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Duplicate contacts are not that much of an issue if you own an iPhone for the first time and you enter your contacts one by one. However, if you are migrating from other smartphones (even from another iPhone) or just recently switched from syncing via iTunes to doing it via iCloud, then you might be [...]
If by any chance you’ve been under the impression that mobile phone thefts are a rarity, let me tell you that around $7 million worth of smartphones are lost every day. Yes, “every day.” There are many anti-theft apps available for Android to reduce the toll and we have already covered one of them – [...]
People nowadays tend to use multiple cloud storage services in parallel and on these lines we previously shared information about All My Storage, a modern app for Windows 8 using which a user could connect and access Dropbox and SkyDrive from a single app. While the app did a decent job, it lacked simplicity and [...]
In my experience, everyone who has a Mac loves it for its simplicity, fluidity and for how little trouble they cause. However, many Mac owners are pleasantly surprised to discover that their Macs can be even more accessible and easier to use by using keyboard shortcuts. There exist countless of these of course, but I [...]
One thing about Android that I always used to miss on my iPod was lack of Swype keyboard. For those of you who don’t know what Swype keyboard is, here’s a little detail before we begin: Swype is a keyboard for smartphone devices that works on gesture and pattern recognition. So instead of conventional touch [...]
Lately, Microsoft has made it a point that you register to a Microsoft or Outlook account if you are using any of its services or products. You are compelled to do that in the latest releases like Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, MS Office 2013, Office 365 and many more. Now, you must have noticed [...]
Document management continues to be one of the the holy grails of the modern tech world, and every major tech company seems to have a different solution for it. Apple’s iCloud, with its simple yet inaccessible approach completely forgoes the file structure. Then we have Google with Google Drive and its “share with everyone” approach [...]
It baffles me that even in this smartphone era with powerful mobile operating systems, managing contacts (and their safety) on a phone remains almost as cumbersome as it was back in the days when they were stored in SIM cards. I sometimes think having a phonebook like you see in the picture here was so [...]
Using multiple email accounts is far from uncommon these days. Not all of them are necessarily important but you still need to check them now and then, and deal with the incoming mails. The phrase to note here is ‘now and then.’ Right, not all the time. May be only the main one all the [...]
Windows Phone 8 is good. It is clean and simple, and has most of what a smartphone user wants. Of course, there are few things that need to improve and we are sure Microsoft will only make it better with time. Continuing our series of posts on the software, we are going to put forth [...]
Android smartphones and tablets are now staggeringly powerful and can easily cope up with multi-tasking. Samsung has used the potential of these devices and introduced various floating apps on its new range of Android devices. On these devices one can seamlessly use these floating apps in parallel on top of other apps to increase workflow. [...]
The Kindle is without a doubt one of the most original and innovative devices to hit tech in the past years. Of course, it might not be as advanced or as capable as current smartphones or tablets, but it doesn’t have to be. The only thing it needs to be successful is to make it [...]
Till date I have always relied on my desktop email client, MS Outlook, to manage my contact information on my computer. But with Windows 8 I got a chance to switch to the People app. Besides being able to manage contacts, I found few more advantages in the form of staying connected to my social [...]
I keep most of my data in online backup services and I am sure many of you do the same. And so many quality options being available means I have my data distributed among them. For the documents I use Google Drive, for photos it’s either Instagram or Facebook, for notes it’s Evernote and for [...]
