Google testing a new app for meeting up your friends

If you’re tired of being by yourself, but don’t know which of your friends are available to hang out with you, Google’s latest app can help you out. Who’s Down, as the company calls it, is an application that helps you easily find out which of your friends are free to meet up. Furthermore, this tool also helps you chat with the ones who might want to spend time with you and put together all the details for your encounter. Who’s Down is free and works on both iOS and Android devices, but you will need to request an invite from within the app in order to actually use it.

The way this works is pretty simple: you install Who’s Down on your device, then use the embedded slider to let your friends know if you’re in the mood to hang out or not. You can also specify what you want to do (such as go to have dinner, go to the gym, watch a movie, go for a walk in the park, etc.) and then see which of your buddies are available. Once you found someone to accompany you, the app will also allow you to chat with that person and set things up. Basically, this tool is all about tracking availability, an area that not many other applications fully cover.

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Is Your Mac Giving You Headaches?

Generally, I get a lot of calls from friends saying that something is wrong with their Mac. Besides the fact that the computers in question generally “get broken”, and they have almost never “been broken”, another thing that never stops to amaze me is that they always prefer to pick up the phone instead of trying to give Google a try.

I know it’s hard to believe, but chances are someone else had already faced the problem you are dealing with at some point, and the answer to your question can be found on the Web. Although, I actually think that Google should start offering prizes for people who manage to type an original query, I’ve come Jto peace with the thought that people prefer asking for help rather than searching for the solution. Still, I’ve assembled a list with the most common problems that I encountered, and quick solutions for fixing them in hope that at least a few people would use it instead of ringing their friend who’s “good with computers”.

The one thing to keep in mind is that this is in no way an “official troubleshooting guide” and although the fixes are pretty safe and will work most of the times, you should put them into practice at your own risk.

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