Most people think the war on advertisements in the latest iOS 9 release is about giving people more choice over their online browsing — it isn’t. Behind the scenes there is a tech. war going on between Apple and Google...
I’ve known malware exists on computers for almost as long as I can remember. Since the birth of smartphones back in 2007 with the iPhone 3G, we haven’t had to worry much about malware or viruses from a smartphone stand...
The Windows 10 Action Panel, otherwise known as the Quick Action Panel, does exactly that: lets you bring up a quick menu with various options available designed to make your most common tasks done with Windows more efficient. We&...
It’s not essential to have a custom recovery all of the time when gaining root access on your Android devices, but you’ll lose a large part of the benefits of having root access if you don’t choose to install a c...
The battle between TWRP recovery and ClockworkMod recovery will likely be forevermore. Most of those arguments usually stem from people who can choose between one of the two main custom recoveries. For example, those people with o...
Unlocking bootloader on OnePlus 2 is the single most important part to get your custom operations kicked off if you want to explore what else is out there in the Android world apart from running a stock ROM. Once you unlock bootlo...
As you probably know, the official iOS 9 release for Apple mobiles is now out and arriving to people’s devices over the air. If you don’t want to install the latest iOS 9 software update on your iPhone, iPad or iPod To...
The Motorola Moto X Play is another version of the Moto X that launched during August of this year. Coming with Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box, the Motorola Moto X Play is now able to be rooted on the same software version. S...
The Lenovo K3 Note just got notably more inviting now that it has a working rooting method. Before thinking about tinkering with the operating system on the Lenovo K3 Note by rooting it, you will have need to follow one of our gui...
Before getting root access on your Lenovo K3 Note, first you must learn how to install CWM recovery on Lenovo K3 Note — CWM (ClockworkMod) is a custom recovery — just like with most other Android devices. Once you have...
If you want to get away from the K3 Note stock Android ROM and start flashing some custom ROMs instead, you’ll need to install a custom recovery. The K3 Note has the two main custom recoveries available, including the CWM re...
Unlocking the bootloader of any Android device is the first step to take when wanting to tinker with the operating system — most commonly to gain root access to the internal system and install root-only apps from the Google ...
The following guide demonstrates how to install TWRP recovery on the Motorola Moto X Play smartphone. Once you have the custom recovery set up, you can then access it to upload zip files from the SD card to install custom ROMs. Th...
The following guide demonstrates how to get root on the Motorola Moto X Style (Pure). Once you have root access, you can easily install root-only apps to get more out of your device. REQUIREMENTS You can only use this guide on the...
The first thing you need to do when wanting to gain root access on your Moto X Style is installing a custom recovery. We have the popular TWRP recovery for you to flash today. REQUIREMENTS You must follow this guide on the Style (...
If you own the Sony Xperia Z and want to install a custom recovery, you might consider installing TWRP recovery. The following guide will teach you how to install the aforementioned custom recovery on the Sony Xperia Z. REQUIREMEN...
The more things change, the more things stay the same. Microsoft continually makes technological advancements with software and adds new features to upgraded versions of Windows. Nevertheless, Microsoft also likes to keep many of ...
If you aren’t going all-out with one of the Sammy flagships, you might as well check out something similar to the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime. These smartphones come with an up to date OS with Android 5.1 Lollipop, decent spe...
Most rooting guides require installing a custom recovery before gaining the rooting privileges. That’s exactly what we are doing here today, yet again with the Galaxy Grand Prime. Follow the guide after the drop to learn how...
The blue screen of death is an iconic error message from the Windows operating system that’s been around since Windows 95. It represents a fatal system error or system crash. They name it that way because it comes with a blu...
If you own one of the many Xolo mobile devices and want to transfer files from the device to the computer, you’ll need to first download the USB drivers for that. The USB drivers are needed for your device to talk to the com...
The official iOS 9 IPSW files are now available to download direct to your computer. Apple has made the firmware files for iOS 9 available so people can restore their devices through iTunes. This marks the final version of iOS 9 w...
Microsoft did all Windows 7 and Windows 8 users a good deed by offering them a free upgrade to Windows 10. In an effort to make upgrading easier, the Redmond company made the updates readily available from the OS and not the typic...
Windows 10 is the latest operating system from Microsoft. It comes as a free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1 users for the first year. The giant company has put a lot of effort in getting as much as machine to Windows 10. In latest ...
Do you often tinker with the OS of your device, but get stuck with complex procedures? Extracting files often has a requirement during how-to guides with mobile devices. Sometimes they can be as simple as right-clicking over the f...
If you are suffering from an unresponsive Windows 10 taskbar, or a slow Start menu, you don’t have to keep putting up with the problem. For some users, the problem is so bad that it makes the Start menu difficult to use at t...
If you would prefer removing the bloatware on your Samsung Galaxy S2 Duos TV smartphone, or would like to increase the performance, you should check out gaining root access to your device. The KingRoot app is a new universal one-c...
During my time as a how-to guide writer for websites, I cover many guides that require people to install APK files. Due to the already long nature of many of the guides, I don’t always go into detail about how to install APK...
An integral part of the Windows operating system is opening it up and allowing for multiple user accounts. That way when we are sharing a computer with our family or friends, we can have some privacy. More than that, having multip...
When it comes to error screens, Windows dishes out a few of them. One of the latest tends to sound pretty straight forward: ‘Something happened’, but is leaving people perplexed as to how to fix the issue. If you need...
After just showing you how to change the default browser in Windows 10, you might be interested in learning how to change the default search engine. For those who don’t already know, the web browser is what we use to literal...
Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 software comes with the new Edge browser, in a desperate attempt to try rebranding the old Internet Explorer browser by getting the negative opinions about the default browser that comes with Wi...
If you’ve managed to escape the invite system and end up with a OnePlus 2 handset already, you might be looking to gain root access so you can install custom ROMs or those lovely root-requiring apps. Here’s everything ...
Team Win’s TWRP recovery is the first custom recovery to make it out for the OnePlus 2 smartphone to go along with the root access. With a custom recovery fully installed, you are then able to start flashing zip files for up...
While most people are talking about how much of a game changer the latest iPhone 6S 3D touch display is, the first iOS 9 beta release comes with some revolutionary features of its own. Take the new emoji available that raises the ...
