New Tagging Feature available on Instagram
The
iOS or Android application, Instagram is now available with “Photos of You”
feature that allows you to tag people, things or brands in your photos.
Running
behind the lead of its social-network owner, on May 2, 2013 Instagram
introduced its new photo-tagging feature to let users tag people, things and
brands to the photo they upload and share through the service. The new feature
called “Photos of You”. This is remarkably the photo-sharing platform’s
colorful interpretation on tagging.
The
application users can tag any Instagram account onto their photos; it could be
a friend, cat or burger joint along with the photo while uploading. Those who
have been tagged in the photos will receive notifications and they have to
choose whether they want to publicy the photos on their own Instagram profiles
in a new section named “Photos of You”.
The company wrote in a blog post,” When
you upload a photo to Instagram, you're now able to add people as easily as you
add hash tags. Only you can add people to your photos, so you have control over
the images you share. And it doesn't stop at people -- you can add any account
on Instagram, whether it's your best friend, favorite coffee shop, or even that
adorable dog you follow”.
With the new feature of Instagram called as “Photos of You”
feature, the company gets a highly personal dimension since the feature turns Instagram
from the badge of photo-sharing service into more of a group activity.
Furthermore, Instagram expects that the Photos of You
feature can help it enrich the experience for its active brands that can also
give benefits from the new tags. Over the new Photos of You section, businesses
can now put their best face forward by using pictures captured by users of the
Instagram community.
Photos of You feature was available starting on
Thursday in the version 3.5 of Instagram’s applications for Android and iOS.
Get it on AppStore or Google Play Store.
Which ear you hold your cell phone may unveil your brain dominance
It has long been known if the right-handed people – who are
about 90 percent of the population – have left-hemisphere dominant brains, and
left-handed people the vice versa. But the division of making conclusion
actually is not that simple. Around 95 percent of right-handed people, the left
hemisphere almost handles language and the right emotion and image processing;
on the other hand, just around 20 percent of lefties experience such strict
division. This research is based to the result of some researchers at Henry
Ford Hospital in Detroit.
According to the report published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head
& Neck Surgery, the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit’s researchers found if
most people who hold their cellphone to the right ear have left-hemisphere
dominance.
This report might make you wonder, then, who cares? The
researchers’ leader, Michael Seidman, director of the division of otologic and
neurotologic surgery in the Departent of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
at Henry Ford Hospital, said if these findings actually have several
implications. The main of these findings is that it can help us better understanding
the language center of our brain. He added if establishing a correlation
between cerebral dominance and sidedness of cellphone use, it may be possible
to develop a less-invasive, lower-cost option to set the side of brain where
speech and language happens rather than the Wada Test, which refers to a
procedure that injects an anesthetic into the carotid artery to put part of the
brain to sleep to map activity.
What’s more? The findings also reveal that the cellphone use
may not be correlated to brain, head and neck tumors, knowing that nearly 80
percent of people who became the research subjects hold the cellphone to the
right ear and yet cancer does not appear more often on that side of the brain,
head, or neck.
A research done by Dr. Seidman before he looked into
cellphone handedness was that he noticed if most people use their right hand to
hold cellphone to their right ear. After that, the research team started to
send online survey to 5,000 people who were either patients undergoing Wada and
MRI for non-invasive localization or with an online otology group. The 90
percent of the respondents were righties with 9 percent lefties and 1 percent
ambidextrous.
Questions that were served at the survey including time spent
talking on cellphones, diagnoses of head or neck tumors, and hand dominance for
tasks such as writing. According to the survey, almost 70 percent of right-handed
respondents held the phone on their right ear, 25 percent to the left, and the
7 percent to either ear. Next, 72 percent of lefties used their left ears, 23
percent used their right ears and 5 percent had no preference.
Touch-based Notebooks and Tablet by Acer
As
a Taiwanese computer maker, Acer has proven its integrity to its consumer
through its effort of developing the quality of its products of tablets,
notebooks, etc. In an event held on Friday in New York, Acer recently launched
the new touch-based notebooks and tablet named Aspire R7 notebook, Aspire P3
Ultrabook, and the Acer Iconia A1 tablet.
The
Aspire R7 notebook features a 15.6 inch touch screen and a switch that allows
users to rotate and flip the screen as the position needed to convert it in
tablet. The company’s new design configured the keyboard closer to the edge of
the lower tray and switched the trackpad closer to the screen. Thus, you will
be in ease to use the touch screen. The Aspire R7 notebook costs $1,000 and
this product will be in stores by the middle of May with an exclusive U.S
partnership with Best Buy.
Besides
the Aspire R7 notebook, Acer unveiled the Acer Aspire P3 ultrabook which can be
converted into a tablet, as well as the Acer Iconia Android tablet with 7.9
inch touch-based screen that will be retailed starting off by June with the
price offered $169. The P3 is now available with the price of $800.
In the event, Acer CEO JT Wang said, "Users
will have the opportunity to enjoy a totally different experience through those
devices". The Taiwan-based computer maker said about the products during
the event held in Milk Studios in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, with their
tag line “redefining the computing experience through touch”.
As we know, nowadays the entire PC market is
growing slower, but Acer has experienced even more than most of its rivals.
Acer ever lost its big bet on Netbook, which has caused to steep shipment
declines in recent time. The first-quarter global PC shipments of Acer dropped
until 31 percent than the previous year. The company has been betting their
popularity by producing low-priced, touch-based Windows 8 devices to boost the
results, as well as the company’s tablets running other operating systems such
as the Android.
The new notebooks and tablet by Acer seem like a
flogging to its rivals since there are still a few companies who dare to develop
their products into what Acer does.
Android Key Lime Pie – The Next Google’s Android Version
The
world is seemingly now running behind Google’s Android operating system and the
company is now working hard to prove its integrity to provide the customers
with the latest version after the 4.1 version, Jelly Bean operating system. As
reported, the new version of Google’s Android operating system would be named
Android 4.2 Key Lime Pie that was spotted in its server logs. As luring as the
name of delicious food, the new operating system runs most wanted features.
Based
on the information by Google analyst, numerous smartphones and tablets with
this new updated version were used to access this website. Types of phone that were
tested with the new Android 4.2 were Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy Y, Sony Xperia Arc
S, and Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
As
we know, the current Android operating system version is 4.1 Jelly Bean is
still being used by many phones and available in the global marker. But the
time seems running fast as Google now has introduced its new Android operating
system named Key Lime Pie to keep up its enthusiasts. Actually, the older
version of Jelly Bean, Ice Cream Sandwich is yet to be rolled out in many
Android devices imagining how awesome the next version would impress them.
The
Key Lime Pie is rumored to be the next version after the Jelly Bean but it may
stick with the Jelly Bean moniker. According to CNET’s review pertaining to the
new version Android 4.2 Key Lime Pie, there is a little of new software treats
the update has in store. Due to Android’s open nature, it has been many items
on our wish list can be achieved through enraged tinkering or installing
specific applications using Google Play.
Whether
this operating system will overwhelm people’s Android device or not, Google –brand
features that could ease the consumers to access more applications with more
conveniently is being awaited by folks.
Evernote Food 2.0 – saving recipes and finding new restaurants
Evernote Food’s original version has one menu item as well as
My Meals. In the latest version of Evernote Food, the menu item, My Meals does
not have to work alone anymore; the new sections such as Explore Recipes, My
Cookbook, and Restaurants have been added. Let me show you the new features!
If you are the type of person who likes to spend your spare
time by browsing recipes, the Evernote Food 2.0 may be a good friend for you.
Through this application, especially on the Explore Recipes menu, you can
browse over a huge selection as many as thousands recipes all over the Web. You
will find recipes from places you will likely recognize such as the
AllRecipes.com or Clean Eating.
Using My Cookbook will ease you so much more. Though this
menu, you can check any previous recipe you’ve saved though the application
along with those you clip on the Web. If you are about to save a recipe, you
are allowed to add tags and notes, so that you can easily find it later based
on its category tagged. Fortunately, Evernote and Evernote Food are linked each
other to let you an easy access to your saved food information.
The next menu is the Restaurants. This menu is a newly
surprising feature to the Evernote Food application. Using this menu, you can search
by the type of food you would like to eat or by the location of noted
restaurants. In this application, you are probably going to find better searching
results by typing the location than the type of food because some restaurants
may be miscategorized online if they do not manage a Web site or social network
account.
In the new version of Evernote Food 2.0, My Meals remains an
area for collection photos of the steps of making dishes or the finished
product along with notes you type.
For the whole function of this application’s features, they
do make a lot of sense. You can use several platforms for sharing images of
food which can also end up on Twitter and Instagram. The latest version of
Evernote Food 2.00 can be easily replaced with the previous Evernote if the new
one does not have other menus as well as Explore Recipes, My Cookbook, and the
Restaurants, apart from the My Meals category.
(Picture credits by CNET)
The Popularity of iPad Mini VS Regular iPad
The
arrival of iPad Mini among the gadget markets seemed like a trouncing for the
previous version of iPad. The Apple suppliers chain in the Asia admit if the
iPad Mini’s trends and shipments indicate that it is overwhelming the iPad in
popularity.
In
Apple’s second quarter on January to March, over 19.5 million iPads were sold out,
12.5 million amongst were the iPad Minis, and this information was an
estimation of Taipei-based Digitimes that cited sources. The publication defines
the number of shipments.
On
December, DisplaySearch expected Apple to sell 6 million iPad Minis in 2012 but
then upped to more than 12 million. All
of those sales would take place in Apple’s first quarter that ended on December
because the iPad Mini was not released for sale until November 2012.
If
we are scrupulous about the excellence of iPad Mini against the regular iPad,
we may find some reasons. First, the iPad Mini is augmented reality. It is said
so, because this gadget is a sophisticated technology that combine the virtual
objects with the real ones. But when it comes to decide which type of iPad
should be bought, the iPad Mini might overwhelm your mind by considering its
shape which is lighter and smaller than the regular iPad. The next reason is
that about the price offered by iPad Mini. For the smaller shape, the iPad Mini
becomes more popular than the regular iPad because it has a lower cost with
more convenient features.
David
Hsieh, the DisplaySearch analyst said, “It seems people especially like the
size. It is lighter, slimmer and easier to carry, referring to Mini’s 7.9-inch
display versus the iPad’s 9.7-inch screen.
The
iPad Mini’s popularity comes despite having a relatively low-resolution
non-Retina display and older silicon if compared with the iPad 4. Sameer Singh
at Tech-Thoughts put iPad Mini’s shipments at 12 million as the highest
estimation in the most recent quarter ending in March by estimating the lowest
possible number of shipment to be a little less than 9 million.
However,
both of the iPad Mini and regular iPad have their excellences to impress the
iPad seekers. Which one could impress you most?
Now office docs can be opened through the new Chrome extension
Want
to comply the footsteps of Chrome OS, Google recently introduced the ability to
directly open the Microsoft Office documents to its latest browser beta with an
extension.
A
new Chrome by Google is aimed to overcome with some problems that made by
Google sheets such as unsophisticated Excel Spreadsheet, overwriting words,
ugly looking, and dropping a graphic altogether. The new innovation by Google
is a portly extension for Chrome beta.
If
you are running Google Chrome Beta on Windows or Mac, the Chrome Office Viewer
is ready to be installed. With this application, you can open links to Office
files directly through the browser, a feature that was first announced with the
Chromebook Pixel.
Though
the new innovation may seem ease your effort, you are actually limited right
now to solely viewing the files. If you want to edit the file, you have to
firstly upload the file to Google Drive or open the file though Microsoft
Office or another compatible program. It is also worth nothing if the extension
is quite large, and at around 25 MB it’s close to the same size as the browser
installer itself.
Jelte
Liebrand, Google engineer wrote in the blog post informing the new Chrome
extension that can escalate the computer security by shutting the document in
Chrome’s sandbox. If it is wicked, it won’t be able to spread the malware to
your computer since it has been isolated. The Chrome Officer Viewer itself is
compatible with Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, and PowerPoint
presentation.
Google’s
investigation to add comprehensive support for Office files to Chrome and
Chrome OS has proven as an abstruse result. The company purchased Quick Office
last year to give more firm Office file support, but it has been reported that
it’s painful to use them in Chrome nearly a year later. So far, Chrome OS runs
a bit better, but it is still not perfect. Chrome OS obtained the ability to
view Office files in May 2012.
One
thing that has to be underlined is that if Google succeed in integrating Office
file support in Chrome and Chrome OS, it would fare a long way towards
promoting the company’s argument that the browser-based OS that becomes the
power of Chromebooks and Chromeboxes are worthy competitors to computers running
Windows, Linux, and Mac.
