Nikon Canada hosts lecture series, contests, and student gallery at Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

For the sixth year in a row, Nikon Canada is working with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, which brings in over 1,500 artists in 200 exhibitions and events in the Greater Toronto Area. This year, Nikon has three different activities going on: one is its weekly photo contest, another is lectures hosted by Nikon Canada Ambassadors, and another is a youth project.

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Google’s Android keyboard gets one-handed typing support

If you use a Nexus device or opt to use the Google Keyboard on Android, then you’re in for a treat. The app now has a one-handed mode for devices, like the Nexus line, that done come with one-handed accessibility. You can launch it by long pressing on the comma and then swiping right. The keyboard also gets other useful features like being able to remove words from your dictionary by long pressing on the suggestion as they appear; access the number pad and emoji right from the symbols menu; and delete entire words with a quick left swipe. You can also adjust the keyboard height and control the cursor with a left and right swipe on the space bar. The update is rolling out to the Play Store now and should be up soon.

Source: The Next Web

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson outs Rock Clock app

Can you smell what The Rock is cooking? Well, this time he’s made a free alarm clock app aptly called the Rock Clock. Dwayne Johnson’s new app will help you jumpstart your day on a rather unusual note. The app comes with over 20 alarm tones to choose from, ranging from cats meowing to war drums, to chain saw sounds, to regular clock sounds voiced by the pro-wrestler/actor himself.

If you think you can snooze on his watch though, then you’re wrong. The app doesn’t have a snooze feature because “The Rock is not a fan of the snooze button.” The Rock Clock can also help you set goals with The Rock himself sending words like “you got this” or “it’s on.” The app should also be getting “exclusive video messages” from the actor and he said he’d be checking in regularly. It’s available for both iOS and Android.

Source: Engadget

Microsoft develops IFTTT competitor called Flow

Microsoft wants to help automate your workflow and take on If This Then That (IFTTT) with a new service called Flow. What IFTTT does is automate various popular web services; for example, automatically save Instagram photos your tag into your Dropbox account. For Flow, it wants to do something similar. It connects to services such as Twitter, Slack, Google Drive, Office 365, and Dropbox. Microsoft has different flows you can do like being able to generate SMS alerts for emails, get Slack notifications when a file is uploaded to Dropbox, and create flows to copy files from OneDrive for Business to SharePoint.

It’s available at the moment as a preview and has over 35 services enabled with more coming each week. It currently works for school or work Office 365 accounts or non-Outlook.com email addresses.

Source:  Microsoft Flow | Via: The Verge