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The Bacon Camera app is designed for LG G3 (requires stock Android 6.0 marshmallow) and OnePlus One (requires Cyanogen OS 12.1 and above) and lets you take good photographs with manual focus control, manual white balance, exposure, manual ISO speed and with support for RAW image (DNG) format. The LG G3 comes with a laser-focused 13MP camera with Optical image stabilization for improved image clarity. The OnePlus One also has 13-MP camera with a six-element lens for better photography....

The e-book Linux From Scratch gives you a simple to understand, step-by-step instruction for creating Linux system from scratch. It is from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the source code of software that you need. This e-book has 318 pages and “users can dictate all aspects of their system, including directory layout, script setup, and security. The resulting system will be compiled completely from the source code, and the user will be able to specify where, why, and how programs are installed....

Hide/Unhide Windows 8 Ribbon Explorer With shortcut key: If you don’t like Ribbon Explorer, you can simply hide and unhide it with the shortcut key Ctrl + F1. Disable Ribbon Explorer in Windows 8 via Group Policy Editor: You can disable the Ribbon Explorer permanently using group policy settings, which allow you to disable Explorer Ribbon and start Windows with the ribbon minimized. Follow the procedure below. Step 1: Click Win + R key to open Run command box and type gpedit....

This new theme pack contains 19 stunning Bing wallpapers and can be downloaded free from Windows personalization gallery. You can also download Bing’s Best and Bimg’s Best 2 at the same location. For Windows XP and Vista users: You can extract the wallpapers from the theme pack for your desktop. You can use 7zip or such programs for extracting the images. Download Bing’s Best 3

Samsung Galaxy A90 5G has also features new beautiful wallpapers that you can download to beautify your phone. The wallpapers are available in FHD+ resolution (2400×2400 pixels) and include Galaxy A90 5G default wallpapers as well. Download the wallpapers from below link in zip format, unzip it and use your phone’s home screen wallpaper. Samsung Galaxy A90 5G comes packed with flagship processor Snapdragon 855, 6GB RAM, 128GB storage, 6....

Enable flash in IE10 Metro on Windows 8 and Windows RT – From classic desktop, run Internet Explorer 10 and press Alt button on keyboard. From the “Tools” menu, select “Compatibility View Settings” and uncheck the option “Download updated compatibility list from Microsoft”. [If this checkbox is checked, IE will override your custom whitelist back to default on each reboot] – Then, go to “C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IECompatData”. There you will see “iecompatdata” xml file....

Mozilla’s plan don’t stop at the 5th version of Firefox, the company revealed that Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 will be released in the 2011 calendar year with new features and security enhancements. Though it is uncertain that what new features Mozilla’s plans for upcoming build of Firefox, features such as Home Tab instead of Home button, in-built PDF reader as in Chrome, improved security and sharing feature, improved video integration as well as the performance of plug-ins and add-ons may be included in the coming builds....

What is new in Firefox 7? Reduced memory consumption. Mozilla’s MemShring project doubles Firefox’s startup speed. New rendering backend to speed up HTML5 canvas operations on Windows Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync feature. Support for CSS3 text-overflow: ellipsis (additional way for developers to display CSS 3 text that overflows the layout area). Support for the Web Timing specification: Enables developers to measure page load time and site navigation....

To help you, Paranoid Android team comes up with a ‘0-day initiative’ GApps package for Android 4.3 and above ROMs, which make your life much easier. The Paranoid Android team updates the package as soon as Google releases new variants. The GApps package includes all Google apps such as Play Store, Maps, Hangouts, Photosphere Camera, Calendar, Search, Play Music, Google Wallet, Gmail, YouTube, Google+, Google Experience Launcher, and more. The apps are completely untouched and a number of different versions of the packages are available....

Recently Google released Android 8.0 Oreo update for Pixel and Nexus devices and also made available Android Oreo Source code. Developers are now busy building ROM based on Oreo and many devices, including the Galaxy S5 have already got Android 8.0 Oreo build via unofficial LineageOS 15 (official LineageOS 15 is not yet released). An XDA member afaneh92 has released an initial build of LineageOS 15 ROM for Samsung Galaxy S5, which you can install via TWRP recovery....

For your information, earlier this month Xiaomi launched the same device in China (it is Redmi Note 5 in China) with MIUI 9.5 based on Android 8.1 Oreo. Some owners of Redmi Note 5 Pro Global variant installed the build (MIUI V9.5.4.0.OEICNFA) on their device and found that it bring Project Treble compatibility to the device. Project Treble is an Android Oreo feature that addresses slow software update schedule of handsets....

You can install OmniROM Launcher on any phone running on Android 4.4 KitKat. Two main features of this KitKat based launcher is its support for custom icon packs and custom hotword detection. Here is how to install and use OmniROM Launcher. Download the launcher apk (download the apk from source link given at the end of this post) and install it. Once installed, long press on the home button, select “Launcher 3”, and make it your default launcher....

There are two types of “status” (timestamp) in WhatsApp: ‘Online’ and ‘Last Seen’. Based on these two timestamps, your contacts can know your presence and activity on the app. For some reasons you might want to hide the ‘Last Seen’ timestamp in WhatsApp. That is at which time you went offline in WhatsApp. Just follow below guide. Instruction (Android): Update your WhatsApp to latest version and launch it. Tap the menu button (at top-right-hand corner) and choose ‘Settings’ option....

Though the Pixel/Pixel XL comes with Android 7.1 Nougat preinstalled, the software is a little different to normal. For example, the Swipe for Notification, Pixel Launcher, Google Assistant, etc. are not an Android 7.1 feature. You will not get these features by simply updating your non-Pixel device to Android 7.1. [However, there are various methods to get all these features on non-Pixel phones and we have already covered them in previous posts] The Swipe for Notification gesture makes it super simple to view your notifications....

Windows 11 22H2 has six hidden education themes reserved for students using Windows 11 devices in schools. These light and dark themes come with new wallpapers and accent colors. Interested users can enable the hidden education theme on their devices as instructed below to give a refreshing look to their device. ALSO READ: How to Enable macOS Like Quick Look Feature on Windows 11 How to Enable Education Themes in Windows 11 22H2?...

But Opera (10.5) has a new private browsing feature that the other browsers currently missing. In Opera you can open a site in private browsing mode in a new tab while you are in normal browsing mode. Here is how to enable Private Browsing Mode in Opera 10.50 and above. Opera supports private browsing mode both in tabs and windows. To open a private browsing in tabs: Right click on tab’s “+” icon and select New Private Tab....

When you are checking for a new software update on your Xiaomi or Redmi phone, sometimes you may end up with the error message ‘Can’t connect to the network’. There are two reasons for this issue. Most often, this type of error is related to network connection (Wi-Fi or LTE connection), so first check connection and speed. If the internet connection is choppy on your phone, check the reason or reset the network settings by going to Settings > Network & Internet....

Even after carrying out the OTA update roll out, some phone will not show up the system update notification. To combat this situation, Android phone has an option to manually check for the update via its Settings menu, but most often this method simply does not work. However, there is another method to force your phone to download OTA update – this is by clearing data on Google Services Framework app....

Moto Z owners can now get Android P Developer Preview 4 (Beta 3) on their device unofficially. Here’s how to install it. Recognized XDA contributor Efanoabdi has modified the Android P Developer Preview system image to work on Moto Z since the first launch. Modified Android P Developer Preview 4 has been released for the device, which you can download and install as described below. According to the developer, everything is working in this build including Boots, RIL (Calls, SMS, Data), Fingerprint, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Camera, Video Playback, Audio, Sensors, Flash, LED, and GPS except Flashlight and VoLTE....

For your information, first Android P Developer Preview was released two months back for Google Pixel series devices. There will be 5 Developer Preview versions for Android P and the stable build will be released in Q3 of this year. There is no information whether the Moto Z will get official Android P update, but you can expect custom ROM like Lineage OS. Comes to the ported Android P Developer Preview for Moto Z, the developer has tested the ROM on Moto Z running LineageOS 15....