Neowin News Feed for: Annotations

Google Chrome gets a bunch of excellent productivity features

Usama Jawad — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:32:01 +0000

Chrome just leveled up with powerful new tools that could widen Google's already massive browser lead. Read more...

Pytype has been discontinued, leaving Google developers to search for other options

Usama Jawad — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 07:46:02 +0000

Google developers have discontinued Pytype, a tool that was once widely used within the company since its inception in 2012. Read more...

Google Slides will now let you annotate key content while you present

Anurag Singh — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:12:02 +0000

Google Slides will now let you annotate the key content with drawings while presenting. The new annotations feature will start rolling out to most users in the two weeks following August 23rd. Read more...

Microsoft patents story creation system with auto-generated content

Hamza Jawad — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:38:01 +0000

Microsoft's latest patent features a system that comprises of story creation and storytelling mechanisms involved with production of user-created content, which help in forming a background story. Read more...

Hybrid intelligence mechanism to improve content collaboration gets patented by Microsoft

Hamza Jawad — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 14:26:01 +0000

Microsoft has patented a technology that would enable easier content collaboration through addressing of inline notes in various ways, without having to access the actual documents. Read more...

Google set to finally extinguish YouTube annotations once and for all

Paul Hill — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 20:20:01 +0000

Google has announced that annotations will be removed from all content on its video platform, YouTube. The switch-off will take place in January 2019, 11 years since they initially launched. Read more...

Google has made the Android Pie SDK more Kotlin-friendly

Usama Jawad — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 04:28:01 +0000

With the announcement of Android 9 Pie a few days ago, Google has also released a new Kotlin-friendly SDK, which contains nullability annotations for popular APIs, resulting in more stable apps. Read more...

iPhotoDraw 2.4.6466

Razvan Serea — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:02:01 +0000

iPhotoDraw makes it easy to add annotations to your images. You can add text boxes, speech bubbles, arrows, shapes and text overlays and freely arrange one or more annotations within the same image. Read more...

iPhotoDraw 2.4.6451

Razvan Serea — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:22:01 +0000

Rap Genius changes its name to 'Genius', announces embeddable annotations for websites

Jett Goldsmith — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 20:58:59 +0000

As part of a massive rebranding, Rap Genius has changed their name to 'Genius' and announced an ambitious new side project: embeddable annotations for any website in the world. Read more...