Every week we remark that it is amazing how much has happened.
Podcasting is on our minds and Andrew is still using the new Blackberry.
ApplePay in the UAE, do we really care?
And what about the new AppleX?
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The Notes.
What is new in the world of NEXA
I found a great android app for podcasts
Hold the phone! Literally! Apple Pay is now here in Dubai. Just another case where Apple listen to techtalk ;)|
Apple on the wireless charge, get it?
Cable tv is on its way out
Amazon is in my home, no not Alexam the delivery guy!
Spooky but cool Google Auto Detect, do we want this?
The country codes in Google's top-level domain names don't mean anything anymore. The tech titan has moved away from relying on country-specific domains to serve up localized results on mobile web, the Google app for iOS, as well as Search and Maps for desktop. Now, your location dictates the kind of results you'll get -- you could go to google.com.au, for instance, but if you're in New Zealand, you'll still get search results tailored for your current whereabouts. You'll know the location Google recognizes by looking at the lower left-hand corner of the page, as you can see above.
Google will automatically detect if you go to another country and serve you results for your new location. So, you'll get results tailored for Japan if you go there, but Google will seamlessly transition back to United States when you fly back home. It sounds a bit troublesome if you want to see localized results for another country while you're still home, but you can always switch to another location. Simply go to Settings and look for the drop-down menu marked "Regions for Search Results" to set the location you want.
WhatsApp has a fast delete, does it?
Have you ever accidentally sent a message on WhatsApp that you wish you hadn't? Well, starting today, you can delete it -- as long as you catch it within the first seven minutes. If you do, however, your recipient will instead see a "This message was deleted" alert.
The feature is called "delete for everyone," and is essentially an extension of a previous feature that lets you delete messages, but only for yourself. Hence, it was fairly useless if you had just sent a message to the wrong person, as the recipient could still see it. With today's update, however, when you delete a message, it means that everyone will no longer be able to see it.
That said, this feature only works in the latest update of WhatsApp, and all participants in the conversation must have this latest update for it to work. Seeing as the rollout of this new update is relatively slow, you should probably double check your messages before sending for the time being.
The Google Street View app is available for both Android and iOS devices. This free app allows you to do some pretty amazing things that were not possible just a few years ago.
Street View allows you to create 360 degree photos directly from your phone with no special equipment. You can choose to keep your images private or publish them to Google Maps. If they are approved by a team at Google, your images will be viewable to others to enjoy and explore.
Street View has collections of places from around the world to explore. Photospheres are best viewed using Google Cardboard. Cardboard resembles the View-Master that some of us had when we were kids. To use Street View with Cardboard, you will need to click on the mask icon then place your phone in your Cardboard or other VR viewer. If you don't have a VR viewer, you can click on the compass icon to open what many of us call the magic window. No matter how you view the photospheres, you will get to experience places around the world through the eyes of people who have been there. The beauty of our magnificent planet has been captured and it's ready to be discovered by our students!
Microsoft and the foldable device? WOW forgot about them!
Rumors about Microsoft possibly building a new, foldable mobile device have been circulating for months. The company's filing for a patent on a hingeable "Courier"-like design earlier this year added fuel to the fire, This week, the rumors flared again with claims that the coming device will be heavily focused on digital-ink and pen.
Microsoft designers have been mulling the possibilities of these kinds of devices for several years, as evidenced by the company's "envisioning" videos from earlier this decade. They've considered the possibilities of a foldable mobile device with built-in telephony capabilities, as well as a flexible/foldable soft display. (The images embedded in this post come from some of those futuristic videos.)
Microsoft isn't alone in exploring the foldable phone concept; a just-revealed Samsung patent showed the company is looking at bendable phones, too.
Microsoft's dual-screen, foldable Courier device never made it to market (with some claiming manufacturing costs at that point in time made it infeasible). Microsoft execs killed off the Surface Mini running Windows RT right before Microsoft was set to announce it.
