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How to Disable Chat Heads in Facebook Messenger (Because It’s Evil)

Chat heads are one of those things that I can only assume Facebook created to make sure they could sufficiently annoy you when not using the app to go back into it. There is never a time that while I’m using my phone I need a notification and a floating head of my friend messaging me over what I was originally trying to do. AMIRITE? It’s pretty easy to figure out why Facebook added this feature to the messenger app–the longer you spend in the app the more time for you to be shown ads and the more revenue Facebook can […]

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5 Hidden Features in iOS 11 That You’ll Love (Video)

iOS 11 is now official and bringing with it a bunch of new features to your iPhone and iPad. Thing is, besides the big ones, which you can check out my video on those here, there are a few lesser known or hidden features that I think deserve mentioning. Here are my favorite hidden features in iOS 11. Audio Video Compression First up, your videos and images will magically take up less space on the phone. The reason for this is that in iOS 11, Apple has now switch over to HEVC (aka H.265) video and HEIF images. Which stand

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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 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 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 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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How to Get the New Android O Launcher

Even if you don’t have a Pixel or Nexus and have access to the Android O Beta, you might still be able to get the new launcher to try that out if you want? The APK for the Android O launcher (the installation package) is available on the web and it apparently seems to be working for most Android devices on 6.0.1 and higher. If you have a device on that version of Android, here’s how to get the Android O launcher to play with. On the phone go to Settings > Security (depending on your phone it could be

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How to Get Android O Beta on a Nexus or Pixel

If you’re feeling a bit impatient, and can’t wait to start messing around with Android O and happen to have a Pixel or Nexus phone, then you’re in luck. Google released the beta alongside Google I/O for any Pixel or Nexus users that might want to check it out. Now, of course, this is really meant for developers who need to test their apps on the latest version of Android, but, let’s be real, if you have a Pixel or Nexus, chances are you’re like me and just want to play with it and see what’s new. We used to

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How to Make Your Samsung Galaxy S8 Look Like Stock Android (Video)

It’s getting harder and harder to root the more popular Android devices. I personally love rooting my phone and removing whatever crap bloatware the carrier or manufacturer put on their as well as flashing a custom ROM to get a stock version of Android that is way snappier and, frankly, better looking in most cases. But, since that’s not quite an option for the S8 (and frankly, Samsung has dialed down the S8’s TouchWiz to a point I don’t mind it as much as usual, but you can read about that in my review), we have to resort to methods

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