Priced at a little lower than $50, these speakers can raise your productivity with their wide range of built-in features and add-ons. Plus, don’t forget their hassle-free participation (read, streaming online songs) in a party. So, it’s only natural that we pit both the smart speakers against each other and see which one wins the crown for the best budget speaker. Design: Rounded Edge vs Sharp Edge Apart from that, it has a distinctive LED status ring, which lights up in shades of blue when you trigger it....

Imagine Apple trying hard to keep up with another product – and that says everything you need to know about Spotify. The music app from the Swedish giants was a game changer and continues to be one. This is reflected by the 188 million users who have a premium subscription to Spotify, in comparison to the 88 million active users on Apple Music. But with recent advancements in Spatial Audio and a far better mobile application, Apple has been making good strides and offers a few advantages over Spotify....

Google is betting on years of expertise to deliver accurate and quick translation. Apple is taking a different route with close integration with Siri’s assistant and on-device translation. That is a huge privacy boost and would make many users wonder if they should stick with the Apple Translate app or download the Google Translate app from the App Store. While we understand that Apple Translate is still at a nascent stage and shall only present our observations based on our experience with iOS 14 so far....

They remain plugged into your desktops and peripherals and make switching the peripherals between two desktops a hassle-free affair. All you need to do is flick a switch. As simple as it may sound, KVM switches are not cheap, and a quality switch with good connectors costs north of $50. And this brings us to an important question—are KVM switches worth buying? Or is the hassle worth the time? Well, that’s what we will explore in this post today....

The Mysteries of Blackbox I can’t possibly overstate this: Blackbox. Is. Hard. It’s also worth noting that it’s close to impossible to review this game without some spoilers, so be ready for a few answers on how to solve some of the levels. Blackbox works by providing extremely subtle hints in each level for what you need to do. You have to really think outside the box and be clever because the hints are difficult....

Calm has been around for past few years and has a loyal userbase. Meanwhile, Waking Up arrived recently and continues to climb the popularity charts. Let’s understand how these two meditation apps differ and which one you should use. Let’s begin. Platform Availability Both Calm and Waking Up are supported on Android and iOS. Neither of them has any app for the desktops. Get Calm Get Waking Up User Interface Calm will ask you to choose your purpose for meditating before continuing with the lessons....

quite a few articles on how you can clean useless data on your computer to keep it fast and efficient. Nowadays, many of us tend to spend more time on our smartphones and tablets more than our laptops and desktops mainly because of the ease of portability. Speaking abut these portable devices, they are no different from your laptops, except the fact that they can fit comfortably in your pockets....

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Depending on your taste, finding the ideal wallpaper to personalize your computer or smartphone can either be the easiest task in the world or one of the toughest ordeals. That is, of course, unless you can make your own wallpaper using just Photoshop and a few minutes of your time. Naturally, there are countless styles you can choose from when creating your own wallpaper, so this time we’ll start simple and show you how to create a wallpaper with a grainy texture that, while basic, still can look very stylish and professional....

The Fake News Takeover What does fake news have to do with the election, you ask? BuzzFeed shared a chart showing total Facebook engagements for the top 20 election stories from February all the way until Election Day. The data finds that 8.7 million of those engagements from August to November were for fake news stories, while only 7.3 million were from reliable mainstream sources. That’s right — more Facebook users engaged with fake news than real news....

Did you try updating your iPhone or iPad to the latest version of iOS 11? You tap the Download and Install option and nothing happens. You look closer only to find it grayed out. And, it stays that way no matter how much you tap on it. What’s Really Happening Mostly, it’s due to a stupid and outdated limitation regarding cellular data. But, there’s also another reason that can cause this problem....

Dropbox and Google Drive . Each of these services not only offers a series of common options and features, but also differentiates from each other in some crucial aspects, with Google Drive focusing more on creation and collaboration and Dropbox putting most of its attention on storage and accessibility. Yet, even though both Google Drive and Dropbox are available through any web browser, both have released iOS apps that make each of their services far better suited to users with iOS devices....

Post Snowden-era has been filled with questions of surveillance on the netizens worldwide and that has led users to increasingly turn to services which protect their identity and don’t track their internet activity. Now that Donald Trump has assumed office at White House, privacy concerns among netizens are at an all-time high, presumably due to his stand in favour of surveillance. “Our vision is to raise the standard of trust online, and in service of that vision, our mission is to be the world’s most trusted search engine....

For those you want to get rid of desktop notifications on Windows 7 as well, we have discussed the process recently. But for those who would like to set up the notification behavior on Windows 8, we are set to do that today. Some people have the settings to allow Windows to check and apply updates automatically. In such cases notifications make no sense. It plays a role when you like to keep control of things manually....

If that tidbit has caught your attention then maybe I will be able to draw you in a little closer with this next piece of news. At Facebook’s April 12-13 F8 conference for developers, their initiative for chatbots on Messenger was announced. Your next question might now be what is a chatbot? Well, a chatbot is a piece of interactive artificial intelligence software. The basic idea behind chatbots is that users are able to interact with the bot like they would normally do with a human being in order to get information or to carry out a task....

In this post, we have compiled a list of the first 7 things that you should do on your new Samsung phone, to get the most out of it. As it’s going to be a slightly long list, let’s get started, shall we? 1. Set up Navigation Gestures You might already know that most Samsung devices ship with the conventional navigation bar at the bottom. If you’re looking for a more intuitive navigation system, you should enable the gestures straightaway....

However, there are some shortcut keys that work on Sticky Notes and it’s just that people are unaware. Interestingly, we have been using these shortcuts on all common text editors like MS Word. And now we will use them on Sticky Notes as well. Here’s the list, try them all. Henceforth, you will be able to make the important notes and points stand out. You all know how formatting can help in grabbing attention....

However, at times you will notice that they have disappeared all of a sudden. The reason could be that you have manually (intentionally or accidently) or automatically (when the browser closes) cleared the browser history and/or cache. Note: Thumbnails never get rendered for websites beginning with https in order to prevent secure information from being traced. Here’s how to get them back. Step 1: Open Firefox and hit on the + button on the tab strip....

A lot of developers are aware of this and have tried their hands at cracking this market. We’ve highlighted those apps here before. But every one of them had some problem or another. Either the data wasn’t great (most apps use proprietary data) or the app was laden with ads. Some even required a premium subscription to enable navigation. Now, it looks like there’s finally a true Google Maps substitute for offline users....

So without further ado, let’s dive straight in. The Common Features 1. Collaboration Collaboration — the central feature of any online file sharing system. Both the tools ace in the art of collaboration, however, it’s the question of how much they ace in it. Paper’s features are decent — it has the option to edit, comment and share or comment and share. The plain and simple view isn’t available, sadly....