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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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LG V30 First Look: The Creator’s Phone?

With last year’s G5 being aimed a bit more at the mid-market and going with the concept of mods the V20 launched about 6 months later became the go to LG phone for the higher-end audience last year. LG might have returned to making the G6 a flagship device earlier this year (and it’s a great phone in it’s own right, check out my review for that if you’re interested), but a lot of the V20 users from last year have been waiting for the V series successor instead. Well, that day has finally come and it could have been

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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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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Hands-On (Video)

The Galaxy Note 8 was announced today, the latest in the high-end Note lineup of phones from Samsung and Samsung was kind enough to give me a little time with the device before launch so here’s a quick hands-on video of the phone in all its glory. First up, it’s easy to tell this device fits squarely into the same family as the new S8 and S8 Plus. We have the same, now unmistakable Infinity Edge display, slimmed aspect ratio, glass backing, and just overall design language. The screen is a 6.3″ Quad HD+ AMOLED display which makes the screen

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Google Announces Android Oreo During The Eclipse

During the Eclipse today, Google invited some people to the 14th Street Park in Chelsea to watch and mentioned “music, drinks and a surprise or two” in the invite. Turns out that surprise was a lot of Oreos. Which I was super excited about, of course, but turns out they were there for another reason. Introducing the newest version of Android: Android Oreo (and yes my first thought what does that Nabisco/Google deal look like? But I digress). Android Oreo Features The newest version of Android that has been floating around in beta for a while now being called Android

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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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Qualcomm Shows Off New Fingerprint Sensor That Works Through Glass, Metal, & Even Underwater

Well, we can all stop wondering if a fingerprint sensor under glass is possible as the rumor for the latest iPhone would suggest. At MWC Shanghai this year, Qualcomm showed off their latest fingerprint sensor technology. The tech uses ultrasonic frequencies to scan through materials and register fingerprints (crazy, right?). Because of this it’ll work through glass, metal, underwater, and can even register heartbeats and swiping gestures. Here’s what Qualcomm had to say in their press release about that technology; Qualcomm Fingerprint Sensor for Display is the mobile industry’s first commercially announced multi-functional ultrasonic solution capable of scanning through OLED

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Via Car Service Launches Unlimited Rides in NYC, DC, & Chicago

A friend of mine recently turned me on to a newer car service (been out for a while apparently but just expanded their service area here in NYC) called Via. The idea behind Via is that they essentially work like UberPool: you order a car, share it with other riders, and it picks you up and drops you off within a few blocks of your origin/destination to optimize routes. But, the reason I’m writing about it now is that it just launched something I think is a huge differentiator: unlimited rides. The service itself is already pretty cheap. The reason

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Sega’s Turn for Nostalgia: Sega Forever Brings Classic Sega Games to Mobile for Free

Turns out Sonic and his pals want in on the nostalgic action that Nintendo’s been getting recently–albeit in a very different way. No new huge console push, just a free app to play your favorite Sega games on your phone: simple. The app is called Sega Forever and will be available tomorrow with the following 5 titles at launch: Sonic the Hedgehog (duh) Comix Zone Altered Beast Kid Chameleon Phantasy Star II With more games launching every two weeks, it’ll slowly become a nice repository soon enough, I imagine. The app is free to download but will contain ads, but you

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OnePlus 5: Full Specs, Pricing, Release Date, Best Reviews So Far (& How to Get It ASAP)

The much awaited OnePlus 5 is finally upon us. For those that don’t feel like reading, see the video: OnePlus 5 Specs, Release Date, & Price Regardless of what number they gave it (they skipped 4 for those counting–it’s unlucky in Chinese culture), the new OnePlus device has a similar look (albeit a little sleeker) to older OnePlus devices. It’s now sporting a new Dual Camera setup, a crap ton of RAM (that is the technical term for the same amount of RAM as a laptop I’m testing), Snapdragon 835 processor, and more. Check out the full list of specs

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