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6 Best New Features in iOS 11 That’ll Make Using the Phone Better (Video)

And there we go, iOS 11 is finally official and on it’s way to an iDevice near you. In case you’re maybe wondering what all the chatter is about, here’s a quick rundown of the five best features to look forward to in the new iOS 11 update. Control Center One of the biggest aestetic changes we’ve seen in iOS 11 comes in the form of the new design of the control center. The new control center has a bit more of a bubbly look to it and it now takes up the entire screen when you swipe up to […]

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How to Get the iOS 11 Public Beta On Your Device Right Now (No Dev Account)

With iOS 11 being finally official, the iOS 11 Public Beta (not to be confused with the developer beta that’s been out for a while) is now available. This version doesn’t require any developer accounts and is really for people who want to mess with the new beta before it is finally released as a stable version shortly thereafter. The nice thing about this version is that it’s basically the same as the Golden Master and final release so it’s relatively stable and just a nice way to get into the software before everyone else (nanny nanny boo boo comes

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How to Change Your Wallpaper Automatically Everyday Using Google Wallpaper

I personally love change. Traveling to countries I’ve never been to, changing out my tech like a bad habit, I even love moving apartments (not the process, more the result). In my world, change is good. Something similar happens with my phone and other tech. I swap launchers, icon packs, widgets (or just move my icons around on iOS if not jailbroken), etc. But today I found a way to have things change daily for me on my phone–Google’s daily wallpaper. The wallpaper app from Google has a bunch of truly great photos turned into wallpapers in a few different

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How to Add Any Photo to Snapchat (without Those Annoying White Borders) (Video)

Snapchat has always been pretty strict about the fact that, since they call themselves a camera company, they want you to use their camera app to capture your photos to be able to share them to the social network aspect of their “camera app”. When they finally allowed you to use past photos they shamed these photos with a white border letting everyone know how ridiculous you are for trying to share something from the past. Then they decided, okay, past photos are fine but only if they come from the memories section of the app which is where the

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The 5 Best Features of the LG V30 You’re Going to Love

The new LG V30 was recently announced and LG was kind enough to let me borrow one and I have to say, I’ve been loving it so far overall, but there are a few features in particular that I’m kinda excited about and figured I’d show you guys some of them and why I’m into them. So here are the 5 best features on the LG V30, in my opinion. The Camera First up, the camera (or technically cameras). The phone features a dual camera setup like the G6 with one being a “normal” angle lens and the other being

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How to Use Cine Video on the LG V30

One of the big features being shown off by LG for the recently launched V30, is the Cine Video feature. This feature allows you to add professionally created LUTs to your videos as you shoot them to get some creative looking shots. LUTs, or Look Up Tables are sets of adjustments that are used by professional cinematographers to add specific looks to shots that are shot in RAW or Log format. This allows them to do two things mainly: 1. They can shoot in the log or RAW format which flatten colors and allows the imaging sensor to get a

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How to Shoot in Log Format on the LG V30

LG just launched their latest flagship phone the V30 and it seems to have a pretty big focus on creators with it’s interesting Cine Video mode, great cameras, HiFi audio recording, etc. One of the things I was most interested in checking out was the ability to shoot in a Log format. Log format is a feature in a lot of professional cameras that allows you to shoot with a much flatter image–the colors are more subdued. This allows the camera sensor to focus more on light and increase the dynamic range than having to deal with the color science.

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How to Get the Android Oreo Launcher (Video)

Google just announced their new Android version called Oreo this past week and, as promised, have begun pushing the new update out to Pixel and Nexus devices. If you don’t have one of those devices though, there’s no telling when you’ll be getting the new Android 8.0 update, unfortunately, but thanks to some crafty developers, you can try out the new launcher (and no, no root is required). Reddit user AmirZ and another developer DeleteScape, managed to get the new Pixel launcher to work on other Android devices that aren’t able to download it from the Play Store and, surprisingly,

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How to Disable Live Notifications

OK, so the live craze is great and all. I love the idea of using live video on social to show something that might be important to show in the moment: news, an event, an announcement, hell, even a live show you might do. Sure! What I don’t want to see live, is a drunk person showing me the inside of a poorly lit bar while screaming out the wrong lyrics to whatever song happens to be playing. As with any new tech/social feature, there’s an etiquette that isn’t exactly inherent at launch, but instead, needs to be learned slowly

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How to Fix the Surface Pen Writing on the Screen After You Lift Up

I had an issue recently with my new Surface Pro’s pen. Turns out every time I would lift up my pen while writing, the “ink” would continue to draw for a second or two, leaving these scribbles of text instead of the slightly-less-unreadable-scribbles that are my own horrible handwriting. No matter what I did, it seemed I couldn’t get rid of the issue either. I tried going into the pen settings and recalibrating it, I tried resetting settings in Windows, rebooting, and nothing worked. It was at this point (which was also the point right before I was about to

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How to Get Rid of that Annoying Voicemail Icon When You Have No Voicemail (Android)

Every now and then, that little voicemail icon thinks it’s funny. Even when you don’t have a voicemail, it decides it wants to say hi and pester you in a non-dismissable notification at the top of your phone. So, if you have checked your voicemail and there’s clearly none left but the icon won’t seem to get the hint, there is a way to remove the icon manually. Essentially, what has happened is the phone’ never received the notification from the network that everything is read and it can clear that icon. So, what we can do is force the phone

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How to Hide Instagram Posts

If you were thinking about Spring cleaning your Instagram and getting your feed looking more cohesive (or maybe there’s some questionable photos you don’t want to delete but maybe shouldn’t have let be public) Instagram just launched a new feature to make that a lot easier to do called Archive. Now, most people probably don’t need to do this type of clean up, but I know a lot of marketers/social media managers that actually like to scrub through their Instagram once in a while to remove posts that might have seemed perfect when they posted, but now don’t quite fit

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How to Fix the Computer Randomly Dying After Creator Update

Ever since I updated to the new Creator Update on my Windows 10 laptop, I’ll be sitting at a cafe, writing as usual, and then all of a sudden my computer just dies. No warning, just in the middle of a sentence, black screen. After doing a little research it turns out that it’s not an issue with the battery, but it is an issue with something the Creator Update decided to just turn off by default for some dumb reason: the low battery notification. Simply put, when the computer would normally tell me “hey you’ve been here way too

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How to Get High Sierra Right Now (No Developer Account Required)

For the impatient, did a video on how to get iOS 11 Beta right now and so I figured I’d do a video on getting Mac High Sierra beta as well. Here’s how to get the latest High Sierra beta on your Mac without needing a developer account (cause who wants to pay $99 when we just want to play with the new software, no?). Create a Time Machine Backup Before we do any of this, make sure to create a backup by going to System Preferences > Time Machine and having it create a backup (either to your own

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How to Get iOS 11 Beta Right Now (No Developer Account Required)

Thanks to the way Apple changed the way iOS betas are provisioned, it’s easier than ever to try out an iOS beta. You simply download the device profile and then go to System Updates like normal and it’ll let you update to the beta. Here’s how to get the iOS 11 Beta right now. Please keep in mind this is a beta and so there will be bugs. You can, however, easily go back to iOS 10 by deleting the profile from the phone and “updating” in iTunes back down to your original iOS version. Ready to try iOS 11,

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