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01/12/2024 7:10 pm

How to Get Unlimited Free Trials Using a "Real" Fake Credit Card Number

When I see the words "free trial," I know I'm probably going to have to whip out my credit card and enter in the number to "not get charged." Then I end up forgetting about the trial and want to kick myself in the ass when I see my statement at the end of the month. In order to avoid that rigmarole, ...more

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NEWS
07/25/2023 11:31 pm

Gift Guide: Must-Have Phone Accessories for Music Lovers & Audiophiles

With MP3 players all but dead, phones are now the dominant portable music devices. While smartphones have gotten better at this task over the years, they do have some glaring limitations when it comes to music. On the bright side, we can use these limitations to help find the perfect gifts for the a ...more

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06/13/2023 6:03 am

11 Upcoming iOS 17 Features Apple Copied from Android

While the iPhone came before the first Android smartphone, every new iOS version seems to include a wealth of features already existing on Android, and iOS 17 is no exception. Apple's currently beta testing iOS 17 with developers, with a public beta coming in July and a stable release in September m ...more

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01/19/2023 5:27 am

Record a Personal Alarm Sound or Message to Wake Up Hearing Your Own Voice

You can wake up to ringtones, music from streaming services, or downloaded audio files when setting alarms in Google's Clock app for Android, but that's not all. The latest feature lets you turn your own voice into an alarm sound, saying whatever it is you need to say to wake you up. The recent upda ...more

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12/13/2022 10:27 pm

Use Apple Music's New Sing Mode for Karaoke on Your iPhone Anywhere You Go

Apple just delivered an early Christmas present to Apple Music subscribers and karaoke fans in the form of Apple Music Sing, a singalong mode that lets you take over as lead vocalist for your favorite tracks. Until now, karaoke aficionados had to either go to karaoke night at their local bar and hop ...more

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10/25/2022 9:14 pm

How to Shuffle YouTube Music Playlists in the New Playlist UI

YouTube Music just refreshed the user interface for playlists, seemingly taking away the ability to shuffle the songs in your playlists. While the update has been rolling out for months, you might just be getting the updated look on your smartphone, and there's no giant "Shuffle" button like there w ...more

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10/21/2022 7:17 pm

The Best Wordle Spinoffs You Should Be Playing on Your Phone

There are two types of people in this world: those who recognize Wordle grids of yellow, green, and gray/black blocks and those who do not. No matter which category you fall in, there's a Wordle-inspired game that's perfect for you. The viral success of Wordle, the daily five-letter word guessing ga ...more

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05/18/2022 4:41 pm

15 Important Features and Changes in the iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5 Updates

Apple's latest iPhone and iPad software, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5, became available on May 16, so you can download and install it right now if you haven't already. While there aren't as many new features as iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 had, there are a few big ones in the U.S. you'll want to know beyond ...more

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04/11/2022 9:01 pm

Every App You Can Use FaceTime's SharePlay Feature with Right Now

SharePlay is arguably one of the most significant features to hit FaceTime since group calls, and it's still hard to find apps that support shared experiences in FaceTime. Apple does list a few apps, but there is no official index of all the apps with SharePlay integration. That's where we come in. ...more

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02/16/2022 7:39 pm

This Is How You Get Music in Your Instagram Stories

Music goes well with almost every Instagram story, but adding a particular song or soundtrack isn't the most obvious task if you've never tried before or haven't done so in a long time. Instagram Stories has supported embedded music since 2018, but some things have changed over the years. For one, y ...more

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02/02/2022 10:09 pm

How to Find and Favorite Songs That Now Playing Identified on Your Pixel

Your Pixel's Now Playing song discovery tool received a few updates in Android 12, and the feature is finally comparable to other music recognition services. The most significant upgrades for Now Playing on Google Pixel phones include the ability to favorite identified music and manually search for ...more

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09/22/2021 5:12 pm

Facebook Makes Portal Portable, Upgrades Portal Plus, & Adds Microsoft Teams

With the arrival of Facebook Ray-Ban Stories smartglasses commanding the recent spotlight, the tech world acted like it forgot about Facebook's first foray in consumer hardware — the Portal line of video calling devices. Well, this is how Facebook reminds you about Portal, with two new models and a ...more

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05/26/2021 11:45 pm

Could These 26 Features Show Up in iOS 15's Upcoming Beta? We Really Hope So

When Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, and other core Apple leaders take the stage for WWDC 2021 on June 7, we'll hear a lot about exciting new things to come. We're likely to see what's in store for watchOS 8 and macOS 12, but more importantly, we'll get a glimpse at what iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 will be like ...more

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05/24/2021 7:23 pm

The Secret to Typing in All Caps on Apple Watch

There's no default keyboard on the Apple Watch, but watchOS has another way to let you type text out for emails, messages, music searches, and more on the small display, and that's Scribble. With it, you simply draw letters and other characters on the screen with your finger, then your watch convert ...more

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05/21/2021 4:46 pm

You Can Now Download Spotify Songs & Podcasts on Your Apple Watch!

The Apple Watch is rapidly becoming a standalone device that you can use without an iPhone or internet connection, and Deezer and Spotify have just helped make that even more true by adding support for offline playback on the watch. Spotify has only offered streaming music on the Apple Watch since N ...more

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05/04/2021 9:05 pm

69 Cool New iOS 14.5 Features for iPhone You Need to Check Out Right Now

Your iPhone is full of features, many of which you might not even know about yet. Still, Apple keeps adding feature after feature with each new iOS update, and iOS 14.5 is no exception. The latest iOS version adds at least 69 features for your iPhone that you should be happy about. Apple's latest so ...more

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04/27/2021 7:19 pm

You No Longer Have to Say 'Spotify' for Siri to Play Music on Spotify

It's no secret that Apple and Spotify haven'texactlygottenalongin the past, but things are looking better than ever in iOS 14.5. For years, Spotify's platform felt very disconnected from the iPhone, mostly because of Siri incompatibility. Spotify even favored its own Voice assistant — which just got ...more

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04/19/2021 9:15 pm

If You Use Deezer, Siri Just Became Your New Best Friend

With its emphasis on well-rounded audible entertainment, Deezer gives all music and podcast fans the best of both worlds. As great as the app is, it's inconvenient to constantly tell Siri to play your music and podcasts through Deezer so that it doesn't default to Apple Music or Apple Podcasts inste ...more

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04/19/2021 9:14 pm

You Can Now Use Pandora with Siri Without Saying 'Pandora' All the Time

If Pandora is your primary music app on your iPhone, you know it can be frustrating to use with Siri. The digital assistant always wants to use Apple Music instead, so you need to specify that you want to play through Pandora with almost every request. That's now a thing of the past because iOS 14.5 ...more

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04/14/2021 7:32 pm

How to Get Spotify Premium Features on Android Without Paying a Dime

When you think of an online music service nowadays, Spotify is probably near the first that come to mind, and for good reason. Being able to create, share, and take all of your playlists anywhere, across all of your devices, is something that I couldn't live without. Unfortunately, nothing this good ...more

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NEWS
03/03/2021 6:33 pm

Apple Releases iOS 14.5 Public Beta 3 for iPhone, Adds New 'Items' Tab in Find My

Apple released the third public beta for iOS 14.5 today, Wednesday, Mar. 3. The update introduces a new "Items" tab in the Find My app that hints at the company's long-rumored "AirTags," a new Apple Watch icon when unlocking your Face ID iPhone with your watch, as well as small UI updates. This publ ...more

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03/03/2021 3:12 pm

Apple Releases iOS 14.5 Developer Beta 3 for iPhone

Apple released the third developer beta for iOS 14.5 today, Tuesday, Mar. 2. The company promptly pulled the update from the developer portal, before finally making it available for all shortly after. The update was surprising to begin with, since Apple released it at an unusual time, and was only a ...more

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02/25/2021 11:52 pm

The Not-So-Obvious Way to Use AirPods with Your Nintendo Switch or Switch Lite

The Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite are console gaming on the go — with zero regards for modern audio features. Headphone jack? Check. Bluetooth connectivity? Not so much. While Nintendo seems to think we're all happy to live like it's 2015, there's a way to use your AirPods with your Switch or Swit ...more

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02/01/2021 4:32 pm

Over 200 Widgets for Your iPhone's Home Screen

Chief among iOS 14's excellent new features is the overhauled home screen. Now, you can add customizable widgets that live alongside your traditional apps, and both first-party and third-party apps can take advantage of it. Talk about an upgrade. They even work in the Today View and lock screen, so ...more

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01/19/2021 12:05 am

These Customizable App Pickers Are Way Better Than Folders on Your Home Screen

If your iPhone's home screen is littered with apps in no discernible order, and you rely on muscle memory to locate one when you need it, it gets harder with each new app icon added. Folders can help organize the mess, but you can also create your very own app picker or group of app pickers. They ac ...more

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01/16/2021 1:24 am

This Top-Rated Audio & Video Production Bundle Is on Sale for $40

Long gone are the days when you needed a fancy recording contract to write and distribute a smash hit. Thanks to a growing number of increasingly powerful and affordable music production platforms, it's now entirely possible to create pro-level audio tracks and even accompanying videos in the comfor ...more

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12/29/2020 5:05 pm

Phish for Social Media & Other Account Passwords with BlackEye

Social media accounts are a favorite target for hackers, and the most effective tactics for attacking accounts on websites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are often based on phishing. These password-stealing attacks rely on tricking users into entering their passwords into a convincing fake we ...more

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12/24/2020 7:01 pm

How to Automatically Mute All Spotify Ads on Android

There are modded Spofity APKs floating around that essentially give you a Spotify Premium account for free, but the music streaming giant has been aggressively banning users who go this route. So if you're tired of listening to ads, but you don't want to do anything illegal, you'll want to know abou ...more

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12/15/2020 3:31 pm

NR30: Next Reality's 30 People to Watch in Augmented Reality for 2020

The year 2020 was a pivotal span of time during which the word "virtual" took on a brand new meaning. Instead of referring to VR or augmented reality, the term was hijacked to describe meeting across long distances through a variety of software tools, most often through video. But while the dominanc ...more

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12/09/2020 11:48 pm

14 Ways iOS 14 Makes Listening to Music Even Better on Your iPhone

Even though the Music app took a backseat during Apple's initial iOS 14 announcements, there's a lot going on in the updated app. Some of the new features and changes apply only to Apple Music subscribers, while others apply to your own music library, so there's something for everyone. There are als ...more

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11/20/2020 11:00 pm

Learn How to Build & Deploy Apps Fast with Django for Only $26

Everybody wants to build an app, but no one wants to start it from scratch. Building a full-blown application — or any other digital product for that matter — from the ground up entails some tedious work, which is why frameworks exist. Django, a Python-based framework, happens to be one of the best ...more

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11/12/2020 11:05 pm

How to Play Sound from 2 Apps at Once on Your Samsung Galaxy Phone

On a PC, you can play sound from multiple apps at once. It's great, but it can also be confusing — there's a volume slider in each app, then the system-wide one, and probably another knob on your speakers. To avoid this dysfunction, Android only has one sound stream for media. But that has its own p ...more

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11/02/2020 7:13 pm

The Trick to Listening to YouTube in the Background on Your iPhone or iPad

As an avid music fan, Spotify and Pandora only partially satisfy my needs on a day-to-day basis. When there's a certain obscure or underground band that I want to listen to, I'm relegated to using YouTube as my main music player source. While YouTube has an extraordinary collection of songs, there's ...more

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11/02/2020 7:12 pm

Use One App to Listen to Spotify, SoundCloud, & YouTube Music on Your iPhone

There are a lot of music apps on my iPhone's home screen, and the reason I have so many is because I can't get all of the songs I want from just one service. I use Spotify to listen to new releases, SoundCloud for remixes and unreleased tracks, and YouTube for just about anything else that isn't ava ...more

Audio playback interface for the song "Lonely (with Justin Bieber & Benny Blanco)" on a smartphone screen.
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10/15/2020 6:59 pm

Add 2020's Most Popular Songs to Your Snaps & Stories in Snapchat

Snaps are a great way to share the best moments of your day. So, don't those moments deserve a sick soundtrack? If you wanted to add music to your snaps in the past, you'd need to find a way to play the tunes in the background before recording a snap. That's no longer the case since you can now add ...more

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09/18/2020 12:02 am

iOS 14 Is a Snitch in the Best Way

In the tech world, our data is always under attack. When you download and install a new app, it can be difficult to know what information the app is actually accessing. Thankfully, a new emphasis on privacy in iOS 14 changes the game, exposing more of what your apps want access to — and even changin ...more

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09/08/2020 8:03 pm

Android 11 Changelog — Full List of All 50+ New Features

Android 11 is here. Prior to Google dropping the naming scheme, this would have been a dessert with an R name (maybe Rice Krispies Treat or Red Velvet Cake) — but nope, just plain ol' Android 11. And after months of betas and a global pandemic, it finally debuted a little over a year after Android 1 ...more

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08/19/2020 11:57 pm

This App Lets You Use Your iPhone to Control Your Mac

Your iPhone and Mac can speak to each other in many ways, allowing you to start work on one device and seamlessly switch to the other, share clipboards between the two, and pick up phone calls and answer text messages on both. The compatibility is incredible, but there's even more you can do by inco ...more