iPhone User? Update Your Facebook App Now!

The FACEBOOK app on iPhones was recently reported to have been draining the life out of people's batteries, even when it wasn’t running in the background and even with iOS 9’s new attention to saving your battery life, Facebook was still draining iPhones everywhere.

Facebook, addressed the problem in a post from their engineering manager. The developer, Ari Grant, wrote that Facebook “found a few key issues and have identified additional improvements.”

Grant revealed that part of the problem was the CPU spin in the app’s network code, stating that “A CPU spin is like a child in a car asking, ‘Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?’ with the question not resulting in any progress to reaching the destination.” 

Another issue was

WHO ELSE THINKS THE GOOGLE HANGOUT SITE IS COOL?

So I was minding my business on Twitter (that's not entirely true), when I saw a tweet from Tech Crunch about Google introducing a stand alone site for Hangout and I decided to check it out to see how it works differently from using Hangout  in Gmail on desktop.

The Google Hangout site is basically for messaging, voice and video calls as you must have guessed. You can message friends one on one and have group conversations with up to a 100 people. The video and voice calls are absolutely free - You need internet though :) and you can invite up to 10 people to a group call.

Your chats are synched from device to device and you are able to keep in touch with your friends across Android, iOS and the web.

What's more?

FINALLY! INSTAGRAM TO SUPPORT LANDSCAPE/PORTRAIT IMAGES & VIDEOS

Great News for all IGers! You will now be able to upload portrait & landscape images and videos on Instagram without the use of an external app! Cool? Absolutely!

Ever since its inception, Instagram has always allowed clicking and uploading images (and later videos) in the 1:1 square aspect ratio. Like Twitter’s 140 character limit, it was a part of the platform’s appeal, or a drawback, depending upon how you chose to look at it.

A lot of people had begun uploading non-square images to Instagram using image editing apps to add whitespace to the sides. Clearly people don’t seem fond of Instagram’s aspect ratio limitation anymore and are willing to use odd hacks to upload a non-square image, even if it made their images look terrible. So Instagram finally caved in and decided to add support for landscape and portrait aspect ratios.