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How to set up your Galaxy S5 for better one-handed use

How to set up your Galaxy S5 for better one-handed use

If you’re finding the Galaxy S5 to be a little too big for comfortable one-handed operation, there is something you can do about it. TouchWiz comes with a handy feature that makes one-handed use more comfortable and less awkward. Here’s how to enable and start using it: How to enable One-handed Operation on the Galaxy […]

Mid-2014 MacBook Air hard drives run slower than last yea...

Mid-2014 MacBook Air hard drives run slower than last year’s models, benchmarks show

If you think that the newest version of Apple’s MacBook Air has been improved on in all areas, you might want to hold on to that thought. Some storage benchmark results indicate that the hard drives in Cupertino’s latest super-light laptops, which were made available just last week, run significantly slower compared to the 2013 […]

Twitter tests out mute feature, may soon let you silence ...

Twitter tests out mute feature, may soon let you silence annoying tweets

If you use a third-party Twitter client like Tweetbot, you might already be familiar with the idea of muting Twitter accounts. It’s a useful feature if you’re sick of seeing a specific topic show up in your timeline but don’t want to block or unfollow someone, and it looks like Twitter might finally be catching […]

Test-driving Acompli: Could an email app be reason enough...

Test-driving Acompli: Could an email app be reason enough to go back to the iPhone?

Is a particular email experience reason enough to switch smartphones, or even platforms? For me, the answer was yes. I recently retired my iPhone 4s and began using the native Android Gmail app on an HTC One. Why? Here are just two reasons: I can archive or respond to emails from the lock screen (thanks, […]

Android surging in global tablet market

Android surging in global tablet market

AFP File  Photo: Hugo Barra, Director of Google Product Management, introduces the Nexus 7 tablet computer at Google I/O, Google’s annual conference, on June 27. The Nexus 7 is designed to showcase the latest Android software and be a window into its online shop for films, music and more. WASHINGTON: The Google Android platform extended its dominance […]

HGST G-Drive Mobile Thunderbolt Hard Drive: Australian Re...

HGST G-Drive Mobile Thunderbolt Hard Drive: Australian Review

Storage is always a problem. 4K movies, high-res photos, and new games all take up a lot of hard drive space. Almost any new laptop or desktop computer you buy will have a USB 3.0 port, giving you super-fast data transfers from external storage to your PC. All new MacBooks, iMacs and the Mac Pro […]

Samsung blurs the line between phone and camera (again) w...

Samsung blurs the line between phone and camera (again) with the Galaxy K zoom

Last year, Samsung tried something a little kooky: it made a mash-up of a middling smartphone and a solid point-and-shoot camera (you know, the kind smartphones have nearly driven to extinction). The resulting chimaera was called the Galaxy S4 Zoom, and it was… not great. To absolutely no one’s surprise, though, Samsung’s fixation on fusion […]

IPhone 6 Size Compared to Galaxy S5 and Other Android Pho...

IPhone 6 Size Compared to Galaxy S5 and Other Android Phones

With a large bulk of the rumors for the iPhone 6 revolving around its purported increased screen size, there have been a healthy amount of iPhone 6 renderings exploring what the phone could look like and how big it would be compared to the current iPhone 5s. MacRumors forum member deuxani decided to take it […]

Tech news: Wearable device battery could last 10 years

Tech news: Wearable device battery could last 10 years

Researchers have designed a battery that could keep wearable and health care devices running for 10 or more years without a recharge. The new design, based on the lithium carbon fluoride (CFx) chemical formula, could also lead to batteries that are safer than current ones. A prototype battery based on the formula was tested by […]

HTC One M8 mini reportedly coming to Verizon

HTC One M8 mini reportedly coming to Verizon

Reports indicate that a possible 4.5-inch version of HTC’s flagship smartphone could be available on Verizon as soon as May. HTC introduced three sizes of its original One last year. The rumor mill for the HTC One M8 mini is heating up and the newest tidbit of information points to the smartphone being carried on […]