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In what is most likely a response to Instagram’s recently-announced video features, Vine has added some hefty new features to its iOS app, including channels, new camera tools, as well as a “revining” feature that lets you share Vines on your own profile, similar to how retweets work.

Vine has added channels (or categories) to the Explore section in the app, as well as categories that feature popular Vines and Vines that are “on the rise.” There are 15 channels total, and include categories like entertainment, comedy, food & drink, sports, and even cat and dog categories, because those are really popular on the internet apparently.

The app has also been updated with some new camera tools, including a new grid view, as well as a focus button to allow users to select the area of the video to focus on by tapping on the screen. There’s also a ghost button that saves transparent frames from the previous shot. Still no filters, though.

As for revines, Vine is letting users reshare a Vine that they enjoy and have it show up for their friends. They also made it a single-tap process, where if you find a Vine that you find entertaining, all you have to do is tap the revine button and it’ll show up in your feed as a revined Vine. Fancy, eh?

In this update, Vine also added the ability to protect your account from strangers, meaning that only people you approve will be able to follow you and view your posts. Other than that, the app update comes with your usual bugfixes and performance improvements. It seems this update is only good for iOS, so it seems we’ll be waiting a bit for it to show up on Android, but hang tight!

SOURCE: Vine Blog

Vine for iOS updates with channels, new camera tools, and “revining” is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The day came and went. Google Reader officially shut down yesterday, but while you can no longer use the RSS news reader, you can still export all of your feeds to import into another RSS service. Google is allowing users to export and save a backup of their Google Reader data up until July 15. At that point, Google will delete all Google Reader data.

If you were a good little boy or girl, you should’ve already exported your Google Reader data and imported them into another RSS news reader service, but we don’t blame you if you’ve been slacking on such a task. Google is giving you a few days to access your data before it’s gone through Google Takeout.

You’ll be able to download your Reader data until 12PM PST on July 15, 2013. After that, “all Google Reader subscription data (eg. lists of people that you follow, items you have starred, notes you have created, etc.) will be systematically deleted from Google servers.” Furthermore, “Google will not be able to recover any Google Reader subscription data for any user after July 15, 2013.”

Essentially, this is your final warning to get your data and get out. Frankly, we’re a bit surprised that Google is letting users back in to get their data, even after shutting down the service already, but nonetheless, we enjoy their sympathy and knowing that there will always be late-comers to the game.

If you’re still looking for a decent alternative to Google Reader, we have a few suggestions for you. Feedly seems to be the most popular option, although a couple of us at SlashGear have experienced a bit of a buggy experience with the web interface. However, there are still lots of options to choose from, so you don’t necessarily have to go for the most popular selection.

VIA: Android Community

Google Reader data to be deleted later this month, export yours now is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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