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How to Bulk Download Images in Chrome Ads by Google Images are all over the internet and that’s great. Can you imagine using the internet in the mid 90’s where it was mainly just text? We use images in different ways now. At how-to blogs like Guiding Tech, we use them to guide you through a technical process. It’s much better to look at annotated screenshots than to just rely on text. And there comes a point in life where you want to download images as well. It could be for many reasons. Downloading a single image isn’t a big deal. Right-click, hit  Save As and you’re done. But when you’re talking about a photo essay that struck your fancy, or a list of posters from a design inspiration blog that you want to save for inspiration, saving images one-by-one won’t do. Why You Might Want to Bulk Download Images To get the bulk download ball rolling, here are some ideas where downloading images in bulk makes sense. You’re at a how-to blog like Instructab...

Google Art Project Puts an Art Masterpiece on Every New Chrome Tab Just as your browser's homepage can be a source of inspiration, so can the new tab page, since you probably open it quite often. How about some fine art throughout your day? Google's new Chrome extension delivers artwork from the likes of Van Gogh, Monet, and Degas from museum collections around the world. Along with the title of the art piece, you can click through to more information about it at the Google Cultural Institute. In the options for Google Art Project, you can choose to have a new artwork show up daily or with each new tab. There are also options for showing the Chrome apps button, the default new tab button, and your most visited sites button. This is a beautiful and educational way to get to your next website destination

5 Smart Technologies From Mobile World Congress 2015 Smartphones, mobile security and wearables move into the future at global tech show. Digital devices that we buy or use increasingly compute and communicate wirelessly with the Internet. Technology that makes personal computers and smartphones so useful in our lives is improving rapidly and is making its way into all of things that were never “smart” before. It’s also unleashing new needs and desires that will been defined in the coming decade. This was evident in Barcelona this week, where thousands of leading tech innovators gathered for Mobile World Congress (MWC). The annual event foretells the future of our wireless technology. This year, the promise of 5G wireless networks, expected to become available in 2020, became clear. In the next five years, many parts of the wo...

All-in-One, 2 in 1 and Tablet App Innovation Examples Look here for the latest All-in-One, 2 in 1 and Tablet Innovation Examples . These nine apps represent the top efforts of a culmination of hundreds of developers competing from our four regional contest sites in Russia (Habrahabr), China (CSDN), India (ThinkDigit) and the US (Code Project) who worked feverishly to build Windows 8 apps for All-In-One and Tablet devices for the completed Intel App Innovation Contest . The Grand Prize Winner from this contest is Scribblify, developed by Matthew Pilz. In addition, eight other category winners were also selected based on platform and app segment categories. These developers showed innovation in Multi User Multi touch implementations games, using touch and cameras on Tablets and 2 in 1 devices to enhance their health and shopping apps. Scribblify Scribblify for the All-in-One is an imaginative doodle app for all ages and skill levels. Anyone can start cr...

Ulysses Is a Powerful but Simple Text Editor for iPad iPad: Ulysses is one of our favorite writing apps on the Mac and it's now available for the iPad as well. What's better, the iPad version is just as powerful as the Mac app. Ulysses takes an approach similar to software like Scrivener, but simplifies and cleans things up a bit. If you've used Ulysses for Mac, you'll immediately recognize the iPad version. It has the same a three-pane setup where you can organize your writing into different sections, but features plenty of distraction-free writing modes as well. It also has a button row to easily format text and a handy info bar to see different stats. While you'll do your writing with Markdown, it supports exporting to every file format you can imagine. Essentially, this is the Mac version on your iPad, and it's just as easy to use. There's no extra fluff here, Ulysses is about writing and the iPad gets you there as quickly as poss...

Learn to Adapt Your App to Any Android Device with This Reference App If you're a developer, it may be hard to keep up with all the different Android form factors these days. Watches, cars, Google Cast, phones and tablets all need their own UI and code. So Google built a reference app to show you the ropes. This app is definitely geared towards developers, so if you're a regular user, don't expect a fully-featured music player. However, it's designed to make use of all the different form factor features that Android uses, so you can get a handle on how to adapt your app to different devices. It's a handy way to get an edge on the competition.

Google Store to Sell Chromebooks, Nexus Phones and More Google Store to Sell Chromebooks, Nexus Phones and More Google's hardware is getting an online retail space all to itself. Launching today (March 11), the Google Store will offer everything from Chromebooks to Android phones and tablets. Those devices had been available through the Devices section of the Google Play store. But a company spokesperson said that the number of devices that Google makes has reached a point that justifies a separate store. Google Play's devices tab now redirects to the Google Store . By splitting its hardware retail efforts from its apps, Google is taking a page out of Apple's book, which has long had separate online outlets for selling its devices and Mac and iOS apps. And Google certainly can boast enough hardware to fill its virtual shelves. Among the items on sale at the Google Store are the Nexus 6 smartphone, Nexus 9 tablet, Android Wear smartwatche...

Microsoft's Cortana Is Coming to iOS and Android Microsoft is planning to bring its Cortana digital assistant to iOS and Android as a standalone app. While the software maker has  previously confirmed Cortana would come to additional operating systems,  Reuters reports that the standalone app will be available on phones and tablets running iOS and Android. Microsoft is currently building Cortana into Windows 10, which is set to debut later this year, and it’s likely that the digital assistant will make its way on to Android and iOS alongside its PC expansion. In an interview with Reuters , Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz, managing director of Microsoft Research, reveals that the company is planning a bigger roll out of Cortana later this year. “This kind of technology, which can read and understand email, will play a central role in the next roll out of Cortana, which we are working on now for the fall time frame,” says Horvitz. Microsoft is cur...

3 Features of MIUI 6 Often Mistaken as Bugs Ads by Google My last few weeks with Mi4 MIUI 6 were full of surprises. The ROM is feature packed to the brim and if you have recently switched from a stock Android to MIUI, I am sure you are in for a lot of amazing stuff. While I know about most of the features of MIUI 6, there were some that were hidden and I had to look under the hood to get things straight. At first I thought that these might be software glitches, but I was wrong. After a bit of a research, I was happy to figure out that they were actually some of the amazing features you don’t get on Stock Android. Here are some of the useful features of MIUI 6 I mistakenly thought were bugs. 1. One Handed Operation If you have been using MIUI 6 for a while now, you must have come across a situation where the screen of the device shrinks to one of the corners, mostly while taking out the phone from your pocket. In my initial days with MIUI 6, I got this reduc...

Understanding Alibaba’s Snapchat Obsession Raising funding isn’t just about “how much?” but rather “from whom?” Beyond just providing the capital necessary to keep a startup growing — or even, simply, to keep it alive — taking “smart money” can unlock relationships, open doors and more. Snapchat is back in the news alongside Alibaba, which is investing $200 million as part of a new $500 million funding round . This is not the first time that these two companies have been linked with a deal. Bloomberg last July reported that the two sides had met regarding a potential investment at a $10 billion valuation. Leaked emails from Sony — including those of Sony Entertainment CEO and Snapchat board member Michael Lynton — subsequently backed up that story, but no deal was done. Until now. Alibaba missed the messaging-app race in China. So why is Alibaba, the company that dominates online retail in China and held the la...

In Bid To Get British Kids Coding, BBC To Give Away 1 Million ‘Micro Bit’ Computers In a move that will bring a nostalgic smile to some British kids (and teachers) of the 80s, the BBC has announced that it is to produce a new educational mini-computer — codenamed the ‘Micro Bit’, a play on the broadcaster’s original ‘ BBC Micro ‘ computer — and will give away 1 million devices to British school kids aged 11. It will be distributed nationwide from autumn 2015. The new hardware project is part of the BBC’s wider ‘Make it Digital’ initiative to inspire “a new generation to get creative with coding, programming and digital technology,” as the UK attempts to fill an anticipated ‘skills gap’ in the country’s growing digital economy. The move, which sees the BBC partner with over 25 organisations to develop the Micro Bit, including chip-makers ARM and Nordic Semiconductor, Microsoft...

Hate It Or Love It, Tinder’s Right Swipe Limit Is Working Tinder has been making waves the past month with the introduction of Tinder Plus , a premium tier of the service that adds extra features like the ability to rewind a left swipe or search for potential matches in a different city. However, Tinder Plus also brings a new “right swipe limiter” into the mix, as users who swipe right too much or too often in a 12 hour period will run out of likes unless they upgrade to Tinder Plus (which is between $9.99 and $19.99/month, depending on age) . As you might expect, some users who are running into the right swipe limiter (internally called Bouncer) are outraged by the change . Some people have grown accustomed to using Tinder in a specific way. According to a blog post from Tinder , the company has seen “a small number of users who only swipe right just to see who likes them back.” They won’t say what percentage of users have displa...

How to Map or Mount Android as a Drive on Windows Ads by Google I have always hated the idea of using cables to transfer data between my devices. Be it photos or music, wireless file transfer solutions have always captivated me. This has motivated me to find wireless file transfer solutions for Android smartphones, many of which I’ve shared with you in the past. From  wireless file transfers between Androids , file transfers using browsers  and app transfers between two Android devices – you name it, we have a tutorial to get that done. Adding to the list, today I am going to show you how to map your Android device as a hard drive on Windows and transfer files wirelessly. I believe that it’s much easier to use  CTRL+C/X and CTRL+V when it comes to transferring files than to use third party tools or a web browser. Mapping Android Storage as a Window’s Drive To start, download and install the WebDAV server app on your droid. This a...

Meet Google’s New Chromebook Pixel Google’s  Chromebook Pixel  has always been an aspirational machine meant to show off Chrome OS at its best. The new version, which Google announced today, continues this tradition.  If you were hoping for a complete redesign, you’ll be disappointed, but just like the old Pixel, the new Pixel is the best Chromebook money can buy. And at the new starting point of $999, it’s a better value, too. Google has kept the best from the original Pixel and improved all of the issues we found with the first one — battery life being the most important of those. Let’s get the basics out of the way first. The new Pixel will come in two variants: a $999 Core i5 (2.2 GHz Broadwell-U) version with 8GB of RAM (up from 4GB in the original) and a 32GB SSD, and a $1,299 Core i7 “LS” version (2.4 GHz Broadwell-U) with 16GB of RAM and a 64GB SSD. Both use Intel’s HD Graphics 5500 GPU and weigh in at 3.3 lbs....