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Set Parental Controls If you have children, you definitely know how important it is to be able to protect them. With so many movies to choose from, it’s easy for a kid to end up watching something he/she shouldn’t – a video that’s going to distort his/her view of the world, something frightening, or something not suitable for those until 18 years old. Thanks to the built-in parental controls that come with the Fire TV’s settings, you can choose what your child can watch....

Top iPhone Features You Must Know Lately, Apple seems to be behind changing this notion about iOS. And this is evident with its recent iOS releases that introduce plenty of new features and customization options, which seem more focussed on letting users customize their devices to their liking. If you’ve been a long-time iPhone user, chances are you’re familiar with many of these new features and probably follow up on new ones as they come out....

Apple makes excellent gadgets, no doubt. But their PR team is also famous for some of the worst photoshop goof-ups in recent times. Things seem to have gone out of hand ever since they hurriedly launched iPod Touch 4G early this week. We have collected and listed out some of the recent Photoshop bloopers from Apple, thanks to the folks at 9to5mac! Ultimate List of Apple Photoshop Bloopers Phone Icon on iPod Touch 4G This is an ad for the latest iPod Touch....

Thanks to a tie-up with Philips, users will see the lights in their room change in sync with the sites they are surfing – so if you are on Facebook, get ready for the room to get a blue-ish tint or go all-white when you are on Google (we have not tried it out with TechPP yet – do mail us your experiences if you do). Of course, you will need to have Philips’ Hue color lights and enable the color syncing feature from the Philips Hue Bridge, pointing out which lights the browser will control....

Vivo Nex and Nex Ultimate Features The Nex smartphones sport a large 6.59-inch 19.3:9 Super AMOLED Ultra FullView display with an incredible screen to body ratio of 91.24% which hasn’t been achieved earlier. To achieve this look, Vivo had to move the front-facing 8MP camera to the top housed in a mechanized enclosure which will pop up when the camera app is opened. The Nex and Nex Ultimate also sport a fingerprint scanner embedded into the display region, using the same technology as we saw on the Vivo X21, but is touted to be 50% more accurate and 10% faster....

Vivo V5 Plus camera specifications Primary front camera with 20MP Sony IMX276 sensor with a size of 1/2.78” sensor size and f/2.0 aperture comprising of 5 pieces of lenses. This, we are told, is co-engineered with Sony to bring out some stunning output. Can shoot up to 1080p videos. Comes with a moonlight flash to provide a soft radiant complexion to the faces in selfies. Secondary front camera with an 8MP sensor that is dedicated to regulating the aperture size that makes it possible for that DSLR like BOKEH portraits....

Even today, as its adoption for personal use continues to grow among the masses, and the service appears to be one of the promising and secure solutions to access information while preserving user identity, it is still not the safest bet and has its share of flaws and shortcomings, which implies that even VPNs aren’t perfect, after all. To fathom this narrative, it is imperative to understand the working of a Virtual Private Network and its underlying intricacies that may lead to potential vulnerabilities and hold the scope of identity leak....

However, it’s 2020 and nothing is really normal so Apple had to push its special event to October and keep fans waiting for the new iPhone devices. The wait gets even worse when you factor in consumers who want to pick up the iPhone 12 Mini or the iPhone 12 Pro Max which are going to be available only in November. That’s not the pint though. The point is, every year, Apple adds some cool new features to the new iPhone devices, and one of them this time is MagSafe....

In the era of huge displays and multiple touch layers, BlackBerry is still a name betting on physical keyboards for phones, but not for tablets. A new breed of RIM smartphones are expected to arrive alongside the new generation operating system and today we analyze the existing rumors and facts, to help users understand that although RIM’s appeal may be almost dead, solutions exist. A bit about BlackBerry 10 BlackBerry 10 is the QNX-based operating system from RIM, which is set to arrive at the end of January 2013, as RIM’s CEO Thorsten Heins stated one month ago....

I remember that handsome Rahul Sharma launching it in late 2014 and the brand created quite a stir – you know, sweeties, an Indian brand offering Qualcomm’s mid and lower segment chips with Cyanogen (which was so naughty with OnePlus) and even stock Android in those days. That was something. For about a year, the brand was considered to be a contender for being one of the most popular online smartphone options – right alongside the likes of Moto and Xiaomi....

China China is one of the most unique telecom markets in the world. While in most countries, telecom started as a state owned monopoly, private investment was allowed at some of time nonetheless. China though, has never allowed private investment in Telecom. There are three telecom operators in China namely China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom. All three of them are owned and operated by the government. The biggest of them is China Mobile with a subscriber base of around 837 million as of 30th June....

It would seem that Microsoft wants to improve the security of its OS, but they still don’t resolve the older issues. This is also the case of the Internet Explorer vulnerability that we’ve talked about recently, in which mouse movements could be tracked with a javascript exploit. Note: We realize the potential risk behind this method and the reason why we’re writing about this is only to inform users about this vulnerability....

If you are in Turkey, Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, you are most likely to be hit by a malicious computer attack or virus. While surfing the web in Sierra Leone, Niger, Japan or Togo is the safest. AVG’s research was conducted in the last week of July. What are your chances of being hit by a malicious computer attack or virus? Worldwide it’s 1 in 73 according to AVG, which looked at data from 100+ million PCs in 144 countries to produce a list of the world’s ‘safest’ and ‘riskiest’ Internet surfers....

The Weibo post reveals that Xiaomi is working on two Pinecone SoC numbered V670 and V970. The V670 is apparently ready and it is made up of octa-core architecture with Mali T860 MP4 GPU clocked at 800MHz. Pinecone V670 is a mid-range processor built using the 28nm process. That said, the Pinecone V970 also comes with an octa-core architecture but opts for the 10nm manufacturing process, which also suggests that this might be the flagship SoC from Xiaomi’s stable....

Is the Xiaomi Mi 10 overpriced at Rs 49,999? No, it is not. There, we said it. It is not super affordable either. And well, the recent pricing of the iQOO 3 makes every Snapdragon 865 device in the country look expensive. But if you look at what the Mi 10 brings to the table, that price tag is not as over the top as it seems to some....

Xiaomi Mi 10: Design and Display Talking about design first, the Mi 10 comes with an all-glass body with a curved panel on the back, with a quad-camera array in a vertical arrangement. Towards the front, it has a 6.67-inch OLED curved panel with a punch-hole cutout on the top-left for the front-facing camera. The display offers a 90Hz refresh rate, and it comes with HDR10+ and DCI-P3 color gamut support, along with Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5 protection on top....

Xiaomi Mi8 Highlights The Xiaomi Mi 8 features a 6.21-inch Samsung AMOLED FHD+ display with an 18:7:9 aspect ratio. The now ubiquitous notch marks its presence on the Mi 8 as well. Thanks to the thinned bezels and the reduced jaw, Xiaomi has been able to achieve an 88.5-percent screen to body ratio. Other specifics of the display include a brightness range of up to 600nit and a 60000:1 contrast ratio....

Refreshingly compact and solid The minute you take the Redmi Go out of the box, the smartphone will take you a few years back in time. It comes with a 5 inch HD display which is surrounded with thick bezels all around. In the day and age of tall, taller and tallest smartphones, the Redmi Go is refreshingly compact and will sit beautifully in the smallest of palms. It might not look as glamorous and stylish as many smartphones today but it definitely feels solid....

Stickers on WhatsApp are similar to what you’ll find on other messaging apps. You can choose from a bunch of sticker packs and spam your friends’ chat windows with huge, goofy cartoons. For now, WhatsApp offers a total of twelve sticker packs which you can install or uninstall at any time through the sticker store. Sadly, though, none of them are animated, unlike what you have on apps like Facebook Messenger....

Each brings the classic Xiaomi “great value for money” equation to the table. Each has a formidable reputation. Each is targeting the mid-segment of the Indian smartphone market. So which one do you go for? The Poco X2 or the Redmi Note 8 Pro? The comeback kid or the bestselling veteran? Let us try and find out, shall we? Poco X2 vs Redmi Note 8 Pro: Who’s got the looks?...