Monday
Feb032014

Facebook reminisces with you on 10th anniversary

Facebook will be marking its 10th anniversary tomorrow, February 4, and the social network hopes to share the milestone with you. The company is introducing “A Look Back” feature that will go live tomorrow. It shows you a personalized collection of photos or clips of the biggest moments you’ve had since you joined the site.

At the moment, there are over 1.2 billion monthly active users on the site with 19 million users from Canadians monthly and 14 million daily. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement that he the community continues to grow and develop in the coming years: “It's been amazing to see how people have used Facebook to build a real community and help each other in so many ways. In the next decade, we have the opportunity and responsibility to connect everyone and to keep serving the community as best we can.”

Monday
Feb032014

Apple's new Ad commemorates the Macintosh, shot entirely on iPhones

Apple's new 1.24.14 ad is a nice tribute to 30 years of Mac, it was shot in one day using iPhones and shows just how widely used Apple's products and technologies are in everything from education, fashion, desigm, robotics and entertainment. Seems a fitting addition to the powerful "What will your verse be?" iPad Air commercial which debuted las month. The new ad was shot during an entire day across various locations. 100 iPhones were used for 70 hours of footage. The whole process was quite remarkable.
Sunday
Feb022014

Microsoft’s new Super Bowl ad sets out to touch hearts

Microsoft isn’t particularly known for releasing touching advertisements that try marry technology with humanity. That seems to be more Apple’s territory. But their new ad for the Super Bowl seems to have hit a good spot. The new ad features the voice of former NFL safety Steve Gleason, who is suffering from ALS. (He has a longer video from Microsoft here.) Microsoft has set out to explain how technology helps different kinds of people get through life and experience the world around them.

Source: CNET

Sunday
Feb022014

EasyDownloader lets you save Instagram videos and images on Android sans rooting

Android users could only previously save images and videos from Instagram if their smartphone is rooted. Now, a new app called EasyDownloader will help you download the Instagram media without the need to root your phone. Before you download the app though, make sure you have the Instagram app already installed. There’s a bug in the app that won’t let it run if you download EasyDownloader before Instagram.

Once you have it installed, you just activate the download images option and tap on the Instagram icon on the app. You just have to select the three-dot menu at the bottom of each image and select “Copy Share URL.” You will get the notice that the link has been copied to your clipboard but the app has already downloaded the photo if you slide your notifications pane down.

Source: Lifehacker