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Now Donate 1$ By Google's One Today App For Good Cause
Being generous? There is an app for that! Google is testing its new app called One Todaythat “brings together people and nonprofits through the simple act of giving $1.” The app displays one good cause each day and urges you to make a simple donation of $1 towards it.
Built on the back of Google’s not-for-profit arm Google.org, One Today is an Android app that will get users to donate towards organisations and charities daily. The app is available for the US only currently and also has an invite-only status to it right now.
The best part about this app is the complete transparency it keeps about where your money is going. Google has listed a few examples on the One Today page. For example, with the “Every Child Learns Empathy” project, every $50 collected means one school will receive aid to be trained in empathy best practices. Every $2 donated will translate into an hour of security for a wild rhino. From helping poor farmers in Africa to helping nature and wildlife, One Today will display a new project everyday that needs funds.
Donate $1 a day to a cause of your choice
It’s a great crowdsourcing idea with a friends angle too. The app allows for you to set a cap in relation to how much money you will match if your friends donate to a particular project. You can then pay off your donation balance once your friends have used up the cap. Individually, you can only donate $1 per project per day. However, if you want to donate more, you can challenge your friends to match your donations, says the FAQs page of One Today.
Currently, the page for the project will only let you request for an invite. The app looks like its undergoing a controlled hush-hush test right now, but it could be possible that it is open to international audience as well. If you’re an organisation, you can already start to list yourself to be featured as the Project of the Day. The app is a great move on Google.org’s part and with its backing, One Today could turn into a revolutionary way of donating to charities.
Google.org was recently in the news for lending support to help victims of the Boston Marathon bombings reach their loved ones. The search giant activated its Person Finder app to help locate missing people.
The helpful tool was first activated during the Haiti earthquake in 2010.
When you logged into the page, you were shown two options. The first said “I’m looking for someone” and helped you find out if there was any information about a loved one you were searching for. If there was any positive information about the person you were searching for, a message that said “Status: Someone has received information that this person is alive" was shown on screen. You could then click to see where the information came from.
The second button read, “I have information about someone”. This tool was for people who have the whereabouts of people affected by the blast. Entering information using this button will helped people who’re searching for their loved ones co-ordinate information.
The app had managed to help locate thousands of people before it was deactivated a couple of days ago. Charities and not-for-profit organisations are in safe hands with One Today, it would seem.
Yahoo Comes Up With New Mail app For Andriod and Ipad
Yahoo is taking the next step in its effort to make some of its most popular services more appealing and accessible to the growing audience connecting to the Internet on smartphones and tablet computers.
The mobile push being orchestrated by CEO Marissa Mayer has hatched Yahoo's first email application for Apple Inc.'s iPad and other tablet computers running on Google Inc.'s Android software.
Yahoo also has created a new weather app for Apple's iPhone that will provide forecasts on top of slideshows feature pictures of landmarks in the cities chosen by a user.
The mobile push being orchestrated by CEO Marissa Mayer has hatched Yahoo's first email application for Apple Inc.'s iPad and other tablet computers running on Google Inc.'s Android software.
Yahoo also has created a new weather app for Apple's iPhone that will provide forecasts on top of slideshows feature pictures of landmarks in the cities chosen by a user.
A swanky new weather app for iPhone has been released by Yahoo
The free apps are being released Thursday morning.
Like many other Internet companies, Yahoo Inc. is pouring more engineering talent and money into developing mobile applications as people spend more time on consuming content on smartphones and tablets.
Mayer has made mobile services one of her top priorities since defecting from a top job at Google to become Yahoo's CEO nine months ago. She has already overseen a redesign of Yahoo's email app for smartphones, as well as the app for its Flickr photo service on the iPhone and iPad.
Yahoo's increased emphasis appears to be resonating. After Yahoo announced its first-quarter earnings earlier this week, Mayer told analyst Yahoo's mobile services now attract about 300 million monthly visitors worldwide, up from 200 million in December.
Despite the increased traffic, Yahoo is still struggling to sell more of the advertising that brings in most of its money. The company's revenue from display advertising - a key marketing channel - fell 11 percent from the same time last year. Part of the problem stemmed from advertisers' reluctance to pay as much money for pitches delivered on the smaller screens of mobile devices. That factor contributed to a decline in Yahoo's average ad prices. Yahoo is also being hurt as advertisers funnel more of their online budgets toward Google and online social networking leader Facebook Inc.
Yahoo's new weather app for the iPhone features photos imported from Flickr. It will operate separately from the iPhone's built-in weather app, which is already powered by Yahoo, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. But that built-in app doesn't display photos nor does it promote Yahoo's brand in the app panel.
The new email app for the iPad and Android could help Yahoo regain some of the market share that it has lost in that segment to Google's Gmail - one of the services that Mayer helped expand during her 13-year stint at Google.
Associated Press
Source Tech2.in.com
Cinemagram finally arrives for Android
Cinemagram, one of the popular iPhone apps is finally available for Android. This app lets you record a short looping 4s video, apply effects and share the GIFs to Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr. It has likes, comments, hashtags and more just like Instagram that was launched for Android last year. Cinemagram was launched first on iPhone back in February 2012 for $1.99, and went free after a month.
Twitter launched Vine, a video sharing app for iPhone earlier this year that lets you share a video clip up to 6 seconds, but it doesn’t have effects like the Cinemagram.
Features of Cinemagram for Android
Free unlimited uploadsInstantly Share GIFs to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.Special effects – Stunning video filters, speed,and looping to create movie-like visual effects.Artistic Cinemagraphs – Create magical hybrids between photo & video.Direct MessagingInteract with your friends’ posts with likes, reposts, and comments.Explore and discover great content through hashtags, categories and trending posts.
Download Cinemagram for Android (4.0 and later) from the Google Play Store for free.
Features of Cinemagram for Android
- Free unlimited uploads
- Instantly Share GIFs to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.
- Special effects – Stunning video filters, speed,and looping to create movie-like visual effects.
- Artistic Cinemagraphs – Create magical hybrids between photo & video.
- Direct Messaging
- Interact with your friends’ posts with likes, reposts, and comments.
- Explore and discover great content through hashtags, categories and trending posts.
Download Cinemagram for Android (4.0 and later) from the Google Play Store for free.
Viber beta for BlackBerry brings voice calling finally
Viber has launched a new beta version for the BlackBerry OS 5 and OS 7 devices that brigs VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) calling support over WiFi and 3G, as they promised. The Viber for Android had voice calling feature since the launch back in May 2011. Voice calling feature for the Viber app for BlackBerry and Windows phone has been the most expected feature since the first beta release back in May 2012. Viber for Windows Phone 8 got voice calling with HD voice and lots more new features in the latest update earlier this month.
Viber for BlackBerry v2.3 update got stickers and emoticons in text messages in the version 2.3 update earlier this year. Voice calling support which is available only for BlackBerry OS 5 and OS 7 devices technical limitations. The new version 2.4 beta also brings bug fixes, performance enhancements and stability improvements.
Download the latest Viber beta for BlackBerry (OS 5 and OS 7 only) from the official viber website for free.
Pebble-E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android
Customize Your Perfect Watch. It's as Easy as Downloading an App.
Pebble is the first watch built for the 21st century. It's infinitely customizable, with beautiful downloadable watchfaces and useful internet-connected apps. Pebble connects to iPhone and Android smartphones using Bluetooth, alerting you with a silent vibration to incoming calls, emails and messages. While designing Pebble, we strove to create a minimalist yet fashionable product that seamlessly blends into everyday life.
CUSTOMIZE WITH APPS
Apps bring Pebble to life. We're building some amazing apps for Pebble. Cyclists can use Pebble as a bike computer, accessing the GPS on your smartphone to display speed, distance and pace data. Runners get a similar set of data displayed on their wrist. Use the music control app to play, pause or skip tracks on your phone with the touch of a button. Don't worry about the rain, Pebble is water-resistant! If you're a golfer, feel free to bring Pebble onto the course. We're working with Freecaddie to create a great golf rangefinder app for Pebble that works on over 25,000 courses world-wide. Instead of using your phone, view your current distance to the green right on your wrist. These apps will be the first, with more in the works!
Facebook Launches Home, Its Android Phone Project
After years of construction, Facebook is at long last revealing its effort to build “a new home” on Android.
“Today we are finally going to be talking about that Facebook phone. Or, more accurately, we are going to talk about how you can turn your Android device … into a great social phone,” Mark Zuckerberg said, kicking off the event at companyheadquarters in Menlo Park. “We think this is the best version of Facebook there is.”
Facebook Home, as the product is known, isn’t a phone, per se, but rather a series of customizations that replaces the look and feel of a standard Android phone with a set of Facebook apps, home screens and messaging experiences.
As we first reported in a series of articles more than a year ago, the project to create a custom Facebook phone on top of Android — code-named Buffy — has been going on for some time.
Facebook has since spent a lot of time noting that it is not building a phone — which is technically true. However, it has built the software guts of one, and it even partnered with HTC to put a hardware face on its the project.
Zuckerberg stressed that what Facebook is doing isn’t building a phone or an operating system, but rather an experience that is a family of apps that becomes your home screen on a standard Android device.
“You don’t need to fork Android to do this,” Zuckerberg said. Facebook Home will be an update on Google Play to the social network’s existing Facebook app. It will be available initially only for phones, with tablet support coming within several months.
Updates to Facebook Home will also come monthly, the company said, arguing that yearly updates such as those made to Android just aren’t frequent enough.
Zuckerberg reiterated why the company is focused on the software rather than a single phone. Zuckerberg said that a great phone might sell 10 million or 20 million units — one percent of Facebook’s total user base.
“We’re not building a phone, and we’re not building an operating system, but we are also building something that is a lot more … than an ordinary app,” he said.
Zuckerberg took aim at the app-centric approach taken by most modern smartphones, saying phones should be about people rather than programs.
Facebook isn’t the only company trying to move away from an app-centric world. Windows Phone, for example, has a People hub that focuses on all the ways that someone connects with a person and their photos and updates.
Apps, of course, are still a part of phones, so an app launcher is just a swipe away.
One particular feature should be more than just an app, Zuckerberg said, and that’s messaging. The company has built a new experience where “Chat Heads” — little pictures of your friends — pop up when a new message comes in.
Beyond the cute head shots, Chat Heads allow messaging to take place in any app, rather than requiring a user to either stop what they are doing or risk ignoring the person seeking their attention.
“It really feels like your friends are always there,” said Joey Flynn, the Facebook designer who created the messaging experience.
Chat Heads work with both text messages and incoming Facebook messages.
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Facebook Home, as the product is known, isn’t a phone, per se, but rather a series of customizations that replaces the look and feel of a standard Android phone with a set of Facebook apps, home screens and messaging experiences.
As we first reported in a series of articles more than a year ago, the project to create a custom Facebook phone on top of Android — code-named Buffy — has been going on for some time.
Facebook has since spent a lot of time noting that it is not building a phone — which is technically true. However, it has built the software guts of one, and it even partnered with HTC to put a hardware face on its the project.
Zuckerberg stressed that what Facebook is doing isn’t building a phone or an operating system, but rather an experience that is a family of apps that becomes your home screen on a standard Android device.
“You don’t need to fork Android to do this,” Zuckerberg said. Facebook Home will be an update on Google Play to the social network’s existing Facebook app. It will be available initially only for phones, with tablet support coming within several months.
Updates to Facebook Home will also come monthly, the company said, arguing that yearly updates such as those made to Android just aren’t frequent enough.
Zuckerberg reiterated why the company is focused on the software rather than a single phone. Zuckerberg said that a great phone might sell 10 million or 20 million units — one percent of Facebook’s total user base.
“We’re not building a phone, and we’re not building an operating system, but we are also building something that is a lot more … than an ordinary app,” he said.
Zuckerberg took aim at the app-centric approach taken by most modern smartphones, saying phones should be about people rather than programs.
Facebook isn’t the only company trying to move away from an app-centric world. Windows Phone, for example, has a People hub that focuses on all the ways that someone connects with a person and their photos and updates.
Apps, of course, are still a part of phones, so an app launcher is just a swipe away.
One particular feature should be more than just an app, Zuckerberg said, and that’s messaging. The company has built a new experience where “Chat Heads” — little pictures of your friends — pop up when a new message comes in.
Beyond the cute head shots, Chat Heads allow messaging to take place in any app, rather than requiring a user to either stop what they are doing or risk ignoring the person seeking their attention.
“It really feels like your friends are always there,” said Joey Flynn, the Facebook designer who created the messaging experience.
Chat Heads work with both text messages and incoming Facebook messages.
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Facebook Home, as the product is known, isn’t a phone, per se, but rather a series of customizations that replaces the look and feel of a standard Android phone with a set of Facebook apps, home screens and messaging experiences.As we first reported in a series of articles more than a year ago, the project to create a custom Facebook phone on top of Android — code-named Buffy — has been going on for some time.
Facebook has since spent a lot of time noting that it is not building a phone — which is technically true. However, it has built the software guts of one, and it even partnered with HTC to put a hardware face on its the project.
Zuckerberg stressed that what Facebook is doing isn’t building a phone or an operating system, but rather an experience that is a family of apps that becomes your home screen on a standard Android device.
“You don’t need to fork Android to do this,” Zuckerberg said. Facebook Home will be an update on Google Play to the social network’s existing Facebook app. It will be available initially only for phones, with tablet support coming within several months.
Updates to Facebook Home will also come monthly, the company said, arguing that yearly updates such as those made to Android just aren’t frequent enough.
Zuckerberg reiterated why the company is focused on the software rather than a single phone. Zuckerberg said that a great phone might sell 10 million or 20 million units — one percent of Facebook’s total user base.
“We’re not building a phone, and we’re not building an operating system, but we are also building something that is a lot more … than an ordinary app,” he said.
Zuckerberg took aim at the app-centric approach taken by most modern smartphones, saying phones should be about people rather than programs.
Facebook isn’t the only company trying to move away from an app-centric world. Windows Phone, for example, has a People hub that focuses on all the ways that someone connects with a person and their photos and updates.
Apps, of course, are still a part of phones, so an app launcher is just a swipe away.
One particular feature should be more than just an app, Zuckerberg said, and that’s messaging. The company has built a new experience where “Chat Heads” — little pictures of your friends — pop up when a new message comes in.
Beyond the cute head shots, Chat Heads allow messaging to take place in any app, rather than requiring a user to either stop what they are doing or risk ignoring the person seeking their attention.
“It really feels like your friends are always there,” said Joey Flynn, the Facebook designer who created the messaging experience.
Chat Heads work with both text messages and incoming Facebook messages.
RELATED POSTS: Ten Minutes With Adam Mosseri, the Guy in Charge of Facebook Home If Facebook Made a Real Facebook Home (Comic) The Buffy Story: Facebook’s Long Road Home to an Android Phone Facebook’s Phone Also Coming to France Telecom-Orange, but First to AT&T Content, Content Everywhere In Facebook’s Ideal Mobile World Can Facebook Build an Android-Style Home on the iPhone? Probably Not. How to Turn Your Handset Into a Facebook Phone HTC First: The Hardware Side to Facebook Home Buffy Has Landed: Facebook Launches Home, Its Android Phone Project
Facebook Home, as the product is known, isn’t a phone, per se, but rather a series of customizations that replaces the look and feel of a standard Android phone with a set of Facebook apps, home screens and messaging experiences.As we first reported in a series of articles more than a year ago, the project to create a custom Facebook phone on top of Android — code-named Buffy — has been going on for some time.
Facebook has since spent a lot of time noting that it is not building a phone — which is technically true. However, it has built the software guts of one, and it even partnered with HTC to put a hardware face on its the project.
Zuckerberg stressed that what Facebook is doing isn’t building a phone or an operating system, but rather an experience that is a family of apps that becomes your home screen on a standard Android device.
“You don’t need to fork Android to do this,” Zuckerberg said. Facebook Home will be an update on Google Play to the social network’s existing Facebook app. It will be available initially only for phones, with tablet support coming within several months.
Updates to Facebook Home will also come monthly, the company said, arguing that yearly updates such as those made to Android just aren’t frequent enough.
Zuckerberg reiterated why the company is focused on the software rather than a single phone. Zuckerberg said that a great phone might sell 10 million or 20 million units — one percent of Facebook’s total user base.
“We’re not building a phone, and we’re not building an operating system, but we are also building something that is a lot more … than an ordinary app,” he said.
Zuckerberg took aim at the app-centric approach taken by most modern smartphones, saying phones should be about people rather than programs.
Facebook isn’t the only company trying to move away from an app-centric world. Windows Phone, for example, has a People hub that focuses on all the ways that someone connects with a person and their photos and updates.
Apps, of course, are still a part of phones, so an app launcher is just a swipe away.
One particular feature should be more than just an app, Zuckerberg said, and that’s messaging. The company has built a new experience where “Chat Heads” — little pictures of your friends — pop up when a new message comes in.
Beyond the cute head shots, Chat Heads allow messaging to take place in any app, rather than requiring a user to either stop what they are doing or risk ignoring the person seeking their attention.
“It really feels like your friends are always there,” said Joey Flynn, the Facebook designer who created the messaging experience.
Chat Heads work with both text messages and incoming Facebook messages.
RELATED POSTS: Ten Minutes With Adam Mosseri, the Guy in Charge of Facebook Home If Facebook Made a Real Facebook Home (Comic) The Buffy Story: Facebook’s Long Road Home to an Android Phone Facebook’s Phone Also Coming to France Telecom-Orange, but First to AT&T Content, Content Everywhere In Facebook’s Ideal Mobile World Can Facebook Build an Android-Style Home on the iPhone? Probably Not. How to Turn Your Handset Into a Facebook Phone HTC First: The Hardware Side to Facebook Home Buffy Has Landed: Facebook Launches Home, Its Android Phone Project
