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Apple and Nike team up for the Apple Watch Nike+

Apple and Nike have teamed up for the Apple Watch Nike+, designed as the “ultimate tool for anyone who runs.” It pairs xclusive Nike Sport Bands with the Apple Watch Series 2, which features GPS, a two-times-brighter display, water resistance 50 meters, a dual-core processor and watchOS 3.

Apple Watch Nike+ also includes exclusive Siri commands and iconic Nike watch faces along with deep integration with the new Nike+ Run Club app for motivation to go for a run, coaching plans that adapt to your unique schedule and progress, and guidance from the world’s best coaches and athletes.

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Industrious One releases Musicality for Mac

Industrious One has created Musicality for Mac (http://getmusicality.com/). The $11 app is designed to “break your music out of the browser” and offer desktop conveniences like keyboard shortcuts, AirPlay streaming, and more to over a dozen of the world’s most popular music services.

With it, you can play, pause, skip and rate songs on any supported music service. Musicality for Mac supports 15 music services to 15.

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Apple pulls more than 250 apps from the Apple App Store

Researchers at SourceDNA, an analytics service that profiles the Apple and Android app stores, say they’ve found more than 250 iOS apps that violate Apple’s App Store privacy policy forbidding the gathering of e-mail addresses, installed apps, serial numbers, and other personally identifying information that can be used to track users, reports Ars Technica (http://tinyurl.com/op75nc9). However, Apple has noted the problem and taken action.

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Kool Tools: VisionTek USB Pocket SSDs

VisionTek Products’ VisionTek USB Pocket SSD line of thumb drive-sized solid state drives for creative professionals, IT power users, and “performance enthusiasts” is a pocket-sized, bus-powered SSD that offers the speed, performance, and storage capacity of an internal SSD. It’s compatible with Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux systems with a USB 3.0/2.0 interface.

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Sinisa Drpa introduces Effect Stack for Mac OS X

Sinisa Drpa has introduced Effect Stack, a non-destructive image editor for Mac OS X. It requires Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later and costs US$9.99.

Effect Stack allows users to chain multiple image filters. It offers a choice of a variety of filters that can be stacked together and saved as pre-sets that can be re-used.

The filters’ effects ripple downward through the stack, changing the current stack of the selected image or images. Effect Stack supports all image formats supported by OS X. Go to http://tinyurl.com/n838vwj for more info.

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