FACEBOOK IS COPYING EVEN MORE FEATURES FROM SNAPCHAT
Back in the day when Snapchat took to the app stores, people started saying that Facebook was in trouble and that the company's best days were behind it. Interestingly enough, the success of Snapchat – if anything – served as a strong motivator for Facebook. Even though Facebook has...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: CREATING WITHOUT CODING – A LESSON IN SUCCESS
Tara Reed is indeed a 26–year–old superwoman and her multi–tasking skills are out of this world. She started her first company called "Kollecto", which recommends personalized art to people at an affordable price. But, the amazing part of this is that she built this app – and...
over 7 years ago
DID YOU KNOW: YOU CAN READ A DELETED MESSAGE SOMEONE SENT YOU
WhatsApp rolled out the "delete for everyone" feature recently, but do delete messages really disappear from the phone? A new report claims that WhatsApp messages that are deleted are actually still on the device and can be easily accessed. Spanish Android blog – Android Jefe &ndash...
over 7 years ago
WARNING! YOUR SOLITAIRE AND FLASHLIGHT CAN STEAL YOUR MONEY
Bankbots are now playing hide and seek in your phone apps. Bankbots are effecting Citi, Chase, DiBa, and WellsFargo users in countries like the US, Australia, Germany, Netherlands, France, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Russia, Dominican Republic, Singapore, and the Philippines. These apps...
over 7 years ago
PAYPAL CAN HELP YOU SAVE AND INVEST MONEY WITH THE ACORNS INVESTMENT APP
You can even monitor your account within the PayPal app itself. ...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: TRANSFORMING COOKING AS WE KNOW IT
Junk food is convenient and easy to get on the go, hence the insane popularity of huge franchises like McDonalds and KFC. Cooking can be a pain in the butt and planning healthy meals to eat during the week can be impossible and boring. Now imagine being able to cook dinner while you are still in a m...
over 7 years ago
GOOGLE MAPS GETS A COMPLETELY NEW INTERFACE DESIGN!
Google Maps announced that their latest update to Google Maps will make it easier to get from point A to point B. The driving, navigation, transit and explore maps have all be updated to better highlight the information most relevant to each individual experience. In the update, Google draws conside...
over 7 years ago
THIS GENIUS IOS NOTIFICATIONS DESIGN IS SOMETHING APPLE NEEDS, NOW!
iPhone notifications can be messy, annoying and just all over the place, even though Apple has taken big steps to improve the notification experience on its iOS devices. There has been a plethora of iOS concepts before, each one proposing various user interface changes and improvements, includ...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: KIM KARDASHIAN: HOLLYWOOD APP REVIEW – ALL THE DEETS
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, the casual, free-to-play role-playing game that was created by Glu Games Inc. has received an upgrade! Our rating: 4/5 Available on: iOS and Android Released on iOS and Android in June 2014, the game made $1.6million in the first five days and by the end of its f...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: PLOTAGRAPH BRINGS STILL PHOTOS TO LIFE IN AN AMAZING WAY
Plotagraph is the new app created by professional photographer Troy Christopher Plota that now lets you animate your own world. It uses a single still image, allowing you to choose parts of the photo you want to animate which makes the image look as if it is moving. It creates beautiful lifelike sce...
over 7 years ago
LATEST FACEBOOK MESSENGER UPDATE TO HELP BUSINESSES REACH THEIR CUSTOMERS
The latest Messenger version 2.2 is set to help developers and businesses reach their customers in new and engaging ways, improve the quality of their messaging experiences and make it easier to build and iterate on the platform. Messenger revealed that the move was taken after extensive feedb...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: FACEBOOK FIGHTS THE REVENGE PORN TREND BY ASKING FOR YOUR PHOTOS!
It's always risky to send nude pictures to... well, anyone. We can't control where they end up or whose phone they get sent to. People have now started "revenge porn" which means that ex–partners are posting nude pictures as a revenge for the damage caused by the relationship. 54,000 incidence...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO VINE, THROUGH THE GRAPE VINE
Vine boomed in 2012, littering the internet with short clips and creating the phrase: "Do it for the vine", which ended in people generally doing stupid things. But Vine seemed to die out quickly and eventually become non–existant. Vine was not actually meant to be a stand-alone app. It was cr...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: EMOJIS ARE ALIVE AND THEY CAN TALK!
All the emoji's but now the added benefit of sending an actual voice message using only emojis. The Animoji app allows you to send an animated version of an emoji that copies and exaggerates your facial expressions to mimic your facial movements. Essentially, you become the emoji using facial detect...
over 7 years ago
APPLE'S IOS 11.1 UPDATE BRINGS AMAZING EMOJI JOY
The latest iOS update, iOS 11.1, is the first major update to iOS 11. The update is out now and downloadable for everyone with an iPhone. Front and centre in its latest release you will see a plethora of new emoji. Included in those are a few new emoji such as a vampire, mermaid and fairy or a pixie...
over 7 years ago
THE UNSEND FEATURE FOR WHATSAPP IS HERE!
WhatsApp updated its FAQ page with instructions on how people can use its new unsend feature that lets users purge the embarrassing drunk text they sent before their intended recipient has had a chance to read it. The Facebook-owned app has announced in a new blog post that it has begun rollin...
over 7 years ago
SHAZAM, BUT FOR FONTS
WhatTheFont is a Shazam for fonts, a designers dream come true. The app is a mobile version of the website previously developed by MyFonts and recognizes any font you point at with your camera, including a variation of similar fonts to go with. The app also allows you to buy the fonts you find...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: GOOGLE'S NEW RELEASE SCANS FOR SPAM CALLS
Tired of getting phone calls about new products, having to listen to a robot drone on about some new promotion? Google is currently working to develop an app that will alert you when the number is a suspected robocaller or a spam call which will light up your phone with a red banner. This will then ...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: TRIPS: LIVING VICARIOUSLY THROUGH OTHER PEOPLES MEMORIES
Although Twitter and Instagram are littered with photos of peoples holidays, there is now an app where you can literally travel the world from the comfort of your own bedroom. This wonderful new app called Trip allows people to post pictures and stories about their trips and then share the...
over 7 years ago
APPLE'S NEW IOS11 SECURITY FEATURE
Apple's iOS11 update provides the user with so much security that even the police can't get access to your phone. The security feature lets you disable Touch ID so that only the user will be able to unlock the phone. The only alternative to this brings you to an SOS function by pressing the home but...
over 7 years ago
INSTAGRAM IS TESTING A NEW FEATURE: STOP-MOTION GIFS
Instagram is testing another new feature, the Stop-Motion camera tool. Basically, its purpose is to let you take a long series of photos which Instagram then stitches together to create a GIF that you can post in your story. The Stop-Motion tool allows you to take a ser...
over 7 years ago
7 STRANGE APPS YOU'LL PROBABLY NEVER USE
There are some apps out there that have seemingly little purpose and below is a list of the 10 weirdest/seemingly useless apps. 1. Honey, it's me! This app schedules regular messages to the user from a digital girl named Mina as well as four video calls a day. The app was created to prevent ...
over 7 years ago
THIS AR APP SHOWS HOW PLANTS CAN IMPROVE AIR QUALITY AT HOME
With Augmented Reality on the rise, we have seen some interesting ways that AR can inform purchasing decisions by superimposing products into our living rooms. A new app called Plant Life Balance takes a similar approach, drawing on scientific research to help users kit out their homes with just the...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: GOOGLE'S SCIENCE JOURNAL APP IS A DIGITAL NOTEBOOK
The Science Journal was launched by Google last year for Android phones. The app is an easy way to measure light, sound, motion and more, while it already sounded like a great tool, it is now more useful than before. Google has turned it into a full-fledged digital notebook that students can use to ...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: APPLE'S LATEST SOFTWARE COMES WITH MINOR BUGS
Apple's latest software is now installed on nearly 60% of compatible devices, and it does have one major issue concerning battery life. iOS 11 drains battery life on iPhones a lot faster than you would expect, while their unofficial fixes in place, everyone is still waiting for the real thing.&...
over 7 years ago
IT'S 'GRAHAM' NOT 'GREY HAM', SIRI!
We have all been in that annoying situation where Siri pronounces something horribly wrong. It can make navigation to an address or calling a contact quite interesting. There is a way around it! You can correct Siri's pronunciation in a few simple steps. 1. say the name of the road or contact that i...
over 7 years ago
THE ROBOT MATCH-MAKERS
Tinder recently took the world by storm creating millions of matches with billions of swipes. However, this sparked the start of many other dating apps and now the question on the tip of everyone’s tongue is: what does this mean for the future of Tinder? Tinder’s CEO, Sean Rad, admi...
over 7 years ago
YOU CAN NOW MAKE PAYMENTS VIA PAYPAL ON MESSENGER
Last week, on 20 October 2017, PayPal announced the immediate availability of its peer-to-peer payment service on Facebook Messenger, making it easy to exchange money between friends and family. PayPal also introduced its first-ever customer service bot, which gives Messenger customers the abi...
over 7 years ago
WHATSAPP GROUP ADMINISTRATORS TO SOON BECOME MORE POWERFUL
The administrators on WhatsApp groups will soon be able to choose if other participants can modify the subject of the group, its profile picture and its description. According to WABetainfo.com, a fan site that tests new WhatsApp features early, the Facebook-owned messaging platform has submitted th...
over 7 years ago
WHATSAPP RELEASES A NEW FEATURE: LIVE LOCATION SHARING
WhatsApp recently announced a new live location sharing feature, with this feature users will not only be able to share their current location with other users but also let their friends track them in real-time. The Facebook-owned messaging platform said that it will roll out this live location shar...
over 7 years ago
NOW YOU CAN WATCH, BIG BROTHER
We all know that, to a certain extent, our activities and habits are monitored –hence the annoying ad pop-ups just after we've visited a website. On the other hand, we are also able to monitor ourselves and our activities to a greater extent through step, food and activity trackers to bec...
over 7 years ago
THE POST APP ERA – MAYBE SOONER THAN WE THINK
No, apps won't disappear. On the contrary, we will most likely come to rely on them more frequently. However, the post-app era implies that the app will be in use without having to go into the actual app, allowing it to interact with the device in a way that is more convenient for the user. The...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: YOU CAN EXPERIENCE TEQUILA WITHOUT THE HANGOVER WITH THIS AR APP!
Augmented Reality is still fairly new to the scene, and with Apple announcing that their latest iOS software update will make the AR experience come to life, Apple's Store has seen a slew of new apps with a wide range of AR experiences appear. The Tequila makers, Patrón, seized the ...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: VINE'S FOUNDERS ARE BACK WITH A BRAND NEW APP!
“It’s a way to give people a chance to have fun, maybe win, maybe learn something new.” That’s how former Vine co-founder, Rus Yusupov, describes his new trivia game show app HQ, that feels a little like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire meets Facebook Live. HG's iOS app is simpl...
over 7 years ago
I DECLARE, NO MORE CHICKEN BREASTS AND RICE!
If you are like me (and most of the nation to be honest), chicken breasts and rice just don't cut it as a staple diet. As a fellow foodie, we just need more excitement. However, this often gets us into trouble as those pesky calories come to shrink our clothes in the middle of the night. There has t...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: A NEW HBO MINI-SERIES WILL BE AN INTERACTIVE APP
Have you ever wanted to change the outcome of any series that you have watched? Well, you are in luck, there is a new TV show from HBO and Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh, that promises viewers will be able to get inside a character's head to know what they are thinking. Viewers will be...
over 7 years ago
THE WILDFIRE APP COULD SAVE LIVES
With the deadly wildfires that took place in California over the past month and the fact that many are still missing in Northern California, the American Red Cross team decided to team up with others to produce an information service that could have saved lives. A big part of this is the Wildf...
over 7 years ago
AMERICAN CONSUMERS SPEND 10 HOURS PER YEAR IN SHOPPING APPS
Mobile shopping is on the rise and U.S. consumers are spending nearly 50 minutes in shopping apps per month, or 10 hours per year, according to a new report from App Annie. Shopping apps like Amazon, Esty, Wish and many others, are growing more quickly in terms of total sessions and monthly usage, c...
over 7 years ago
GAMING APPS ARE DOMINATING ARKIT DOWNLOADS
After Pokemon Go popularized the technology among millions of smartphone users last year, it comes as no surprise that game apps are the leaders in embracing the AR world. Apps requiring Apple's ARKit – the mobile application framework for augmented reality features on iPhones – ha...
over 7 years ago
LATEST APPLE SOFTWARE UPDATE LEAVES YOUR IPHONE VULNERABLE TO ATTACK...
If you wanted to switch off Bluetooth and W-Fi with iOS 10, it was fairly simple, just swipe up to open the Control Center, tap the icons, and it's switched off. It saved you time to not toggle around to your settings and switch it off by going through all those steps. In iOS 11 – Apple's...
over 7 years ago
DELTA'S MOBILE APP WILL AUTOMATICALLY CHECK IN PASSENGERS
The outdated flight check-in process has plagued flyers for years now – so Delta has gotten rid of it! Now, Delta passengers' boarding passes will automatically be sent out 24 hours prior to the flight – as long as they use Delta's mobile app! This change, first noted on the iOS version ...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: GOOGLE TEZ APP HITS 5 MILLION DOWNLOADS
Google's digital payment app – Tez – which was launched in India on September 18 has been downloaded five million times from the Google Play Store. WIthin 24 hours of Tez being launched, Google saw nearly 1.8 crores gross mechanised volume (GMV) done with over four lakh active user...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: TAYLOR SWIFT ANNOUNCES UPCOMING APP – THE SWIFT LIFE!
Dear Taylor Swift fans: you might want to save up some blank space on your phone! Taylor Swift has another surprise for her fans with a soon-to-be-unveiled app! In her newly released video on her YouTube page, the star introduced "The Swift Life" – an upcoming app from the House of Swift desig...
over 7 years ago
WHATSAPP FLAWS LET HACKERS KNOW WHEN YOU'RE OFFLINE
Your WhatsApp online status can help hackers figure out who you're talking to, when you're offline and when you go to sleep, thanks to a flaw in the micro-blogging platform. After discovering the flaw in WhatsApp, Rob Heaton – who has made similar security-related findings in the past – ...
over 7 years ago
TWITTERRIFIC FOR MAC RETURNS AFTER A SUCCESSFUL CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN
Following a successful crowdfunding campaign to resurrect the Twitter app earlier this year, Twitterrific 5 has launched on the Mac App Store. The original Twitterrific for Mac was first launched about 10 years ago, but developer Iconfactory stopped work on the Mac version after changes to Twit...
over 7 years ago
TRUECALLER IOS UPDATE TO FILTER OUT JUNK TEXT
Spam messages can be a waste of time when reading through or having to delete them from your device. The leading communication app, Truecaller, recently announced that the addition of a new spam-filtering feature for iOS app will filter out SMS and MMS spam from iMessage and send them to a jun...
over 7 years ago
NEW VERSION OF WHATSAPP WILL WORK FOR LANDLINE NUMBERS
Whatsapp is building a spanking new service completely separate to the regular version of the app. Whatsapp's new version will include landline numbers in order to make the business-focused messenger easier for customers and companies to communicate. This dramatically different version is currently ...
over 7 years ago
WHATSAPP IS TESTING A NEW 'DELETE FOR EVERYONE' FEATURE
Have you ever regretted a WhatsApp message that you sent and seconds later you wish that you could undo that text? Well, now you won't have to worry about drafting an apology to the person you sent the text to. WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service used by more than 1 billion people w...
over 7 years ago
VIDEO: UBER APP CAN SPY ON YOUR IPHONE!
Apple has granted un undocumented private app permission that allows Uber to record anything on an iPhone screen without your knowledge. Security researcher Will Strafach discovered this feature which has apparently existed on apps of jailbroken devices without permission from Apple. How...
over 7 years ago
