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Eric Ravenscraft Android: For most users, the Google Play Store is the best way to find apps and keep them updated. If you’re using a non-Google ROM or downloading apps from outside the store, APKUpdater can help keep you up to date. This app, created by XDA user  rumboalla , scans your list of apps and then finds updates for those apps on sites like APKMirror. It can also optionally scrape the Google Play Store itself to find app updates. It won’t automatically install the new versions, though. You’ll have to download and install them one-by-one. However, it’s still helpful to find out when an update is available. This might not be necessary for most situations, but if  your custom ROM  doesn’t have Google Play, or if you’re avoiding it for privacy reasons, this is a handy way to fill in the gaps

Photo by  Mike Mozart . Verizon shocked everyone when it announced it was  bringing back unlimited data . For a brief moment, it looked like it  might be a decent deal . Then T-Mobile responded. T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced that the carrier would be responding by updating its ONE plan. This plan, which previously featured unlimited calls, text, and data, had some stipulations that made it a questionable deal. You were limited to low-quality video unless you bought daily HD video passes, and it didn’t include tethering. Now, T-Mobile is fixing both of those. T-Mobile ONE will now allow unlimited HD video streaming. They’ll also get a 10GB allotment of tethered LTE data that they can share with their laptops or other devices. After that, users can still tether on 3G as much as they want. This plan starts at $70/month for a single line, so it’s not a bad deal compared to Verizon’s new plan. None of these are  the cheapest plans around , but if you’re a data ...

Tamar Weinberg tanuha2001  /  Shutterstock.com With Twitter’s  rampant  abuse problem, the company has been aggressively trying to find the right way to handle its crippling problem. An announcement  today  addresses Twitter’s overall improvements toward a safer, more pleasant tweeting experience, with the addition of three primary changes: abusive account creation prevention, safer search results and collapsing low-quality (or abusive) tweets. New Accounts Twitter says it’s being proactive about identifying users whose accounts have been suspended, primarily as a result of abuse and harassment, to ensure that they will not recreate new accounts. Safer Search A “safe search” will be implemented to remove tweets that contain sensitive content or tweets that have been made by blocked/muted accounts. The objective is for search to be less cluttered with more relevant (and possibly more interesting) results. Collapsing low quality tweets While Twitter ...