So let’s check out the full review of the device and see if it will suffice the need for your next budget Android phone. Design: Premium and Light Weight Starting with one of the biggest assets at this price point, Coolpad Mega 2.5D comes with a big 5.5″ display and a 2.5D curved glass which gives the phone its name. It’s rare to get a screen this big with a 2....
Today I will show you how you can automate one of the most boring stuffs you do on the computer, and that’s installing Windows. In the process we will also talk about how you can strip down many unnecessary features of Windows 8 and reduce the size of the installation. WinReduceris a freeware using which you can create your customized Windows 8 installation cd or drive. WinReducer reads your Windows 8 files and removes many useless features based upon your selection....
User Privacy . The rise of social networks and their several-pages-long privacy agreements that most people don’t understand has caused many to inadvertently share more than they would have liked. Things got even more complicated with the rise of smartphones and apps, which have virtually unlimited access to our login information to several services, as well as to other critical data. Because of this, it has become more important than ever to protect our data from external applications that might have access to it without us even knowing....
Notifications really got one of the biggest updates yet for Android. But while all the new features are great, notifications still might not be how you want them. Notifications are the most personal thing on the phone, so it makes sense that you should have total control over them. Thankfully, there are plenty of settings in Lollipop we can tweak to get there. Interacting with Notifications on the Lockscreen After you update to Lollipop, notifications will show up on the lockscreen by default....
Draw.io is another online tool that is climbing the popularity charts. Sharing a similar interface and design, not to mention, a cool template library, Draw.io is a strong contender for the best online diagram makers. Thus, in this post today, we will pit both these online diagramming tools against each other and see how they stack up. Let’s start with the common features and then move on to the uncommon ones....
Today I am going to share an interesting ADB script that can help you easily record screencasts from your Android device directly to the computer without installing any app. Also the trick is completely free and leaves no watermark on the video. Note: Using ADB tools, you can record your Android screen as a video, but that requires a massive installation of the ADB platform. This script just includes the necessary files for video capture, which is enough for our purposesface....
When I started using Android, back in the days of Eclair, power of taking a screenshot on the phone was only limited to root users. But now in Gingerbread and versions above that, a user can take screenshots even without rooting a device as long as the feature is integrated in the ROM by the manufacturer. Most of the time the option is embedded in the power menu. However, in general most of the time when one takes a screenshot on Android it’s either to use in an article (like this one), or upload on web (social media and emails) to get doubts cleared....
usually three lines at a time . This scrolling behavior can be observed when you use one notch of the mouse wheel or a single key stroke on the keyboard. While it’s not a serious problem, there is always a chance that you could get irritated and lose concentration while reading a lengthy article. You want the scrolling to be smooth, don’t you? We have talked about smooth scrolling before when we showed you how to activate/deactivate it on Firefox....
ASICS bought RunKeeper in 2016, and it made the headlines for collecting user data and sharing it with advertisers in the same year. That was surprising because the collection happened even when the app was not in used. Still, RunKeeper is popular and comes with a host of features that we will explore below. Get RunKeeper Endomondo, like RunKeeper, tracks a number GPS-based activities including running, cycling, and swimming among others....
Google, despite its deep roots in Android, makes some of the best third-party alternatives to the iPhone’s native apps and services — Chrome, Google Photos, Google Calendar, and more. And Google Duo falls squarely into that camp. But is it good enough to replace FaceTime? After using Google Duo on the iPhone for the past few weeks, here’s what I think. FaceTime — iOS Integration FaceTime is designed for the iPhone....
for many platforms , including the iPhone . However, new games always show up and some of them are so good and enjoyable that they deserve to be mentioned. This time, we will take a closer look at a couple of iPhone puzzles that bring a new approach to well-known mechanics. Fold For those who like iPhone puzzle games, Fold will prove to be one of the most challenging and innovative entries in the genre to come to the iPhone in quite some time....
I tried a couple of apps that came highly recommended by the Play Store but all I got was a force close message a couple of times. Finally, after refining my search I got a perfect solution for my problem. DiskDigger for Android is a tiny app that can easily restore accidentally deleted photos (JPEG and PNG) on a rooted Android device. Yeah, well, the phone needs to be a rooted one....
syncing via iTunes to doing it via iCloud , then you might be experiencing this issue. This is also a very known problem among those who store their contacts in online services such as Google, Exchange or such. Let’s take a look at some of the possible reasons for duplicate contacts on your iPhone and how to solve it. If You Have iCloud Enabled If you started to see contacts duplicated on your iPhone right after enabling iCloud sync, first verify if the duplicate contacts on your iPhone are also duplicated on iCloud’s website....
This DVD backup tool can also backup the content of a DVD to iPhone, iPod, Zune and various mobile phones and portable devices. Here are some of the features of this tool, which they mention on their official site. Supports copying DVD video to hard disk, extracting audio, grabbing screenshot, cropping video size etc.Continuously update to support the latest DVD copy protections. Offers free lifetime upgrades.Rip encrypted DVDs without quality loss....
So without further ado, let’s dive straight in. The Common Features 1. Collaboration Collaboration — the central feature of any online file sharing system. Both the tools ace in the art of collaboration, however, it’s the question of how much they ace in it. Paper’s features are decent — it has the option to edit, comment and share or comment and share. The plain and simple view isn’t available, sadly....
Out of the many offline navigation apps available on the market, Google Maps and HERE WeGo from Nokia are two of the very best options available. But, which one out of these two is the best, we will try to find out in this post. For this, we have tested both these apps using an Android phone and have tested their online as well as offline features and we will help you decide which app you should have on your phone....
Reducing streaming quality, ditching heavy apps or opting for auto-update over Wi-fi are some of the common fixes for data reduction, however, that’s not all. The Android system includes a number of ways to eat through the cellular plan even after the above fixes. Here, we will be looking at the best 3 ways to reduce app data usage on Android. 1. Check your Chrome Settings Most of us rarely switch over from the default browser that comes with the phone....
Don’t sulk, today we will show you a robust new way to hide all your sensitive data. Well, not entirely new because we have talked about this method before but not about this tool that lets you do it on a USB drive. We will see how to use this software called Free File Camouflage, a very small and portable freeware to hide files inside pictures. To start hiding your files you need to download Free File Camouflage zipped file and extract in anywhere on your system....
When you use these products with your Google Account, Google saves some of your activity in a My Activity repository. The activities saved include the sites you visit, the searches you conduct, and the videos you watch. You can manage the type of activity saved using a feature on your Google Account called Activity Controls. Types of Activity Saved to My Activity Google only saves the activity you perform on a Google product or service only if it falls into any of the following categories:...
Another great feature of the Mail app is that it allows you to add an image to your email signature. In this post, we will show you the steps to add an image to an email signature in the Mail app on Mac. Add Image to Email Signature in Mail App Before moving ahead, make sure you have a PNG file of your signature saved on your Mac if you want to use that as your email signature....
