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Dropbox is losing stance and has decided to turn a feature called Camera Upload into a full-fledged app. Should you be using it instead of the default photo gallery app on your iPhone (or any phone rather)? Let’s find out. What is Carousel? With the name and the icon clearly inspired by the majestic Mad Men scene, Carousel (iPhone, Android) is Dropbox’s first move away from being a feature company (cloud backup) to a products company, with Mailbox in toe....

Sure, the new spotlight can do math, convert units, or look for movies playing nearby but it can’t do advanced stuff like shutdown your Mac, search within sites or answer questions like Siri. If you’ve used Spotlight Search in Yosemite, you might be left longing for more. After all, there’s so much potential for that preview area. Thankfully, one developer decided to explore this area and came up with plugins to expand the Spotlight functionality that allows it to do all the things stated above and more....

4t Tray Minimizer is a creative piece of application which, apart from doing the above, adds new buttons on the title bar, gives you more space on the explorer toolbar and also lets you customize notification area. Let us see more of it and also learn how to set it up. Cool Tip: Did you know that you could close your window by double-clicking on the left corner of the title bar?...

So today I will show you how you can monitor your Android’s 3G data usage for individual applications using Onavo Count and if necessary, how to block certain applications to regulate your usage. Onavo Count is a great application to track monthly data usage on your Android phone, but that’s not all. It provides many additional features like monitoring of individual application, restricting application usage, analysis of usage and much more....

There is an option on the left panel which helps you choose your mood and the artist. Also you can select any song according to the decade, like those of 50s, 60s, 70s etc. Musicovery offers both free and premium membership. While a free account can help you listen to songs randomly depending on your mood, ban the ones you don’t like and create playlists, it is definitely limited as compared to the premium stuff....

Both of them pleaded guilty to the offences of running an illegal betting website and advertising it too, under UK’s Gambling Act. While Douglas, pleaded guilty to two charges, Rigby pleaded guilty for three, two of which were related to running the betting business. The betting website worked on the in-game currency used in Fifa 17 video game. Users could transfer their in-game FUT currency to the website, use it to bet on real-life football games and then transfer the virtual currency back — to be used in the game....

This situation can only improve if you can monitor and control broadband bandwidth in a way that you get to choose how much bandwidth an application or a service can use. There is a tool known as NetBalancer which helps you with that. It monitors and controls internet traffic. For various network applications you can decide transfer rate according to priority. It gives preference to application with higher priority and allows them to acquire more traffic bandwidth in comparison to application with lower priority....

Those who count themselves among the concerned ones can be rest assured that Nintendo Switch controllers would work with Windows PC/Laptop, Macbooks and Android-based devices. The Joy-Cons connect via Bluetooth, making them easily accessible to any Bluetooth-enabled device. You can play games using the Switch controllers even on your smartphone or tablet. According to this YouTuber, only one of the Joy Con controllers connects for a single player mode and both of them connect as unique controllers in case of a multiplayer game....

What this means is a lot of awesome features that you’d normally need to root and flash a ROM for are already available to you. And that’s awesome. But if you just pick up a OnePlus One today and start using it, you might miss a lot of the small, yet powerful customization options the OS offers. So follow along to find about the hidden and not so hidden customizations for making your OnePlus One even more awesome....

Mat Honan hacking incident and his utter regret on the loss of his photos with his new born daughter of which he had no backups. Thankfully, Mat managed to recover those photos but this should ring some alarm bells for those who are yet to understand the importance of backups, especially dispersed backups . In the past, we have seen how to backup photos from various online services to our computer but how safe do you think a local backup is?...

This, of course, makes it even more important to choose the best app when it comes to productivity, or at least the most complete one. That’s why Pocket Informant is so popular among productivity power users. It encapsulates the features of three different productivity tools plus more, all in one single, powerful app. Here’s a better look at how Pocket Informant works: While most productivity apps focus on one aspect of productivity (calendar, notes, tasks and such), Pocket Informant has been offering all three of them since its inception years ago, combining them in a single, mega-productivity/planning app....

Apart from calls and messages, working on apps comes as the top task once does on his smartphone. Just to launch an app, one would have to unlock the phone and use the drawer to search and launch the app. To multitask, you must again come back to the home screen and launch the second app, unless you have a quick way to launch the apps. Previously we have seen an app called Hanger for Android using which you can pin most used apps to the notification bar and then launch apps from there....

For those of you who have not yet heard the name Instagram, let me introduce it to you. Instagram is a free photo sharing service launched somewhere around the end of the 2010, but unlike other photo sharing services which only upload the raw photo shots from the camera, Instagram empowers you to apply some cool filters to your pics before you share it. These filers and effects make them so beautiful that you will feel like that photographer you wished you were....

Surely it was one of the best PDF readers and most of us, including me, liked it but as time passed Acrobat Reader lost its charm. No doubt many new features were introduced as the years progressed but it lost its simplicity, became sluggish to use and, mostly, became just annoying. Some nice free alternatives to Adobe PDF Reader have emerged in the past few years, and Nitro PDF Reader is one of them....

Samsung, with its Exynos chipsets, is one of the closest competitors of Qualcomm. One of Samsung’s newest processors to hit the market is Exynos 7904. This mid-range octa-core processor claims to handle mobile processing and gaming seamlessly. It is natural to compare the Exynos 7904 with the Snapdragon 660 to check which chipset ensures reliable performance and better experience. But how different is the reality from expectation? Does the on-paper spec sheet match up to real-world expectation?...

Here is the short version. Second Space will create a partition of sorts on your phone where you can begin from scratch. It’s like having two phones in one. Dual apps, on the other hand, will let you install the same app twice. But, there are some subtle differences between the two. Let’s begin. 1. What Is Second Space Open Settings and you will see Second Space option under System & Device heading....

Now, Google has released this data compression feature for desktop users as well. It’s not built-in or even a stable product yet. Data Saver is still in beta (like all Google products are, sometimes for years) and is available as a Chrome extension. What exactly does it do, should you be using it, or is there anything better out there? Read on to find out. How Data Saver Works Once you’ve installed the extension, you don’t need to do anything....

The all new MIUI 8 is more colorful and is based on the design of how a Kaleidoscope changes colors when you rotate it. But apart from all the colors and animations, there are a few solid changes to help the user in his day-to-day life. So let’s have a look at the top 8 MIUI 8 features. 1. Notification Drawer The first change that you will see in MIUI 8 is the pull-down notification drawer....

But as much of a disaster the device’s ill-fated battery unit turned out to be, the company found enough fanfare around the device to relaunch it in its home market in South Korea — refurbishing and renaming it the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Fan Edition. In January this year, the company had revealed that the major cause of their flagship device going up in flames was the malfunctioning battery unit....

However, why just hop into the App Store and buy apps when there are excellent free alternatives for those who know where to look for them? Knowing this, here is a list of top 10 excellent applications that can easily replace many of the ones that come pre-loaded with your iPhone. All of them are great and, most importantly, all of them are free and available right now in the App Store....