Google has updated its Hangouts app for Google Apps (business) customers and increased the number of people allowed on a single video call from 15 to 25. Users don’t have to do anything to take advantage of this change, though only the 10-most active participants’ video windows will be visible at one time.
Adobe has released a tool intended for use when designing apps, as a free preview. Formerly known as Project Comet, Experience Design CC is a user interface (UX) design and prototyping tool that can be employed when creating the look and feel of an app or a web interface, something which can help developers picture […]
On Monday, Apple updated its various OS platforms to a sixth developer beta for most of its respective systems, with public-tester betas of OS X 10.11.4 and iOS 9.3 also seeded simultaneously. As usual, Apple has not listed any notable changes from the previous beta, though small updates, tweaks and other changes are usually reported […]
The world is a mere month away from consumer availability of virtual reality headsets, and we’re starting to see more and more announcements about content for the new medium. With a massive influx of new VR users on the way, an increasing number companies are preparing their products and ideas for VR content. Experiencing […]
Apple today made iOS 9.3 Beta 5 available to both developers and public testers. The beta can be downloaded and installed over the air. Apple didn’t call out any changes in the new beta, though it likely includes bug fixes and general performance improvements. The company also pushed out new betas of watchOS 2.2, tvOS […]
Microsoft has been busy beavering away with Office 365 this month, and has just published a blog post detailing the changes to the online suite in February, with work having been done on the desktop (Windows and Mac) software along with mobile apps. Let’s start with Excel, which has seen the implementation of new functions […]
Late last night, Adobe issued a patch to fix a serious problem that had arisen in its latest update of its Creative Cloud software. On Friday, some users — particularly those who used the Backblaze backup service — found that installing the CC update would delete the contents of whatever was the “first” folder (listed […]
Google today said it plans to retire Picasa, which has long served as its online photo management service, in favor of the newer Google Photos product. Google hopes to accomplish the transition over the next few months and said it is taking pains to ensure users’ photos and memories are preserved. Picasa users will be […]
Twitter is debuting a change to how its timeline works that will include more “best” Tweets at the top of users’ feeds. The idea is similar to the “while you were away” function that Twitter added to the service last year, but it includes a broader array of Tweets displayed in reverse chronological order. Twitter […]
Adobe announced that three of its web and image management programs had all received significant updates: Animate — formerly known as Flash Professional, but now more of an HTML5 design program — has been bumped up to Animate CC, a full member of the Creative Cloud family of apps, with many new changes. The company’s […]
