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Vivaldi introduces vertical reader mode, a first for browsers
Vivaldi has launched version 1.14, celebrating its third anniversary since the browser’s first public technical preview. With this update, Vivaldi becomes the first browser to introduce a vertical reader mode. This version also includes Markdown support for Notes, rearrangeable Web Panels, and the ability to reorder search engines.
Founded by the founder of Opera Software, Jon von Tetzchner, the vivaldi.com browser allows you to do things your way online.
Vertical reader mode
The Vivaldi browser is the first browser to support a vertical Reader View. This feature reflects the priority on users’ individual needs that have driven innovation at Vivaldi over the last three years.
With Vivaldi’s Reader View, users can access content and enjoy a clutter-free reading environment. They can change the font, adjust the line height, column width, and switch to the dark or light background while in Reader View.
With the introduction of vertical reader mode in this release, Vivaldi caters to users of Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese and Korean languages. A vertical display is one of the default ways to view the written text in these languages. Users can now read texts in these languages comfortably with no distracting page elements. They can choose their reading preference by accessing Webpages in the Settings and clicking on vertical text direction.
“The needs of our users come first, no matter where they live or what language they read, write, or speak. The vertical reader mode gives them more flexibility to access content on the Web on their terms,” says Jon von Tetzchner. “We are confident that with this unique feature, users of the East Asian languages all across the globe will have yet another reason to choose Vivaldi.”
Markdown support to Notes
With each release, Vivaldi improves its differentiating features without relying on add-ons. Notes are among the most popular features, along with Tabs Stacks, Tab Tiling, and an extensive History function. Users can create notes in the browser’s sidebar, annotating websites and attaching screenshots while they browse.
In 1.14, the note-taking feature gets an upgrade with Markdown support, a natural and intuitive way of applying to format used by many sites, including GitHub and Reddit.
Users can now add formatting like headers, bolding and bulleted lists to their notes while surfing the web. This is a great way to organize notes, compose emails, to-do lists, and more. In addition to markdown formatting, they can also use this option to preview simple HTML.
Markdown support is useful from a productivity standpoint because it helps users – particularly bloggers, journalists, and researchers – to quickly and instantly format text. With this addition, users can use Notes to write longer emails, novels, and pretty much all other types of text documents.
Rearrangeable Web Panels
Taking cues from its community and improving the existing features have been a focal point of Vivaldi. One of Vivaldi’s signature features, Web Panels, has been greatly improved.
With Web Panels, individual websites can be added to Vivaldi’s side panels to browse alongside the main browser window. It is a great way of quickly browsing social media or news sites without switching tabs. Users can even adjust widths for different web panels, which gives them greater flexibility over how the content is presented.
In version 1.14, users now get the ability to reorganize and customize the Web Panels’ position in the sidebar of the browser. They can prioritize their choice of web pages on the fly to make their browsing even more interactive and convenient.
Reorder search engines
Vivaldi puts its users in full control to search the web the way they like. They can set their default search engine or select various alternatives such as the privacy-friendly DuckDuckGo and eco-conscious Ecosia. A new search engine can even be added instantly with a right-click, improving workflow and efficiency.
The latest version brings in a highly requested option to Vivaldi’s search functionality, adding more flexibility. Many users have requested the ability to rearrange their search engines.
With the new list layout, they can drag-n-drop (or use their keyboard) search engines in the order they want, with ease.
“Over the last three years, Vivaldi has introduced a series of novel features and customization options that keep our users productive, inspired, and engaged on the Web,” says Jon von Tetzchner. “We are trying to capture our users’ imaginations and focus on giving them multiple ways of accessing their favorite features so that they can browse exactly the way they want to.”
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Amr Diab Gets Hacked on Twitter
Amr Diab’s Facebook page has announced that his twitter account has been hijacked by anonymous and now tweeting political.
Update: Amr Diab’s Facebook Page announced that “Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been restored successfully and you can follow Amr’s tweets normally now”
Amr Diab got hacked on Twitter
On Thursday 9th of Jan, Amr Diab’s Facebook page announced that Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been hacked by anonymous and now tweeting politics!
Amr Abdul-Basset Abdul-Azeez Diab (born 11 October 1961) is an Egyptian singer and composer of pop music. He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle East Artist, three times: 1998 for the album “Nour El Ain”, 2002 for the album “Aktrr Wahid Byhbak 2001” and 2007 for the album “El Lillady”. Amr Diab also won The African Music Awards 2009, Big Apple Music Awards; Life Achievements Awards: Best Singer of The Year in 2009, and Best Male Act in African Music Awards 2010.
He is known as the Father of Mediterranean Music He has created his own style which is often termed “Mediterranean Music” or “Mediterranean Sound”, a blend of Western and Egyptian rhythms.
In The Mediterranean in Music, David Cooper and Kevin Dawe referred to his music as “the new breed of Mediterranean music”.According to author Michael Frishkopf, Amr Diab has produced a new concept of Mediterranean music, especially in his international hit, “Nour El Ain”.
In his analysis of The Very Best of Amr Diab album, Victor W. Valdivia of All music said: “His music melded traditional Arabic sounds and textures with Western rhythms and instruments. The mesh was dubbed Mediterranean music, and The Very Best of Amr Diab displays Diab’s superb skill in creating it.”
In 1997, he won three awards at the Annual Arabic Festival: one for Best Video, for Best Song, and for Best Artist of the Year. Diab received a Triple Platinum Award for the sales of Nour El Ain and a World Music Award in Monaco.
After the success of the previously shared overall analysis of Sherine’s new album “Ana Keter” and her social media presence, we decided to fulfill your requests with more details and additional insights.
The report is from Jan 15 through Jan 31, 2014; however, starting Feb, we noticed that Sherine’s team has enhanced and developed how they engage with fans on Facebook.
Still, there’s more to do; please review the slides below to know what exactly they are missing with recommendations.
Check out the report:
Key take-outs in 15 days after the launch:
- Album gained 11 million views in 2 weeks on YouTube
- YouTube Channel subscribers boosted by 90K subscribers in 15 days out of 127K total subscribers overtime
- Buzz reached 15K tweets/RTs since the launch on Twitter
- How do people talk about the album/Sherine on Twitter?
- People are sharing songs from YouTube & SoundCloud
- +90% positive sentiment on Twitter
- Sherine’s Twitter account is excellent at spreading the news about the album’s success.
- People are tweeting the song’s lyrics.
- Sarcastic tweets about Sherine & few songs (regular) - Almost zero negativity about the album
- Album teasers on Facebook created credibility for Sherine’s page, reflected in the page results after the album’s launch in the next 15 days with 92K Interactions & 312K New Likes.
- The album received tremendous engagement on the launching date of Jan 15. However, no posts for four days after the launch negatively affected the interactions.
Recommendations:
Sherine Abdel Wahab’s Facebook page would have received double or maybe triple new likes and interactions if the improved posts’ quality; please find below the points taken:
- Long updates with no extra value-added will lead to losing your fans’ interest
- The text-only format isn’t preferred, as it is well-known that they generate less reach than other content (Facebook announcement)
- A call to action is essential to generate leads & increase engagement
- Each post has to have its visual, audio, or video so you can attract/engage your audiences
- Understand the situation and act upon it, always be relevant to the time and avoid posting irrelevant content at the wrong time.
- Revise the tone of voice in future activities.
To recap - Overall performance is average to good - Enhance your content formatting - Improve the tone of voice on all networks - Be creative to engage your fans better - Be Consistent - Start your SoundCloud account.
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Putin, Obama war on social media starts with unfriend on Facebook
New stage of the cold war, is it?
The Social media war between Putin and Obama started with UnFriend, this is the action taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Facebook diplomacy with American president Barack Obama.
The unfriending comes after an official White House update about the possibility of a US-Syrian war. President Putin revealed that Obama’s updates about the Congressional debate on a possible war with Syria have annoyed him.
After unfriending, President Putin update status on profile “Something I should have done a long time ago”
Also, He said to Russia’s Pravda News Service “President Assad and I, we are the Facebook friends. We like the same pages, we share pictures of cute women and all that. Obama needs to lighten up on there, it’s not for serious stuff,”
President Obama’s latest posts about the possibility of the war in Syria have been reported by someone and he received a warning from Facebook that he will be prevented from posting on his profile for 24 hours.
He has also commented “Really, Putin needs to grow up. If he didn’t like that [post], he could have just hid it from his news feed instead of creating all this Facebook drama,”
JOE BIDEN “Vice President of the United States” announced to reports that President Obama has signed into his Twitter account to unfollow Putin.
The turmoil generated between Putin and Obama over their dispute on the Syrian crisis. Expanded to reach the social networks
Putin and Obama on social Networks
The question now is, are we witnessing a new stage of the cold war between the two countries, will they continue the war online instead of the military tactics and old spy war?
It’s obvious that social media is really changing the game in everything, and now it’s taking over on a very high level.
Keep an eye on Digital Boom and we will keep you posted with more news and updates on the cold war and even more…
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