How To: Organize yourself when you start teaching English
This is a basic orientation chat for new English teachers about how to go about organizing your thinking when you get into teaching English. You are in control. Remember that!
This is a basic orientation chat for new English teachers about how to go about organizing your thinking when you get into teaching English. You are in control. Remember that!
PirateBox is a great way to communicate with others nearby when cellular and Wi-Fi networks aren't available. With it, you can anonymously share any kind of media or document and even talk to one another by voice — without being online. However, it needs a Raspberry Pi, which is more expensive than ESP32 boards, and if you only need a text-based chat, there's a much simpler option.
Whether gabbing via cloud chat or Secret Chat, there's no denying that private messaging is one of Telegram's strengths. Communications can often occur at night, where Telegram's default bright white theme can be a bit uncomfortable to use, but Telegram supports dark mode on Android and iOS — with a few different themes to match any late-night chatting style.
Traditionally, if you were looking for end-to-end encrypted messaging, you'd stick with something like iMessage, WhatsApp, or Signal. However, if you already use Facebook Messenger, you have all you need for truly private chats with its built-in E2E encryption. It's available to all users, on Android and iOS — you just need to know where to look.
Sometimes incorrectly referred to as "iMessage," the Messages app is where iPhone owners go to chat with iOS users across the world. Apple has made some significant improvements to the messaging app with its iOS 12 update for iPhone. If you're interested to see how your Messages experience has changed since installing the new firmware, check out the features below.
If you're using Telegram for its "Secret Chats" feature, which provides end-to-end encryption for your messages, then I'd highly recommend locking down the app itself with a passcode, PIN, or password. While your phone itself may have a secure lock screen already, if that gets compromised, you'll at least have an extra layer of security on your important conversations.
Emoji is the Japanese term for picture icon characters used in electronic messages. Like emoticons the icons have a wide range of characters. Though Emoji has been integrated since iOS 5 the keyboard is not visible. I'm going to show you how to add the Emoji character keyboard to your Apple iPhone, iTouch & iPad. Adding the Emoji keyboard in IOS will give you colorful character, smileys and emoticon keys to use in emails, iMessage messages and chat apps. Upon adding the new keyboard you will ...
Many people are frustrated with how big and in-your-face the Facebook news ticker is. If you want to shorten it so that it doesn't take up so much space, try adjusting the length of the ticker with the bar that exists between it and the chat list.
Curious about Google's new social network, Google+? Get the rundown by watching this video and learn the ins and outs of Google plus, including the circles feature, the chat feature, photos and more. This is your video guide to Google+.
Have you heard? Probably not, if you don't have Skype, the free global calling service that enables video chat over wireless. Download Skype and follow the instructions of this helpful video to learn how to install it, so you can start making calls.
The Sparkle app for your iPhone or iPod Touch is a client which allows you to message your friends in Second Life without having to log fully into Second Life. Great if all you want to do is send someone a quick chat message without playing the game.
Learn the "insider secrets" to using Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger) like a phone. Everyone is about Skype and Google Talk, but little know Messenger can also do it. CNET tells you about video chatting, texting and more. Talk the talk in Windows Live Messenger.
This next tutorial is a rather easy one to follow and complete. It shows you where you have to go in order to get the Overkill achievement in the game Brutal Legend. To get this achievement, you must complete all the hunting missions and then meet up with the Hunter. Once you've had a chat with him, you'll be rewarded with an awesome weapon and 20 gamerscore. Good luck!
Did you just get a brand new Toyota and aren't sure how to connect your phone to the head unit? In this video, you will learn exactly how to hook up your cell phone to most 2009 Toyota vehicles. All you need is a Bluetooth enabled device and you will be safely chatting in no time.
Is there a certain someone whom you'd rather not have to talk to on Facebook? Learn how to block him or her (and only him or her) with this helpful guide. For specifics, including step-by-step instructions on the blocking process, and to get started blocking your own friends and frenemies, watch this helpful how-to.
PureChat 2008 ships with an OnTime plug-in that allows you to quickly turn live web chat conversations into defects, feature requests, incidents or tasks in OnTime -- with just a few mouse clicks!
See the demo to learn how to take advantage of some of the advanced features of Office Communicator 2007, including rich-text formatting, transferring files, and escalating to a Live Meeting. If you use Office Communicator at your office for video conference calls or chatting, then this tutorial will explain some very useful advanced features.
Here is the real answer to the question: Paper or plastic? Join your friendly neighbor for a fireside chat about plastic bags and how Americans consume 380 billion of them a year. If you don't need a bag, don't take one. You can use fabric bags and reuse them over and over again. You can also reuse plastic bags for trash can liners, doggy bags, etc.
Howard Lederer, Phil Gordon, Mike Matusow, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth talk about their experiences playing against aggressive amateurs.
Google Talk is an application that allows you to chat to your Googlemail(Gmail) contacts without being signed into your online Googlemail inbox.
This video is a solid episode of happiness and Pinot Noir and Bordeaux. Check it out as Gary tastes and describes these wines for you: 2004 Vitae Chianti Colli Senesi, 2003 Mahoney Las Brisas Pinot Noir, 2002 Pieve Del Vescovo Lucciaio, 2003 Chat Haut Gardere, and 2003 La Cueva Del Contador.
No webcam and don't feel like purchasing one? Ever wonder how you could use your DV camcorder as your webcam? CNET Video will teach you how to turn your DV camcorder into a webcam through easy steps!
Sometimes, keeping every message comes in handy. Maybe you want to relive fun conversations from months or years ago, or perhaps you need to recall a piece of data such as an address, name, or link. However, not all chats need to stick around forever. Whether you're concerned about privacy or just keeping your threads clutter-free, WhatsApp's "disappearing messages" may be what you're looking for.
Facebook Messenger Lite is more than just a battery-friendly version of the full-fledged Messenger app for Android. It's still packing some pretty neat features and it's so much snappier than its bloated counterpart. All of the essentials are present, down to the ability to give your contacts nicknames.
Sometimes you may need to send a message out at a specific time. Say a thought strikes you late at night, but you don't want to wake anyone up. You could do this by waiting to sending it at your desired time — or, you could schedule your message at a precise time.
Ideas can hit you out nowhere, but texting loved ones in the wee hours of the morning or during work hours isn't always ideal, especially if they've muted their notifications. So you'll want to send a message at a better time to ensure it gets the attention it deserves. Samsung Messages lets you do just that by scheduling messages to send at a later date.
The Messages app on iOS features contact photos for every one of your conversations — including group chats. Even if you don't have a picture for a specific contact, their initials will appear instead. For non-contacts, a generic profile avatar appears. These give threads a bit of flare, but if you're looking for extra privacy or don't enjoy the look, you can easily hide those images and icons.
Thanks to its encrypted messaging, WhatsApp can be a platform for secure communication with friends and family. One drawback, however, is that the app would let anyone add you to a group chat, regardless of if you approved it or not. This lack of control over your own account is over, as WhatsApp now lets you decide who can add you to a group chat.
On Thursday, yet another piece of the Magic Leap puzzle fell into place at Twilio's Signal developer and customer conference in San Francisco.
For years, Skype has been synonymous with video calling and messaging. However, as the industry moved toward encryption and privacy, Skype usage was discouraged by experts due to its murky encryption. To combat this, Skype has introduced true end-to-end encryption.
For quite some time, popular messaging apps like Snapchat have had features that let you place stickers on photos and videos to add time and location-based information. To catch up, WhatsApp has now added the same functionality to its messaging platform in an effort to remain among the most well-rounded messaging apps available.
Snap Inc.'s dedication to augmented reality has expanded the world lenses in Snapchat to our own Bitmojis. While it's great to see our characters interacting with real environments, we haven't seen them connect to other Bitmoji in AR space. That all changes with "3D Friendmojis," a lens from Snapchat that lets you stage scenes between your Bitmoji and a friend's.
Let's say you want to send out a message to all of your friends. Normally, you'd have to put all of the recipients into one giant group thread to do this. But when people started responding to your message, everyone in the group would get a notification, so your friends would probably be annoyed that you started the group thread in the first place. Luckily, if you're using WhatsApp, this isn't an issue.
Say goodbye to boring video chats over Messenger. Now the app is rolling out new features that can make any chat interesting and fun.
Google's original messaging service got a nice version bump today. Hangouts now sports stickers, video chat filters, an updated Material Design interface, and a few new features that should make the service a little more fun and easy to use.
Hangouts and WhatsApp might be the preferred messaging apps for Android, but it's only a matter of time before Facebook Messenger surpasses them.
I can certainly say that I don't like be ignored, and you're probably right there with me on that. Also, if you're like me, you don't like being blocked on an instant messenger, either. There's something about being shafted like that that can really cramp your style.
For over three years, Facebook users have been able to clog up their Facebook chats with little pictures of smiley faces and red hearts, but now it has finally gone a step further...
Things tend to get noisy when you're in a big group chat, which is why the notification sound for that thread shouldn't be your standard, attention-grabbing ringtone. But you don't want to set the default notification sound to something too subtle, otherwise you'd miss messages that actually matter.
WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Facebook, has several important privacy and security-related features, including end-to-end encryption, screen lock, read receipts, and two-step verification. If you're an avid WhatsApp user, you'll be happy to know there are more privacy features you might not know, such as hiding your profile photo from other users.