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WhatsApp Plus vs. GBWhatsApp – Which One Should You Choose?

WhatsApp is definitely the top choice when it comes to messaging apps. It allows you to message anyone for free, and you just need your phone number in order to sign up. You can use it to send anything, from text messages, videos and pictures to documents and voice messages. WhatsApp has so many users because it offers plenty of features and it makes sure that the privacy of its users is secure.

While WhatsApp is great should know that there are other alternatives available. Two of them are WhatsApp Plus and GBWhatsApp. It is recommended that you use the original version, but if you want to customise your UI and have extra features you might want to try out these two.

WhatsApp Plus

One of the biggest advantages of WhatsApp Plus is that it comes with multiple themes. There are more than 700 available and you can choose anyone you want. It is also possible to raise the limit sharing. This means that you can send files u to 50 MB. You also have the option to maintain the original quality of the images and videos that you are sending. One disadvantage of WhatsApp Plus is that it isn’t as secure as WhatsApp.

GBWhatsApp

 

If you enjoy themes, you should know that GBWhatsApp has them as well. You can download them or you can come up with your own. With GBWhatsApp it is also possible to lock a chat thread so that others can’t access it, and you are able to disable voice calls. However, one thing that you should know about GBWhatsApp is that you won’t have automatic updates for it. This means that you should keep an eye out for new versions and install them yourself. 

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Biometric Authentication: IOS or Android?

We all know that every smartphone update comes together with lots of features that are meant to improve your experience with the device – from functionality to aesthetics. We’re talking about the evolution of the authentication of the smartphone experience. At first, we had passcodes, then fingerprint codes, then facial recognition – the security certainly changed a lot, and it has defined the experience people had with the devices.

If we’re thinking about ten years ago, smartphones offered us access to calendar, contacts and the internet. If we’re thinking about today, there are more than 3 billion users that use their smartphone to put their most intimate information, like credit card numbers, location tracking and passwords. Smartphones are done to deal with every aspect of the everyday life, and the team behind them are constantly working on how to take care of your personal data, while they’re also working on keeping a positive user experience.

The difference between iOS and the Android devices stands in the biometric authentication – it’s a very important aspect. Biometric authentication really means the utilization of the biological characteristics in order to unlock the phone, authorize payments and verify all the things that would actually require a password.  Apple has Face ID and Android has in-screen fingerprint sensors, but the real question is how this affects the costumers.

Android

Android came with Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 as his first flagship, and it had facial recognition – it basically scanned your iris. The Samsung of today comes with no less than four biometric authentications: iris scanning, facial recognition, intelligent scan and fingerprint scan.

iOS

Apple’s Face ID is, however, the most advanced app and the most representative aspect of this technology. It can be fooled by family members who have the same facial features, and hackers can get past it, as well. But it’s harder to do it than it is with Android.

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New iPad Pro 19-inch: What You Need to Know

We all know that the iPad Pro (the 12.9-inch line) costs about $1.899 – that, if you want 1TB worth of storage and LTE. For a Smart Keyboard, you can get to the price of $2,100, and this is how you get a computer, as many Apple fanatics would say.

It’s definitely not cheap, but the scores from Greekbench actually show that the A12X chip, that powers iPad Pro, has multi-core performance that can be comparable to the 2018’s MacBook Pro (the one with 15 inches), that has Intel’s six-core Core i7 chips.

These scores only show the snapshot of the performance that line up with Apple’s claims that iPad will be released this week, and that it will be a major hit when it comes to performance boost – and it will be over the iPad Pro from last year. As Apple says, multi-core tasks are up to 90% faster.

The new A12X iPads from Geekbench have a single-core score of about 5000 and the multi-core score of about 18000. The MacBook Pro has the price of $2,799, and its scores are of 5000 for the single-core and 20000 for the multi-core.

As appeared on the internet, MacBooks also keep an eye on the performance of the A12X iPad, and Apple wants to use its A-series chip for the future Macs – and that is set to happen in 2020.

When talking about RAM

Apple doesn’t really talk about the RAM when it comes it its iOS device specs. However, some source said that iPad Pro with 1TB would get the 6GB worth of RAM, and the iPad Pro with 64GB, 256GB, and 512GB will get the 4GB worth of RAM.

It will have Face ID, and it will include Apple’s Lightning port instead of the USB-C, thing that allows its users to connect to a 5K display.

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Building “Smart”: It’s Not Tech We’re Talking About

Smart building is definitely not characterized as the application of technology; it’s not about the Internet of Things or the system integrations that have an impact on data analytics. It’s not about the smartness of specific functions and its outcomes, either  – the less costly maintenance, the lower energy usage, the better occupant comfort.

We think that “smart building” doesn’t really stay in the tech part, but it’s actually some kind of commitment to the scientific methods to accomplish the goals that inspired this building in the first place. We know it sounds easy, but many of the high-tech buildings are not the definition of smart. The reason why is that they don’t really help the facility management team to achieve its goals. Most of them are just a waste of money and time. If this building doesn’t really change how people do their work – in better, in a provable way, then it’s not smart building and it’s actually useless. It’s very hard to achieve this; not many can do it.

What you need to do: keep people productive and comfortable

A building plan believes in keeping people comfortable. The maintenance team should be there to respond to the needs of the occupants.

When it comes to a smart building plan, many people use the building automation systems, which are composed out of The Internet of Things devices, cloud apps, and connectivity, in order to measure the environmental conditions, such as Co2, temperature, humidity, and lightning. It also helps in getting constant feedback from the occupants.

Operators should apply analytics to data to keep track of what occupants think of the comfortability of the building in real time. A benchmark would be created then they’d change the way in which the building is operating in order to enhance the conditions that are based on the comfort score.

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Jailbreakers Made It Too Easy for Apple – What Has Apple Stole from Them

Thanks to the stability improvements, iOS has now the best security tools, lots of app and services to enjoy and a friendly user interface. Each update comes with better things that make the experience the best one for iPhone users. However, you need to keep in mind that it’s not all thanks to Apple’s genius, as most of the features come from tweaks made by the jailbreak community.

You get a camera shortcut on the lock screen, you get to quick replay to messages directly from notifications, you get screen recording support – and not only, but these also are just the tip of the iceberg and were possible even before Apple got them for their operating system.

We all remember how it was when iOS first made its appearance – it just had a few options for customization, but people from the jailbreak community figured out how to improve the software from Apple, and now it’s easier for more technical users to do many things – things that Apple couldn’t even imagine.

The control center

It was first introduced in iOS 7, and it’s that thing that allows you to swipe up (from the bottom of the screen initially, now it’s a swipe down from the top-right of the screen if you have Face ID). Here is where you find the Airplane Mode Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Do Not Disturb and Portrait Orientation Lock.

Jailbreak versions had some features like these, and it was long before the iOS 7 was released. SBSettings came together with the customizable toggles, things that will later be seen in iOS, too. For iOS 5 and above, you can get the SBSettings’ controls for the swipe-down Notification Center. Before you could do this, you had to swipe left or right to be able to open the toggles.

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