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The Apple Watch and other smartwatches have tried to remedy smartphone addiction across the globe, but it’s still too early to really tell if they’ve done anything. So in the meantime, try downloading just one more app: Moment for iOS. The tool analyzes how often you and your family use your smartphones, tracks your habits and provides ways to attempt to break the addictive usage patterns. Track Phone and App Usage Moment is a freemium app, so it’s free to download but you’ll have to pay to access additional features....

An average office worker sends dozens of emails every day. You can convert each email in the opportunity to market yourself and your business in those individual emails you send, every single day. Many people treat their email signature like an afterthought or stick with whatever comes by default on Gmail/Outlook or third-party email apps. In such cases, you are marketing these apps and services and not yourself, which makes for a real missed opportunity....

Off late I was regularly getting complaints from my friends that my Spotify updates are irritating. One of them said, “Dude, I am ok when you share where you are going, which movies you are watching. But I certainly don’t want to know which song you are listening to every 5 minutes.” And of course he was right, it can be annoying. So let’s see how you can hide or disable these updates from Facebook....

So what can you do? They’re here, they want to listen to Trance and something called EDM while you’re ready with your greatest indie folk songs (one can never have too much of Iron & Wine). You compromise. You play some of their music that’s generic and not borderline insane. And you try to show them some of your music that they won’t hate. But you don’t own every song your friends like, and it’s not 2004 so it’s not like they carry around a pen drive with all their favorite tracks....

Although the news of Iron Man’s successor has been around for a month, the superhero name was never confirmed by Marvel. We only knew that a black teenage Science prodigy named Riri Williams will be the replacement. And before we go any further, let’s clarify that these changes are only for comic book aficionados. So far. But since changes to the comic books eventually find their way into the Marvel Cinematic Universe too, it might not be long before Ironheart gets a theatrical release....

They absolutely come to life on a tablet. I’ve owned an iPad for four years now and every year the interactive Christmas stories have been a big hit among the kids in my family. So whether they like the story of Charlie Brown or, of course, the mean-spirited Grinch, explore the top three picks for interactive Christmas stories to download on your iPad. Get festive with your tech this year....

‘White hat hackers’, who’re among the good ones — help companies detect bugs in their system, preventing attackers from accessing critical information or just messing things up. Every year, several tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other biggies, conduct bounty programmes which reward hackers to find a bug in their code, which helps them evade potential attack against their system. Some companies like Microsoft conduct annual competitions for the same and others like Google have incorporated this programme to be a year-long affair — paying handsome bounties to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars to hackers....

In such situations, you could try the solutions to fix the screen orientation issue. It could be as easy as turning off the screen rotation lock or as demanding as resetting the entire phone. In any case, here are the top 6 solutions to fix auto rotate not working on iPhone. 1. Turn off Screen Rotation Lock If the iPhone screen is not rotating, you need to check to ensure that the auto-rotation setting is not locked....

While the sheer frustration when something like this happens is understandable, the reason behind this could vary anywhere from incorrect settings to faulty sensors on your phone. Thankfully, there a few solutions you can try to resolve the issue quickly. In this guide, we’ll walk you through tried and tested ways to fix the screen rotation problem on Android. Let’s begin. 1. Check Auto-Rotate Settings Before diving deep into other solutions, you should double-check the auto-rotate setting on your phone....

Android as a touchpad mouse, keyboard and remote control for various applications that are installed on your computer. Today we’ll take up a similar app that has some different and interesting features: If your laptop’s touchpad hardware does not support multi-touch, the app can replace it for you and bring in all the features of multi touch like pinch-to-zoom and two finger scrolling.Using the app, you can use Google Voice to compose documents on your computer....

capturing video , there are more apps on the App Store than any of us would care to count. Even worse, most of them do the same with just a few tweaks on their interfaces here and there. This is precisely why an app like Vine is such a welcome addition to the small ranks of video capturing apps that do things right. In short, Vine is an original and simple application for iPhone that makes shooting short videos as fun as it can be....

Use F.lux To Adjust Monitor Color & Brightness By Time of The Day If you have F.lux installed in your PC then you don’t need to worry about screen brightness. It adjusts monitor color and brightness according to the lighting conditions around you. Using Syncback To Sync Files & Folders On Your PC The complete guide to use Syncback (a well known tool for files and folders synchronization) to sync files across computer and external hard drive....

The Touch Bar is a really clever idea and the possibilities are endless. Developers can even use the Touch Bar API to integrate it with their macOS apps. In fact, Apple gave some early previews of what developers have been able to accomplish so far. But rather than have you read everything Touch Bar is capable of, why not see for yourself? Here are the best animated GIFs from Apple’s keynote that showcase tons of new features....

The combination of Pebble smartwatch and useful apps make it quite a capable device. In order to fully appreciate the Pebble experience, you should explore the Pebble app store. On doing so, you will undoubtedly find several gems but here are 5 essential apps that Pebble Time smartwatch users should explore 1. Real Weather Real Weather is an awesome watch face which provides users with the ability to view the weather along with the time and remaining battery life....

past entries , but there are so many useful ones that are often overlooked or simply unknown, and definitely deserve to be mentioned. This time, let’s take a look at a few of them that can be very helpful with some apps or when starting up your Mac. Some of these are OS X Mavericks specific so make sure you have it first. 1.Click and Hold During Power On If you have a Macbook that uses a disc drive, sometimes you might end up with a disc stuck in it....

Events and social networks go hand in hand. We have been using it on Facebook and there are other sites too to help you with them. But Google brings its own touch and creativity to all the products it launches, and Google+ Events is no different. It has some cool features that add a whole new dimension to the often boring process of creating events and collating after-event data like photos etc....

Reflecting this popularity is the gut of photo-editing apps of all hues. From standalone tools like IrfanView, to mobile apps like Aviary, and then to one-click tools for cool photo effects, the world is indeed click happy. Riding the wave and adding to the ‘photo editing’ wars is a new member. The very attractive Fotor (beta) is an online photo editor that’s also available for iOS and Android platforms. Every second name in the apps business is jostling for attention in the photo editing wars....

Apple has an excellent Health app and integrates nicely with the Apple Watch series. Not only that, the company is doubling down on its efforts for fitness tracking in the upcoming products. For the Android world, there are mainly two choices — recently redesigned Google Fit or Samsung Health app, if you want to be in Samsung’s ecosystem. Both apps offer several health tracking functions and at the same time differ in numerous aspects....

Don’t sulk, today we will show you a robust new way to hide all your sensitive data. Well, not entirely new because we have talked about this method before but not about this tool that lets you do it on a USB drive. We will see how to use this software called Free File Camouflage, a very small and portable freeware to hide files inside pictures. To start hiding your files you need to download Free File Camouflage zipped file and extract in anywhere on your system....

Despite the growing popularity, making animated GIFs is no easy task. Fortunately, a new app called Giphy Cam makes it far easier than before to create your own using your iPhone’s camera and tons of different optional effects. Make Your Animated GIF Compared to the steps necessary to create an animated GIF in Photoshop, Giphy Cam is hilariously easy to use. Just open up the Giphy Cam app to bring up your camera and Giphy Cam will explain that you have two GIF options....