Apps of the Week: Best apps for Android, iOS and Windows [12/10/18]
In extended holiday week, several applications have passed through here on the site of the TodoCelular. Whether with visual updates or just the security part, there have been countless updates that may have gone unnoticed in your eyes, due to the large number of daily updates.
In order to help you, we separate the news that arrived for apps that are cross-platform, as well as those that are unique to Android and Windows. This week Google and Facebook were featured on the list with several representatives from its suite of apps.
Multiplataform
The company owner of the world's largest search engine has already upgraded in virtually all of its applications, but the main one was still on stand by. This week leaked some info as to what will be applied to the Google app. Among the updates, you may choose whether or not to choose a standard note application, as well as a custom Google Discover guide.
Google Photos
Google's standard photo app lets you automatically create people and animals photo albums, better organizing your feed so the user can find the desired image more easily. This new feature that creates Live Albums uses a facial recognition algorithm to enhance the gallery ordering process.
Gmail
One of the most interesting additions to date in Google's email service, Smart Compose enables smart word completion to speed up typing a message. Making use of the Artificial Intelligence installed in every interface of the giant of California, the new refuse tries to understand the contexts to indicate the words that have to do with what is being written. Something very interesting about this functionality is that it has support for Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and English languages.
Instagram is very concerned about keeping its users safe on the platform, so much so that the company has invested in the implementation of Artificial Intelligence to avoid the practice of bullying in the social network, either with the sharing of aggressive images or descriptions and comments with the pretension of lowering someone. Despite having AI, the process still goes through the approval of real Instagram officials, to prevent regional slang from falling into the whipping filter.
Also in the security section, the app now allows the activation of the two-step authenticationsystem , which aims to waive the use of SMS for basic activations within the social network. This new feature further increases the barriers against potential intruders, making the working object of many digital influencers even safer.
The world's most widely used messaging application needed to receive a security update this week as a flaw that caused WhatsApp to unexpectedly be closed by its users was discovered. The crash always occurred when an RTP packet was sent via voice call through the app.
With the hype created in the Election period, Facebook took the opportunity to make one more implement in its platform. This new tool, which creates a kind of Citizen Portal, aims to help voters know what has been done by their elected candidates or those still in the campaign period.
In addition to contacting government agencies from various states, you can communicate directly with your favorite politician. To improve the accuracy of the system, everything is controlled by GPS, making people in a certain region have faster access to information from the site in question, avoiding the display of content belonging to places that are not of interest to the voter.
Snapchat
Aiming to reverse the wave of failures, due to the loss of its audience for Instagram, Snapchat is aiming a little higher to bring those users back to the platform. To make this happen quickly and effectively, the app will go on to show original shows and shows, but there is no information as to whether it will be something in the style run by some IGTV users or longer production like we have in the Netflix streaming service. According to the source, the first series, which will tell the story of teenagers who dream and become drags, is already being produced.
Android
Google Clock
Taking advantage of the launch of the devices Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL , Google made a change in the look of your traditional watch. The goal was not to make a redesign, but to leave the interface lighter and give more prominence to the numbers referring to the time in question and programmed in the alarm, so much so that most of the icons stayed the same way
Google Home
The application responsible for connecting different electronic devices such as lights, speakers, etc. has received an update to its layout, adopting the same Material Design that all Google apps have received, leaving the interface much cleaner and more intuitive.
In addition, the company reorganized the icon of the supported electronics, making the process of activation and deactivation much faster, prioritizing the most used objects in the day to day. Another interesting point is due to the new animation inserted, which was much more flat than the previous one.
Windows
Microsoft Edge
Even though it's suspended , the October update brought some interesting news to the default Windows 10 operating system browser. It's about adding or removing Edge action buttons, making access to some tools simplified by the shortcuts you choose for you.
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