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Reacciones de Facebook, todo lo que tienes que saber

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Llegan las nuevas Reacciones de Facebook

Esta semana, Facebook ha renovado el botón de Me gusta. Y lo ha hecho de una manera muy original. De hecho ha cambiado la función totalmente y ha pasado a llamarse de otro modo: Reacciones. Donde antes podíamos indicar que nos gustaba una noticia o un estado, ahora podremos expresar mucho más: dejar constancia de las emociones que nos cause una publicación.

¿Qué ofrece esta nueva opción?

Reacciones Facebook

Una opción que desde luego mejora la interacción con la red social y su amigabilidad. Antes podía darse el caso de que utilizaramos el botón porque nos llamaba la atención una publicación sin querer decir que estuviesemos de acuerdo con el contenido o que no nos causara cierto malestar. O que nos quedaramos sorprendidos con una noticia y un Me gusta se quedara corto. Unas situaciones que ya no se darán más porque ahora contaremos con el siguiente repertorio de reacciones:

  • El Me gusta tradicional
  • Me encanta
  • Me divierte
  • Me alegra
  • Me sorprende
  • Me entristece
  • Me enfada

Emociones de lo más comunes que sentimos cuando leemos alguna publicación en el muro de noticias, que puede dar bastante más juego e incluso ahorrarnos algún comentario. De hecho, según Adam Mosseri, el director de producto, todas estas emociones y emoticonos que las representan fueron escogidos tras un largo y complicado estudio sobre los que más se utilizaban en los comentarios por norma general.

¿Cómo funciona?

Podemos ver directamente los contadores indicando cuántas personas han expresado cualquier emoción disponible. Para hacerlo nosotros, en la versión web de Facebook sencillamente deberemos pasar el cursor por encima para que nos aparezcan las diferentes opciones. Para la aplicación móvil, deberemos dejar pulsado el botón con el dedo y entonces veremos las distintas emociones. Este último método también puede aplicarse en la versión web.

Nuevas reacciones Facebook

Disponibilidad

De momento esta opción sólo está disponible para publicaciones, no para comentarios, y se está comenzando a implantar en los países de España e Irlanda para probar cómo encaja esto en la red social (debido a su alto índice de usuarios nacionales). No hay que olvidar que es una funcionalidad en pruebas y que se tiene que ver cómo evoluciona y a qué nivel llega la aceptación que pueda llegar a tener entre los usuarios.

¿Qué ventajas podría suponer?

Aparte de lo que hemos comentado anteriormente de que es un modo más fácil de expresar una emoción que publicar un comentario, esta nueva opción puede llegar a resultar positiva para hacer un análisis en aquellas páginas oficiales de productos y/o compañías, mostrándoles si los usuarios están o no contentos con sus ideas. Algo que podría ayudar mucho en el momento de fijar los objetivos en base a la demanda de los usuarios.

También es una gran ventaja para aquellos que hagan uso de la red social vía teléfono, ya que comentar desde nuestro smartphone puede llegar a resultar engorroso en muchas ocasiones. Ahora simplemente con mantener pulsado podemos dejar constancia de nuestra opinión mucho más fácilmente.

Y tú, ¿qué opinas de esta nueva funcionalidad de Facebook?

¿Y tú que piensas? Pásate por Reacciones de Facebook, todo lo que tienes que saber para dejar tu huella.

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iPhone 6s has only the tenth best mobile camera tested by DxOMark

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Over the past few weeks, DxOMark has added quite a few new Android devices to its database rating mobile cameras. We’ve seen the Moto X Style and the Huawei Nexus 6P perform admirably, and then there was the Sony Xperia Z5 – actually climbing to the top of the experts’ charts.

However, all of that happened without the iPhone 6s having been tested. So naturally you may have assumed Apple’s latest would turn out to be a solid competitor for the best of the Android world. It turns out it’s not even close.

The camera in the iPhone 6s got a DxOMark score of 82. That puts it in tenth place in the database created by DxO Labs, so it’s nowhere near the top dogs. Furthermore, it’s received the exact same score as its predecessor, the iPhone 6. So while Apple’s camera quality pretty much remained unchanged over the past year, some Android handset makers improved their games a lot and got ahead.

The pictures the iPhone 6s camera takes have very good exposure, pleasant white balance, and good detail preservation in bright light. What’s more, the autofocus is fast and accurate. On the flip side, luminance noise is visible in low light, color shading is there when shooting indoor, a slightly yellow cast is visible for outdoor shots, and you also get occasional ghosting and other artifacts.

For videos, the autofocus remains fast and accurate, and it’s also smooth. Exposure and white balance are once again good, and stabilization is effective in good lighting conditions. Yet noise is present in low light, especially in image corners, and color shading is visible in low light too.

Compared to the cameras of the phones that are higher up in the rankings, the one in the iPhone 6s simply can’t keep noise at decent levels. And while detail preservation in bright light is slightly better than in the iPhone 6, it’s still far from the leaders in the…

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Save 43% on the Monster Overdrive portable SSD [Deal]

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bf01b9a9f8671b89adfe73ba76b1a663d8919ae7_main_hero_imageStoring your hard drive safely in your closet does you little good when you’re on-the-go—but sticking to the cloud can end in a hacker catastrophe. There’s no better solution for this classic tech dilemma than the spacious Monster Overdrive, which packs 128GB of storage for just $44.99 — 43% off its regular retail price — for

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iPhone 6s Plus somehow batters Galaxy Note 5 in real-world speed test

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On your marks, get set, go! Photo: PhoneBuffWhen it comes to specifications, Apple’s latest iPhones look like they’re lagging far behind their Android-powered rivals. But thanks to super-efficient software, they’re not as slow and as outdated as they might look on paper. This is demonstrated in the real-world speed test below, in which the iPhone 6s Plus somehow batters a Galaxy Note 5.

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Review: Photolamus

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You might not come across many caricaturists in your lifetime. On vacation or in tourist spots, you can likely sit down with an artist and have them draw you in 10 minutes, but these experiences are not regular occurrences and are usually pretty expensive.

When we’ve all got thousands of photos of ourselves and our loved ones at our fingertips, why would we need to sit still in front of gathering onlookers in order to get our faces drawn? Photolamus is a caricature service that aims to bring artists and customers together in this increasingly digital world.

Photolamus screensUsing Photolamus is simple. Through the company’s Android app (as well as Web, iOS and Mac interfaces), simply submit your photo, select the desired style and receive your caricature in digital form in 1-5 days.

Prices vary based on the number of people present in the provided photo, the style chosen and the required turnaround time. Styles range from black and white pencil, to full-color digital drawings, with a broad number of themes from Vacation to Sports to Halloween to Professions or a straight-up regular caricature. All Photolamaus’s caricatures are 100% hand-drawn by artists across the globe — it isn’t simply an app that just applies gawky effects to your images. There are no computer-generated images involved — these are real caricatures from real artists.

And the results are truly excellent. You can check out some of Photolamus’s artists’ recent works at the company’s website or within the app, but if you don’t believe those, check out the Halloween themed caricatures provided of my photo below. These were returned to me within 24 hours of submitting my photo to Photolamus which is a truly impressive turnaround.

Photolamus examples

The quick turnaround makes them ideal as gifts and their digital delivery means you are not waiting (or paying) for a physical package to arrive at your door. Photolamus does not offer printed versions — if you submit your image in the Android app, you’ll receive the finished version there too — and instead provides high-res caricatures in digital form. The 4,000px by 4,0000px resultant image is owned by you and can be used in whatever form you want — from your Twitter avatar or Facebook profile pic to being self-printed on canvas (up to 100cm by 100cm without loss in quality).

The Android app itself is fairly plain in terms of design, but it makes it easy to upload your photo (by taking new, adding from the Gallery, or from Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Flickr or VK) and place an order with your desired theme. There’s no way to preview the result and no free trial — the artist has to draw it, after all — which may disappoint some users. However, the artists — like you, no doubt — can’t work for free.

The app is translated into a slew of languages meaning it can be used all around the world and there are regular opportunities to win discounts and prizes through the app.

Photolamus screens 2

To coincide with the review here at Android and Me, Photolamus has dropped the prices of its caricatures to provide our readers with some sweet deals:

Pencil, Black & White — from $12.99 $9.99
Pencil, Color — from $18.99 $15.99
Digital, Color — from $24.99 $19.99

The prices are affordable and, having seen the results, are worth every penny in my opinion. Being hand-drawn, the results are unique to each order and, if you’re willing to pay a little extra, you can have the caricature back within one day which makes for a great last minute gift.

Check out Photolamus on Google Play where it can be downloaded for free.

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Mapping an Adversary’s Digital Footprint

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In the early 20th Century Dr. Edmond Locard famously observed “every contact leaves a trace,” and that principle in forensics is no less true today in computer forensics. Everything we do online leaves a trail of IP addresses, of services used, of log files created. And whenever there is an online attack, either consciously or unconsciously the adversary leaves a digital footprint. So it stands to reason that if one could map out these footprints, scope out the infrastructure being used, one might prevent future attacks. That’s exactly the type of thinking at RiskIQ and it starts to explain the company’s acquisition of PassiveTotal last week.

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