After roughly two weeks away, the Whatsapp Windows Phone app has returned to the Windows Store after a joint effort from Microsoft and Whatsapp. Whatsapp originally pulled the app because of unspecified “technical issues,” though it has since come out that the problem appeared to be with how notifications were handled in the latest version of Windows Phone. ➤ Whatsapp for Windows Phone Thumbnail credit: abulhussain / Flickr
If the Web view of Twitter looks a bit different today, it’s not just you. Twitter announced today a switch from the Helvetica Neue font to Hoefler & Co’s Gotham. The change is certainly noticeable, but still not much of a departure. After all, people have been calling Gotham the new Helvetica for years now. Starting today, we’re rolling out a new font on http://t.co/zDdcbPwclU, moving from Helvetica Neue to Gotham. — Twitter Support (@Support) May 30, 2014 Let us know what you think of the new look in the comments below. Thumbanil credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Following an announcement on Reddit at the start of the month, Microsoft today released the much-anticipated Files app for Windows Phone 8.1, finally bringing a file management system to the mobile OS. You can download it now directly from the Windows Phone Store. The free app includes the following functionality: Access files stored on your phone and SD card. Browse, search and launch files. Easily share one file or multiple files. Create folders to organize your files. Copy, move, rename and delete files. Microsoft says the official file manager app “makes it easy and intuitive to manage your files on…
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Google Search for Android gets global app indexing, content is no longer limited to just English
Google today released an important update that ensures app indexing in Google Search for Android works for all content, not just English. The company has also translated its developer guidelines into eight additional languages: Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. We contacted Google to ask if app indexing now works in these languages, or what exactly “more languages” refers to, since the company’s announcement isn’t clear. Google told TNW that the feature is now available globally, but currently will only show content from the apps that the company has manually included. Google today added the…
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Google Search for Android gets global app indexing, content is no longer limited to just English
Google today released an important update that ensures app indexing in Google Search for Android works for all content, not just English. The company has also translated its developer guidelines into eight additional languages: Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. We contacted Google to ask if app indexing now works in these languages, or what exactly “more languages” refers to, since the company’s announcement isn’t clear. Google told TNW that the feature is now available globally, but currently will only show content from the apps that the company has manually included. Google today added the…
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