Apple picker Messenger now offers group calls, Facebook further modifies your wall, Opera comes with a free VPN in the base, Google's Inbox adds more features, and Snapchat lets you replay any snap. Read Application Week 16 to learn more.
News from the world of applications
Messenger now offers VoIP group calling worldwide (21/4)
This week, Facebook finally launched group VoIP calling on its Messenger globally. So if you have the latest version of Messenger installed on your iOS or Android device, you can now use it to call up to fifty people in a specific group. Just tap on the telephone handset symbol in a group conversation and then just choose which group members you want to call. Messenger will then dial them all at the same time.
The possibility of calls was first introduced by Facebook in 2014, but only now is the possibility to make calls within the group. Video calling isn't available yet, but it's likely that this feature will come soon as well.
Source: The Next Web
Facebook will adjust your wall based on how long you read specific articles (21/4)
Facebook is slowly starting to revamp the main page called "News Feed". It will now also serve content to users based on how much time they spend reading certain types of articles on news servers. As a result, the user will be presented with the articles to which he usually spends the most time.
Interestingly, Facebook will only count the time spent consuming the content into this "reading time", and only after the page with the article has fully loaded. With this step, Mark Zuckerberg's social network wants to strengthen its position as a provider of relevant news, and this is another initiative to improve the so-called Instant Articles.
Facebook also announced that fewer articles from the same source will appear on a user's wall. In this way, the user should receive the most varied and tailor-made news. The novelty should begin to manifest itself in the following weeks.
Source: iMore
The new Opera has a VPN in the base and for free (21.)
Latest "preliminary" version The "Opera" web browser has received a built-in VPN ("virtual private network") function. This allows computers connected to a public network (the Internet) to behave as if they were connected to a private network (via a VPN server), which allows for greater security. For security reasons, such a connection is used, for example, when connecting to public Wi-Fi, but it will also serve to access websites that are not accessible in the country where the user is located. VPN hides his IP address, or it passes it off as an address originating from the country where the VPN server is located.
Opera is the first of the more well-known browsers to offer the function in the base. There is no need to install any extensions, create accounts or pay subscriptions to use it - just launch it and select the country of the server the user wants to connect to. The US, Canada and Germany are currently on offer. More countries should be available in the sharp version.
You can change countries through the icon in the address bar, and it is also displayed here whether the IP address of the given user has been detected and how much data has been transferred using the VPN. The Opera service uses 256-bit encryption.
Source: The Next Web
Important update
Inbox further expands its functions with an overview of events, newsletters and sent links
inbox, email client from Google, received three interesting new functions, each of which aims primarily to make the user's orientation in his (and not only) postal agenda clearer.
First, Inbox now displays all event-related messages in one place. It is now so easy to find your way around all the information and changes associated with a specific event, and there is no need to manually search for information in the mailbox. Inbox has also learned to display the contents of the newsletter, so the user no longer needs to open a web browser. The read virtual flyers will then be reduced by Inbox itself in order to save space in the mailbox.
And finally, the smart "Save to Inbox" function has also been added to the smart mailbox from Google. It is now available when browsing the web in the sharing options. The links saved in this way will then appear nicely together in the Inbox. The Inbox is thus slowly becoming not only an e-mail box, but a kind of smart collection point for important content of all kinds, which is capable of advanced sorting and also brings the benefits of a "to-do" list.
Snapchat will now allow you to restart your snap for free
He also came up with interesting news Snapchat, which in its own way deviates a little from the philosophy that has been the essence of the whole service until now. Each snap (video or image that can only be viewed for a short, limited time) is now available to the user to view again. To be fair to Snapchat, something like this has always been possible, but only for a one-time fee of €0,99, which put off the vast majority of users. Now one snap replay is free for everyone.
However, if you re-view someone's image or video in this way, please note that the sender will be notified. The novelty has one more potential catch, so far it is only available for iPhone users. However, it can be expected that Android will not be far behind.
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- This year's WWDC will start on June 13, the date was revealed by Siri
- Vote for the best Czech and Slovak mobile application for 2016
- Apple confirmed WWDC and described how to succeed in the App Store
- How to install Windows on Mac via Boot Camp
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FB has already taken it so far that it knows if I'm just distracted by a phone call while I'm reading, or if I've really read deeply.. Wow!