Google Chrome to support emojis on OS X soon

 

Mac users, rejoice! Emoji support is soon coming to Google's Chrome browser for the OS X platform.

 

A report on The Next Web said Google has fixed a years-old bug in Chrome that prevented emojis from displaying on Apple computers.

 

"Emoji support has landed in the latest developer builds of Chrome for OS X, meaning that emoji can be seen on websites and be entered into text fields for the first time without issues," it said.

 

The Next Web said the bug was fixed as early as Dec. 11, and was tested recently in Canary, Chrome's early testing channel.

 

Canary, however, may not be for everyone as its experimental features could render it unstable for everyday use.

 

"From there, we can expect it to move to the consumer version of Chrome in coming weeks," TNW said.

 

Emoji could already be displayed on Safari, OS X's built-in browser. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News

 

source: gmanetwork.com

Latest pre-release OS X Yosemite update fixes WiFi issues

 

Apple has released a new build for its pre-release OS X Yosemite (10.10.2) software update, an Apple enthusiast site reported.

 

The new build for the operating system for Apple desktop and laptop computers is 14C94b, according to a report on 9to5mac.com.

 

It said the new build "continues to focus on fixes for WiFi, Mail, and VoiceOver."

 

Some users of Yosemite have had issues with these features.— Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News

source: gmanetwork.com

Yosemite is watching your online habits and sending them to Apple

Privacy-conscious users of Apple desktops and laptops, beware. The latest version of OS X may send your user location and Safari search results to none other than Apple.

A report on The Hacker News said OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) sends such data to Apple's remote servers by default, when the user sends queries via the Spotlight desktop search tool.

"The same data Apple collects from the users' searched term on Spotlight will also be forwarded to Microsoft's Bing search engine as Apple freely admits in its terms of service," it said.

But it also noted Apple itself had disclosed this on its "About Spotlight and Privacy" document.

It also said that if Location Services is turned on, search queries to Spotlight will send the location of a user's device at that time to Apple.

But The Hacker News said Apple has advised users who don't want their data collected to turn off Spotlight Suggestions and Bing Web searches in System Preferences.

On the other hand, THN said Spotlight does not use a persistent identifier, "so a user's search history can't be created by Apple or anyone else."

It added Apple devices only use a temporary anonymous session ID for a 15-minute period "before the ID is discarded." — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News

source: gmanetwork.com