Ok, in my previous post I wrote that speech recognition in bitsofMine is an experiment and not a feature. Well, I still subscribe to that view. But when experimenting with Cortana, we came to the conclusion that it would be nice to have a couple of more commands to make the experiment meaningful. Plus, more…
Digital assistants on smartphones are so last year. Or actually more like so the year before the year before the year before last year đ By now, many of us have such personal relationships with our digital assistants, that we are even getting used to addressing them by their first names, such as Siri or Cortana. But what…
Linking an app such as bitsofMine to an internet service is never boring. If you take Facebook, for example, we have to keep up with what thousands of Facebook’s internal developers are doing. And then there are millions of external developers, too. Luckily, most of our colleagues’ changes will never affect bitsofMine. But some of…
Finally, bitsofMine for Windows 10 is available from the Windows Store! Ok, that’s not exactly new news: The version has been in the Windows Store since the end of October. But in this case, we wanted to do a rather silent launch and see whether there’ll be any unwanted or unexpected side effects of this new…
By now, Windows 10Â is quite old news already: Many of us have it on our machines and use it on a daily basis. But what about bitsofMine on Windows 10? Well, the ones who are running Windows 10 and have installed bitsofMine on it already know: technically, bitsofMine is “working” on Windows 10. But the…
We have learned that some of our users currently experience issues with the Facebook integration of bitsofMine. Because of these issues, at present some of you might be unable to log into Facebook, get updates from Facebook and/or share your photos and videos via Facebook. We are working hard to solve these issues as quickly…
Phew. What a Summer it has been! Last time I had a look at the calendar it was August 2. We had just issued release 15 of bitsofMine and Summer in Finland was in full swing. My personal celebrations in the aftermath of this year’s football world cup were starting to slow down, at least…
Did you notice that on Facebook, more and more items start moving? I did. Sure, I already took videos in the 80’s and 90’s. All of them were recorded on VHS and they still exist somewhere in my parents’ home. I think. But they were too bulky to put them into a shoebox. Let alone, take…
Which of your Facebook postings got the most likes? You don’t know? Now there is an app for it! Hey, I always wanted to say that. đ In the latest bitsofMine release, published today, we have added an InfoGraphics page which gives you some interesting details about your bitsofMine collection, such as: how many items…
Today is a day I’m really proud of: we just submitted our new bitsofMine release for certification to the Windows Store. And it’s a release that I personally consider to be the best we have done so far. Swiping the timeline is now much smoother. *Much* smoother. *Much* *much* smoother! đ And: we have added 1-Click Maintenance! 1-Click…