Posted by unlocker under News on Thursday May 3, 2012
It is recently discovered that one can create and update notes through Siri.
When Apple unveiled iPhone 4S’ personal voice assistant Siri, the company mentioned that it works with Notes app. However, little that people know is that Siri can be used to create and update notes.
One can tell Siri to “Make a new note” and gives a title to the note by simply saying, “Make a new note packing list.” Updating a note is also a breeze by simply ordering Siri to update your note and enumerating the contents. For example, “Update my note toothbrush, deodorant, book, tickets, camera.” If you have many notes, Siri will ask which note to update and will provide you with a list. The user can either tap the note to update or simply say the first line. The user can also view or check the notes by simply asking Siri to list the notes.
However, Siri cannot delete the note and share it via email. The user has to do those manually. However, it is always good to know that Siri can do more things with the assumption that it can understand what you are saying.
Posted by unlocker under News on Thursday May 3, 2012
Social media titan Facebook bought the highly popular photo sharing app Instagram
Mark Zuckerberg spread the news using his created social media. In his own Facebook Timeline, he announced:
I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook.
For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we’ll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests.
We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram’s strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook.
That’s why we’re committed to building and growing Instagram independently. Millions of people around the world love the Instagram app and the brand associated with it, and our goal is to help spread this app and brand to even more people.
We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience. We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have followers and follow people separately from your friends on Facebook.
These and many other features are important parts of the Instagram experience and we understand that. We will try to learn from Instagram’s experience to build similar features into our other products. At the same time, we will try to help Instagram continue to grow by using Facebook’s strong engineering team and infrastructure.
This is an important milestone for Facebook because it’s the first time we’ve ever acquired a product and company with so many users. We don’t plan on doing many more of these, if any at all. But providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.
We’re looking forward to working with the Instagram team and to all of the great new experiences we’re going to be able to build together.
Instagram was an iOS-exclusive app before and was named as iPhone app of the year in 2011 and recently announced that they passed the 30 million mark. Last week, Instagram released the Android version of the app and was downloaded a million times in 12 hours.
Instagram is a San Francisco-based company composed of 13 employees only. The success of the business with an increase of $7 million in just over a year when it had 1.75 million users was indeed very beneficial to its founders and employees.