YouTube Vanced, one of the most popular apps used by people who hates ads on the popular video streaming website, is now dead. On March 13, 2022, YouTube Vanced announced that it’s shutting down after it received a legal threat from Google. While it will still continue to work on…
Netflix announced that two of its latest mobile games Dungeon Dwarves and League of Legends spinoff Hextech Mayhem, are coming to iOS and Android. The two games will be free for users who have a Netflix subscription. Developed by Hyper Hippo, Dungeon Dwarves is an idle dungeon crawler that will…
As of 2022, a Microsoft 365 Personal subscription costs ₱3,499.00 per year in the Philippines. The one-time purchase of the standalone Office Home & Student 2021 sets you back ₱6,999.00. While Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office apps are no doubt useful for work and school, many Filipinos just don’t…
A MAC address, short for media access control address, is a unique identifier that is tied to the network interface card or network adapter of a device. It’s a 12-digit hexadecimal number that is usually separated by colons or hyphens per two digits. For example: 4c:0d:54:05:88:c9. In 2017, Android 8.0…
Kumu is a social app for Filipinos that launched in February 2018 for Android and iOS devices. Its main appeal is letting users do livestreams and interact with followers in real time. Kumu enjoys an increasing user base as Filipinos flock to see their local celebrities and influencers showcase their…
Torrenting is a popular way to share files online. Through torrents, and with the ever-increasing mobile speeds in the Philippines, you can easily get or host books, videos, music, and other content on your smartphone while you’re on the go. Here’s how you can use torrents on your smartphone to…
Your old, inactive accounts from online services you’ve long forgotten are ticking time bombs. Sooner or later, one of the companies behind these services may suffer a data breach that exposes your confidential information. To avoid falling victim to a data breach, it’s best you find your dormant accounts and…
Whenever Spotify offers a sweet deal, I’m quite tempted to ditch my preferred music streaming app–YouTube Music–and use Spotify from here on out. There’s one problem though: I will have to move my playlists from one service to another, and each of my playlists has hundreds of songs. Neither YouTube…
Thanks to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature, iOS users have been enjoying better privacy against nosy ad trackers. For Android users, there’s DuckDuckGo’s newly launched App Tracking Protection tool. This is a new feature in the alternative search engine’s app that aims to block third-party trackers. With it, intrusive trackers…
Google finally has an obvious way to let you know that you’re being recorded. The new feature is simple yet effective: icons with a green background that you can easily notice at the top-right corner of your screen. There’s an icon for the microphone and another for the camera. If…