Instagram New App - Layout, Display And Share Collage Photos

The announcement news from Instagram that it now has a new application called Layout, 

The new app Layout, offers new features for Instagram users as they use their photos to build photo group collages. And subsequently be able to share to Instagram, Facebook, or any where else.

These type of applications already exist and they are quite popular, however Instagram now offers with this new app, features that are an improvement where compared to other apps such as Pic Stitch, Pic Collage, InstaCollage, PhotoGrid, and these are just a few examples. 

The way these apps offer features are all based on similar varieties of blank photo grids where users can customize with their own photos, optional text, stickers, frames and backgrounds.

With the new app Layout, users can build collages by changing the order of the steps involved in the typical process of other apps.

As a user selects its photos, Layout then presents previews of custom layouts that a user can scroll down to see its photos. Then a selection of up to nine photos can be made, and each time to tap to add another, photo grid options update automatically to reflect the new photos selected additions. At the end when a user is ready they can simply flick through the presented options in order to choose their grid.

On Layout there is also an option to select Faces, where a user from its camera roll can select and filter just photos with pictures that feature people.

Another new option on Layout, is the Photo Booth that a user can use to capture spontaneous moments. The way it works is that when a user taps this button, the app starts a countdown timer and then captures a series of photos that will appear instantly in a layout.

Layout app from Instagram,

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Microsoft Users Must Agree to New Service Agreement, from 19th October

Microsoft is now notifying users of services including Bing, Outlook, MSN, Skydrive, Office365 and Office, these notifications relate to a new update on the Microsoft Services Agreement.  It then follows, that the main relevant updates that users should note are presented below:

User produced content, can be automatically shared 
As a result, Microsoft can use user content to “provide, protect and improve” all “Microsoft products and services... including cloud services”. It can be concluded that the agreement is being updated to take into consideration the new release of Windows8, where users need to provide a Microsoft user account in order to use the Operating System with the new full features that include the cloud synchronizations.

This is similar to Google user services, such as Android phone users. In this context, and in particular relating to this new agreement from Microsoft, it may be the privacy concerns that may occur, in the case where Bing search engine uses user content to display publicly data and how it will select user content including whether a user has any veto power.

Users cannot sue Microsoft

Microsoft users will now only be able to request reconsiderations and take action on possible disputes via a binding arbitration, where user rights and proceedings are diminished.

The new updated Microsoft Services Agreement will be active for agreeing users from the 19th October 2012, in order to use Microsoft services.