Google is widely renowned for its mastery in using data to tailor specific search results and ads. Their Android and iOS search apps put this ability to use in finding the most relevant pages for your query, and their desktop site is the most-used search engine on the web as a result of it.
There are so many things to love about the Nexus 5, from timely updates to newer versions of Android to a terrific blend of price and specs. But while mobile phone tech keeps churning along, battery technology isn't quite up to snuff yet, and I find myself wishing that my phone's battery lasted longer on a single charge.
It's been rumored ever since the 2012 release of the Kindle Fire, and now Amazon's first smartphone is set to debut a little later this year.
Let's say you're watching a video and everything's going great, but you feel the need to raise the volume a tiny bit. You hit the volume button on your Nexus 5, and all of a sudden, a giant volume slider appears that obscures half of your video for 3 seconds.
The mother of all games is almost here. Super Bowl XLVIII pits the Seattle Seahawks (or Seachickens, if you're from the Bay Area) against the Denver Broncos and regent exemplar of neck surgeries, Peyton Manning.
You may not notice it when you're intoxicated and banging your head to the music, but when you're at a club or concert, your ears are getting seriously damaged. The noise level is usually above most people's pain threshold for sound, which begins around 120 to 140 decibels. At that level, it only takes a few minutes to damage your hearing. For me, there's something even worse than long-term hearing loss in a loud environment—not being able to hear or talk to your friends.
BEATS by Dr. Dre started making their studio-style headphones and speakers over four years ago, which claim to help listeners actually "hear" music as it was intended by the artists, since commodity headphones and earbuds are known for producing lackluster results. But you can only go so far with Beats Audio headphones, since your computers and mobile devices weren't built to take advantage of high quality audio equipment.
Smartphones are great. They help you keep in touch with your loved ones and stay up to date on what's going on in the world. The problem is that like everything else that's useful, they cost money to use, and between calling, texting, and data plans, it can get really expensive.
Google Reader is soon to be no more. Yesterday, the company announced that the service will be shutting down as of July 1, 2013, as part of Google's second "Spring Cleaning."
While many of the U.S. carriers have updated their Samsung Galaxy S3 devices to Android 4.1.2 already, one major absence from the upgrade is Samsung's Premium Suite. One of the coolest features from the Premium Suite is Multi-View, a function that lets you truly multitask by running two apps at the very same time—right next to each other. As you can see above in the left image, I have both Pandora and Spotify running. Why? Because why not?!? On the right, I have YouTube on top and Maps on the...
Our attention spans have vastly shortened thanks to the Internet and our subsequent procurement of information from it at a rapid pace. It's tough to pay attention to something for a good amount of time, unless it's ridiculously interesting and stimulating. It's gotten so bad for me that I keep checking my phone every ten minutes—I even did it during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises.
Considering how easy and convenient Photoshop has become, even for the average computer user, it's nearly impossible to tell whether a photo is authentic, or if it's had some "improvements."
Mike Callahan from Butterscotch describes how to manage the passwords on your iPhone by using the 1Password app. The application costs $5.99 for the Pro version. First, you enter an Unlock Code to give you access to the app. The icons across the bottom of the screen correspond to different features of the app. The Logins icon stores your login information. The Wallet icon stores information about your credit and bank cards. The Passwords icon holds all your passwords. The Add icon allows you ...
I hope you haven't updated past here if you want to jailbreak your iPhone. Jailbreaking gives you access to many open ended applications and games. This video will demonstrate exactly how to jailbreak and unlock your iPhone 3G/3GS firmware 3.1.2 and 5.11.07 baseband.
Want to stop accidentally calling people with your BlackBerry device? Want to cure butt-dialing? There's a simple explanation. Best Buy has answers. The Best Buy Mobile team explains how simple it is to lock and to unlock your BlackBerry keyboard to prevent dialing calls from inside your pocket.
Want to forget about always pulling out your credit card to purchase something on your BlackBerry? There's a little application that can do it all for you? But how? Best Buy has answers. The Best Buy Mobile team explains how to use the BlackBerry Wallet application. This application can store personal information such as credit card information and shipping addresses on a secure website for easy access when shopping online.
Battery life is a precious thing on your BlackBerry. You use your phone for all types of tasks, so you need your battery to keep up with your pace. But how? Best Buy has answers. The Best Buy Mobile team explains how you can save battery life by closing applications that are running in the background of your BlackBerry device.
In this video from AppleGenius0921 we learn how to create a free .mac account and AIM account to use with iChat. Go to iChat and go to Preferences. Click the plus sign in to bottom left. An account setup window will pop up. Click get an ichat account. It will redirect you to apple's site where you can create an apple ID. After you complete that step, go to the plus button again, and set up your new .Mac account that you just created within ichat.
This video is about getting customize working on ANY iPhone/iPod Touch
In this video from rscp1050 we learn how to SSH into a jailbroken ipod touch or iphone. First go into Cydia and search for SSH. You need to download OpenSSH. Then also install Toggle SSH. After installed, restart the iphone. Now on your computer, download WinSCP. Once installed, open it. Type in your IP address which can be found by going to your settings on your iphone. Click wifi, and click the blue arrow next to your network. There is your IP address. Then, User name is root. Password is a...
Jordan Patterson the Cheap Geek has made a video showing you the steps to sync your contacts and calendars on three mobile devices together, the iPhone, a laptop running Windows, and a Mac running OS X utilizing a few downloaded programs and Google Calendar. First he shows you how to sync calendars on the Apple computer, by downloading a program from Google code called collaboration code, and then running it. After putting in his g-mail account information, he tells the program which calendar...
Check out this awesome tip from CNET on getting FREE eBooks of the web and onto your Amazon Kindle for easy and cheap reading. They show you the exact process for getting free ebooks for your Kindle, so watch and learn. It's worth it!
MMS is disabled on some iPhones. To enable it go to settings, and go into the general settings. From the menu select network and select cellular data in the network menu. In the Cellular Data settings go down to MMS options. Now set the APN as wap:voicestream.com, MMSC as http://mms.MSG.eng.t-mobile.com, and MMS Proxy as 216.155.165.50:8080. Once you do these settings go to the message settings and make sure that the MMS messaging is turned on. Now go to messages and create a new message. Add...
This video will show you how to use the program Skype for online video calls. Skype is a free program that can be used through your computer to make phone and video calls. Go to Skype and download either Mac or windows depending on your platform. It will ask you to fill out some user information, including a user name. Be sure to pick a good user name as you cannot change it later on. Some features include free Skype to Skype calls, instant messaging, free video calls, calling phones and mobi...
Whether you want to save money by making your own clothes or you just enjoy working with fabrics, choose the best sewing machine so your projects turn out great.
To be the best at the Madden NFL video game, you have to be willing to get advice, but not just any old advice... professional advice. To beat everyone, you have to be ruthless and know all of the strategies and gameplay tricks. To master Madden 08, check out this quick, football game, video tip from Madden Nation (EA Sports and ESPN) with video game pro PG-13 (or Sheila Barger).
Want to control a friend's cell phone remotely and make "free" calls from it? In this hack how-to video, you'll learn how to hack Bluetooth-enabled cell phones with your Sony Ericsson or Nokia phone and the Super Bluetooth Hack—or "BT Info"—, a free program easily found through Google. Once installed, Super Bluetooth Hack will enable you to control your friends' cell phones remotely.
If you're a baby boomer or at least older than 40, then you probably remember the Five and Dime stores around your neighborhood street corner. Carrying kitchy knick knacks like masks and cheap candies that even little kids could afford, they were quite the sensation in their day.
If you've just exported your masterpiece from GarageBand and found that your volume on the song is too low, then you're going to have to fix it. And increasing the levels on your "too quiet" song, you just need to get back into GarageBand and make some adjustments.
Was Napoleon's death really due to stomach cancer, or was it arsenic poisoning? Some scientist believe the latter. Arsenic poisoning was a deadly weapon in that era, because it was undetectable when administered over a long period of time, making murder seem like natural causes. But if arsenic (As) is poisonous to most multicellular life, then what's with the newest NASA discovery?
No pain, no gain. Well, at least when it comes to toning your flab and revealing those hard six-pack abs that have been hiding under all that stuffing you got from last winter's holiday revelry.
Want to learn how to do quick scoping in BO? It's easy: use the variable scope and zoom in to the second or third level of magnification. Voilà. No more two-second delay when shooting. For a complete walkthrough of how to quick scope, watch this gamer's guide.
In this tutorial, we learn how to unlock the FBI Investigator trophy in Heavy Rain. To get this trophy, you have to get all the clues at the crime scene the first time you play it. While you are in the level, you will need to look at the victim and the things that are surrounding them. There are four clues that are in the video, the last one is harder to find than the rest. Look at the person's hand to help find more. There are a couple clues outside and a couple more outside on the hill. Whe...
This video will show you how to get the "Ramblin' Man" achievement in Halo Wars. You will need to get to Level 8 of the game to obtain the achievement. You will need to create 100 units with your Elephant. You need to kill all of the enemies and you need to send one unit at a time. You can also find the Black Box and the Rebel Skull by searching the map. Repeat this process until you get the achievement. Just follow these quick and easy steps in order to successfully complete the "Ramblin' Ma...
In this tutorial, we learn how to get the Phoenix achievement in Soul Calibur IV. To do this, you will need to win with all your equipment destroyed. Hit high and do low attacks to help you get the advantage. Don't fight and just stand there until all your equipment is gone. Go to the Tower of Lost Souls and do this on Floor 11 to help you get this achievement more easily. After the opponent knocks off your equipment, you will be able to start fighting and hurting the other person until they ...
Gus shows us how to do all of the executions in Godfather II in this video. First, run around and try to kill as many people as you can. Use different execution styles so you aren't doing them all the same way. Use choking, hitting, punching, kicking, and anything else to help you execute the people around you. After you kill them, you will learn how to do all of the different executions in the game. Use these while you are playing all the different levels so you can kill people different way...
Applying black false eyelashes is scary enough for most girls. But if you've been one of the brave few to venture out and stick on that wad of fake hair to your eye then you know that falsies can easily take your eyes from blah to wow. Falsies make your eyes look wider and more awake and are pretty easy to apply, so what reason is there not to use them?
Want to perform an unplugged version of Blink 182's "Easy Target"? See how it's done with this free video guitar lesson, which presents a complete breakdown of the song and its chords. While this tutorial is geared toward those who already have some knowledge of the guitar, players of all skill level should be able to follow along given adequate time and effort. For more information, and to get started playing "Easy Target" on your own acoustic guitar, take a look!
Want to perform an unplugged version of Death Cab for Cutie's "I Will Follow You into the Dark"? See how it's done with this free video guitar lesson, which presents a complete breakdown of the song and its chords. While this tutorial is geared toward those who already have some knowledge of the guitar, players of all skill level should be able to follow along given adequate time and effort. For more information, and to get started playing "I Will Follow You into the Dark" on your own acousti...
Want to perform an unplugged version of Paramore's "My Heart"? See how it's done with this free video guitar lesson, which presents a complete breakdown of the song and its chords. While this tutorial is geared toward those who already have some knowledge of the guitar, players of all skill level should be able to follow along given adequate time and effort. For more information, and to get started playing "My Heart" on your own acoustic guitar, take a look!
