Facebook Messenger is mandatory to send and receive messages

Starting this week, Facebook will no longer allow you to send and receive messages on mobile iOS and Android other than from the mobile site as well as for its separate Facebook Messenger app. Facebook warned users of the change for several months now. Users of Android and iOS Service should be notified via Facebook and email.

By April, Facebook had "forced" its European users to install the Messenger application on their smartphone in addition to the Facebook application. This selection was then interpreted as a way to fit more clearly in the explosion of mobile messaging services.

Facebook for example, had bought in February 2014 the mobile application WhatsApp messaging for $19 billion. The application had 450 million users - against 638 million for Facebook at that time.

Since then, "before the success" of its application in Europe, Facebook has decided to deploy this change for all users worldwide. Here's what Facebook told to Tech Crunch:

In the coming days, we will continue to inform more people about the fact that if they want to send and receive Facebook messages, they will have to download the Messenger application. As we have said, our goal is to focus on a development effort that will make Messenger the best experience possible mobile messaging and to avoid confusion caused by two experiences separate Facebook mobile messaging. Messenger is used by over 200 million people every month, and we will continue our work to make it a more appealing way to connect people with each other.

Only users of Android and iOS application, however, should experience this change. Nothing should change for example for users of Windows Phone, or Paper. And of course, the Facebook site, including mobile, will not be affected.

And you, will you regret the fact of not being able to chat directly from the Facebook app?

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Are you a developer and do you search for projects to work on?

Do you know how to develop or program mobile applications? Do you want to work but you don't know how to find projects? Yeeply is the solution were you are looking for, you only have to register yourself in our platform to obtain an economic benefit. But before we will explain you, what Yeeply exactly is. 

We are the first platform for the outsourcing of mobile projects: app development, web apps, etc. In this platform companies around the world publish their mobile needs and the developers of the community interact with them to offer the best economical and technical solution, to be hired.
 

In Yeeply companies and customers are discovering the potential of registered experts, we already have hundreds of customers; companies or individuals who trust in Yeeply to find their developer in need.

Meanwhile, our community of experts counts already several thousand members. Professionals can find in a comfortable and econimic way freelance projects to work on, without leaving home. This way Yeeply brings suply and demand together in one of the fastest growing markets in the world: The development of mobile applications.

Once the offers are made, the responsible companies have to chose for the expert that fits the company the most. So, if you are a developer (IOs, Windows, Blackberry, HTML5,…) do not miss the opportunity and take advantage to register for free in Yeeply.

Visit Yeeply here | Connect On Facebook

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Social Downloader: Download Photos of Instagram, Facebook and Twitter

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are the three most popular social networking sites. We spend lots of our time on these social networking sites. Many of us upload photos to these social networking sites. This is good in some ways as uploading our photos to social networking sites will definately save our computers memory and also will have a backup online. But what if we want to download all these photos?

If you want to download your photos and uploaded to social networks, a Windows program that helps us in this process is Social Downloader, unlike, of the large number of web or online alternatives or desktop application versions, Social Downloader is the coolest version.

To start using Social Downloader you should only connect to there credentials, ie username and password. The interface, in the left sidebar, they sample the three accounts eyelashes, so when you click on one of them we access our photos and simply select whether to download only photograph we select or batch download all.

For Facebook the option is broader because of the way we organized the social network, ie from the Facebook tab we will be able to select the photos you climb, album or even photos tagged us. 

Social Download Downloader.

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Make Free Video Calls Between LinkedIn Contacts using Hookflash

Do you use LinkedIn? How about the idea of ​​having a unique application to communicate with the contacts of that social network? That is the proposal presented Hookflash, a free application for LinkedIn contacts only, to keep a fast and fluid communication through video calls.

Its Just the idea is to offer iPhone application for video calls, which automatically synchronizes the contacts open with our social network. Also charged LinkedIn relevant data so you can have the information needed when starting the conversation, for example, the complete profile of your contact.

It will work like any other video calling service, you can choose to only send text, voice message or perform the call, depending on your criteria. This application will be launched next month, but you can leave your email on the website to be notified of its release.

Link: Hookflash

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[Future] Google will launch its cloud storage service "very soon"

For some time it has been rumored to the existence and the launch of Google Drive, which would be a sort of direct competitor to Dropbox. In this file hosting service in the cloud Services, users with account of Google (almost everyone of you, right?) can access their files from anywhere. As we are used with Google Docs, but for all types of files.

Now, the newspaper The Wall Street Journal citing people knowledgeable about the issue, said that Google Drive would see the light within the next few "weeks or months" and this will also come hand in hand with an application for the Android mobile operating system for to access files from virtually anywhere.

Are they already a little tight on Dropbox or Box.net? No doubt the emergence of a service like this for as wide a mass of users (especially considering its application to enterprise level), integrating with other services and lowering prices.

Any new-new, we will be counting. Checkout Punk-tech alwayzzz!!! ;)

[via: Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service (The Wall Street Journal)]

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Google Images testing a new interface-related searches

Google is conducting several tests on your browser, and one has to do with image searches. If you use the image searches often, you know that one of the options is "related searches" to expand the results. For example typing "sky" will suggest "blue sky", "clear sky" among others in "Related Searches".

So far, they only have one link in each of the suggestions, but in the new interface that is testing Google will display three results with thumbnails for each option. That way, we need not redirecting directly to suggestions to find out if what we are looking for, but we have a preview with only support the mouse on the term that we present the "related searches".

It's just a test interface for the moment, so I am not sure that applies to all users yet.

Via: Google Operating System

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Skype Launches New Version for Windows with HD video

Skype updated its software for Windows releasing version 5.8, which includes several new features, including integration with Facebook, screen sharing and video calls in HD group. Keep in mind that to work is necessary to have a webcam that allows the resolution.

Video calls are also allowed through Facebook, completing the integration that began several months ago with this network. If you are in Skype, you can synchronize the program with your Facebook account, so you can see your wall and update your status directly from the software. Also display all your Facebook friends in your contact list, and you can see who is connected to start instant message conversations or video calls. The interesting thing is that you can call them even if they do not have Skype installed. Your friend will only have to install a Skype application on Facebook .

This function is used to call both laptops, PCs or mobile.

Finally, Skype added an option to share screens, which can show what you are doing on your PC to the participants of the call. However, to use this function must be a member of "Skype Premium" - that is, pay USD $ 4.50 per month. May be useful for presentations or to display photos. The premium option allows you to share up to 10 people.

Links: 
- Skype for Windows
- Share your photos & presentations with friends & colleagues with Screen Sharing Group (Skype)

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Space Race Blastoff: NASA launches its first game to Facebook[Gaming]

This was reported in the blog of the NASA, Space Race Blastoff being already available in apps.facebook.com/spacerace

This is the first online multiplayer game to test knowledge of the players in the program space, with questions like: Who was the first American to walk in space? Who launched the first liquid fuel rocket?.

The history of NASA, technology, science... etc. players win, in responding, virtual badges(badges) representing NASA astronauts, spacecraft and celestial bodies.

NASA chose to make the game available through Facebook to take advantage of the large audience of social network and allow players to compete against each other. People can also play solo.

Once in the game, players create an avatar and answer 10 multiple choice questions. Each correct answer earns 100 points, 20 bonus points for the player to respond first.

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Chat with your facebook friends in 22 different langueges using Social Pulse App

It is well known that most Internet users mostly Facebook friends do not know each others language as most of them send requests to anybody on Facebook, now it is really a small problem, but it is not a limitation on the time to talk with anyone from anywhere in the world, as simultaneous translators have increasingly evolved . Some of them are no longer limited to dictionaries or translators be simple, as even we are built on the same chat system.

This is the case of Social Pulse chat, a message translation system for translating Facebook Chat messages in English, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Farsi, Greek, Urdu, Persian, etc. (a total of 22 languages) instantly. The application will bring up the list of Facebook contacts on the menu on the left and gives option to choose which language we will introduce our words, and language that will translate and send to the recipient.

The application is available for iPhone and is compatible with IOS 4.2. and later.

Download | Social Pulse For iPhone/iPad

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Facebook Cover Designer: An iPhone Application to Design Facebook cover Photos

If the options we have already discussed here for designing the new Facebook home page does not convince you, and you have an iPhone in hand, now you can try Facebook Cover Designer.

Facebook means life to many people and many of you may trying to design your facebook profile as goo(some says it cool) as possible. Facebook cover design is an app for iPhone users that give your Facebook Timeline cover the unique and professional design it deserves. Facebook Cover Designer is the only app(till now) that lets you create high quality Facebook Timeline Covers for your profile.

It is a tool to edit the photos that you can put as cover for your Facebook timeline profile. You create the images needed for mounting on the Facebook timeline profile, with possible effects of various types provide for a more original.

The app is free, being compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

Download this app from AppStore | Facebook Cover Designer

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Create a Good Timeline Profile for Facebook using Covercanvas

If you want to fully customize your new Facebook, Covercanvas can help you to customize the home page, featuring several images templates and getting your own profile to create a profile that is perfectly adapted to the new space.

This is a much more complete than the classical facebookprofilecovers.com, competing directly with myfbcovers.com, in addition to creating custom images features galleries classified in categories to use some of the existing ones.

For now the pages do not have access to the new timeline, so this customization must be something less corporate. A good idea that will grow as users migrate to the new timeline as popular social network.

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Albums to PDF: An Easy Way to Export Your and Your Friends' Albums to PDF

Albumstopdf is, as its name suggests, a tool that converts images into albums PDF. This is a Facebook app, incompatible with the safe navigation (https secure browsing), which allows choosing album, both your own as that of any contact, export to PDF format and can use the Express option or custom option, where in this case is that a set of parameters then generate the album and then go down to our local system.

The PDF generated will have a cover page with all the photos and then on the following pages will each photo individually. The last page warns against limiting the number of photographs to export, urging us to spend for the professional version.

It is an interesting option for cases in which we desire in our local systems of photographs of certain albums that have generated, arranging them in PDF files for possible queries locally (offline), or even if we print them, among other options that could give.

FOllowing are few samples created using Albums to PDF:

Link: Albumstopdf | Official Site

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Hitch.me, online dating for professionals on LinkedIn

One of the most discussed topics on the interaction that allows social networking sites is the online dating. Since it can become a lottery, because you can not tell who is really the person behind the screen.

But Hitch.me wants to give a different perspective and proposes a site for professionals LinkedIn. The idea is to guarantee security through a serious platform like LinkedIn, where users should put their real data.

Hitch couple have to use to login with your account and automatically charged Linkendln your profile, you can not modify. Then you can browse through the profiles of other users who have been discharged from the service. One caveat, though the account is used to enter Linkendln Hitch, both services have no connection. Nothing you do will be seen in the on other platform, or submit your profile without permission.

The service is free, but it handles from granting credit to you will be able to interact with other profiles. You'll get a bonus of 200 credits at first, but then you will have to pay for more.

Link: Hitch.me

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Flickr is renewed and says goodbye to Picnik

The Flickr blog, have announced that this year will be renovations, which means a "cleansing" of certain functions and features. Most striking of all is that Picnik will be, in a few months, the editor of photographs chosen by the social network. While not give details, say they are working to offer a new option in photo editing.

Another feature that will be part of the past is the Photo Shoot (allowing share photos in real time from the browser) for not having the expected acceptance. If you have Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 3.6 you have to go making it the idea that you can not see the new features that Flickr will be revealed during the year, so you'll have to update them.

PC application also falls within the items they want removed, so in March and will not support this version.

Via: Flickr

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Everplaces - A new option to save and categorize our favorite places

The houses of our friends, the restaurant life, the tapas bar, where we work, the hotels we visited ... our life is full of special places of geographies that we could have organized at the new everplaces.com

They have started to send invitations to those who ask in your home page, allowing access to an application where we can record and classify addresses as well as upload photos of each place and leave comments.

There are several ways to visualize data, being the most popular map, with options to filter by category.

How could it be otherwise, have application for smartphones, the iPhone being available as Android and the waiting list. We can also use a bookmarklet in your browser, to press each time they visit a Web site that want to register.

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