Tap, Tap, Tap, Upgrade Your Apps
November 11, 2017
EasyUni Staff
Facebook Messenger
Are you aware that your Facebook Messenger app has a secret basketball mini game?
If you don’t have time for outdoor ball games, no worries. This mini game allows you to connect with your friends besides releasing your tension from assignments and tests.
You can start this game by sending a basketball emoji to your friends or family. As the recipients press the ball emoji, they can shoot hoop by flicking the basketball towards the net.
Why don’t set a mini competition in your group chat? And the player with lowest scores owes everyone a meal!
Furthermore, you probably will be seeing a series of dashes and dots around your Facebook profile photo, known as the Messenger Codes. Just scan one with your camera, and that person is now in your contact list!
Hey Instagrammers, fed up of cropping your videos or posting consecutive short clips on your Instagram?
There is good news for you! Instagram is allowing users to post longer videos up to a minute long. Also, the multi-clip function lets you crop multiple videos into one post.
Besides posting, you can now watch longer videos on Instagram like short tutorials, song covers or funny clips that will definitely make your day better.
Snapchat
Want to bring your snapchatting experience to a whole new level of pleasure and excitement? Update your Snapchat to the latest Chat 2.0!
After the vomiting rainbow and doggy face trends on Snapchat, the cute stickers function allows you to convey your messages in a pictorial form, while the call and video call functions let you share instant life experiences with your friends and family.
Moreover, there is also this Auto-Advance Stories feature so that you can automatically play the next snapchat stories after finish watching one.
Are you a loyal WhatsApp user? Then you should know that Whatsapp now lets its users to format their text messages.
Putting asterisks around a text such as *asterisks* will make the message turn bold, entering underscores on each side of the text such as _underscores_ will turn the message into italic form, whereas surrounding words with tildes such as ~tildes~, will create a line through your text.
As a fully-featured communication tool in office and school, you can utilise this function fully from daily communication to presentations or even school tasks.
Additionally, your private communication is now secure with the new full end-to-end encryption feature available on Whatsapp. With this, only the recipient of the message can view and read the delivered text messages, not even the WhatsApp’s employees. Goodbye, to cybercriminals and hackers!
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