While many companies have had a go at the truly wire-free experience, it will not be an exaggeration to say that the AirPods are the most popular true wireless earphones in the market at the time of writing. These petite white audio ear drops may be popular but they also are two years old (a long time in tech) and well, for all their popularity, they are definitely not perfect....

Why should you care about Dual-band GPS? The new technology is said to offer accuracy to within about 30cm which is phenomenal, considering the present day accuracy is up to 5m only. For those of you keeping count, that’s about 16 times more accurate than your current smartphone! Xiaomi showed us a quick demo of this technology during the launch event today in Shenzhen, China, where a car with completely blacked out windows is driven through a closed path with the driver using nothing, but just Xiaomi’s Mi 8 smartphone with dual GPS receivers to navigate his way, and still manages to make sure the car is within the stipulated bounds....

Honor 9X Pro: Design and Display In terms of design, the 9X Pro features a 3D curved glass design with a pop-up camera module for the front-facing camera and a side-mounted fingerprint scanner for authentication. Towards the front, it has a 6.59-inch Full HD+ panel with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio and a 92% screen-to-body ratio. Besides, the display is also TÜV Rheinland certified to cut down on the blue light and reduce eye strain....

Whether it is in your pocket or just sitting on a table, it is easy to turn the volume up without meaning to. This can be especially frustrating if you are in a quiet environment and suddenly your phone starts blasting music. Blocking the volume keys can prevent accidental changes to the volume levels and save you from a lot of frustration. In this post, you’ll learn how to disable volume buttons on Android devices, remap the buttons, lock the volume settings, and why volume buttons change on their own....

In iOS 16, your iPhone and iPad (via iPadOS 16) can now bypass those annoying CAPTCHAs on different websites and can automatically verify you as a human. In this article, we will show you how you can enable this particular feature on your iPhone and iPad. Let’s get started. Bypassing CAPTCHAs on Different Websites on iOS 16 There are a few steps in this process, but first, let’s talk a little more about how the function works....

However, not everything about PDFs is perfect. Among many things, one of the notable drawbacks of the PDF file format is that it isn’t easily editable and requires the use of a PDF editor for any manipulation. Although you can find several PDF manipulation tools on the internet for this purpose, not all of them are equally effective or come with all the necessary PDF manipulation tools you’d need. Enter PDFelement, a one-stop solution for all your PDF management needs, including the ability to extract text, something you won’t find even on some of the most popular PDF solutions out there....

Portrait mode does not always work Let’s blame Apple again. Before the iPhone 7 Plus came along, bokeh (those beautifully blurred backgrounds), was something that was mainly a feature of “real cameras” and some smartphones with dual cameras. Of course, once Apple made it a “thing” with “Portrait Mode” which was dedicated to blurring out the background and keeping the subject of a photograph in sharp focus. Today, almost every device comes with its own version of portrait mode, and you can even control the amount of blur you want in the background....

Instagram has become a popular social media platform over the past decade, allowing users to share photos and videos with their friends and family, but it also has its pitfalls. For this reason, the service offers a number of tools that allow you to control how you interact with others to ensure you have a positive experience. So if you have unknowingly hurt someone and are now wondering ‘how to know if someone blocked you on Instagram’, read on because below, we may have the answer you are looking for....

However, alongside that convenience, PDFs also accompany a few concerns. These concerns primarily revolve around who can access your PDF file and whether or not they can alter its content or take prints. Fortunately, there is a way to secure a PDF and prevent it from unauthorized access and modification. And that is to password-protect (encrypt) your PDF before you send it across to someone. That way, only the people who have the password to your PDF can access it and edit its content or take a printout of it....

For the uninitiated, Instapaper and Pocket are two bookmarking apps that allow you to save articles that come across as interesting to you on the internet. Basically, with these apps installed on your smartphones or computers, you can save things that you would like to read/revisit at a later time. And by integrating your accounts on these services with Kindle, you can essentially leverage your Kindle to read the articles from Instapaper and Pocket, in much the same way as you do with eBooks....

There are several built-in features in ChromeOS that make it a versatile operating system. One of these features is the screen recording option, which allows you to record all or part of your screen. In this article, we will show you how to record your screen in ChromeOS. Let us get started. How to Record Your Screen in Chromebook There are several ways to enable the screen recording feature in ChromeOS....

First off, make sure you’ve the most recent version of Google Maps. Head over to the play store or iOS’s app store and download updates if any pending. Next, open up the Google Maps and swipe right from the extreme left side to reveal a menu. Tap “Share Location” to begin. Now, set the time for how long you’d like to share the location. Or you can just select the second option for manually turning it off later....

Would you like to integrate the two services together to manage your projects and stay up-to-date with upcoming tasks or team meetings? If you do, here’s a guide to help you integrate Google Calendar with Notion so you can sync your updates from Google Calendar on to Notion. But first, let’s address a few questions. Why use Google Calendar with Notion? Notion is, undeniably, one of the best productivity apps out there....

Aside from a new start page, support for favicons and page preview, improved translations (with on-the-fly translation), and enhanced privacy measures, the revamped Safari also gets a much-requested feature — (improved) support for third-party extensions. Extensions are basically modules (or tiny apps) that allow you to add an extra bit of functionality to the browser. For instance, you can use extensions to save items to your read-it-later app, block ads on websites, translate text between different languages, or even change certain aspects of the browser itself....

Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro To start with, the Watch GT 2 Pro sticks to a very standard watch style, with a circular dial and a body made of titanium. It is available in only one size: 46mm. Upfront, there is a 1.39-inch AMOLED display with a 454×454 screen resolution and a sapphire glass on top. At its core, the watch comes with a 455mAh battery and runs on Huawei’s LiteOS....

While the FreeBuds Pro is currently Huawei’s premium TWS earbuds with a wide range of features and an appealing audio profile, the FreeBuds 3i has been more of a budget offering. And now, it’s joined by the all-new FreeBuds 4i, which is Huawei’s latest attempt at bringing top-of-the-line features at a relatively lower price point. But is the FreeBuds 4i a solid proposition, and does it have what it takes to be your next pair of TWS earbuds?...

Given the sheer vehemence of some reactions over these ads – almost every tech site (us included) has come out with guides telling people how to disable these ads – you would have expected a massive public backlash towards Xiaomi’s phones. Well, the market figures do not seem to bear that out – almost a year after the news of ads in Xiaomi phones made headlines, the company continues to be numero uno in the Indian smartphone market....

Intel’s new Kaby Lake G-series processors were first announced back in November last year. The collaboration between the two processing powerhouses helps bring the best of both worlds into the new chip. Apparently, Intel’s own Iris Graphics aren’t half as powerful as the AMD Radeon RX Vega M GPU. The same can be said about AMD’s A series of CPUs. Additionally, the new 8th gen G-series Core processors use Intel’s own Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology for creating a rapid yet intelligent bridge between the GPU and HBM2....

As usual. And those who insist it is an overpriced piece of marketing. As usual. What’s the truth? Well, that is what we are going to try to figure out. In fact, we have been trying to figure that out for a while now – hence the delay in this review! And in keeping with the divine reputation (whether deserved or not) of the phone, we have decided to go all Moses and take a Ten Commandments approach to it....

The magic of ANC We are talking about ANC in the budget audio segment. ANC or active noise cancellation is a technology that basically aims to reduce ambient noise that otherwise would have a negative impact on your audio experience – in simple terms; it tries to reduce the noise from outside so that you can hear what’s playing in your ear. So it allows you not only to experience your audio without any external noise, but because it shuts out external noise....