Tag: Snapchat
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Snapchat Spectacles Available Now!
Snapchat, a place you trust to find 10 second clips of your friends moments, all appendages aside… The company have released their new product to the World; Snapchat Spectacles. The Spectacles are now available for purchase online. Originally you could only find these rare pieces of gadgetry through a sequence of funny handshakes, or, alternatively, at…
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SnapChat Blocks Third Party Apps
Last year a big scandal came out involving the use of third party data from SnapChat by another website, which subsequently got hacked. SnapSaved was a service which allowed users to register and save the temporary images and videos captured using SnapChat. Of course, once hacked, questionable and pornographic images from the service were snapped…
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Facebooks Slingshot Receives First Major Update
Facebook’s Snapchat competitor Slingshot has received its first major update since its launch back in the middle of the year. The 2.0 update brings with it new features and layouts as well as additional content to help customise those shareable moments. Slingshot allows the users to take short video messages and send them to friends.…
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SnapChat: Beware Third Party Apps
SnapChat themselves have now responded to ‘The Snappening’, the leaking of 200,000 images from an archive site called SnapSaved after a hacking attack on the site. The hack was allowed to take place due to issues with the server the site was stored on. Of course, the actual SnapChat app wasn’t affected at all by…
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SnapSaved Responds To Hacking
Image Credit: AIVAnet.com After we learned about SnapChat photos numbering in the hundreds of thousands had been leaked to the internet by hackers, we were quick to cover the issue as well as publish our very own guide to keeping your pictures safe on the internet. SnapChat themselves weren’t to blame for the issue…
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Skype has announced a new messaging app: Skype Qik
Skype have been known for their long haul video calls and messaging service for a long time now, and have done very little in the way of change up until now. Noticing the popularity of Snapchat and Whatsapp, Skype have announced a new app known as Skype: Qik. Available on smartphones only, Qik is…
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How To: Protect Your Photos From Hackers
Image Credit: Know Your Meme The recent hacking attack on Apple’s iCloud service, which led to many celebrities, male and female alike, having private naughty photos leaked to the internet following hacking attacks, has prompted everyone to rethink the way they use image sharing services online, and the do’s and dont’s with regards to posting…
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Instagram’s Bolt Launches on iOS and Android
Pictures have been Instagram’s forte for years, but not everyone wants their photos on show for the world to see whenever they want. That’s when SnapChat happened. Now Instagram is chasing their tales with Bolt. Also See: Snapchat App launches new Geofilters for Locations The idea behind Bolt is “one-tap” messaging. Available on iOS and…
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Snapchat App launches new Geofilters for Locations
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Smartphone messaging service Snapchat has announced another extension to its picture based messenger service with the introduction of Geofilters. Similar to the existing filters option, Geofilters offers new filters based on specific Cities and Locations across the globe. To launch the new service a video was sent out to Snapchat subscribers showing how the Geofilters…
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Slingshot is Facebook’s Answer to Snapchat
After an initial launch in the U.S last week Facebook’s answer to Snapchat has just launched worldwide for Apple iPhones and Android-based smartphones.
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Facebook Take Another Shot At Snapchat – Slingshot Is Born
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After Facebook has failed to join (buy) Snapchat, they’re determined to beat them with the launch of their second Snapchat-like app, dubbed Slingshot, as stated by the Financial Times. Slingshot will allow the users to take short video messages and send them to friends. The service is an entirely separate entity to Facebook itself, so…