Instagram now supports portrait and landscape orientation

It’s no longer hip to be square on Instagram. The app doesn’t just support the square format anymore. It now supports both portrait and landscape modes. Now when uploading photos and videos, you can tap the format icon to adjust orientation to portrait or landscape instead of the square. When you share these images, they’ll appear to your followers in the full-sized version you want it to. It no longer crops out the edges if you don’t want it to. But to keep your profile looking clean, posts will appear as center-cropped square.

In this update, Instagram is also letting all filters work for both photos and videos. You can even adjust the intensity of the filters for videos, too. The update is available for both iOS and Android versions of the app.

Source: Instagram | Download: Apple App Store (Free) + Google Play Store (Free)

Apple’s September 9 launch will be the first event Windows users can live stream

The upcoming Apple event will be the first time Windows users will be able to officially live stream an Apple presentation. You can see it on the fine print of the launch site. This time though the Windows 10 built-in Microsoft Edge browser has software that supports the same HTTP Live Streaming technology found in Apple software like Safari and QuickTime. Usually, only people using OS X, iOS, or an Apple TV device could do so. Some used workarounds through software like VLC. 

Source: Apple Insider

Apple confirms September 9 launch event in San Francisco

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Media invitations went out this morning from Apple for an invitation-only event to be held on September 9th at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in downtown San Francisco. The invitation has the Apple Logo as well as the Siri waveform graphics that appear on the Apple Watch with a "Hey Siri, give us a hint" text below. Siri is iOS's digital personal assistant which is native to the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch lines. Just out of curiosity, I queried Siri and asked her to give me a hint, I got the response below.

Traditionally an iOS and iPhone event, September events are held in the Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts in San Francisco, although last year's event was equally focused on the Apple Watch and was held at the Flint Centre in Cupertino. For this year, Apple is expected to update the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus lines and possibly add a lower cost model. Aside from the de rigueur OS and processor upgrades, we expect to see improved cameras, possible Force Touch functionality as well as the introduction of new colours. Seeing as Siri features in the invitation, we might get new and improved Siri functionality as well. Stay tuned for more development on this story.

HP introduces thin, light, and powerful mobile thin client for business

HP announces the HP mt42, ta powerful quad-core mobile thin client ideal for business customers in the financial, healthcare, training, services and government sectors looking for a reliable and secure mobile-cloud access point that’s packed to perform and built for virtualized environments.

The new mt42 boasts a weight of just 3.41 pounds, is only 0.74 inches thin and provides up to 3.0 GHz AMD quad-core processing technology. The HP mt42 also offers 10 percent higher clock speedand an additional two cores of processing power than the previous generation.

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