Twitter now lets you follow interesting topics, not just people
Twitter can be a great source of information or a hot mess. It really depends on the people you follow, their political views and often which politician has pulled the biggest blunder this week. Filtering through that mess can...
Google Stadia’s launch lineup announced — still not coming here yet
Google's streaming game platform, Stadia, is launching next week and until now it was mostly speculation with a few confirmations as to which games would be available upon first release. Today Google have released the 12 games that...
Remap your Google Pixel 4 Motion Sense gestures — no root access required nor...
The other day we reported on a way to remap your Pixel 4 Motion Sense gestures using a Magisk module, root access and Tasker. Now the developer of Button Mapper: Remap your keys has found a way to...
Whatsapp hands more control to users for group chats
WhatsApp is a pretty popular messaging platform these days. Odds are you’re using it, or know a lot of people who are. In our sphere, for example, if you're on a tech trip there's always a WhatsApp group chat.
One...
Facebook’s Messenger launches a Privacy and Safety Hub to educate users
Facebook Messenger is one of the most popular and widely used instant messaging apps, and for good reason. The group chat functions are excellent, and like it or not, the service integrates very well with your Facebook friends, groups...
Google scales up Google Play Protect with the App Defense Alliance
With mobile devices becoming increasingly more dominant and more of the daily online interactions taking place on portable devices, it's no wonder that they are becoming a larger and larger vector for attack by bad actors. Potentially Harmful Applications...
You can make the Google Pixel 4’s display brighter and drain its battery even...
The maximum brightness on this year's Google Pixel 4 is less than what you would expect from a flagship smartphone in late 2019. We have seen many complaints of the display, even at maximum brightness not being able...
Google Stadia app arrives in the Play Store but still not Australia
Google's Stadia is their new online gaming platform and although it was announced a while back is still not live. On November 19 though it will become active for those who purchased the Stadia Founders Edition kit and...
Microsoft releases one Office app to rule them all on phones – early access...
At the Microsoft Ignite developer conference this week Microsoft unveiled its new integrated app for Phones: Microsoft Office for Android and iOS. What's in it? Office, and all of it - including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, OneNote and basically...
With root access the Google Pixel 4 Motion Sense gestures can be remapped
Motion Sense gestures, while cool when showing off the phone (assuming they work) they offer very little functionality to the user. Of course Google has not included all possibilities in the first iteration of Motion Sense and has...
Google added support for the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller in Android 10
We have been able to use controllers such as the PS4 Dual Shock controller and Xbox One Controller on Android device for quite some time and now it seems that the new Nintendo Switch Pro Controller is supported by...
Multi-lingual news feeds are now possible with Google News
Setting up your news feed can be a very particular thing for lots of users. Unfortunately for users who are multilingual, you were restricted to your primary language - until now.
The update currently rolling out now allows users to...
Autoplay videos are the worst, and YouTube is sneaking in even more of them
If you're like me and spend a bit of time browsing the Internet to get your daily fix of news, then you'll know all about auto-play media and what a pain in the ass it is. Open a news...
Googler confirms a wider roll-out for the Machine Learning enhanced Recorder app
With the launch of the Pixel 4, Google also announced their take on a traditional voice recorder app, simply called Recorder.
Of course, being Google it wasn't a simple audio recording app, no, it's embued with Machine Learning enhanced features...
Pocket Weather is ready to ride into the sunset on December 31
Way back in September 2018, we found out that Pocket Weather was living on borrowed time. Being an app from the team at Shifty Jelly, we were pretty fond of it but now need to find other options....