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Jelly Q&A photo app gets a “Good” button for recommending useful questions

Feb26

by Sindy Cator on February 26, 2014 at 11:09 pm

Biz Stone’s Jelly app for sharing photos to get answers from your friends has gotten a minor update that lets you mark a question as “Good” to improve its reach. Previously, you could mark responses as Good, but this now extends to questions.

Other changes to the app include the ability to zoom into photos and new visibility for thanked answers.

Jelly has been moving quickly to add new features to the app since launching in early January. The app felt a bit too barebones when it first arrived, so it is nice to see the updates keep coming.

➤ Jelly for iOS

Thumbnail credit: ROLF VENNENBERND/AFP/Getty Images

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Jelly Q&A photo app gets a “Good” button for recommending useful questions

Feb26

by Sindy Cator on February 26, 2014 at 11:09 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, jelly

Other changes to the app include the ability to zoom into photos and new visibility for thanked answers.

Jelly has been moving quickly to add new features to the app since launching in early January. The app felt a bit too barebones when it first arrived, so it is nice to see the updates keep coming.

➤ Jelly for iOS

Thumbnail credit: ROLF VENNENBERND/AFP/Getty Images

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Facebook Messenger for Windows will shut down on March 3

Feb26

by Sindy Cator on February 26, 2014 at 10:58 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Social Media

Facebook today began prompting Facebook Messenger for Windows users with a message saying the app is shutting down next week. Without much of an explanation, the company plans to kill off Windows support for Facebook Messenger on March 3.

“We’re sorry, but we can no longer support Facebook Messenger for Windows, and it will stop working on March 3, 2014,” the message states at the top of the application. “We really appreciate you using Messenger to reach your friends, and we want to make sure you know that you can keep chatting and view all your messages on http://www.facebook.com. Learn more.”

The “Learn more” link unfortunately takes the user to a generic Messages page on Facebook’s Help Center. The only section relevant to Facebook Messenger for Windows is for uninstalling it.

The Facebook Messenger for Windows installer is nowhere to be found on the official site. The page specifically says the app is available for Android and iOS, but not Windows:

The news comes less than three days after Microsoft announced Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone would arrive in just a few weeks. “We’ve been working with Facebook testing out their implementation for a while,” Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and manager of Windows Phone, was quoted by Techcrunch as saying during a press conference at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona. “It’s looking good and we will have it for our customers soon.”

It seems Microsoft can only keep Facebook in one of its platforms at a time. The company is of course attempting to merge the Windows and Windows Phone stores, but that’s still a long way off.

Facebook Messenger for Windows was released in March 2012, following a limited beta test in November 2011. An OS X version has been long expected, but that seems even less likely now.

We have contacted Facebook for more information about this decision. We will update this post if we hear back.

Update: “I can confirm that we are notifying people who use Facebook Messenger for Windows that it will no longer be available as of March 3,” a Facebook spokesperson told TNW. The chat client was available for just under two years.

Top Image Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/GettyImages

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Facebook Messenger for Windows will shut down on March 3

Feb26

by Sindy Cator on February 26, 2014 at 10:58 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Social Media

The “Learn more” link unfortunately takes the user to a generic Messages page on Facebook’s Help Center. The only section relevant to Facebook Messenger for Windows is for uninstalling it.

The Facebook Messenger for Windows installer is nowhere to be found on the official site. The page specifically says the app is available for Android and iOS, but not Windows:

It seems Microsoft can only keep Facebook in one of its platforms at a time. The company is of course attempting to merge the Windows and Windows Phone stores, but that’s still a long way off.

Facebook Messenger for Windows was released in March 2012, following a limited beta test in November 2011. An OS X version has been long expected, but that seems even less likely now.

We have contacted Facebook for more information about this decision. We will update this post if we hear back.

Top Image Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/GettyImages

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Github releases Atom, a text-editor for coders

Feb26

by Sindy Cator on February 26, 2014 at 10:15 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Github today took the wraps off a new text editor named Atom. The company has been working on Atom for over six years and has made the new editor available as part of an invite-only beta program.

In a post announcing the new editor today, Github said that Atom began as an experiment and quickly became a tool that it couldn’t live without. Atom is completely open source and the company is encouraging developers to extend it as much as they want, calling it “a hackable text editor for the 21st Century”

One of the main reasons for building Atom was that the company wanted an editor that “will be welcoming to an elementary school student on their first day learning to code, but also a tool they won’t outgrow as they develop into seasoned hackers.”

Atom is in closed beta for Mac users right now (with Windows and Linux builds coming soon), but invites will be given out to those who sign up on the website over the next few weeks as the beta is expanded.

➤ Atom