Sunday
May272018

Location sharing on Snapchat is easier with Snap Maps update

If you still use Snapchat to communicate with friends, you’ll appreciate what Snap has done with the Snap Maps feature. This feature, which by default is turned off for sharing for everyone, can now be shared on an individual basis. This means you can request a location or share yours with specific people in Chat. All you need to do is look for your friend’s name and you’ll find the options to do either there. This will let both of you appear on each other’s Snap Maps. An important note is this only works with bi-directional friends so you can’t request or share your location with a celebrity or influencer you follow.

If you want to remove a friend’s access to your location, you can do so any time within Chat or through Snap Maps. And if a user shared their location but hasn’t opened the map in eight hours, they will disappear from the map. And if you want to disappear yourself, you can just enter Ghost Mode (which sets your location to private).

Source: Mashable

Sunday
May272018

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 5/20-5/26

Saturday
May262018

Fan-made ‘Phoenix Rising’ is a free ‘Pokemon’-inspired game you can play now

If you’re a huge fan of the Pokemon franchise, you might want to check out this new fan-made game. Phoenix Rising is an episodic game made with RPG Maker XP and Pokemon Essentials engine. It’s a free game that will get its subsequent releases announced in the future. The demo a.k.a. the first episode that was just released is also free. The developers hope that by keeping the game free, not asking for donations, and having an official site, among other things, will keep The Pokemon Company won’t issue a Cease & Desist order. The company is known to shut down fan-made projects. Now whether the precautions taken by this game’s developers is enough, we should find out soon enough.

Source: Comic Book

Saturday
May262018

Two French teenagers get arrested for defacing popular music videos on Vevo’s YouTube page

Last month, Vevo’s YouTube account got hacked and had defaced a number of popular music videos. Now, two 18-year-old French citizens have been arrested in Paris in relation to this incident. The Paris Prosecutor’s Office, together with the Manhattan’s DA’s office (where Vevo is based), identified the two suspects as “Nassim B.” and “Gabriel K.A.B.” and are known by their respective online handles of “Prosox” and “Kuroi’ish.” The two have been charged with six and five criminal counts, respectively.

Authorities claim the two gained access to Vevo’s YouTube account to change the thumbnail images, video titles, and descriptions of videos like Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” and other popular videos from the likes of Taylor Swift, Shakira, Selena Gomez, to name a few. Vevo has since removed all these changes.

Source: Variety