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  • Google+ Gets a New In-Line Translation Feature

    Google has just announced that they are beginning to roll out a new native translation feature inside Google+.

    With Google Translate inside Google+, you’ll see a “Translate” link directly underneath any text that’s in a foreign language. Simply click the link and watch the text translated in-line, and click again to return to the original text.

    “The Google Translate team is always working to make information more accessible to individuals around the world. In Google+ this means bringing people together regardless of their written language, and breaking down language barriers that can limit the exchange of ideas,” says Google’s Ed Chi.

    Google+ New Translate feature

    As you may recall, Google launched a Chrome extension that let you translate any post of comment into 50 different languages back in 2011. Apparently, Google’s just going to let that extension waste away now that it’s unnecessary.

    “I believe the chrome extension is still working, but it probably won’t get maintained and will probably deprecate soon,” says Chi.

    Chi suggests that the translate function could come to mobile in the future, but stopped shy of saying it was a definite thing. He says that nearly all Google+ users should see the new translate function within the next 2 days.

    This gets Google+ up the speed with Facebook, who’s used Bing-powered in-line translations for a few years. A couple of months ago, Twitter began testing Bing translations as well.

  • Gmail’s New Compose Box Is About to Be Your Only Option

    If you’ve been temporarily using the old compose view inside Gmail, your days are numbered. Google has just announced that the new Gmail compose box will become the only option within the next few days.

    “A few weeks ago we added a full-screen option to the new compose. Now that that option is available, we’re saying farewell to the old compose and switching everyone to the new compose over the next few days. The new compose opens drafts as a minimizable window so you can write multiple drafts at once, keep an eye on incoming email, adds support for inline images and much more,” says Google in a Gmail Google+ post.

    It also comes with a bit of user backlash.

    One of the main gripes that users had with the new compose box was that it was small, and was relegated to a corner of the screen. This complaint should have been alleviated or at least mitigated by Google’s recent update to allow of a full-screen option. Not only can users make their compose box bigger, but they can also set the full-screen mode as their default.

    To be clear, this is what users have seen for the past few months. Even though Google technically rolled out the new compose box to everyone back in March, they’ve allowed users to opt out by clicking the “temporarily switch back to old compose” option.

    This option will cease to exist by the end of the week.

  • Facebook Adds Restaurant Reservations, TV Listings to Mobile Pages

    Facebook has just launched a rolling update to both its iOS and Android apps that should make mobile pages much more useful to the average user. It also helps Facebook keep more users on their own app, making them less likely to have to open up another app to do simple tasks like making dinner reservations or checking the air times on their favorite TV shows.

    “Each month, more than 800 million people access Facebook on a mobile device. And today we’re announcing two updates to mobile Pages launching later this week that will expand the useful features and relevant information Pages provide,” says Facebook.

    First up, Facebook is tapping OpenTable for new integration to mobile pages that will allow users to book tables at over 20,000 participating restaurants without ever having to leave the Facebook ecosystem.

    Pages for TV shows and movies are also benefitting from the update. Now, they will show upcoming local air times based on users’ current time zone.

    “Finding shows and movies on TV is getting easier as well. For people that use iOS, Facebook will display TV listing information on US primetime TV and movie Pages. Listings will be based on your current time zone and include the channel name, air time and a description of the show or movie playing, meaning that the listings that exist in cable box guides, magazines and newspapers are now conveniently located on the Facebook Pages of peoples’ favorite shows,” says Facebook.

    These new features should start hitting all eligible mobile pages this week.

    Back in April, Facebook launched a significant redesign for mobile pages that gave more real estate to star ratings, user reviews, and other pertinent information that a mobile user might need on the go. Today’s additions are in the same vein – they give users more quick info on the go, making mobile pages more useful to the average user.

    Today’s update also brings hashtag support to the app. Facebook first launched hashtags on the web back in June.

  • YouTube Adds New Play Icon to Browser Tabs to Help Alleviate a Very Annoying Problem

    YouTube has just made a small tweak that makes me very, very happy – and it’ll make you happy too if you’re the type of person who consistently browses the web with dozens of tabs open at the same time.

    Now, when a video is playing, YouTube will indicate that with a new play icon that appears in your browser tab. Check it out:

    You know when something starts blaring in your headphones and you don’t know where it’s coming from, so you have to click through all of your tabs to find the culprit. Well, as long as the culprit is a YouTube video, this new feature should eliminate the guesswork.

    And let’s be honest, the problem is usually YouTube. The site autoplays all videos when you click the link – and that leads to a bunch of confused audio when you’re a tab-happy browser.

    The new play icon also shows up during ads – so that’s a huge bonus.

    Sometimes it’s the small things, you know?

    [h/t The Verge]

  • Spotify Launches New Browse Tool for Curated Playlists

    Spotify Launches New Browse Tool for Curated Playlists

    Spotify is continuing to focus heavily on music discovery with today’s rollout of a new “Browse” feature, coming inside an app update later today.

    Browse lets Spotify users find curated playlists based on certain categories or “moods.”

    Music for every moment: We’ve got just the right tunes for your morning commute, the party tonight, and the hangover tomorrow. Music for every mood: More than just genres, listen to a playlist for romance or a collection of face melting guitarists.

    Spotify’s new Browse feature comes on the heels of their Discovery feature, which uses Spotify’s algorithms to recommend songs and artists based on what you’ve been listening to. The difference between the two is that the new Browse feature adds a human element, with playlists hand-curated by the folks at Spotify.

    “We don’t rely on one source for recommendations in real life – and music discovery can’t be one-dimensional,” said Gustav Söderström, Chief Product Officer, at Spotify. “Our three-dimensional approach now combines the human touch with strong social features and unique technology from over five years of experience. We know music and we’re the first to marry all three aspects in one service, making it easier than ever for users to navigate the treasure trove of content within Spotify.”

    Recent analysis suggested that streaming music subscriptions will rise to 29 million this year, and could hit 191 million by the year 2018. Spotify currently leads the pack, but if it’s going to hold on to its crown it’ll need to compete with other services that put an emphasis on discovery. With this new feature, the company is doing just that.

    You can expect the new Browse tool to hit iOS and Android first, and eventually roll out to all platforms.

  • Pinterest for iOS Gets Cool New Swipe to Pin, Like, or Send Shortcut

    Pinterest for iOS Gets Cool New Swipe to Pin, Like, or Send Shortcut

    Pinterest has just released a small, but pretty awesome little update for their iOS app – one that is sure to make pinning even easier. Version 2.6 brings a new swipe motion that allows users to quickly swipe to like, pin, or send any pin.

    Users can now tap and hold any pin they encounter, which will bring up a mini-menu. From there, users can simply swipe upward to pin, swipe northeast to like, or swipe to the right to send.

    Here’s the full update list that shipped with V2.6:

    • Press and hold a pin to quickly like, pin or send it (iPhone)
    • Tap Edit Home Feed to easily add and remove stuff from your home feed (iPhone)
    • Send pins not just from your iPhone, but from your iPad too!
    • Crash fixes

    Pinterest has made a few tweaks to both their iOS and Android experience over the past couple of months, but nothing very significant since May when Pinterest added notification, mentions, and search improvements to both apps.

    Last week, the company announced that they were going to be tracking users’ web activity by default – in order to help provide better personalized pin recommendations. Pinterest is doing this automatically, but is giving users a chance to opt out of the cookie-based tracking via Do Not Track.

    You can grab the new Pinterest update over at the App Store.

  • Facebook Rolling Out Photo Comments for Pages

    A few weeks ago, Facebook made comment threads a lot more interesting – or a lot more annoying depending on who you ask.

    The social network gave users the ability to post images in comments – via an “attach a photo” button inside the comment box. Before this feature, Facebook users had to post bulky links inside comment in order to generate a photo. This new option allows users to post photos directly from their computers. Neat.

    Well, it looks like Facebook is finally expanding that feature to pages. Now, both page admins and page followers can respond to posts with photos.

    Here’s what a Facebook spokesperson had to say about it in a statement:

    For businesses, enabling photos in comments, both on Pages and elsewhere on the site, allows for conversations with customers to be more expressive and engaging than ever.

    Photo comments for pages should be rolling out now. If you don’t see the ability on your page yet, just wait a bit.

  • Tumblr Launches New Activity Feed, Notes View

    On the heels of a major security breach, Tumblr has launched an update that brings back the old activity feed and gives users a new view for all their notes.

    “First, the new Activity page lets you graph the latest activity on your blog, view your top fans and posts, and see all of your recent notifications,” says Tumblr. This “new” activity page appears to be a reworking of the old Tumblr activity feed, which launched a few years ago and was killed within months. It provided all types of stats, and even showed a leaderboard of sorts of other popular blogs across the network. This new activity page is all about personal analytics:

    Next up, Tumblr has improved the way you view all your notes. They’ve added infinite scrolling to highlight all of your likes, reblogs, replies, etc.

    Check out the new view:

    In other Tumblr news, despite CEO David Karp’s declarations about not policing adult content on Tumblr, the site has rolled out some stricter porn guidelines that makes the content extremely hard to find on the site.

  • Twitter’s Mobile Apps Now Warn You of ‘Sensitive Media’ inside Tweets

    Twitter, unlike Facebook, doesn’t censor much of its “sensitive” content. It’s not hard to find gratuitous nudity, violent images, and even outright pornographic content on the network. “We do not mediate content, whether that content is an image or text,” says Twitter. And the only exception to that rule comes when said content is illegal.

    But that doesn’t mean that Twitter doesn’t want to protect some users from this “sensitive” content.

    To that end, Twitter has begun to display a warning message on tweets containing possibly sensitive media – this includes nudity, violence, medical procedures, and anything else that could be deemed “adult-oriented.” The message is displayed where the image should be when users open up a tweet in the company’s mobile apps, and it warns that “the following media may contain sensitive material.”

    Users then have to click through to see the media.

    There are basically two ways that your media could be marked as sensitive. First, you can do it yourself. In your settings, you can mark your own media as possibly containing sensitive content. If you do this, that new message will be shown to users whenever you tweet out something containing media. The other way that your content could be marked as sensitive is if other Twitter users flag it as such.

    All Things D confirmed with Twitter than the new sensitive materials stopgap came to both Twitter for iOS and Android in updates earlier this month.

    On the other side of things, you can tool your settings to allow sensitive content to show up without this warning message. But the default is to show the warning.

  • Tumblr Tells iOS Users to Change Passwords, Download Security Fix

    Tumblr has just released a “very important” security update for their iOS app that they say will address a significant flaw that allowed for passwords to be compromised in “certain circumstances.”

    In order to make sure your account is secure, Tumblr says you should download the update and change your password. If you’ve been using the same password for Tumblr as for other logins, you should also think about changing it as well.

    In a statement, Tumblr would only identify the problem as a “security vulnerability” – no more specificity than that:

    Earlier today, Tumblr was notified of a security vulnerability introduced in our iOS app. We immediately released an update that repairs the issue and are notifying affected users. We obviously take these incidents very seriously and deeply regret this error.

    The vulnerability does not seem to have affected Tumblr’s Android app.

    “Please know that we take your security very seriously and are tremendously sorry for this lapse and inconvenience,” says Tumblr’s Joe Stanley.

    Tumblr is now a Yahoo property, of course. That deal became official on June 20th.

    You can grab the update now over at the App Store.

  • Facebook for iOS Gets Verified Checks, Fixes That Annoying News Feed Issue

    Facebook has just released a minor update to their iOS app – but if you were one of the users who had been suffering with a slow news feed for a while then it’s more like a hallelujah update.

    Version 6.3 brings verified celebs, public figures, and pages – you know, that little blue check mark next to the names of famous people or brands. The blue verification doesn’t show up in the news feed, but you will see it when you visit their actual page. Like Twitter, Facebook “verification” lets you know when you’re interacting with the real Barack Obama – or simply one of the many fake Barack Obama fan pages.

    Facebook first launched verified profiles on the web back in May. Facebook isn’t accepting applications yet – they’re simply going around verifying whomever they feel deserves it.

    The update also improves places editing on the iPad to “fix categories, phone numbers and other info.”

    But the fix that thrills me the most is the one that improves the speed of the news feed. You see, for many Facebook for iOS users, the past few weeks have been rather annoying. Much of the time, the news feed would be slow to load – or sometimes it wouldn’t even load at all.

    Facebook says they have fixed this – and in my experience they have.

    You can grab the update over at the App Store today.

  • Vine for iOS Gets a New Camera, Revining, and Protected Posts (Coming to Android Soon)

    Less than two weeks after Instagram unveiled their Vine competitor, 15-second Instagram Video, Vine has just hit back with a significant update for iOS that brings new channels, camera tools, and the ability to keep your posts private.

    First up, Vine has redesigned the camera with a new grid, focus, and ghost tools. This should expand the types of videos users are able to create, helping them get a little more creative. It’s not filters, however, so if that’s what you’re looking for you’re still going to have to stick with Instagram.

    In terms of discovery, Vine has updated the app to include 15 new channels on the Explore tab – stuff like comedy, music, and nature. The app now also displays “on the rise” users who “are starting to capture the attention and interest of the Vine community.”

    The last two parts of the update are functionality-based. The first, Revining, allows users to share other people’s posts to your followers. It’s like retweeting, but for Vine.

    Last but certainly not least, Vine is now letting you make your Vines private.

    “Most Vine posts are public, which means they can be viewed, discovered and shared by anyone on Vine. If you want more control over who can see your posts, you can now protect your posts, which means only the people you approve to follow you can see them. And of course, if you choose to share one of your protected posts to Twitter or Facebook, then it will also be viewable on the web,” says Vine co-founder Colin Kroll.

    According to Vine, Android users should expect an update later today that will give them the ability to protect their posts. All of those other goodies? Vine says that Android users will have to wait until next week. And they promise that there’s more for everyone coming soon. We’ll be waiting.

    You can grab the iOS update over at the App Store.

  • LinkedIn Search Gets Better on iOS and Android

    LinkedIn Search Gets Better on iOS and Android

    Like many social networks and other applications, LinkedIn’s fastest growing sector is mobile. A few months ago, when LinkedIn launched a pretty major mobile redesign, the company said that 27% of their unique visitors come from their mobile apps – up 15% from a year ago. Mobile pageviews have also increased by 250%.

    With that in mind, it’s no surprise that LinkedIn is looking for ways to make their mobile experience better. Today, LinkedIn is improving mobile search on both its iOS and Android apps.

    Starting today, you can now search, jobs, companies, and groups with the apps. Before, you could only search people. LinkedIn says that this will help users “take advantage of their ‘in between’ mobile moments.”

    “You can now search for more than just people on mobile. Find and discover more than 225 million professionals, 3 million Company Pages, 2 million Groups and thousands of job opportunities via the magnifying glass icon at the top of the navigation screen. If you’re meeting someone new at Microsoft, look up that person and the Microsoft Company Page beforehand to see things you have in common. While you’re at it, search for the Microsoft Surface group on LinkedIn to hear what people are saying about the product. And if you end up having a great meeting and loving Microsoft, you may even want to search for jobs at Microsoft,” says LinkedIn’s Tomer Cohen.

    April’s big mobile redesign brought a new activity stream that not only is more media-rich, but is also better all pulling in all types of content – updates from connections, news, and influencer posts. LinkedIn also debuted a new navigation page with a customizable menu.

    All of this mobile focus doesn’t means that LinkedIn is neglecting their desktop bread and butter, however. In the past couple of months, LinkedIn has added personalized insights to the homepage, given users more analytics into who’s viewing and interacting with their profiles, and allowed users to add photos and presentations directly inside updates.

    You can download the updates at the App Store and on Google Play.

  • Spotify for iOS Update Brings Discover Feature, On-the-Go Playlist Editing, and More

    Spotify for iOS received a nice update today, brining their mew music discovery feature to mobile and giving users the ability to edit playlists on the go.

    First up, Discovery mode:

    Spotify first announced the new Discover feature last year, and they recently made it available to all users via the Web Player.

    “With the Discover page, we’re making good on our promise of helping you choose what to listen to when faced with millions of songs,” said Gustav Söderström, Chief Product Officer at Spotify. “We’ve made your listening experience more personal, more social and more current.”

    What you’ll get from the Discover feature on your iOS device is nearly identical to what you get on desktop – recommendations based on what you’ve listened to and who you’ve followed, plus playlists and artist listened to by your friends. You’ll also see new releases and suggested tracks.

    There’s also a new Now Playing view, which sports the ‘Up Next’ queue on iPhone.

    You’ll also find that the app logo has changed.

    Here’s the pretty extensive list of updates:

    • New: Ever find yourself wondering what to play on Spotify? Introducing the new Discover experience on iPhone. (Coming soon to everyone.)
    • New: A shiny, new Now Playing view, featuring the ‘Up Next’ queue on iPhone. (Again, rolling out to everyone soon.)
    • New: Say hello to our new logo.
    • New: You can now edit your playlists on your iPhone.
    • Improved: We’ve changed the order of the iPhone search tabs. Now it’s Artists, Albums, Tracks. (iPhone/iPod only.)
    • Improved: We’ve moved the … context menu button in the Playlist and Album views to the top right of the screen. It’s better there. (iPhone/iPod only.)
    • Fixed: Ford integration now works correctly when your iPhone/iPod is set to a language other than English.
    • Fixed: In your playlist folders, “All Tracks” will now show you the actual number of tracks.
    • Fixed: We’ve sorted lots of crash issues too.
    • Fixed: The unread messages in your inbox will now update correctly.
    • Fictitious: This app shares 73% of its DNA with bees.
    You can grab the update now over at the App Store.

  • Vine for Android: Now Making Selfies a Whole Lot Easier

    It took Vine about five months to finally launch on Android after launching on iOS at the beginning of this year. And when that Android app arrived, well, it was kind of barebones. It didn’t supports search, mentions, hashtags, Facebook sharing, or a front-facing camera. Vine promised that in the coming weeks they would add these features.

    Now, they’ve made good on an important one. The new Vine for Android (version 1.2) now supports front-facing cameras. Hello, selfies.

    It’s not like taking a selfie is impossible without front-facing camera support, but it’s way too hard. Clearly, this update will help in that department, one that has become one of the primary ways that Vine users communicate (and have led to some of the funnier Vines out there).

    The new update brings a couple of other improvements. Here’s the full update list:

    This update includes:

    • Front-facing camera
    • New upload manager for unsubmitted posts
    • Improvements to settings
    • Improvements to camera loading time and support for more devices
    • Speed improvements overall
    • Bug fixes and UI improvements

    You can grab the new version today on Google Play.

    [Image via Talen, Flickr]

  • Free Microsoft Updates Coming Later This Year

    Free updates and Microsoft are not something that you usually see in the same sentence. Starting this year, however, Microsoft may start having a change of heart.

    At its annual BUILD developer conference, Microsoft announced that it’s ditching its old method of releasing updates to software every two to three years. Instead, it will be approaching software updates like the rest of the industry does with weekly updates.

    Microsoft Office stands to gain the most from this move as the software company will commit to releasing minor weekly updates to the software that addresses issues in a more timely manner. Before this, Microsoft would release major updates every three to four years with minor bug fix updates releasing every few months.

    Office isn’t the only software that’s getting weekly updates either. Microsoft says that its other apps on Windows 8, including Outlook and SkyDrive, will receive updates on a more consistent basis than before.

    Of course, moving to a faster update cycle will change how Microsoft collects feedback. In ages past, Microsoft would gather feedback from its users before making decisions that might prove unpopular. Microsoft will obviously still use this feedback in the future, but it will also be using hard data in its decision making. In other words, it will evaluate how people use its software to determine what changes, if any, need to be made in future updates.

    What remains to be seen is if Microsoft will move to the rumored annual upgrade cycle for Windows 8. That seems to be the case at the moment with the release of Windows 8.1 later this year, but that could be a one-off designed to address concerns users had with the original Windows 8. We’ve no idea if Microsoft will continue the trend by releasing Windows 8.2, or whatever it will be called, in 2014. There are good arguments for and against an annual update cycle so Microsoft might be taking it slow for now to see the reaction to an update like Windows 8.1.

    Windows 8.1 and a future of free Microsoft updates is available now in a free preview form. It will officially launch later this year as a free update. We’ll hopefully know the full extent of Microsoft’s plans for its software by then.

    [h/t: Bloomberg]

  • Foursquare Now Lets You Check-In Your Friends

    I guess Foursquare just made a lot of users happy. That is if what they say is correct, and this really was the most-requested feature. Anyway, Foursquare has just announced that users will not only be able to mention their friends when they check-in, but actually check them in as well. The new feature comes with today’s app updates for both iOS and Android.

    Yep, when you’re checking-in, the “I’m with +” button used to simply tag your Foursquare friends. Now, it’ll actually check them in.

    Foursquare’s going with a one-time approval setup for the new feature. The first time one of your friends tries to check you in, you’ll receive a notification asking for your permission. And once you give it, they can check you in at any time in the future.

    Of course, Foursquare has added a bit of a safeguard in the form of an easy delete button to get you out of check-ins you don’t want to be in.

    Also, your own personal check-in takes precedence:

    “Did your friend beat you to the punch? If you check in at the same place, before or after the friend check-in, yours will be the only one we show. So you can always get your photo in, or tell everyone what you’re doing,” says Foursquare.

    I agree with Foursquare that this will save some time, and I’m sure that plenty of users did really want this ability. But the pessimist in me is already thinking about all the times this could go wrong. You know that dumb friend of yours who doesn’t think it’s a problem to check into that certain, uh, club you guys often frequent? Well, he’s checking in. And he’s checking you in with him. It’s loud in there, and you don’t see the notification. That means you can’t delete it. People see this – unhappy people. Skip to six months later and you’re living in the streets looking like a walking Nick Nolte mugshot.

    Dramatic? Sure. But stuff happens, man.

  • Flash Pro For Creative Cloud Gets Major Update

    Flash Pro For Creative Cloud Gets Major Update

    In early May, Adobe said that it was moving its creative suite exclusively to Creative Cloud so that it could provide faster updates. It turns out developers and artists didn’t have to wait long after all as Adobe has released a major Creative Cloud update that includes enhancements for all of its CS software including Flash Pro.

    So, what’s new in Flash Pro now that it’s exclusively part of Creative Cloud? For starters, Adobe has introduced a dark UI in Flash Pro CC that’s enabled by default. You can still use the traditional ligher them, but Adobe feels that the dark UI “allows you to focus completely on the stage and your content when working with Flash Pro.” See for yourself:

    Flash Pro Gets A Major Upgrade In Latest Creative Cloud Update

    Beyond aesthetics, Adobe has introduced a number of tweaks and changes to Flash Pro. Here’s the full list of changes:

    Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Streamlined, intuitive, and easy to use.
  • Ability to search within a preset or existing Keyboard Shortcuts list.
  • Intuitive conflict-resolution mechanism.

    • Preferences Panel

  • Sync Prefernces to Creative Cloud and download on another machine.
  • Fully streamlined options for handling Flash Pro Warnings.
  • Code editor related preferences integrated into one tab.

    • ActionScript Editor

  • New and completely streamlined editor
  • Intelligent commenting
  • Integration with Scintilla

    • Find and Replace dialog

  • Ability to search across all open documents(both fla’s and scripts)
  • Ability search test fields and code (i.e in actions panel and in scripts) separately
  • Limit search to current frame
  • Streamlined UI for better usability

    • On top of all of this, Flash Pro CC also introduced changes to the AIR application development workflow. Adobe says the changes will “enhance the development, testing, debugging and publish workflows within Flash.” It includes support for publishing AIR applications to retina display iOS devices as well.

    For more on the Creative Cloud update – including enhancements to Photoshop, Indesign and more – check out Adobe’s original announcement.

  • Facebook Now Lets You Post Images in Comments

    Your Facebook comment threads are about to get a lot more interesting or a lot more annoying – depending on your opinion of image-heavy threads.

    Facebook is currently rolling out the ability to add an image to comments.

    Of course, users have been able to add images to comments for some time now – but it involved adding a bulky link to the comment. This is the first time that Facebook has let users simply add image files to comments – free of links and whatnot.

    As you gain the ability, you’ll see a small camera icon appear on the right-hand side of your comment box:

    Clicking on the camera lets you add a photo from your computer. Here’s what it’ll look like in the comment threads:

    Images aren’t the only way that Facebook has spruced up commenting as of late. Back in March, the new threaded and reorganized (based on popularity) comments went live.

    The new feature should be rolling out globally on both desktop and mobile – so if you don’t yet have the ability to add images to comments, just wait. You may/may not be sad to learn that as of now, animated GIFs don’t appear to work.

  • Facebook for BlackBerry 10 Gets a Photo-Oriented Update

    Facebook for Blackberry 10 has just received a significant update that not only brings a new design to the News Feed, but also ads a bunch of photo improvements to enhance the user experience.

    “The Facebook app for BlackBerry 10 has seen a number of updates since we’ve launched and it keeps getting better with every new iteration. The Facebook app v10.2 for BlackBerry 10 is no exception. It brings a refreshed new design and many features that are designed to make your mobile Facebook experience on BlackBerry 10 amazing,” says BlackBerry’s Donny Halliwell.

    Here’s what’s new in version 10.2:

    • Create an album: You can now create a new albums from your photos page, so organizing all those great shots you capture on your BlackBerry 10 device is easy.
    • Upload to a specific album: now you can add a new photo to an existing album on your Facebook page, or to that new album you just created.
    • Enable tagging in existing photos: Want to tag a photo that already exists on Facebook from you BlackBerry 10 device? Now you can with this feature that’s new to the app.
    • New ways to toggle and easily view photos: Easily toggle between all your photos and Albums. All photos comprises of all the photos with you in them. Album photos are photos you have uploaded yourself.
    • Newsfeed design refresh: The newsfeed has been refined with a few visual tweaks that make navigating the Facebook app for BlackBerry 10 that much more enjoyable.

    Considering that the app currently sits with a 2-star rating in the BlackBerry World Store, it’s prime for an upgrade. The last big update came back in late March.

    You can grab the new Facebook for BlackBerry 10, v. 10.2 in the BlackBerry World store today.

  • LinkedIn Lets You Add Photos, Presentations to Updates

    LinkedIn Lets You Add Photos, Presentations to Updates

    LinkedIn has just taken a significant step in making the homepage stream much more interesting. Today, they’ve announced the addition of photos, documents, and presentations to updates.

    “Whether it’s a thought provoking presentation about the future of big data or it’s a picture of an inspirational quote, or perhaps it’s an infographic showing the top trends impacting your industry, the possibilities are endless for what you can share on LinkedIn to add a richer and more visual component to your professional discussions.”

    Yes, your stream is about to fill up with photos:

    Earlier this month, LinkedIn began to allow users to adds photos, videos, and other rich media to their profiles, but this is the first time that it’s come to the homepage.

    LinkedIn says that the new sharing feature will begin to roll out globally today and will complete in the next few weeks. Once you gain access to the new functionality, you should see a little dialog box at the upper right-hand corner of your share box that asks you to “add a little something to your update.”

    “We also introduced the ability to directly upload images and files to 2.9 million Company Page admins, so you can expect to see richer and more engaging visual content flowing across your LinkedIn experience. In the meantime, we look forward to seeing what you have to share and say about your professional universe through pictures, slides and more,” says LinkedIn.