You have an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch, but you do not always want to be notified or disturbed by calls, text messages, and other types of notifications. You may be in a public place where you can not answer calls or messages, or you may just need some rest. The good news is that you can disable such notifications …
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Google Courts Advertisers with Virtual Makeup for YouTube, Immersive Display Ad Format, & 3D Editor for Poly «Mobile AR News :: Next Reality
Snapchat, Facebook, 8th Wall, and others draw attention to their platforms. This week, at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (http://www.socsoftware.com/), Google Unveiled a Trio of New Immersive Advertising Products with Appeal to Consumer Brands. Image via Google First up, Google is bringing a virtual makeup feature, dubbed AR Beauty Try-On, to creators and brands on YouTube, where makeup …
Read More »Disable Amber, Emergency, Public Safety, and other regulatory alerts on your iPhone to find peace and quiet. «Hacks for iOS and iPhone :: Gadgets
No, you probably should not turn off the amber, emergency, and public security alerts on your iPhone. These state notifications are used to warn you of impending natural disasters, active shooters and terrorist attacks. More often they ask for your help with child abduction. The warnings save lives, but it's still up to you whether you want them or not. …
Read More »The bikini gets its name from what unlikely source?
Hulton Archive / Wikimedia Answer: The Atomic Bomb In 1946, two different events overlapped one another in such a way that a swimsuit was forever attached to an island. The island in question is the Bikini Atoll, an annular coral reef island in the Pacific Ocean within the Republic of the Marshall Islands. There, the United States tested 23 nuclear …
Read More »Formatting WhatsApp Messages in Italic, Bold, Strikethrough, or Monospaced Text «Smartphones :: Gadget Hacks
If you are not a WhatsApp Pro user, you may be surprised to find that there are text formatting options that you can apply to your messages. Markdown characters allow you to highlight certain words or phrases by italicizing or bolding. You can even cross out words and change the font. This is one of those nice details that is …
Read More »Skype tired? How to delete your account using your Android or iPhone device «Smartphones :: Gadget Hacks
There are a number of reasons why you want to delete your Skype account. You may have decided to leave the app in favor of another service, such as WhatsApp or FaceTime, or you may wish to delete your account due to an online hack. Regardless of why you want to delete your Skype account, this is not as easy …
Read More »How to Block Spam with Android Messages «Android :: Gadget Hacks
With the growing popularity of smartphones, the number of spam calls has increased year by year. It is one of the most challenging tasks to take control even today, and to make matters worse, they like to use text messaging in the same way. You can block incoming calls, but what about these annoying spam text messages? You can just …
Read More »How to Change the Notification Sound and Ringtone in Facebook Messenger «Smartphones :: Gadget Hacks
If you hear a "ringing" on your phone, this may be a new notification for Facebook Messenger. Depending on how painful the noise is, the volume is adjusted loudly. Luckily you are not tied to this unique alarm option. So if you are dissatisfied with both this tone and the ringtone, you can change it to something else – a …
Read More »How to use Business Chat on your iPhone to securely interact with companies through iMessage's iOS & iPhone :: Gadget Hacks
Apple Announced Business Chat for the First Time at WWDC 2017, a New Way for Customers to Communicate with Businesses Apple has released iOS 11 in iOS 11.3, so that companies can offer customer service in a completely new way, and it works much the same way in iOS 12 and above. Some of the companies have done this support …
Read More »Adding Time and Place Labels to Media Files on WhatsApp for More Context «Smartphones :: Gadget Hacks
Popular messaging apps, such as Snapchat, have some time-limited features that let you place time and place-dependent stickers on photos and videos. To make up for this, WhatsApp has now extended its messaging platform with the same features to be among the most comprehensive messaging apps available. In addition to fun decorations like Emojis, the latest versions of WhatsApp for …
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