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Google has announced that the Maps will now include a tab for car services along with the ones for walking, driving and public transportation. This new tab can be accessed before starting the navigation and thankfully it will also let you compare the fares offered by different cab service providers. In India the company has partnered with OLA and thus we would be able to access both Ola and Uber right from the Maps and also compare the fares....

A review of the device itself. That might seem a little strange when you consider that for quite a long time, the main idea of giving a phone to the media was to get it reviewed. A review is generally a detailed look at different aspects of the phone – its design, performance, price and so on – and generally ends with some sort of score given to the phone and a recommendation to the readers as to whether it is worth investing in....

Apple is currently facing flak from different corners for shipping their half-baked Maps with iOS 6. The major issue here is that the Apple Maps are absolutely unusable in most places, specially outside US. Many people believe that Apple has let down its customers by forcing upon a crappy app in order to satiate their ego. Why did Apple get into Maps? No, it’s not just to beat Google in their own game....

After all, taking pictures of the moon used to be a totally camera thing. You needed a big zoom, a tripod for stability, a lot of twiddling with settings before you could even think of pointing a camera at earth’s natural satellite. So how did we take the picture of the moon with the P30 Pro? Well, here is a step by step guide. Tripods? Settings? Duh, this is ONLY a phone camera, remember?...

To give you some background, HEIF (format) is a fairly new adoption in Apple’s ecosystem that started with the rollout of iOS 11, and soon, got picked up by Google with Android P. Due to this wide adoption throughout the entire smartphone ecosystem, Microsoft had to step in and offer support for HEIF and HEVC files on its platform. So now, you can enable support and open HEIF and HEVC files on Windows 10....

credit: elite-vpn.com In this process, have you ever noticed that there will be someone who follows you close to the neck every possible second while you are surfing the net? Yes, search engines and websites follow your every step. Each and every search made on the web will be recorded into a file. And this recording is being systematized more than ever before in the history of web. Then, how can you maintain privacy by not letting your identity?...

What do you do when you come across music you like on Instagram Reels? Just as it is possible to save Instagram Reels videos, it is also possible to download Instagram Reel audio. However, users cannot download Reel audio directly on Instagram because there is no video download feature to avoid talking about audio on the platform; unless you want to save the audio to your Instagram account for later use....

However, this changes with iOS 16, as Apple finally brings haptic feedback to the default iPhone keyboard. With this addition, when you now type on your iPhone’s on-screen keyboard, you get a vibration as a physical confirmation for each keypress as it happens. Apple’s offering haptic feedback as an optional feature in iOS 16. If you’ve always wanted to use haptic feedback on your iPhone or are interested in checking it out, here’s how you can enable haptic feedback on the iPhone keyboard....

Well, actually, there is. But you would need an app for that. The app is called Metapho and is available for free download from the iTunes App Store. Its main job is to display EXIF data or metadata of a photograph. In simple terms, this is information about the photograph such as ISO, name of the camera, aperture, shutter speed, focal length and so on and so forth. This information is not of any great use to social-media-snappers but photography enthusiasts love to analyze this information to figure out what goes into making a great photograph – and it definitely is very useful if you are the type that likes to take photographs in manual mode, changing different settings, instead of just pointing and shooting in auto mode....

In this tutorial we will show you how to setup and manage a network printer for both home use and business. The two have different setups and require different components, and they also work different. Keep in mind that the model for a home printing service can be used in a small business and viceversa and your network should be based on the model that you find to be more cost effective and efficient for your needs....

Why do all that when one of the most popular social media apps around lets you add bokeh to your images with minimum fuss? We are talking about Instagram. Yes, Instagram is better known as an image sharing social network and for its retro filter effects. But what not too many know is that it also comes with some rather powerful and yet simple to use image editing tools. And one of them is all about ‘Tilt shift’ or to use a more common term, bokeh....

Introduction to Krisp.ai To give you some background, Krisp is a noise suppression tool that mutes background noise during calls. For this, it relies on Artificial Intelligence to create a KrispNet DNN (Deep Neural Network) that helps it recognize the voice of the person on the microphone and differentiate it from the noise. Once that’s done, it then removes the waveform of noise from the audio to offer a clearer audio experience....

Now, the iPad does have multitasking and lets you work on apps in split screen mode, but the solution is not as simple as on a notebook. This is why when Apple revealed iPadOS 16 in June this year, one feature caught everyone’s imagination – Stage Manager. This was Apple’s take on multitasking, not just on the iPad but also on the macOS, which powers Apple’s notebooks and desktops. It was very different from anything we had seen before and was hailed by many as perhaps the most innovative software feature from Apple this year....

However, much like some other restrictions that Apple has in place throughout its entire ecosystem, the Shortcuts app is no different and has its own restriction — which is that only the shortcuts you create yourself and the ones present in the Gallery can be used on the device. And besides the two types, you can not use any third-party (untrusted) shortcuts from the internet on your device. So, in this article, we take you through the process of how to use untrusted shortcuts on iOS 13....

Depending on what device you use, you may have the option to view the Exif data of images in the native photo or gallery app. However, if you’re on an iPhone or an iPad, you didn’t have such functionality on the Photos app till iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. And therefore, you had to work around that using third-party apps or shortcuts. Fortunately, with the release of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, that’s no longer the case, as Apple is finally offering the ability to view Exif data right inside the Photos app....

As expected the HP Elite X3 comes accompanied with apps that are exclusive to the device. Microsoft insider.es has obtained the screenshots of the apps. The list of apps might not be something very surprising, in fact, it also includes bare basic apps like the voice recorder and another app which just redirects the users to Salesforce.com sign in page. Also, the list includes HP Workspace which is expected to run x86 apps on the phone with an add-on subscription....

“Huawei’s ascent to China’s smart phone throne is a remarkable feat, especially in the context of an increasingly cutthroat and maturing Chinese smart phone market,” said Jessie Ding, a Research Analyst at Canalys. China’s smartphone market is almost saturated and the growth as a whole has been slowing down. That hasn’t helped Xiaomi, who now seems to be struggling to meet its 80 million global shipments for 2015, according to Canalys....

The Ascend series has typically carried the flagship mantle from Huawei. But surprisingly, Huawei chose the Honor series to have the honor of being the first smartphone with the new HiSilicon Kirin 920 SoC which is an octa-core processor made of four Cortex-A15 cores and four Cortex-A7 cores. That’s kind of a big deal for us geeks, but what about the end users? Does Honor 6 has enough stuff to warrant a look into your pockets?...

The new Huawei Y9 has a 6.5-inch display with a resolution of 1080p and a 19:5:9 aspect ratio. It’s powered by the company’s homegrown Kirin 710 octa-core chipset, 4GB or 6GB of RAM, up to 128GB of onboard storage which can be expanded with a MicroSD card, and a 4000mAh battery which does support quick charging. As for the camera arrangement, there’s a primary 16-megapixel sensor paired with another 2-megapixel secondary camera on the rear and a 13-megapixel selfie snapper with a 2-megapixel camera on the front....

Three figure growth! The Indian wearables market grew by a staggering 144.3 percent in 2020 as compared to 2019, closing the year with shipments of 36.4 million units. India was the only country in the top twenty of the world to record three figure growth in the year. Of course, this could also partly be because of a smaller installed base, we think. Threefold growth for earwear The report says that what it terms earwear grew more than threefold in 2020 compared to the previous year....