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LG G4

How to Root the LG G4 (International Version)

While it’s quite a tough task to root the carrier variants of the LG G4, rooting the international LG G4 is darn easy. Thing is, carriers often put locks on your devices that prevent you from touching the files that the carriers themselves added to the device (and would rather you didn’t remove). That makes the whole job of rooting the device that much more difficult for developers. Fortunately, the international variant of the LG G4 is carrier agnostic so no carrier bloatware in the first place means no carrier panicking if you try to root it. Once you’ve rooted yours, […]

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How to Root the LG G4 (T-Mobile) (Updated 06/30/16)

LG’s latest leather-clad flagship phone, the LG G4, is a great device all on its own. From a sexy leather back, to a large crisp screen, serious low-aperture lens, eight-core processor, and more; it definitely has the makings of a badass flagship phone. But, despite all this awesome hardware, there are those of us that aren’t quite fans of the software that it comes pre-installed on top of it. That’s where rooting comes in. Rooting, aka the gaining of administrative rights on an Android device, allows you to change the software on a device like the LG G4 as you

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How to Enable a Back Button for iOS 8 (JB Tweak) (Video)

If you’re coming from an Android device, the one thing that you’ll miss the most on an iPhone is the back button. There’s no way to go the previous app using a back button like you had one on your Android device. In order to go to the previous app, you’re required to double-press the Home button on your iPhone and then select the app you wish to continue working with. If you don’t like this way of iOS to switch between apps, you can use a Cydia tweak that lets you add a back button to your iPhone instead. Install

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How to Root the LG G4 (AT&T)

The LG G4 is one of the most popular devices around the world. Low aperture camera for great depth of field shots, leather backing, large, crisp screen, the list goes on. But, just like any Android device, it does come with some bloatware that, if you’re like me, you’d love to remove but can’t thanks to LG not allowing it. Well, there is a way around it… Rooting your device, aka gaining administrative rights, opens up opportunities for you to customize your device to a much greater extent than that of an unrooted device. Not only can you use root required apps

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How to Use WhatsApp Web on an iPhone (Video)

So, the wait is finally over. Here comes WhatsApp with its web version for iPhone users — a feature that has long been enjoyed by pretty much every other mobile operating system besides iOS for some time now. Finally, both Apple and WhatsApp have settle whatever reasoning there was for them not cooperating in the first place and enabled access for the WhatsApp Web client iPhone users. The web client allows you to text your friends right from your computer using any web browser. As is the protocol here, we do a how to guide whenever something comes up and excites us. So for

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How to See Who’s Typing in The Status Bar on Your iPhone (Video)

Admit it, we all become impatient when someone’s typing a message to us. Maybe it’s a message from someone you love or maybe it’s just someone you need a quick response from so you can finish making plans for the day. Either way, being impatient is obvious. If you have iMessage on your iPhone, you now have a Cydia tweak that lets you see who’s typing in the status bar on your iPhone instead of having to be looking at the messaging app already. Now, you no longer need to launch the app to see who’s going to message you as you can now

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How to Change How Siri Pronounces Words on Your iPhone

If you’re like me, constantly texting into your phone simply doesn’t cut it. It wastes valuable time, and, let’s be honest, I feel like I’m already getting arthritis in my thumbs from all that unnecessary movement. I want hands-free answers about the weather, traffic, or nearest pawn shop while cooking or walking my dog. That’s not too much to ask, is it? Enter Siri, the Answer Queen of technology. Siri’s pretty smart. She even cracks jokes from time to time. She has class, sass, and, when competing with other digital assistants like Google Now, Cortana, and Alexa, she’s the best

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App Review: Hotel My Phone

It’s happened to all of us at least once, and probably much more frequently than that –your phone is suddenly on its last shred of battery, or you forgot the darn thing at home. In a world where maintaining a constant connection to the outside world in your pocket is basically essential, situations like this can leave you in the lurch. If you need to make a call, you can always borrow a friend’s phone… but when’s the last time you actually knew anyone’s number by heart? And if you’re waiting for an important call or text, you’re totally out

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How to Add a Fifth Icon to the iPhone Dock (Video)

No matter the amount of functionality you get from your device, you always want more. Don’t worry, it’s not just you, we all do it. And one of the things that the Apple users – especially those with the larger screen sizes of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus – have always wanted is more icons for their dock. While you get to add four icons in the dock on an iPhone, for some users, that’s just not enough. Having apps in the dock makes them much easier and faster to access. Thankfully, you have a Cydia tweak that can help slightly, by adding

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How to Turn Off the Apple Watch Stand Notifications

Word on the street is that “sitting is the new smoking,” and one needn’t look further than Brian Wilson’s bedridden years to find some validation in this aphorism. If only there had been some kind of system in place to encourage Wilson to stand up and walk around once every hour… well, Apple may be 40 years too late to help the genius behind Pet Sounds, but they may have just the solution for the stationarily-inclined among us today. Time to Stand is a notification system designed to keep users on a healthful path via intervallic reminders to walk around for one minute out of every 50 minutes of continuous

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How to Get Free WiFi Tethering on Your iPhone (Video)

If you’re paying extra for tethering on your iPhone – and don’t mind jailbreaking your phone – there’s a better way. You can actually get free WiFi tethering on your iPhone by installing a clever inexpensive jailbreak tweak from the Cydia store and never have to pay those ridiculous monthly tethering fees again. Here in the States we do have the luxury of huge amounts of data we can purchase for our phones, unlike overseas where they’re limited to much small numbers GB (and if they’re even lucky to see GB listed in a lot of places –they still are MB

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How to Root the Lenovo K3 Note

One of the best ways to get the most out of an Android device is to root the device and then start using custom software on it. This is especially the case when you root your Lenovo K3 Note. The custom software that you can run on your K3 Note after rooting it includes root-only apps, custom recoveries, custom ROMs, and more. If you haven’t tried these things before, you’d be surprised to know what they can really do for you. For instance, a custom ROM, aka a new version of the operating system for the device, can change the entire appearance and functionality

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How to Send Gifs to People Easily from Your iPhone (Video)

If you don’t already know, one of my favorite features of iOS 8 was the ability to add your own custom keyboards. A feature, that I feel has been missing from iOS for a long time, that adds a ton of value to the end user. From keyboards that allow you to type easier with one hand, to keyboards that allow you to swipe across the keys to form words instead of tapping them out, to ones that even let you turn yourself into your own emoji, it’s opens up a world of customization options that can actually make your day-to-day

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App Review: Karen, an All-Too-Personal Life Coach

These days, we use our phones for just about everything. Games, communication, calendars, scheduling, stalking exes on Facebook and tweeting clever rants on Twitter –there’s little we don’t rely on our mobile devices to help us do. And if you’re having some personal issues and need to work through your problems, there are even apps that claim to be life coaches. That’s right, no need for pesky human interaction at all, just let your tech fix your life for you. And this is where Karen comes in. Developed by Blast Theory in conjunction with The National Theatre Wales, Karen is a

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7 Best Jailbreak Tweaks that Work on iOS 8.4

Trusty ol’ internet. Just as soon as iOS 8.4 was released, so was a tried and true method for jailbreaking. But what would a jailbroken phone be without its tweaks? Keep reading for a list of compatible tweaks for iOS 8.4 as well as 7 of the most interesting ones available now. To find any of these, simply head to your Cydia store and search for them (video on how to do that located here). If you don’t have Cydia on your phone, head here for how to get it. f.lux Blue lights can really mess your night up. Popular

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