You Can Now Sign up in Periscope without Twitter Account

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Twitter’s live-streaming app Periscope got a few updates on Monday, making it lot easier to use for those not already locked into the Twitter ecosystem.

Now you can use your phone number to sign up for Periscope, with no need for a Twitter account at all.

The version 1.0.4 update, detailed in this post on Medium, also adds the ability to reply directly to comments in Periscope chats — a change that could vastly improve the app’s social interaction features.

And because not all Periscope users are always on their best behavior, the app will now notify all users watching when a user has been blocked — effectively calling out any trolls on a particular stream.

Image: Periscope

Finally, the update allows a user to change her avatar. You can use any image in your camera roll, or you have the option to take a new photo.

Taken together, the updates indicate that Twitter is looking to aggressively grow the app’s footprint beyond the wordy confines of its text-based platform. The strategy is particularly interesting considering Meerkat’s recent update, which also reduced its reliance on Twitter.

With both live-streaming apps moving away from Twitter dependence, their growth will likely be more affected by user experience and service reliability than ever before.

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Microsoft Starts Skype Translator Preview to All, But Still Calls it a Preview

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When is a preview no longer a preview?

When everybody has access, but don’t tell Microsoft that. The company is making Skype Translator Preview available to everyone running Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 Preview, but keeping the “Preview” name intact.

Five months after Microsoft introduced the real-time translation-ready version of its popular video, voice and chat communication tool, it removed the sign-up requirement and is letting anyone download the app from the Windows Store.

Skype Translator Preview is the company’s first foray into real-time translation services.

In December, we used it to conduct a lively conversation with a Spanish-speaking linguistics expert in Seville, Spain. At the time, I was impressed with Skype Translator Preview’s ability to deliver translated English audio to her and spoken Spanish translation to me instantly. It was clear that the system was not only interpreting each word, it was understanding the context.

In December, Peter Lee, corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, told me the system does try to make sense of the words, “It’s not good enough to just get all the words you’re saying, [you] have to understand a little bit about the words,” he said.

Since that first trial run, Microsoft has added Italian and Chinese (Mandarin) voice translation services. It can also do text-only translation for 50 languages.

Along with the wider release of Skype Translator Preview, Microsoft posted a video highlighting the app’s impact on the New York City-based nonprofit Pro Mujer and its work with women in Latin America.

No word yet on when “preview” will be dropped or if it will ever support Windows 7.

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Ultimate Landing Page WordPress Theme for Internet Marketers

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You might be an internet marketer looking to promote your products or building your list, either way you must have an awesome landing page and high conversion rate. And if you haven’t found your desired WordPress landing page theme then you have came to the right place for the solution. Themify have built an amazing WordPress landing page theme for you which come with 23 Pre-designed Layouts. Amazing part is it comes with drag and drop builder, you can easily build your desired layout within minutes. Lets explore the theme.

The themes comes in handy if you are not a developer, with the 23 pre-made layouts. Just choose the layout and you are ready to go.

You can more layout Layout

After installing the theme you will see a new menu “Landing” in admin area. Go to Theme Settings->Demo Import menu to import default layout.

In Settings option you will get all the necessary option to setup your layout:

Go to Builders Layout menu to find the pre-made layouts. Just select a page and go to edit to see how you can build page by drag and drop module:

One Minor Con:

Though this might not be an issue for many users, but I found some options a little bit difficult to adjust. Like i feel “Theme options” could me moved over to the Settings page. I found this  a little less user friendly specially for the novice.

All in all this is an excellent landing page theme. Go grab this WordPress landing page theme now and be an superstar inter marketer fast.

Wanderu Introduces Android App for Bus and Train Booking in the U.S.

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Planning a trip with bus and train travel can get complicated, quickly, but booking startups are trying to make it as simple as possible.

Wanderu, which offers a comprehensive resource for bus and train travel, launched a new Android app Thursday after launching an iOS app in February.

CEO Polina Raygorodskaya says that the company, which she founded in 2011, is focused on millennial travelers and sees about half of its traffic from mobile devices.

“We are now able to serve users on nearly every mobile device with our own native apps and help make the ground travel booking experience the best that it can be,” she said.

Image: Wanderu

More than half of U.S. smartphone users had a device with an Android operating system in 2014, according to consumer research company Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.

The app is launching with both English and Spanish language options.

By combining the routes of Amtrak, Greyhound, Megabus, Boltbus and many others into one service, Wanderu is a good option for travelers trying to find the best value without spending a tremendous amount of time comparing prices on different websites.

There isn’t typically much glamour in traveling by bus, but schedule and ticket flexibility in addition to low prices has led to a growing bus travel sector.

Daily bus service in the U.S. grew by 2.1% in 2014, according to a report from DePaul University, while Amtrak service remained constant, and scheduled commercial airline flights decreased 3.5%.

“Bus travel-booking websites, most notably Wanderu and Busbud, are encouraging reluctant bus travelers to try this mode of transportation,” the report states. “These websites offer a convenient means of comparison-shopping, much as Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity do for air travel.”

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Add PDF Media Type Filters to WordPress Media Manager

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By default in WordPress media manager there are three types of filter exist image, audio and video. One of most common file we upload is PDF format file and it would be nice to have a PDF filter option in your media manager. And you have came to the right place. Lets see how we can add PDF media type filters to WordPress media manager.

Add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file


function modify_post_mime_types( $post_mime_types )

// select the mime type, here: 'application/pdf'

$post_mime_types['application/pdf'] = array( __( 'PDFs' ), __( 'Manage PDFs' ), _n_noop( 'PDF (%s)', 'PDFs (%s)' ) );

// then we return the $post_mime_types variable

return $post_mime_types;

// Add Filter Hook

add_filter( ‘post_mime_types’, ‘modify_post_mime_types’ );

Now you can see the PDF filter option in your media manager:

WordPress supports tons of file types. Here are some examples:

'pdf' => 'application/pdf',

'swf' => 'application/x-shockwave-flash',

'mov|qt' => 'video/quicktime',

'flv' => 'video/x-flv',

'avi' => 'video/avi',

'divx' => 'video/divx',

'js' => 'application/javascript',


Just add your desired post_mime_types in above code and you are done.

Add Tag or Taxonomy in WordPress Media with Filter Option

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You might be a photographer or or run a photography blog. Then it is obvious that you want to give credit to all photographers. In WordPress you can do this easily. You just need to add a new tag or taxonomy like “Tag Photographer” and tag the name after uploading the image. Lets see how we can do this.

First of all we need to create a taxonomy for the attachment post type, which is WP media post type.



function my_custom_taxonomies_photographer()

$labels = array(

'name' => 'Tag Photographers ',

'singular_name' => 'Tag Photographer',

'search_items' => 'Search Photographers',

'all_items' => 'All Photographers',

'parent_item' => 'Parent Photographer',

'parent_item_colon' => 'Parent Photographer:',

'edit_item' => 'Edit Photographer',

'update_item' => 'Update Photographer',

'add_new_item' => 'Add New Photographer',

'new_item_name' => 'New Photographer Name',

'menu_name' => 'Tag Photographer',

);

$args = array(

‘hierarchical’ => false,

‘labels’ => $labels,

‘show_ui’ => true,

‘show_admin_column’ => true,

‘query_var’ => true,

‘rewrite’ => array( ‘slug’ => ‘my-photographers’ ),

);

register_taxonomy( ‘my-photographers’, array( ‘attachment’ ), $args );


add_action( ‘init’, ‘my_custom_taxonomies_photographer’ );

Just add the code in your theme’s functions.php file and now go to media list and try to edit a media. You will see the tag box to tag photographer.

 

 

Microsoft Announces Office plug-ins for Uber, LinkedIn and DocuSign

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Microsoft has revealed a series of extensions for Office 2016 called “add-ins,” which let third-party developers offer services that work in tandem with the company’s software suite.

The add-ins will work across different platforms. Among the first companies to take advantage are DocuSign, which now integrates its electronic signatures with Word, and SAP, which runs in Excel. Plug-ins for Outlook, from LinkedIn and Salesforce, will offer more information and context about people who have emailed you pulled from their own data.

Microsoft also announced a unified API, which makes it easier for developers to access Office data and build compatible products and services.

In one scenario many of us will appreciate, Microsoft Director of Product Management Robert Lefferts demonstrated an Uber add-in for Outlook. It reminds users — even users on iPhones — about an upcoming appointment, and automatically fills the Uber app’s destination field with the address of the appointment.

Hmm that Uber extension via Outlook reminds me of some of the feature of certain smart calendars, still very cool #Build2015

— Karissa Bell (@karissabe) April 29, 2015

“Outlook knew where I needed to be, and Uber knows where I need to go,” Lefferts added.

On the downside, Outlook users now have even less of an excuse to say they were late to their meetings.

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