I’ve been using the Galaxy S5 for about a week now and I’m using it to share pictures, listen to podcasts, play games, and to read a lot. Just like every other S5 owner, may be a bit more so. And I’ve averaged about a day of battery life (not easily though). That’s the standard for flagship smartphones these days. Some users have been reporting worse battery life though. If that’s you or you want to stretch S5 for more than a day, follow these simple steps....

This post covers privacy settings and tips for both Android and iOS. Most of the screenshots are taken on an Android phone. But the steps are the same on Android and iPhone unless otherwise mentioned. Let’s get started. 1. Lock Signal App Instead of downloading a third-party app to prevent others from accessing the Signal app on your phone, you can use the built-in feature. Signal Messenger lets you lock the app for additional security....

Before we go ahead, you should enable Airplane mode on your phone, leave it for 60 seconds, and disable it. It might help fix WhatsApp not receiving messages. If not, then go ahead and check out the troubleshooting tricks below. We will talk about both the Android and iPhone WhatsApp apps. We will include platform mention wherever required. 1. Enable Background App Refresh (iPhone) iPhone allows you to selectively disable background refresh for individual apps....

The pitch is simple. You do 12 different exercises for 30 seconds each and take 5 seconds break between each of them. You don’t need any equipment. All you need is your body, a wall and a chair. Interval training means you cycle through high intensity and low intensity exercises. Interval training workouts usually last for 30 minutes to an hour. This workout applies the same principles, but brings in the total time spent to just 7 minutes....

However, nothing is perfect and neither is Windows Search. And that’s the reason we have tools like UltraSearch. It doesn’t look for Windows system level index or background processes. It directly searches on the Master File Table (MFT) of the NTFS partitions and delivers better results. While using this tool I found that the results appear super quick. I got the results while typing the word. It also displays path, size of file, last access and last change date....

The folks at HP have introduced this fairly new concept called ePrint that lets their web-enabled printers receive print requests from any device. Each printer basically has its own email address. It’s a lot like Google Cloud Print except that it’s better because you are no longer limited to just Gmail and Google Docs for your cloud printing needs (and as you will see later, it integrates with Google Cloud Print too)....

I am sure, like me, most of you must have installed Windows 10 on a dual boot. Be it Windows 7 or a Windows 8 machine, there comes a time when you completely forget the older version of Windows and never even touch it. But still, the OS takes up a considerable amount of space on your drive, or I would say it eats up the entire drive dedicated to it....

A Web Whiteboard is a touch-friendly whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world. If you have ever used a whiteboard in office for brainstorming then you know how useful they are. But it’s only an online app that can help you to collaborate and share your mental doodles with a colleague who is located on the other corner of the world....

At GT, we have covered Snapseed in great detail over the years and would recommend it wholeheartedly. Download Snapseed Another app that caught my attention is VSCO which is a favorite of pro photographers and regular selfie shooters alike. VSCO offers powerful photo editing tools that make it a worthy contender of Snapseed. Download VSCO I am curious to learn how these two amazing photo editing apps fare against each other, and how they differ....

Initially, the stories on Messenger and Facebook were separate. Later, Facebook merged them. Now when you post on one platform, it is automatically posted on the other. However, both offer different features. But what is this story feature on both of them and why should you use it (or not)? Let’s find the answer here. What Is Your Story The ‘Add to Story’ or ‘Your Story’ option on Facebook and Messenger lets you create a new form of content which is temporary....

While the ability to view blogs right from your dashboard sounds like a pretty neat feature to have, it’s actually quite detrimental for a full Tumblr experience. But thankfully, you can use a workaround to open them usually, and that’s what you are going to find out. However, there are also instances where you can’t do anything about it — let’s check out why that happens as well. Opening Blogs in Separate Tabs When you click on a Tumblr username from your dashboard, be it something from your feed, the messaging box, a followed blog, search results, etc....

You might be thinking, why do you even need to use an app, don’t you just get the authentication codes via a text message. Yes, you do. And that system works fine if you only have 1 or 2 such accounts. If you have any more, it gets frustrating. Picking up the phone, manually typing in the password, it’s time-consuming. Which is why users like me switch to Google Authenticator app....

With Android Nougat, Samsung integrated the Secure Folder for all Galaxy devices. A secure and separate workplace to keep sensitive and work-related files, media, contacts, and emails. Companies like Xiaomi introduced a similar concept dubbed Second Space. As of now, nothing comes close to Samsung Secure folder in terms of functions, security, and overall implementation. Users can also use Secure Folder for personal use too. It’s not limited to enterprise use only....

Luckily Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome, all provide options to import and export bookmarks. So anyone can transfer all their bookmarks from one browser to another by performing a few simple steps. Method 1. Export Bookmarks from Firefox and Import it into Google Chrome We can easily export bookmarks from Firefox to Google Chrome by performing the following easy steps: Go To Bookmark > Organize Bookmarks option or simply click Ctrl+Shift+B Library window will open....

Something very similar to Samsung group play we saw years back. However, the new app called AmpMe that we are going to cover today works on both, Android and iOS and therefore invites almost every smartphone user to the party. So let’s check out the app and see how it works. Note: Before we dive in, I would like to make one thing clear. The app doesn’t play local music and only supports SoundCloud at the moment....

Luckily, to manage partitions on Windows, you won’t have to look very far as it carries its Disk Management tool. In this post, we’ll guide you through the steps involved in creating, deleting, and combining storage partitions on Windows 10. Let’s get started. How to Partition Hard Drive on Windows 10 If you’re looking to partition the hard drive on your PC to keep your files, folders, other data separate, here’s how to partition the hard drive with the Disk Management tool on Windows....

This limitation of WhatsApp Web not only eats up your time, but the frequent switching can be annoying in the long run. Thankfully, there’s a way to open and run multiple WhatsApp Web accounts. If you use Chrome, this method is as easy as switching the tabs on your browser. Here, we’ll explore two methods. While the first one employs the Incognito mode of Chrome, the other one makes it possible through a dedicated Chrome extension for managing sessions....

Begin With the End in Mind – Use Offline Apps Whenever possible, search for an offline alternative for your apps. Both Gmail and Google Docs have offline equivalents. When you are on a free Wi-Fi connection, launch these apps and load your data into them. Pocket is a great resource for this. Add long web pages you want to read to Pocket. Then launch the Pocket app on your Chromebook and it will download the pages....

Now for those who love the old Windows start menu, we have already given you a solution for getting the same on Windows 8. For those of you who love the new Windows 8 start menu, let’s see how you can personalize it and make it even more lovable. Note: This tutorial was written on Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Using Windows Native Settings Step 1: Press the windows key or drag and click your mouse button to the bottom left corner of the screen to launch the start menu....

using your PS3 , your PS Vita and your PSP . Sometime ago, Sony introduced an online store for users to buy digital games directly from it. However, it is just recently that it has allowed gamers to not only buy games and download them manually, but now it also lets them start remote downloads from it, although your PlayStation systems won’t turn themselves on automatically to do so. This is how it works....