TechCrunch reports on Google’s location history browser.

If you carry any Google-filled gear (like, say, an Android phone or tablet), there was a prompt during the initial setup that asked if Google could transmit your location data back to the mothership. This is that data. You know how Google Now can auto-magically figure out where you work and warn you about traffic? This is the data that makes that possible (or at least a good chunk of it.)

If you are using an Android device and cannot remember if you agreed to send your location data, check this link to see if Google is tracking your location. Unfortunately, Google does not have any of my location history so I will appreciate it if you can share your experience. Do you find it awesome or creepy?

WeChat has announced a partnership to allow users to share personalised sticker from Japan-based MotionPortrait’s sticker-making app StickerMe.

StickerMe users are able to custom stickers from a selfie. Through this partnership, WeChat users can share their personalised stickers from the StickerMe app directly to their WeChat conversations and Moments.

As part of the launch of this collaboration, MotionPortrait has made a set of Christmas-themed StickerMe templates available exclusively to WeChat users this December.

StickerMe is available free on App Store and Google Play.

(via WeChat Malaysia)

Chuq Von Rospach writes about how Apple can implement a system to report unwanted “Rate this app” dialogs.

What you want to build here is a reputation system. Every time this team validates a report, everyone who made that report gets their reputation value incremented. Every time a report is rejected, those that reported gets their reputation value decremented. Over time, you’ll build a data set that will tell you how reliably a person giving a report is in sync with the standards of those judging the reports.

Steven Aquino writes about the inclusion of button shapes in iOS 7.1 beta 2.

From a AX perspective, what the new Button Shapes do is restore a sense of explicitness to iOS 7′s interface. These types of visual cues are so important to many visually impaired users, myself included. Whereas previously I struggled in identifying whether a label was an actionable control or simply a label, iOS 7.1′s Button Shapes hearken back to the iOS 6-style, This is a button. Tap me!, level of usability. And therein is the point: usability. As I stated, it’s perfectly valid to wince at and decry the visual design of the new buttons, but make no mistake, the addition of this feature is a tremendous improvement for visually handicapped users such as myself. These buttons will make iOS 7 infinitely more usable than it is today, and Apple absolutely should be applauded for addressing a serious issue — not only for me, but even for the normal-sighted as well.

Very good point. It seems that many people missed the fact that the option is available under Accessibility. The inclusion of the ability to turn on button shapes is for the benefit of visually impaired users. The emphasis is on making iOS 7 more usable for this particular group of people, and not on making it look visually stunning for everyone.

Evernote has updated its Android app with improved not editing.

If you are like many Evernote users, then you’re creating notes across a variety of platforms. It used to be that when you tried to edit one of these notes on Android, you were likely to wipe out much of the text styling. Not anymore. Now, Evernote for Android has expanded its support for styles created in other versions of Evernote. Also, if a given style is unsupported on Android, the app will allow you to edit the content, while maintaining the styling so that it displays correctly when viewed on other platforms.

Good news for Android Evernote users.

I thought the 256 GB on my MacBook Pro is measly. The LG Chromebase beat that with just 16 GB of storage.