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PhotoScan is a new scanner app from Google Photos that lets you scan and save your favourite printed photos using your phone’s camera. Picture perfect and glare-free Don’t just take a picture of a picture. Create enhanced digital scans, wherever your photos are. – Get glare-free scans with an easy step-by-step capture flow – Automatic cropping based on edge detection – Straight, rectangular scans with perspective correction – Smart rotation, so your photos stay the right way up, no matter which way you scan them Scan in seconds Capture your favourite printed photos quickly and easily, so you can spend less time editing and more time looking at your bad childhood haircut. Safe and searchable with Google Photos Back up your scans with the free Google Photos app to keep them safe, searchable, and organised. Bring your scans to life with movies, filters and advanced editing controls. And share them with anyone, just by sending a link. Download

The latest beta version of the highly popular Nova Launcher for Android is rolling out in the Google Play Store. Beta testers who also have Android 7.1 Nougat installed are supposed to have support for the operating system’s new app shortcuts feature. We say “supposed to” because, according to Droid Life, the new apps shortcut feature for the Nova Launcher beta does not work on Google’s new Pixel phones, but apparently does work for other phones that have Android 7.1 installed. Keep in mind this is a beta and that means bugs will be found and, hopefully, squashed before the final version is released. The new beta of the Nova Launcher also has a backport of some Android 7.1 launcher shortcuts to Android 5.1 and 6.0. It also allows users to display weather in the Google Search bar.  Finally, this new version brings some unnamed “fixes and optimizations”. Interested in becoming a beta tester? First you’ll need to sign up to to be a tester at this link, then head to the Pla

Open Visual Studio 2013 and create a new SharePoint App as shown here: Open Default.aspx file and add the below code <%-- The following 4 lines are ASP.NET directives needed when using SharePoint components --%> <%@ Page Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPartPage, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" MasterPageFile="~masterurl/default.master" Language="C#" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="Utilities" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.S

Microsoft will launch applications on its Outlook.com email service. The company is expected to show some apps and add-ins for Outlook.com this week and some of the sessions at Build 2015 deal with the software. Apps and add-ins are currently only available for the Office 365 version of Outlook. Developers will soon be able to make an application that runs on Outlook for desktop, Office 365, and Outlook.com. A single store for these apps would be used across platforms. Since apps are limited right now, most of the ones that exist are for the enterprise, not regular users. The apps for Outlook move is part of a larger decision at Microsoft to turn Office into a platform.

Facebook is finally adding the much-awaited video calling feature in its Facebook Messenger app. This latest version is now available for download on both Google Play Store for Android users and Apple Store for iOS users. But this service is currently only available for Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.  To get started, just make sure that you have downloaded and installed the latest update on your phone. If you are running the latest version then you should see a video icon at the top of the conversation you of the person you want to call. So, now with voice calling support, video calling support, a GIF store, Hello Dialer and Payments, Facebook Messenger is currently the best app for Android and iOS.

Microsoft announced that Word, Excel and PowerPoint are now available for technical preview on PC, laptops and that are running the Windows 10 Technical Preview. In the coming weeks, they will open up the preview for the same apps on phones and tablets running Windows 10. These Office apps are optimized for touch screens and mobile use. No keyboard or mouse is required. If you have the windows 10 technical preview then you can go ahead and download these Office apps from windows store beta. These Office apps will come pre-installed for free on phones and tablets running Windows 10, and will be available for download on the Windows Store for other devices.

Google has started rolling out an update for its Maps app for Android, bringing a new feature named Local Guides. The feature, as a part of Google Maps version 9.4, gives users a better idea about places based on reviews by others. First spotted by 9to5Google, the Local Guides feature, previously known as City Experts, takes reviews for local businesses from regular users and share it with others using the Google Maps app. The feature highlights the top reviewers, similar to Yelp's Elite Reviewers, and also awards a Local Guides badge to signed-up reviewers once they reach 50 reviews. Regular users can also add images and edit Maps on Google to provide better information to others. "Through Local Guides, an official Google program, you can share your firsthand local experiences, celebrate places near and far from home, connect with a global community of explorers like you, and help local businesses improve their products and services," said the Local Guides official

Microsoft recently launched a new lock screen replacement app called as Picturesque for Android devices, this app is a part of Microsoft Garage project, it replaces your Android phones stock lock screen and focuses on showing all the information up front. The Picturesque app displays beautiful images from Bing home page to your lock screen and allows you to change the image by just shaking your phone or by swiping to the right. Missed call and text message notifications will be displayed on the lock screen and you can also search directly from the lock screen without unlocking your phone. Here is the full list of features this app offers: Beautiful Bing Homepage images : Beautiful bing images are displayed on your lock screen and the images update daily; you can swipe through the images from past 6 days or can shake your phone to change the image on your lock screen. Search on the lock screen: Using the bing search bar yiu can search for anything directly from