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How to Share Gifs to Instagram

The internet is obsessed with gifs. Cat gifs, gifs from TV shows, movies, celebrities making odd faces and more that people now use to post as small animations on the web to further get across the more specific emotion they are feeling (nothing says good job like that Drake gif of him clapping. That’s just correct). And while everyone shares these on a variety of social networks, there’s one that won’t accept them: Instagram. Instead if you try to upload a gif to Instagram, you simply get the first frame/image of the gif and, let’s be real Drake just sitting […]

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How to Use Apple Clips

Apple recently launched an entirely new app called Clips. The name is pretty apropos, too, considering it allows you to take multiple short video clips and combine them together, add text or graphics easily and produce an end video super easily. But, as with Apple, there’s no instructions on how to use Clips exactly, so I figured I’d do a quick rundown and tutorial for anyone wanting to try this new app out. The app is super minimalistic and simple actually, and opening it just opens directly to a camera that you can tap three options underneath to start getting

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How to Use Facebook Live 360 on an iPhone (Video)

Facebook today announced their new Facebook Live 360 feature which compliments their Facebook Live product they’ve been pushing by allowing you to now stream 360 video live. Which let’s you almost teleport your Facebook friends directly to where you are and if they have a VR headset that effect is even more pronounced. To get started with it, it’s actually not that hard to do but really quick I’m going to go over how to get it working on an iPhone. So, for this tutorial I’m going to use the Insta360 Nano camera as they’re one of the launch partners

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How to Use Snapchat Hands Free (Video)

A friend of mine recently taught me a tip for recording videos in Snapchat without having to hold down the obnoxious button to record and I figured some of you guys out there might like to know how to do that as well, so here’s how to use Snapchat hands free. Check out the video sponsor Skillshare here and make sure to put in coupon code THEUNLOCKR for 2 free months! Snapchat Hands Free in iOS So to get this to work on iOS, we need to go to Settings. Then tap on General. Then Accessibility. And then AssistiveTouch and

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How to Use Square Cash to Send/Receive Money (& Why I Like It Over Venmo)

I was invited to try Square Cash, the free money transfer app from the creators of the popular payment processing system you have most likely seen. Remember that time you bought that super awesome piece of jewelry from that street vendor and they whipped out their iPhone with a small device sticking out of the headphone jack to swipe your credit card? Chances are, that was Square. Square was one of the first mobile payment solutions for small businesses. Garnering praise from their customers for their slick and intuitive design, securing partnerships with Apple and Visa, and essentially filling a

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How to Watch the Super Bowl Online (Video)

More and more of us don’t have cable. The internet has so much more content for much less money. The only time that this really becomes an issue for most people is when live events, mainly sports, are on and you can’t find them on the web. Today marks the day of the most watched US television event, the Super Bowl. So, naturally, I’m sure there’s more than a view people out there looking to find ways to watch it without the need for a cable subscription. Thankfully, there are a lot of ways to actually do this and, believe or

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How to Jailbreak iOS 10.1.1

Luca Todesco, the Italian jailbreaker that showed off jailbreaks in the past without releasing them has finally released a jailbreak of his own. His tool, called Yalu, works to jailbreak iOS 10 up to iOS 10.1.1. Unfortunately, iOS 10.2 is out so that means this will only work for those that haven’t updated to 10.2 yet and will, of course, become obsolete as more people update to 10.2 (since you can’t downgrade back to 10.1.1). But, if you are on iOS 10.1.1 or a lower version of iOS 10, feel free to follow the steps below to get jailbroken and

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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 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 Get iOS 10 Beta Right Now (without a Developer Account) (Video)

iOS 10 was announced at WWDC last week and with it came the latest iteration of iOS –iOS 10. Along with it, iOS 10 beta was also released to developers. I’m doing a walkthrough video on the best features of iOS 10 shortly, but figured for those of you that want to try it out for yourself, I’d do a quick tutorial video on how to get iOS 10 beta right now. Normally, you need a developer account to be able to download iOS beta versions which will cost you $99/year to use. For an actual developer looking to build

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How to Get Android Wear 2.0 Right Now

Google just announced the biggest update to their smartwatch operating system, appropriately called, Android Wear 2.0. The release contains a ton of new features and changes the UI pretty significantly in some respects supposedly making the device a lot more intuitive and more of a “standalone device”. From a more functional UI, to better notifications, to a keyboard on the watch face, to the ability to download apps directly to the device (instead of having bundled Wear apps that come with the “real” app you download on the phone), it’s an update that could have a significant impact on how you

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How to Text from Your Computer (Complete Guide) (Video)

There’s nothing like a full-blown keyboard for typing. Even though touchscreens have gotten better, more responsive, typing with two thumbs will always be beaten by typing with all ten fingers. Interestingly enough, some app developers agree (so does Apple) and there are ways to use your real keyboard and text from your computer instead of the phone. This ability is one I actually love when I’m working –receiving and sending texts from my computer while my phone is comfortably plugged it on the desk. I figured I wasn’t alone in this enjoyment so if you also want to be able

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How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone (& Never Worry About It Again) (Video)

Since most iPhone users don’t stray from iOS they usually upgrade from an iPhone to a newer iPhone. When they do this, things like photos, app data, and a ton of other things are synced and then transferred directly to the new phone. Combine this with the fact that most users don’t upgrade their storage when buying their next iPhone and you can see how we have a pretty easy recipe for running out of space pretty quickly. Luckily you can free up space on your iPhone with a few simple steps. Things like making sure you aren’t saving duplicate photos

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How to Add LED Flash Notifications to the iPhone (Video)

As I mentioned in video on how to create custom vibrations on your iPhone, which you can click below to check out, collectively I think we are all getting a bit adverse to our phones making noise. But what if you noise is really the problem and you just want more of a visual cue when you get notifications? Well, iOS actually has a setting that can allow you to have the camera’s LED flash, well, flash whenever you get a notification. Enable LED Flash Notifications Head to Settings. Tap on General. Tap on Accessibility. Turn on LED flash alerts. After

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How to Set Custom Vibrations on the iPhone (Video)

Remember when custom ringtones were cool? Everyone had them and even had different ones for each contact etc. But as phones evolved and we ended up getting more and more notifications, it seems we all, maybe even subconsciously, got sick of our phones making noise. Enter the world of vibrate. Pretty much everyone I know has their phone on vibrate now opting for a buzzing instead of the ringtones of old. The downside is that most phones have a standard vibrate tone or one or two and, well, what’s the fun in that? Well, you may or may not know it

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