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Craig Hockenberry wrote on his blog furbo.org last year about ergonomics and what he dubbed the “reverse crown.” He makes the argument for positioning the crown on the bottom left of the Watch instead of the top right and it makes perfect sense, assuming you wear your watch on your left wrist. Others, however stand by Apple Watch’s standard orientation with the crown on the right side. Ultimately, is there a single right way to wear your watch, or even a superior way?...

On the other side, we have bittorrent clients which, while kept away from the App Store for quite long, have started to show up and now provide a great alternative to the syncing services mentioned above since they don’t suffer from the shortcomings of those. BitTorrent Sync is one of the best of these bittorrent clients, and in this entry, we show you how to use it to set up your own file-syncing solution between your iPhone (or other mobile device) and your Mac or Windows PC....

It’s a handy tool to create summaries of tutorial videos of cooking, exercise, how-tos etc. Whenever you need that information, instead of watching the whole video again you can quickly check out the summary. Here’s how it works. You can download useful YouTube videos to your PC and then make Vidinotes from them. Print it or save it as PDF and then easily share it via email. Properties Create printable summary of videos by taking a screenshots and adding notes....

If you are a newbie to the cloud services, you must be wondering whether you are deleting the original photo or its copy. Well, the answer depends on many things. Firstly, it depends on what app you are using to delete the photos. Is it the Apple Photos or other gallery app like Google Photos? We have covered the results for deleting photos from Apple Photos in this post. In the Apple Photos app, the result depends on two things — whether the iCloud is off or on....

The Report feature was introduced about five years ago to help WhatsApp identify people using the instant messaging platform to spread spam and malicious content. Rumors, fake news, hoax messages, etc., are examples of content that WhatsApp categorizes as spam. If you constantly receive any of these from someone on WhatsApp, you should report them. And if the spam content is being distributed in a group chat, you can report the group too....

We shall answer such queries (and more) you might have about signing devices out of your Netflix account. We’ll also show you how to know who’s using your account, where they’re using it from, and what to do after signing out all devices connected to your Netflix account. Note: We used a computer for this tutorial, but the methods listed herein can also be executed on a mobile browser....

Do you lose access to all of its products? Will you still be able to use some of them? Also, how do you restore a disabled Google account? We explain it all in this article. Why Google Disables an Account There are a lot of reasons why Google disables the account of a user, and we shall cover everything below. However, to put it summarily, using your Google account (or any of Google’s services) for activities that violate Google’s policies and Terms of Service will get the account disabled....

We shall talk about what are Disappearing messages in WhatsApp, the meaning of ‘Disappearing messages were turned off’ alert message, what happens by disabling Disappearing messages, and how to enable or disable the Disappearing messages in this post. Let’s get started. What Are Disappearing Messages in WhatsApp If the ephemeral WhatsApp status wasn’t enough, Facebook has launched another similar feature on WhatsApp called Disappearing messages. The feature works for both individual and group chats....

With the new Programmable Taskbar, you can further personalize your Windows experience by changing Taskbar functions for your usage and requirements. Microsoft makes it quite clear that the Programmable Taskbar experience is meant for the new account users and those who log on to Windows for the first time. That means it won’t impact existing users drastically. What else does Programmable Taskbar allow you to do? We will discuss this along with what it means for you, whether you should disable it, and if you want to, how to do that....

And most importantly, can you disable reserved storage? Or is it even possible to do that? That can be puzzling if you are crunched for storage or just don’t like Windows 10 occupying disk space without your permission. So let’s dive right in and find out what reserved storage is, and whether it’s worth your while to go ahead and disable it. How It Works Whenever you perform a fresh installation of Windows 10 version 1903, the operating system will automatically take control of at least 7GB of drive space....

Really, this is the first phone in a while that targets iPhone more than anything else. Samsung has for a couple years now poked fun at its superiority, but generally carved out a nice place for itself in the market. It stopped aggressively going after Apple the way it used to because enough people got on board. Now, Google is taking a whack of its own. You’d probably think this should get Apple riled up....

Here’s how you can fix Facebook posts not sharing to Instagram. 1. Enable Instagram Account Toggle in Facebook Let’s go through the basics first. You need to make sure the Instagram sharing toggle is enabled in the Facebook app for iPhone and Android. Follow the steps below. Step 1: Open the Facebook app on your iPhone or Android. Step 2: Tap on Create post area. Step 3: Once you compose an update, tap on the little Instagram icon with a drop-down at the top....

However, recently Evernote changed their pricing policy and it was nowhere near the nominal charges I had in mind. The premium Evernote plans now costs $7.99/month or $69.99/year and the Evernote Plus costs $3.99/month or $34.99/year. Well, you might ask me as to why these prices look ridiculously expensive to me? The fact that Microsoft Office 365 Personal costs the same as that of Evernote Premium. Moreover, compared to just a note-taking app, I am not only getting the Office 2016 application suite but also 1 TB of cloud storage....

The device landed in our office a week back, and since then it has been undergoing an array of tests so as to prove that it’s worth the money. So, here we are, with the full review of the Xiaomi Redmi 4. The Xiaomi Redmi 4 boasts itself to be the successor of the Redmi 3S that was launched in 2016 and sports a few subtle changes over its predecessor....

But if you want to try it out on your phone, there are a couple of things you’ll need to do first. And that’s what we’re going to talk about in this post. Without further ado, let’s take a look at how you can get Live View on Google Maps, along with a couple of other cool tips for the app. How to Get Live View on Google Maps To get the Live View feature on your device, you’ll first need to switch to the beta version of Google Maps app....

To be honest, I don’t like the idea of pressing the Back and Home button to navigate in between apps while working on an Android device. In the past, we have talked about an app called GMD Gesture Control for Android using which one can get iOS like gestures in tablets. But the app only worked on a rooted device and creating personalized gestures was a bit challenging for a normal user....

Koushik Dutta, one of renowned Android developers behind ClockworkMod, Cyanogen and lots of other amazing apps, recently launched a chrome application which allows a user to remotely control Android device using the browser. Not just that, it gives you the option to put your phone on the web privately so that others can take control remotely and help you remotely, if needed. So let’s see how to configure Chrome to take control of the Android....

Microsoft however decided that this feature wasn’t worth the transition to Windows 8. Today I will show you how you can get back Windows 7 gadgets in Windows 8. We cannot get back the official Windows 7 gadgets, but we will be installing a third-party tool on Windows 8 to get similar desktop gadgets. 8GadgetPack is a software that brings back the Windows 7 desktop gadgets to Windows 8. If you are going to use the desktop mode in Windows 8 more frequently than the Modern UI, you should definitely try out 8GadgetPack....

But, it’s more special when you know that the person actually remembers your birthday and they took some time to either call you or leave a warm message. If you don’t the like the fake birthday wishes or you want to know who actually remembers your birthday without a Facebook reminder, you can hide your birthday from your Facebook account. In this post, we tell you how to hide your birthday from your friends on Facebook....

Thanks to hard working developers, they just recently came up with a version of Xposed that works on Android. But the installation is tricky. I am sure you all must be excited to finally get Xposed on your Lollipop ROMs. So let’s check it out. Read These Points Carefully Before You Continue Currently the Xposed framework only works on devices running on ARM 7 and above. If you are not sure about your device, you can install a simple app called Info to get the architect information of your device from there....