AppHeads Reimagines iOS 8 Multitasking With Chat Heads-Like Experience. Facebook’s Chat Heads feature, which was rolled out to Android and iOS some time ago, has become a staple part of the experience of using Messenger on mobile. Sure, it’s much more integrated on Google’s platform due to its open-source nature of Android, but nonetheless, Chat Heads is regarded as a seamless addition to the IM app in general. Since its arrival, many developers have sought to offer something similar for other apps, and one jailbreak dev has taken the idea and manipulated it into an all-new multitasking system for iPhone and iPad. It’s easily one of the most intuitive and novel tweaks we’ve seen during these past few months, adding a new dimension to multitasking on iOS, and if you’re still dwelling on that fence, this tweak may well sway you into the world of jailbreaking at last. Instead of having your friends’ faces popping up as Chat Heads, AppHeads allows you to manage apps using essentially the same thought process. You can move the floating app bubbles around as you please, and if you wish to hide them all in one go, you can assign an Activator gesture for this very purpose. The best part of AppHeads, however, is found in the app previews, which pop up and command a sizeable chunk of the display without completely taking over. The previews are fully interactive, so you can send tweets, tick off tasks in your to-do apps and such, but since the view is only three-quarters the size of the display, you can easily tap on another AppHead and carry on with a different task. Another significant change that Facebook has notified users of is the network’s policy on its collection of data, usage, tracking cookies, and advertising data, among some other terms of usage. The network claims that its primary objective with making all of these changes is increased transparency in what it does and what it wants to do with your data, from here on out. Likewise, the new ToS outline things like how apps communicate with each other, what Facebook does with the permission its mobile apps claim on your Android or iOS device, and more. Finally, one of the most notable changes that the social network is making is related to advertising on your Timeline. Now, your changes to how you want to see (or not see) ads will sync and reflect across both your mobile and Web service, irrespective of where you initiated the change. Earlier, both mobile and Web were practically isolated for this purpose, so this is one of the most welcome changes that users will find in the new and improved Facebook.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:48:33 +0000
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