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07 Mar 2015
Facebook now allows custom gender options
Facebook now allows custom gender options Facebook now allows its users to enter any term they want to describe their gender, and also indicate how they’d like to be addressed. The social network previously offered a list of gender identities to choose from, but now allows users to add their own preferred terms. A
07 Mar 2015
Dropbox for Windows Phone update adds shared folders
Dropbox for Windows Phone update adds shared folders Dropbox for Windows Phone has been updated, bringing it to version 1.1, and adding the ability to create and manage shared folders from within the app. As usual, there’s a smattering of bug fixes too. The change means Windows Phone users can now create, unshare and edit shared folders
07 Mar 2015
Microsoft discontinues Facebook, Google chat in Outlook.com
Microsoft discontinues Facebook, Google chat in Outlook.com Today, in an email to Outlook.com customers, Microsoft announced that it will be discontinuing support for Facebook Chat and Google Chat on the service. The company blames the Google Chat removal on Google changing its chat protocol but doesn’t mention why it’s removing Facebook support. Going forward, the
07 Mar 2015
Hands-on: Office for Mac 2016 finally makes OS X users first-class citizens
Hands-on: Office for Mac 2016 finally makes OS X users first-class citizens e of the main questions you’ll get if you ever coerce someone to migrate from a PC to a Mac is “does it run Microsoft Office?” For as long as anyone can remember, that’s been hard to answer with a straight face. Office for
07 Mar 2015
Windows 93 is what would have happened if Bill Gates had dropped acid
Windows 93 is what would have happened if Bill Gates had dropped acid In the early 90s you either had Windows 3.1 (it sucked) or the Mac (it sucked a bit less). Then Windows 95 appeared and for a long time, it ruled the nerd school. But imagine a magical world where Bill Gates
07 Mar 2015
Permanent WhatsApp ban: what you need to know and how to avoid it
Permanent WhatsApp ban: what you need to know and how to avoid it Some of you may have seen the stories floating around that, following the temporary bans imposed by WhatsApp on those making use of unauthorized WhatsApp clients like WhatsAppMD and WhatsApp+, permanent bans for the lifetime of a phone number are now being
06 Mar 2015
Nexus 5 2015 (2nd generation) reportedly coming this year, Huawei to build it
Nexus 5 2015 (2nd generation) reportedly coming this year, Huawei to build it The news arrives via Gizmochina, which claims that Kevin Ynah, director of a market research firm, has confirmed that Google will be teaming up with Huawei for a second stab at the Nexus 5 success. Gizmochina speculates that Google could partner with Huawei has
06 Mar 2015
Google Hangouts gets 3.0 update, brings minor tweaks and Google+ content
Google Hangouts gets 3.0 update, brings minor tweaks and Google+ content Normally when the version number before the decimal point changes, you’d expect a big update, but Google has for the most part kept things as they were. The most notable change is the contact profile page, which now uses posts, photos and interactions from Google
06 Mar 2015
Best free Android games in 2015: 27 of our favorite freebies
Best free Android games in 2015: 27 of our favorite freebies It can be a minefield trying to find the best free apps the Play Store has to offer. Ever since the Play Store changed its policy so that games with in-app purchases can no longer label themselves as ‘Free’, it’s turned out that there really
06 Mar 2015
Turn your Galaxy S4 into a Galaxy S6 Edge with colored sidebar calls
Turn your Galaxy S4 into a Galaxy S6 Edge with colored sidebar calls The Galaxy S6 Edge was recently revealed at Mobile World Congress and quickly became the center of attention with its unique dual-sided display. One of the highlights of the S6 Edge’s sloping sides is their strobe lighting effect when receiving notifications, and now there’s an app which can do