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Downdetector’s biggest outages of 2022
We're all living a connected lifestyle these days, with social media, emails, messaging, streaming and gaming being part of our lives. Each of these services is dependent on Internet connectivity for functionality, so when...
Snapchat in review – how it captured you in 2022
With the end of 2022 a mere couple of weeks away now, Snapchat, the online social media picture and video sharing platform, has announced a recap and wrap how Snapchat captured you in 2022.
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Snapchat announce two new partnerships and features rolling out to users
Snapchat has announced two new partnerships where users can now partake in new Bitmoji action and new AR try-on experiences to share with their friends and family thanks to their new partners, H&M and...
Want to visualise Númenor? Well thanks to Snapchat and Prime video you can
Snapchat and Prime Video have announced a partnership to bring "Landmarker" technology Down Under for the first time on the Sydney Harbour Bridge which will enable users to visualise Númenor, an island kingdom...
Snapchat+ features ready to land for subscribers
If you're a Snapchat user, you're undoubtedly aware of the Snapchat+ subscription service. After launching in Australia a couple of months ago, the service costs $5.99 per month.
As it stands, subscribers to Snapchat+ enjoy...
Have some fun video conferences with Snap Camera for desktop
There are certainly trying times, for everyone. Many people are working from home while many are unfortunately out of work. The contact between people we have been told by mental health experts...
Google adds a touch of Snapchat to Duo, with self destructing pictures
Duo is Google's current favourite messaging app and the company is continuing to add features. The most recent addition is the ability to send a Snapchat-style "self destructing" picture to your friends.
The additional functionality...
Facebook has begun testing a Snapchat like map for Nearby Friends
Facebook has confirmed that they are working on a redesign of their Nearby Friends feature that was first introduced in 2015, that shows your friends locations on a map.
Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch,...
If you’re heading down to Sydney CBD for Vivid Sydney, you may want to...
Its that time of the year when Sydney lights up in an explosion of colourful light projections, light installations and music, all coming together to make Vivid Sydney a visual and auditory spectacle you...
Instagram introduces face filters and more as it looks to take on (read: emulate)...
Instagram has taken to its blog overnight to announce that it is bringing face filters and more to the service, as it looks to take on Snapchat.
Face filters, as the name suggests, gives you...
Stickers in Snapchat videos can now move around in your video masterpieces
Snapchat has begin pushing out an update which sees the ability to add one of the many colourful emoji stickers and place them on a specific object in your video which then sees the...
Snapchat wants you to pay to play with some new lenses
Snapchat, the time-sensitive social sharing platform that's popular with lots of users slightly younger than myself, has announced a new set of lenses are going on sale as in-app purchases with a price of...
Snapchat announces a new way to see yourself(ie) and new option to pay to...
The popular picture messaging app Snapchat is continuing to develop their platform and have announced a new way to see yourself(ie). Given their platform it is a blatant and frankly horrible pun but...
Snapchat adds SMS Verification & Battery status for chats
Snapchat has begun a roll out update of its app to users which brings a couple of new interesting features.
The biggest new feature involves the inclusion of 2-Factor Authentication, which at this time involves...