YouTube Gaming is the latest of Google’s ventures to suffer a discontinuation. Google’s attempt at a counter to the dominant streaming platform Twitch, YouTube Gaming is home to livestreams and prerecorded gaming videos alike. Viewers can browse the Gaming section on YouTube to find recommended videos based on channel subscriptions, …
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Google Messages is one of the most popular messaging apps on the Play Store – at least it’s far better than most pre-installed messaging apps. As testament to this, Google Messages has recently seen its 500 millionth download. Features like a dark mode, built-in Assistant functionality, and and a modern …
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It’s not a sexy new feature or brand new UI overhaul, but a sleep timer on Spotify is a welcome quality of life feature. If you like to fall asleep to music playing from your phone, this new update could save both your data and your battery life. To set …
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Like it or not, Smart devices are steadily making their way into our lives. Obviously at Ausdroid, we’re invested in the Google, and bargains excite us. Officeworks – Lenovo Smart Display 10″ for $227 The Lenovo smart display made quite an entry and caught Duncan’s interest and he gave it …
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If you’ve been following our NBN journey, we’ve been through the different NBN connection types and what they mean for you as a customer. Unfortunately, you don’t get much choice in what technology is used to connect your household to the NBN, but you do get to choose a fair …
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The growing availability of home security devices, particularly cameras has been growing for some time and shows no sign of slowing down. What the devices are doing is becoming less conspicuous. That is exactly what has happened with the Floodlight Security Camera from Swann. Because the home security scene is …
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We’ve seen some great mesh Wi-Fi systems over the last couple of years from the Dlink Covr, Linksys Velop and Netgear Orbi systems. Asus have upped the ante with their latest entry the AX6100 which is a pair of their RT-AX92U routers well and truly capable of handing WAN routing …
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Officeworks has launched its own MVNO, called Accord Mobile with Officeworks, and is offering some pretty great prepaid mobile and data plans. Accord Mobile with Officeworks – which has now begun rolling out through your local Officeworks store and online through its own dedicated website – is offering a month-by-month …
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When the OnePlus 7 Pro was released last week it sounded like an amazing phone (and it is) and users could not wait to get their hands on it with OnePlus unable to keep up with demand — one Chinese site sold US$144 million worth in one minute. Unfortunately some …
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There has been very little good news for Huawei as of late and you can imagine the folks at the upper echelons of the company must be scrambling like crazy. A throw away line from the US Commander in Chief has given them some hope that a resolution is possible …
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Ok, you want a Google Pixel and you don’t want to pay full price. If you’ve got a spare working phone then JB Hi-Fi just might have a deal for you – $350 and $100 off a Google Pixel 3 or Pixel 3a respectively. If you’ve been in the market …
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We’ve been tracking which Australian financial institutions have added support for Google Pay to their product offerings. One thing we have found is that it’s hard to find an updated list of all of the institutions who currently support the feature. Even Google’s own Australian Google Pay page doesn’t have …
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Google has announced that character alarms are now available on Assistant driven smart displays after a short stint being only available on smart speakers. Unfortunately only in selected regions (US and Canada for now) at this time and of course, that doesn’t include Australia. Clearly targeted at children, the option …
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Would you like some large fries and a frozen drink with that? With our busy lives nowadays, along with the onset of winter now arriving, more and more people are eating out or ordering take away to have at home through various food delivery services like Deliveroo, Uber Eats and …
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Every few weeks or so Google seems to add another bank to the list of Australian providers who support Google Pay — this week it’s BankVic’s turn. If you’re a customer of the Victorian based bank this may just be the news you’ve been waiting for. BankVic will support Google …
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