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Featuring a performance-driven core and coupled with great pricing, the Asus ZenFone 5Z is the newest face in the affordable segment. Hence, it begs the question of whether it’s worth investing in this new flagship. In this post today, we weigh the pros and cons of the phone and try to find out if you should buy the new Asus ZenFone 5Z. Asus ZenFone 5Z Pros 1. Flagship Processor for the Price The octa-core Snapdragon 845 at the heart of the ZenFone 5Z makes for an interesting bargain....

Hence, it brings us to an important question—is the Bang & Olufsen Beosound A1 better than Marshall Emberton? Is it the other way around? Well, that’s what we will find out in this post as we compare the Beosound A1 against Marshall Emberton. Since it’s going to be a long post, let’s get going, shall we? But first, This is how you can make calls using duo from Google Nest speakers Here are the best outdoor garden speakers that you can buy Take a look at these best waterproof Bluetooth speakers under $60...

At first glance, both these earphones have a lot in common. But what happens when we pit the Creative Outlier Air against the 1More Stylish? Do they have any uncommon features? Well, that’s what we shall find out in this post today where we compare them against each other. Design & Controls Unlike a couple of years ago, truly wireless earphones are now sleek and unobtrusive. You won’t find the same bulky head, neither will they fall off your ears at the slightest pretext, as long as you are wearing the proper fit....

Android uses a much smarter way. In an app, the user just needs to look for the share button, tap on it and select the app he wants to share the photo with. The Android ecosystem takes care of everything else. When you access the share menu on your Android smartphone, you see a list of apps that support intra-app sharing. The list keeps on increasing as you install more apps that support the function, and most of them we tend to never use....

Ditto is what it says it is. Ditto extends the standard windows clipboard. It saves each item placed on the clipboard and allows you to access any of those items at a later time. Why do you need a clipboard manager when the default Windows clipboard does its job ably? Not exactly, because the standard clipboard doesn’t retain multiple items and does not allow us access to them at a later point....

But at the end of the day, how do you distinguish between these two audio formats? Is DTS HD Master Audio better than the slightly older Dolby TrueHD? Or, are the differences too negligible to be noticeable? Well, that’s what we’ll explore as we dive deep into the technicalities between Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio. Since, it’s going to be a long one, let’s get started, shall we? But before that,...

Google, despite its deep roots in Android, makes some of the best third-party alternatives to the iPhone’s native apps and services — Chrome, Google Photos, Google Calendar, and more. And Google Duo falls squarely into that camp. But is it good enough to replace FaceTime? After using Google Duo on the iPhone for the past few weeks, here’s what I think. FaceTime — iOS Integration FaceTime is designed for the iPhone....

This behavior can also be seen in iTunes. As you can see below, I have selected the Album view and the songs aren’t grouped together in the 2012 Grammy Nominees album. When and Why Does This Occur? This usually occurs when the artists are different, like in the Grammy album that I bought. All artists were different and hence the songs were showing as different too. Another reason could be the lack of Album Artist, which ideally should be attached to every song in iTunes....

Having said that, WMA has a wide presence too and users with MP3 players sometimes face issues because the player won’t play WMA files. Free WMA to MP3 convertor is an effective tool which converts WMA into MP3 file format easily. This free to use tool can batch convert WMA files into MP3 format and vice versa. It exports all the associated tags from the source file to the converted file....

One suchfeature is the “Swivel View”, which was recently introduced and brought to notice by the official Google Photos blog. Swiveling is the ability to rotate a photo (which is actually a combination of photos, as explained below) by 360 degrees by simply dragging it left or right. The photo does a full circle showing all the angles. You can get a feel of swivel viewing on the original ‘swivel-viewer’ project page (click on the image): Generally speaking, creating an actual 360 degree view effect requires you to snap photos of the same object from numerous closely spaced angles, arrange them all together in proper order and queue them in a fast slideshow mode....

Devices then had to be plugged into iTunes to try updating once more, but more problems ensued there. Some users report being unable to update from iTunes and unfortunately having to restore the iPhone or iPad, removing all content and settings. Twitter lit up with hundreds if not thousands of complaints, many of which Apple Support tried tackling as quickly as possible. Even some high-profile technology journalists suffered from the issue....

MS Outlook or Windows Live Mail (WLM) always open, the program ends up eating some space on the Windows taskbar . Is it always true? No, it happens when the respective interfaces are maximized. When minimized, you can always hide them to the system tray and save the taskbar space. However, it seems that Windows Live Mail shows such an option in Vista and lacks the same when using on Windows 7....

Bluetti is known for its range of modern solar generators and solar panels. Unlike conventional generators, these solar generators can run appliances in your home or RV without generating noise or smoke. And the real hero in most of these generators like the AC300 and the AC200MAX is the LiFePo4 (Lithium Ion Phosphate) cells. These cells promise a long battery life, and can operate in various temperature ranges. However, that’s not the only factor that makes LiFePO4 different from typical Lithium-ion batteries....

If you use Gmail, there’s another way to access your email offline and that too in your browser (apart from accessing it through a desktop email client that is). Gmail provides an “Offline” option that uses Google Gears to download email to your computer and keep it in sync with Gmail’s servers. This article will talk about both the methods of using Gmail when you are offline – through Gmail’s built-in offline option and through a desktop email client that uses POP or IMAP....

However, there’s a slight difference with Facebook’s highlights. Are you wondering how to use them? That’s why we’ve compiled this guide on Facebook highlights. Let’s begin. What Are Facebook Story Highlights Highlights are like photo albums where you can sort stories in different folders according to their content. You can add a cover picture and give a title to highlights. Just like stories, even highlights play like a slideshow. Highlights are created using story archive feature which acts as a storage of the disappearing stories that have hit the 24 hours time limit of being live....

Recently, they added the native Portrait mode to Stories that blurs the background in photos and videos. They also keep on increasing their sticker collection with interesting stickers. Now they have come up with yet another cool feature. You can now share your or someone else’s Instagram posts in your Stories. Basically, you will now be able to reshare the videos and photos to your Story with proper credits as their username will be shown in the Story....

Macs have a lot of unique applications out of the box. One of these is called Dashboard, which is an application that basically goes over your desktop and displays widgets. These widgets can serve all kinds of purposes, from being a useful and convenient, quick calculator to a widget that displays The Simpsons quotes (known as HomerQuotes, now discontinued). By default, there are only four widgets that appear on your Dashboard....

Alphabetizing allows you to sort selected text or paragraphs, as the name suggests, alphabetically. This arrangement helps you organize, sort, and locate information to help you analyze the data quickly and efficiently. Here’s how to do it. How to Sort Alphabetize a List in Google Docs on the Web Alphabetizing in Google Docs is slightly twisted, as there’s no built-in option or native way. So, we will be using the Sorted Paragraphs add-on to organize your document alphabetically....

Typically, you have to launch Chrome first in the normal mode. Then, click on the profile picture icon and select Open Guest Window. Now that’s not a difficult job. But what if you don’t want the other person to know that you are giving them the guest mode or you want to launch it quickly? To achieve that, you can make Chrome always launch in the guest mode. Here’s how to do it on Windows-based computers and Macs....

Windows by default provides basic information in Windows Explorer, but there are some limitations. One of them being the inability of Windows Explorer to display the folder size immediately; you have to move your mouse cursor on the folder icon, or select “Properties” in the right-click menu to obtain detailed information on folder size (it does display the file size though). Hence you need to install disk analyzers to analyze the file and folder sizes, and see which ones you can get rid of....