Guest post by Daniel Cassady. A blogroll, usually located in a sidebar of your blog, is simply a list of links to other blogs or Websites you recommend to your readers. While the ideal situation has readers staying on your pages and not wandering off to other blogs, a well-crafted, strategically built blogroll will not only protect your turf as a blogger, but send a whole new audience in your direction....

Airconsole is an online gaming console which requires two things to function — smartphones as gamepads and another larger screen which will be shared among the players as well as the rest of the spectators. The most intriguing aspect of Airconsole is the fact that you don’t need to download any applications. The entire platform runs on a browser, even for the controls on your phone. Because of that, the setup process is surprisingly effortless and only requires loading up the Airconsole website or app on a common screen which can be anything from a laptop to an Android television and entering a code on the individual phones....

Apple Apple iPhone XR – The best selling smartphone for 2019 till now, the iPhone XR, has been going on and off of sale for a while. The phone comes with an excellent all-day battery life, which is definitely one of the USP of the phone, and also includes the A12 Bionic chip found on the iPhone Xs/Xs Max, wireless charging, and FaceID. It is sold for Rs 49,990 on a regular day, but during the Great Indian Festival Sale, it will be available for Rs 39,999 which is the best deal of the lot in our opinion....

Another advancement that we’re going to witness in the next Android version is the backing up of app data and its settings by default. Google revealed the information through an official developer entry, saying the following on its Developer Android website: “Users often invest significant time and effort creating data and setting preferences within apps. Preserving that data for users if they replace a broken device or upgrade to a new one is an important part of ensuring a great user experience....

First things first, Apple has announced that all the devices that supported iOS 11 will support iOS 12 and this will mean a lot to folks who are holding on to older devices. This also means that Apple is focussing on improving the performance of older devices. Apps on the iOS 12 launch 40-percent faster and the keyboard pops up 50-percent faster. With the iOS 12 opening, the camera is a whole 70 percent faster on older devices....

From ARM 1 to ARM Cortex A15 ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) developed by ARM Holdings. It was first named Acorn RISC Machine, having their first product released in 1985 as ARM 1. The fact that ARM processors have quite simplistic designs made them ideal for low power applications, making ARM one of the dominant forces in both mobile and electronics market. What you should know is that ARM only provides the technological know-how and it is their partner, Qualcomm or Texas Instruments that actually produce the chips....

The Asus Zenfone Live (ZB501KL) comes with some modest internals and a metal unibody design, that looks classy but not eye-popping. To the front, the Asus Zenfone Live boasts a 5 inch HD (1,280 x 720) IPS display that comes with a Bluelight Filter feature. This would apparently help reduce strain on your eyeballs while using the Zenfone in low lit conditions. That aside, the Asus Zenfone Live comes powered by a quad-core processor sourced from Qualcomm....

Six months hence its Indian launch, the 5Z sells anywhere between Rs. 24,000 to 28,000 which can be further brought down with exchange and cashback offers on Flipkart. For that price, is the Zenfone 5Z still worth buying with the likes of the Poco F1 available at a much cheaper price? We revisited the Zenfone 5Z to help you answer this question. Design The Zenfone 5Z comes with a glass sandwich design along with a back that shows concentric circles when light is incident on it at various angles....

Things don’t seem to be improving anytime soon for Blackberry which announced its Q2 Fiscal 2016 today which revealing that Blackberry made $100 Million less than last year at $352 million. CEO John Chen had been quoted many times saying that they would eventually exit the hardware business considering that it’s no more profitable. John Chen was quoted in a press release as follows, “Our new Mobility Solutions strategy is showing signs of momentum, including our first major device software licensing agreement with a telecom joint venture in Indonesia,” and further added that “Under this strategy, we are focusing on software development, including security and applications....

It’s been few months since OnePlus introduced the pre-order system and has conducted several open sales globally since then. But in India, it has stuck to the age old invite based system with interested customers hunting for invites on social media and OnePlus forums. Now that its real competition, the Mi 4, is getting launched, OnePlus has decided to open up the sale for 24 hours. The OnePlus One comes with a 5....

Capitan is a new such app that is touted as the first smart shopping list that that learns as you use it and saves you time and money. Currently available for iOS and Android users, the comes with the bold purpose of helping you never forget anything at the store, thus preventing you from taking this annoying extra trips. The concept is very simple – you create and share shopping lists with friends or family very easy....

The main theme of the networking vendors at CES 2011 was ‘Home is where the Network is’. This should not come as a surprise because since the past few years several home entertainment devices like flat-screen TVs, media playback devices, game consoles, and so on, include an Ethernet port. Others use USB Wi-Fi dongles to connect to a wireless network, and many even come with a built-in Wi-Fi adapter. The new trend now is for network vendors to transport digital entertainment than just business data and for this; they are introducing a new range of products that will enable consumers to watch movies, share photos, listen to music and perform many such entertaining activities without actually worrying as to where the real content is located....

The Coolpad Cool M7 comes equipped with a 5.5-inch FHD 2.5D curved glass display and is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 625 paired with 4GB of RAM. On the storage front, the Cool M7 offers 64 GB of internal memory. The imaging arrangements on the Cool M7 include a 12-Megapixel primary rear camera with an aperture of f/1.8 and a 13-Megapixel front facing/selfie camera with an aperture of f/2.2. The fingerprint sensor is embedded in the front home button and the device runs on Android 7....

Delivering Bass…with a pulse rather than a thump At their price of Rs 6,999 (often available at Rs 5,999), the Outlier Air are in our opinion, the best TWS anyone who loves quality bass can get. The biggest reason for anyone wanting to get these TWS will be the quality of audio they deliver. It is reasonably loud in terms of volume and accents the bass very gently without overwhelming the other frequencies....

We have to warn you that it is neither pint-sized nor cheap. It is over a gigabyte to download and is priced just a cent short of a tenner in US Dollars. But if you have played the original in the nineties, you will be hard-pressed to keep sentimental tears from running when the app launches and the familiar (now iconic) tune plays. And yes, of course, the crashing sound that will follow will be that of veteran gamers’ jaws hitting the floor as they see that the game – the whole darned game – has been rendered perfectly for the iPad....

The update takes the Gmail up to version 2.0 and is one of the heftiest the app has received since it arrived on the iTunes App Store some months ago. And that is certainly evident from the size of the app, which has suddenly sprouted to an impressive 15MB. There are a number of changes contained in them thar MBs, though. To start with, the interface (once you have logged in – you will have to) is a whole lot cleaner and you have so much more white space around with fewer pesky lines....

DESTIGOGO’s agenda is quite straightforward – it suggests you places according to what you need precisely. On the landing page, it takes inputs for the currency, an estimated budget per person, holiday duration, and more importantly, the factors you are looking for. These include adventure, road trip, city, sun, and snow or you can just leave it empty for random results. Hit search, and the website shows a comprehensive grid of holiday packages you can consider....

But with all that factored in, we cannot understand why the company went for an event like the just-concluded Zen Festival at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi. Yes, we know that it is always good for a company to meet its fans and followers – we really wish that sort of thing happened more often, really. But we do not think that doing so from a stage in a massive hall works....

As mentioned above, with Digital Wellbeing, Google offered its users a way to determine their phone usage habits and act upon it to find the right balance with technology. To extend this further to its community and help more people find a better balance with technology, it is now introducing Digital Wellbeing Experiments. In a nutshell, Digital Wellbeing Experiments is a platform to encourage more designers and developers to integrate digital wellbeing into their products....

Not to worry, with the release of Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate editions, Microsoft is including a little utility called XP Mode. XP Mode is a virtual machine running Windows XP on Windows 7. Microsoft is giving us XP mode (XPM) as a means to having a fully modern computing environment (via Windows 7) without having to sacrifice legacy support (of Windows XP). Below is a simple usage guide to get started with XP mode....