On the surface, though, Android Oreo isn’t the most exciting update Google has introduced, but if you dig a little deeper, you’ll find it loaded to the very brim with a plethora of under-the-hood enhancements. Upgrades that, apart from sounding attractive on Google’s presentation slides, prove to be effective. I have been using the new update on a Pixel for quite awhile now and here is what I learned....

RAM has always been quintessential when it comes to managing multitasking and fluidity of the user interface. Although Apple devices have been blessed with a superior memory management system, thanks to the iOS, the need to upgrade the RAM was long overdue. Surprisingly, Apple has been sticking to the 1GB RAM since the iPhone 5 which is four iterations older and was launched three years ago. Earlier, an Adobe release had jumped the guns and pointed out at a 4GB RAM on the iPad Pro in a press release....

Apple’s road to custom SoCs To give you some background on Apple’s prowess of designing custom SoCs, the tech giant has a total of six series under its belt so far. These include: i. A-series: for iPhone, iPad, and (certain) iPod models ii. S-series: used in Apple Watch iii. T-series: responsible for managing SMC and TouchID, basically a security chip for Mac computers iv. W-series: connectivity chip, used on AirPods and Apple Watch v....

Apple M1 Pro vs Apple M1 Max The Apple M1 Max is placed above the M1 Pro in terms of performance. This is the first time that Apple has released two new self-developed processors at the same event, as compared to its single annual upgrades in Bionic chipsets for iPhones. The M1 Pro and the M1 Max both are based on the ARM architecture, just like the M1. These are fabricated on a 5nm process and both are 10 core CPUs....

Remembering a different password for every app can be cumbersome but it sure does provide an extra layer of security. What Apple has done here is that it will allocate individual credentials for different apps thus in case of a hacked account or any type of compromise you can simply log in to your iCloud account using the primary credentials and revoke the access to that particular app. This move comes right after Apple is pushing the two-factor authentication for new Apple ID accounts....

Simple. Apple is releasing its own music streaming service. The company announced today Apple Music, which as it smirked, is three things: a streaming music service, a worldwide live radio station, and a new way for music fans to connect with their favorite artists Beats 1 is Apple’s first 24 x 7 global radio station. It plays music “not based on research, not based on genre, not based on drumbeats, just music that is great and feels great....

The answer to that question is what drives most technology companies nowadays. Should they continue improving the services they’re good at or experiment with something that’s obviously won’t be as profitable as they hope for? Most conglomerates continue with both of these approaches, however, never truly worry about the ones that aren’t doing so well in the market. But in the process of all this, the organizations tend to forget one big part of the puzzle – the number of users which will ever use their service is limited, and unless they have a new plan ready to implement, there will be a point where enrolling more people will be near to impossible....

The display on the new iPad Pro has been tweaked in a lot of ways to provide a better reading experience, it is first of all, 40% less reflective than the iPad Air. Apple also mentions that is the brightest display in the tablet market right now and it makes use of a technology called “True Tone Display”, which basically calculates the color ratios of your surroundings using the ambient sensor and accordingly adjusts the color temperatures on Pro’s display....

First up, the two new tablets. A 12-inch tablet isn’t new news. In last one year, we’ve heard a lot of details about this baffling device and even seen plenty of purported images of it. The new information, however, is that the company plans to introduce two big iPads, which it likes to refer to as “J98″ and “J99” (codenames) for now. Also being referred to as the “iPad Pro,” the new tablets are said to be a larger version of the iPad Air 2....

And well, it is easily the largest high-profile device we have seen this year. Yes, it is actually bigger and heavier than the device we had called The Hulk, the Xiaomi Mi Max. Whereas the Mi Max was 173.1 mm long, 88.3 mm wide and tipped the scales at 203 grams, the Zenfone 3 Ultra is 186.4 mm long, 93.9 mm wide and weighs a “healthier” (as per Indian standards, where more is better), 233 grams....

To help you get around this, we have curated a list of some of the best PowerPoint shortcut keys in this guide that you can use to work faster and more efficiently on PowerPoint. Microsoft PowerPoint includes a wide variety of keyboard shortcut combinations that allow you to access most of the program’s functionality without using your mouse. If you use PowerPoint frequently, knowing how to work faster and more efficiently will improve your productivity....

A Twitter thread (also known as Tweetstorm) is essentially a series of multiple tweets connected together to give additional context or share an extended point in a much better way. It’s almost the same as a regular tweet, and you can engage with it in a similar way too. However, what you might want to do with a thread more often is save it so you can revisit it at a later time....

We are going to split the review into five major components that we feel are vital. They are – Comfort, Ease of Use, Effectiveness, Value and if you really need them to help you sleep better. Let’s begin. Comfort and Physical Form Factor The Sleepbuds are extremely tiny in size and have soft ear-tips with attached hooks that fit snugly into your ear. Frankly, the fit of the Sleepbuds is one of the best aspects of it....

While at large, these iterations feature several improvements—spanning across battery life, performance, and visuals—over their precursors, the most significant upgrades come to the new iPhones. Following its suit of incremental upgrades to the iPhone camera system, Apple is going all out this year to make mobile cinematic capabilities a reality. One such upgrade that lends itself toward this is the cinematic mode. So let’s dive in to see how it works and what it has to offer on the latest iPhones....

That quote (attributed to Mark Twain) was running through my mind as I sat through the launch of the Pixel 2 a few days ago. For, when the dust had finally settled, it almost seemed as if Google had gone from being this mystical master of magical software and ubiquitous search to just another smartphone manufacturer. The Pixel launch was pretty much par for the course for any high-end smartphone launch, with the accent being more on design and hardware rather than the experience actually....

Apple’s iPhone was never deemed to be a threat to the Note series until the Cupertino giant decided to opt for a large display variant and came up with the iPhone 6 Plus. The Korean manufacturer has been sparing lots of efforts on the design front and as a result, we have almost forgotten how clunky and cheap many Samsung devices used to feel before. The Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge helped Samsung benchmark themselves and ever since the evolved design philosophy has helped them produce elegant looking classy phones....

If you remember, couple of weeks back, we had reported that Opera Mini for iPhones will be coming soon, but now Opera has rolled out the beta release of Mini browser for Android phones. This comes within an year of releasing Opera Mini 4 for Android. The main change in this latest version of Opera mini is the introduction of “tabbed browsing” which has become a must-have feature for all smartphone browsers these days....

After Ashampoo Music Studio 2009, Corel Paint Shop Pro X & Iolo System Shield 3 Free promotions in the last few days, here is yet another exciting Free promotion from Paragon – Paragon Drive Copy 9 Special Edition. With Paragon Drive Copy, you can quickly and easily create an exact copy of your hard disk, including the operating system, applications, preferences, settings, and data. Paragon Drive Copy 9 Features Copy your entire hard drive or individual partitions to a new drive * Create a quick disk-to-disk backup copy of your hard drive * Make the new drive bootable in the event your hard drive fail * Schedule drive copy or partition copy operations for backup and archive You can have a look at this link for detailed information on Paragon Drive Copy 9....

Exterior The Echo Flex is a big brick of plastic that’s meant to go straight into your power outlet. It feels solid and is built really well despite being plastic. It looks subtle with the white paint job and blends in well if the walls at home are painted white. The overall footprint is quite large which makes it slightly hard to plug in if you have multiple sockets next to each other with something already plugged in adjacent to it....

When it entered India, Xiaomi was perhaps the first brand ever to sell its products only online and through a flash sale model, with absolutely zero advertising at that point in “traditional” media. No matter the odds against this succeeding (and the criticism from many quarters), it did prove that the not-so-mainstream ways can also work – it is now one of the top smartphone brands in the Indian market, well ahead of the likes of Sony, LG and HTC....