Store your book thoughts on Shelf

A new iOS app makes it easier for you to keep your thoughts on the books you read in an app. And yes, you don’t even have to share it with other people. Shelf is a simple notepad of sorts to keep those thoughts in one place. It comes with a built-in book search engine. When you enter the book you’re currently reading you get a nice big image of the book you’re reading and then you can just add all the thoughts you want to add on it. Now, we wish this free app makes its way to Android, too.

Source: Lifehacker | Download: Apple App Store (Free)

March 21 tipped as new date for Apple's product event

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It seems that the earlier date of March 15 for the March Apple product event has been moved a week later to March 21st. Expected to be Apple's first product event for the year and which could focus on a smaller 4-inch iPhone (dubbed iPhone SE), the first glimpse of a new Apple Watch and the reveal of the iPad Air 3.

Recode's Kara Swisher broke the news while BuzzFeed's John Paczkowski,  who is usually dead on with these event date leaks, corroborated the information while adding that March 21 is a day before Apple has to face the FBI in a hearing regarding the iPhone unlocking issue that has divided a lot of people. The Loop Insight's Jim Darymple chimed in agreement on the March 21 date which all but confirms this event unless something else happens. Last year, Apple's "Spring Forward" event in March 9 showed off more information on Apple Watch plus saw the announcement of the new MacBook.

It's been a while since Apple's had a product event, the last one was the epic 'Hey Siri' event last September, which piled on a number of products including new iPhone 6S, the iPad Pro and Apple TV plus an assortment of new Apple bands and the Hermes edition Apple Watch.

This March event is expected to be way smaller and might be held at Town Hall in the Cupertino campus, this is understandable given that Apple and its key executives have a very high profile hearing to attend to the next day.

Source: Recode, BuzzFeed, The Loop Insight

Instagram closes off access to apps that let you ‘be’ other users

A recently launched app for Instagram called Being let users see the Instagram feed of any public user. What this means is you could see the app through the eyes of a celebrity. You could see who they follow and help that curate your list. But it seems Instagram isn’t happy with that as the app has lost access to Instagram’s API. The popularity of the app as it gained over 40,000 users since it launched around eight days ago might have brought Instagram to the app’s purpose and that might have caused its downfall. The company won’t say though if the loss of access to Instagram’s API is intentional.

Source: The Verge

WhatsApp to drop support for BlackBerry and other old platforms

If you use WhatsApp, the time has come to finally let go of that old BlackBerry or Symbian device. By the end of 2016, WhatsApp will only support Android 2.3+, iOS, and Windows Phone 8.1+. Those who use BlackBerry devices, Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60, Windows Phone 7.1, Android 2.1, and Android 2.2 won’t be supported after that. WhatsApp didn’t say if they were taking the apps out of the app stores or will just halt support for the apps. What’s clear though is it might be best to get a newer device.

Source: The Next Web