iOS 10 will include nine new iMessage bubble effects. Four affect just the bubble and five fill the entire screen. While iOS 10 won’t be out until Fall 2016, I’ve been testing out all the new features in beta. To see all of the new bubble effects in action, check out these animated GIFs. 1. Slam The Slam effect aggressively plops your message on screen and even shakes the previous conversation bubbles for effect....
When you pause or stop your music, the widget eventually disappears from the lock screen. But what if it doesn’t go away? A stuck music widget is a major annoyance, especially when it gets in the way of important notifications. And if you are wondering why this happens, it’s just another one of the many technical issues that are so prevalent on iOS 11. Fortunately, there are a number of fixes that you can carry out to resolve the problem....
Most people who work with drivers don’t even know what it is or how it works. I will be addressing these questions in today’s guide, where you will learn all there is to know about drivers on Windows 10. Let’s begin. What are Windows Drivers A driver is like a ‘software component’ that allows the Windows OS (Operating System) to communicate with a device. One of the most common examples of this is a flash or external hard drive....
Take Chrome’s new tab page for instance. It has got a sliding interface for apps installed from Chrome store and most visited websites and this does help us enhance browsing experience. But then you might have wished to do more with the new tab. This is exactly what we’ll talk about today. We’ll talk about ways to customize Chrome’s new tab page and also invite opinions from you in the comments to suggest more such methods....
Nowadays though, thanks to Steam on OS X, Mac users can enjoy a lot more variety of choice when it comes to game releases. And even while the Mac Steam library is not as big as the one for PC, being able to access Steam on your Mac opens up a ton of possibilities. So if you have ever wanted to give Steam a try on your Mac, read along....
pin almost anything , from files and folders to applications and websites on it. Windows 7 is not bad either – you can easily pin apps, folders, websites and other items to the taskbar . Similarly, you can hang any file, folder or executable on the Start Menu . Today we will see a unique trick. We will talk about pinning items to the explorer window, especially the Computer screen which generally holds only the drive icons as shown in the image below....
Though applying separators in between emails might not look that big a deal right now, when you are in a hurry and you are not able to find a particular email, you will definitely know the difference. Adding Separator in Outlook To add a separator in between two emails, open Outlook 2013 and navigate to the View menu. In View menu, click on View Settings to open Outlook Advanced View Settings....
Absolutely not. If you were vying a dark mode, then it’s finally here. Admittedly, previous iBooks iterations did have the functionality to switch to a dark theme while reading, but Books has gone the entire distance and implemented a similar feature to work across the app. But it works somewhat weirdly, almost as if it has a mind of its own. Let’s find out why. So How Does It Work?...
Volume Concierge is a 1.6 MB free download and it works on Windows 7/Vista/XP. All it needs to start controlling the desktop volume is a free activation via email. You can uncheck the box that allows the developer to send you emails and other info. Just a check against potential spamming. Configuring Volume Concierge is super simple as can be seen from the screenshot below. The free volume control software uses rules to determine the volume level at certain times of the day....
The good news is that most shredders today easily chew through paper clips, staples, credit cards, and CDs, in no time. Give it its share of cooldown time, and it’ll be as good as new. If you’re looking for micro cut shredders for your business, here are the best shredders that you can consider. But before you do so, let’s have a look at what to check before you invest in one....
take and edit photos with their iOS devices . Because of this, photo editing apps on the iPhone are some of the most successful ones on the App Store. For some people though, sometimes even the simplest editing options might be too much if all you want to do is add a few captions to your photos and pictures. However, one of the most common mistakes when adding captions to photos is to think that captions are just letters that can be placed anywhere and will achieve their purpose just like that....
So whether you have raindrops streaking down the screen or snow flakes flying about, undeniably, live wallpapers help in bringing an air of animation into the home screen. And an app which goes by the name of Liven Live Wallpaperhelps in achieving just that. Liven Live Wallpaper — An Overview Liven works by applying an overlay over the current background thus enhancing its looks. You have a choice to select over from 5 categories which include tiny floating snow-like particles or large orbs....
maintenance tasks that our Macs require depend entirely on us, the owners: Keeping the space in your Macs’ hard drives organized and in perfect state . This usually entails organizing files, purging applications that we don’t use any more and pruning our media library to get rid of what we no longer need. For anyone who performs these tasks regularly, the benefits are known and noticeable: Spotlight becomes much faster, your Mac gains speed and working with it feels way better overall, not to mention we all can use additional hard drive space every now and then....
HDMI ARC (Audio Return Channel) lets you transfer audio and video signals together, while optical audio cables are only limited to audio. So, if your TV and soundbar have both ports, what do you do? Which one should you use? Well, that’s what we shall discuss in this post today and dive deep into the basics of digital optical audio cable and HDMI ARC to figure out which audio cable suits your needs better....
What’s Canva, you ask? It’s like Photoshop but free, on the web, and incredibly easy to use. Of course, it’s not really Photoshop but it brings down the barrier of entry for the most common features. Canva is designed to create quick and awesome shareable posts that integrate images with text in an interesting way. Get a background or choose something premade from Canva, add text, edit it, make it pretty, and it’s ready to be shared with the world....
Interestingly, both Zoom and Facebook have been in the news for their poor security and data handling. And yet, they are used by millions of users across the world. In this post, we will compare these two video calling apps and find out everything there is to know about them. 1. User Interface Messenger Rooms is part of the Facebook Messenger app. You need a Facebook account to create rooms which most of us already have....
Windows, by default, does not provide a thumbnail preview for these video file types but here’s a way you can get it done to make your video and movie collection look cooler when you show it to your friends. Setting Up Media Preview Step 1: Download and install Media Preview on your computer. As both 32 and 64 bit versions are available, make sure you install the correct one. Step 2: Launch the program and open the File Formats tab....
Voice Command Devices In fact, they’ve even had a website running for a while, but doesn’t give too much info about the device. The video above is a better explanation of what you can expect from Google Home and it does look like it is a godsend device for us ‘dumb’ humans. Internet of Things These devices are part of the Internet of Things (IoT) campaign where everyday products will have network connectivity enabling them to communicate with each other....
At GT, we have reviewed quite a few to-do apps like Microsoft To-Do which is a reincarnation of Wunderlist, and Google Keep, which is more of a note-taking app. So, what are we reviewing today? Google Tasks is a minimalist app which lets you create tasks and assign dates to them. While there is a lack of advanced features, the question is if we really need them? Sometimes, more features can bog us down....
So let’s talk about the new feature as to what it is all about and how it’s gonna be useful for both, the user and the developers. What is Android Instant Apps Android Instant Apps is Android apps running on your phone without installing themselves. Basically, whenever we open up a website which needs us to install an app to continue or we get a link in our instant messaging which redirects us to a page on Play Store to install an app to view the contents, things become quite tedious....
