While many companies have had a go at the truly wire-free experience, it will not be an exaggeration to say that the AirPods are the most popular true wireless earphones in the market at the time of writing. These petite white audio ear drops may be popular but they also are two years old (a long time in tech) and well, for all their popularity, they are definitely not perfect....
The OnePlus 5. We had first heard murmurs of the Honor 8 Pro coming to India shortly after the launch dates of the OnePlus were released (or leaked, take your pick). Right from mid-June, the battle lines had been clearly drawn in India – the Honor 8 Pro would be going up toe to toe against the latest Flagship Killer. It was not a new device and had been released earlier this year and had been seen in other markets (some with the nomenclature Huawei V9)....
Create a Custom Themed Movie on Google Photos For starters, make sure you have the latest version of Google Photos (iOS/Android) installed on your phone. Movie themes can be accessed on the web in case you don’t want to update. In addition to that, do note that all your pictures and videos need to be synced with Google Photos in order for this to work. To get started, head into the Assistant tab located on the left....
To give you some background, HEIF (High Efficiency Image Format) aka HEIC (High Efficiency Image Codec) is a container for individual images and images sequences with improved compression that promises to retain twice the information in half the file size compared to some of the traditional formats like JPEG. Although Apple was the first to adopt the HEIF on its system, it is the MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) that developed the format....
However, unlike Linux, which comes pre-installed with a package manager, Apple’s macOS doesn’t have one. Ergo, if you want to install new programs or utilities on your Mac via the CLI, you can’t do it without installing a package manager first. This is where Homebrew comes in. It’s one of the best package managers for Mac, with a broad selection of packages that allows you to install and manage programs and utilities on your Mac effortlessly from the CLI....
While WhatsApp has been adding more features to the app recently like UPI payments, calls using WhatsApp Web, etc., there are a few essential features that are still missing. One of those features is the ability to send WhatsApp messages to unsaved contacts. If you want to send a message to somebody natively using WhatsApp, you need to have their contact stored on your phone. There is no in-built option to enter a phone number while creating a new conversation....
While this is a convenient feature to have, it can sometimes quickly become annoying. If you’ve got one of the full-screen screen protectors on your iPhone, which obstructs the proximity sensor’s functionality and prevents it from turning on the screen when you pull it away from your ear, you’d know what we mean. Fortunately, Apple’s finally heard user complaints and responded by offering a toggle switch to change this behavior....
There are several built-in features in ChromeOS that make it a versatile operating system. One of these features is the screen recording option, which allows you to record all or part of your screen. In this article, we will show you how to record your screen in ChromeOS. Let us get started. How to Record Your Screen in Chromebook There are several ways to enable the screen recording feature in ChromeOS....
The app is rather straightforward in terms of both functionality and what problem of your digital life it aims to mend. “Notification History Log” records every notification that your phone receives and creates a searchable database from it. Therefore, even if you miss any alert, you can just fire up the app, type in the search phrase or scroll through the entire list and revisit that tiny bit of information again....
How to Share YouTube Video on Snapchat Method – 1 Sharing Directly from the YouTube App In order for this feature to work, make sure to update both YouTube and Snapchat apps to the latest versions. Here are Google Play Store links for Snapchat and YouTube, and Apple App Store links for Snapchat and YouTube, respectively. Once done, you can share the YouTube video in a Snapchat Story or Snap....
While that was possibly the most extreme fallout of WhatsApp’s spam troubles, there are a host of other consequences fake news can have. They could influence you politically, lead you to a malicious website, deceive you into believing an inaccurate statistic, and more. In addition to a handful of recently rolled out features and tips, there are ways you can easily spot fake news on WhatsApp. Here are seven of them....
Apps like Facebook, 9gag, Dropbox, and others like them are pretty big data hogs, and sometimes they connect to the Internet in the background and consume those valuable MB of data. While turning them completely off isn’t a good option, we must find the next best thing and turn off cellular data only for certain apps so they work only over WiFi or at certain times. Today we’ll be investigating this aspect and show you some solutions for this program....
Backed up by the country’s Unified payment interface — UPI, Google Tez securely connects your phone with your bank account and allows you to transfer and receive money without the hassle of topping up a wallet first. Here’s how it works. How to Setup Google Tez Google Tez, like every other UPI-based app, requires your phone number for adding the bank account. The app will also request the UPI ID if you’ve created it in the past....
However, this is not the first time a feature like this has been rolled out to a keyboard app. Earlier, Google also included a search bar on its Gboard keyboard that allowed users to look up anything on the internet in between an on-going conversation. How to use the built-in search tool for SwiftKey As you would expect, Bing is the default search engine here! Here is how it works....
Last year, the Chinese OEM launched the Huami Amazfit Pace smartwatch, which was an instant hit in both domestic and international markets; primarily due to its competitive pricing. The Huami Amazfit Sports Smartwatch 2 and Amazfit Smartwatch 2S are improved iterations of the first generation wearable. The watches come with major improvement under the hood. As evident from the names itself, both the smartwatch are built keeping in mind the needs of two drastically different consumer segments....
The FreeBuds 3 earphones come with a round charging case that supports USB Type-C and Qi wireless charging. With wireless charging, you can lay the charging case on Qi-certified wireless charging base and juice it up. Coming to the earbuds, at first glance, the design of the FreeBuds 3 looks very-much identical to that of Apple’s AirPods. However, Huawei has a unique name for it, the ‘Dolphin Bionic Design’, which according to it, fits in more comfortably, and has an ergonomic design to offer maximum comfort....
In terms of design, the Huawei Nova 4e comes with a 6.15-inch Full HD+ curved glass display, with a water-drop notch on the top, and a glass back on the rear, with a gradient finish available on the Blue color version. Talking about specifications, the device sports an Octa-Core 12nm Kirin 710 chipset with Mali-G51 MP4 GPU, along with 4GB or 6GB of RAM, and 128GB of internal storage, expandable up to 512GB using a microSD card....
This time there are two variants of the device; the one we tested is called the Turbo version and comes with the Dimensity 1080 processor and up to 256 GB of storage. The regular version of the Infinix Zero 5G 2023 comes with the Dimensity 920 processor and 128 GB of storage. We have been using the device for over a couple of weeks now and will share our detailed thoughts on it....
That good old camera app The camera app on the iPhones has been pretty basic, and while some people were expecting to see a few fireworks with the introduction of iOS 11, the camera app still remains largely the same. And unlike the iPhone 8 Plus that has a few additional photography tricks up its sleeve, the interface on the iPhone 8’s camera app remains more or less unchanged. The camera app has a circular white shutter button right in the middle; there is a gallery icon on the left and the camera switch (from rear to front) icon on the right....
Scratching beneath that similar spec surface A casual glance at the spec sheet of the new iPhones would seem to indicate that the cameras of the XS and the XS Max are basically a photocopy of the iPhone X’s cameras – and this is also a good time to point out that for the first time in iPhone history, both the standard and larger variants of a device have exactly the same set of cameras (in the past, the larger Plus variant of has generally had better cameras)....
