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Truth be told, if you want good ANC, you would be best off investing in a premium pair of headphones because ANC at lower price points seems to often be of as much use as wings to an ostrich. Fortunately, if you want ANC (and you can figure THAT out here) and good sound and are willing to spend a little for it, there are a number of options for you across different price points – we are considering prices upwards from in-around Rs 15,000 to mark the premium segment for ANC smartphones....

However, these, at the end of the day, are tips and suggestions. As a reader, I’m sure you’ve constantly questioned our integrity since these articles are targeted at people who actually find it difficult to look away from their phones. Well, I think you would be glad to know that I do consider myself someone who is constantly in search of ways to tackle nomophobia but fails every time. In the last few weeks, though, I’ve begun aggressively adopting a handful of minor tricks which have allowed me to limit smartphone impact on my life to some extent....

As per an exclusive report by MySmartPrice, the Google Home Hub will have a 7-inch touchscreen mounted to a giant speaker base which is reminiscent of the Google Home Max, albeit a tad less powerful. The device will feature the same software we’ve seen a bunch of recent Google Assistant powered smart displays such as the Lenovo Smart Display. Google Assistant on smart displays is based on the Google’s Android Things IoT platform and isn’t just an Android tablet slapped between speakers....

To touch or to Type That is the question Whether it is nobler for the hand To suffer the trips and typos Of erratic touchscreen Or to take up a real keyboard Against a sea of misspellings and swipes And by hitting real keys End them? To type, to err no more And by typing to say we end The headache, and the thousand textual shocks That touchscreen typing is heir to....

Online privacy has started to sound like an oxymoron! Every e-mail (confidential or not) you send is sent as a plain text and if intercepted, it will just be a sitting duck with no protection whatsoever. There are multiple ways to automatically encrypt text messages and emails using some kind of hash functions like MD5, SHA1 etc. Of-course you can setup Outlook for encryption, but it’s very technical and requires lots of other services in order to work correctly....

Also Read: Ultimate Collection of Twitter Cartoons Not to worry, you can schedule the tweets! And there are multiple ways to do that. Read on. Top 10 Ways to Schedule your Tweets Twuffer Tweet hourly/daily/monthly announcements appointment/milestone reminders run a time-based scavenger hunt notify subscribers about upcoming podcast or video episodes appear as if you never sleep TwitResponse schedule unlimited amount of tweets easy to manage all your scheduled tweets edit or delete scheduled tweets from the dashboard Twitter + AutoResponder = TwitResponse!...

Top 10 Funny Websites for Geeks I think of the web as a mirror of society; and as a mirror of society, pornography and violence is everywhere. It’s true, it’s not that easy to find places where old values still prevail, where you can read an article that is educative, but in an entertaining way. Maybe I’m just pessimistic, but I feel the world, and its mirror, the web is getting smaller and smaller while getting bigger and bigger, and it fills me with joy to see these tiny corners where I can feel safe to click on a link, watch a video and laugh, or read about something and not get bored to death....

However, two names have still managed to stay above water level, namely Apple and Fitbit. While, the former benefits from its tightly integrated ecosystem of services and faithful customers, the latter provides an impeccable experience for fitness enthusiasts. Although, the Apple Watch is losing share everyday and its numbers have plummeted by almost 70% in the third quarter of 2016 which is mostly due to the expensive price the Cupertino giant asks for....

Virtual Touchpad to control External Display Without much ado lets directly delve into the new features and how it will help the Windows 10 users. The virtual touchpad has to be one of the main highlights in this update. The touch bar pops up on the bottom left corner of your tablet screen and this can be used to control a secondary monitor without actually attaching a mouse, This not only saves you from the trouble of attaching a mouse to the tablet but also keeps your USB port free to use with other accessories....

In retrospect, Windows 10 had about 400 Million back in September pointing at a steady growth throughout the almost two years. Microsoft did plan to hit a Billion in two-three years initially, however, they backpedalled on that pretty quickly when the company admitted: “it will take longer than FY18 for us to reach our goal of 1 billion monthly active devices.” It’s also worth noting here that the 500 Million figure includes not only personal computers, but also Xbox gaming consoles, and other platforms Windows 10 services....

Although you may find numerous data recovery services out there — free or otherwise — the one we are taking a look at is called Recoverit. And it comes from the popular software maker, Wondershare, known for products like Filmora, PDFElement, and FamiSafe. Here’s what Filmora Recoverit offers and how it assists you with your data recovery needs. What is Recoverit? Wondershare Recoverit is a data recovery software that allows you to recover the deleted data (photos, videos, audio, documents, and more) from your computer or any storage device....

Delivering on the HyperCharge hype First things first – the HyperCharge tagline is totally justified. We have recharged our phone from 0 to 100 a few times and each time it charged in twenty minutes or lesser. That is frankly the fastest we have ever seen on a smartphone. The battery is not a small one either – it is a 4500 mAh battery. There will be some quibbling about the charging speed not being exactly as fast as what Xiaomi claims it is – 15 minutes is the figure that has been used by the brand – but take it from us, if you want a phone that charges crazy fast, this one is it....

Before diving into the differences, let’s quickly walk through what remains consistent among these three variants. For starters, all of them are powered by the same Android-based PatchWall software which comes integrated with a multitude of entertainment services such as Voot, Hungama Play, and more. In addition to that, each of them is compatible with Xiaomi’s intuitive way to bring cable and cloud content on a common platform. Xiaomi has also bundled the same 11-button remote (although, you can also just use your phone) with every one of them....

And then, it went quiet. Or relatively so. Xiaomi did launch its Make in India initiative and also MIUI 7 in the country, and also Prime versions of two devices, but by its own standards, the company that many had called the Apple of China, had no major releases. Interestingly, this very period saw a number of other Chinese brands enter the market with their own offerings, many of which adhered to Xiaomi’s own “amazing specs at an amazing price, sold only online” template....

Xiaomi takes back the number one mantle from Samsung A 13 percent year on year growth saw Xiaomi take back the number one slot in the Indian smartphone market from Samsung. Xiaomi had a 26 percent market share in the quarter, which the report attributes to strong performance from the Redmi 9 and the Redmi Note 9 series. But even though it got beaten down to number two, Samsung still had a decent quarter and actually recorded 30 percent year on year growth, thanks to its improved online presence and also the strong performance of its mid-tier devices in the M series and A series....

And when it comes to smartphones, perhaps no company has shown as much skill in carpet bombing as the South Korean giant, Samsung. Even as other players in the Android zone advanced cautiously, the Korean brand literally flew in with both feet, and in no time at all, had multiple devices at different price points, something the likes of Sony, HTC, Motorola and even Samsung’s own Korean rival, LG, could not deal with....

To do some basic explaining, GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format, a bitmap image format that was introduced back in 1987. And now it seems that YouTube is finally ready to make this feature eventually available for every video out there. At the moment though, as Gizmodo observes, the feature is experimental, and there are just some scarce videos that have this new option enabled. But, as you can see in the above screenshot, it worked on the PBS Idea Channel and we got to play around with the new tool....

Yes, you read that right. Thought I was dead, eh? Well, I don’t blame you. For a moment there I thought that it was time to get an obituary printed in the paper, but just when you think your parent has given up on you, you rise back up from the ashes. Okay, okay, I am being a little dramatic but hey, I came back from the dead. How many of you have done it?...

Rapidshare has been dominating the file-hosting web services over the last couple of years. As we know, you can download the files from rapidshare either as a free user or a premium user. The amount of restrictions on using the free service is magnanimous. So, the best way to handle this is to opt for the Premium account! There have been lots and lots of discussion on How to get Rapidshare Premium accounts for free?...

Those traditional golden oldie looks (minus a gold shade, though) The latest iPad seems to be a bit of a blast from a very golden past in terms of design. Yes, the display at 10.2 inches is slightly larger than the 9.7-inch one on the first seven generations of the iPad, and the bezels are more narrow, but this is a chip off the classic iPad design block, with curving sides and a home button which also serves as a fingerprint scanner, below the display....