Chrome 64 for Android was rolled out last month with features like the white navigation bar, blocks auto redirect pop-ups and more and an ad blocker. Today the company is adding one more new feature that automatically shortens URLs and converts them and removes the unnecessary strings at the end of URLs. Continue reading “Chrome 64 for Android automatically cleans messy URLs when you share them”
Nuance Communications, the makers of Swype Keyboard today announced that they are discontinuing the Keyboard for Android and iOS. According to a Reddit user who reached out to Nuance with a crashing issue has received a reply saying that they are ending the development. Continue reading “Swype Keyboard for Android discontinued”
LastPass password manager for Android has finally received Android Oreo autofill support. Accessibility option is still available for Older apps and Chrome that don’t support the new implementation. LastPass v4.4.1749 brings you an option to turn on Oreo autofill by going to Settings > Autofill. Continue reading “LastPass finally gets Android Oreo autofill support”
Twitter today announced that it will be ending support for its Mac application in the next 30 days in favor of the web client. The app will no longer be available to download from today. The company suggests users use the web client to get the full experience. Continue reading “Twitter is shutting down Twitter for Mac app, support ends in 30 days”
Facebook introduced community crisis response over a year ago making it easier for people to ask for and give help during a crisis. Today it has announced that it is also including organizations and businesses to help the community and respond plausibly. Continue reading “Facebook now includes organizations and businesses in community help during crisis”
Google Maps for iOS has been updated today adding few new features like real-time commuting info, new menu buttons, places around you and more. The real-time commuting info was added to Android a year ago. Continue reading “Google Maps for iOS gets real-time commuting info, places around you and more”
After launching the Assistant Go, Gboard Go, YouTube Go, and Maps Go, Google today released the Gmail Go to phones with Low-RAM. The Go Edition apps are aimed at phones running on Android Go (Oreo Edition) Android operating system based on Oreo 8.1. Continue reading “Gmail Go for Android 8.1 phones with low RAM released”
Reliance Jio unveiled JioPhone, the company’s first VoLTE feature phone back in July and started pre-bookings in August. It comes pre-loaded with JioTV, JioMusic and few other apps and recently got support for Google Assistant. Today the company has announced that Facebook app will be available for the phone through the app store starting from tomorrow, February 14th. Continue reading “JioPhone users finally get Facebook app”
WhatsApp’s web client gets a new update which brings it to version number V0.2.8299. The latest update brings new login page design, deleting every reference about supported OS. On the other hand, WhatsApp for iPads to get voice calls support soon according to recent discoveries of Wabetainfo. Continue reading “WhatsApp web client gets new login design, WhatsApp for iPad to get voice calling support soon”
Instagram along with re-share feature is now said to be testing screenshot alerts of stories of others. With this new feature, Instagram will now show users when someone takes a screenshot of their story. Since it is a testing, it is only limited to selected users, and they are getting a warning that the user who posted the story will be notified the next time a screenshot is taken. Continue reading “Instagram is testing screenshot alerts for stories”
Koinex , one of India’s most popular cryptocurrency exchanges in India has launched its official Android app, as it had promised. This lets you access your account and also lets new users register from the app by submitting personal details, including KYC documents by taking photos and editing them in the app itself without scanning. It also has detailed charts and price alters that notifies you if your the value of a goes up or comes down from the amount you have set. Continue reading “Koinex Android app with custom price alerts, fingerprint login and more launched”
WhatsApp started rolling out WhatsApp Payments, UPI (Unified Payments Interface)-based payments service for WhatsApp for Android beta as well as iOS users earlier this week. Now it has started rolling out widely for more users on both the platforms. It supports over 70 banks, including Paytm Payments Bank and Airtel Payments. This will take on Google’s Tez mobile payments service that was launched last year. Continue reading “How to send money using WhatsApp payments”
Back in January VLC V2.9 beta for Android introduced the long-awaited Chromecast support and today the feature is out of beta and is rolling out to the public in V3.0 in addition to other features like the fast seek, playlist files, bug fixes and more. Continue reading “VLC 3.0 for Android brings Chromecast support, fast seek, playlist files and more”
Facebook has confirmed that is testing downvote button to flag inappropriate comments to hide them. Since it is a testing phase, it is only available to a limited set of public Page post comment reels according to TechCrunch. Continue reading “Facebook is testing downvote button to flag inappropriate comments”
Android Messages has received a new update with version number V2.9. The update doesn’t bring any major U.I change but there quite a few additions that hint at upcoming features including Allo-like web interface, payments to businesses and more. Continue reading “Android Messages v2.9 hints at Allo-like web interface, payments to businesses and more”
