Thankfully, Google and Facebook aren’t offering a separate app to create and browse videos. Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts are tightly integrated into the respective parent app, making the whole experience smooth. Availability Both the Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts are best-served on mobile devices. As a time of writing, Instagram Reels is available worldwide, while YouTube Shorts is limited to India and the US. User Interface As I mentioned earlier, both the Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts live in the main app....

The entire thing is designed to view videos, not listen to music. But YouTube already has all the music you want to listen to (while SoundCloud only has a subset of it). And it’s free (unlike Apple Music or Spotify). What if you want to continue using YouTube as a music player but want a better experience? Enter UpNext. What Is UpNext and How Does It Work? UpNext is a Chrome extension that turns YouTube and SoundCloud into your own personal music player (much like the now diseased Streamus)....

Thankfully, customizing Android phones is an easy affair. Whether it’s tweaking the stock launcher or switching over to a third-party launcher, it doesn’t take much effort if you have the right resources with you. Luckily, my search for the right OnePlus Launcher app gave me quite a few viable options, and well, they worked like a charm. So, in this post today, we will see how to get the OnePlus Launcher on any Android phone, for both rooted and non-rooted Android phones....

We have no idea when it will be getting out of beta. It took Gmail a couple of years and Siri a full year to shed the ambiguous title. All of us enthusiastic Windows Phone 8.1 users can’t just sit here patiently waiting for that day. Not when we can take the matter into our own hands and do something about it. Right now, tapping the search key just gets you the plain old Bing search page....

Whether you want to hide dating apps like Tinder, games such as PUBG, or social media apps such as TikTok, Instagram, etc., the following built-in method will come handy. We have also mentioned a few more methods to hide apps. Do check them at the end of the post. Let’s get started. How to Hide Apps From Home Screen and App Drawer in Samsung Samsung launcher comes with a built-in feature to hide apps from both your home screen and app drawer....

radically new iOS 7 , which brought a fresh, modern look to iOS devices. However, in the case of the iPhone, if you have an iPhone model that is older than the iPhone 5, you might notice that iOS 7 doesn’t run as smooth as on Apple’s most recent smartphones. Now, while this is to be expected, there are ways in which you can improve the performance of iOS 7 on the iPhone 4S and older devices....

But when it comes to internal storage, I wish the Mi A1 offered a bit more. Since Android installs apps on the internal storage, even 64GB offered by the device isn’t sufficient for all my favorite HD games and apps. Thankfully, the internal storage in the Xiaomi Mi A1 can be easily increased. Unlike other Xiaomi phones running MIUI 9, this procedure is simple, thanks to the stock Android. The trick is to borrow some extra space from the SD card by formatting it as part of the internal storage....

You can’t browse through the videos without the navigation process getting on your nerves. Plus, the option to cast from the phone is conveniently missing. In a nutshell, it left a lot to be desired. Well, if you ask me, this was not what we all signed up for when we got the Fire TV Stick. My research led me to a neat workaround using the ES File Explorer File Manager app....

Think of them as two dimensional barcodes that are cuter than those vertical bars we are so used to behind packaged goods and books. It’s not only the looks as QR Codes also hold much more information and can be read even if one is obscured. Originally a product of the car industry, QR codes now can be found everywhere; even as fashion accessories. Smartphones with QR code-reader apps have made their use more ubiquitous for information exchange....

By default, PSP only supports Digital Comics that you can download from the PSP store, but that’s for kids (yes grown up can play games on PSP). Today I will show you how you can use a small PSP Homebrew called Bookr to read PDF, CHM and text files on your PSP. Installing and Using Bookr To get started, download and extract Bookr homebrew on your computer. Having done that, mount your PSP’s memory stick and copy the extracted folder to MS\PSP\Games folder and then unmount your memory stick safely....

Yes, I’m talking about about those huge favicons and distracting news headlines that flash across the screen whenever I open Microsoft Edge or launch a new tab. And thanks to that, I often find myself flicking through cat pics on Instagram or reading what Donald Trump was up to instead of getting some work done. Not good when it comes to productivity. However, hope isn’t lost just yet. I found out that removing my list of Top Sites and suggested news feed permanently is more than possible....

When we talk about reset, there are two types — soft and hard. The soft reset simply restarts your Mi Band without unpairing it. The hard reset or factory reset, on the other hand, will unpair the device. Let’s see how to unpair and reset Mi Band 3 and 4. We will start with restarting Xiaomi Mi Bands. How to Reboot Mi Band 3 and 4 Let’s see how to soft reset Mi Band 3 and 4....

Despite being disappointed a bit, I did not give up on it easily. I dove deep into the settings and made a couple of changes, and my Galaxy Active 2 now gives me about 2.5 days of battery life in a single charge. If you are in a similar situation, here are some ways to save battery life on the Samsung Galaxy Active 2. 1. Turn off Unused Connections One of the first things that I did was turn off the Wi-Fi connection....

Although basic search of Windows is sufficient, it’s good only if you know the file name. If you don’t remember the file name, that’s when advance search filters from Windows come in handy. Advantage of Adding a Search Filter Search filters add a whole new dimension to the Windows explorer search. Conventionally, we search for files by their names but using filters, we can search for files by their properties such as author or by file size or date created and modified....

I was not using any smart device like Google Home or Chromecast, but a quick Google Search told me that the problem is more widespread than I expected. Many users experience the same error while configuring Assistant, Chromecast, Google Home, Nest, and some smart devices too. Let’s see how we can solve this error and go about our daily routine. 1. AI Wars I would recommend you to choose one and disable or uninstall the other entirely to remove any possible conflicts in the future....

Different calendar apps allow you to do this stuff in different ways. And today we are going to see how to sync Yahoo Mail calendar and contacts with the Outlook client. Cool Tip: Outlook can also come in handy when you want to transfer your contacts from Android to BlackBerry. Steps to Sync Yahoo Contacts With Outlook It is really frustrating when you desperately need to find someone’s contact details and you can’t seem to instantly figure which online account you had them associated with....

The snag you often encounter here is that you are not able to recall where you kept your USB cable after using it the last time. As we all know, it takes ages to transfer files via Bluetooth and, hence, you end up frustrated, eventually postponing the process. Use AirDroid to Transfer Files between Android and PC AirDroid is one of the best apps that lets you manage and control your Android device from a web browser “over-the-air”, which means that you do not have to connect a USB cable to transfer data....

Compared to before, Microsoft Edge also has a faster update cycle, courtesy of the Chromium open source project. Hence, it’s important to make sure that the browser is kept up to date. Let’s check out how you can update Microsoft Edge on desktop and mobile. But first, let’s check out why you may want to do that. Why You Should Update Edge The latest updates for Microsoft Edge ensures the best possible experience on your desktop or mobile apart from patching the security flaws....

can provide tons of new features and improvements to a router’s default setup. Whether it be scheduled reboots, MAC filtering, URL blocking, or port forwarding, some routers don’t provide some of these seemingly basic features. Other times, advanced features are only available with a third party firmware upgrade. We’re going to look at what it takes to upgrade the firmware on a basic router to reveal some really cool and advanced features that were otherwise inaccessible....

I have used the touch ID sensors on iPhone and Samsung devices and they are pretty impressive. However, I never realized what they were missing until I used a OnePlus 2. When compared to both the former devices where a person needs to press the home/lock button to wake up the phone and then use the fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone, on OnePlus 2, the touch sensor is the home capacitive touch key and just touching on it wakes up the phone and unlock it....