We generally credit smartphones for making camera and audiovisual players irrelevant. But we often forget that every smartphone is also, by default, a GPS receiver. Quite correct, if not precise, latitude and longitude of the device is being instantaneously updated and displayed. This standard feature is embedded in every smartphone regardless being Android or iOS. It has prompted Battalgazi Yildirim, ...
Are you using the WordPress for iOS app on your mobile device? Our mobile team is excited to announce a big update to the share extension in the app. The ability to share content from other apps is a core part of the iOS experience. Last fall, we decided that our share extension was overdue for a refresh, so we ...
Today I hit a snag when I was attempting to log into one of our JIRA dev environments where SSO unexpectedly wasn’t working properly and it didn’t let me in. So here’s my workaround. Open this URL in a new tab of the same browser: https://((your-jira-instance-address))/rest/auth/1/session Now, open the developer console of your web browser. For example, in Google Chrome, ...
Ever thought what would happen if your antibiotic pills do not answer to your simple virus fever? You might get up after few days if your immunity system conquers the invader. What if our enemy is too powerful that we can’t fight back without the help of our known antibiotic dose? Even though I don’t like to mention it, we ...
The latest stage in our authentication redesign effort improves signup and site creation on our mobile applications. (WordPress.com offers apps for your Android or iOS device.) Signup To simplify signup, we’ve separated site creation from account creation. Signup now has its own flow guiding you through the process, allowing you to modify information as you go. It begins with a ...
I first started talking about Facebook being the Internet for many people in our countries in 2012. But the story by Quartz is what really hit the big time. Now it is appearing in debates around the debate de jour: Should we all just leave Facebook? That may sound attractive but it is not a viable solution. In many countries, ...
Everkey is here, one of the finest inventions so that we can say NO to locks, NO to keys and NO to passwords. Security in cyber space always frustrates us, despite the frustration we proceed on to memorize all those meaningless words, and yes, the solution has dawned. Everkey has the power to unlock your car, android phone, laptop, any ...
All cultures and religions have prohibitions: Not eat these kinds of food; not do these things at these times, and so on. It used to be a requirement of membership. There was always some coercion involved. But it was more in the form of peer pressure, rather than outright coercion. Your behavior would be regulated by those within your own ...
How often do you find a scientist with a brilliant mind along with a wicked sense of humor? Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, was such a rare individual. On 14th of March 2018, at the age of 76, this great scientist closed his eyes forever. He was much more than just a scientist with a brilliant mind. He ...
Huawei was the biggest filer of patents with the European Patent Office (EPO) in 2017, becoming the first Chinese company to reach the number-one spot. The EPO’s annual report released a few days ago, shows the Office received nearly 166,000 European patent applications last year. This is an increase of almost 4% and an all-time high. Huawei filed 2,398 patents ...
With a plethora of image editing and manipulation apps, you would think that once you saw one, you would have seen them all. We ourselves took a look at a number of apps over the years. We saw Mix by Camera360, Prisma, Snapseed and even apps such as B612 took the stage for image editing and filters. Another app to ...
