Honor Band Zero review: UK price and availability Our Honor Band Zero was supplied by GearBest, which offers the watch in black, white or Khaki (more like cream) for £45.98. Shipping is free if you’re prepared to wait (faster paid options are available), but keep in mind that any tech you have shipped from China to the UK may incur import duty. Before you buy we advise you read our article on the pros and cons of buying grey-market tech....
Will be enough to pull out a lead in the Facebook Stories vs Snapchat battle? We take a look. Read next: Snapchat Spectacles review How do I check I’ve got the latest version of Snapchat? To see the new lenses you’ll need the latest update of Snapchat on your phone. iOS iPhone users need to go to the Apple App store and tap on the Updates tab at the bottom of the screen....
We explain how often you should restart your laptop, and how often you should restart your smartphone or tablet. How to use less power, and keep your laptop, PC, smartphone and tablet running well. How often should you restart your smartphone? The short answer is: not often at all. Smartphones are designed to remain on all the time, broadly speaking. After all, the idea of a ‘mobile phone’ is that you can always be contacted....
BT’s Home Hub 5 is a surprisingly good bundled router. It’s more attractive than most, supports BT Infinity (VSDL) fibre broadband without needing a separate modem and also has 802.11ac Wi-Fi – the latest standard. We gave it a recommended award in our Home Hub 5 review. However, you should make a couple of changes to its settings to get the best from it. Out of the box it performs reasonably well, but for some reason, BT decided it would be a great idea to give both the 2....
How to change your Gamertag First up, the easiest thing to change in your Xbox account is the Gamertag, though you may have to pay a fee. If your Gamertag was generated for you when you made your account, you can change it once for free. If you came up with it yourself, you’ll be charged for any changes. At the moment, the fee is £7.99 per Gamertag change, so you might want to make sure you’re happy with the new one before you commit to a change....
We’re using Documents, which makes it quick and easy to download directly onto your iPhone or iPad. We also explain explain whether it is legal to download YouTube videos. Documents app On your device, go to the App Store and search for “Documents by Readdle”. This is a free file management app that’ll let you download YouTube videos. Once installed, launch Documents and tap the bottom-right icon that looks like the Safari icon (a compass)....
‘Unfortunately X has stopped’: What does it mean? The error message itself is self-explanatory. It means an app has crashed. Also see: How to permanently delete unwanted apps: free up space on your device by getting rid of unnecessary apps So you could just relaunch the app, but what should you do if you keep seeing the same error message? How to fix ‘Unfortunately Samsung Galaxy has stopped’ error message We’re using ‘Samsung Galaxy’ as an example here because we’re aware of it being a particular issue of late....
A new operating system is always going to have teething troubles, and it will be no different with Windows 10. There’s a vast range of hardware out there, spanning almost a decade (in some cases even older). So, there’s always going to be a chance a driver will be missing when you update to Windows 10. But you shouldn’t worry. Here’s why. How to get drivers for Windows 10: automatic driver installation As with playing games in Windows 10, it’s important to understand that the new OS is backwards compatible with Windows 7 and 8....
It can be pretty frustrating trying to have a phone call with someone and you can only just catch what they’re saying if you try really hard and put your finger in your other ear. A lot of the time you’re probably better off just having a conversation over text message. Increasing the call volume on your phone is really simple, though and should solve this problem. How to increase in-call volume in iOS, Android and Windows Phone You’ve probably been searching through your settings menu to find some kind of in-call control or volume slider but you won’t have found one because there simply isn’t one....
Chromebooks are excellent devices that offer great value and a surprising amount of capability. This can be increased by the addition of Android apps, many of which can run on Chromebooks, albeit with a little help. Google recently announced the App Runtime for Chrome, which allows developers to adapt their Android apps to Chrome OS. So far four official apps have been released using this runtime – Evernote, Duolingo, Vine, and Sight Words – but with some effort it’s possible to get a lot more of them using this feature....
There are loads of videos on YouTube showing you how to make a hologram projector for your phone. Most of them involve the use of graph paper, a craft knife, a CD case, a ruler, actual maths and other bits and bobs that you may or may not be allowed to play with unsupervised. (I’m 32 and I still can’t be trusted with a craft knife.) Our idiot’s guide to creating a hologram projector for your phone requires simply a pair of scissors, a piece of sellotape, a marker pen and a bit of seethrough plastic that’s flimsy enough to bend (and easy to cut), and sturdy enough not to fall apart....
For this you’re going to need help from outside sources. We show you how to use third-party software to move Whatsapp from iPhone to Android. Transferring WhatsApp using WazzapMigrator Yes, we know that the name of this app harks back to those annoying Budweiser ads from the early 2000s, but don’t let that put you off. WazzapMigrator is a great way to transfer your content from one platform to another....
Here, we’ll explain what you need to do to print pictures at just the right size. Borderless printing limitations Unless you have a ‘photo’ printer, you might be stuck with small white borders around the edge of the picture even if the print preview in software shows it completely covering the paper. That’s because a lot of printers simply don’t support ‘borderless printing’. So, you need to check your printer’s manual, or dig around in the Printing Properties settings to see if you can enable fully borderless printing....
Before you head off to create compressed or other smaller versions of your pictures, bear in mind that if you want to preserve the original quality and format of the image you can use a large file sharing service instead. These allow you to upload the file then send a link to your intended recipient who can download it directly from the service. For more details on how this all works, take a look at how to send large files for free....
How to send secure emails To properly secure email messages you need to encrypt two things: the connection from your email provider, and the email itself. The first stops messages being probed as they send, encrypting the email itself means that any intercept will be foiled. First we’ll secure the connection between your email provider and your computer. You need to set up Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption....
You might be tempted to start using it as soon as possible, but a word of caution: this may mean you’re without access to some of your favourite apps or vulnerable to viruses and other malware. Frustrating as it may be, it’s worth taking a while to get your laptop, desktop PC or even tablet set up properly. It’ll save you a lot of hassle further down the line and ensure all your important data remains safe and secure....
Search the UK’s top tech jobs now From hiring friends and family, to being unclear about your mission or accruing diversity debt, there are many potential pitfalls founders need to avoid. To build out your company with the most suitable and effective talent you need to carefully consider the following: Organisational structure Getting the organisational structure right from your company’s infancy is crucial. Resources are so tight you need to ensure you’re clearly defining everyone’s roles and responsibilities in terms of what they are delivering to the business....
The screen will flash, and a notification will pop up pointing you to the new image in your gallery. Some devices allow you to edit it there and then, but if not just dive into your phone gallery where you can deal with it there. If this doesn’t work, try holding down the physical home button and volume-down simultaneously. Here are some alternative methods for taking a screenshot on Android:...
First of all, you’ll need an adjustable screwdriver (Philips bit, but two sizes), two USB flash drives and, of course, an SSD no thicker than 9.5mm. We’d like to say thanks to Crucial for providing us with a 1TB SSD for use in our how-to, which can be picked up from Crucial for £129.59. Back up your save data If you’ve been using your PS4 for as long as we have, you’ll have quite a few game saves stored on the console....
Use an app-specific password These days Apple enables two-factor authentication by default on iPad, iPhones and macOS. So the first thing to do is to set up an app-specific password for accessing email on Android. If you don’t do this, you’ll probably end up frustrated by error messages saying your email address or password is incorrect. In a web browser, head to Apple’s website where you can manage your Apple ID....
