Taylor Martin

Quickly scroll through emoji on iOS by swiping the toolbar

Apple is notorious for littering its operating systems with hidden features that make using their devices easier. For instance, there’s no visible backspace button in the stock iOS Calculator app. Yet, the everyone lost their minds when someone discovered swiping on the numbers entered (not the keypad numbers) would backspace one time. That’s just one …

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Here’s why your Galaxy S8 might not actually be fast

Now playing: Watch this: 5 Galaxy S8 features you should change immediately 2:14 The Galaxy S8 ($180 at eBay) and S8 Plus come with rapid charging features and an Adaptive Fast Charger in the box, which charges your battery at super-fast speeds. Even with the feature enabled, though, your Galaxy S8 might not always use Fast Charging. Here’s why and …

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How to use face filters in your Instagram Stories

Now playing: Watch this: Instagram adds face filters because of course 1:46 Last year, Instagram rolled out a Stories feature to compete with the likes of Snapchat and has been playing catch-up with features ever since, rolling out things like Boomerang, hands-free video, filters, stickers, selfie stickers and more. Today, Instagram is adding one of Snapchat users’ favorite features: face …

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How to customize the Bixby button on the Galaxy S8

Samsung‘s new flagship phones, the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus, ship with its new assistant software, Bixby. But there’s a problem. Bixby isn’t fully functional yet. Bixby Home, sort of like Google Now with cards displaying information relevant to you, and Bixby Vision, a feature that can recognize and search for things you point the camera at, are available. However, …

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How to remove Unroll.me from your Gmail account

If your inbox is out of control with hundreds of newsletters, you’re not alone. The service Unroll.me was born from this rapidly growing problem. Once you connect your Gmail account, it skims your email for newsletters to allow you to either unsubscribe from them or roll all of them up into a single digest email. As it turns out, Unroll.me …

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How Assistant differs on Android, Android Wear, Google Home and Allo

Google Assistant, the brains behind the Google Home ($75 at Walmart) speaker and the virtual assistant found on Android phones and watches and within Allo, is oddly fragmented. Unlike Alexa, which works virtually the same whether you’re accessing it from an official device, third-party hardware, a DIY Alexa speaker or even the Amazon app on an iOS, Google Assistant’s feature …

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Gmail just got its own Venmo feature

You now have a new way to split the bill for dinner: Gmail for Android. While the ability to send money using Google Wallet has been available for quite a while in Gmail on the web, you can now send money from within the mobile app. Once you’ve received the latest update, you’ll be able to send and request money …

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7 of the best TV features you should be using

When you first buy a new television, you might spend the first hour or so digging through the menus, making sure all the settings are properly configured. After that, you might revisit the settings from time to time to adjust the picture mode or brightness. But there are likely settings and features that you’re completely overlooking. Here are seven television …

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Put a shutdown timer on your Windows desktop with this command

Now playing: Watch this: Put a shutdown timer on your Windows desktop with this… 1:24 If you ever find yourself in a situation where you need to leave your computer on for several hours, but you want it to shut down once a certain process has finished, reddit user excelhelpneeded111 has a surprisingly simple solution. You don’t need any third-party …

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10 movies you should watch to show off your surround sound

When you upgraded your television to a new 4K unit, you likely realized that the content available to show off those 6 million additional pixels was scant. Even today, 4K content is seriously lagging behind demand. Fortunately, the same isn’t true of audio. If you’ve recently upgraded your home theater with a surround sound system, there is a vast library …

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