Showing posts with label Social. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social. Show all posts

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Face Stealer For iPhone

For users of the iPhone, recently there was a free AR application called Face Stealer made by  Yahoo Japan ??that make your face look unusual.

This iPhone application can display various facial mask derived from an original photo, such as animals, celebrities, comic, or your own face and displayed in the form of video display. In addition, Yahoo Japan has also developed a library that is used to analyze and reflect different expressions and head movements in real time and automatically.

The application is able to track and mencapture each facial feature points in real-time on an object that is aligned with the movement of the mouth and the eyebrows in order to obtain the appropriate facial appearance knockoff. If these points are not aligned facial features, you can improve it alone until a display as you wish. While the resulting video or photos will be shared through social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

Here is the video footage Face stealer operation of the application for the iPhone:

 
Meanwhile, in the future Yahoo Japan reportedly is also considering developing a chat application that displays the ability to make anonymous face.

Friday, March 15, 2013

Goodbye Google Reader

Google again made news. After the announcement of the resignation of Andy Rubin as division leader Android operating system, Google has now revealed will "kill" or stop the service Google Reader and several other products.

Quoted from Slashgear, Thursday (14/03/2013), Google said, although the reader has a loyal user, users of these services has declined in recent years. Hence, the internet giant has decided to discontinue the service was 8 years old.

Google Reader service itself will actually shut down on July 1, 2013. Until that date, Google gives time for the service users to move data to other services RSS feed.

For users who want to move data Reader, Google provides a service called Google Takeout. Reader users can download the data belongs to them via this service. In addition, users can also take advantage of features export / import OPML file contained in the Reader settings.

Besides Reader, to get back to the core business, Google will also close several other services, such as Apps Script, CalDAV API, Google Building Maker, Google Cloud Connect, Google Voice App for BlackBerry, Search API for Shopping, and remixing app Snapseed Desktop for Mac and Windows.

In total, since 2011 ago, Google has closed 70 of their services.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Chat With Path

Social networking Application Path entered the third stage of reform. In an update released Wednesday (03/06/2013), Path adds instant messaging service which they refer to as private chat.

The existence of private chat, aims to make the path remains the essence of the essence, the social network that is used among close friends and family only. Path to building a quality social networking. This is precisely what makes Path limits the number of friends up to 150 people.

Instant messaging can be used in the Path between the personal and the group. Users can send text messages, songs, sound, stickers, videos, photos and location.

Path seems want to make money from the service by selling virtual items. In addition to free stickers, some are paid sticker that can be purchased within the app (in-app purchase). Path also sell new photo filters. All the new features were only available in private chat mode.

Competition in the instant application business heats up. Path will compete with Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat, which is highly popular in Asia.

Since its launch in November 2010, Path until now only available for the iOS and Android operating system.

The company was founded by Shawn Fanning and former Facebook executives, Dave Morin. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, Path has received funds from individual investors and companies.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Google Chrome Can Reduce 50% Of Data Usage In Android

Google has just launched its newest browser, the Chrome 26 Beta for the Android platform. And, although it is still in beta, the browser application is proved to have the ability to reduce internet data usage up to 50 percent

In this latest Google Chrome app, there is a feature that does allow it. Feature is the use of a proxy server that enables Google's own Chrome sends an HTTP request. Furthermore, the server will send the request to the desired target and run the optimization and content last lighter deliver content to mobile phones.

However, because the browser is still in beta, this one feature disabled by default in the condition. To enable this feature, users can go to chrome :/ / flags and select the Enable Data Compression Proxy. And, in a test run by Google, it appears that this feature can reduce data consumption by up to 50 percent.

The user's browser can directly check the amount of data that has been used. Just go to chrome://net-internals and choose the option bandwidths.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Change Your Evernote Password Now

Are you are one of the Evernote app user? Maybe you should change your password immediately to your Evernote account. And it is highly recommended by the Evernote itself.

Replacement should be done because the password Evernote recently attacked by hackers. The good news, Evernote says that no information belonging to users that leaked into the hands of hackers.

Even so, the Evernote Evernote recommends that users do anticipate to immediately reset the password. They also pledged to undertake certain steps to improve the security of confidential data of the user.

Evernote app itself merupakana a reminder application that can be used in different platforms, from iOS, Android, the Windows Phone, BlackBerry to webOS. Not only that, this application can also be used has support applications on Mac, Windows, Safari, Chrome or Firefox.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Google+ "Connect"

Google makes social networking platform, Google+, become more social. Significant steps were taken by Google to compete with Facebook and Twitter.

Now you can sign in to an application or a wesite using your Google+ Account. It's much like Facebook Connect and Sign in with Twitter. Predictably, this move will create a Google account increasingly closely with the internet.

"This is one of the most significant launch that emerged from the Google+ platform," said David Glazer, Engineering Director at Google+ as reported by Cnet, Wednesday (02/27/2013).

Since its emergence, Google is often touted to rival Facebook. Not without reason, Google as the owner had previously mastered the internet universe. It is easy for Google to integrate all social networking services with them.

Although the number of users is still not compete with Facebook, but quite rapid growth could surpass Google is believed to belong to Mark Zuckerberg the site. In 2012, Google targets to rake in up to 400 million users.
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