2013年7月18日星期四

Facebook’s Instagram Starts Tool for Embedding Images

  Facebook Inc. (FB) is unveiling tools for its Instagram service that will let users embed photos and videos on outside websites, including blogs and news providers, seeking to spread its influence and woo more consumers.
  The new feature requires a few clicks of a mouse to place a video or photo on a Web page, Facebook said in a blog post today. The tool, designed to maintain privacy settings, is only available for content that’s already public, the Menlo Park, California-based company said.
  The owner of the world’s most popular social-networking service is rolling out new features for its Instagram unit to help expand its reach on mobile devices where users are increasingly shifting their activity. Facebook, competing against services from Twitter Inc. and others, announced last month it was adding video to its photo-sharing service.
  “As always, you own your photos and videos, and we want to make sure that’s understood no matter where your content appears,” the company said. “Whether you want to embed your video on your blog or a friend wants to feature your photo on a website, everyone will clearly see that your content belongs to you.”
  Instagram, which Facebook bought last year for more than $700 million, has more than 130 million monthly users. More than 16 billion photos have been shared on the service.

Windows Telephone eight look extra cutting-edge together

  Tablets according to Microsoft’s Windows eight and Windows RT operating systems have struggled to obtain traction so far and Paul Thurrott of the Supersite for Windows says there’s an incredibly basic explanation for this: The first generation of Windows tablets just is not extremely very good. To become clear, Thurrott says that there are many touch screen Windows eight PCs and ultrabooks that happen to be very worthy of users’ time and that shouldn’t be overlooked. But with regards to pure tablets, he deems that every single a single is “simply to flawed to recommend” to everyone enthusiastic about obtaining one particular.
  “Looking around my own office, this really is what I see,” Thurrott explains. “A Surface RT that's gorgeous and light and gets terrific battery life but is worthless and frustrating in use due to its horrible overall performance. A Surface Pro that is definitely thick and heavy and gets only four.five hours of battery life when offering the weird mixture of a modest screen having a incredibly high resolution. A Samsung ATIV Clever Pc 500T (Clover Trail based) that will be laughable from a performance point of view if it weren’t for that Surface RT. (In fact, it’s still terrible.) That 700T that won’t charge anymore unless I plug the energy cord in to the tablet itself … which, wait for it, you can’t do when the keyboard is connected.”

  Of course, the first round of Android-based tablets had been similarly lackluster when compared with Apple’s iPad, so it’s not as even though Windows 8 is doomed as a tablet operating system. It does suggest, on the other hand, that Microsoft and its OEM partners will should place a lot of work into adding improved functionality and value to their tablets, comparable to how Nokia has tried to make Windows Telephone eight look extra cutting-edge together with the inclusion of its industry-best 41-megapixel smartphone camera in the Lumia 1020.
  Thurrott is optimistic that the following generation of Windows tablets will be a significant improvement over the existing generation considering the fact that improvements to both hardware and software program will make the devices extra palatable for buyers.
  “Things are going to acquire greater,” he concludes. “Intel’s new generation Core processors, codenamed Haswell, appear to have solved the battery life problem. And Windows eight.1 appears to resolve quite a few in the issues users have highlighted in Windows 8, which include desktop show scaling. Each of these improvements recommend to me that waiting is in order, as Haswell- and Windows 8.1-based tablets will probably be plentiful in just a couple of months.”

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2013年7月7日星期日

Google says Moto X phone release date is July 11th

  Motorola is floating invites for the introduction of its Moto X phone, finally putting a face to the mythical product. For as long as the Android platform has been around, the X phone was rumored as Google’s direct in-house answer to the iPhone. Five years later Google’s subsidiary Motorola is debuting the X phone. Beyond that fact that it is indeed real, we still know nothing about it. And that’s even after Motorola has told is plenty about it.
  Last month a Motorola rep teased the X Phone as having future features like the ability to take a pill which turns your entire body into a password, or a tattoo which does the same. If such comic book style features ever do come to the Moto X, it won’t happen next week. The X phone debuting on July 11th will be much tamer, but is still for a moment a blank slate. Rumors have pegged the X as coming in a choice of colors and custom engravings, a sideshow which still doesn’t tell us anything about the phone itself.
  The question the Moto X phone must answer is twofold: what makes it more appealing than the existing Android phones on the market? And what makes it an “answer” to the iPhone such that iPhone users might be tempted to switch? Not a word of what’s leaked so far gives us even a hint at either answer. But the Moto X, the international phone of mystery, debuts on July 11th nonetheless.

For all those users accessing Evernote with a Home

  Evernote now released an update for its Home windows Contact application that brings a redesigned hub webpage, support for its Organization item, and two-step verification to its end users. Even though a transfer that may appear to be slight, the organization calls them major that will help create the “best-looking, indigenous experience” on Home windows devices.
  For all those users accessing Evernote with a Home windows Surface area, cellular phone, or tablet device, a completely new commence monitor are going to be shown. The company claims that it's put all of its main navigation items and account articles that a consumer may well need to have right on the one display screen.
  The display screen has now been sorted into numerous sections, which include “create”, which ought to very easily allow you to develop notes, snapshots office mac home and student 2011 pack, or start out that has a file attachment. Other sections to the monitor contain shortcuts, your the latest activity, in addition to a list of your respective notes, notebooks, and tags.
  Realistically, this is much more of the aesthetic change if anything at all. None of these characteristics are completely new.
  Evernote Enterprise is now supported within the Windows Touch app, bringing it to par with its Android and iOS counterparts. Now, Evernote says buyers can integrate with their company’s Enterprise Library with the Get Extra area. Within the notebook segment over the hub site, consumers will see not merely their personal contents, but in addition all those for their small business.
  Last of all, to make certain that person facts is correctly secured, Evernote is utilizing two-step verification. This protection evaluate was launched months after the assistance experienced an unauthorized breach in March, which resulted in the company resetting its fifty million-plus users’ passwords. In May possibly, Evernote reported that two-step verification will be at first accessible for its high quality and Company consumers. So whilst Windows Contact app buyers have that function, you may not be essentially ready to work with it.
  Two-step verification adds a further security move to logging in to an Evernote account, and makes sure that the person logging into Evernote will be the rightful operator of that unique account. The login process with two-step verification enabled needs a username, password and special code that’s sent on the user’s cell phone, generated by the Google Authenticator app or printed out via the person ahead of time.