Web User - UK (2019-08-07)

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Tell us yourfavourite new thingsattwitter.com/webusermagazine 7 - 20August 2019 7

bit.ly/disney
Oh boy, has Spotify got a treat for you.
Search “Disney” on the music streaming
service and you’ll be taken to a hub full of
music from Disney movies and TV shows
such asFrozenandThe Lion King. You’ll also
find playlists from Star Wars and Marvel
movies, as well as compilations for ro ad
trips, showers and bedtime.

Check hygieneratings

http://www.just-eat.co.uk

Just Eat is now dishingout Food

Standards Agency hygiene

information for tens of th ousands of

restaurants. Before orde ring your

grub, click the Info tab on the

eatery’s page to see a rating and

find out when it was last insp ected.

Seeandhear London species

augmentedarchitecture.org

Download the DeepListener app

and headfor Kensington Gardens

and Hyde Park in London. There

you can embark on an augmented-

reality ecological expedition that

lets you see and hearLondon plane

trees, bats, parakeets, azure blue

damselfl ies and reedbeds.

Switch fromsongs to videos

http://www.youtube.com/musicpremium

Subscribers to YouTube Premium

and YouTube Music Premium can

now switch from playing audio to

watchinga music video without

interrupting the tune. The feat ure

works for five million tracks.

translate.g oogle.co.uk

Google Translate’s Instant Camera has

added 60 more languagesto its

repertoire, making

the world feel more

accessible than ever.

You can now launch

the iOS or Android

app, point the

camera at some

foreign text in one of

88 languagesand

translate it to English

or another lingo

instantly, which is

sure to make holiday

travel much easier.

What’s more, the

app automatically

detects the

language you’re

pointing at, and Google has improved

the accura cy of it s translations. Just

open the app, tap the camera icon and

aim at the text you want to translate.

artsan dculture.google.com

After its online exhibition of paintings

by Vermeer last year, the Google Arts

& Culture app has a new virtual 3D art

gallery, this time themedaround

colour. You can stroll aroundits four

rooms using your iOS or Android

smartphoneto see the exhibits, which

are grouped according to their palette.

The gallery usesaugmented reality to

display works taken from 33 partner

institutio ns across

four continents. To

view them, launch

the app, select

Pocket Gallery and

choose The Art

of Colour. Then

point your camera

at a flat surface,

move it in a circle

and see the art

spring to life.

http://www.google.co.uk/maps
If you needto get on a bike, you can now check
for available cycles using Google Maps. The new
feat ure shows you the location of public bike-
sharing stations in 24 cities across the world,
including London and Dublin, highlighting how
many bikes are there and whether there’s space
to leave one you’ve already hired. Ju st search for
a bike-hire company to see the information.

Binge on Disney tunes with Spotify

Instantly translate

88 languages

Walk around

a colourful

art gallery

Find bike-sharing

stations nearby

We pick the 10 best things you must do on the web this fortnight

NEW VOICE

COMMANDS

Pick arandom number

Say “Hey Google, give me a

random number”, and after a jazzy

sound effect the Assistant will do

just that. Good for picking a horse

or lottery numbers, perhaps?

Chat in two languages

Provided the app has

permiss ion to use your microphone,

Google Translate for iOS and Siri

lets you co nduc t a conversation in

two lang uage s to help you break

through the lang uagebarrier.

Discover popularsongs

If you subs cribe to Amazon

Music, you can ask for the most

popu lar songs in a certain city. Say,

“Alexa, play the top songs in

[cityn ame]” to hear what ’s hot.