparation for launch

Mozilla has started to publicly show its attempt at bringing Firefox to iOS, with an initial test launch in just one country. The mobile browser has been unveiled in a public preview in New Zealand wi...

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Google Chrome 45 improvements reduce memory usage by tabs

The latest release of the Chrome web browser has introduced a number of measures to make it faster and less resource-hungry earlier than anticipated. Version 45 of the browser for desktops now incorpo...

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Zuckerberg confirms Facebook 'Like' button alternative in development

Facebook is working on a feature for the social network that has been called the equivalent of the mythical "dislike" button, co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed. Speaking at a ...

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Briefly: BBC switches away from Flash, Facebook trials profile changes

The BBC is moving away from using Flash for its iPlayer on-demand video service, in favor of HTML5. The broadcaster is now allowing service users to opt in to use the HTML5 player to view shows from w...

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Adobe adds Photoshop Fix, Capture CC to mobile app range

Adobe has expanded its app-based offerings with a pair of new mobile apps for editing images while on the move. The addition of Photoshop Fix and Adobe Capture CC to the company's app range accompanie...

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Adobe outlines changes to Creative Cloud desktop tools, services

Adobe has made other announcements at its MAX 2015 conference relating to its desktop apps, alongside its earlier mobile app updates. New additions to its Creative Cloud desktop tools are detailed by ...

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MacNN Deals: Pay what you want for design, productivity bundles

Every day, alongside our regular Daily Deals post, we are showcasing some of the offers available from our own MacNN Deals store. Today, we are highlighting some of the "Pay What You Want" b...

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Facebook tests Reactions, confirms working on augmented reality

Facebook has finally revealed its alternative to the "like" button, as part of two different ways the social network is hoping to change the way its users interact with each other. A test fo...

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IAB head: 'we messed up' in escalating Internet advertising technology

In a blog post, Scott Cunningham, the senior vice president of technology at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), confessed to driving the state of Internet ads to near collapse. Saying that the ...

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ESPN starts pulling clips from YouTube over Red subscription

ESPN is taking down its YouTube channels, following after the launch of the YouTube Red subscription service by Alphabet, according to reports. The sports broadcaster is slowly turning its videos priv...

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YouTube attempts to appease content creators over Red subscription

YouTube will continue paying content creators during the free one-month trial of the now-operational YouTube Red, the streaming service has confirmed. Attempting to head off similar complaints raised ...

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Briefly: BBC iPlayer for new Apple TV, New Google Fiber areas proposed

The BBC has confirmed it is bringing iPlayer to the new Apple TV in the future, but not at the set-top box's launch. The popular on-demand video streaming service, which allows viewers in the United K...

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Facebook orders product team members to switch from iOS to Android

Some Facebook employees are being ordered to switch from using an iPhone to an Android smartphone, for the sake of the social network's development, according to a report. Chief product officer Chris ...

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BBC Store opens in UK with over 7,000 hours of new, classic shows

The BBC has expanded the online viewing options for its content, by launching its own digital store for its shows. The BBC Store will allow UK citizens to pay for individual shows from the broadcaster...

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Pixelmator 2.2 adds iPad Pro, Pencil, Force Touch support

The Pixelmator Team today announced a major update to the Pixelmator app for iPhone and iPad, the full-featured, layer-based image editing app. Pixelmator for iOS 2.2 now works perfectly on the iPad P...

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Must-have OS X apps: Charles Martin

As the editor of MacNN, a podcaster, an author who's got a few book projects in the works and some other less-nerdy time-sucking interests as well, I'm on my Mac a lot. A whole lot: sometimes 14 hours...

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Briefly: Karma reduces connection speeds, YouTube HDR video support

Mobile broadband provider Karma is starting to reduce the speed of its Neverstop subscription service, after some users used the service for their home Internet connection. A small contingent of subsc...

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Canadian government criticized by designers over free font usage

The Canadian government has received criticism from graphic designers, for its selection of font to celebrate the country's 150th anniversary of Confederation. The government's decision to use a free ...

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Pointers: Create a WordPress website

You've been putting this off for long enough. Let's make a website, let's make it right now -- and let's use all that is great about WordPress, while avoiding all its nudges into spending money. We ha...

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Hands On: Monoprice 10-inch by 6.25-inch Graphics Tablet

Graphics tablets are a wonderful tool for artists and designers, as well as hobby doodlers and more. Being able to simulate the feeling of putting pen to paper is wonderful, and certainly beats trying...

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The Big Deal: Get one year of SketchBook Pro, Pixlr Pro for $20

Every so often, MacNN finds a deal that is too good to go into our usual deal lists, and is deserving enough to be highlighted in its own Big Deals post. If you do a lot of designing or image editing,...

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Freebie Friday: Get a Kelly Clarkson album, design assets for free

Everyone likes getting something for nothing, especially when there's no or relatively few catches. Freebie Friday is the post where the MacNN staff find stuff you can make use of this weekend, withou...

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MacNN's 2016 desktop and mobile redesign is live, updated Friday

Live, on desktop and mobile, is the new MacNN homepage design. We're pretty pleased with it so far, but with any major renovation of a venerable property with a deep history so many years after the la...

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Adobe unveils Adobe Animate CC; updates Muse and Bridge CC as well

Late on Monday, Adobe announced that three of its web and image management programs had all received significant updates: Animate -- formerly known as Flash Professional, but now more of an HTML5 desi...

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Apple opens News app to all publishers, with ads

On Tuesday, Apple opened up its iOS News app to all publishers, and has promised to shortly update its New Publisher portal with new analytics tools. The change means that nearly any publisher with a ...

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Feature: Is Oculus VR creator right? Does Apple need a "good Mac"?

One of the advantages of choosing a PC is that you can have complete control over its build, and you can choose from a range of vendors. Although Apple offers a degree of customizability of the variou...

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Hands On: Amberlight 2

To many, the worlds of math and art might as well be in different galaxies. For Peter BlaškoviÄç at Escape Motions, art appears to be more like a visual expression of math. By using algori...

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Pointers: Make a photo collage in Pixelmator on iOS

We were asked to do this: actually, we were asked how in the world you combine three images into one on the iPad's Photos app, and we were right back there with the answer: you can't. However, you can...

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Hands On: Millie Marotta's Coloring Adventures 1.1 (iOS)

If you're the sort who cannot fathom why adults would spend hours coloring in drawings in books, or now on iOS apps, you're also the sort who is going to wonder what in the world you could add to upda...

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Apple posts WWDC mini-site, opens lottery, adds venue

Following the confirmation of the dates of the next Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has posted a mini-site teasing attractions and hinting at features of the next WWDC, which will be held from ...

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Hands On: Pinterest 6.0.4 (iOS)

Keep an eye on the version number up there in headline, would you? Let us know if it ticks over to 6.0.5 while we're talking. For while this official app for the image saving-and-sharing service has a...

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New MacNN e-book: Macs and iOS for Writers

Now on sale: a new MacNN Pointers e-book devoted to getting you writing more and better on your Mac, iPad and iPhone. Every Pointers book aims to speed up your work, show you the inside tips, and make...

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App deals for OS X: Studies, Timing, Gemini 2

Every so often, people browse the Internet and the Mac App Store to try and find useful things to add to their app arsenal, but sometimes it's hard to find discounted apps that you really want to get....

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Giveaway: Win a five-year subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud

If you are an aspiring web designer, YouTube creator, illustrator, or designer, you may want to take note of this giveaway from MacNN Deals. One lucky winner will get their hands on a subscription to ...

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Chrome proposal could minimize Flash usage by promoting HTML5 content

Google is planning to start reducing Chrome's support of Flash later this year, by making it favor HTML5 content over Flash. Developers working on the web browser intend to start to display HTML5 cont...

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Adobe adds pattern creation tool to Capture CC mobile apps

Adobe has updated the Capture CC app for iOS and Android, adding a new tool for creating patterns using the iPhone or iPad's camera. The Patterns function "transforms any image or real-world obje...

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Pointers: How to copy a whole website before it vanishes

It's called "scraping" a website, and that's a word that sounds painful. It is. If you scraped MacNN.com for instance, you'd not only be off our Christmas card list, you'd never get balloons...

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Should You Subscribe: ComiXology Unlimited

I'm back again with the second Should You Subscribe, this time taking aim at one of the subscription services I'm most excited about: ComiXology Unlimited. Combining models of existing services like N...

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The Big Deal: Grab this collection of commercial fonts for free

Alongside our regular MacNN Deals and Daily Deals posts, the writers of MacNN occasionally find offers that are interesting or major enough to warrant their own Big Deals post. Designers looking for a...

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GraphicConverter 10 ships with facial recognition, Photos add-on

Lemke Software GmbH today has announced the release and immediate availability of GraphicConverter 10, a major update to the company's image editing utility for Mac OS X. The venerable program offers ...

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Hands On: GraphicConverter 10 (OS X)

Back before we were all so hip and called everything an app, there were software applications, and there were utilities. An application was serious stuff that did serious work, and a utility was somet...

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Giveaway: Win five years of free access to Adobe Creative Cloud

People working in creative fields, namely designing or illustrating images, animation, or even creating video for YouTube, sometimes have to pay a hefty amount for the tools they need to create great ...

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Hands On: Pixelmator 3.5 (OS X)

We'll own up to a mistake about this app if you do, too. Our one is that we missed it. We've quite often enthused about the iOS versions and we use those most days, but somehow we just assumed someone...

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Hands On: Tangled FX 2.1 (iOS)

We've reviewed a lot of photo apps here, ranging from the practical, Photoshop-esque effects that photographers can make use of, to artistic effects for social media, to the just plain fun. Today, we'...

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Hands On: Biff 1.0.16 (OS X)

We are all graphic designers now, even if just saying that makes real ones twitch. So many times we want or need to produce a small graphic item like a icon or a logo, and for some reason the people w...

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