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Messaging services do deserve the limelight as they are amongst the most popular mobile apps with a recent research from Portio Research ltd. saying that the Messaging apps have more than two billion users. While WhatsApp rules the roost globally, WeChat still maintains the numero uno position in China. Right now all of these apps are looking beyond just connecting people and trying to bake in new features which will help the users to perform other tasks without leaving the Messenger....

With this new update, users can now download and watch most of their favourite Shows and Movies offline, which is a good move from the company. However, a thing to note here is that not all of the premium content can be downloaded at the moment. As of now, Hotstar only allows a handful of Shows and Movies to be downloaded and watched offline. But the list is expected to grow more overtime, with more premium Shows and Movies available for download....

I know, I know. It’s not even close to what we can call a new product. But the design. The design is what I am here to discuss. It’s not much of a review as it’s an epiphany and a wake up call for my keyboard preferences. So, let’s talk about the keyboard I’ve been writing with for the past few weeks. It’s called the K480. Sounds like a codename for an undercover agent except what we have here is an underdog product which deserves a whole lot more attention....

How to Buy a Printer How to Buy a Laptop How to Buy a Desktop PC How to buy a Digital Camera First of all, you have to know the basic terms in the world of photography. Many of you are quite aware with most of them, but this can be quite helpful for the newbies. So, let’s recap: 1. DSLR (Digital Single-Lens Reflex) This is a type of digital camera that usually has detachable lenses and a reflex mirror that allows live optical zoom through the lens taking the photo....

YouTube uses several parameters to judge a video’s performance: Likes, number of comments, Like/Dislike ratio, and retention rate. The like-dislike ratio is crucial as it indicates the general opinion of the audience about a particular video. This ratio is based on the number of likes and dislikes of a YouTube video. The number of dislikes was publicly visible to all users on the platform. This was an important feature because it helped users quickly judge whether a video was helpful....

Some apps add value in the paid version, but most of the time, apps and games will empty your bank account if you do not pay attention to how you spend money on in-app purchases. There have been so many incidents where people have spent lakhs of rupees on in-app purchases and lost money. Most of these issues can be solved by disabling in-app purchases within the app. In this guide, we will show you how to disable in-app purchases on Google and Apple app stores, tips on how to prevent kids from making purchases without your permission, and more....

If you’re getting yourself the Asus 6Z or you have one already, you need to try the G Cam mod and we’ll tell you exactly how to in this article. How To Install Google Camera Mod on Asus 6Z Download the APK file from here and the config file from here and move them to your phone’s internal storage. This is the best available Gcam APK we have for Asus 6Z for now....

2FA or two-factor authentication protects your Discord account from unauthorized access and keeps your data secure. It requires you to enter a six-digit authentication code—the second factor of authentication—in addition to the first factor—password—every time you log in to your Discord account. Follow along, and we’ll show you how to enable 2FA on Discord, so you can keep your account and its data safe. How to Set Up 2FA on Discord First things first, you need an authenticator app....

This very advantage of multitasking is included in the mode called Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode on Google Chrome and this feature was introduced earlier in smartphone sector for Android Oreo that would allow its users to watch a video in a small window. This small window playing your favorite video could be dragged around the screen, pinned to the screen corner while navigating between apps or browsing the content on the main screen....

While there are some excellent video chatting services like Google Meet and Zoom, Apple’s FaceTime remains one of the most popular video calling services, especially for iOS users. First, FaceTime is preinstalled on iPhones, so users do not have to go through the hassle of downloading and setting up third-party applications. Second, FaceTime is very secure thanks to its tight integration with Apple hardware and software. Still, the tech giant surprised everyone by introducing support for FaceTime call on Windows and Android devices....

For adding a gesture-based navigation system on your Android phone, you’ll need to install an app called “Home Bar Gestures”. It’s mostly free of cost with in-app advertisements. But since you won’t be opening the application after the first boot, they won’t bother you. Get iPhone X and OnePlus 5T like Navigation Gestures on Any Android Phone Next, once the app is done installing, fire it up and grant the necessary accessibility permissions....

By resetting your device from time to time, you can keep the operating system clean and keep your Chromebook running like new. If something goes wrong with your Chromebook, you can easily reset your device to factory settings using the methods described in this article. Let us get started. How to Factory Reset Your Chromebook A factory reset or powerwash (Chromebook-specific option) can help you fix some of the issues that may occur with your device after prolonged use....

To give you some background, a package manager is essentially a utility that lets you automate the process of installing, updating, and removing softwares/packages on an operating system. The utility comprises of several softwares/packages and allows you to use the command-line utility (or terminal) to enter a bunch of commands that automatically pull up the package and download and install it on your system. While package manager is a common sight on Linux (and even macOS, for that matter), Windows users have been missing out on a native package manager all this time....

Aside from a new start page, support for favicons and page preview, improved translations (with on-the-fly translation), and enhanced privacy measures, the revamped Safari also gets a much-requested feature — (improved) support for third-party extensions. Extensions are basically modules (or tiny apps) that allow you to add an extra bit of functionality to the browser. For instance, you can use extensions to save items to your read-it-later app, block ads on websites, translate text between different languages, or even change certain aspects of the browser itself....

One such notable feature is drag and drop. While it was already present in iOS 14, too, its functionality was limited to within one app. But with iOS 15, Apple changes that to bring cross-app drag and drop functionality on the iPhones. Now, you can take advantage of the feature to drag text, documents, images, and other files from one app and drop them onto the other, and in turn, spare yourself a few extra steps that you’d otherwise have to go through to move them....

Meet SessionBox SessionBox is a free extension available for Google Chrome which seamlessly and simultaneously lets you initialize more than one sessions of any website in a single window. Hence, for instance, you can use two Facebook accounts in just separate tabs. The process too is surprisingly straightforward and is obviously, better than juggling between different windows. Creating Multiple Sessions Once you’ve downloaded SessionBox from the Chrome web store, click the little cube icon and log in....

In a world full of big and bigger displays, only two styluses have managed to make space for themselves, the Samsung S Pen which comes with the Samsung Galaxy Note series and the Apple Pencil, which accompanies the iPad and the iPad Pro. And these two styluses could not be more different; one pretty much has a brain of its own, while the other is as humble as the pencil in its name (though extremely powerful when combined with the right apps)....

As such, while certain players have managed to establish themselves under specific price segments over the years, others aim to bring a chunk of those offerings at a considerably lower price point. Huawei happens to be one such brand in this regard, with various fitness trackers — both smartwatches and smart bands — under different price brackets. And its latest offering, the Huawei Band 6, corroborates the same to a great degree....

Recently, leaks emerged on the web regarding the Huawei’s upcoming smartwatch. Now, it seems that the leak was pointing to the Huawei Fit, but it’s more of a fitness tracker. Unlike what most were expecting, the Huawei Fit doesn’t run on Android Wear. The looks-wise, it sports a circular 1.04 inch (208x208p) LCD display. Essentially, the Fit looks eerily similar to the Pebble Time Round. The Huawei Fit comes with IP68 certification for water and dust resistance....

And when we spend so much times glued to our devices, it becomes interesting to know what exactly have we done the entire day. Luckily for the curious out there, there’s a really nice app that’s available for both iPhone and Android users, called Instant- Quantified Self. This is the first app developed by Emberify, a developing team which is also a winner of the Google Fit developer challenge. Described as an app that puts ‘your life on a dashboard, Instant track all your activities automatically and then brings out a report similar to the above image....