iOS 9.3.2 Beta 4 Update Release Date Leaks

Currently, the forth beta iOS 9.3.2 is available for testing to public testers and novelty users and it supposedly comes with many bug fixes as well as with the ability to use Low Power Mode and Night Shift simultaneously.
This release is part of a series of update releases that came in the past few weeks beginning with the iOS 9.3.2 beta launched on the 6^th of April. The purpose of the first beta was bug fixing and improving performance relating to the iOS 9.3
Other issues that were solved by this beta was a lag experienced by iPhone 6S users when the activated Quick Actions in landscape mode.
The second beta came after a week but it was very subtle about the changes, although, some phone users reported that they could enable Low Power Mode and Night Shift at the same time
The third beta appeared to be just as uneventful as the previous one. It had about 32 MB and had the number 13F65.
The last and forth beta version will cover a variety of bug issues related to the Game Center. One of those bugs rendered a white screen at some point, and reportedly, with this problem now fixed, users will be able to read anything from web pages too e-books at night without much difficulty and without using the same amount of power as before.
Before this last beta, users had to rely on just one of the following options: Low Power Mode and Night Shift because the system would disable one automatically is the other one was turned on. Now, because of the update they can be used at the same time.

Anybody can now go to the site and download the beta for use but know that you need to pay for the account to get full access to it.


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Adblock and Adblock Plus Available on Microsoft Edge

Good news for users of the Edge browser on Microsoft! As it seems, they will be able to use the AdBlock and the AdBlock Plus services and download them from the Windows Store. This is a great move, since fans of Microsoft will now get the chance to surf the web just as they want to and to eliminate or simply control the ads that appear to them.

Back in March, Microsoft released some browser extensions for Edge, but only to testers, leading the way to the release of AdBlock, together with some other extensions: the Microsoft Translator, Mouse Gestures and a Reddit extension. All of them were available for manual installation, and bonus, they are supported by Google Chrome too. In fact, this was another good move from Microsoft, who allowed developers to move their Chrome extensions on Edge too. But there’s even more good news there! Developers were and are currently able to create their own types of extensions.

This situation is favorable for Chrome and Firefox too, who might have been holding some new items compatible with this feature, and now they can make them widely available for the public. Even though the AdBlock and AdBlock Plus are designed by different companies, they are still the most successful tools for blocking ads available today – only in Chrome, AdBlock is used by 40 million users! Currently, only those who are using Windows 10 will be able to enjoy the new extensions, but soon they will be available for everybody.

Moreover, the company announced that later this year, they will also release other extensions, such as Amazon, Evernote or LastPass ones. They also plan to keep testing the already released ones and improve them as soon as they see how they work and how users are satisfied.

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HTC One M8 and One M9 Delays in Getting Android 6.0 Marshmallow Update

It seems that the release of Android Marshmallow 6.0 will be delayed for HTC One M8 and One M9 in the AT&T network. As expected, this caused a lot of disappointment in those who use these phones and who were anxiously waiting for the new OS.

The manager did not give any reason for this unexpected delay, and all we know is that the two companies are in close coordination. For now, they did not release any official date when should we expect the update, though they did offer a vague indication regarding the “coming weeks”.

Most likely, this lack of information will make the subscribers even more angry, especially since the users of other networks, like T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint already received the Android 6.0 ever since February. This makes it even harder for the AT&T subscribers, if many of them want to test out and to experience the new Marshmallow on their HTC phones.

Truth be told, there are some interesting updates in the 6.0 version of the Android. The security updates are perhaps the more important ones, but users will also receive the “Doze” app, which will prolong your battery life. Moreover, you get better app permissions and on Tap Google Now.

Most likely the entire issue stems from certification problems. Normally, carriers have to do their own check-ups before rolling out any updates on the OS, just to make sure that people won’t have any problems after they install the update. However, it seems that the two companies are working closely in order to make this possible as soon as they can, so the only thing to do is to wait and see how soon the update will hit the phones.

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WhatsApp is Working on a Desktop Client

Lately, rumors have been soaring that Facebook will be developing a WhatsApp version that will run on a native desktop client for Windows and Mac as a means to further expand the usage of its very popular messaging system.

According to images tweeted by WABetaInfo, a WhatsApp version is being developed for several desktop operating systems like Mac and Windows. However, the text in the photos is in Japanese and some are still in the process of translating phrases from it that might reveal more details about WhatApp’s new venture.

Nothing related to the leaks has been confirmed so far about the parent company even though users have asked for more information and details repeatedly, and, as a result, there’s no way of knowing if a WhatsApp app will be released at all for desktop.

Some user have even wondered why would WhatsApp even do this, as it already has an online variant that works wonderfully in terms of sending messages and images to friends. All you have to do is use a browser and that’s it!

Although a desktop version might include features like voice and video calls, which is something that has been rumored to be included in the next WhatsApp update for mobile phones.

But that can be easily achieved online as well. So far, the only advantage a desktop version might have in comparison to the online version is that it would remove the need to open a browser and keep it open for the duration of the conversation and it would also eliminate the need to scan the WhatsApp Web QR code that’s required to connect your account to the browser.

This move would be better suited for messaging apps such as Skype, Facebook Messenger or Slack.

At this point, given the ever-expanding plans Facebook has for WhatApp, it’s hard to see how well this will play out in the future for Messenger.

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Adblock Plus Releasing Flattr Plus – Automatically Donate Money

Users will have the option to automatically give money to website owners who provide articles, music or videos. Flattr Plus is a new product that people will use to monetize online content, but its stable release will be available before the end of 2016. The beta version will roll out “early this summer.”

Here’s an interesting partnership between the creator of Adblock Plus – an ad blocking tool that was released in 2006 and which has been downloaded 500 million times since then, and Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson, the creators of Flattr, content-funding tool which can be used by people to donate real money to websites, in exchange for their content. The latter was released in 2010 and in December that year, it was introduced on WikiLeaks, but then it was replaced by PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa.

The two partners will release Flattr Plus, a tool that will be used by grateful people who want to show their appreciation for content they consume. They will be able to set a monthly budget and every month, they will make automatic payments to website owners. Flattr Plus will determine which website deserves to receive a larger percentage, based on the number of visits to that website, but the budget can be increased or decreased anytime.

The beta version of Flattr Plus will try to figure out how much time users spend on a certain website, how far they scroll, and the program will “solve the challenges of frictionless payments,” as Adblock Plus and Flattr claim.

Flattr’s Linus Olsson explained that “The idea of great content has gotten lost in clickbait headlines and slideshow articles,” and that “If we want to reverse that trend, we need a funding model that is based on engagement and attention rather than mere visits. I am convinced that people’s growing willingness to support great content is the next big change for the Web. And it will happen if we provide them with a simple, easy-to-use solution that allows them to fund the art, music, and journalism they love. So that’s what we are building.”

Website creators can continue to use existing methods to monetize their content – by placing ads or being paid through paypal, and they won’t lose anything if they’ll sign up for Flattr Plus. In fact, their visitors will appreciate their hard work and reward them for what they’re posting.

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WhatsApp Video Calling For iOS to be Available

WhatsApp has refused to confirm or infirm the addition of the Video Calling feature in the near future, although the first clues about its arrival appeared in December 2015, when a German website has posted screenshots showing an ongoing call on an iOS device. We haven’t heard any new information until a few days ago, when @WABetaInfo has revealed some screenshots of the latest beta version of WhatsApp for iOS, which contains a new “Video Call” icon located at the top right of an open chat window.

Currently, the chat screen shows a voice call button and the profile image, but soon, the video call option will be present. Phone Radar has reported that this function will be activated in version 2.16.3.525 of WhatsApp for iOS, but users who will want to install 2.16.3.523 (beta) are required to have an iPhone that is jailbroken.

Soon, a native desktop application for Windows and Mac OS X will be released as well, and this information was also revealed by @WABetaInfo. The guys behind this Twitter account have posted two screenshots with a “Download for Windows” button and “Download for Mac OS X” button for native desktop apps for these two operating systems. Again, WhatsApp refuses to talk about the possibility to launch a native desktop application for Windows PC and Mac OS X, as well as support for sharing zip files.

The latest stable WhatsApp version for iOS is 2.16.2 and can be downloaded from iTunes. The installation file has a size of 59.1MB and brings end-to-end encryption for messages, photos, videos, documents, voice messages and calls. WhatsApp has introduced this type of security measure in order to protect users’ data, preventing hackers and the government to access their conversations, as they will be accessed only by the sender and recipient, using an encryption key.

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WhatsApp Automatically Delete Photos Tips

One of the most widely used messaging apps, WhatsApp is also known as being that app that most people in your life use to forward quotes on pictures or memes.

Naturally, because most of the people you have in your WhatsApp contact list, it’s very hard to block their incoming messages and all of the pictures they send can really take a lot of space on your smartphone.

This “huge amount of space taken up by pictures” problem can be solved very easily by opening the Photo Gallery option on your phone (assuming they went there) or if you don’t know where to find the pictures, use a File Manager app to locate WhatsApp’s media folder and delete the entire folder. It’s that easy!

However, WhatsApp doesn’t know how to choose between useless pictures from forwards and the really important ones for you so you might lose the latter ones if you delete everything.

That problem has now been solved by a company founded by ex-employee from Adobe, Stir, which made an app designed to sort through the WhatsApp pictures for the important photos, leaving aside the spam ones.

The app was named Magic Cleaner and this is what it does: it scans the WhatsApp Media Folder and it automatically finds the spam images like screenshots, memes, cartoons and other pictures with text on them. Afterwards, it offers you the option of deleting them all at once.

It does this by using an image recognition engine that analyzes an image in order to determine if it’s spam or not – they take a part of the image and run it through their image database. However, it can only be used if you are connected to the internet because it uses Stir servers to compare the images.

One user has used the Magic Cleaner app on a WhatsApp account that had more than 4000 pictures and it worked wonderfully. And it’s for free! There is a catch though: you can only delete a limited number of photos each day. If you want to delete more, you have to either wait until the next day or invite a friend to use the app.

A Magic Cleaner app for Apple is in the works and a downside to the app is that although it erases the images from the memory, it still leaved the thumbnails for them and those, well, you’ll have to delete manually.

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