EDIT POSTS ON FACEBOOK AFTER SHARING

Typo ruin your social media masterpiece? Facebook is starting to let you edit a post’s text after you publish it. This feature is available on the web and Android in an update today, and will come for iOS soon. Previously you had to delete your post, lose all your Likes and comments, and repost to edit something. Android users also get emotion and activity sharing, events at a glance, and photo album creation today.

Soon you’ll be able to edit all posts and comments from the web, Android, or iOS. To edit posts, you’ll be able to click the down arrow in the top right of one of your posts and select ‘Edit Post’ to change the text, then click “Done Editing” as shown in this screenshot from Spencer Chen. Your revisions and original post will still be viewable if friends check your post’s edit history, though. For comments, hovering over or tapping a post will reveal a pencil icon on the right you can click to start editing.

BLACKBERRY MESSENGER FOR DESKTOP(COMING SOON)

We all know that BlackBerry failed miserably in its attempt to bring BBM to Android and iOS last week, but the Canadian company has given up on making its popular messaging service available to all and guess what,it’s also planning to bring BBM to your desktop, too.

BlackBerry showed off BBM for Windows during BlackBerry Jam Asia this week. It looks exactly how you’d expect a desktop instant messaging client to look, only with BlackBerry 10’s buttons and menu bars. A Mac application wasn’t previewed, but given the company’s new focus on making BBM available to all, we’re assuming there is one in development.

A desktop app could give BBM a much greater chance at competing with already-popular cross-platform messaging clients like WhatsApp, which are somewhat difficult  &
complex to use in PCs or Laptops. Critics have been questioning whether BBM has a unique feature that could lure users away from these services, and a good desktop app could certainly be it.

But BlackBerry needs to bring BBM to Android and iOS first, of course, and it’s having problems trying to do that. It briefly made BBM for iPhone available over the weekend, but it had to halt its rollout and pull the app due to problems with its servers. BBM for Android didn’t even get a chance to grace Google Play.

BlackBerry has promised that it’s working hard to fix the problems and that BBM’s cross-platform rollout will continue later, but it’s unclear at this point when we can expect to see the app.

INSTAGRAM FOR iOS 7 GETS A MILD LOOK

Instagram has been updated for Apple’s iOS 7 today with a new design that puts photos front and center. The app has not been re-written or torn down for the logic of iOS 7 so much as trimmed and tucked to fit with the aesthetic.

• “With the introduction of iOS 7 and its emphasis on clarity, we were excited to rebuild the look    and feel of Instagram in a way that would bring these principles together and let the moments    this community captures and shares shine,” said the Instagram team. “We led our redesign with a focus on clarity to keep the feel of Instagram clean, simple and grounded in the photos and videos you discover and share.”
• Images and videos now fill the screen from edge to edge, which is a nice design change that makes the content feel more immersive. Another plus of edge-to-edge media viewing is that Instagram now supports higher resolution uploads, so the stuff you shoot won’t look as scaled down.