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WhatsApp
General
1 min read

WhatsApp gets View Once messages in its beta version

Last year, Facebook introduced Vanish Mode to Messenger and Instagram, a feature that allows users to send ephemeral messages. Now, the company is extending the feature to WhatsApp, and it is already available in the app’s beta version. The Vanish Mode in…

Facebook
General
2 min read

Facebook testing Dark mode for iOS

What do you do when your social-media site is under attack because of your policies that allow offensive posts and posts filled with hatred to ferment until they blow up? Why you start pushing out Dark mode for the mobile version of your site. Of course, we…

Facebook Movie Reminder
General
1 min read

Facebook dark theme rolling out to more Android users

Facebook has been trying to implement the long-awaited dark theme into its Android app for many months, which isn’t something unusual. We’ve been hearing reports about the company’s struggles to finalize the feature, but it looks like Facebook’s endeavor…

Android Updates
General
2 min read

Airplane mode might get more intelligent in Android 11

When your phone is set on Airplane mode, all radios inside the device are disabled. This prevents radio signals from possibly interfering with the equipment that pilots rely on while flying an airplane. Also known as Flight mode, or even offline mode,…

HM Jobs
Fashion
1 min read

H&M’s & Other Stories Launching on Tmall

H&M Group’s womenswear brand & Other Stories will launch a Tmall flagship store in the fall, making the Alibaba Group-owned B2C online marketplace the label’s first official sales channel in China. The Tmall store will offer collections designed by its three…

dark mode
General
2 min read

Dark mode is rolling out now to another Google app

Even though Android Q will have a system-wide Dark mode feature, Google continues to add a Dark mode on many of its apps, especially those updated with the Material Design look. Considering that only 10.4% of Android phones have Android 9 installed nine…

Google Dark Mode
General
2 min read

Google adds Dark mode to an Android Apps

If your eyes feel strained at the end of every day, it could be because of Google’s Material Design, which it is using on many of its core apps. Because Material Design uses plenty of bright white background, it can be blinding to look at at night or in a…

facebook messenger
General
1 min read

Facebook Messenger dark mode now Available

Facebook has been widely testing Messenger’s dark mode for about a month now, and while the feature might have been available for everyone, you couldn’t enable it from the settings menu. The only way to enable dark mode in Messenger was to send a crescent…

Whatsapp
Real Estate
2 min read

WhatsApp closer to protecting the retinas of Androids

There are two words that when seen in print by a smartphone user, will instantly get him or her to react by installing a particular app, or checking to see if an update has been received for an app already installed. Those two words are Dark Mode. This is a…

fashion philippines
Fashion
4 min read

Hong Kong Fashion Week for Fall/Winter Kicks Off Today

The 48th Hong Kong Fashion Week for Fall/Winter, a superb fashion sourcing platform in Asia, opened today at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The four-day show (16 to 19 January), organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC),…