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iOS
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Here’s How To Get System Wide Ad blocking On iOS For Free
We are not going to get into the ethics of Ad blocking (We are content creators and this site serves Ads) but Apple has been actively making it difficult to block ads system wide. Your best bet so far has been to purchase “AdGuard Pro” which is an open source app which blocks ads across…
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Vookmark: Save Videos, Watch Later
Vookmark is here to solve a very real problem. How many times have you been in situations where a friend sends you a video while you’re at work, so you remember to watch it later, but end up completely forgetting about it. He’s another situation: You find a few videos to watch, but you want…
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Huawei Band Zero: Surprisingly Amazing Hybrid Fitness Tracker
The Huawei Band Zero is a hybrid fitness tracker and a smartwatch. The watch weighs just 25 grams, and it is continuously tracking your activity and also doubles up to show new notifications on the screen. The Huawei Band Zero has been around for close to a year, and we’re surprised no one is talking…
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iOS 10 Features in Action
iOS 10 is the latest operating system for the iPhone and it is not yet out to the public. The list of iOS 10 features and changes are great. Most of the biggest changes are for the developers and opening up the operating system. Developers can finally access Siri to build custom commands. Now, you can ask…
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Neo Smartpen N2: Analog goes digital the right way!
The concept of Smartpens has been around for a long time, but none like the Neo Smartpen N2. Most of them are not a consumer friendly products and you would have to go out of the way from your typical writing methods. A lot of them still love the analog way of writing(Including me) and…
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iPad Pro: Bigger is better!
Introduction Apple announced a radically new iPad at their September event last year. It seemed dumb at the time, the same way the first iPad looked like a stretched up iPod. I never expected I’d be getting one. But my curiosity intrigued me to get one. For some background, I’ve used most of the iPads,…
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Apple March 2016 Event: Report
This year, it was a surprise when Apple send out invites for an event in March. The major announcements were leaked, though. So, here’s everything that happened at the event: Apple’s stand on privacy Early this year, Apple got in a debacle with the American Government over Privacy. They wanted a particular terrorist’s iPhone unlocked…
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How to Enable Nightshift on iPhone
iOS 9 in many ways has been the opening up of Apple’s mobile operating system to a certain extent and Apple has been expanding on that. Click here for a complete review of the iPhone 6s Plus. For the first time, they let non-developers to side load apps using Xcode. Due to the opening up…
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Avantree PowerTower: Review
I use a lot of devices every day which requires a lot of juice. With all the charging and cables, my table looks chaotic. Every day, I’m constantly charging three different phones, an iPad, my Apple watch and some sort of an accessory like a headphone or my Kindle. I had to constantly plan and…
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Sandisk Wireless Connect: Review
Sandisk wireless connect is a pen drive with a few tricks up its sleeve. This is a pen dive with its own network. It connects to almost any device, even the ones that don’t have an USB port like an iPhone or the iPad. The sandisk wireless connect creates a wifi hotspot and the devices…
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Ascend: Read it later for Kindle
I spend a lot of time reading every day. In fact, that’s the first thing I do after I wake up and the last thing before I go to sleep. My reading predominantly these days are articles I find online. If the article is small and would take less than a minute to read, I…
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Apple TV Review: Apps on TV is the future
Steve Jobs, right before his death famously said he had cracked the TV industry! It’s been close to 5 years now and Apple TV 4 is the first big upgrade to the streaming box released in 2007. The TV industry is probably the next big thing and it is no longer a hobby product for…
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Manual: The best Camera app for iPhone
Apple opened up a lot of new API’s for developers in iOS 8. One of the most important one was for the Camera which allowed apps to directly access the camera allowing even changes at a finer level. Manual Camera uses those new API’s to give an amazing camera experience with the iPhone. The default…
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The next chapter of Apple’s Think Different is Now
Last year we saw iOS 7 with a brand new design and the beginning of Apple’s Tim Cook era after Steve Job’s death. But this year is the biggest yet. We see Ive’s work in every product. This year has seen the biggest shift in every Apple product. This is the fourth era for Apple.…
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iOS 8 First Impressions
Apple announced iOS 8 at their WWDC conference a couple of weeks back and the beta version was made available exclusively to the developers. We decided to take it for a spin and actually use it for a while to get a feel of it before writing this article. The first thing you notice when…