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Both these earphones are IPX7 rated and promise to give you great sound quality. Hence, we decided to compared these wireless earphones to help you pick the ones better suited for you. So, without further ado, let’s start the comparison of the Jaybird Vista and the Bose Soundsport Free. Build and Comfort: Truly Made for Sports Today, a majority of gadgets are slim and compact. And in this area, the Jaybird Vista doesn’t disappoint....

how you could enjoy some of the best Nintendo handheld games by playing them on your Mac via Gameboy and Gameboy Advance emulator apps. This time, we’ll focus on Nintendo’s home consoles, showing you how to play, NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64 and even Nintendo Gamecube games on your Mac the same way. Ready to get started? Great. But first, a reminder… Important Note: To use these emulators you need games....

There is a method you can use to make an older Mac compatible with AirDrop and other Bluetooth 4.0 features, which we have shown you in this article. However, this method is not too simple, and if you update your Mac or reinstall the OS, then this workaround becomes obsolete. Thankfully, the free iOS app, Pocket Drive (free with in-app purchases) now provides users like me with what Apple would not....

Arrow launcher is in beta stage and one needs to join the Google+ community to request an invite and that would enable you to download the app from the Play Store. But there is an option of direct download for the user who would like to install it and get started. Working on Arrow Launcher After installing the app, I have three prominent screens. The main screen at the center is for the apps....

fighting censorship of the internet , and on the other hand we see messages on some video streaming sites saying the content is not available for your province and country. Thanks to workarounds, most of which we have covered on Guiding Tech , we can watch these videos no matter where we are. However, most of these were VPN based services and either they were a paid service or free ones with limitations....

Instagram set a new standard with its advanced photo filters and social focus. Many apps have tried to catch up since then, but Flickr, a photo website from Yahoo that not long ago was revered as the best of its kind, lagged behind with an app that was sub-par… until now. Flickr just released a new, completely revamped iPhone app and has provided it with a series of changes that make it definitely worth considering for any photo aficionado....

Microsoft OneNote is one of the well-known years-old legacy software by the company. Over the years, Microsoft has added functions to OneNote to rival it against the likes of Evernote and Google Keep. There are two reasons for Microsoft OneNote’s striking popularity. First, it’s completely free to use. And second, the software is available everywhere. Be it iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, or Web, you can access the notes on all popular platforms....

Discord is practically unusable due to this error. Instead of new messages, you will see the messages are filled with empty chat bubbles. 1. Check Discord Servers Before we go ahead and apply advanced troubleshooting tricks, let’s go through some basics. If Discord servers are having a rough day, you won’t send or receive any new messages. The company offers a dedicated server page to check the current status page....

MS Outlook intelligently covers such requirements under a feature known as Search Folders. Such folders are virtual folders and do not really contain or store your emails. They just create a view according to the rules defined and show the messages which match that rule. By default, a Search Folder always contains views like Categorized Mail, Large Mail and Unread Mail. You may want to create some more like For Follow Up, With Attachment etc....

Before you do that, let’s talk about what Windows 10 is exactly. But after the disastrous performance of Windows 8, why should you care? 1. What’s In The Name? Where’s Windows 9? Microsoft’s official statement is that Windows 10 is a new system that sprawls all the way from mobile phones to PCs to the Xbox. It needed to be called 10 to show it’s truly something new. The number 9 wouldn’t do it justice....

Dedicated Storage Plus, since the device is dedicated solely to reading, you don’t need to share your storage with anything else. On a phone or tablet, you have to share book storage with boatloads of music, photos, videos, documents, apps and more. All of those add up quickly compared to books. By the time you’re done loading all of that other media on, it’s doubtful you’d be able to store even hundreds of books, let alone thousands....

But before we go further, let us emphasize that air purifiers can only deal with certain allergens. For example, most air purifiers can counter pet dander and floating dust particles and remove them from the air. However, most purifiers can’t counter allergens like pollen or dust mites since these are heavy and do not float on air. That said, air purifiers are the perfect shield from common pollutants and allergens and provide an extra layer of protection....

1. Custom Keyboard Custom keyboard is a versatile app which enables users to customize many aspects of the keyboard. In order to add a design, select the plus symbol and then you will be ready to get started. The first screen with which you will be presented allows you to select a background for your keyboard. You can choose from the preset images, or you can take a picture from within the app to use as a background....

iPhones, and iOS devices in general, have a reputation for taking decent photos but as you already know there is always room for improvement. This is where Microsoft Pix comes in. It’s a dead simple app for iOS. It unleashes your device’s true photo taking potential without you having to put in much effort. With that being said, let’s delve more deeply into this powerful but simple app. What is it that makes it such a strong contender?...

using Outlook.com must have noticed the four major options (or sister services) viz. Outlook, People, Calendar and SkyDrive. Indeed, the interface that Outlook featured also gave us hints that SkyDrive and Calendar were being carved in the same mold. And even before we realized, bang goes Microsoft to launch the revamped SkyDrive interface. They said on their blog, “. . . we’ve taken the same DNA from the SkyDrive Windows 8 app and brought that to the web....

You can configure time of shutdown according to day, date and time. After activation of task, this tool sits on your system tray and automatically executes the task at the time you wanted it to implement. You can double click on the icon of the task bar to restore the setting. One unique feature of this utility is appearance of 30-second countdown screen in a window before it performs the specified task....

Behind each suspicious link could lurk malware attacks, virus files, page-load attacks, not-safe-for-work sites, and more. Today, these dangers are heightened because of the common use of shortened links thanks to URL shorteners. The easiest way is to just hover your mouse over a link and check out the full URL at the foot of your browser. If the destination is a known one, you can click through. But what if this does not work and you need some more safeguards?...

Instead of dragging whole sections into a folder or deleting random files just to make room, consider using a batch file to move the oldest items away and out into a separate folder. Commands For Moving Old Desktop Files ROBOCOPY C:\Source C:\Destination /move /minage:7 So what do each of these commands do and how do you customize it to fit your own system? ROBOCOPY: This stands for Robust file copy....

Instead of worrying about errors, it would be a good practice to create the workbook or sheets in such a way that it auto-validates entries and restricts a user from making wrong inputs. This is exactly what the Data Validation tool, under Data tab in MS Excel helps you do. And today we will look at one of its features where you may create a dropdown menu for any cell, row or column and restrict the cell entry to data from the list....

chat message on Facebook and tell them later that you missed the message because you were not at your desk? Yes, indeed they were good times until Facebook came up with this nasty (it may not be for you though) idea of acknowledging read receipts . There are ways to appear offline on Facebook and you can do that as a whole, to certain groups or individuals. That way you can be online yet ensure that you won’t be disturbed....