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Facebook now allows you to promote friends posts

February 15th, 2013 Comments Off

Facebook now allows you to promote friends posts

Facebook had introduced the ability to promote your own posts last year. Now they are taking it one step further by allowing you to pay and promote your friends posts as well.

Situations under which this new feature can be put to use can be hypothesized as follows: Your friend is moving out and has a yard sale, you can promote this post so that more people will visit this sale. Or one of your friends might have rescued an animal and is looking for its owner or anyone to adopt it. You could pay Facebook to promote this post to make it appear higher in your friends’s new feeds. It has been reported that this feature will be restricted to users with less than 5000 friends or followers. Do note, that there is no foolproof method yet to evaluate how aggressively your post is promoted.

While you will not need permission from your friend whose post you are promoting, keeping in mind privacy concerns, this post will only be visible to those who it was originally shared with. What do you think of this new feature by Facebook? Do you think it will legitimately be useful or is it just another way to burn a hole in your pocket. Voice your opinions in the comments below.

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Android 4.2.2 rolling out to Nexus devices

February 14th, 2013 1 Comment

Android 4.2.2 rolling out to Nexus devices

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Google has started rolling out the Android 4.2.2 update for nexus devices, namely the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. The Nexus devices are a line of devices which run stock Android and hence are at the bleeding edge of updates. Other manufacturers like Samsung and Sony overlay their own skins on their devices which further delays the updates to their users. This update is basically a bug fix but it does bring some slightly new features along with it.

The major fix is for Bluetooth which was previously quite buggy and unable to connect to other devices. Apart from this, downloads from the Play Store now show an estimated time remaining for the download to finish in the notifications. Secondly, the quick settings toggles which was introduced in Android 4.2 has a few long pressable buttons. The WiFi and Bluetooth toggles can be long pressed to open up the respective settings menu. Other updates include new notifications sounds for wireless charging and low battery alerts. There are also a few security fixes included in this update.

Overall this update serves to be a minor bug fix until the next major iteration of Android is released. This will probably be Android 5.0, rumored to be code named “Key Lime Pie” and will be unveiled at this years Google I/O conference in May. Do you own a Nexus device? Have you received the update yet? Share your thoughts on it with us in the comments below.

Check out the various Nexus devices offered by Google.

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