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If you have an Android device, you likely have notice the enhanced texting capabilities that were widely released in 2020. These new features, like: deliver confirmation attachments sending/receiving through WiFi larger attachment sizes (i.e. 10MB!) … are named Rich Communication Settings (RCS) and detailed in our article: The Top 10 Read more…
What Is YouTube Shorts? YouTube Shorts is a new service from YouTube, launched in September 2020, that is intended to compete with TikTok. They are just short videos that viewers can endlessly scroll through in a feed. Where Are YouTube Shorts Available? If you are in most parts of the Read more…
Does your voice to text not work like it used to? We found that recent updates to our Samsung Galaxy S9 S10 S20 and S20FE‘s are switched to the Samsung voice keyboard. Typing with your voice used to be easy, accurate, fast and used to learn from its mistakes. The Read more…
This is part of a larger series on the Amazfit Band 5 . In this video we explain how to change the order of the icons and shortcuts on an AmazFit Band 5. These are the same instructions as for a Mi Band 5 or an Honor Band because they Read more…
We needed by corporate Christmas presents and decided that it was enough of the chocolate and wine baskets. It is time to encourage some healthly living. Given the currently work-at-home requirements many of us have, our staff decided that a fitness bands / watches would be the best category. After Read more…
If you are a Microsoft 365 user you know there has been an explosion of new apps including three that plan things todo in lists (see what I did there!). There are definitely similarities between the products but they each have different use cases. Lets start with the similarities. What Read more…
If you have an AmazFit Band 5, there are several buried settings you are likely to want to change. Here are the top 10 advanced setting we think most consumers will want to modify: 1 – How To Change Watch Faces on AmazFit 5 Swipe up or down on the Read more…
We unbox, setup and provide complete review of the AmazFit Band 5. We discuss everything from Alexa, to AI used for heart heath monitoring, to the parent company (Huami) privacy risks
We were interested in sourcing a few fitness tracking bands for staff Christmas presents, corporate client give-aways and our personal use. Nearly all of our staff have used some sort of tracker in the past so we had some considerable experience with them but no one had bought a new Read more…
We unbox a brand new Samsung S20 FE (aka Fan Edition in Canada and the US, and Lite Edition in Parts of Asia) and a new Samsung Note20 Ultra 5G. We contrast it to a Samsung S9 for comparison sake. If you want full specs of all the entire Samsung Read more…
If you are looking for a new cell, you are in the right place. Samsung just released its new “FE” or Fan Edition of their Galaxy S20 line. Compared to the “real” S20, the S20 FE is missing a few features: Lower resolution screen (2400×1080 VS 3200×1440 Lesser cameras (8mp Read more…
Because one of our clients wanted us to source new cells to replace their Samsung Galaxy S8’s and S9’s we created the following specification grid. As you can see, the Samsung S20 FE (aka the Fan Edition or Lite model) is the natural replacement for the S9 and that is Read more…
A few days ago Apple released its delayed 5G lineup of cell phones and while many other companies have had 5G devices for more than a year, the Apple announcement did create a buzz. This is because now there is a full spectrum of choices as all major device manufacturers, Read more…
There is soooo much talk of 5G cellular technology today we decided to put together a simple infographic and chart explaining the differences. Click to Expand Graphic This information was gathered from many different sources and people will argue over the details presented here. For instance AT&T has what they Read more…
Put simply, a Permanent Denial of Service (aka PDoS) attack is a hack that intentionally causes physical damage to a device. WHY WOULD SOMEONE PDoS? DoS stands for “Denial of Service” and usually that means an attacker wants to temporarily block access to your system so they can extract Read more…
Put in its simplest terms, a Progressive Web App (PWA) is just a web site that can function offline. The idea is that modern web browsers like Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome now have built in enough functionality that “real” apps you would previously have downloaded and installed from the Read more…