Apple's addition of third-party keyboards to iOS 8 was welcomed for a variety of reasons and with plenty of use cases in mind. Many immediately turned to the notion of having the famous Swype arrive on iOS, while others eventually lauded the awesome TextExpander keyboard as a great example of what's possible in iOS 8.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Fresh from officially having more users than Twitter, Instagram is keen to not rest on its laurels and has today posted to its company blog that updates to both the iOS and Android versions of its apps are now live. Bringing with them new features including five new filters as well as the ability to upload slow motion videos to the service.
Using a case with your smartphone is all well and good, mainly because it should help to protect your pride and joy from any unsightly bumps and scrapes during the course of its working life. If you choose the right one it might even keep your phone safe from some more severe treatment, but the thing about keeping phones in cases is that we rarely take them out, if at all.
Microsoft's current Windows 10 development is picking up pace with the firm working on a new beta release that takes the previous technical offering and takes a different tact, this time focusing on consumer features. With a January press event set to be the place the new release is detailed, consumer build 9901 has already leaked onto the Web.
Each new big iPhone release seems to have its problems, whether it be the infamous antenna issue that plagued the iPhone 4 or the issue that say many iPhone 5 owners complain that their handsets were chipping too easily. As with anything that sells as many units as an iPhone though, you're always going to have some defective units.
Here’s how you can disable or block Facebook Messenger Seen receipts on your Android devices the easy way. More details on this can be found right past the jump.
They say that some things will never depreciate but rather appreciate with time. Those things include works of art and, usually, real estate. Depending on whether you would call a computer a work of art, then it may not come as much of a surprise that a fully working Apple-1 has been auctioned for more than its original $600 price tag. Considerably more.
Apple knows that getting potential customers through the door at an early stage increases the chances of them becoming customers for life, which is why it keeps promoting apps that are designed for kids during App Store promotions. If you can get youngsters used to handling iPads and interacting with the App Store at an early stage then they're more likely to buy iPhones and Macs when they grow up. It might sound cynical, but it's a fact of life.
With the move to 4K televisions slowly coming about, it's clear that the only way super high resolution panels are going to move is to get the content out there first. Netflix already offers 4K streaming to those that have TVs and panels capable of taking advantage of it and now Amazon is also jumping onto the bandwagon.
Having all of your contacts on one smartphone is a wonderful thing, but if there is one place that the iPhone in particular falls down it's that getting contact photos onto it isn't as easy as it otherwise could be. If you want to go taking photos of people then you're fine, but in this day and age you'd like to think that there was a batter way.
















