The biometric recognition technology is currently in its pilot phase as the company has already started the trial in association with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Banking Corporation (SMBC) and Sumitomo Mitsui Card. The service uses NEC’s NeoFace facial recognition system, which is touted as one of the best techs available for the job worldwide. “Along with these trials, NEC is improving the functionality, reliability and convenience of identity verification in a variety of areas,” said Fumiaki Matsubara, Senior Vice President, NEC Corporation....

Samsung has recently redesigned One UI with productivity in mind. Along with that, the company is using Galaxy Note line-up with Dex functionality to provide a worthy laptop alternative. After all, it’s all about solving today’s problems of carrying too many devices and getting things done on time with a few. In this post, we are going to compare Microsoft Launcher to Samsung One UI and conclude if it’s worth switching?...

In this post, we will tell you some useful forward tricks that you can use on WhatsApp. Forwarding is the easiest way to share received messages or media with other people. In case of media such as photos, documents or videos, you don’t have to upload them again. By using the forward feature, you can share media with others faster and with less data. Let’s get started on the useful WhatsApp forward tricks....

This has changed starting with newer Nexus devices, and even some non-Nexus devices now carry Chrome as the default browser. For some folks, that’s fine. For others, Chrome’s somewhat laggy scrolling performance and lack of Flash support makes it a less desirable alternative to the AOSP Browser. In the past, getting back the default browser meant rooting your device. But no longer. Thanks to the efforts of XDA developer BlackHand1001, getting the AOSP Browser back is easier than ever....

In such scenario, desktop notifiers present themselves as a more reliable and expedient solution. They promise to keep you updated on new mails and remind about latest events through pop-up bubbles. Staying with that, let us see how we can enable desktop notifications for Gmail and Google Calendar. The best way would be to use Chrome’s built-in notification package. And you would need to do three things in order to configure the setup....

Despite being such a popular feature for several years, OS X only recently caught on to this useful organizational tool in El Capitan. There’s a built-in feature that works similarly to Snap hidden at the top of every OS X window. Still, the way it functions is a bit different from Windows. For more power and control over your window sizes and placement, we’ll also have to turn to a third-party app....

If you’re an RSS user and you have an iPhone/iPad, I highly recommend that you get the app. But as great as Reeder is, a lot of its features are kind of hidden. Yes, it makes for a simple and minimal UI but for a beginner, although all features might not be obvious. In this article, I’ll uncover those hidden features. This is not a review: This is a list post about uncovering little-known features of the app to improve your reading experience....

The Outlook mobile and desktop apps come with a handy Focus Inbox function. It declutters your email inbox and keeps the irrelevant emails in the Other inbox. Let’s first integrate Gmail into Outlook web. Why You Should Integrate Gmail with Outlook Outlook has excellent native apps compared to Gmail’s web solution on desktop.The convenient Focused Inbox feature works with Gmail account as well.You can seamlessly switch between two email inboxes....

By the time you’re done doing all of that, going back and trying to find the photo you’re looking for across multiple services becomes woefully tedious. Everalbum is a new app for iOS that solves this problem. It’s a single service that has you log in with all of your photo storing and sharing services and gathers them all up for safekeeping in one, organized place. That way you can browse through multiple websites of photos at once to find your photos conveniently in the whole collection....

Locking the image ensures it remains in a fixed position regardless of other changes on the Word document. Here are the various ways to do so: Lock an Image Using the Restrict Editing Feature on Microsoft Word The restrict editing feature allows users to protect an image by using a password. However, using this feature also locks the other contents of the document. Therefore, this method is only advisable where the Word document is shared with external parties, and you do not want any changes....

Then the Instagram app came to Android, and despite the war cries from iPhone users, it skyrocketed to popularity here as well. By now, I am sure there are 1 billion photos floating around. There are many ways to enjoy those millions and billions of Instagram photos. Here, we are going to look at a way which gives Instagram photos the shape of a wallpaper. Insta-WP is a free online application that enables you to turn a bunch of Instagram photos into a wallpaper for your mobile device or for your desktop....

So if you want to cut down on some applications you think you don’t require to run on boot, we have a perfect app for you today. Using BootManager for Xposed framework on Android you can easily manage the apps you would like to include in the boot. So let’s see how the app works. BootManager for Android BootManager can be downloaded from the Play Store, but needs a rooted device with an Xposed framework to function....

A bookmark saves you the stress of browsing through pages of text by taking you directly to the specific item you need on the document. Bookmarks on Microsoft Word are very similar to bookmarks on hardcopy texts. You can use them to mark text, specific locations on a document, and pictures that you need to revisit. Here’s how to manage bookmarks in Microsoft Word. How to Insert a Bookmark into Microsoft Word Here’s what you should do to add a bookmark to your Word documents: Step 1: Launch the Word document to which you want to add the bookmarks....

Furthermore, if I wanted to monitor some additional information, I could use tools like Kiwi and Process Explorer. All these information can be very useful at times when you want to have a look at how the installed applications are using your computer resources. Wouldn’t it be great if you could quickly monitor the app activities on your Android phone too? Today, a high-end Android smartphone is as good as an entry level laptop, and thus it’s always advisable to know how the installed apps are using your device’s resources and if at all they are being misused....

The background noise from the members on a call can be quite distracting. For that, calling apps, especially video conferencing apps, should let the admin or the organizer mute all the participants. Let’s see how the mute feature works in Microsoft Teams and how to mute yourself as well as other attendees or participants. How to Mute Yourself in Teams Meeting You can either mute yourself before joining a meeting or after you are in the meeting....

If you have some time to kill, it might be worth trying out what your favorite social app offers in terms of gaming experience. Enter Snapchat Games and Minis Snapchat introduced Snap Games back in 2019 to bring more variety to its platform. With that, the social app now offers an extensive library of HTML5-based games. Snapchat also features access to the so-called Snap Minis – small applications to assist you with other tasks such as organizing your schedule, meditating, or learning with friends....

Google, arguably the world’s biggest tech company, introduced the first Google Home device – the Google Home Mini – to the world on October 4, 2017. Fifteen days later, Google released the original Google Home and the bigger variant, Google Home Max, on December 11. If you have already got your hands on one of these devices, it’s best to know the nitty-gritty of Google Home. Among other things, you should always have an idea of your exit route if you are ever bored or unsatisfied with your Google Home device, which would probably be a rare occasion but then why take a chance?...

Well, the lack of it can certainly be seen as a boon or bane. For one, it lets anyone’s photos to stay original but then, it doesn’t let you share some amazing shots that your favorite photographer or food blog has shared. Even the native app doesn’t support the feature, the good news is Instagram post can be easily re-posted or shared. And yeah, as is the drill with these workarounds, either we’ll have to borrow the feature from a third-party app or employ a little workaround within the phone....

Google only shows a last few searches in the Omnibar and because of my extensive browsing nature, it’s almost impossible to fish in the browser history to look for the Google page that I searched for. In such scenarios, the Google Search history archive is what helps me out. Well, it’s just a scenario, and I am sure not many people use their Google app as a note-taking app. But if you think about it, there might be one of those days when you might want to access the search history on a different computer, or if you have accidentally deleted the browser history, you might want to retrieve it....

This article discusses the following two ways to restore closed tabs and save tab groups in the chrome browser. Using the Google Chrome Options Google Chrome comes with lots of handy features. Reopening last open pages is one of them. Here’s how to set that option in your chrome settings. Click on Tools menu under the three-dot menu at the upper-right corner of the chrome browser. Click on Options....