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Over the years, smartphone’s display, processor, RAM and other components have evolved to become substantially better. But batteries, despite being one of the most crucial components hasn’t innovated with the same pace. There are plenty of tools and tricks to improve a phone’s battery life, but IFTTT is making it a whole lot easier while also offering some handy new additions. Some of the interesting recipes available as of now are as follows:...

If This Then That (IFTTT), the service that lets users automate tasks from a long list of other mobile apps and web services, is about to launch two apps for Apple Watch. Do Button, its iOS app for controlling hardware and software connected to the service with a single tap, and Do Note, a notepad app that uses IFTTT to save and share to other services like Google Calendar, Evernote, and Twitter, will both be receiving updates for Apple Watch by tomorrow....

We’ve heard about NFC but iLounge floats two more very interesting, if unlikely rumors out there today. First, Carbon Fiber to be used in the shell of some test units which would drop the weight of the device down further. We’ve been hearing that Apple has been trying to shave some weight off wherever it can (displays?), so this would be another step in that direction. An <1 lb iPad 2 would be insane....

But, today’s the day that I’ve finally found an Android ar smartwatch that fits me. It’s the smaller variant of the Asus Zentch 2 it is one of the most comfortable Android wear watches I’ve worn yet. One watch, many flavors The Zentch 2 comes in two sizes: a 1.63-inch version with a 400mAh battery pack, a smaller, 1.45-inch version with a 300mAh battery pack. The latter is the one that looks the best on my dainty wrists, though unlike Motorola’s smaller Moto 360, it’s not specifically advertised to the female crowd....

After moving 40 miles north of London in the mid-90s, I spent around 20 years commuting by rail in and out of a London office every working day, until reliable broadband internet – ADSL over copper at first, then fibre to the home – finally made it feasible to work from home in a rural village. A back-of-the-envelope calculation puts the total time spent travelling in and out of work over that 20-year period at around 1....

The limited series I Am The Night premiered in January 2019 starring India Eisley and Chris Pine. It’s based on the true story of Fauna Hodel, a girl who was given away at birth and grew up not knowing her mysterious origins. She travels to Los Angeles to find her birth family, only to find herself in the middle of one of LA’s most famous unsolved crimes. Patty Jenkin’s series is full of murder, intrigue, drugs, alcohol, and police brutality, but the real story is in the desperate search to understand our roots so we can understand ourselves....

One of the new features of iOS 15 and macOS Monterey is iCloud Private Relay, which is basically an extra layer of security that protects users’ privacy while browsing the web. Although Private Relay has been available since June with the beta versions of Apple’s operating systems, the company is now considering it a “beta” feature, which means that it will no longer come enabled by default. Ahead of the public release in a few weeks, Apple today released the seventh beta of iOS 15 to developers....

Some of these unsolicited phone calls are going from annoying to malicious. You need to know about the latest phone scam making the rounds so you don’t make this simple mistake. How scammers are sticking victims with fraudulent charges What’s happening is, scammers are auto-dialing potential victims all across the U.S. Instead of waiting for the victim to answer, the scammer lets the phone ring just once and then hangs up....

An HTC executive has teased the impending launch of the Nexus 9 on Twitter by posting a picture of a box that contains something “amazing” and “beautiful” which just arrived. The picture was tweeted out by Jeff Gordon, Senior Global Online Communications Manager at HTC. — Jeff Gordon (@urbanstrata) October 13, 2014 It is no secret that HTC is working with Google on the upcoming Nexus tablet, dubbed the Nexus 9....

HTC has started the beta testing of its Sense 8 Home app on non-HTC devices. The app is available for all Android 4.4 and higher devices, though you have to be a member of HTC’s Preview program to be able to download the app. While the Sense 8 launcher does not pack in any such customisation options as such, it does support Themes and looks far more polished than other third-party launchers in the Google Play Store....

Huawei Nova 3 was launched in the year 2018 which came out of the box with Android 8.0 Oreo under EMUI 8 skin. It is powered by Kirin 970 processor. But if you’re one of the Huawei Nova 3 PAR-AL00, PAR-TL00 users and want to find out Test Point to Remove FRP lock, Huawei ID, User Lock, and Firmware Flashing then follow this article. Here we’ll gonna share how you can find out the Huawei Nova 3 PAR-AL00, PAR-TL00 Test Point, or get into the Download Mode (Emergency Download Mode) so that you can perform multiple advanced level tasks by yourself....

After a burst of reporting suggesting a deal between Hyundai and Apple for Apple Car production was imminent, the narrative is starting to shift. In new regulatory filings today, reported by Bloomberg, Hyundai and its subsidiary Kia Motors said that they aren’t in discussions with Apple about a self-driving car. The backstory Hyundai made a bold statement last month when it confirmed that it was in talks with Apple about a potential partnership for Apple Car....

While TV channels are lagging, Netflix is gaining popularity among the people, mostly the youth. Working on its growth, Netflix is not limited to the browsers or smartphones only as you can access it on your TVs as well and even on the Chromebooks too. If you want to download the app on any of your devices, you must run the troubleshoot to reset its programming so that you can enjoy your favorite series and shows without any hindrance....

Following the release of iOS 4.3 Apple has updated their popular iAd Producer application, which allows anyone to create iAds with little or no programming knowledge. iAd Producer has been updated to version 1.1 and here are the release notes: Support for full screen banners in ads that target an iPad running iOS 4.3 Creation of ads with multiple banners Improved compatibility between iAd Producer project files and version management systems Support for importing and editing JavaScript (JS) and CSS files Sample projects and plug-ins that demonstrate iAd Producer and iAd JS capabilities iAd JS is updated to version 1....

On Thursday, an early teardown video of the new iPhone SE detailed the internal similarities the device shares with the iPhone SE. Now, iFixit has published a more in-depth look at how you can even swap parts between both of the phones. As the report points out, backwards compatibility between iPhone models was virtually unthinkable until now. This time around, however, the iPhone SE and iPhone 8 can swap several different parts, including the display assembly, cameras, and Taptic Engine....

You might not hear about it but smartphones catching fire is actually more common than you think. Every once in a while, someone’s Galaxy S4/S5 or an iPhone will catch fire because of a faulty battery or just some internal fault. Usually, no one is hurt in these cases which is what really matters here. A redditor’s, TweektheGeek, Galaxy S4 caught fire a month ago and he decided to contact Samsung about it....

An email that was sent out by HTC CEO Peter Chou to all HTC employees on Sunday was obtained by The Wall Street Journal. They didn’t publish the email in full, but here’s what you need to know: So what conclusions can we draw? Well, the guy who HTC trusts with leading all their global sales will now have to juggle HTC’e entire North American units as well. He must be really good....

On October 20, HTC is going to unveil a new smartphone that’s running Android 6.0 Marshmallow right out of the box. It’s expected that device will be the One A9. The device has leaked in some capacity or another several different times ahead of its public unveiling, and now the French carrier Orange is getting in on the fun, too. Thanks to a discovery by @OnLeaks, a dedicated landing page for the upcoming, and still unofficial handset, is now live on Orange’s website....

In Summary The Band 6 is the latest fitness tracker from Huawei. It’s pretty identical to the Huawei Watch Fit and sits in between what classifies as a smart watch and a fitness band. For a price of Rs 3990, the Huawei Band 6 offers 5ATM water resistance, all-day SpO2 monitoring, 24-hour heart rate, and sleep monitoring to position itself as the best budget fitness tracker in its price segment....

The display on both of these phones come with an edge-to-edge panel with minimal bezels. The regular Mate 10 features a 5.9-inch 2K LCD panel, while the Mate 10 Pro comes with a Full HD+ (2160 x 1080) OLED screen. The aspect ratio on the latter is 18:9 as it’s equipped with a relatively narrower frame. As a result, the fingerprint sensor also resides in different locations — on the front and rear on the Mate 10 and 10 Pro respectively....