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Work from home is the new norm these days. The COVID-19 pandemic around the world has forced the majority to start working from home. The practice has led to a surge in demand for work from home tools and equipment including routers, webcams, microphones, laptop stand, and more. Most of them are out of stock and the ones in stock are costing double/triple from the original price. Thankfully, you can use your Android phone as a webcam and on PC and Mac....

But not every time. I’ve had some instances where a document has gone haywire, only to find that undoing whatever had happened was ineffective and there wasn’t a recent enough backup to really be of any help. Fortunately, Google had my back by way of the Version History feature. Once you realize how useful Version History is, you’ll wonder how you managed without it. After some time, Google Docs will have saved a number of different iterations of your document....

It stores all the usual exercise information, like your number of steps, calories burned, minutes that you work out daily. Fun Fit tries to be a little more, well, fun, by displaying your profile any friends you drag in as cute animals. It works on most modern phones (not just HTC models), like the Galaxy Note 4, Nexus 6, Galaxy S5. Fun Fit also compiles your records by day, week, month for longer-term comparisons....

The render of the camera setup shows the familiar Duo Cameras found on the HTC One M8, though the main sensor protrudes out of the back, surrounded a bright orange ring—a throwback to the HTC EVO days that we hoped were behind us. If the camera isn’t flush to the back side of the phone like the original M8, it could be for a few reasons. One reason could be that camera sensor is larger this time around the company may have decided to push the camera out a bit to accommodate the size without making the overall body thicker....

Huawei recently announced Mate 40 Series in Europe. Today Huawei has launched Mate 40 series and Mate 30E Pro in China. Pricing is slightly higher than the pricing in Europe. Huawei Mate 30E Pro Features and Specifications The Mate 30E Pro was announced alongside Mate 40 Series. It comes equipped with a 6.53-inch FHD+ display with a 20:9 aspect ratio. Powering the device is a HiSilicon Kirin 990E SoC paired with 8GB of RAM....

A solution might be a wireless charger, such as the one found in the Samsung Galaxy S III, or solar cells powering the devices when subjected to direct sunlight. These could greatly enhance the battery efficiency of these devices, but until such technologies are implemented, we will just have to make due with what we have at our disposal. Tips to Make iPhone’s Battery Last Longer Of course, the same tips apply to the iPhone as to the Android devices:...

Facebook has had more than its fair share of controversy and problems, but it’s also a prime target for crooks. You would think that COVID relief scams are a thing of the past, but they’re not. Tap or click here to protect yourself against Facebook scammers going after your money. The Meta-owned Instagram is no stranger to scams. With over a billion users, crooks have an endless source of potential victims....

According to GigaOM , is now testing a version of Chrome Remote Desktop for Android devices among a small group of beta users. A rollout for all users is likely coming soon. though GigaOM’s story didn’t offer any more details, employee Francois Beaufort was able to build a working version from source code a few weeks ago. He noted that the app supports gestures such as two-finger scrolling, pinch-to-zoom three-finger swipe to bring up the virtual keyboard....

A new concept for a potential LG-made wearable has surfaced from @evleaks and it looks slightly different from your conventional accessory. While this bracelet won’t be able to display notifications, it can double as a capacitive stylus as you can see from the image above. We would call this feature revolutionary, but unfortunately, it looks strikingly similar to a Kickstarter backed project called FLAXUS which successfully reached its goal in April last year....

The design seems largely inspired by OnePlus’ 5T from the antenna lines to the poking rear camera to the lava red color option (which Lenovo calls “flame red”, very original indeed). The specifications are rather standard as well. It features a 5.7-inch Full HD+ display on the front and is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 625 octa-core chipset. The internal storage varies from 32GB to 128GB and there are two RAM options as well — 3GB and 4GB....

In Summary One of the most notable highlightings and the biggest app update in macOS Big Sur comes for Safari, which now gets (improved) support for third-party extensions. The latest version of Safari (version 14) comes pre-loaded with macOS Big Sur but you can get it on a lower version (Mojave or Cataline) by updating the Safari app from the Mac App Store. Extensions are basically modules (or tiny apps) that allow you to add an extra bit of functionality to the browser and get more out of it....

Samsung is all set to unveil the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ in Barcelona, Spain on February 25 — a day before MWC 2018 starts. The Korean company will be unveiling its flagship smartphone in Barcelona after a gap of one year. While the Galaxy S7 was unveiled at MWC 2016, Samsung did not unveil the Galaxy S8 at 2017’s MWC. Instead, the company held a special Unpacked event in March for the device....

Over the last year or so, HTC has worked on bringing some of its stand-alone apps into the Google Play store, making updates easier to handle. Now, HTC has added yet another app to the mix. On Tuesday, January 13, HTC released its stand-alone internet browser app, normally called HTC Browser (and called as such in the app’s description), and titled it “HTC Internet.” With the new app, users will be able to make use of features like “text reflow,” which will fit the width of a block of text to comfortably match whatever zoom level the device might be at....

It is no secret that updating an Android device is a complex process and requires a lot of major companies to come together and work on it. While Android update speeds have improved greatly in recent times, it is still not as good as iOS devices. In a bid to make people understand how complex and long the update procedure for an Android device really is, HTC has released an infographic explaining how the updates are made....

HTC doesn’t want to be “Quietly Brilliant” anymore. They want people to know about their devices. How do they plan on doing that? By increasing the amount of money they spend on advertising. How much more money are they going to spend this year versus last year? According to Focus Taiwan, the digital marketing budget will go up by 250%. The traditional media marketing budget will increase by 100%....

Vitaly Kamluk who is the head of APAC Global Research and analysis team, Kaspersky Lab reported that India is among the top five countries that are infected by Ransomware Malware. Statistics states that India Takes the first position in the list of countries that were commonly attacked by Teslacrypt Ransomware in the period of March to May 2016, and ranked fourth in the list of countries that were attacked by Locky Ransomware in the same period of time....

Sadly, not all the companies think its neccessary to follow the Android UI guidelines and release an iOS port or a slightly tweaked design of their app on Android. The official Instagram client for Android is one such app which blatantly ignores the Holo guidelines and looks somewhat like an iOS port. Taking things in their own hand is the two-man team of Holofication Nation. The team’s goal is very simple — Make a decent Holo-fied version of popular Android apps....

BitLocker is another of the known tools for encryption. If you really think about encrypting information then you must learn about TrueCrypt. If you’re looking for a powerful way to encrypt everything from system drives/ HDD hard disk, TrueCrypt is an open-source tool that will help you to lock up your files. Read on as we show you how to get started. TrueCrypt is tool that encrypts data or information using on-the-fly technique....

The operating system is called Remix OS on Mobile (ROM), and it comes with “Remix Singularity” which is what drives the dockable connection. The concept is nothing different than what others have been doing – you connect your phone to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse via a dock, and use Android as a complete desktop OS with apps like Google Docs or Clash of Clans running in floating windows, taskbars, and whatnot....

The ThinkBook 15 is a powerhouse when it comes to your back to school or business needs. Its six-core AMD Ryzen 5 5625U Processor goes up to 2.3GHz but boosts up to 4.3GHz for when you really need the processing power. You’ll also get 16GB of RAM so any major spec-heavy tasks will perform smoothly on the laptop. With 15.6-inches of Full HD display at your fingertips, you can work on building amazing projects, be it a Microsoft Word document or a video for a class....