Until now we were dependent on third party options like Pastebot from the excellent developers at Tapbots. But then they started focusing on apps like Tweetbot and Pastebot just faded away, from the development cycle and from users’ minds. In Android, we have a lot of options but Mac and iOS users are left out on the fun. Most of them just iMessage it to themselves or use apps like iA Writer with iCloud support to write things they want to share from one device to another....

The web messenger that can integrate other social media accounts is just great but if you look closely in the user profile badge on the top-right corner, you will see that there are only two messenger options available. You can only be available or invisible, and that means that as long as you are signed in to Outlook.com you will be signed in to the messenger whether you like it or not....

Google, despite its deep roots in Android, makes some of the best third-party alternatives to the iPhone’s native apps and services — Chrome, Google Photos, Google Calendar, and more. And Google Duo falls squarely into that camp. But is it good enough to replace FaceTime? After using Google Duo on the iPhone for the past few weeks, here’s what I think. FaceTime — iOS Integration FaceTime is designed for the iPhone....

In a past entry, we already explored three very capable scanning apps for the iPhone. This time, we’ll take a look at a newcomer on the field: FineScanner for iPhone, and we’ll compare it to the other scanning apps we explored before. Let’s get going. Right from the start, FineScanner shows that it is a very user-friendly app, perhaps among the easiest to use from the ones reviewed in our past entry....

For example, I love to play MP3 files in my desktop player Foobar and read ebooks on Foxit. They always provide a greater control over the files when compared to the respective built-in browser plugins. If you use Firefox as your default web browser, there’s a way you can set how you would like to handle files you view on the web. One can select default association for any file type you access on the web....

Both Grammarly and Ginger are popular names in the spellchecking and grammar correction ecosystem. If you’re looking to improve your writing, or you need a tool to ‘catch’ incorrect grammar and punctuation in your texts, but you’re caught in between choosing Grammarly or Ginger, this guide should help you make a better decision. Note: We are recommending apps only because these apps are better at picking up common grammatical errors quickly....

One of the least enjoyable tasks in life is to mow the lawn, but now you can do more than just mow it down. Try drawing some graffitis on the surface of your lawn and impress passers-by, friends and neighbours alike with the magic of this Grassfiti machine. Designed by Yuta Sugiura, who had also designed a carpet printer last year, this piece of machinery will delight all those who are constantly looking after their garden to make them look better....

In my last article, while I was talking about all the new features, it felt that I didn’t do justice to the new battery management module in the iOS 9. The feature includes a Low Power Mode feature which thrives to extend the battery’s juice when you desperately need it along the graph which shows how apps are using power on your device. The feature has been there is other mobile OS like Android and Windows for years now and was long overdue on iOS....

Thankfully, if you are planning of starting your own manga or comic, you don’t have a reason to feel daunted by such a project anymore, since Halftone 2 for iOS makes things a lot easier for comic book creators. Let’s take an in-depth look at this great app that will have you creating comics or manga in a few steps. Note: We’ll review the iPad version of Halftone 2 in this article, since it’s the ideal platform for this kind of app....

Many of the complaints are valid, but iCloud is also dramatically underrated in key aspects. Not once, but twice now it has saved my entire computer from complete doom. I would have lost all my files, all my applications, and all my data had it not been for Apple’s seamless iCloud integration. It has come a long way over the years and now it’s no longer even necessary for me to perform computer backups....

The Office clipboard saves multiple copied items (up to 24) at once. If you have any Microsoft Office apps (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) on your PC, you can make the best of this clipboard. A good thing about this is the clipboard is easily accessible across Office products. For example, the content you copy from Microsoft Word and save to the clipboard is also accessible in PowerPoint. Here’s what you’ll need to do to access and use the Office clipboard on your computer....

This tool can backup your entire Flickr photo-stream. It provides you an option to download photos in 6 different sizes. It also downloads important photo metadata such as title and tags.You could download up to 500 photos in bulk using this tool. The tool runs on Adobe AIR platform. At the first run you need to connect it to your Flickr account. Here are the steps. Click on “Connect to Flickr” button....

If you think that signing out of the Facebook Messenger will help you by hiding your online presence, think again. Facebook’s mobile app has a nasty little hidden setting that can let others know about your presence, even without the Messenger. However, as always there’s a fix for that and we will talk about it here. There are ways in which you can protect your online presence or hide on Facebook when you want....

Cortana can now expand the search of your personal stuffs to OneDrive along with the files you have saved on your personal drive. Office users can choose to work on a single file with multiple users at the same time. One thing I personally liked is the ability to create a shareable link of the files you have saved on the OneDrive directly from the explorer right-click context menu. Cool Tip: See how to add OneDrive as a Network Drive on Windows and use multiple accounts at a given time....

Now, I could have opened these services one by one to disconnect my Facebook account but there were not one or two, but a huge number of apps that I gave permission for auto-posting on Facebook as soon as I made a new update. After a bit of a research, I found an easy way to disconnect these apps, or restrict their wall access. These things are there on Facebook, but are not served on a platter....

By default, your Apple account chooses the payment method you usually use to pay for apps and subscriptions. If your preferred payment method cannot process your payments, you can update the payment method. This post will show you how to change the payment method for your Apple account on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Change Payment Method on iPhone and iPad The steps to change the Apple account payment method remain the same for iPhone and iPad....

Not all the PC buyers are tech-savvy enough to know that. They buy the PC, are happy to get those tools, don’t know that the junk is slowing their system down, and finally once the trial period of the tools ends, all kinds of silly warnings start showing up now and then. And without a doubt, it’s frustrating. The best way to deal with this issue is, well, to get rid of them....

RSVP-ing gives an event organizer or host an idea of how many people would be attending and how to properly plan for their presence. When you send out your event invites, the next thing to expect is your guests’ response confirming their availability (or unavailability) to attend. When they do, you get to know the number of people for whom you need to arrange food, drinks, etc. To ensure that your guests RSVP, however, you have to make it easy for them to do so....

So, it’s time to switch gears for a moment. How about you try creating a video masterpiece? It doesn’t have to be too over-the-top, but it looks good, has some pretty effects and most importantly was stupid easy to make. Try out Cameo, a free app from Vimeo that offers all of that. You can put together a pretty solid video on your iPhone in a very short amount of time....

These answers are usually same all the time and if only there was a way to record your steps the first time you install Windows and replicate it in the future, it could really save a lot of productive time. Luckily, there’s a way out in such situations and that’s by creating an unattended installation disk. The process is fairly simple. So let’s have a look. The Trick We will be generating a file called Autounattend....