The focus of modern gaming is entertainment technology. In other words, from developers to investors to gamers, the industry’s focus is on how emerging technology will steer the mechanics of gaming. Over the last decade, gaming tech has evolved in surprising ways. For example, the Apple App Store launched in […]
eSIM (embedded SIM) is a relatively new technology that’s becoming trendy in the mobile industry. Unlike traditional SIM cards, eSIMs are embedded directly into smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches. As a mobile user, you don’t have to physically swap out SIM cards when switching carriers or traveling abroad. All you need […]
The financial industry has always been an ever-changing landscape, with new technologies and trends emerging constantly. The evolution of the financial industry is driven by the need to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance the customer experience. As we continue to embrace the new digital era, there is a growing […]
In this short video we demonstrate how to set up what used to be called bedtime mode and is now called sleep mode on a Samsung Android S22 S23. This setup applies to many other Android devices and many other Samsung cell phones so if you don’t have an S22 […]
Do you have a Samsung, LG or Nokia Android cell phone that keeps showing you the error message attachment limit reached when you try to send a picture or a video or an animated GIF through the text messaging app? In this short video we explain how to Work around […]
We have several articles on Google Chat / RCS, if you want more details The complete list of wireless companies supporting RCS (aka Google “CHAT”) as at Feb 2023 Telco Country América Móvil Latin America AT&T United States Bell Canada Boost Mobile United States Claro Argentia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru […]
Camtasia is a wonderful screen capture and video editing tool but it has always had one big recurring problem, it crashes… a lot. We have used Camtasia for more than a decade, starting with Camtasia version 6. It is often said that wise consumers avoid all first versions of software […]
We recently had a question from a reader named James who had looked at out Complete List of Android Icons and not found an icon on his phones home screen, so we went to work! What is Android Extra Dim? Samsung Extra Dim is a configuration option new to Android […]
Like it or not, WiFi has become an integral part of our life. We are constantly surrounded by wireless signals and more and more devices are using the benefits of WiFi to improve their performance or usability. It looks like people don’t care about the effects of WiFi on their […]
In 2020 we compared several video stabiliztion tools including Filmora and NCH Videopad and settled on NCH Videopad as the best solution. 1: Free Video Stabilization with NCH Videopad: A few days ago we revisited the stabilization options as we had more video to correct and we found that NCH […]
About a year ago we started a list of Android Icons and their meaning which we have expanded several times as people like you report new icons. However we recently had a few we could not figure out so we think they are app related and not part of the […]
What is S.M.A.R.T.? SMART is an acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology and it is just a simple monitoring system built into your hard drive. The idea behind SMART is to predict drive failures so you can protect your data (i.e. copy it to something else) before it dies […]
If you have an Android cell phone, like my Samsung Galaxy S9, S10, S20FE you may want to be able to send / receive texts on your PC, open Android apps on your PC or make / receive phone calls on your PC, the Your Phone app is your friend: […]
Over the years we have created several articles explaining how to figure out what is causing your inbound calls to go directly to voicemail. I have seen these problems on Apple iPhone but most of our experience is with Android devices as that is our standard. We have seen LG, […]
Most people have heard of Samsung Motion Photo and Apple Live Photo in which the camera of your mobile phone takes a few pictures and snapping them together to make a 1 second movie; this is not that. This is taking old photos (paper or digital) that are flat, two […]
Accessing financial institutions like a bank is very common with all consumers, nearly 60% of consumers made a payment with a mobile app in 2019, and using a Canadian stock market app to trade stocks is ubiquitous in the under 35 crowd. “…(By the start of 2019, TD Ameritrade saw) […]