NetNewsWire is an open-source project with an interesting history. The developers released a Mac version last year, and last month, NetNewsWire v5.0 made a debut on the App Store. Meanwhile, every version of Reeder has been appreciated by avid fans of the app and RSS feeds. Confusion on picking the best out of the two is natural. That’s why we’re highlighting the key differences in this comparison. Cross-Platform Availability Both the Reeder and NetNewsWire are only available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac....

On the other hand, OxygenOS from OnePlus often gets lauded as one of the best custom UI experiences. And it keeps getting better with each successive update. So, how do the two compare? Well, that’s exactly what we’re here to find out. Before we get to it, let me give you a brief overview of the devices I’ll be using for this comparison: In the red corner, we have the OnePlus 6T, packing in a Snapdragon 845, 8GB of RAM, and running OxygenOS v9....

how you could enjoy some of the best Nintendo handheld games by playing them on your Mac via Gameboy and Gameboy Advance emulator apps. This time, we’ll focus on Nintendo’s home consoles, showing you how to play, NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64 and even Nintendo Gamecube games on your Mac the same way. Ready to get started? Great. But first, a reminder… Important Note: To use these emulators you need games....

According to new study by researchers at Google, CloudFlare, Merit Networks, Akamai and other universities, the Mirai Botnet attack last October on DNS provider Dyn might actually be targeting the PlayStation Network (PSN). The research which was presented at the Usenix Security Symposium, Vancouver, has suggested that the DDoS attack conducted via the Mirai botnet was meant to disable PlayStation Network services as all the IP addresses targeted by the attack were name servers for the PSN....

There is a method you can use to make an older Mac compatible with AirDrop and other Bluetooth 4.0 features, which we have shown you in this article. However, this method is not too simple, and if you update your Mac or reinstall the OS, then this workaround becomes obsolete. Thankfully, the free iOS app, Pocket Drive (free with in-app purchases) now provides users like me with what Apple would not....

Arrow launcher is in beta stage and one needs to join the Google+ community to request an invite and that would enable you to download the app from the Play Store. But there is an option of direct download for the user who would like to install it and get started. Working on Arrow Launcher After installing the app, I have three prominent screens. The main screen at the center is for the apps....

Microsoft’s Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows XP was a fantastic tool to resize photographs right from the explorer’s context menu. It made it very easy for a user to reduce the size (by altering the resolution) of raw photographs which were shot using a high quality digital camera, thus making it easy to upload and send them using email. The above program worked only in Windows XP. It was later cloned by a developer to offer same photo resizing features for users on Windows 7....

It’s the first phone to have the Social Camera interface, specially designed for India, which makes social sharing and discovering a breeze. But that’s not the only gimmick that the Galaxy J7 Max boasts of. The 13-megapixel camera is coupled with a wide aperture of f/1.7 which results in bright and vivid pictures. But it would be a shame if we couldn’t utilize the camera app to its 100%, right?...

Even though recent devices like the S7 and S7 Edge have received various accolades, Samsung still haven’t the best year in terms of sales. Sure, things have improved since the S5 failure, but there’s still a long way to go. The Korean giant sees offering their high-end phones for lower prices as an opportunity to compete with Chinese players without compromising on the quality of their offerings. To Buy or Not to Buy Even though exact details are still not out, we can be assured that at least the top-end S series of phones as well as Note series can be sold as refurbished products for far less....

is one of the most common and essential things that we do on the web . I agree that Google is the de facto way of searching the internet but that’s only when we don’t have a clue where to look for. Suppose you want to search about a movie and read the reviews it has got. You would probably prefer jumping on directly to a site like IMDb for this, right?...

The goal of this nifty application is to measure your Windows startup time as well as the time taken to launch individual applications and then, using its innovative PC Genome database to decide which applications can be removed from your startup sequence, which ones can be paused to start later and of course, which ones cannot be modified (for example, your antivirus program). This software, currently is free for home use as a beta install....

Here is where the Finance apps chime in. You can simply add the relevant details such as spending amount, date, and choose a relevant category and have the software do the heavy lifting for you. Both the App Store and Google Play Store are packed with some of the best finance apps. We have already covered the top five finance apps. In this post, I’m going to talk about two of my personal favorite ones: Spendee and Wallet....

fighting censorship of the internet , and on the other hand we see messages on some video streaming sites saying the content is not available for your province and country. Thanks to workarounds, most of which we have covered on Guiding Tech , we can watch these videos no matter where we are. However, most of these were VPN based services and either they were a paid service or free ones with limitations....

For private emails you are probably using services like Gmail, Outlook.com and Yahoo Mail. In such cases you do not have to worry about the syncing thing. However, there are people like me who have merged all these accounts using a desktop email client like Outlook. Cool Tip: Ever wanted to sync Windows Sticky Notes across all your computers? Here’s our guide to help you set up. Now, the problem is that there are no exchange servers for such private versions of email clients (actually, that would cost a lot)....

Synchtube lets you do exactly that. You can share any YouTube video and chat with your friends in real-time while the video plays. You can join public or private chat room, add a video and invite other friends to join you. If you are creating a private room, you will be assigned as leader of your room. As the leader, you can play or pause the video, and your friends would be notified on their screen about your action....

Lockscreen Pro for Windows To get started, download Lockscreen Pro on your computer. Lockscreen Pro is a portable program and comes archived as a zip file. Extract the file on your computer before you start configuring it on first use. The lockscreen layout of Lockscreen Pro completely resembles to that of Windows 8 and you can add information like battery percentage and current system time to it. The program comes with some default backgrounds you can choose from, or browse through local folders and select one....

Yep, you read that right. The Essential Phone features a modular 360-degree camera along with the world’s tiniest dual camera setup. This modular accessory can be taken off and on as required with minimum fuss. But then, 360 cameras have been with us for the past couple of years. So, here comes the important question. How is the Essential Phone’s 360-degree Camera Different? As pointed out by Xiaoyu Miao, head of optics and imaging in Essential, “The 360 camera captures the entire world around the user, which fundamentally changes how we take a picture”....

Most of us know our way around some of those regular recipes (read Maggi), but then there are certain days when we don’t feel like eating the regular food. That’s when we turn to the recipe catalogs. And to save up on time and energy, better to turn to your ever-helpful smartphone to teach you cooking. But the same old dilemma — so many apps to choose from. Worry not, we have you covered....

And it’s not far off. Reddit started as a simple website for sharing links, which users up vote and down vote and ultimately the best content makes it to the front page. It remains that same simple site at its core, but I am sure most of you would agree that in the past few years, it has transformed from being a content sharing platform to a phenomenon. Heck, movies are being made on Reddit response....

Instagram set a new standard with its advanced photo filters and social focus. Many apps have tried to catch up since then, but Flickr, a photo website from Yahoo that not long ago was revered as the best of its kind, lagged behind with an app that was sub-par… until now. Flickr just released a new, completely revamped iPhone app and has provided it with a series of changes that make it definitely worth considering for any photo aficionado....