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As previewed earlier this year during the Google I/O conference, My Ad Center allows you to tell Google whether you’d like to see more or fewer ads on a certain topic – or even no personalized ads at all. Previously, turning off personalized ads within Google required limiting the functionality of its products. “In the past, if your YouTube History was on, it automatically informed how your ads were personalized,” Google VP Jerry Dischler wrote in a blog post....

Yet these paid apps have stuck around, now TomTom has finally brought its turn-by-turn navigation app to Android. TomTom’s app costs $38 for U.S. maps as an introductory offer, or $50 for the United States Canada. The main advantage with TomTom— paid competitors such as Navigon Colot—is offline map support. though Maps does allow you to download maps for offline use, you have to manually select each city that you want to cache....

emails contacts web pages documents presentations photos I wish I could say the process of finding the best Android Printing Apps was difficult, but that would mean I’d have to lie. There are just a handful of good Android printing apps that are worthy of mentioning. These are the ones that really get the job done: Top 5 Android Printing Apps 5. PrinterShare Mobile Printer PrinterShare may not be the easiest Android printing app to set up, it requires special drivers installed on your computer, but after you finish fiddling with those, you are set up and can print to a vast majority of Wi-Fi printers from different manufacturers....

Amongst the banned torrent websites, TorrentKing used to be the most popular one. TorrentKing used to be a torrent search engine that listed popular torrent content from different sites. Before it’s demise, the site has managed to grab in lots of users, and thanks to its popularity, it’s still searched today. Since the site is banned in several countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Germany, India, and Australia, the only way to get it unblocked is via TorrentKing Mirror sites or Proxy sites....

The new approach, called file-by-file patching, creates updates that are as much as 90 percent smaller than the full app. On average, the process trims download size by 65 percent, saving users some 6 petabytes of cumulative data each day, according to ’s estimates. As , software engineer on ay, explains in a post on the Android Developers Blog: As he goes on to explain in more technical detail, file-by-file patching is based on detecting changes in the uncompressed data of the new old files, comparing the two to determine they are a perfect match, finally recompressing the data back to the original size....

Your mind may stray to countless available streaming options, but an old method of watching TV is making a comeback. You can throw it way back by purchasing a TV antenna, but it won’t resemble anything like the rabbit ears you may remember. Tap or click here to learn about the differences between indoor and outdoor antennas and which is right for you. When it comes to streaming, you have a myriad of options....

Speedy internet is important no matter what you do with it. Want to know if you’re getting what you’re paying for? Tap or click here to find out. Nobody wants to pay for the bandwidth they don’t use, but the hard part is figuring out what is needed. We’ll show you how to calculate this and give advice on what internet speeds you really need. Just how much interned do you really need?...

Twitch has been the leading video platform for broadcasting gameplay and it has also attracted a new type of audience who would prefer to watch the gameplay instead of actually playing the game. This is what Bluestacks CEO Rosen Sharma had to say. “This was a natural combination, Bluestacks has mobile equivalents of the most popular games on the Twitch platform, midcore RPG titles especially. It used to be hard to stream a mobile game....

Fenix, our favourite Twitter client two years ago, has been removed from the Google Play Store. The developer announced on Twitter that it had “removed (the app) [sic], from the Play Store.” This announcement came after Fenix reviled Twitter, via a tweet. https://twitter.com/fenix_app/status/724641441700569089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw This ironic incident, has a deeper origin to it, that of Twitter’s token limitation — a restriction on the maximum number of users a third-party app can have....

If you’ve been reading about how to create a smart home, you’ve probably compared the advantages of a smart lock over traditional locks. But did you know you can make your existing deadbolt smart in just 10 minutes without having to change your lock? All you’ll need is a screwdriver. The Bosma Aegis Smart Door Lock is super easy to install. It replaces the indoor portion of your current deadbolt and allows you to keep your key as a backup....

In this regard, its biggest bonus is that it can be used anytime, and anywhere from any point on the globe (this, of course, assuming that your carrier has international reach). Both our personal and work related matters can be conducted upon it. However, even despite all of this, we still continue to demand more and more out of our Smartphone. Really, in a way, it seems that over a period, we can become “bored” with the functionalities that are provided it by the manufacturer....

Some of your subscriptions may have started as free trials but are no longer free. Then there are apps you pay for that can be substituted for ones that don’t cost anything to use. Tap or click here for five mistakes you’re making that cost you money. If you’re using the same services as other family members, you can bundle costs into family plans and save. Some of these plans don’t require everyone who uses the service to be related or live together....

If you think that your hotel room is safe, it may not be that good, say a security researcher who left without the laptop. Hotel room door: an easy challenge for hackers When we talk about hotel rooms we are talking about strange places. This is because, if we think about it, we register our presence, usually for a short time, where we leave our luggage with belongings that can be very valuable and usually do not have the security care we have in our homes, for example....

Allowing data to fall into someone else’s hands is the ultimate headache. Once your data is out there in the wild, it’s game over. The “solution” is to encrypt your data. But the problem with that solution is that unless the encryption is easy and foolproof, users are going to sacrifice data security for convenience. If you want easy-to-use high security encryption, then you need hardware that’s aimed at professionals, and that hardware doesn’t get much better than the Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3....

We’ve found an online reader that makes it easy to edit, annotate and share articles. It’s a theater-style in-browser article reader that improves your focus and retention rate as you browse each piece. The premise is simple: if you can’t remember things you read, you don’t stand to gain value from your work, studies, or even things you read for fun. Here’s how you can get started with this free online reading tool....

Now that we have smartphones capable of doing all that and more, the idea has been somewhat outdated. But that does not mean that it does not continue to have potential. The Pocket GPD is the first laptop that makes us believe that. In fact, it is the first time in more than a decade that the concept could really come true as we wanted. The pocket computer that is more than a smartphone with a keyboard The pocket computer (laptop) is literal, as the GPD Pocket is a notebook with measures of just 180 × 106 × 18....

That’s why we want to talk to you about home security. SimpliSafe has made it easy to get protection for your entire home, without a technician or salesperson coming to your house. And you can get protection without having to pay outrageous monthly fees or sign a two-year contract. Just order online. Set it up yourself in under an hour and voila, your home is protected 24/7 with emergency dispatch for break-ins and more....

Twitter temporarily suspends account verification If there is one thing that Twitter wants to improve, it is its level of trust with users, in terms of the way in which it manages hate and violent extremism on the platform. It takes a lot of effort to make this happen, since this has been one of the biggest responsible for the massive flight of users, after several events involving trolls, such as the decision of the daughter of Robin Williams to close its account for offenses received from several users....

Fortunately, technology is here to help us. Fitness trackers are great tools to remind us to move around, eat and even sleep properly. Tap or click here for 10 Fitbit tips and tricks you may not know about. Staying active during the day is essential, but you also need rest. Sleep habits have an impact on your immune system, which is vital during these difficult times. That’s why we’ve put together this list of 10 tips to help you get a good night’s sleep....

There’s not much else we can learn about the device from what is posted in the FCC. The diagram (above) has a tweaked shape, but we don’t know anything about its specs. For all we know, it could be an updated version of the original Shield, but our money is on a proper sequel: a Shield 2. If Nvidia wants to turn heads with this model, it needs to pack in more powerful hardware, namely the Tegra K1....