Pavel Jelic Believe it or not, 2020 is slowly but surely coming to an end. We are already in the 41st week of this year and what are we going to lie to ourselves - Christmas is really around the corner and most of us are already thinking about Christmas presents. In addition, today we saw the distribution of invitations to the Apple conference in October, where Apple will present the new iPhone 12, which will probably become a great potential gift for the aforementioned Christmas. In today's IT summary, however, we will not focus on the upcoming iPhones. Specifically, we'll look at how Instagram is celebrating its 10th anniversary and a great and long-awaited feature coming to Spotify. Let's get straight to the point.
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Vratislav Holub Instagram celebrates 10 years
Although it may seem unreal, Instagram is actually celebrating its 10th anniversary today. There are quite a few new features that some of you will probably like to use - let's take a look at them together. The first new feature concerns the Archive section, which stores all the stories you've shared, along with the posts you don't want to see on your profile but don't want to delete at the same time. Newly in the Archive you will find another column in which you can easily see on the map where individual stories were photographed. You can simply "remember" where you took photos of certain stories and generally visualize where you've already been. Another feature focuses on the suppression of cyberbullying, which has been more than obvious on the Internet in recent years and the tech giants are trying to fight it in different ways. A new feature can automatically hide offensive comments. These comments are not completely deleted, but simply hidden and can be viewed by the user if necessary.
The above function is then connected to another function that tries to prevent the publication of hateful, vulgar or offensive comments. If a user posts such a comment on Instagram several times in a row, they will be notified. For a long time now, Instagram has had a feature that informs users before sending a hateful comment and gives them a chance to change it. Instagram's goal is for users to weigh their words and think about the fact that they can hurt someone. The last feature that Instagram has come up with is the option to change the app icon. This option will only be available for one month, during which time the icon can be changed. For example, the completely original Instagram icon is available, but there is also an icon from 2010 or 2011. At the same time, you can view and set the current icon modified in a different way. You can easily make this change in Settings, where you just need to scroll all the way down.
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Flying around the world with Apple Spotify comes with a new feature that users have been clamoring for for a long time
Each of us has surely found ourselves in a situation where we needed to find a song using words. In this case, most of us type the words we hear in a song into Google and pray that the search will be successful. Let's face it, searches often end in failure, and not so much because Google doesn't know how to search for songs by text - rather, we understand completely different words in a foreign language than those actually found in the song. In this case, of course, it depends on how proficient the user in question is in a foreign language, most often in English. If you are one of the more advanced users, you have no problem understanding songs in a foreign language and at the same time you use Spotify, then I have absolutely great news for you. This streaming service has started to support searching for songs using text.
My team just shipped something on iOS and Android –
now you can find songs by lyrics? he Spotify
Give it a try? pic.twitter.com/bOs4Ob9O84
— Lina (@linafab) October 5, 2020
For the user as such, this means that he will no longer necessarily have to always enter the name of the song in the search field from Spotify, but also the text. Most of the time, you can find out the name of the song using Shazam, but sometimes it can happen that Shazam doesn't understand the song, or you simply don't have time to activate the recognition process because the song ends earlier. A few years ago, the apple company added this function to Apple Music, and Spotify users finally got theirs. So if you know the words of a song you want to find, just type them into the search field at the top of Spotify. In addition to the song itself, you'll also see the album it's from, along with the playlists it's in. The search by text feature was created thanks to the Musixmatch service, which Spotify has been working with for several months to provide song lyrics.
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Personally, I would welcome it if Spotify started streaming in higher quality so that it could be listened to on Hifi sets as well.