TECH NOW: How your kids can surf safely with a tablet

29 April 2014 By Leave a Comment

Web search gone wrong. It’s happened to the best of us. You type in an innocent string of words, and some random porn pops up faster than you can scream “NSFW!” Of course, that’s right about the time the boss walks by. Oy vey. Find “safe search” and turn it on. Stat. Opening a window […]

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Energy Bar Keeps Your More Aware A Your Battery In A Unique Way

10 February 2014 By Leave a Comment

Battery power. No feature is more critical to Smartphone, tablet, and computer users than having a reliable battery. But, let’s face it. Sometimes there just isn’t much more you can do other than the basic few things to help keep your battery in good shape. Those things are, typically, lower the display brightness, turn down the […]

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Why Does My Android Phone or Tablet Not Turn On?

17 January 2014 By Leave a Comment

Your Android phone or tablet has very few buttons. The only way you can turn it on is by pressing the power button — and that isn’t working. Don’t panic! Android devices may sometimes refuse to power on or wake from sleep when you press the power button, but your phone or tablet probably isn’t […]

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10 Android icon packs you need to download now

23 December 2013 By Leave a Comment

So you’ve gotten into customizing your phone or tablet a bit and now you want to tweak a bit more. One of the easiest ways to change your existing look is to install a new launcher. Once you do that, it’s a breeze to swap icons packs in and out. Prefer a minimal look with […]

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Google announces Android Device Manager to help users find their lost devices

5 August 2013 By Leave a Comment

Google has now announced the Android Device Manager, a new website that will help users find their lost phone or tablet. Accompanying the website will be an installable app that is set to roll out later this month. The company has made this service available for all devices running Android 2.2 (Froyo) and above. While […]

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Dropbox latest update introduces screenshot sharing

7 June 2013 By Leave a Comment

If you are using Dropbox on your phone or tablet as an application, you probably know that it can be configured to save screenshots that you take on the device automatically to the cloud. The screenshots that you take this way are all added to the camera uploads folder on your Dropbox storage from where […]

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How to send SMS or MMS text messages from your PC or tablet using your Android phone number

31 May 2013 By Leave a Comment

Our little Android devices can do almost as much as some PCs, but it’s easy to forget that your smartphone is still a phone at heart. And with all the instant messaging services available for you to communicate, sometimes text messaging gets put in the backseat to the more robust features of something like Google […]

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Can’t install Android App Update from your phone or tablet? Try to install it directly from the web

23 May 2013 By Leave a Comment

How many times has a new Android app update been issued for a major app, yet you find yourself without the ability to update on your phone or tablet? Should you know of an app update in the wild, you can almost always install it directly from the web version of Google Play even if […]

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