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YouTube unveils a redesigned logo, website, and mobile app

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YouTube has unveiled a brand new logo, a redesigned desktop website, and a redesigned mobile app.  The new YouTube logo eschews the old look, removing the ‘Tube’ in YouTube from the confines of its red screen. Now, the red screen — complete with a white YouTube play button — rests to the left of the company name.  YouTube has been working on adding features to its mobile app for some time now — including an in-app sharing function, but now, the company is bring certain desktop features — like slowing down or speeding up playback — to the mobile app as well. According to an August 29th, 2017 blog post, the mobile app will also soon adapt the viewing window to match video format. Vertical videos, for example, will play without horizontal bars. As for the desktop website, YouTube has been redesigned to fit more in line with Google’s Material Design philosophy.  “Our new look applies Material Design to YouTube and delivers a fresh, simple and intuitive user exp...

Best gym apps for beginners

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Best gym apps for beginners Be informed that there are apps that bring out your competitive side by motivating you to work out. fitness app (travel+leisure.com) We have decided to show you how you can access easy and fun workouts straight from your cell phone because we know how difficult and frustrating it could be for a beginner to keep up with those tedious workout sessions that are must for the reduction of weight. Why a mobile app? Appropriate for you to know is that mobile apps are ideal assistance for health, fitness, and weight-loss because they are always with us. And they're quite personal as well. It is true that maintaining fitness requires daily habits and lifestyle changes; with this in mind, it becomes easier to know that a few little nudges in the right direction from your mobile phone might actually make the difference. Also, there are other apps that bring out your competitive side by motivating you to work out. Strava is a precise...

Rice Cooking Showdown: Stovetop Vs. a Rice Cooker

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Growing up, our family’s rice cooker was a staple, like the refrigerator or the kitchen sink. It never occurred to me to not have one. As an adult, I noticed friends cooked rice in a pot on the stovetop. There’s nothing wrong with that, but let’s see which approach gets you the easiest and consistently best rice. The Contenders Okay, so cooking rice isn’t exactly difficult. As far as kitchen skills go, it’s one of the easiest foods to make, right up there with toast and cereal. However, there are two basic ways to make rice happen, with strong opinions on both sides: Rice Cookers: Rice cooker users say they do the job perfectly every time and they’re a must. Cookers range quite a bit in price and utility. Some go for as little as $15, and others with tons of features and options for over$200. Expensive rice cookers, like the Zojirushi, use “fuzzy logic” technology, which senses the type of rice you’re cooking and adjusts itself to make better sushi, porridge, brown rice, and ...

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