Angry Birds Friends for Android released
I never really understood the popularity of the Angry Birds franchise. For me, it is a casual game that reminds me of Flash games that I used to play on various gaming sites throughout the years. It is liked by many - including my nephew who cannot get enough of it - and Rovio Mobile, the company behind it, is releasing new editions of the game regularly to provide players with additional levels and minor cosmetic changes - mostly.
The company has released Angry Birds Friends today for Android and iOS. The big change introduced in the game is the play with friends mode that you can make use of to play with your Facebook friends and in tournaments. Facebook? Yes, you do need to link a Facebook account to the game to play all levels except for the tutorials which are free to try. The tutorials do not really teach you anything new if you have played a game of Angry Birds before, and the need to play through it before you can start playing the game with your friends is probably not the best idea. Still, the tutorial can be completed in a couple of minutes and should not be a problem for players who played an Angry Birds game before.
I could not really figure out how to link a Facebook account to the game. All I got when I clicked on the Play Tournament button was a message that I needed to connect a Facebook account to play the weekly tournaments and against friends, but there was no option to do so. Quite puzzling to say the least.
I was not able to open the Facebook page for Angry Birds Friends either, it just displayed a white page in Firefox and Google Chrome. Not sure what is going on here, maybe too much load?
Anyway, if you like Angry Birds and do not mind linking your Facebook account to the game, you may want to give it a try to see if you have better luck than I had trying it out. If you have an idea why the game is not working for me, let me know in the comments.
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.