Meerkat for Android is now in open beta and in the Google Play Store

Meerkat is the newest quick live streaming platform that allows you to quickly launch a live stream from your phone and broadcast it to your followers on Twitter. It’s been in closed beta to this point, but the company has made it available to anyone able to download apps from Google Play as of today.

Meerkat’s schtick is that they don’t allow folks to rewatch broadcasts after the fact — once it’s over, it’s over (though you’re free to save a copy on your end and upload it to YouTube if you want). Other than that, there’s nothing really over the top or out of the ordinary about it.

It’s quick, it’s easy, it’s free and it’s now available for anyone to download. Oh, and it’s also in beta so expect some weird quirkiness as they work out the kinks — otherwise you might find yourself turned upside down like Derek did when he gave it a spin for himself. Head here for the download.

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[Live From New York] NBC Releases Saturday Night Live App Complete With Clips, Emoji, And More

Saturday Night Live has brought sketch comedy to weekends for decades, and over the course of that time, NBC has come up with various ways to make sure the skits stick with viewers for the remainder of the week. Its latest approach is to create a dedicated app that you can take everywhere and fill it with enough shots of nostalgia to give a committed fan an overdose.

You can download this app to stream all the clips you want without subscribing to anything, and it really only takes a couple of taps to find yourself watching a playlist that takes you down memory lane and leaves you snickering uncomfortably at the back of the bus.

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VLC for Android update brings background video playback

VLC for Android’s latest upgrade should please quite a few people who like listening to videos instead of watching them. You can now have video playback continue in the background even if you leave the app. Why would anyone want to resume playback of a video they aren’t even watching?

For one, it enables folks to listen to music videos that they can’t otherwise listen to. It’s also great for listening to interviews, comedy shows and other content only released on video but are just as effective when simply listening to them.

Here’s a quick list of other changes coming in the latest update:

• Control over audio delay for videos
• A new look for the audio player
• a new album view
• improved search
• More Material Design tweaks
• Simplified video player controller
• New file browser
• Fixed hardware acceleration for TS files
• Support for audio scrobblers
• Fix for browsing SD cards
• Improved logging
• Updated codecs

That’s a lot, so you’ll definitely want to get this thing downloaded as soon as possible. The update is in Google Play right now so be sure to grab it as soon as you can.

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