If I told you that people who use emojis in their conversations have more sex than plain-text users, would you believe me? According to a recent study launched by Match.com, men and women that use emojis have more sex than those who do not. If you were looking for an excuse to increase your emoji output, you may not find a better one than that. To make your emoji typing as smooth and seamless as possible, I’m going to show you how to create shortcuts in iOS 8 for all your favorite use cases. That way, you don’t have to switch to the Emoji keyboard every time you want to add a smiley or thumbs… more

The more we use our smartphones, the more storage space becomes occupied—it’s an inescapable fact. But as the data accumulates and chokes off our storage, it can become difficult to identify exactly which files are occupying the most space.

So the development team at Nextrad Software came up with an app that puts a unique spin on file browsing. In sorting files by size and presenting the results in an easy-to-read format, their app can make short work of identifying and deleting the largest files that are stored on your system.
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Step 1: Install DataSize Explorer

Nextrad’s unique file… more

These days, using the power button to lock your Android seems a little old-fashioned. Thanks to third-party apps and mods, you could seamlessly lock your device using a double-tap, a swipe, and even gravity, or you could just throw it in your pocket, all of which help prevent additional wear and tear on your power button. Now, we’ve got another method for you—just shake.
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Step 1: Get Your Device Ready

Firstly, let’s ensure that your device is prepared. You will need to be running Android 4.0 (Jelly Bean) or higher. You’ll also need to be rooted, have the Xposed Framework installed… more

Welcome back, my tenderfoot hackers!

Hacker newbies have an inordinate fixation on password cracking. They believe that cracking the password is the only way to gain access to the target account and its privileges. If what we really want is access to a system or other resources, sometimes we can get it without a password. Good examples of this are replay attacks and MitM attacks. Neither requires us to have passwords to have access to the user’s resources.

Another way to gain access to a user’s account, resources, and privileges is through capturing or impersonating the user’s tokens.

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The biggest pet peeve of many Google Now users has always been the fact that you can’t toggle basic system functions with voice commands. In fact, this was such an annoyance that folks even went so far as to apply root mods to get the functionality.

Well, we’re happy to report that Google has finally integrated this functionality into Google Now. Voice commands are now capable of toggling Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and even the LED flashlight on Android 5.0 Lollipop devices.
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No setup is required to access these features on your Lollipop device. Just say “Okay Google,” followed by the command… more

Contacts on your phone can be messy. Keeping all of those numbers, emails, and addresses organized takes time and, even then, they still may not be be as accessible as you want them to be.

Drupe, an application currently in beta for Android, drastically improves the native way of going through your contacts. Use Drupe to access contacts from anywhere on your device, organized neatly and ready for you to interact with, not only through phone calls and text messages, but also for Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp, and other apps.
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Step 1: Get Early Access to Drupe

Using the Google account… more

One of the most mind-blowing meals I ever ate occurred when I was 12 years old. The main course and sides were good, if unmemorable, but my jaw dropped during dessert when my friend’s mother whipped out a blowtorch—as in a bona fide welding torch from the hardware store—to finish off the crème brûlée.

Keep in mind that this was years before competitive cooking became a fixture on TV shows and in people’s kitchens. So to watch Mrs. Doyle heft a bulky metal tool (while wearing a welding mask!) and ply a live blue flame to the tops of a French custard dish to get it to caramelize properly was… more

Android Lollipop has an awesome feature called “Battery saver” mode that reduces power consumption through various tweaks in order to squeeze in an extra hour or two of standby time when your battery is running low. It does this by disabling background processes as well as location services and transition animations, so the phone is essentially running at half-throttle.

In case users forgot that they had enabled Battery saver mode, Google decided to make the status and navigation bars bright orange while the feature is turned on. Their thinking here was that if your system bars were such a… more

Whenever you buy a newer iPhone model, you get a set of Apple EarPods with remote and microphone built-in. Aside from their comfortable design and high-quality sound they provide, these headphones offer additional functionality beyond just pausing and playing music.

Below is the complete list of things you can use your Apple-branded headphones for on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, whether they’re EarPods, In-Ear Headphones, or just regular Earphones (previously called Earbuds). The only requirement is that they have to have a remote and mic.
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Google’s Chrome Web Store is packed to the brim with extensions that do everything from letting you customize Facebook to improving your Google+ experience. While there are thousands of extensions for basically anything you can think of, the problem is sifting through them all.

With that in mind, we’ve decided to do some of the leg work for you in regard to YouTube. If you’re an avid YouTube user and want to improve your experience when watching videos, these are our top 5 favorite Chrome extensions you should try out on your computer.

#1: Automatic HD, Video Filters, Cinema Mode, Replays… more