Right from the colorful Go Launcher to the organized looks of Arrow Launcher, I have had my share of launchers in my devices. But I keep coming back to Nova, flexibility being the main reason. Though Nova offers a lot of features in the free version (that are to die for), the prime version’s features rock even more! So, since I’ve been on the Prime version for a while, I thought it’d be worth sharing why I went for it and what I have really liked about it....

That’s why you will need to open a Google account instead of Gmail to change your password. But there are certain points to keep in my mind even before you change Gmail/Google password. After all, you don’t want your account to be hacked or compromised, do you? We will discuss some key factors that affect your account’s security and what you can do to protect its integrity. Let’s begin....

how to share your iTunes music library with other Macs and iOS devices at home. However, for many this approach is a bit limited, since it doesn’t work with all devices and applications. If this is your case, then you will be happy to learn that thanks to a great app named Airfoil for both the Mac and iOS devices, you now have a much more flexible alternative to stream audio between all your devices....

Last year, the Cupertino-based company finally added file management with a separate Files app in iOS 12. As with any Apple app, the Files app is a minimal effort with fewer functionalities out of the box. Thankfully, we have some alternatives to choose from the App Store. Documents by Readdle is such an application with several file management functions and more. And in this post, we are going to compare it against the default Apple Files app on various parameters....

In Android 4.0, Google added the built-in ability in Android devices to take screenshots. And now with Android 9 or P, you get a native screenshot editor. However, built-in screen recording is still not part of Android. We have to download third-party apps to do so. You may have heard about many apps that record screen. In this post, we will compare the best two screen-recording apps – AZ Screen Recorder and DU Recorder....

There are many such apps out there and it can get a little confusing when it comes to selecting one of them. In this article, we will delve deep into the features of two popular camera apps, and help you decide on a winner. Why No Manual Settings, Stock App? In order to get full manual control (something as simple as manual focus) in our newly bought smartphone, we downloaded two camera apps from Google Play Store – Bacon Camera and Camera FV-5 Lite – and tested them for a week each....

However, budget gaming TVs come with some compromises. For example, quite a few TVs lack the support for VRR, HDMI 2.1, or a high refresh rate. The former means that the TV won’t reach the maximum frame rates like a gaming monitor. That said, these budget gaming TVs have a low input lag. And the big screen real estate and HDR performance deliver an immersive experience. So, if you are in the market looking for good budget gaming TVs for the Sony PS5, here are our top recommendations....

This stored data often helps in improving the app experience – you don’t have to wait for the extra minutes it takes to load completely. But as a downside, it also increases the load on the phone memory. In some cases, it may result in sluggish app performance or it can cause the app to behave erratically. So what do we do to improve the app performance? While few say clearing the cache will resolve the issue, others suggest clearing the app data....

NetSpeedMonitor is a lightweight network monitoring toolbar for your Windows Taskbar designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista or Windows 7. One of the things I straightway liked about this traffic monitoring free software is that it requires no additional drivers and works straight after the install without any additional configurations. NetSpeedMonitor works from the taskbar. You can view it by right-clicking on the taskbar and selecting the NetSpeedMonitor toolbar....

One trick to help you accomplish such a setting is to create hidden profiles and use them secretly. An even better way would be to use private browsing mode. Today we intend to make the process of clearing browsing data simpler. The spin is to clear such data automatically when you close your browser, be it Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer. It’s a useful trick because people usually don’t forget quitting the browser when they are using it on some other computer other than their own....

That all changes with CloudConvert, a file conversion tool that promises to convert any file you throw at it into just about any format you want. CloudConvert started as a web app, but now it is also available as an iOS app form and lets users convert files into 195 different file types. Let’s take a look at CloudConvert for iOS and how it performs on your mobile device....

Well, we’ll try to make it a bit easier for Android users today. Contacts+ for Android is a very powerful Android contact managing app that not only helps you to manage your contacts, but also integrates SMS and call log data, as well as social media connectivity for seamless control. Contact+ for Android After you install Contact+ and open it, a few welcome images later you will see all your contacts in grid view in the middle contact tab....

OneNote is known to be a digital notebook that integrates deeply with Microsoft’s Office 365 Suite of apps. It can handle pretty much every file type, can perform simple mathematical calculations inside notes (no one else does it), and comes with one of the best OCR technology in the category. Get OneNote Dropbox Paper has decided to take a different approach. With no desktop apps for Windows and Mac, it wants to win hearts on the back of a minimalist design with a robust set of features....

The downside? These disks don’t last forever. No matter how careful you are, one scratch is enough to make the disk unreadable and there is no coming back from such situations. Additionally, copying the entire disk will work, but it will give you different VOB files in the folder which will be broken into different parts. These files might work on the desktop, but are not supported by smartphones and other portable devices....

The Charts and Drawing features are the ones which have been ramped up. The Charts and Drawing tools come with their own respective editors and are more than handy for your day to day document jobs. Charts in Google Docs The Chart Editor is perhaps one of the richest tools you can find on Google Docs. The options can go a long way in enhancing your spreadsheets if you use the right chart type, of which Google provides quite a few....

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Why Will it Work It’s often hard to find like-minded people in your area of interest. Facebook Groups were launched with the aim to connect with such people and sharing ideas, knowledge, etc. Adit Vaidya, Facebook Product Manager for Groups, explained, And it’s no small number of people who are looking for advice and suggestions. Facebook has reported that India has 155 million Monthly Active Users (MAU) with more than 77 million reported as Daily Active Users (DAU)....

Well, Facebook addressed the issue a few months back with a brilliant idea. They came up with an app called Facebook Moments using which friends can collaborate and send photos privately without compromising on photo quality and the face detection algorithm streamlines everything. But then, while exploring some of the old photos on the Google Photo app, I came across new features called the Shared Album and by the name it felt like an alternative to Facebook’s Moments....

software updates . Since the release of iOS 6 and the iPhone 5 though, owners of Apple’s latest smartphone have experienced some Wi-Fi issues that, as expected, were mostly solved with subsequent iOS updates. However, despite now being on iOS 6.1, there is a quite strange issue that several iPhone 5 owners are still having trouble with: Wi-Fi performance seems to be OK for almost everything, EXCEPT when it comes to downloading apps from the App Store....

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....