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Sarah Perez:

PhotoDrive, a fantastic photo uploading service powered by Flickr, is being shut down – but that’s because its founder, Jeff Bargmann, is now joining Flickr, as it turns out. This one-man startup machine had earlier impressed us with his mobile apps and newer photo uploading service, which worked something like Dropbox (or the recent Dropbox acquisition Loom) to provide you with an “infinite Camera Roll” of sorts. However, instead of building out his own cloud storage platform for his latest creation, PhotoDrive instead let you tap into the 1 TB of free storage offered by Flickr.

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When Unread for iPhone launched back in February, it earned a spot on my home screen.

Today, it’s big brother, Unread for iPad is here.

The tablet version brings the same great gesture-based controls and clean design that Unread users are used to, but the reading experience is even better.

Because of its sliding panel design, Unread only ever shows one type of content at a time. For example, tapping on a list or filtered set slides in that content, one screen at at time, creating a clear hierarchy and path of action for the user.

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Marco Arment:

The first amazing, forehead-smacking innovations with iOS 8 won’t come from us: they’ll come from people who are coming to iOS development from this point forward, never having known a world without the old restrictions.

Apple’s announcements this week were clearly from a company thinking about the future. I’m excited to see what’s next.

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Myke and I were honored to join Jason Snell and Dan Moren earlier today to record this week’s episode of the Clockwise podcast. To hear 30 minutes of rapid-fire WWDC responses, check out that link. It was a ton of fun to be on a show I listen to on a regular basis.

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Episode 51 of The Prompt:

Mostly live from San Francisco, Myke, Federico and Stephen discuss the events of the WWDC 2014 keynote.

This is a great overview of Apple’s WWDC news. We’ll be diving into things in more details over the coming weeks, but this is a good place to start.

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Excuse me while I go pick my jaw up off the floor. This is crazy stuff.

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There’s been a lot of talk here at WWDC about Apple’s confidence out of the gate on Monday.

Craig Hockenberry says it well:

Apple has a newfound confidence in itself. It’s at the top of its game, and it knows it.

This confidence was felt last week when Eddie Cue shared that Apple had the best pipeline he’s seen in 25 years. It was felt when Tim Cook called Android a toxic hellstew.

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The Teech has rounded up a bunch of facts and figures from this morning.

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Today’s WWDC was full of news about the future of OS X and iOS, but perhaps the most exciting consumer-facing news is about what takes up the space between the two platforms.

Continuity is a new collection of OS X, iOS and iCloud features that make moving between a Mac and iOS device easier than ever. A Mac can be used to take phone calls, send and receive SMS messages and more.

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Imagine there were a conference this week, and you’re taking screenshots of the new shiny that might be revealed at this conference. What would you take and save those screenshots with?

The answer is of course Ember, the incredibly powerful and easy to use screenshot and image organiser for Mac and iOS. Ember does more than just screenshots though - it’ll also capture entire webpages straight from Safari and Chrome, offers amazing annotation tools for visual feedback, and syncs via Dropbox to Ember for iOS. Ember is used by brilliant people all over the world for every type of creative project, including at huge household-name tech companies which our lawyers prefer we not mention by name.

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David Sparks tried using the recently-updated service:

While the experiment ultimately worked and he could see what I was typing, it was hardly simultaneous. Basically, we discussed and I wrote and he waited for the changes to show up, which happened about 30 seconds after I typed. If he typed anything on his side (even just a space bar), I got a conflict message on my end and had to pick a version to become gospel.

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Alex Wilhelm:

A bill introduced late yesterday in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives would “limit” the Federal Communications Commission’s ability to regulate the Internet under Title II, according to its progenitor, Rep. Bob Latta.

Title II, of course, refers to part of the Communications Act. If the FCC did push for such a regulatory structure, it would have more authority over the Internet and its constituent players.

Is anyone suprised?

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