Apple Watch fashionistas, Facebook On This Day, Google Pony Express, an online drum machine, Catstacam trumps Instagram, and an online relationship with a difference.

The Apple Watch is Fashionable

If you plan to venture into an Apple Store later this year, you should prepare to be offered fashion advice, at least as far as your choice of watch goes. This is because, according to 9to5Mac, Apple Store employees are being "trained to provide personal fashion and styling advice to customers."

This is a change of strategy prompted by the release of the Apple Watch, which will be sold in a similar vein to traditional watches. Talk of specs and features are out, to be replaced by talk of which strap and color best suits each individual Apple Watch buyer.

Critics have long argued that Apple products offer a certain amount of style over substance, and this will only cement that feeling. Especially as most right-thinking people would still prefer to spend hundreds of dollars on a real watch that will last decades rather than a smartwatch (Apple Watch or otherwise) that will be out-of-date in the blink of an eye. Sorry, i.

Facebook Launches On This Day

Cool idea, too bad my memories aren't on Facebook otherwise my mom would see them and be weird about it http://t.co/e6a7jRuzLj

— Federico Viticci (@viticci) March 24, 2015

Facebook has officially launched a new feature called On This Day. Having been tested for the last two years, On This Day is now rolling out to Facebook users around the world. In a nutshell, it's Timehop for Facebook, offering a reminder of what you were doing on this day in years gone by.

By default only you can see your nostalgic content, with the option to share specific content with friends. Facebook has also sought to avoid embarrassing or upsetting people by hiding content from previous partners and people who have recently passed away. That is as long as all the relevant information was filled in at the time. Which, if you're as lazy as I am, is unlikely.

Pay Bills Directly Through Gmail

Gmail down is our century's equivalent to the Pony Express horse dropping dead.

— Elaine Liner (@ElaineLiner) January 24, 2014

You may soon be able to pay bills directly through Gmail, with Google working on a feature brilliantly codenamed Pony Express. Expected to be rolled out by the end of 2015, Google's Pony Express is being billed as "the future of paper mail."

After providing personal information such as a social security number, users will be able to pay bills directly from within Gmail using a bank account, or credit or debit card. It could also be used the other way round, with a user billing a roommate or friend for their share of an outstanding debt. And thus petty arguments about money are ended forever. Or perhaps not.

Play an Online 808 Drum Machine

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You can now play an online version of the legendary Roland TR-808 drum machine, the real-world version of which was used by such artists as the Beastie Boys, Outkast, and Kanye West.

The online HTML5 version features all of the real percussion sounds, which you can adjust to your heart's content. And when you're happy with your hip-hop bassline, you can export it as a WAV file. [H/T FACT Magazine]

Catstacam Puts Cats on Instagram

We already know cats have taken over the Internet at this point in time, but their popularity has always relied on loved-up owners posting pictures online. Until now. Thanks to Catstacam, which lets your cat post pictures to Instagram without any involvement from the owner.

Catstacam is a small camera that cats wear around their necks. Developed by cat food company Whiskas, it snaps one photograph every 10 seconds, posting the snapshots to Instagram when the cat comes into range of your Wi-Fi network.

Catstacam is a prototype currently being tested by a handful of celebrities [Broken URL Removed], but it may be released to the wider population at a later date. If you hate pictures of cats then you'd better keep all your fingers and toes crossed that this thing never sees the light of day.

An Online Relationship With a Difference

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And finally, most of us encounter random strangers online on a daily basis, whether on social networking sites or the comments sections of blogs. But very few of us then take those relationships any further, perhaps by meeting up in the real world.

This short film, titled Windscreenwiperman, tells the story of an adult male who meets a teenage boy online. Their relationship develops further, but is this all entirely innocent or is there a sinister twist in store? The result is an intriguing film directed by Sam Baron. [H/T CNET]

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