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To be fair, we won’t be creating proper emojis but stickers. Most popular apps now support stickers, and you won’t see any difference. But if an app doesn’t support stickers, the custom graphic that we create will be sent as a picture. You can create an emoji of your pictures using several popular apps on Android. While you can pick photos with different expressions for more of a comical feel, you can further customize its features such as eyes, hairstyle, hair color, facial shapes, accessories, etc....

Google Drive users usually choose the default drive during the installation process, which is the C drive in Windows. That’s also where the Windows OS is installed by default. This is not a good idea as it creates a single point of failure within your system drive for both system-level files and important documents that you have stored in Drive. Let’s take a look at why you should consider changing the location of Google Drive folder and how to do that....

Spotify, the world’s biggest music streaming service, is on a roll with an aggressive push in the podcast industry. That doesn’t mean, Spotify isn’t focussing much on the music department. The company recently launched a Group session for the Premium subscribers. Group sessions let you listen to songs with friends in real-time. Users in Group session can pick what to play and control the music together. The feature can also be useful when you are thousands of miles away from your friends and want the squad to listen to the same music simultaneously....

Some are saying that services like Dropbox, SpiderOak, SugarSync et al are dead but I won’t jump to that conclusion just now. It’s too early to mark off the loyal user base of those services so I’d stay away from the doom prophecies of those services and just focus on the new SkyDrive for today. What’s New About the New SkyDrive A dedicated desktop application for Windows and MacRemote BrowsingMobile apps (though support for Android is missing currently)Sharing made easierUp to 2 GB of file size limit....

Come on, think about it! Cleaning, cooking, doing all of our chores are just a few of the wondrous possibilities. What a wonderful possibility right? Unfortunately, at the moment you will have to keep dreaming. While there are some amazing robots that exist out there, robots are not yet adaptable enough to carry out a wide range of activities like this effectively. Moreover, although speech recognition technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, it’s still not good enough for use with Robots....

Nothing Will Work Unless You Do Yup… that’s the invisible statutory warning that comes with all the fitness trackers you can buy. These trackers might show you how much you have walked, stayed active in a day and might even remind you to get up and take a walk if you have been a couch potato all day. However, at the end of the it all depends on how you much you take from it....

So today we’re going to compare features, pricing and overall intuitiveness of both Budge and Mint to see which comes out strongest for managing finances. Mint Budgets are Recurring, Budge is Manually There is a key difference in the ways Mint and Budge manage your budgets. When you set a budget using Mint, you get to decide the amount of money for it as well as how often you want it to recur, such as weekly or monthly....

Chrome for iOS , each and every one of them were paid. Thankfully, Chrome for iOS is not only a free web browser, it is also the best one that you can have on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Even more so if you already run Chrome on your Mac or Windows PC, since they sync flawlessly their iOS counterpart. Right from the very first moment you use the app, Chrome prompts you to log in to your Google account and gives you a quick walkthrough via a few slideshows....

The application not only connects flawlessly to a computer running Windows operating system, but you can also use Android accelerometer to control computer games’ in-game elements. Yes I am serious! You can control your car while racing just by tilting your phone left or right. The app also provides additional features like file explorer, touch pad control, PowerPoint presentation mode, etc. But for the post, we will be concentrating on just the joystick feature....

Many cameras today do come with a ‘panorama’ mode. However, this mode always is either right to left or left to right, never allowing vertical or composite images. Additionally, the software that you get bundled with your camera is occasionally not up to the task for ‘stitching’ these photos together. What you need, then, is a program that can identify scenes that are side-by-side (or above and below), and stitch them into one contiguous image to make it look like it was one photo taken through a wide-angle lens....

automation apps for Android using which we could easily create trigger based automated tasks. These tasks would get executed automatically depending upon the time or user location . But let’s face it, these triggers don’t usually work accurately, especially the location based ones. I have frequently found the apps not detecting my location and hence not initiating the triggers. Now that most of the modern day Android phones come with NFC readers, I was looking for an app that could use the NFC technology and create automated actions based on NFC triggers....

How about creating your own customized stock watcher that stays on top of other windows and keeps a track of your favorite stock while you are working on other stuff? Sounds interesting? Let us see how to get it done. Steps to Create a Stock Watcher To reach our objective we are going to use a tool called On Top Replica, which can clone any window and keeps it on top of other running applications....

downloading it to your computer ? Well if you have, today is your lucky day. We will see how we can open almost any type of file directly in our browser using an online service called rollApp (that’s how they like to write their name). rollApp is currently supported for Firefox and Chrome, but before we see how to install and use it, let’s take a look at how it works....

desktop email clients without the Reply , Forward and Reply All options. Pathetic, right? Indeed. Without these options it would become so difficult to converse on email threads and give conclusive meaning to matters. On the contrary, especially in organizations, there are occasions when you need to send a bulk message by putting most of the recipients in CC field. And in some of those cases you would want the recipients to not reply all or forward that message because you know how drastically that can choke the server space and bandwidth....

While viewing those wallpapers, you might want to download most of them on your computer so that you can rotate your desktop wallpaper everyday. But downloading them one by one would be cumbersome. Hence using the nifty free tool called NatGeo Wallpaper Downloader is a better way to go about it. NatGeo Wallpaper Downloader can download all the National geographic wallpapers in a single click. Using this tool is easy....

I’ve tried many wireless syncing solutions. AirDroid, Pushbullet, BitTorrent Sync, you name it. Dropbox and similar cloud sync services only work when there’s internet. And they’re a lot slower than local transfer. BitTorrent Sync is great but it has stability issues from time to time. Before now, a quick and easy way to select and send files between devices didn’t exist. I’m talking something that’s fast and requires no setup, login, or authentication....

There are plenty of screen filter apps out there that can give you color filter over your screen. Also, in the past, we had shared about some screen dimming apps that would let you add a black filter over your screen. Thus, dimming down the screen. But such apps actually make use of a service in the background to keep the screen filter always on until the user turns it off....

Windows 8 product key email you got after upgrading and you are now looking for a way to recover it. The second reason could be that you never got the product key sticker of Windows 8 that’s installed on your computer and you are now looking for one. The first issue is pretty standard, but I think that I have to throw some light on the second one. Now when you buy a laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed in it, you might not find the Windows Genuine Sticker on the back of the laptop that you used to for the previous versions of Windows....

So, what are we waiting for? Let’s get started. 1. Disable the Annoying Ads Ads are perhaps one of the most annoying things about any Xiaomi phone, other than the Redmi K20 series. While the company claims that it’s easy to disable ads, the reality is that it’s not that simple at all. The main issue is that Xiaomi not only pushes system-wide ads, but it also pushes ads through its stock apps....

You do get heads up notifications on near stock Androids, but on ROMs like EUI, MIUI, and even TouchWiz, these options are not available. We have talked about an app called Snowball which provides you notification from all such messaging app in a chat head, but replying needs you to open up the respective app which brings you to square one. So today, I am going to talk about an all new app available on the Play Store using which you can read notifications and also reply to notifications using the comfortable chat heads (also called as chat bubble)....