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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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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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Chat without Internet using Firechat
Due to heavy rains in Chennai, mobile phone towers in Chennai are going down due to the extended periods of power cuts. Most of them are down as the generators they’ve been running on are probably out of fuel by now. Firechat is an app that works on peer to peer messaging and hence doesn’t need…
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Getflix Review
Getflix is a SmartDNS service which aims to unblock websites which are region locked. There are many services out there on the internet which does this by the use of a VPN(Virtual Private Network), in most cases VPN’s tend to be slower than what could be made possible by Getflix. Getflix isn’t a VPN. It’s…
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Apple Watch Review
Every smartphone company has been venturing around the wearable device segment for some time now. So it is natural that Apple would do it too. Apple announced the device way back November 2014 and when it actually came to the stores, there was a huge demand for the device. This is Apple’s first new product category after…
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Freedom OS 1.1 updated for Swipe ELITE with new features
Swipe Technologies, an Indian smartphone maker has been making a lot of devices at the low-end smartphone range. One of the most successful product of the company in the last few months has been, Swipe ELITE which has been sold exclusively on Flipkart. Swipe pointed out that based on a report compiled by Vserv, it…
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Evolvr, the tool that aims to become the IMDB for products
The Techzei team has been working on expanding over new areas for a while now and one thing we’ve been working on is to cover extensively about Startups. While working on various formats, one of the biggest problem we’ve faced is getting some actual data about startups and their products. All the information is out…
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Everything Asus announced at it’s August 2015 event in India
Last Thursday, I was in Delhi to attend the Asus Zenfestival which I thought it would be a normal press meet but a bit bigger because they flew down people all over from India. But to my surprise, it was a really big venue with a crowd of over 2,500 people. They combined a fan meet and…
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Gaming Graphics Terminology Explained!
It is an inevitable fact in gaming that only when “absolute performance” meets “amazing graphics”, an enjoyable experience is felt. But a hard truth about both these terms is that they are very insanely phobic to each other. Nowadays most of the games come with an in-game interface that allows the end-user to tweak around various advanced graphical aspects of…
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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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Its Our Turn To Fight For Net Neutrality, Join Us!
The internet, as we know it, is at a great risk. We have all enjoyed unlimited freedom (Almost! F*ck you 66A). The greed of ISP’s is now forcing the TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority Of India) to come up with guidelines to regulate the Internet and Over-the-top players like Whatsapp, Skype, WeChat and so on. Until date…
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How To Update Moto G 2013 XT 1033 To Android Lollipop 5.0.2
Motorola promised quick updates and undoubtedly they have kept up their words, the soak test for Android 5.0.2 Lollipop has begun and many testers have got the update. The build is stable and normal users will soon receive it Over-the-Air but if you are already tired of waiting then follow the simple steps on how…
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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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Top 10 Movies of 2014
2014 was probably not the best year for movies, ending with the Sony Hack. Though the summer did have it’s highs with some amazing movies. Here’s our list for the top 10 movies of 2014 #10 How to train a Dragon 2 Summer was majorly dominated with this gripping continuation to animated film, How to…
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Top 10 Phones of 2014
2014 saw a lot happening in the smartphones. Most noticeably, phones got bigger, even from the companies which insisted on not doing it for years. In terms of solid innovation, there was very little. But, we did see some phones which were not possible before. Here’s our list of the top 10 phones of 2014.…