Thursday
Feb052015

Canadian cities joins Facebook list of cities with higher friendship connections

With Facebook celebrating its 11th year. The social network is focusing on the foundation of the company: friendship. There are over 1.39 billion active monthly users around the world and 20 million of those are Canadians. Aside from that, Canadian cities have made it on a list of cities that are at least 10,000 km apart but have significantly higher than average friend connections. Vancouver, British Columbia is at number three and they share friendship with Hong Kong, Hong Kong. And at number 5, Brampton, Ontario Facebook users share friendship connections with Ludhiana, Punjab, India. For more stats and other trivia, you can check out this link.

Thursday
Feb052015

DriveSavers to discuss how to access password-locked iOS devices

It is possible to access password-locked iPhones, at least according to data recovery service provider DriveSavers. They will be presenting information about accessing data from damaged, traumatized, or corrupted iOS devices, including the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, at the ongoing LegalTech trade show in New York. The tips will be helpful for law practice management.

“DriveSavers has recently added additional engineering staff and is developing new capabilities specifically for smart devices due to a significant increase in demand for our data recovery, eDiscovery and digital forensic services,” said chief technology officer Chris Bross.

Source: DriveSavers

Thursday
Feb052015

PayPal mobile payment app now available on most platforms

It is rare to see a service really branch out and make itself available to more than just iOS and Android. PayPal has made the latest version of its mobile app available to for Windows Phone and even the super new, super rare Fire OS (US only) as well. 

The new versions of the PayPal app allows  users to view transaction histories, track payments, send money, request payments, and see all major account activities directly on their phones or tablets. 

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Thursday
Feb052015

olloclip helps you get closer with new lenses

If you've been wanting to get closer to your photo subjects, olloclip has two new lenses for your iPhone 6 or 6 Plus . The Telephoto + Circular Polarizing lens has a fixed 2x magnification optical lens. You can capture crisp shots at half the effective distance. There is also an improved creative depth of field. While the Macro 3-in-1 is much like a digital microscope. It has three different lens options and you can get over 80x magnification if you use it with the iPhone's digital zoom. The lenses will work with front and rear cameras and comes with wearable pendants so you always have it with you. The Telephoto retails for US$99.99 and the Macro costs $69.99.

Source: olloclip