Tinder now lets you spice up your profile with your Instagram photos
Popular dating app Tinder has been updated, and will now let you add your Instagram photos to your profile.
Tinder, one of our favorite dating apps is expanding user profiles in new ways. When you start up the app after the update, it will take you to Facebook to ask for a new set of permissions. If you grant them, your expanded list of interests will now appear as part of your profile.
You can check out the full list of changes in Tinder 4.4 below:
- Revamped profiles to make them even more awesome
- Instagram integrated directly into your profile
- Expanded common friends – now see an extra degree of connectivity (If – you’re friends with Kevin Bacon, it may crash the app)
- Bug fixes and improvements
Tinder recently launched a paid version, Tinder Plus, which lets you undo left swipes, change your location, and remove ads for $9.99 per month. You can download the latest version of Tinder for iPhone from the App Store now.
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Glide brings its video messaging app to the Apple Watch
Video messaging app Glide has been updated with support for the Apple Watch.
Glide on the Apple Watch lets you watch messages, get chat notifications, and reply in a text chat with dictation. Be careful with how much video you watch, however, as it’s likely that video will have a significant impact on your Apple Watch’s battery life. Glide has also improved the text chat experience in the core iPhone app, and changed the notification sounds. Check out the list below for the complete rundown of what’s in Glide 3.0.1:
- Introducing Glide for Apple Watch: No keyboard? No problem! Get chat notifications and watch live videos right from your wrist. Reply instantly without having to take out your phone – it’s that easy!
- Notification sound update: We’ve temporarily changed our Glide notifications sound to Apple’s Tri-Tone alert, for technical reasons supporting our Apple Watch release. We’ll go back to the Glide sound in our next version.
- Improved texting experience.
- We’re always working on improving Glide, so every version includes stability and performance updates.
Glide 3.0.1 is available for download right now from the App Store.
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Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy S6 does not have Microsoft’s apps preloaded
Verizon Wireless has chosen not to preload a number of Microsoft apps on its Samsung Galaxy S6, despite an agreement between Microsoft and Samsung to offer them out of the box.
When the Galaxy S6 was first announced, Microsoft also revealed that the smartphone would have the Android versions of its OneDrive, OneNote and Skype apps preinstalled on the device, along with the Galaxy S6 edge.
Tumblr now lets you create a new blog right on your iPhone
Tumblr has updated their app for iPhone and iPad, which now allows you to create new blogs right in the app.
Tumblr 4.0 lets you build new blogs inside the app, picking essential elements such as a username, blog title, images, and colors, working like an extended version of their theme customization tools. That app also adds a Notification Center widget, post submissions, and much more. You can see the full list of additions and changes below:
- Create new blogs from inside the app: Ever get an idea for a blog while you’re out on the town, or up in an aeroplane? Make it, name it, give it an avatar, give it a header image, title it, describe it, post your first post to it—all before you even return to the Earth.
- Make video posts using a video’s URL: Copy a URL from YouTube or Vimeo or another such site, slap it into the app, and you got yourself a video post. This is apparently your most-requested feature for the mobile app. Smart. We love it. Here you go.
- Submit to blogs that accept submissions: Situation: You’re deep-sea diving with your waterproof phone, snapping pics of fish and treasure chests and the sea god Neptune. Stuff that’s perfect for that submission-based SCUBA blog you follow. Now you can submit a post to it right from the briny deep.
- A widget for your widget collection: Witness today’s trending tags without even opening the app. Install it thusly: 1. From anywhere in your phone, swipe down from the top of your screen to open up your “Today” view. This is where all your widgets live. 2. Flick your way to the bottom, then tap the “Edit” button. 3. Find “Trending on Tumblr” in the list. There ya go.
Filter searches by post type: Just looking for photos? We’ll just show you photos. Just looking for chats? Sure. You can do that, too.
A heap of other niceties:
- New icon. Feels good under your finger.
- Sticky search bar. Convenient for those heavy search sessions.
- Sticky avatars. Always, always know who made the post you’re currently reading. Never forget.
- Clean, fresh look for the iPad.
- GIFs load in a much more pleasing fashion. You’ll see.
- You can delete blogs from the app, which sounds like something only a troublemaker would need to do, but okay.
Tumblr 4.0 is available for iPhone and iPad from the App Store now.
- Free – Download Now
Star Wars Battlefront gameplay reveal to be livestreamed on April 17
The first gameplay footage from the upcoming multiplayer action game Star Wars Battlefront will be livestreamed from Anaheim, California as part of the Star Wars Celebration convention on Friday, April 17.
Huawei’s P8 introductory video is all about the camera and igniting stuff
The Huawei P8 was introduced today to much fanfare, and they’re following it up with a video the highlights the key features of the device.
The crux of the whole thing centers around the Huawei P8‘s camera, a 13MP OIS number. But it’s really about the software that Huawei’s put in there to unlock the power of that camera.
Newest Tinder update adds Instagram integration and common friends
Tinder, the popular free-to-use mobile dating application, is getting an update soon that adds a few nice additions to the app. The update, which is rolling out soon to the Google Play Store, will let you integrate your Instagram account into your Tinder profile. To integrate, simply open the Tinder app, head on over to your profile, and connect it to your Instagram account with a single tap. Once you’re finished, people who check out your profile will see a list of your most recent posts.
From the Tinder team:
Now there’s no need to put your Instagram handle in your profile description to tell your story (we got sick of having to do that, too). And in case you were wondering, Tinder won’t post anything to Instagram on your behalf or alter your existing Instagram privacy settings.
Also included in the update is a feature called Common Connections. This addition will show you mutual friends and friends of friends you have in common with your potential matches. Moreover, Tinder will soon begin to show you expanded interests when viewing someone else’s profile. Currently, users only see shared interests between one another, but when this new feature rolls out, you’ll be able to learn a little more about the person you’re viewing.
The update has only rolled out to iOS devices for right now, but these new features will make their way to the Google Play Store sometime soon. Head to the Play link below to check out the app.
App Store Increases Revenue Lead Over Google Play in Q1 2015
Apple’s App Store increased its revenue lead by 10 percentage points over Google’s Play Store in the first quarter of 2015, according to the latest numbers from App Annie obtained by The Wall Street Journal. The App Store’s revenue was also almost 70% higher than the Play Store, despite Google Play receiving 70% more app downloads during the three-month period ending March.
Apple’s increased App Store revenue helped it reverse a trend that saw Google Play slowly catch up in revenue over recent quarters, although the Play Store continued to widen its lead in overall downloads. Apple previously held about a 60% advantage in App Store revenues over Google Play during the third quarter of 2014, but that figure rose to about 70% in Q1 2015 on the strength of the United States and China.
“China was a bright spot for Apple – mirroring the strong market share gains that the iPhone made in the country. Apple’s larger-screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus proved immensely popular in the Chinese market where consumers prefer bigger display smartphones.
In the first quarter of 2015, China passed the U.S. as the top country for iOS app downloads, App Annie said. China still trails the U.S. and Japan for App Store revenue. The Google Play store does not operate officially in mainland China.”
The disparity between the App Store and Google Play in terms of overall revenue and downloads is a longstanding trend between the iOS and Android storefronts. A number of popular developers turn to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch because Apple’s ecosystem provides a more lucrative opportunity for earnings, while Google Play receives more downloads because there are significantly more Android users worldwide.
WeatherPro brings its detailed forecasts to the Mac
MeteoGroup’s forecast application WeatherPro has made the jump to OS X.
Formerly available only for iPhone and iPad, WeatherPro has made the jump to the desktop today with a version of Mac. It features a similar layout to the iPad version, and grants easy access to your favorite locations. You can also sync your favorites with your WeatherPro account.
The app gives you two methods of checking the weather quickly. The menu bar item will drop down from your Mac’s menu bar and show the current conditions in your area. The Notification Center widget shows those, as well as the high and low temperatures for the next three days.
The app comes with a seven-day forecast. WeatherPro offers in-app purchases for the Premium version, which will give you an extended 14-day forecast and all layers of the map preview. You can pay $1.99 for a three-month subscription, or $5.99 for 12 months.
You can grab WeatherPro from the Mac App Store now.
- $2.99 – Download Now
Apple Watch does ‘what I want it to do when I want it done’
Reviewing something as new and different as the Apple Watch is tough.
I think that’s why many of the early reviews, especially from the tech press felt awkward. Apple also provided test devices to some industry analysts, and these have proven both interesting and insightful. The latest to land if from Horace Dediu at Asymco:
Cynics may say [Apple Watch] does too little. Philistines may say it does too much. But for me it does just what I want it to do when I want it done. The things which are not done stay out of the way. This discretion is just as important as the effectiveness of action.
Even more remarkably, this tasteful minder is offered not to a fortunate few but to millions of people of average means. In the true sense of technological democratization, Apple Watch is a phenomenon for mass consumption.
Needless to say, Horace is impressed. Some might dismiss it as overly impressed, but I really think there’s a moment that comes, when using an Apple Watch, when everything just “clicks”. Most of us didn’t have to transition from a Mac to iPhone because we already had phones or smartphones and already understood the contextual differences. Not as many people have had smartwatches, especially smartwatches as functional as the Apple Watch, and so the transition is from iPhone to Apple Watch. And that’s harder.
When you get it, though, you get it. You can see it in anyone who’s been really using an Apple Watch for any length of time.
Looking back 3 months from now, it’ll be interesting to see where Horace — and Ben Bajarin and John Gruber‘s — reviews hold up compared to some of the others.
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