Books for the On-Demand Generation We’re starting to become the on-demand generation. Everything from TV shows to movies to food, we want them at a moment’s notice, whenever we demand them. Books, though, are late to transition to this era. But they’re here now. Scribd is the Netflix for ebooks. And not just ebooks. They have audiobooks and now even comics. And they keep adding more and more stuff every month....
“Call recording is completely cloud-based, and as soon as you start recording, everyone in the call is notified that the call is being recorded,” explains Microsoft’s Skype team. “Call recordings combine everyone’s video as well as any screens shared during the call.” Since its original release in 2003, Skype never had a call recording feature till date. There have been a few third party apps and services which users had to resort to in order to record skype calls, but with this new feature, it can now be done natively, which is a welcome move....
The founders say thatSleep Shepherd is unlike any other sleep aid on the market as it utilizes real time data in an innovative biofeedback loop to help the wearer naturally fall asleep without having to make use of habit-forming drugs. The gadget doesn’t interfere with the chemical balance of the brain, and can be worn as often as needed without the negative side effects of pharmaceutical approaches. Specialized nerves hard-wired in the part of our brain stem called the medial superior olive (MSO) get excited when they are stimulated by signals arriving from our two ears....
However, headphones are bulky and cannot be carried around as easily as a pair of earphones. To tackle this, Sony launched the WF-1000XM3 which borrows the same active noise cancellation technology from its headphone sibling and puts it into a much more portable form factor. The Sony WF-1000XM3 is one of the few pairs of TWS earphones that have ANC but it is not just about their ability to cancel out ambient noise that makes them desirable....
As always, Xperia’s forte still remains the strong imaging capability thanks to the new ½.3 Exmor RS module which will replace the earlier 20.7-Megapixel G-Lens module. The autofocus is apparently so fast that you can take a snap in the Xperia Z5 in just under 0.03 second which is ironically lesser than the time taken to blink. Secondary camera comes in the form of a 5-Megapixel 25mm sensor with FHD and Steady Shot mode....
Shazam is available on both Android and iOS. Similar to iOS, where you have a few different ways to use Shazam to identify songs, its Android app also offers a few integrations to simplify music recognition on Android. One of these integrations allows you to put a Shazam tile in your device’s Quick Settings panel, which gives you an obtrusive and quick way to identify songs on Android using Shazam....
Redmi’s first-ever 5G phone in India was the Redmi Note 10T, which was launched in July 2021. The device bridged the gap of 5G connectivity across the Redmi Note 10 Series with the help of the Dimensity 700 chipset. Soon after, we saw the Redmi Note 11T Series as a follow-up, with slight improvements. List of Redmi 5G Phones in India While 5G is still a long time away, some people might still be interested in picking up a 5G phone for the sake of future-proofing....
Enhanced Navigation Bar Here, you can use navigation bar in three ways. Since there is no physical navigation bar, it is interesting to see how well they had been implemented to cater a wide audience. Using Fingerprint Sensor The Honor View 10 houses a fingerprint sensor on the front. You can double down to use it as a navigation bar. You will have to swipe left or right to bring up the multi-tasking window, one single press to go back, and a long press to go to home screen....
If you don’t know for sure where all of your space went, then you might want to use a dedicated software that will sniff out any space hog on your hard drive and show you exactly how much space each folder takes. This is very helpful, as Windows doesn’t show how much a folder occupies unless you view the properties. Check out the usual suspects first While this option is time consuming and sometimes boring, some old-school computer users still prefer it over automated options....
This time, we’re going to talk about iOS and Android apps that you can use to find cheap flight tickets that are essential to planning your travel carefully. You can also have a look at our guide on how you can plan your travels from your Android tablet and you might also try out Wanderio, a bold new start-up that promises to offer you the cheapest and most complete way to travel, end to end....
Although this is a convenient feature that ensures you get the latest features and an updated experience, generally free of bugs, it has one major drawback: excessive data usage. This can be particularly concerning if you spend most of your day outdoors and, therefore, rely heavily on cellular data for all your online activities. Fortunately, both App Store and Play Store let you turn off automatic app updates on your iPhone or Android smartphone to limit mobile data usage....
Previously, they used to include the DM in plain text while notifying the users via email. Now, that has been replaced by a simple “check it out” button. Back in November 2013, there were some talks about Twitter mulling to encrypt DMs and implement other security measures, but yesterday, it was reported that Twitter is giving up on encrypted messages. Though we don’t know the exact reason for abandoning the project, it’s interesting that they have stopped including the DM in plain text for email notifications....
We may have exaggerated a little but detangling wire is a struggle and most people would agree. But while Bluetooth might have taken the wires’ spot in this plot, what it brought along was some serious confusion. With wired earphones, things were relatively simple. You had earbuds or over the head headphones to choose from. Bluetooth earphones on the other hand have three major categories or styles of Bluetooth earphones and each category is monumentally different from the other....
CCleaner already supports Internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera and now by adding Chrome, it has become a complete application! I love CCleaner for its simplicity in use and recommend it for you in case you are not using it yet. Download CCleaner
What to do in such cases? Well, the only viable solution (apart from re-installing the OS) is to restore your computer to an earlier state, when it wasn’t compromised. Sounds pretty simple, right? Well, the problem with this is that most of us forget to backup our system, or even choose not to. After all, the recovery image occupies quite a lot of space and the process is very time consuming and laborious....
The introduction of the new Obsidian Black Edition isn’t quite surprising though, as last year itself, in light of the new iPhone 6S launch, we had seen Samsung and Sony launch Rose Gold variants of their flagship Note 5 and Xperia Z smartphones respectively. That said, the Jet Black variant of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus can’t be termed revolutionary as we have seen some Android phones being launched with this color even before....
Performance: If I have to put it in one word, it’s “fantastic”. I use tons of apps & devices on daily basis which includes WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, Fitbit (syncs all the time with my Blaze), stay connected with my Jabra headset through the day, Music streaming for an hour every day, 20+ minutes of gaming, and I had used this to take lots of pictures every day during Durga Puja Festival this time....
Before we list down these alternatives, let’s have a brief recap on why VPNs aren’t perfect, after all. To begin with, one of the major concerns with most VPN providers is the lack of transparency in their privacy policy. As has been seen on several occasions, a large number of VPN services either have some vague element or a missing clause in their policy that introduces ambiguity about the handling of personal user information....
There have been reports of Jio producing a VoLTE feature phone. Some people have expressed their thoughts on why they think a VoLTE feature phone from Jio makes no sense at all. To some extent, they’re right, after all, a 4G network and a feature phone are diagonally opposite. On one hand, a 4G network is the very best in telecom technology whereas a feature phone seems outdated like the 2G networks they run on....
The Wileyfox Swift 2 is priced at £159 and it does improve on most of the quarters as opposed to its predecessor. For instance, the Swift 2 comes now comes dressed in a metal body alongside chamfered edges and prominent Wileyfox branding. Moving on, the main difference between the Swift 2 and the Swift 2 Plus is the bumped up 16-Megapixel primary sensor in the Swift 2 Plus as opposed to the 13-Megapixel one in the Swift 2....
