The Touch Bar Demo App is essentially a hack that brings the TouchBar to older Macs with the help on an iPad. Since iPad has a touchscreen one can experience the closest to the actual Touch Bar. The bar will also dynamically change depending on the applications you have opened and it works on any Mac running the latest macOS or even the iMac and the Mac Pro’s. In order to get going with the TouchBar ensure that your MacBook is running the latest macOS Sierra build version 10....

Interested users can participate in the challenge by uploading the best photo shot on their iPhone (within the past six months) using the hashtag (#ShotOniPhone) on Instagram or Twitter with their official public (not private) accounts. Users, who don’t have an account on either of these sites, you can submit their photo via email on shotoniphone@apple.com following the file format ‘firstname_lastname_iphonemodel’. According to the rules, the photo that you decide on submitting could be either straight out of the iPhone (unedited) or edited with either Apple’s own editing software or any third-party software....

As for the specification, the Elife E8 sports a 6-inch display with QHD (1,440 x 2,560) screen resolution. Inside the device sits a 64-bit capable MediaTek Helio X10 octa-core chipset clocked at 2GHz paired with 3GB RAM and 64 gigs of internal storage which can be expanded to add another 128GB via microSD card should you need more storage. But perhaps the most exciting attraction in the Elife E8 is its 23....

Besides debuting on the three new Nexus devices, Android 5.0 Lollipop will be available on the Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, and Google Play Edition devices in the coming weeks, as well. Judging by the new features, Android Lollipop is the biggest visual improvement since Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The visual enhancements and user interface improvements have bee dubbed Material Design. Android Lollipop comes with new, more fluid animations, a cleaner design with a bolder color palette, a revamped multittasking menu, and now comes with new ways to interact with your voice....

Just like previous years, there’s a lot of speculation regarding the nomenclature of Android. Eventually, hours before the official launch tipster @evleaks spilled the beans and clarified that Google will be calling the last build as Android Oreo, after the famous biscuit from Cadbury. Apparently, the MountainView based giant has an affinity for the sweet tooth, as so far all of its Android iterations are named after sugar-based edibles. Android 8....

As per Sergey Brin, 7 seconds is all it takes for Google OS to start running after a cold boot. Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google, said the OS would boot as fast as turning on a TV, and run even faster than the Chrome browser on Windows. All of the applications will be web apps – nothing will be installed locally. “In Chrome OS, every application is a web application....

However the app seems to be working for Android 5.0 and further as we couldn’t install it on a device running Android KitKat 4.4.4. The notifications are dynamic in nature and they seem to be pulling the data on real time basis, we are yet to observe if this new live wallpaper will make any impact on the battery life. The notifications will get changed once you lock, unlock, close apps and shuffle between the apps....

Google has now announced at the ongoing Google for India event that it will be offering a special edition of Google Assistant for the JioPhone. The Google Assistant will be able to take voice commands in English and Hindi while responding to it in the same language. At the launch event Google showed how the voice assistant will be able to play music, videos, call and also help you open other apps....

The GFXBench is the culprit in this case. The Google Pixel XL2 packs a 5.6 inch Quad HD (2,560 x 1,330p) display, reveals the benchmark listing. This will make the upcoming flagship smartphone from Google marginally larger than its 5.5-inch display touting predecessor. Incidentally, the listed display resolution of the Google Pixel XL2 makes us wonder whether it will come with a Samsung Galaxy S8 like 18:9 display. The internals of the Google Pixel XL2 is manned by a 2....

It also populates the list of the app in ascending order of their data consumption. With the Triangle app, one can simply restrict the app from consuming data in the background or allow the data usage for a predefined time frame. The app will let you set a time limit of 10 or 30 minutes and this will help conserve the data. Well, the inbuilt Android feature to have a look at data consumption is decent but it doesn’t offer as many options as the Triangle app....

Any regular Twitter user will know how messy it can get with Twitter Direct Messages (DMs) collected over a certain period, especially since Twitter stores both Sent and Received DMs in our accounts. There doesn’t seem to be any limit on number of DMs one can have, but then, there is no easy way to delete them all at once or in batches. Luckily, we now have a simple freeware tool to group delete Twitter DMs right from our desktop....

There is a lot of debate when it comes to the materials used in phones these days. Some people say metal phones look classy, while some prefer glass and (now) the poor plastic ones are not even considered to be in the same league. And glass, which was initially not everyone’s favorite, seems to be gaining popularity. In recent times, we have seen a number of smartphones sandwiched between two slabs of glass which leads us to believe that there is something with the premium segment phones and glass back....

This is absolutely exciting news – Google has just announced the launch of Google Operating System – Google Chrome OS. Microsoft has always targeted Google’s search business and had recently started BING search engine to cut into Google’s revenue considerably. And now, Google has struck a super-blow with the announcement of Google Chrome OS. What is Google Chrome OS? Quoting directly from the Google blog- Also Read: Google Chrome OS : Windows Killer or Google Killer?...

Linking your Instagram Stories to your website or blog can bump up engagement in a big way. The right link can send interested visitors directly to your blog, YouTube channel, landing page, or any website. You can use this trick to generate more traffic and leads. If you’re willing to spend some time crafting the perfect link, then you’ll want to know exactly how to add links to Instagram Stories....

In fact, not just social sites, if you write blog posts — irrespective of the platform — you are required to resize the pictures to fit in well, and consequently, improve site loading speeds and prevent large size image files from hogging the disk space on your hosting. While the image resizing process on Windows is pretty straightforward, the problem arises when you need to batch resize images at once....

It’s important to know how to use a glucometer at home since visiting a doctor’s office so frequently isn’t an option. Monitoring blood sugar levels at home is much easier than the traditional method of taking samples to the doctor for laboratory testing, and it does not take long for the results to reach the patient either. A glucometer is an electronic device that helps us with measuring blood glucose levels even from home....

What to know about cooling systems Type Today, the most used cooling systems are air based or water based. These offer great performance depending on how good we optimize them for our computers. Water coolers offer better heat dissipation, but they cost much more than air solutions, they are more complex to set up and need constant monitoring and occupy more space in your case. Air cooling systems They consist of fans mounted on the case of your PC and on the heatsinks of the CPU, video card and memory, they are both easier to mount and operate and are cheaper....

Mind you, even with them being around, life can sometimes still be a little complex. Just copy on one Apple device, and paste on another Imagine you are working on your MacBook Pro on a presentation and someone sends you a quote on WhatsApp (hey, it’s WhatsApp, it rains quotes there) on your iPhone. A quote so good that you want to include it in your presentation. How do you do it?...

Guest Post by Lior. Whether you have a love it or hate it, you have to admit that Twitter is a very important tool that should be used by all Internet professionals, bloggers and businesses. What’s even more important though, is how you represent yourself on Twitter and that’s done via your Twitter avatar. Since so many websites now have Twitter integration, your Twitter avatar will be shown on any of these sites that you use and connect with your Twitter account....

Now, there’s a trick to check if there is any Android update waiting for your device, served over-the-air. Besides the classic procedure of manually checking for updates, today we are about to show you how to force the device to find an OS update. How to check for hidden Android updates The basic manual procedure which every user can access to check for updates, by going to Settings-> About Phone->System Update-> Check now works only in some cases....