instant messaging
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How to Make All Your WhatsApp Messages Disappear Automatically
WhatsApp’s Disappearing Messages feature has been quite limited so far — once enabled for a particular conversation or a group, all messages would be deleted automatically after seven days, but with no room for additional customisation, or a default setting for all chats.
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Show Up to Your Next Virtual Meeting As a Pixar Character
Listen, we’ve all spent way too much time on video calls in the last year-plus, but we’re hanging on to whatever we can to make our time on Zoom (or Teams, or Google Meet) tolerable, if not a little bit fun. With the Delta variant on the rise, it’s obviously time to turn yourself into…
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New Cross-Company Slack DMs Are Cool, But They Aren’t Private
Slack has launched a new direct-messaging feature that allows people from different companies to talk to one another. No problems there, right? The service is opt-in, in that you’ll have to approve anyone attempting to bother you on your work Slack before their messages appear — thank god. But that’s not the only quirk about…
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How to Send Disappearing Messages in Signal
Many messaging apps let you send disappearing messages, but Signal’s approach to the process is one of the best. It’s another great reason to start using the encrypted chat app if you’re looking for privacy-focused messaging — or if you’re an Elon Musk fan.