In 2012, its funding goal of $100,000 for the original Pebble smartwatch was met in just 2 hours. This campaign went on to raise $10,266,845 in total. To top that, the Kickstarter funding goal of $500,000 for the follow-up Pebble Time smartwatch was met within a staggering 17 minutes with the campaign going on to raise a whopping $20,338,986. Pebble’s final Kickstarter campaign also exceeded the original funding goal, raising $12,779,843 in total after asking for only $1,000,000 initially....

I was not using any smart device like Google Home or Chromecast, but a quick Google Search told me that the problem is more widespread than I expected. Many users experience the same error while configuring Assistant, Chromecast, Google Home, Nest, and some smart devices too. Let’s see how we can solve this error and go about our daily routine. 1. AI Wars I would recommend you to choose one and disable or uninstall the other entirely to remove any possible conflicts in the future....

WhatsApp Groups have a limit of 256 users, but even a smaller group that’s active can blow up your phone’s notifications. You might wake up to a barrage of messages tagging you, discussing all sorts of things under the sun that you didn’t want any part of. Fortunately, WhatsApp includes a mechanism that prevents people from adding you to unsolicited and random groups. That way, you get an option to make a choice – whether you want to be part of that group and prevent spam from reaching your phone’s screen or not....

While it’s fun to run multiple apps, letting several of them to oepn automatically when you start your Mac isn’t ideal. This slows down the performance of your Mac and also ends up consuming a good chunk of the available RAM. Thankfully, you can stop apps from opening on startup on your Mac, just like how you can disable apps at startup on Windows 11. Why Apps Run at Startup When you turn on your MacBook from the ‘Shut down’ state, a few applications launch and start running in the background automatically....

VLC has been working on bringing the Chromecast support and it has not yet been fully launched. You can still use this feature by following a few steps. What Do You Need? To execute the following steps, you’d need these things: How to Stream from VLC in Windows PC to Chromecast Step 1. Download Latest Version of VLC Player Download the latest version of the VLC player from the official Nightly....

Don’t worry. You won’t have to do it manually because that would be slow and boring. Here are some of the best apps and services to transfer your Spotify playlists to Apple Music. Let’s begin. 1. Soundiiz Soundiiz supports many music streaming services including popular ones like Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music among others. First, you need to create an account using your preferred social media account through the social sign in feature....

You might want to transfer messages for two possible reasons. First, if you want to move Samsung Messages to the Google Messages app on the same phone and secondly, to a new phone running Google Messages app. Note: The Google Messages app is called Messages. To avoid confusion in this post, we will be using Messages by Google and Google Messages alternatively. The app is also referred to as Android Messages....

YouTube’s autoplay feature is turned on by default to help retain its viewers. But it can quickly become annoying as, more often than not, unrelated videos start playing right after your video ends. This can only stop if the autoplay setting is off on YouTube. Read on to know how to do it. Stop YouTube From Playing Next Video on Mobile App Our mobile devices come in handy when watching content on the go....

Starting with Bing Chat, Microsoft has been integrating AI into many of its services. In this guide, we will look at everything you need to know about Bing Image Creator and teach you to create cool images. Let’s get started. What Is Bing Image Creator Bing Image Creator is Microsoft’s effort to increase the user base for its search engine Bing. Based on OpenAI’s Dall-E, Bing AI image generator lets users use the same service capabilities without subscription charges....

As the name suggests, the one-handed mode is designed to let you use the phablet with ease. Once the one-handed mode kicks in, the OS shrinks down the entire screen to let you comfortably use the same UI. Let’s check the add-on in action. Shall we? Enable One-Handed Mode With a Gesture There are two ways to navigate the OS in One UI. You can either go with age-old navigation (Home, Recents, and Back) buttons or opt for gestures to move around the UI....

Adding a star to an email is the easiest way to organize necessary emails on the desktop and mobile. Apart from adding a yellow star, you can tag an email as blue-star, green-check, purple question, and even customize the default options. Let’s check it in action. Add Star to an Email You can hit the star icon beside an email and check the same from a dedicated ‘Starred’ menu in the Gmail sidebar....

While you can view saved passwords on your iPhone for apps and online accounts, Apple makes it easy to view your Wi-Fi password with the iOS 16. So you can view saved Wi-Fi passwords directly on your iPhone. That works best if you keep long and complicated password for your Wi-Fi network and don’t need to remember it. So far, Android, Windows, and Apple’s macOS allows you to view the saved Wi-Fi passwords....

Windows 10 is about righting old wrongs. The Start menu is back, there’s Cortana, modern apps run in their own windows on the desktop, which is now the default. Windows 10 even supports virtual desktops, one of my most used features on the Mac. If like me you’re excited about Windows 10, you can try and install the Technical Preview right now. It’s available as an ISO file for free....

What is even worse, all of these procedures had to be done by connecting wirelessly to your computer and you had to update your backups as often as possible if you didn’t want to lose anything. Thankfully, starting with iOS 5 and onwards, Apple introduced iCloud, its wireless backup and syncing solution that makes backing up your notes, SMS, calendars and contacts a safe and seamless procedure. Here’s how to do it: Step 1: On your Home screen, tap on Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup...

Swapps for Android Swapps is a launcher for Android which works in parallel with your existing app launcher (stock or other Android launchers). The major difference between a traditional launcher and Swapps is that you can initiate the latter without leaving any application you are working on. Let’s now have a deeper look at how the app and its features work. After you install Swaps from the Play Store, launch it....

available in the App Store , art apps are perhaps some of the most understated. There are great offerings available but most of the best ones are paid and usually deal with very specific topics, such as one artist or one art genre. However, what if you would like to learn more about art in general or to just wander around an app where you can discover new art and artists and be surprised?...

Mother’s Day is around the corner, and BLUETTI is also ready with special deals. While most of us consider gifting lifestyle-related items to our mothers (or the motherly figure in our lives). However, if you want to give practical gifts, check out some of the BLUETTI deals this Mother’s Day. These portable power stations and power backup systems are often the perfect gifts, especially if you and your mom love to camp out or go on long trips....

create playlists . Of course, with computers and smartphones, playlists have become not just important, but absolutely essential, especially among those with huge music libraries. If you spend a lot of time with your iPhone, you might already know that you can create playlists right on your device. The iPhone is not limited to just that, however. In fact, once your playlists have been created on your iOS device, you can also seamlessly transfer them to iTunes on your Mac or Windows PC....

This situation can only improve if you can monitor and control broadband bandwidth in a way that you get to choose how much bandwidth an application or a service can use. There is a tool known as NetBalancer which helps you with that. It monitors and controls internet traffic. For various network applications you can decide transfer rate according to priority. It gives preference to application with higher priority and allows them to acquire more traffic bandwidth in comparison to application with lower priority....

In the beginning, I too thought that Start Screen was a waste for desktop and laptop users but when I started working on it, I realized that it actually is very helpful. Start Screen is the first thing that opens up when Windows 8 boots up and if you have pinned your favorite, regularly used items onto it, you will actually start loving the ease of access it provides. So today I will show you how you can pin new items to Start Screen to make it more helpful....