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Social network Facebook’s doodle feature on the Messenger app is now available on its main app. The name clearly explains the feature – it lets users free-form draw on pictures you’ve uploaded to Facebook.
Reports: Engadget, VentureBeat, memeburn, fonearena, USA Today
If you are on photo-based social networking app Instagram, India-based developer Shaswat Pradhan, CEO & Founder of Emberify, has something for you. His product ‘Cards for Instagram’ version 2.0 allows users to quickly create collections & albums of Instagram images.
Recently, photo sharing service Instagram had started allowing users to click in ‘landscape mode’, yet one could only share one’s work as a square image. That’s about to change. Instagram has said it was updating its Android & iOS apps to enable native support for full-size landscape & portrait photos & video inside the app. The traditional square photos will remain the default for photos shared on Instagram.
Reports: Business Insider, Gizmodo, LifeHacker, The Next Web, TIME, Forbes
Instagram users – here’s some good news for you. For long, images had been stuck in 640×640 pixel resolution but that’s history. The Facebook-owned photo-sharing app is rolling out showing photos in 1080×1080 pixel resolution.
Reports: The Next Web, CTV News, IBN Live, Ausdroid
Here, you may buy, sell & license photo, audio, videos & text that have been posted on social media. A brand new Dogpile-style search functionality now allows publishers to search for specific keyword-based Content across multiple social networks. You can then use the platform to send a licensing request for that content.
What do you do if a piece of text/paper you have had on your PC goes missing after problems with its hard drive? If you had taken out a printout earlier, then you are in luck. There are apps, desktop as well as mobile, that can re-scan the paper back into your PC. The tech is called Optical Character Recognition (OCR).