Buying the best laptop – a beginner’s guide

As the laptop continues to evolve, categories like ultrabook and netbook can be confusing to the newcomer.  Add to this the continuing development of hybrids like the tablet, and browsing sites to choose the best laptop can become a challenging task for the uninitiated.  As with most computing technology, the way to identify the best laptop for your needs is to learn a bit about the most important features of these devices.  Here we look at some of the core features and functions to look at when shopping around for your first ultrabook or laptop.

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How to recycle your old gaming laptop in UK

So you have just bought a shiny new gaming laptop. Great but what do you plan to do with the old gaming laptop that you bought seven years back in UK? The simplest thing you can do is throwing it into the trash can and forget that it ever existed. However you can do something that will benefit environment and you too. How to recycle your old gaming laptop in UK?

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How to play Pokemon Go on Samsung Galaxy S3

Samsung Galaxy S3 with its official ROM cannot play Pokemon Go as it requires minimum Android 4.4 to run and Samsung stopped development at 4.3. However there is a way to play Pokemon Go on Galaxy S3 and it is not too difficult.

Pokemon Go on Samsung Galaxy S3

What you can do is flash something like S3 paranoid ROM that will bring android 6 marshmallow to S3 i9300. But if you want to have solid and stable experience, we suggest download and installing Ressurection remix along with Boeffla kernel.

You can download both and flash them in custom recovery one by one. For those who do not know, the Russurrection remix is based on cyanogen mod 13 and latest android 6.0.1 release. Installation instructions for ROM and kernel.

– Download the latest build
– Download Gapps https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=41043
– Take a nandroid backup
– Recommended – Full wipe and factory reset
– Flash ROM using latest TWRP 2.8.7.x Recovery
– Flash Gapps
– Flash kernel
– Reboot

And that is it – load up Pokemon go and play all day without any crash on your Samsung Galaxy S3. Just make sure not to install Facebook or any memory-eating app. You would want as much free memory as possible in order for it to not crash.

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 ROM ported to Note 5

Galaxy Note 7 is out and folks at xda developers have successfully ported Note 7 ROM to Note 5. It is called CRISSCROSS ROM Note7port V2.0[2.8.16][PG7][N920C / I / L / G / K / S].

Download note7 rom for note5

Since most of the note 7 features as software related, you will be able to enjoy them on Note 5 without buying new hardware. ROM features:

Base: Note 7 UX
PDA: N930FXXU1APG7
CSC: N930FOLB1APG7
Builddate: FRI Jul 8 10:41:38 KST 2016
Android version: 6.0.1
Kernel: 3.10.61-8686587

To install this ROM, boot into TWRP and flash it. You can download the ROM from here. If you use dual SIM variant, then flash this fix after ROM installation inside TWRP custom recovery.

Here are its features:

– Kernel Noze5 PG5
– RomControl V2
– Aroma Manager
– Pre-rooted BETA-SuperSU-v2.76
– Pre-debloated
– Multilanguage
– AdAware, BetterBatteryStats and OGYouTube downloader in Rom but with debloat option in Aroma
– Knox removed
– App lock
– Call Recording Button
– Forced Enable Security Save in SmartManager
– Enabled Support Recent App Protection
– Show Data usage in expanded SystemUI near brightness auto check
– Shutter Sound option in camera settings
– Enabled White pages to identifier unknown numbers
– build.prop tweak for a faster boot- and shutdown animation
– build.prop tweak to remove ring delay
– build.prop tweak for power saving
– build.prop tweak to remove Knox from About Device info
– build.prop tweak to remove no sim card in phone message
– build.prop tweak to fix black screen after call
– build.prop tweak for Google DNS
– build.prop tweak for 3G signal optimization
– build.prop tweak for internet speed enhancement
– build.prop tweak to fix app issues
– build.prop tweak to improve voice call clarity
– build.prop tweak to disable android device check in
– build.prop tweak for faster scrolling
– build.prop tweak for Wi-Fi fix that don’t forget password
– Multi user mod enabled
– MM Reboot Menu with visibility settings in Rom Control
– Removed confirm buttons in Reboot Menu
– optional plug in/out usb wakeup with on/off toggle in Rom Control
– default animation scales 0.25x at clean install – you cant see, its hidden, if you change one time you cant go back.
– possibility to installing app older versions over newer
– Disables Signature Check
– Custom Background for reboot menu
– Device Info Settings with Rom Control settings in expanded view
– Call Waiting fixed (work on 920C and maybe others)
– rounded notifications with on/off toggle in Rom control
– colored notifications with color picker in Rom Control
– switch in Rom Control to enable/disable Heads-up notifications

Download iOS font on Galaxy Note 5: iPhone font for Note5

Folks at xda have released the official Apple iOS font aka iPhone font for the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 android phone. This is how it looks on the Note 5 after installation. There are three variants of it:

iOS font on Galaxy Note 5

1. San Francisco (Official iOS 9.x Font)
a. Variant 1 : Original Untouched with antialiasing and hinting preserved – download
b. Variant 2 : Rounded Corners + Slightly bolded (with antialiasing and hinting) – download
c. Variant 3 : Rounded Corners + Slightly bolded + Condensed (with antialiasing and hinting) – download
2. Cocon Light  (Modded for size and hinting) – download

To flash the iPhone font, you will need twrp for note 5. To install it, download it on to your device and flash it by going into TWRP recovery. CWM custom recovery would also work just fine.

You can also revert back to the original font by flashing the original galaxy note 5 font. You can download that from here.