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Practical coverage of Android apps, useful utilities, privacy changes, subscriptions and features that matter in everyday use.
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OpenCode Plugins for Token Speed and Usage
Compare OpenCode plugins for live token speed, session usage, cost estimates and provider quota checks.
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Best OpenCode Themes: Community Picks and Setup
A quick look at OpenCode themes worth installing, from Midnight Madras to community palettes, with a simple setup guide.
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Adobe Premiere on Android in India: Features, Requirements and What Creators Should Know
Adobe Premiere is now officially available on Android in India. Here is how its free 4K exports, AI tools and requirements compare with banned CapCut.
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Gobbl Mac Notch App First Look: Cute Pet, Useful Tools
Gobbl turns the MacBook notch into a home for a tiny pet, file shelf, music controls, coding-agent updates, dictation and useful shortcuts. Here is what stands out in this first look.
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Challenges of Azure Cloud Security and How to Meet Them
Microsoft Azure is amongst the top three cloud service providers. With cloud adoption come the risks of cyber threats, data breaches, and other security risks. No cloud platform is 100% safe, and there are many security issues with every platform. In this article, you will learn about the challenges of Azure cloud security and how…
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India Bans 59 Popular Chinese Apps Amidst Tension With China
The government of India has announced a ban on several popular Chinese apps including TikTok with immediate effect. The growing tension with China along the border has led to this unprecedented move. While these apps are among the few that are shady in their behavior it remains to be seen how effective the ban turns…
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Facebook Gave Away Large Amounts of User Data to Device Manufacturers
Most recently, The New York Times published a report accusing Facebook of giving away too much user information to various device manufacturers such as BlackBerry, Microsoft, Apple, and Samsung. According to the report, over a decade ago the social media giant started collaborating with device manufacturers. It helped them create Facebook applications for their devices…
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Narendra Modi App Hack & Its Rushed Cover Up
The “Narendra Modi” app had a vulnerability that compromised the private info of 7 million users who had registered on it. Before we proceed with this article we would like to explain the meaning of “Hack” to our media who for reasons best known to them have been calling this incident as a “Non hack” Hack…
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Sharing a Photo Of a Cat Via PM Gets Your Facebook Account Disabled
Update: 03/10/16 Its been over a day since the bug has been fixed. All the affected accounts have been reinstated. Yes! You read the title right. Sharing the photo of a cat in a suit (via a private message) is all it takes to get locked out of your Facebook account. I did not buy…
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BuySell Tickets: An app that lets you buy and sell unused movie tickets
Everyone has been in this situation where you’ve booked a movie ticket in advance, and you are unable to go to the theatre. Chances are, you go to the theatre and wait in front of the screen hoping someone would buy the ticket or post it in one of the Facebook groups. The problem with Facebook…
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Use Resq to get notified when friends and family are reachable
Due to the rains and the flooding in Chennai, Anoram has built an notifier bot to notify if a family or friend is reachable by phone or by Whatsapp. This is a FREE service which can be setup by visiting help.anoram.com There are two ways to get notified when friends and family are reachable. Anoram…
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How to disable ads on uTorrent
Let’s admit it, one of the first softwares we install on a PC is a torrent client. It is either uTorrent or bitTorrent. We always look for the easiest method to obtain files. uTorrent has for long had options hidden deep into the settings menu that lets the end user get rid of ads without…
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RRO Layers – Android Lollipop Theme Engine
The current storm that has hit Android Lollipop users is the introduction of Layer Manager app into the Play Store. For those of you who are new to Layers, it is an optimization of the Lollipop internal code introduced in 5.1. This allows you to customize every aspect of your Android phone’s appearance including SystemUI, Navbar,…
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How to use Whatsapp Web
Following the ban wave of Whatsapp Plus users Whatapp CEO Jan Koum posted a status update announcing Whatsapp for Web. The update is not yet live on the Play Store but you can grab the beta from here and install to start using Whatsapp for Web. http://www.whatsapp.com/android/beta/WhatsApp.apk Once you have installed the beta Whatsapp you will need…
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How to disable read receipts On WhatsApp
Not long ago we explained what the much dreaded WhatsApp feature, “Blue Ticks” meant. We did mention the chances of WhatsApp providing an option to turn off this was low, but the outrage WhatsApp has received has made the team get into quick damage control by providing a new privacy feature. To disable Read Receipts a.k.a…
