It Starts from the Homepage You will notice the revamped web interface the second you land on the Dropbox homepage. Even if you have loads of files, the homepage gives you the welcome feeling of space. The file icons, the optimum font size, and the muted Dropbox blue color is easy on the eyes. The toolbar/menu bar is thankfully out of the way. More often than not, it’s the tool options that clutter the interface....
No matter how controversial or doubtful it may be, this technological advancement towards smarter artificial intelligence is pretty much the present and definitely the future of mankind. With the rise of new tools such as deep learning, machine learning, reinforced learning, supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, and Bayesian network, the world of computing and machine-driven manufacturing is changing the world as we know it. In such a time when the future of humanity is uncertain with the development of machines more intelligent than ourselves, we must at least have a clear understanding of what’s going to change our world in the near future....
restoring files to and from a cloud service is something we know of and most of us are probably doing that as a part of their daily routine. A simple backup and restore is good enough for almost all the tasks, but today I will talk about a better way using which you can backup saved data of application and games you use, on all the connected computers without copying files manually all the time....
Suddenly, they cancelled the free tier. That in itself isn’t bad. It was the way they handled it. Customers only had 7 days to act and because thousands of users depended on it, they had to pay an ungodly amount just for the luxury of using a familiar service. And LastPass isn’t just any other service. It’s where all your passwords live. You don’t want to keep all this data at a place you don’t feel comfortable with....
That announcement means far more to technology companies than it does to consumers, at least in the short-term. That’s because headphone makers, speaker manufacturers, and similar wireless accessory brands can start putting Bluetooth 5.0 in their products. Now that 2017 has begun, you can expect to see Bluetooth 5.0 products hit market by the end of the year or sooner. Does that mean you should hold off on buying Bluetooth products right now?...
arrival of a message in your inbox at that very instant? Do you log in and keep checking the web service every 5 minutes? We don’t expect you to do that if you are a Guiding Tech reader. There are better ways. For example, you can easily set up desktop notifications to alert you of mail arrivals. Indeed there are tools which let you work with emails even without opening a browser (the best of which is MS Outlook; there are simpler ones though)....
The application not only connects flawlessly to a computer running Windows operating system, but you can also use Android accelerometer to control computer games’ in-game elements. Yes I am serious! You can control your car while racing just by tilting your phone left or right. The app also provides additional features like file explorer, touch pad control, PowerPoint presentation mode, etc. But for the post, we will be concentrating on just the joystick feature....
an unlimited plan , which is the case for the vast majority of iPhone customers. Of course, there are a lot of apps in the App Store that allow users to have their data consumption information at hand, but the only ones worth checking out were all paid ones. That is, of course, until Princeton EDGE Lab debuted DataWiz for the iPhone on the App Store sometime back, providing all iPhone users finally with a great data usage tracking app that is not only free but surprisingly, ad-free as well....
The web messenger that can integrate other social media accounts is just great but if you look closely in the user profile badge on the top-right corner, you will see that there are only two messenger options available. You can only be available or invisible, and that means that as long as you are signed in to Outlook.com you will be signed in to the messenger whether you like it or not....
After three months of DOTA, we’ve stepped back to think about whether it was worth buying. What is available, and is it worth it for the casual player? The Price The DOTA plus uses a three-pronged pricing model for their plans, offering: A monthly subscription at $3.996 month subscription at $22.49, a 6% discount on monthly renewals12 month subscription at $41.99, a 12% discount The 12-month plan will save you paying for a month and a half’s worth, whilst the 6-month plan only saves half a month....
In the good old days of analog cameras, creating a double exposure was by no means an easy task. Right lighting condition was of the utmost importance. Plus, with automatic winding cameras, the effect was a little difficult to achieve since the film would automatically skip to the next frame. To add to it, it was an expensive affair, thanks to films. Down the years, plenty of things have changed, thanks to digital photography and advancement in the field of image editing....
So basically, the contacts and dialer app have lacked behind and if you are not limited to calls and SMS for your communications, your dialer needs an upgrade. That’s what we will be looking at today. Drupe Contacts & Phone Dialer Drupe is an all new and updated Contacts & Phone Dialer that comes with an amazing design and features using which you can interact with your contacts and communication apps to contact them very easily....
hiding status updates and photos to warding off strangers , and then to even setting up a Facebook ‘burglar alarm’ , Facebook despite all intents and purposes can be turned into a fortress. One of the tiniest details we sometimes overlook as part of our digital persona is the year of birth and consequently our real age. No, I am not being bashful about it. Hiding your age on Facebook has a few real-world implications that are easily overlooked....
Be it just 10 apps or 100, Titanium Backup makes the task a piece of cake every time you format your device. But if things are not optimal for the app to work, then restoring your data might not be a smooth sailing. So let’s have a look at two of these frequent errors you might get while restoring your data using Titanium Backup and see how to resolve them....
We have covered the differences between the Samsung Contacts app and Google Contacts app in terms of availability, user interface, and features expected from a Contacts app. Let’s start the comparison. Availability One of the primary factors that differentiate both apps is availability. The Samsung Contacts app is limited to the Samsung Galaxy phones only. You cannot install it on other Android phones. Fortunately, you can install Google Contacts on any Android phone....
The family of spyware has been identified by Google as Lippizan. Its code contains references to a cyber arms company, Equus Technologies. Earlier this year, Google had identified another spyware called Chrysaor and mitigated the threat. Using the same technique, Lippizan was discovered in 20 apps on Google Play Store which had been distributed to over 100 devices in a targeted manner. “Lipizzan is a multi-stage spyware product capable of monitoring and exfiltrating a user’s email, SMS messages, location, voice calls, and media,” Google stated....
It’s a more optimized variant of the official Google search app that comes pre-installed on all the Android devices. In this post, we will compare the two apps — Google and Google Go. All the Go apps, as Google calls them, or the lite variants are designed to achieve three purposes — use less data, use less storage and make apps easy-to-use for emerging Internet markets. These Go apps come pre-installed on Google’s Android Go operating system, which is a toned-down variant of the current Android Oreo....
Gboard is majorly renowned as Google’s official keyboard app Hence it’s popularity among many Android smartphone users. Being Google’s native keyboard app, the keyboard app often comes pre-installed with many Android devices out-of-the-box. Grammarly, on the other hand, is renowned for its grammar checking features. While Grammarly a is keyboard, its app doubles as a writing assistant which also checks for grammatical errors (and suggests corrections) as you type. Which one is the better keyboard app, though?...
Not only does the battery case provide your iPhone with extra juice to power the device, but also attends to your music needs. It also gets a bigger battery in its case than Apple’s official battery pack which is priced at $99. Apple’s battery pack gets a 2365 mAh battery while Griffin Reserve gets a 3000 mAh battery pack. The Reserve case also charges via your iPhone’s Lightning charging connector — meaning no need to carry an extra USB to charge the case....
Though this full-featured new tab is useful, many of us might miss the simplicity of getting a frequently visited site like Google on the new tab. And unfortunately, reverting back to that setting is not a straight-forward process in the latest version of most browsers. If you are using Chrome or Firefox as your default browser you can follow these steps to open a specific website automatically whenever you open a new tab....
