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To give you some background, a package manager is essentially a utility that lets you automate the process of installing, updating, and removing softwares/packages on an operating system. The utility comprises of several softwares/packages and allows you to use the command-line utility (or terminal) to enter a bunch of commands that automatically pull up the package and download and install it on your system. While package manager is a common sight on Linux (and even macOS, for that matter), Windows users have been missing out on a native package manager all this time....

Blogging revolves around creative topic ideas. But ideas don’t come easily. The harder you try, the farther they go away from you. Like a butterfly, just when you think you are inches closer to an idea; it flies away from your hands. But ideas alone don’t make it easy to write a blog post. An Idea needs to be expanded into useful, interesting and comprehensible write-up. How to expand an idea?...

Although Apple does not provide any option to choose their preferred Maps app, users have found a way to bypass this constraint. There are two solutions for this problem, for both jailbroken iOS devices and non-jailbroken ones. Obviously, the jailbroken solution is a little better. However, for non-jailbroken phones, it’s still good because you can use Google Maps with Siri pretty easily, so you can have the flexibility that you want....

If you are notorious for missing important stuff like wishing your friends on their Birthdays or reminding your colleagues about the super important meeting then this is indeed a handy app. One can also schedule it to send WhatsApp reminders for their loved ones to take medicine on time. Scheduler for WhatsApp is available on the Google Playstore and once installed you need to go through a bunch of basic settings, additionally if your phone runs on Android Marshmallow as the user you need to give the necessary permission....

If you often need to give access to your phone to your kids or someone else—perhaps to show them an image you took or allow them to use an app—you can use Guided Access to restrict their access to your device so that they don’t get off track. Not just that, but Guided Access can also come in handy when you want to limit distractions while you’re working on an app on your iPad....

Android ports notwithstanding, we still miss quite a few of our favorite apps on BlackBerry 10. Flipboard, Zite, Instagram, and many others are still MIA if you’re a BlackBerry 10 user. Thankfully, there are workarounds. With some help from us, you can easily sideload these on your BlackBerry 10 device. In fact, the process we’re going to outline here was originally intended for the BlackBerry PlayBook, but works for BlackBerry 10 as well (since both operating systems are based on QNX)....

Instead of the full metal body, the HTC One ME comes wrapped in a polycarbonate shell with metal frame. It’s pretty much like the One M9+ the company had launched earlier this year, but there are a few noticeable differences such as the dual-SIM capability among others. As for the specifications, the One ME sports a 5.2-inch display with QHD (2560 x 1400 pixels) screen resolution flaunting an impressive 565 ppi pixel density — evidently the sharpest display HTC has placed in a phone....

As you can see on the official HTC Launch page, the Taiwanese company is planning to unveil a brand new device on October 20, which is three weeks from now, on a Tuesday. The event will be held through a “virtual event” streamed from HTC’s website, and we will be here to report on whatever HTC is planning to announce. The invite sent to press today said “Meet the Marshmallow from HTC,” so this makes it pretty much obvious that we’re going to witness the launch of a new smartphone which will come with Android 6....

That being said, Huawei is still dealing with strong competition in China and the decline in sales in the US. The US sales are expected to tank further once Washington’s plan for higher import tariffs on Chinese tech products in enforced. Speaking of numbers, Huawei’s net profit has grown to $7.3 Billion which is a remarkable comeback especially if one considers the 0.4 percent increase in net profit last year....

Artificial Intelligence has become an integral part of the computing world these days and the developments in this field has been faster than expected. Despite that most of you are still in notion that AI is still something whose presence is limited only to science fictions. Fortunately, that’s not the reality. In fact, AI is all around us; and powers various common features we have grown used to. These include talk-to-text, automatic photo tagging, spam mail detection, healthcare delivery and so on....

From Wiki, iSkysoft DVD Ripper is a powerful DVD ripping software for Windows that can rip DVD to hard drive in a wide variety of video & audio formats. Interestingly, iSkysoft DVD Ripper not only strips commercial DVDs of their copy protection, but additionally converts the resulting videos to other formats. The various supported video formats include AVI, WMV, MP4, MOV, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV, and VOB. The audio formats include MP3, M4A, AC3, AAC, WMA, WAV, GG, APE and MPA....

Back in last year October, Swiftkey unveiled an experimental application that was entirely developed through artificial networks that were designed to predict what you’re going to type next based on the context instead of what you typed a second ago. Now, after months of testing and changes, the main Swiftkey app has been reengineered by implementing those networks at the core for providing smarter and more importantly, natural recommendations. To be slightly more precise, the ditched N-gram probability model read the last two words you wrote, scrutinized the massive database, and displayed the three best-suited words....

Lava, a brand that was once popular in the Indian budget-smartphones and feature phones scene some time back seemed to have vanished into oblivion for some time but is now trying to gain some relevance back in the ever-so-crowded Indian budget smartphone market, and the Lava Z62 is one such attempt. Coming in at around the Rs. 6,000 mark, the Lava Z62 competes against the likes of Xiaomi and Realme, two of the most popular brands in this segment....

Lenovo has been on a roll with its budget and mid-range smartphones in India. Few months ago, it upped the bar with the A6000, the cheapest 4G LTE smartphone in the country, and today the company announces that it is bringing its recently launched K3 Note to India. Priced at Rs 9,999 ($155), it’s the cheapest smartphone with FHD display in the country. As for the specifications, the K3 Note sports a 5....

The exact model of LG G4 which goes on sale will be LG D818N which is a dual SIM variant of the international version announced few weeks back. The phone will be up for pre-order (you got to pay the full price up front) soon and has some attractive offers as well. In addition to getting an entry to the mega launch event, customers pre-ordering the phone also have a chance to receive their unit right from Mr....

The LG Watch Style is a 10.79mm slim and beautiful looking smartwatch that comes available in three classic finishes namely silver, rose gold and titanium. This comes with a range of snap-and-swap 18nm leather and silicone bands for customizing the watch as per your taste and occasion. Up front, the smartwatch sports a circular 1.2-inch P-OLED display with 299ppi. To the side lies a circular rotating power button that lets you scroll through your streams, bring app launcher and even get help from Google Assistant....

They sound good Do they succeed? Well, largely. The Levi are in my book the best sounding TWS below Rs 5,000. Of course, they do not sound as good as the more expensive Tevi, but they are well ahead of the likes of the Realme Buds Air Pro, the OnePlus Buds, and even the Oppo Enco W51. And the main reason for that is the fact that their sound is remarkably detailed and clear....

The Meizu Pop is primarily designed for workouts and hence, offers a lightweight build which weighs only 5.8 grams. In addition, the buds themselves have an ergonomic, curved exterior that prevents them from falling out of your ears during extreme activities. They’re also touch-sensitive letting you perform a host of actions with a bunch of gestures like double-click, long-press for playback, volume control, what have you. To withstand sweat and other minor water damages, the Meizu Pop is IPX-5 certified too....

Initially launched in China in June this year, the Meizu m3s is a slight change to the original m3 that was an unveiled towards the beginning of this year. Upfront, the Meizu m3s sports a 5-inch HD display which is in turn covered by a 2.5D curved glass. The budget smartphone from the Chinese firm comes in a metal unibody design that’s quite similar to the one seen in previous devices from Meizu....

The app is called “Memoji” and it has been developed by the same team (Lightricks) who’s responsible for the famous photo-editing tool, Facetune. Memoji’s purpose is quite straightforward, it morphs any picture you upload into animated emojis. Currently, the app comes with 11 emoji options, including heart eyes, sunglasses, horned devil, snorting, blowing kisses, unicorn, and more. Memoji also isn’t particularly limited to selfies, you can point it to any face and its intelligent image-processing technology will do the job for you....