07 Mar 2015
Facebook launches interactive design tool, Origami Live for iOS
Facebook launches interactive design tool, Origami Live for iOS Last year Facebook releasedOrigami for OS X for designing interactive user interfaces. But, for some reason you couldn’t actually prototype those interfaces on iOS. Today, the company fixed that. Origami Live for iOS lets you run those prototypes on the device you’re probably building those interfaces
07 Mar 2015
Facebook’s Bug Bounty program paid $1.3 million last year, with Oculus and Moves now included
Facebook’s Bug Bounty program paid $1.3 million last year, with Oculus and Moves now included Facebook has announced that it paid 321 hackers worldwide last year over $1 million to help spot security flaws in the social network’s software. That brings the total amount of money awarded since the program started in 2011 to over
07 Mar 2015
Facebook is adding a new feature to help with suicide prevention in the US
Facebook is adding a new feature to help with suicide prevention in the US Facebook is rolling out a new mechanism to help combat suicide in the US. This means that posts on the social networking site that appear to be suicidal will trigger a series of notifications offering help. The announcement, made in a post on
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