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Google Photos Is Coming Up With A Zoom In Feature For Videos Soon

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Google Photos is probably the best way to store photos up in the cloud. However, it never lets users zoom in on videos while they’re playing. In the latest Google Photos update on Android, it seems that the ability to zoom on videos is finally in the works.

Obviously, one could only watch videos without the ability to pinch to zoom before now, but that, of course, would soon change. After it is being launched, the users will be able to zoom in on a particular section of a video and get a clearer view.

The roll-out date of this new feature is not clear at the moment but it gladdens the heart to know that Google Photos is adding another useful feature to an already impressive list.

A couple of weeks ago, Google Photos welcomed a lot of good features since it was launched, which ranks it among the very best in the category. Google is testing image markup that will enable you to draw on your pictures.

The image markup feature will allow you to draw and doodle over your pictures the same way it is being done on Snapchat. From the first look at the feature, it seems you will be able to draw with a marker or brushes.

In its current state, Google Photos won’t respond to pinch-to-zoom gestures while playing a video in either portrait or landscape orientation. As seen in the GIF below, that will soon change when the app is updated to support zooming in on a video to close in on a specific area of the shot.  While this probably won’t be useful in all cases, we can see it being handy for videos of a concert or similar situations.

YouTube has introduced a new share feature

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Many of us are spending a lot of their free time watching videos on YouTube, which has been the most popular video sharing website and the website keeps on introducing new features. It has a huge collection of videos. We might find some videos which we would want to share with our dear and near ones. If you don’t want to share that video publicly but would like to share with some people, then we just have to share the link of the YouTube video which will be a troublesome procedure for both the sender and the receiver. The newly introduced feature is a perfect solution for this problem, let us now learn a bit about the feature and also see how to use it.

YouTube has introduced a new feature that allows the users to share the videos and chat with their friends without having to leave the application. When you share the link of the video, a thumbnail will be shown up as a preview of the video and this feature even allows the users to play the video right inside the chat itself.

The company is rolling out this feature in stages and just update it as soon as you receive the update from the company. After updating, you will find a new shared tab in the application. That tab will host the shared videos and chats.

For sharing videos to YouTube share, you can follow the steps below

  • Once you updated the app and got the shared tap in the application, you can find the people in your Gmail contacts who have their accounts linked to Just tap add contact if you wish to add those contacts
  • You can also add some more contacts by sharing invitation links to them via various social networking apps
  • Or you can also send invitation links to the people in your phone contacts using the option find in the phone book
  • And after the new update of the app, you will start seeing share on YouTube option

You can just tap on that option and then select the contact

WhatsApp finally rolling out video calling feature

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Communication in this generation is happening mostly over the internet. There are lots of applications, softwares which may come to our rescue while we are in a need to communicate with our near and dear ones.

WhatsApp is obviously the first application that tops the list of the major and the most popular messaging platforms. It has been trying a lot to introduce various new features these days and thus making its users feel fresh and make them stick to it.

And one of the most awaited features of the WhatsApp is the video calling feature which it has released recently on its beta version and now it has started rolling out the feature to the official application finally.

Video calling makes the communication better and it even attracts the users as many people these days are preferring online ways of communication.

CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp announced the roll out of video calling feature on its Android, iOS and Windows apps.

Now the users will start receiving the update and after updating the application, they will be able to do video calling from their respective device.

This update to the app makes it a tough competitor to the Google Duo application, the video calling app from Google.

Instagram is bracing itself to introduce live video soon

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After the major websites like Twitter and Facebook allowed their users to stream live videos, now it’s Instagram introducing that feature to its users. The popular photo sharing platform confirmed about its ideas to introduce live video.

There has been this news going on the introduction of this new feature in the photo sharing platform from a long while, but iit became official after the recent announcement made by the Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom while speaking to the Financial Times. He stated that Instagram is really excited to be introducing this new feature as it will enhance the social network.

These live video broadcasts are said to be placed alongside the recently introduced Intsagram stories. Both the Stories and live will show up on the top of the application both on the iOS and android apps.

There is no confirmation about when this feature is going to be introduced yet. Facebook live is one of the most popular feature since it has been introduced and that is why the company is making efforts to introduce this feature to its various other platforms. WhatsApp is also caught testing the status feature very recently which is pretty similar to the Instagram stories feature.

So all we can do is just wait for the next official announcement about the release of the feature.

All the new WhatsApp features at a glimpse

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WhatsApp, the very popular messaging service has been introducing lots of new features since the recent past. Many people who use WhatsApp are not even aware of its basic features at all, but I have mentioned in one of my articles in the past. And now I am here to introduce you to all the new WhatsApp features that has been introduced in the recent times.
Come let us have a glimpse at all the new features once
We can now mention individuals with tags in the group conversations making it easy for us to talk to a particular person in a group chat. All we need to do is just type the symbol @ in the group chat box and it will show you all the people in the group, select the person you wish to tag, and that person will receive a notification. It’s that simple.
WhatsApp with its recent update to the app has brought some awesome snapchat style image editing features. While you share an image to WhatsApp, you will find three icons on the top right corner of your screen which enables you to edit the pic before you send. You can add emojis, funky texts, and even draw on the images.
Shooting photos and videos using WhatsApp can be more fun now. The new feature enables the users to take photos with front camera brightly as it has now the screen flash which brightens your screen and thus enhancing your photo.
Just double tapping the screen will switch from front camera and rear camera and vice versa.
Slide the fingers up and down to zoom in and zoom out while shooting videos using WhatsApp camera.
Another interesting and most useful feature that has been introduced recently is the quote reply feature which makes it easy to chat in group conversations. If you want to reply to a particular message, then just long press it and then you will find a reply button on the top pop up menu, click it and then type your message/reply to send it. This eliminates the confusion in the group chats.
A few text formatting features are also included in the recent WhatsApp updates and they can used by including some symbols. To make a particular text bold, just use * (asterisk) symbol on both the ends and in the same way to make the text italic use _(underscore) and to mark a strikethrough just use ~(tilde) on the both the ends of the text you want to strikethrough.
These all new WhatsApp features are thus very much helpful