While autocorrect always has the best intentions, it doesn’t always play nice with everyone. The Galaxy S5 is no exception. Whether you want to simply disable it permanently or just while typing something that may contain a lot of words it doesn’t recognize, you can do so on any keyboard you have pulled up in just a few taps. Here’s …
Cryptocurrency is an encrypted decentralized digital currency transferred between peers and confirmed in a public ledger via a process known as mining. Below, we take a simplified look at how cryptocurrencies like bitcoin work. First, let’s review the basics and essentials of cryptocurrency, and then we will do an overview of the other properties that have made cryptocurrency what it is today. …
This introduction on cryptocurrency explains the most important thing about cryptocurrencies. After you‘ve read it, you‘ll know more about it than most other humans. Today cryptocurrencies have become a global phenomenon known to most people. While still somehow geeky and not understood by most people, banks, governments and many companies are aware of its importance. In 2016, you‘ll have a …
Mark Zuckerberg believes that the technology powering bitcoin could one day be used to improve Facebook Inc. In his 2018 mission statement, published on Thursday, the social network’s CEO said his main goal for the year ahead is to “fix” Facebook and focus on making the world a less anxious and divided place. Zuckerberg suggested that cryptocurrency may provide a potential remedy to the issues that have …
Intel’s processor naming is a big old box of chaos. I’m sure each individual naming decision made sense at the time, but taken in aggregate, it’s a cryptic mishmash of jargon, numbers and abbreviations. To make sense of it all, we can split the processor model names into two parts. The first, and most important, is the brand which includes the i3/i5/i7 designation. …
When it comes to buying one of the best smartphones, the first choice can be the hardest: iPhone or Android. It’s not simple; both offer a lot of great features and they may seem basically the same other than brand and price. However, a closer look shows that there are some key differences. Read on for a closer at look at some of …
I hear all the time from readers who are struggling with iPhone icons that are too large. They’re filling the entire screen, making it hard or sometimes impossible to see the rest of their apps and options. To make matters worse, pressing the Home button doesn’t help. This isn’t as bad as it may seem, though. Fixing large iPhone icons is …
When you first open the box and pull out your iPad, you go through a series of steps and questions to set it up for first-time use. You can repeat this process later by restoring the iPad to “factory default”, which means the status of the iPad when it left the factory. This process wipes all data and settings from …
Autocorrect can be a lifesaver, saving you from embarrassing typos in emails and texts. Autocorrect can also be a nightmare, changing a friendly note into something sinister, dirty, or otherwise embarrassing. (There’s a reason that sites like Damn You Autocorrect exist. There are ways, however, to make autocorrect more of a help than a hindrance. Here are a few ways to take …
Our kids are constantly asking to use our phones, whether its to play a game, watch a video on a long car ride, or whatever the case may be, they won’t stop asking for them. We oblige them sometimes, but we do so knowing that there is some risk involved. Kids like to click on stuff, they may delete half …
If you’ve lost your mobile phone and it’s running Android, there’s a change you can use Android Device Manager to find it. Android Device Manager is a free web application from Google. This guide will show you how to find the most recent location of your mobile phone, how to make the phone ring, how to lock the screen to prevent thieves from accessing the …
Smartphones are supposed to save us time and give us convenience, but in order to get the most out of our devices, we have to do a little legwork, at least for now. Android devices are highly customizable and feature-packed, but some of its best time and sanity-saving shortcuts have to be unlocked. Here, I present a bunch of shortcuts …