Spend some time reading this article and you’ll save a lot of time and confusion while using this device. 1. Learn How To Use It It’s an Android phone but unlike any other. First, let’s get familiar with it. The homescreen is a vertical scroll of all the apps installed. You can sort it in folders, make the tiles larger and add widgets.There is only one button at the front....
So I got a review code and decided to find out. Is Desk ($29.99) good enough to be the end-all solution for blog publishing? Can it get rid of the friction between writing, editing, uploading, and publishing on the web? Writing First Desk is, after all, a writing app, and it promises to please all by offering not only rich text with WYSIWYG but also brings in Markdown for people who want it....
Anyway, here’s the sitch. Clicking on a link and being tossed over to your default browser, waiting for it to load, reading, and then pressing the back button to go back to your previous app is all very jarring and rote. What is this, 2011? We can do better. How? By using popups first made popular by chat heads in Facebook Messenger. Chat heads just like that, only instead of opening a chat, there will be a web page....
Now, Chrome doesn’t do this. It understands that when you close the last tab you wish to close the browser. While some users like it there are others who suffer the accidental closure of the browser. If you find this happening to you often, I suggest you download Keep Last Tab (UPDATE: This tool is not available anymore) extension for Google Chrome. Once enabled you will never see your browser being shut on closing the last tab (last two indeed)....
subject line , especially from unknown contacts? I generally ignore them in the blink of an eye. Which means there is always a chance that I may miss an important message from a forgetful friend or acquaintance. You cannot claim to be flawless on this front either, can you. If you are someone who sends a lot of emails each day, missing a subject line is all the more probable....
compared some of the most popular iPhone apps for these services. This time though, we take a look at all-time favorite of mine – Instapaper – and pit it against Readability, a somewhat new contender in the iOS app space. Design and Navigation Readability Of all the major read-later apps on the iPhone, Readability is perhaps the one with the most user-friendly approach, providing you with a series of pre-selected articles from the moment you start using the app....
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3D Everywhere For the first half of the event, it was all about 3D. Including the 30-year old faithful tool of Windows, Paint. Yes, Microsoft Paint will now support 3D objects and the company really have made it cooler than ever to use MS Paint, in the world of several powerful alternatives. Productivity tools like Microsoft Powerpoint also got cool 3D updates and everything will be tied with Remix 3D community....
I’m impressed with some of the awesome features Apple brought to iOS 11, but in using it, I’m definitely a bit underwhelmed with a few key areas too. Apple stepped up its game in many ways, but missed the mark in several places too. So let’s get into the best and worst of this year’s iOS release. Best: iPad Multitasking This is not only the iPad at its best, but Apple at its best....
Either way, they’re limited and expensive. So the last thing you want is for your Mac to start downloading updates or syncing Dropbox when it is on a tethered connection. And before you know it, you’ve lost your data cap or you’ve just spent hundreds of dollars. To make sure that doesn’t happen, you can install some super clever utilities to do the job for you. See When Any Apps Are Using Your Network Loading is a really simple and free tool that sits in your menu bar and acts similarly to that little loading icon on iOS devices....
The brainchild of 19-year-old Michael Vaga, the HandEnergy charges by simple rotation of the hand. The device was first conceptualised in August 2014, and the first prototype was ready by October 2015. The device is fitted with a gyroscope which produces energy when you rotate the device, and this energy can be used immediately or stored for future use. The rotor inside the device gains momentum with each additional spin and produces more power — going up to 5000 RPM on an average....
alarm clock by our bed and bet on that to wake us up each morning. While most of those devices must have been replaced by your mobile phone features , there a few people (including me) who still use them. However, waking up in the morning is not the only thing you use an alarm for, do you? Whether you need to take a short nap at work, or just want to be reminded about something at a specified time, an alarm can always come to the rescue....
Of course, there are tools available which can help with these tasks, but most of them are paid and the ones that are free are not that efficient and leave the documents with ugly watermarks. That’s why when we come across a free software that’s like an all-in-one PDF tool without any caveats, we are bound to get ecstatic. Advanced PDF Utilities is a wonderful Windows freeware which can help you with most of your PDF-related tasks....
The Samsung Galaxy J7 Max is priced at Rs. 17,900 while the Galaxy J7 Pro is priced at Rs. 20,900. Both the phones will be available offline as well as through Samsung’s online store. The new Galaxy J7 lineup adds to the already growing list of budget phones in India. In this post today, we have lined up a brief specification and the top Samsung Galaxy J7 Max features....
Security expert Robert Graham says Shellshock is bigger than Heartbleed. — () {:;}Robert Graham (@ErrataRob) September 25, 2014 So what exactly is this Shellshock bug and how does it affect your Mac? Let’s talk about it and the solution. What Is Shellshock? Underneath the graphical user interface runs code – commands that run processes and provide you with the output on the screen. In Bash, the command line interface in OS X, a string of text can be stored as a variable....
But one hardly listens to local media files these days. We have streaming services like Spotify and Rdio which make it super easy to discover and listen to new music. But they lack the option of sound enhancements. Therefore, to fix things out on Android for music buffs, today I am going to talk about two interesting sound enhancing apps to get better sound effects globally on Android. There’s one app each – for rooted and non-rooted Android users....
Online social networks like Facebook and YouTube have literally no limits when it comes to video size. But messaging services like WhatsApp and Hike have certain limitations, and the HD videos you record from your phone can be a little too much for them to handle. Also, from what I’ve seen, people like to send videos to individuals through these messaging services rather than publishing them on the web. Therefore, to ease things up for you, today I am going to talk about two completely free video compressing apps for Android that can make the task of reducing video size a walk in the park....
YouTube playlists as much as we should. They are very useful tools to enhance your YouTube viewing experience. You can very easily put a YouTube playlist to use as a category specific list of videos and watch them all in one go without breaking your stare. Playlists are also useful for collecting videos you like in one seamless list and for sharing them with friends. It’s easy to create a playlist in YouTube itself....
Maybe some hidden features in Outlook won’t be life-altering enough to suddenly skyrocket your productivity skills, but these features will at least help you spend less of your valuable time trying to sort through emails. So give them a shot. 1. Quickly Rid of Junk Mail with Sweep You may have seen the Sweep button sitting in the menu bar at the top of Outlook.com, but don’t know what it does....
Booting your Mac into recovery mode requires you to press and hold the Command + R keys immediately you power on the device. If doing this doesn’t yield the desired result, check out the solutions listed below. Before you proceed, we recommend shutting down your Mac and trying again. This is because the problem with your Mac not booting into recovery mode is sometimes temporary. If you don’t make headway after trying multiple times, here are four things to try....
