Twitter rolls out mute feature for individual users

Annoyed by tweets of a certain user but don’t want to offend them by unfollowing them? Twitter has begun rolling out its mute feature to the public. The company began testing mute for a small group of users and is now officially making its way to everyone. Mute allows you to no longer see tweets and retweets from the selected user on your timeline. You will also no longer receive SMS or push notifications from the user. They will still be able to retweet, favorite, or reply to your activities but at least you won’t be able to see their Twitter activity on your main timeline.

You can mute Twitter users by tapping on their tweet and selecting more and then “Mute @username” or you can head to their profile and select the gear icon and then tap on “Mute @username.” The feature is available for Web as well as Android and iOS apps.

Source: Twitter Blog

Microsoft Office for iPad apps downloaded 27 million times in 46 days

Microsoft Office for iPad has enjoyed 27 million downloads in 46 days, which means around 587,000 dowloads a day, an unprecedented number for applications that arent games, messaging or social media focused. Looks like Microsoft and Apple are both benefitting from Microsoft Office coming to the iPad via the Office 365 subscriptions. Of all the Office apps, Word seems to the most popular download, consistently making it to the top charts.

New promo video for LG G Watch shows what's around the corner for wearables

Looks like LG has taken the challenge of making a notable Android Wear powered smartwatch quite seriously. This video is a promo or teaser of the upcoming G Watch and promises quite a lot of game changing features. LG's coming a little late to the party, their nemesis Samsung's already released second generation devices and so has Sony, so the first LG G Watch has to be an outstanding product to set itself apart. Time will tell if they have what it takes to disrupt the wearables market.

Source: LG

CNN lets Google Glass users support its citizen journalism platform

Have a story to tell and Google Glass on hand? CNN is expanding its citizen journalism platform iReport by letting people submit stories using Google Glass. iReport is now available on Glass and it just needs existing Glass users to authorize CNN to send notifications to their unit. Once that is up and running, you can manage settings and submit photos and videos with the device.

Source: Ubergizmo