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As much in love with technology and gadgets as I am, I never really got into cameras and photography. The idea of owning a great camera intrigued me, but

Coolpad recently introduced its new budget phone in India, the Coolpad Note 5. They are calling it ‘The Beast’, owing to its huge battery and high-end specifications.

Times have changed and so has the shelf life of a smartphone in the past few years. Today, no one wants to invest a fortune on their smartphone and pay an EMI or carrier charges for an entire year.

4K Stogram is a computer program that automatically downloads entire Instagram profiles and saves them on your hard drive for offline access to photos and videos. The program even works for private accounts as long as you are willing to log in w

Most developers that start learning and building apps for Android always have a launcher app in their to-do list. Some develop it for their own, to fulfill their needs. And some develop it to make some money.

It’s 2016 and communication with a contact is not just limited to calls or SMS’. We have got a plethora of apps these days to communicate with our family and friends like WhatsApp, Skype, Telegram and many more. However, have you noticed that the

Apple seems to really be taking its time bringing Siri to the Mac even though it debuted with the iPhone 4s all the way back in 2011. It makes sense to focus on Siri for portable devices, but some of its uses are just too val

Nothing ruins a day like a failing hard disk. Once you determine your drive is failing, the next step is data recovery. Experts can charge thousands of dollars, but you might be able to do some of it yourself. Here’s a review of the programs and op

If you’re trying to relax more and get a good night’s sleep, meditation will help with both of these goals. It’s a popular topic everywhere. Lots of programs for Android and iOS help.The Muse has a hardware and software combination that claims

SoundCloud just unveiled its own streaming music service, SoundCloud Go. At $10 per month, it competes with the likes of some more familiar faces: Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and others.

Netbooks used to be popular, but today the so-called stick computing market is exploding. These are small computers running a desktop OS designed to plug into any HDMI port. Intel has its Compute Stick. InFocus has their Kangaroo portable computing s

If you take a look at the App Store, you will see there is no shortage of writing apps in there, with some of them ranging from very good to even great. Here at Guiding Tech we have written about a few of them. This time is the turn of Ulysses ($19.9

Android is one of the best OS to provide multitasking functionality with apps. The major difference between multitasking in Android and iOS is that iOS suspends the pr

If you chat on more than one platform, you might get sick of switching between all those apps. On the Mac, Franz will unify a bunch of messaging platforms into one app. It has some quirks, but it has the potential to solve communications headaches. W

Many say that Dell hit a home-run with the XPS 13 ultrabook. The overhauled, sleek design debuted at the beginning of 2015 and grabbed tons of attention. Dell is still able to tout it as the “smallest 13-inch laptop on the planet,” due

Reddit! It’s claimed to the front page of the internet for such a long time. 7 years 4 months and 6 days to be exact (Android was launched on September 23, 2008). Well, better late than never. Reddit’s CEO (finally) announced the launch of t

At an event or a holiday trip with friends and office colleagues, every one of us takes photos on their smartphone. While most of us plan to share these photos at the end of the day, it never actually happens. In my personal experience, the battery g

The last few months have shown us how important is revenue for a product or a service to sustain. Everything Me Launcher shutting down and ES File Explorer turning into a bloatware were enough to learn that if you need good service, you got to pay fo

There are a lot of saying when it comes to shortcuts and the most popular is “When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.” by Bo Bennett. But, on the contrary, if you want to excel in the art of multitasking on your Android, you must know h

If you have owned a Mac for quite a while, then you know that the native Apple application that has always shown plenty of room for improvement is Mail.