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Most messaging services these days use your cell service or the Internet. But if you find yourself in a place with fluctuating signals and no Internet, then an alternative you can consider is TinCan. It’s an app that lets you send messages to other TinCan users who are within WiFi range, which is about 100 feet.
So how does it work? Well, the app appears as a WiFi hotspot with the ssid TinCan_(randomID) to users who don’t have the app. When the app detects someone with TinCan nearby, it automatically exchanges messages that they don’t have in common. That said, the messages are public, with its developer describing it as being “akin to Twitter or IRC.”
Users can subscribe to other TinCan users to receive their messages, which are limited to 220 characters and currently have a lifespan of 90 days.
TinCan was successfully funded on Kickstarter last April and can now be downloaded for free from Google Play.
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They say a picture speaks a thousand words, but sometimes, you don’t need that many. The quote implies figurative words, but there’s a way for you to literally insert text into an image–without having it appear as mere text–by concealing the words into glitch images. The image sharing site that lets you do this is called Cryptstagram, which was set up by ad agency The Barbarian Group.
Basically, all you’ll have to do is upload an image and add a message. The site does the rest by “encrypting” your message into the image. It even allows you to protect your image/message with a password for good measure. The resulting images can be shared via the site or saved to your computer, if you prefer to send it in some other way. Recipients of Cryptstagrams can then visit the site to decrypt their messages.
You can check Cryptstagram out here.
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If you need to send someone a message but have to be discrete about it, then you might want to give Crypstagram a shot. It’s an image sharing site does more than just provide you with a means to share images with other people.
That’s because the image has to go through their system first before it’s ready for sharing.
What Crypstagram is encrypt your image by embedding a message into it. When I say “embed,” I do mean embed because it doesn’t just add text onto your image as an overlay or caption. It actually incorporates your message into the image and distorts it in the process.
Just select the image you want to use, upload it to the site, and add your message. Once it’s encrypted, you’ll end up with a surreal, glitched out image. You can then choose to share it or download it to your computer so you can email it to the recipient for decryption – which can only be achieved if you have the proper password.
Try it out for yourself here.
BlackBerry's messaging tool doesn't appear to be live for Android and iOS just yet, but if this new landing page is any indication, the service is just about ready to launch. A new dedicated page with the banner "BBM for Android and iPhone is here," appeared under the company's Canadian domain this morning, along with an inactive link to download BBM for Android and another for iPhone. Further down the page are references to additional features that won't be included at launch, such as BBM Voice, BBM Video and screen sharing features, which instead are expected this fall. The page has since been removed, but it may reappear any minute/hour/day now at the source link below.
[Thanks, Felix]
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Source: BlackBerry