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mixbit

YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have today unveiled MixBit, the new video sharing service that they’ve been teasing us with for several months. It hopes to rival Instagram and Vine with a focus on mixing and editing video. Users can record 16-second clips at a time, and then stitch up to 256 of them together to create an hourlong video.

Gmail-ads

I don’t know about you, but I spend a lot of time deleting spam messages from my inbox — despite using a junk mail filter. But the issue is about to get a whole lot worse, with Google gearing up to deliver adverts to our Gmail inboxes. The messages will appear under the new Promotions tab that was recently introduced in a Gmail update, and Google is testing them on a small number of users now.

HTC-One-menu-button

One of the new features HTC introduced to the HTC One with its latest Android 4.2.2 update is the ability to press and hold the home button to access menus, which hides the virtual menu button that sometimes appears at the bottom of the display.

However, the option is somewhat hidden within the Settings app, and you may be wondering where to find it. So here’s how.

Facebook

At an Android whiteboard meeting yesterday, Facebook announced a new beta program to help strengthen its Android app. By allowing a small amount of users/testers access to new software before its official release, Facebook is hoping to cut down on the possibility of releasing buggy updates to the masses.

HDR

Vine for Android received a pretty neat update on Friday night, bringing with it some much-needed performance optimizations, Facebook sharing, and the ability to clear your local cache.

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