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YouTube recreates its experience over mobile devices

| July 30, 2015

The new smartphone app will be designed to make it simpler for users to create and find videos.

YouTube is redesigning the experience that it provides to users of mobile devices, since over half of the views to their video platform are now coming from smartphones and tablets.

This move was first revealed by Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, in California at VidCon.

According to the statistics that are being generated by YouTube, itself, there are over one billion people around the world who use that platform. Over half of those views are being generated through mobile devices. Moreover, the revenue generated over smartphones and tablets for the platform is increasing by over 100 percent per year. In the new mobile app, there will be an additional three tabs added in order to make it simpler both to find videos and to create them.

The three new YouTube tabs for mobile devices will be: Home, Subscriptions, and Account.

Mobile Devices - YouTubeThe new Home tab will provide the user with an intelligent video list that has been selected for that individual based on his or her viewing history. The Subscriptions tab will provide a list of the most recent videos from the channels to which he or she has opted to subscribe. There will also be a notification option that can be turned on so that the user can receive a notification when one of those channels has released a new video. The Account tab will provide the user with a list of every video that they have uploaded, as well as their watch history.

The mobile app will make it possible for users to record their own videos and to upload them. From the application, they will be able to trim them, add music and filters, and upload them.

The new mobile app is already available for Android users and on the mobile web. That said, users of iOS mobile devices will still need to wait a little longer. It is on the way but at the time of the writing of this article, it had not been released at the Apple Store. According to project managers Omri Amarilio and Omri Amarilio, users can expect to see even more features being added to the application and the mobile web experience before 2015 is through.

Summer and back to school gadgets that can’t be missed

| July 27, 2015

A Mogix external battery charger will be in thousands of backpacks, and it’s no mystery why.

Nothing flies by faster than a summer vacation, and the top back to school gadgets for next year are already being spotted and snatched off the shelves to make sure that they aren’t missed.

The cool gadgets that are hottest this year are the ones that combine both form and function.

Both students and consumers know what they want from their stuff, and when it comes to tech, settling for less is out of the question. This is why the both summer tech and back to school gadgets are already proving themselves to be topping the shopping lists are great looking, but also perform very well for a variety of different reasons. The Mogix external battery charger is making its way into a growing number of shopping carts, this summer, because it’s clear that students know that lightweight, slim and powerful is what they’re going to want for the school year.

Tech reviewer, Justin Head recently identified his top summer gadgets, including the Mogix power bank.

The top 5 summer gadgets plus a must for back to school portable battery chargers reviewed…

• Mapi Cases leather folio case in brown distressed high quality leather. This was praised for its style, the convenience of the cash and credit card slots, and the magnetic release of the iPhone 6 when the case isn’t needed, leaving a basic leather snap-on case.
• Limefuel 5,000 mAh rechargeable external battery case for iPhone 6. This gave his smartphone two and a half of charges and was a comparable size to competing products that have smaller capacities .
• Mogix external battery charger. This gave him 10,400 mAh of backup power. Beyond the considerable capacity of the battery pack, he also emphasized specifically how lightweight and slim this device, in addition to how affordable it is, particularly when compared to other power banks of that size. Since the average 6th grader’s backpack is 18.4 pounds (though some can be as high as 30 pounds) and the Amerimogix external battery charger back to school gadgetscan Academy of Pediatrics recommends that a backpack be no more than 10 to 20 percent of a child’s body-weight, the slim and light features make these chargers ideal back to school gadgets. Head also pointed out that he will be conducting experiments using several of these devices in a future video to demonstrate the portability of this product.
• SoundBot wireless Bluetooth speaker. Head praised the sleek appearance of this gadget, as well as the powerful base that it was able to achieve.
• Symphonized NRG wooden ear buds. These cool gadgets were applauded not only for their attractive appearance, but for the exceptional sound quality that they were able to produce.

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