iOS 8.3 update to addresses diversity with new skin tone emojis and flags

Apple's iOS 8.3 update coming to iPhones, iPad and iPod Touches will bring over 300 new emoji icons, many of which will focus on diversity. Communicating with the use of  emoji icons in email or messaging apps has been gaining popularity as these small illustrations can often do a quicker job of sending a message or response.

The standards for emoji character is changing and quickly showing a more diverse and inclusive range of skin tones, flags and culturally diverse icons. Definitely something to look forward to when iOS 8.3 comes around.

Imoji turns your selfies into emojis

Want to have emojis made entirely out of your silly expressions? Imoji is bringing you that possibility. It turns your selfies or any other shots into textable emojis. It’s a silly concept but would surely break the monotony of the emojis you see out there right now. All you need to do is sign up and choose a photo online or take one yourself. And then you use a Photoshop eraser-like tool to erase the background and then save your emojis. You just need to drag it into the middle of the screen and iMessage it to your unsuspecting friends.  If you don’t want to use your mug, there are a variety of famous faces to choose from as well.

Source: Gizmodo

Twitter adds emoji support for Web

Keen to see the emojis your friends have been posting when you’re on your Web browser? Twitter has just added support for emojis on its desktop and web version. According to Mashable, the image quality is lesser on the web than what you see on your mobile. But they are not sure if it supports Tweetdeck since it works for some of their employees and not for others.