Apple iPhone Mobile Phone Comparison – All iPhones from the Phone X to the iPhone 13 iPhone History: 2017 The year 2017 marked the first time Apple introduced more than two handsets at the same event. The iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Pro made their debut at the media event on September 12 that had the tagline, “Let’s meet at our place.” Also making a debut was the Apple Watch Series 3 and Apple TV 4K....

The Grooviest April Fool’s Jokes of 2013 Virgin America’s Glass-bottomed Plane Virgin has successfully come up with a way to make airplane flights even more terrifying. This plane features in-flight verti-go-go. Toshiba Announces Next “Next-Generation” Console Watch out Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. Toshiba is packing serious hardware. groovyPost’s Miracle Fix For Every Computer Problem Possible 12 core 3.5 Ghz Processors 8192 MB GDDR5 RAM Graphics Card 809.3b Infrared Motion Detection 1080p Full HD 7....

That’s correct; no matter what you might have read somewhere else on the internet, it’s not possible to download Netflix content on your Mac at the time of this writing. And yet, there are two workarounds worth considering. One of these is easier to do than the other, as you will see below. Download Netflix Content on Mac Netflix users have long been allowed to watch Netflix content on MacBooks and Mac desktops....

Right click on the Desktop and select New » Shortcut. Type: shutdown.exe -s -t 00 then Click Next. Give the shortcut a name such as Power Off or Shutdown. The Shutdown shortcut appears on the Desktop. Right click it and select Properties. The Shutdown Properties windows opens. Select the Shortcut tab and click Change Icon. Now select the icon you want to use. Here I’m picking the familiar power off icon....

Here’s a look at the default Windows 8 Start screen with Live Tiles. To customize the look, you can now what are called Tattoos. To add them, hover the mouse in the lower right corner to pull up the charms bar or use the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + C. Select Settings. Then click Change PC Settings. Now under PC Settings, select Personalization. On the right, click Start Screen to customize the color and add tattoos....

Disabling Auto-Play Videos in Popular Mobile Apps Mobile apps are becoming notorious for auto-play videos. The options here won’t be comprehensive, but for the apps that you often use like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, here are some tips to help you out. If you are using an app such as Snap Chat, which is heavily video-based, you will probably have to accept the trade-offs. But with YouTube, sometimes you can get away with watching a couple of videos now and then....

Disney Star Launches Internationally Here is what Disney is saying about the launch of its Star launch: The Star brand serves as home to thousands of hours of movies and shows from Disney General Entertainment Content, including Disney Television Studios (ABC Signature and 20th Television), FX Productions, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and more. From comedies to dramas and thrillers, Star offers a range of titles for everyone and every mood, including fan-favorite TV series like Grey’s Anatomy, 24, The X-Files, Lost and Family Guy....

Winners: Facebook – No matter how you spin it, Facebook just raised a ton of cash that it can now use to begin the next phase of its world domination. By this measure, and it’s the only measure likely to matter to Zuckerberg and friends, the IPO was a huge success. Skeptics – Were you one of the people looking at Facebook’s price to earnings ratio and trying to tell everyone willing to listen that $40 per share was an absolutely crazy price?...

To activate it, go to this Facebook page in Firefox 17 — the latest updated version — and click Turn On. You’ll get a notification about the Facebook Messenger for Firefox being turned on. Now, no matter which site you visit, you’ll have the Facebook sidebar, allowing you to chat with your Facebook friends. Just as you would on the Facebook website. The top side also gives you notifications of your friends’ activity....

According to AllThingsD, quoting sources familiar with the matter, Facebook is planning its own app that’s similar to Snapchat. Why is Snapchat a Sexting App? Snapchat is a mobile app for Android and iOS that allows users to send photo messages that self-destruct after a few seconds of time that the sender sets. For example, you can send a photo and the recipient can only see it for three seconds, with the max time being 10 seconds....

Find Battery Draining Apps on Windows 10 To get started, make sure your laptop is unplugged and head to Settings > System > Battery Saver to see the overview of current battery life and other options. Under the Overview section, click the “See which apps are affecting your battery life” link. On the next screen, you can scroll down the list and see which apps use the most battery power. You can select to show the battery use history of the past six or 24 hours or the past week....

Windows 10’s Lock Screen has several new and useful features compared to previous versions. It offers a lot of options by default as well as ways you can tweak settings to customize it to work best for you. Turn Off Lock Screen Ads One thing I think most people can agree on is that seeing ads on your lock screen is not a good thing. For example, in the screenshot below you can see the company is advertising its own Microsoft Edge browser....

First off you’ll need a few tools. The first one is called Odin, it’s a utility for your computer that lets you flash custom Android roms to your phone. The second thing is a copy of the stock rom. Items you’ll need to download to your computer: Odin3 v1.85 (XDA Page) — (Download mirror 1) [199KB]Epic Touch 4G EL29 Stock Rom (Download mirror 1) — (Download Mirror 2) [521MB]Samsung USB drivers for Windows (Download mirror 1) [22MB]...

Open the Windows 8 Charms Bar The Windows 8 Charms menu replaces many of the options found in the Windows 7 Start Menu. Nevertheless, this is an important menu for navigating through Windows 8. Here are four different methods to bring it up quickly. The most reliable way to open the Charms menu on a laptop is using the keyboard. The other three methods involve pointing the mouse or swiping a touch screen....

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What I like to use them for is to keep my Outlook.com experience free of ads like shown in the screenshot below. Ad-free Outlook.com with Bing Rewards You could pay $19.99/year for Ad-free Outlook.com but free is always better. You will, of course, need to sign up for the Bing Rewards program, which is a simple process. Then after you’ve accumulated a decent amount of points, select Redeem from the dropdown menu....

Privacy and security features are usually an afterthought for Facebook users, but Facebook looks to be changing that image. Facebook Privacy Checkup The company announced the rollout of its Privacy Checkup tool this week. It allows you to review and control who you’re sharing your personal data with. it’s simple to run, and you’ll find it under the Privacy shortcut on the Facebook menu bar. As it’s rolling out to all accounts though, you should see a message pop up urging you to check it out....

Even avid Android enthusiasts miss this not-that-obvious UI convenience. Just slide your finger over a contact from the to left or right. Now enter contacts through the contact app or by using your phone’s dialer and pressing the Contacts tab. Here’s a short video that shows you how you do it. This feature is not available for stock Android, sadly. While I’m at it, I might as well thank you all for the quality content you provide here on GroovyPost ;-) Thanks for the kind words and for reading!...

This morning Google posted some of their employees favorite Android Tips and Tricks for their new Nexus S mobile phone or Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Normally I would just mention the article and send you on your way with a link however over the last few weeks I’ve been going through some old posts finding a lot of dead links. With this in mind, today I’m going to plagiarize the article (providing 2 backlinks of course) to make certain this data doesn’t get lost sometime in the future....

In a nutshell, Google Goggles lets you run visual searches by taking snapshots of stuff IRL (do people still use that acronym?). Its functionality and potential is best explained in this video: Wanna give it a whirl? Google Goggles for the iPhone is built right into the Google Mobile app. So, if you haven’t already, grab or update the free Google Mobile iPhone app from the App store that was released today....