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alternative music applications have appeared on the App Store to compete against Apple’s own offering. Today, we take a look at Track 8, one of the most unique of these competing music applications and compare it against Apple’s Music app. Let’s start with an quick overview of the native Music app, since most of you are surely already familiar with it. Apple’s Music App The native Music app for the iPhone is perhaps one of Apple’s offerings that has gone through the most changes in the past few years....

If you know not what DNS means our article here will you. It also speaks about OpenDNS and the advantages of using it. It gives you server mappings to increase your net speed (if at all the DNS used by you Internet Service Provider are slow, which usually is the case). Now, OpenDNS isn’t the only free DNS solution out there. There are other contenders like Google DNS. So how do you know which one works the best for your location?...

Mailbox , a free iPhone email app was released to the hype of many tech journalists and users alike. I felt curious, so I downloaded the app, registered for my spot on the line (the developers don’t want to overload their server all at once) and waited. A couple of weeks later (the waiting line is now over 800,000 users, and it moves slowly) I finally got to use the app, so here are my impressions:...

While the added advantage of that extra taskbar space prevails, when it is in the system tray it takes an extra click to bring it up. Here’s how you can change this behavior so that the player minimizes to the taskbar instead. Step 1: Open KMPlayer and navigate to the Preferences window. You can simply use the keyboard shortcut F2 for that. Henceforth, whenever you minimize the KMPlayer it will go to the Windows taskbar instead of residing in the system tray....

With Wi-Fi Direct, you can share files among phones and laptops. Many great file-transfer apps are available on the Play Store such as Xender, SHAREit, Zapya etc. Xiaomi recently introduced its file-transfer app on the Play Store. It goes by the name SnapShare/Mi Drop – Share & Transfer File(No Ads) and is now available for all Android devices. It’s a simple Android app that does its job well. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll refer to this app as Mi Drop in this post....

When you are on a web page and you want to read something similar, you simply have to click to the bookmarklet. NextStories will then display the latest articles from similar sites over the page you are on. The news is displayed in a grid-like overlay over the current page. The new links are sorted with the more relevant ones towards the left and the lesser ones towards the right....

It’s such an addictive platform that if you open it when you are bored, you will end up exploring it for hours. If you start by checking quotes, after some time you would be looking into how to make a pen holder from pens. For real. Anyway, now that you have joined Pinterest, we will tell you a little bit about it. Pinterest is made up of Pins and Boards....

Compare this to Windows and you need to spend a couple of minutes for every install. You need to press “Next” a couple of times, sign agreements, specify the type of installation you want and stay on high alert during the entire installation process so the app doesn’t install any sneaky malware/adware/toolbars/unwanted programs. Some installs even make you close all running apps meaning during that process your computer is basically unusable....

The luxury people once had of being able to write out a letter and shred it to pieces before mailing it is no longer available. Emails, texts, and tweets all get sent through the internet instantaneously, and in a typically busy life, there’s no room for waiting or reconsideration. The best tactic to use to avoid the occasional online blunder is to prevent the unfortunate from happening. Enable Undo Send in Gmail If you use a Gmail account, there’s a feature hidden away in the Labs section of the Settings that can bring you sweet relief from an embarrassing email....

The two minutes-long game is played for two overs and between two players online. Players can connect the game to their Facebook profile, and the matchmaking is done at random among players across the globe. “The Sachin Saga Warm-up will serve as a prequel to ‘Sachin Saga’ where gamers across age groups can play an exciting new format of cricket digitally! I look forward to receiving the feedback as users play each delivery on its merit,” said Sachin Tendulkar....

Samsung gradually improves Calendar features with each One UI update. You can also download the latest updates from the Galaxy App Store. Microsoft took a shortcut to improve Outlook Calendar’s functionalities. The company purchased the popular Sunrise Calendar and integrated the app with the Outlook Email app on Android and iPhone. Cross-Platform Availability As a part of Microsoft’s ‘Cloud First, Mobile First’ vision, the Outlook app is available on all platforms, including Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and Web....

This is the first time Samsung didn’t announce their flagship Galaxy devices at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and rather chose a separate unveiling as they’re still dousing fires from the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco. “The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ usher in a new era of smartphone design and fantastic new services, opening up new ways to experience the world. Both the devices are our testament to regaining your trust by redefining what’s possible in safety and marks a new milestone in Samsung’s smartphone legacy,” said DJ Koh, President of Mobile Communications Business, Samsung....

We have seen apps for droid that can lock certain applications on your Android. There are also apps that hide specific photos and videos from the default album. How about combining both the features into one single app? So today I am going to talk about an amazing Android app called the Droid Protector, with which you can lock all the apps on your smartphone. Not only that, you can also securely hide individual photos from the gallery if you don’t want to lock the app....

So here’s a small guide I created about the right way to set up the Google+ auto backup feature on Android if you are planning on using it as your auto backup tool. Enable Auto Backup To enable the auto backup feature you must have the Google+ app installed on your device. The app can be downloaded from the Play Store and you need to have Google+ activated with your Google account to access the app....

Tag My Doc (Beta) is a time-saving web service that uses QR Codes to share documents. Tag My Doc has a basic free service (and a few paid plans) that enables you to share your documents in real time with anyone and everyone who is interested in it. It is a huge time-saver because it saves you from emailing people individually. The concept is simple. Tag My Doc takes your uploaded document and embeds a QR Code on your document....

So, would you consider the feature-rich ShareX over Greenshot, which offers just enough features? Well, that’s what we are going to find in this post today. We will compare ShareX with Greenshot to see which screenshot tool is the perfect pick for your Windows 10 computer. Let’s dive in. Design & User Interface Let’s start with ShareX first. One of the highlights of ShareX is that it gets you to access a ton of tools and options....

In the past decade or so, several VPN service providers have sprung up and many are offering their services free of cost. And as is the nature of humans, we tend to lean more towards the free stuff. So, how safe are these free VPNs? Should you use a free VPN, especially at home? If so, which VPN services should you try? We are going to answer such questions in this post today....

We’ll begin with SwiftSearch, which is undoubtedly faster than any other search program I’ve used – it’s great if you need to find a file this very second. Secondly, we’ll cover the popular Everything search program, which is also very quick. More importantly, its instant search function makes it stand out from the crowd. To finish, we’ve included FileSeek, which boasts the fabulous feature of searching network locations, where the other two programs fall short....

You can change user agent string of your browser and enjoy the iPad interface right inside it. Changing user agent string in Firefox and Safari is easy. But Chrome doesn’t offer a direct method to do it. Here’s a step by step guide to change user string in Chrome and get the iPad interface. Right click on the chrome shortcut and select Properties. Now go to “Shortcut” tab. In Target field, you will find this text written (where “username” is your windows username): Replace the text with the text shown below by copying the text and pasting it inside target field (make sure you have your actual windows username after C:\Users....

Well, there is nothing geeky in playing with those options, yet, we will feature an extension today that will help you take full advantage of the about:config preferences in a more user friendly way. Tab Mix Plus is what we are talking about and some of the major capabilities in it are changing link behavior, tab configurations, menu options and session management. Let us check them out. Configure How Links Behave Most of us like to open links in a new tab when we click on them....