How to Use Your Phone as a Webcam

How to Use Your Phone as a Webcam "Why would anyone want to use their phone as a webcam?" This was the most common reaction people had when we told them what we were trying to do, but there are actually some pretty good reasons to do this. For one, you can turn an old handset into a security camera or baby monitor which you can use without buying a brand new standalone...

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How to Record Calls on Your Smartphone

How to Record Calls on Your Smartphone A lot of our old feature phones had call recorders built right in, and this was extremely convenient if you needed to record a conversation for your job or just because you wanted to remember something important. While smartphones have made life simpler in most areas, this is one aspect in which they've gone backwards, since none...

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Ticks Have Really Ticked Us Off to Why WhatsApp Blue

Why WhatsApp Blue Ticks Have Really Ticked Us Off On Thursday, WhatsApp users across the world started noticing blue tick marks next to their messages. That of course was the roll out of read receipts for messages, so you can now see when a message has been sent (single tick), delivered (double grey tick), and once it's read, those tick marks turn blue. Look....

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Facebook Records Your Search History

Did You Know That Facebook Records Your Search History? Here's How to Delete It Every time you search for anything on Facebook - from looking up an ex (we've all been there), to searching for bands or searching for the Facebook page of your favourite celebrity - it is stored as a part of your Activity Log. All this activity is stored as private, visible only to you (and...

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What's New and Updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop

What's New and Updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop Google previewed 'Android L' at its Google I/O developer event in June, and since then, developers and consumers have awaited the final version, which was finally announced on Wednesday as Android 5.0 Lollipop. The company also launched the platform lead devices for Android 5.0 Lollipop, namely the Nexus...

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twitter stock earnings

twitter stock earnings Surprise! Twitter is not Facebook   Twitter stock tumbles on weak user growth NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Remember how much fun the World Cup was this summer? Unfortunately for Twitter, there isn't a global soccer football tournament every quarter. Shares of Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) plunged 10% Tuesday...

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Five banks fined more than $3 billion in currency probe

Five banks fined more than $3 billion in currency probe How big banks broke the rules Five banks have agreed to pay $3.38 billion in fines to global regulators to resolve allegations that they attempted to manipulate foreign exchange rates. Citibank (C), HSBC (HSBC), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), RBS (RBS)and UBS (UBS) will...

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Why are we still using Social Security numbers to identify ourselves

Why are we still using Social Security numbers to identify ourselves   I lived on bitcoin for 24 hours NEW YORK (CNNMoney) So far this year, hackers have stolen more than 6.5 million Social Security numbers, CNNMoney has found. That's the absolute bare minimum. It's likely much more than that. Getting at the exact number of stolen SSNs is difficult....

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