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Among the several different characteristics that define the Mac, fonts are perhaps one of the oldest and most differentiating ones. In fact, the Mac was the first computer with beautiful, varied fonts that were proportionally spaced and came preinstalled on every Mac as a result of Steve Jobs fondness of typography. At the time though, [...]
Yesterday we talked about activating two-step verification for your Microsoft/Outlook.com account. If you have done that, it’s good because now your account is more secure. However, there’s a caveat. The problem is that if you use desktop email clients or applications to receive emails from your Outlook.com account, they may not function anymore. The password [...]
In the past few months, the number of alternative iOS email apps has steadily increased, with Mailbox and Triage as the newest releases and others, like SquareOne Mail and Mochila Mail lining up on the horizon. However, with just one exception, all of these alternative iOS email clients are (or will be) available exclusively on [...]
Remember Ping from Apple? Me neither. But I’m sure Apple must be taking notes right now as #music from Twitter is surely being downloaded millions of times by iPhone and iPod Touch users all over. In essence, Twitter #music is a music discovery app running on the über-powerful social engine of the popular messaging service. [...]
I am sure most of you know about and understand what 2-step verification means. Just to give an overview, it is an extra layer of security provided by most email and social networking services. The additional code that you have to enter while logging in is what makes the protection better. And, the code is [...]
Few days back we shared an Android app using which you can convert your device to a joystick and control computer games. However, many users running 64-bit Windows machines were having problems due to unsigned drivers provided by the app. To make things right, today I am going to share an amazing app for Android [...]
While not a common occurrence if you have a Mac, it happens from time to time that Mac owners have to face the dreaded spinning beach-ball of death, a clear sign that one or more applications on your Mac are frozen and unresponsive. Because of this, it is always a good thing to know how [...]
While working on Excel sheets data comparison counts as an important task. It takes a lot of time and effort, especially, when you do not know how to go about doing it. The most beautiful trick about comparing documents is to arrange them side by side so that they are both visible at the same [...]
Not long ago, acquiring and setting up a remote surveillance system at home on your own not only would have been extremely complicated, but also insanely expensive. Thankfully, with the explosion of the mobile market and, most of all, of mobile applications, it is now possible to do this with relative ease and most importantly, [...]
I am not a sports person when it comes to the real world. But when it comes to virtual gaming, I bet you can’t beat me in the sports I like to play. There must be many like me who can’t make it to the fields. So why not bring the fields to you while [...]
In the past we have shown you few tricks that can help you deliver presentations smartly. A few among them were how to integrate a website to a slide, how to insert YouTube videos and how to zoom in and out of slides in presentation mode. Today we are set to discover yet another trick [...]
If you are in college right now, then you know that few things can be as valuable as knowing about a great website that can make your upcoming tasks and assignments easier. However, the problem with these online tools is that they are all well too known and don’t bring anything new or original to [...]
When the iPhone was first released, a lot of tech pundits dismissed it as a mere communications device with some internet capabilities that would never allow for “real” productivity. However, as the smartphone market exploded, mobile operating systems also grew in features and capabilities, and several tasks that just a couple of years ago would [...]
There’s this cool Cydia tweak using which one can make a Harlem Shake video using the iOS app icons on the Springbaord. Yes, you read it right, using the “icons.” Here’s a video in which you can see how it looks. While getting the Harlem Shake on the device was a pretty easy task, none [...]
