Tag: Facebook
What Do Obama, Back Doors, Ant-Man, Robots, And Facebook Have In Common?
…They’ve all managed to find their way out of the echo chamber and into our editors’ sights this week. Here are 5 fantastic articles that have...
5/29 News Roundup: The Sorta-Kinda Fix For Messages
This is my first week back at Macgasm after taking some time to deal with, you know, real life. (Stupid real life, always getting in...
Instagram Releases Hyperlapse, A Modern Time-lapse Solution For Your iPhone
Don’t look now, there’s about to be a glut of new creative selfies on your Facebook timeline. Instagram has just released a new app “to...
Facebook Now Ravaging Your Browser History To Share With Advertisers
In a post titled, Making Ads Better and Giving People More Control Over the Ads They See, Facebook has announced that it will begin monitoring...
EFF Gives Apple Gold Star For Protecting User Privacy
The folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have awarded Apple 6 gold stars out of 6 for protecting user privacy and information from third...
Facebook Retires Both Poke And Camera App
If you’re as big as Facebook and your app doesn’t have massive reach, you pull the plug. Facebook has done just that with its Poke...
Avoid Awkward Encounters With Split For iOS, An ‘Anti-Social’ App
You may already have a number of different social apps installed on your iPhone, but what about anti-social apps? Split is an app for both...
Facebook For iPhone Updated To Version 4.0, Gets Support For Groups
Facebook has updated its Messenger app for iPhone to version 4.0, bringing with it a couple handy new changes. The biggest new feature is the...
Minecraft For Oculus Rift Off The Table Because Of Facebook Acquisition
Facebook acquired Oculus yesterday for a a cool $2 billion dollars. The internet raged about it, and apparently Markus “Notch” Persson isn’t exactly impressed either....
Facebook Acquires Makers Of The Oculus Rift, Bewilders Everyone In The Process
So that happened. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that his company has acquired Oculus VR, makers of the Oculus Rift virtual reality...
Apple Unsurprisingly Named Most Valuable Brand In The U.S.
If you were planning to ask Apple on letting you use its company brand name to sell your products, you should probably start saving up...
WhatsApp For iOS Will Get Voice Calling In The Next Few Months
By now, you probably already know all about Facebook buying WhatsApp for all the moneys. Coming off that announcement, WhatsApp has revealed that it will...
How To Get The New Facebook ‘Paper’ App If You Live Outside The U.S.
Perhaps you’ve read all the praise for Facebook’s new “Paper” app, or perhaps you’ve read the controversies behind it, either way none of this matters...
FiftyThree Strikes Back Against Facebook, Files To Trademark ‘Paper’
Well, that didn’t take long. FiftyThree, makers of the drawing app Paper, filed to trademark the app’s name in response to Facebook’s Paper app, according...
Hands On With Paper: Your Facebook Newsfeed, Remixed
As popular as its standard mobile app may be, not everything Facebook has put out there has been particularly successful—or especially unique (Poke, I’m looking...
Paper For iPad Developer Says, ‘Facebook should stop using our brand name’
If you heard Facebook’s announcement last week about its new app called “Paper”, your first thought might have been, “Hey, that sounds familiar!” Besides being...
Stop Facebook From Automatically Playing Videos Over Cellular Data With This Simple Fix
In a recent Facebook iOS update, the app gained the ability to automatically play muted videos from your News Feed. While this can be slightly...
WUT Messaging App For iOS, Communicate With Your Friends Using Push Notifications
There are an endless number of apps and services you can use today to send messages out to friends. None of them, perhaps, are as...