The simplicity of the Apple Podcasts app is sufficient to get you started as a podcast beginner or newbie. But as you go deeper into your podcast journey, and your appetite for more content increases, you’d need an app that offers advanced features that help you search, discover, and customize playback. That’s why choosing a podcast app that offers the best features is important. If you’re caught between Apple Podcasts and Castbox, this comparison will help guide you to make the appropriate decision....

Kindle has some amazing features that make it better than the other ebook readers out there. And if you already own a Kindle, here are some tips that you can use to make your reading experience even better. 1. Remove Kindle Recommendations from Home Screen One of the best things about Kindle is that you can store and read many books at once and Kindle home screen provides you a thumbnail view (or a list view) of all the titles you have on your device or on the cloud for you to choose and read....

The Blink Video Doorbell is one of the least expensive video doorbells out there. However, the same is not true of the Google Nest product. Hence, this brings us to the question—should you stick to the expensive Google Nest video doorbell? Or does the Blink Video Doorbell work equally well? Well, that’s what we will find in this post today as we compare the Blink Video Doorbell against the Google Nest Doorbell and see which product will suit your needs better....

We have in the past discussed ways to share links to all open browser tabs at one go, but if you just want to save the tabs for yourself, bookmarking them together is a better way out. Today I will discuss how to do a batch bookmarking of all the open tabs in Firefox, Chrome, Opera and IE. But before we proceed I must tell you that all the below mentioned tricks have been tried and tested on the lasted builds....

On the other hand, the Beats Powerbeats3 earphones are not only popular, but they’ve also enjoyed a far longer run in the earphone market having debuted in 2016. So, what makes the Powerbeats3 headphones different from the Bose SoundSport Free earbuds? Is it only the design, or is the dissimilarity far greater than that? In this post, we explore the three key differences between these two earphones to help you make an informed decision....

But I wouldn’t take too much of a detour because Google itself has a nifty chart service tucked away amongst its web services. Google Image Chart Editor (UPDATE: This tool is not available anymore) lets you dynamically visualize your data quickly without knowing any of the complex know-how that goes into professional charts. Well, almost. As they state – “The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts with a URL string....

Ctrl+D button on the webpage you want to add to your bookmarks , select the folders and click on the Add/Done button . However once we add these bookmarks , most of us tend to not re-visit them. There might be a huge possibility that number of websites whose bookmarks you have added over the years might not be working today. There might also be number of duplicate bookmarks in different folders which you added by mistake....

Events and social networks go hand in hand. We have been using it on Facebook and there are other sites too to help you with them. But Google brings its own touch and creativity to all the products it launches, and Google+ Events is no different. It has some cool features that add a whole new dimension to the often boring process of creating events and collating after-event data like photos etc....

Although the step of disabling the installation of third-party apps, extensions and JavaScript ensures the safety of user identity and his personal information, sometimes it becomes necessary to install useful scripts that aren’t available directly via the Web Store. So if you know that the script or the extension you are trying to install is clean enough, here’s a way you can install it forcefully on Chrome. Installing Script and Extensions Download the extension or JavaScript file on your computer....

Reflecting this popularity is the gut of photo-editing apps of all hues. From standalone tools like IrfanView, to mobile apps like Aviary, and then to one-click tools for cool photo effects, the world is indeed click happy. Riding the wave and adding to the ‘photo editing’ wars is a new member. The very attractive Fotor (beta) is an online photo editor that’s also available for iOS and Android platforms. Every second name in the apps business is jostling for attention in the photo editing wars....

Blackberry brand and still hold on dearly to their devices mainly due to the excellent messaging service that their phones provide. With all these devices spread across the world, sending messages between them with a service of the quality of BBM became necessary, but at the same time started to get complicated. Naturally, the situation got even more complex with the tablet market boom thanks to the arrival of the iPad, the iPad mini and other similar devices like the Kindle Fire....

Let’s stick to getting iOS features on Android for this post. Thanks to Android’s open ecosystem, I am able to get most of the features of the iPhone through different apps available on the Play Store, like the one with swipe gestures we recently discussed, on my Android. And today we will see how to get another cool iOS feature on Android : Customizable notifications on the lockscreen. Notify Me!...

What’s better? It’s compatible with apps like Spotify, Rdio, and Play Music so you don’t even need to switch players to bring up lyrics. Synced lyrics for the song you’re playing in any of the compatible players will just float over the screen. It all works surprisingly well. How To Use FloatingLyrics With MusiXMatch MusiXMatch’s new Android app is a great music player in itself. It looks and works very much like the Play Music app, and to me that’s a great thing....

gestures . For the moment I stayed silent because I didn’t know what to say. But when I came home, all I had in mind was to research on how to get those damn gestures on my Android tablet. It only took me a few minutes to discover an app called GMD Gesture Control using which one could get iPad or iOS like gestures on Android smartphones and tablets. The only requirement to use the app was that the device should be rooted....

Apple has an excellent Health app and integrates nicely with the Apple Watch series. Not only that, the company is doubling down on its efforts for fitness tracking in the upcoming products. For the Android world, there are mainly two choices — recently redesigned Google Fit or Samsung Health app, if you want to be in Samsung’s ecosystem. Both apps offer several health tracking functions and at the same time differ in numerous aspects....

Data Saving Google Products While we’ve covered Jio’s entry with their 4G LTE offers for India, a land where broadband is still limited to urban areas. But Google has made similar bold moves today with their announcements, starting with a more optimized Google Play store which will work well even on 2G. The idea here is to download all the major parts of Google Play services on Wi-Fi, so browsing is much faster even on weaker signals....

This navigation where your course is monitored relative to a map of your area is possible largely due to GPS/GLONASS which are 2 different space based global navigation satellite constellations. What is the difference between GPS and GLONASS you ask? Well that’s what we’re getting on to now. Note: GPS and GLONASS are global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). These work by using signals sent to receivers on earth from satellites in space....

Don’t sulk, today we will show you a robust new way to hide all your sensitive data. Well, not entirely new because we have talked about this method before but not about this tool that lets you do it on a USB drive. We will see how to use this software called Free File Camouflage, a very small and portable freeware to hide files inside pictures. To start hiding your files you need to download Free File Camouflage zipped file and extract in anywhere on your system....

However, the checkboxes won’t be functional or interactive. Meaning, you cannot directly check them off. You will have to do an additional step to complete them. Don’t worry. Once you get hold of the trick, creating checkboxes in Google Docs will be an easy game. So, let’s get started with PC first, followed by mobile. Note: We have used checklists, checkboxes, and checkmarks interchangeably in the post. How to Insert Checkboxes in Google Docs on PC There are four methods to create checklists in Google Docs from a computer....

Google Slides is versatile and gives you a few different ways to add charts and diagrams. You can either create them directly here or link them from other Google entities like Sheets. Plus, you can also create diagrams outside of Slides and add them through add-ons like Lucidchart. Cool, right? So without further ado, let’s get started. How to Link a Chart in Slides If you already have a chart created on Google Sheets, it’s super easy to link them to Slides....