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Argo and Life of Pi emerge winners at Oscar 2013

February 25th, 2013 Comments Off

Argo and Life of Pi emerge winners at Oscar 2013

Ben Affleck accepted the Oscar award for the Best Film for Argo at the 85th Academy Awards. First lady, Michelle Obama joined in from the White House along with Jack Nicholson to present the final award.

Visual effects extravaganza Life of Pi picked up 4 Oscars for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Score. The Best Actor award went to Daniel Day-Lewis for his remarkable performance in Lincoln, while Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence picked up the Oscar for Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook. This made her the youngest person ever to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actress and the second youngest Best Actress winner.

Here are some other winners from the star studded night:

Supporting Actor : Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained
Animated Short Film : Paperman
Animated Film : Brave
Cinematography : Life of Pi
Visual Effects : Life of Pi
Costume Design : Anna Karenina
Makeup and Hairstyling : Les Misérables
Live Action Short : Curfew
Documentary Short : Inocente
Documentary Feature : Searching For Sugar Man
Foreign Language Film : Amour
Sound Mixing : Les Misérables
Sound Editing : Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall
Supporting Actress : Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables
Film Editing : Argo
Production Design : Lincoln
Original Score : Life of Pi
Original Song : Skyfall by Adele
Adapted Screenplay : Argo
Original Screenplay : Django Unchained
Directing : Ang Lee for Life of Pi
Actress : Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook
Actor : Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln
Best Picture : Argo

You can find the complete list of nominees and winners here : http://oscar.go.com/nominees

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Facebook allows voice calling in iOS mobile apps

February 23rd, 2013 2 Comments

Facebook allows voice calling in iOS mobile apps

Facebook had launched a beta feature in its iOS messenger app last month, which allowed users to send voice messages to each other. Now in another significant update, it has reportedly added the option to make voice calls via the Facebook mobile app.

This feature was available to the Facebook Messenger app but s now featured in the main Facebook app as well. The only hitch is that again this feature is as of now limited to users in US and Canada only. The call is placed over WiFi or the users data connection, so users with a limited data plan might need to be careful. The voice calling option can be accessed by going to the right hand side slide out menu and tapping on a friends to bring up the contact info screen. Then tap the small “i” at the top right corner of the screen. If the user is online, you will be able to place a free call to them, else the button will be grayed out. Also, all users need to be on the latest version of the app or the button will still be grayed out.

Currently all Facebook iOS and Android apps support the feature to send short voice messages only. This new feature will allows users to save on their phone minutes and even help them place calls to people not in the same state as them. This will result in a significant amount of savings. Voice calling will probably be rolled out to users on Android and across all geographical areas once Facebook finishes its beta testing. This will definitely be very useful as mobile users have increased tremendously and a majority of these users access Facebook through its app.

Are you excited to try out this new feature? Will this prompt you to stop using Skype, Viber or other alternatives? Let us know in the comments below.

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