Apple may be open to letting users set their own default apps

Apple's insistence on gatekeeping certain actions of rival apps on iPhones and iPads has long been a source of contention among users. Clicking on web links or email addresses, for example, automatically takes you to Safari or Apple Mail, even if you...

Chrome will block HTTP content from loading on secure sites

In a move to improve user privacy and security, Google is simplifying its browser security settings. In a blog post, the Chrome security team said https:// pages will only be able to load secure (https://) subresources. The change won't happen overni...

Google Voice command may take frustration out of text messages

Google Voice is great for a number of things, in particular differentiating between the contacts worthy of your regular number and those you aren't quite there with yet. But as has become apparent recently, it's not great at sending text messages, es...

Xiaomi may be all set to launch a Smart TV

Reshu Rathi:

Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker that sold around 7 million android based handsets in the year 2012 alone, is now setting its sights on bigger and better things. The company has not officially stated the presence of a smart TV in its repertoire just yet though leaked images of the back end of a TV with the Xiaomi logo on it has been spotted by a Chinese tech website.

Xiaomi may be all set to launch a Smart TV
Xiaomi may be all set to launch a Smart TV

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Zoom H6 handy recorder is like a DSLR for audio

Reshu Rathi:

We live in a world of webcams and high tech videography equipment that is easily available in the market. As great and handy as these options are capturing video, they don’t really provide a fine audio recording experience. Even though most video cams record decent audio, they simply aren’t geared towards capturing great audio. And this lack of readily available voice recording equipment has led to the birth of the Zoom H6 handy recorder. A Zoom North America original, the recorder is one of the more advanced portable sound recorders on the planet and provides simultaneous recording on half a dozen tracks.

Zoom H6 handy recorder is like a DSLR for audio
Zoom H6 handy recorder is like a DSLR for audio

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Floating Boombox is retro only at heart

Reshu Rathi:

Owing a boombox was pretty much a rite of passage for teens and young adults in the 1980s and early 1990s. For the pre-walkman, CD player and mp3 player generation, boomboxes were the only form of entertainment that they could share with their peeps while hanging out. However, the modern generation of kids has become a lot more accustomed to keeping their music private which may be convenient for others that share the public space with them but it also kind of isolates them from society.

Floating Boombox is retro only at heart
Floating Boombox is retro only at heart

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