Tap to top on iphone

Just scrolled down a really long list in Notes, or worked your weary way through a ton of emails? Instead of laboriously scrolling back to the top, you can jump there immediately by tapping at the very top of the iPhone's screen. We'd rank this tip with the double-space full stop: it's reasonably widely known, but for everyone else it's a game-changer. And it's not just Notes and Mail; tap to top works in most iPhone...

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Use your headphones to take a selfie on iphone

Selfies continue to be all the rage, as we're sure you've noticed, but if the quality of your selfies is a concern, try this handy trick. A decent proportion of iPhone owners know that you can activate the camera shutter by pressing one of the volume buttons (volume up or volume down - doesn't matter which) instead of the onscreen button. This tends to produce less camera shake. But a still better option for selfies...

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Save PDF to iBooks on iPhone

You can turn web pages into PDFs and add them directly to your iBooks app. This is handy if you're reading a long web document, or especially if you've found a HTML book online and want to keep a copy of it. When you tap Share, scroll across the apps to find Save PDF to iBooks. Tap it and the web page will be converted and added to your book collecti...

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How to take photos while shooting videos in iphone

You're using your iPhone to film a magical moment, and you wish you could snap a photo at the same time. Don't stop recording! Just tap the camera button, which appears on-screen in addition to the shutter button as you film.  You aren't using the iPhone's true photo sensor; you're getting the slightly less impressive video sensors instead, but the photos should still turn out pretty nicel...

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Create custom ringtones and alert tones in iTunes or GarageBand

You can create ringtones for your iPhone based on any music track in your iTunes library. We looked at this in depth here  (the tutorial includes a video to walk you through the process), but to sum up: create a short, sub-30-second duplicate version of the track; convert the file type of this track from .m4a to .m4r; re-import the track to iTunes as a ringtone; sync the ringtone with your iPhone. Better still, you can...

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GOOGLE NOW ON ADROID (PERFECT ASSISTANT)

Google now is a personal assistant developed by Google to aid Android users. Aid you how? This feature on your device uses your data to serve you quality information, it uses data like (What you search on Google, your locations, and other details). It uses these details to provide you with the best answers. All you will need to do to get an amazing result is, 1. Ask a question via your microphone. Or 2. Type the question into the search...

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HIDDEN GAME ON ANDROID

I once wrote a full post about Hidden android features (Games). The post covers hidden games on android Marshmallow, Lollipop, KitKat, and Jellybean. Did you know that there are games on your android device that you have never played? Well yes. Each Android device has its unique hidden game that is accessible by performing certain operations. These hidden games are quite very difficult to play, trust me, I have tried and have gotten...

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ANDROID DATA PROTECTION (LOCK YOUR IMAGES, VIDEOS, SONGS AND DOCUMENTS)

Do you have specific songs, videos or other files that you want to keep private? And by ”keep private” I mean locking the files so that only you would have access to them. With this cool Android tip, you don’t need to download apps that lock files, the data protection locks just about anything on your internal storage or sd card. From your gallery files to PDF files, ZIP files, and other file extensions. Although this Android feature has...

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ANDROID HOT KNOT - ANOTHER COOL WAY OF SENDING FILES

This is one feature that up to 80% of android users do not know its use. The Hot Knot is a new feature that was recently installed on android devices. How does it work? Well, I am no hardware engineer, but research has made me know that it involves the interaction of touchscreens on Android devices in such a way that one acts as a transmitter and the other acts as a receiver. In a lay man’s term, You can transfer files from one android device...

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ANDROID SMART LOCK

For security reasons, we always lock our android phones to prohibit people from gaining access to our data. Some of us use pattern lock, some pin, some password, sensors and so on. You would agree with me that most times that fact that your android device is always locked whenever you try to access it can be quite annoying. Maybe you are at home and no one else is around and you want to access your device, but you always have to go through...

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