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How to Use Emoji on a Computer

Emojis are just a part of our language at this point –our modern-day hieroglyphics. For as kitschy as they seem, they do offer something very important to human communication that beforehand was missing from our new forms of text-based communication. People don’t just hear your words when you speak to one another, they also read you face and body language, emoji sort of provide a glimpse of that in our SMS conversations. In fact, I use them so regularly now (yes, I’m willing to admit I love emojis) that I find myself wishing I had them available for other forms […]

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How to Replace the Screen on the iPhone 6 Plus (Complete Video Guide)

Part of a series of videos I’m doing on repairing your phones yourself to save you some money, today I’ve got a video on how to replace the screen on your iPhone 6 Plus. As with any iPhone screen repair, you’ll need to get a replacement screen first, then we’ll open up the phone using the provided tools that usually come with the screen, remove some parts from the old screen and transfer them to the new one, then attach the new screen to the phone. Check out the video below and the step by step instructions below that, and

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How to Replace the Screen on the iPhone 5S (Complete Video Guide)

Part of a series of videos I’m doing on repairing your phones yourself to save you some money, today I’ve got a video on how to replace the screen on your iPhone 5S. As with any iPhone screen repair, you’ll need to get a replacement screen first, then we’ll open up the phone using the provided tools that usually come with the screen, remove some parts from the old screen and transfer them to the new one, then attach the new screen to the phone. Check out the video below and the step by step instructions below that, and let

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How to Replace the Screen on the iPhone 5C (Complete Video Guide)

As part of my series trying to help people who need to repair their iPhones, today, we’re going to work on how to replace the screen on an iPhone 5C. To repair the screen, we’ll need to, first, buy a new one. Now, there are a lot of options for buying screens online for the 5C, but there are a few things to note. First, as tempting as it is to buy ones that are really cheap, a lot of these are glass only. You would think that would be perfect, right? Broke the glass so that’s all I need

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How to Sync Facebook Contact Photos to the iPhone (Video)

Maybe it’s OCD but I can’t stand looking at the messaging app on my iPhone and seeing letters where people’s faces should be. Android, at least at some point, always had the ability to sync my Facebook contact photos with my phone contacts and frankly, it annoys me that both of the most popular operating systems now both can’t do that automatically. Who pissed off who to stop that integration?! I’m looking at you, Zuckerberg. Thankfully though, there is still a way to sync your contact photos on your iPhone with their Facebook profile photo –you just need to use

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How to Disable the Home Button Press to Unlock in iOS 10

After years of us having to swipe to unlock, Apple finally nixed it. Instead users have to click their home button to get the screen to unlock. Now, while this did give Apple extra real estate on the lock screen for things like widgets, to some, the change is just too much to bear. Unfortunately, there isn’t a way to get the swipe to unlock back, but you can at least get it to just be the old touching of Touch ID to unlock your iPhone. So here’s a quick how to disable the press to unlock in iOS 10. Disable the

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How to Get Portrait Mode on the iPhone 7 Plus Right Now (Video)

When Apple unveiled the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, there was a neat camera trick that the 7 Plus could do thanks to it’s dual camera setup called Portrait Mode. Essentially, this feature allows you to create a more bokeh look with a crisp in focus subject and a slightly blurred background. Thing is, Apple didn’t actually enable it out of the box. They said they were still working on it and would release it in a new update. That update is iOS 10.1 but it isn’t available except in beta. So, in this video, I’m going to show

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How to Use Cardboard Apps on the Gear VR

Normally, the minute you put your phone into a Gear VR, it automatically launches Oculus Home, the Gear VR’s own UI for running VR content. This is all fine and dandy if you want to exclusively use the content found in there, but what if you want to use other VR content with your Gear VR? What if you want to use Google Cardboard content, for example? Well, seems that there’s an app for that. A developer has made an app that, in a nutshell, allows you to block Oculus Home from automatically starting allowing you to use another VR

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How to Unroot the Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 Edge & Return to Stock (All Snapdragon Versions) (Video)

If you’re finally done putzing around with your phone and want to return to stock, here’s how to unroot the galaxy S7 Edge or S7 (Snapdragon version) using the stock firmware. To do this we’ll be using Odin, Samsung’s own flashing software for Windows and then downloading the stock firmware specific for the version of the S7/S7 Edge you have. Thankfully, this method makes it super easy to return to stock as we just have to select the firmware files one at a time in Odin and flash it to the phone. It’ll reboot when that’s all done and be back

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How to Remove All the Bloatware on the Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 Edge At Once (Video)

Manufacturers, and Samsung in particular, are notorious for loading up their phones with a bunch of software that either the carrier or third parties paid them to put on the phone. The worst part about all of this bloatware as it’s called, is that you can’t simply uninstall it. It’s there. Forever. Well, maybe not forever. Thanks to a crafty developer over at XDA, you can easily remove all of the bloatware from your Samsung Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge in one fell swoop. Not only that, but it also adds some really cool optimizations to the phone as well

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Bell (Canada) Internet Settings

Here’s how to input the following settings on an Android device.

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How to Root the Samsung Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge (All Snapdragon Versions) (Video)

There are two chipset versions of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. The Exynos and Snapdragon versions. Exynos is developed by Samsung and Snapdragon is devloped by Qualcomm. While there are a few differences the big one we need to discuss, is the fact that the Exynos version was easily rooted while the Snapdragon one wasn’t. This basically meant that anyone in the US with a Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge was out of luck (all of the US versions are Snapdragon models). That is until Chainfire released a root method for the Snapdragon models not too long ago… Now,

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How to Unroot the Nextbit Robin & Get Back to Stock (Video)

If you’ve had enough fun with your rooted Nextbit Robin and want to either sell it, send it in for warranty, or just get it back to stock for a clean slate, here’s how to unroot the Nextbit Robin to do just that. This tutorial will walk you through flashing the stock firmware directly from Nextbit’s site, including the stock recovery, and then simply relocking the bootloader so it shows no sign of every being rooted in the first place. Here’s how to get started. I. Before You Begin This will erase your phone so save anything to your computer

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How to Root the Nextbit Robin (Video)

With the ever-growing media libraries we all have, our ever-expanding downloaded app list, and higher resolution of photos we are constantly taking, one of the issues most users face is run out of memory space. You’ve also been through the times when you really wanted to save something on your device but you couldn’t do that because of no memory space available. We’ve all suffered from it. With the Nextbit Robin though, you won’t have to think of the memory space anymore. The phone integrates with the cloud storage and lets you always have memory space available for you to

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How to Unroot the OnePlus 3 & Get Back to Stock (Video)

Perhaps you want to sell your OnePlus 3, send it in for warranty or, you know, give it away. Regardless of the why, they how involves unrooting the OnePlus 3 and getting it back to stock. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through installing the stock ColorOS ROM, then flashing the stock recovery, and, finally, relocking the bootloader so we can get OTAs and hide any sign that it was ever rooted in the first place. Here’s how. I. Before You Begin This will erase the device, so make sure to save things to your computer you might need. I’m

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