Maniha Barry

Games with google home:
Hey everyone, I am back with another blog. Since last year, I have been playing games with Google Home and testing what it can do. So, I played more games with it today. I have posted a youtube video of it as well down below. 

Google Home is just an assistant for android just like Siri or cortana. It’s really good. It can quiz you on things as well such as general knowledge quiz, lucky trivia, spelling bee quiz (I always lose at it), there is also something called sound safari. Justs say ‘Ok Google’ to active this. Say ‘Ok Google, play the spelling bee game’. It’s quite fun to do that. For the spelling bee, choose the hard level in it. Note: You can also do that with the google assistant in your phone. 

Watch this video down below of me playing games with google: 🙂

Hi everyone, how are you guys doing today? In today’s blog I am going to tell you something about pokemon go.

Everyone loves Pikachu the most right so pokemon has brought its special limited holiday treat for players around the world. The pokemon go birthday event marks two years of augmented reality adventure game and offers a birthday pikachy to celebrate. In the above picture, you can see what the pokemon looks like. I caught the pikachu and it was so awesome to catch it.

There are increased Pikachu and Pichu spawn. Each will be a new ‘Birthday’ form for the summer, wearing a straw hat and sunglasses, including a rare Shiny version. New Pikachu Fan Avatar items on sale, including a T-Shirt and Pikachu ears, some of which will require a gold Pikachu Fan medal to purchase.

So, like I know the game has lost its hype but do try it if you want to catch this pikachu. 🙂

Hola guys! How have you been? It’s been long since I blogged about something, so crazy. Ramadan Mubarak as well. Today the blog is related to Google Home.

Google has said that the google home now can issue 3 queries at once using more natural ways of speaking. You can do this on your Google Home, Google Home mini and Google Home max. This feature is only currently available at UK, America and Australia. This feature is a basically a multitasking feature. It could handle 2 tasks but now it’s going upto 3 which is going to save a lot of time for people. To use this feature you simple have to say “and” in between the commands. 😀

Hello everyone, how are you all doing? Life has been so busy with studies everything. I just received the Pixel 2 XL and it’s a beautiful phone. 

The Pixel 2 XL is a much bigger version of the Pixel 2 phone. It’s an extremely fast phone. It’s dimensions are 157.9 x 76.7 x 7.9 mm and weighs 175 g. It has a front glass, aluminium body, partial glass back. It has nano sim. It is water resistant up to 1 meter and 30 minutes. It is also dust and water resistant. It has a P-OLED capacitative touch screen 16 M colors. The resolution is 1440 x 2880 pixels and the display is multi touch. It has a corning gorilla glass 5. 

It runs on Android 8.0 oreo. It has 64/128 GB, 4 GB RAM. The camera is  12.2 MP (f/1.8, 27mm, 1/2.6″, 1.4 µm, Dual Pixel PDAF), OIS, phase detection & laser auto focus, dual-LED flash. The camera features include Geo-tagging, touch focus, Face detection, HDR, panorama,portrait mode, Ar mode. It has the best portrait mode in it. There is no headphone jack in it, so you can’t charge your phone and use the headphones at the same time. It has fast battery charging (capped at 10.5 W). It’s available in black, blue and white color. The battery can last very long too. Overall it’s a great phone, if you are an Android fan then do try it. 🙂

Yo everyone!! What’s up? I hope you all are fine. Today I decided to blog about this thing called “System Ui Tuner” which is an option which comes in Android. It is neat hidden menu on Android Marshmallow and Android Nougat. It gives you a bit of control over your status bar and its  pull-down menus. 

Once it is enabled, you can change the way your status  bar and pull-down settings look and feel which gives your android a more custom feel that would have required some rooting and flashing previous. 

How to enable System UI tuner?

1. Put down your quick settings, swipe down on the notifications. On the top right you’ll see the gear icon. Tapping it is a shortcut for settings but tapping it for a few seconds will open a hidden menu in settings. 

2. Long press your gear until it spins, then keep holding it until you get a popup message that says “Congrats! System Ui Tuner has been added to settings.” 

However this could be a bit risky for the future, but if you are ok  with that, go ahead and tap “Got it.” The only reason I tried this is to manage my notification settings for applications. For example, if you are using “whatsapp” and you don’t want it’s notifications every time on the scream when you are using it, then this System Ui Tuner has around 5 levels for your notification settings for every option. Scroll down to your settings, click other and switch it. That’s all folks. keep smiling!. 😀

A new Android version is arriving and it’s called “Android oreo.” Hearing that name makes me crave for Oreo :p. Android 8.0 is going to have some good features such as:

1. It is 2x faster. You can get started on your favorite tasks more quickly with 2x the boot speed when powering up.
2. Android oreo helps minimize background activity in the apps you use.
3. Autofill remembers your logins to get into your apps at supersonic speed with your permission. 
4. It allows you to see 2 apps at once. 
5. You can press the notification dots to quickly see what’s new.
6. You can teleport directly into new apps right from your browser, no installation needed. 
7. The battery saver is quite good, it can keep your battery strong and full of life.

Android oreo will soon comes in phones such as Nexus 6p, Google Pixel, Google Pixel XL, Nexus 5X or Pixel C. More phones are going to get the update later this year. 😀

Hey all, I hope ya all having a good weekend, well I having midterms next week, so meh. Anyhow what’s going around here? First came snap chat stories, then Instagram stories, then came WhatsApp stories and now Facebook stories. Like seriously every social network here wants to go be snap chat. I had no idea about this Facebook stories, until yesterday. I hate Facebook messenger too.

The only stories are like are the snap chat stores, honestly. Facebook stories will soon look exactly like Instagram stories with little circular profile photo of the user and their friends appearing on top of the news feed. Facebook stories will have a blue ring around the profile photos of users who post a new story. Stories for Facebook messenger has already gone live as new Messenger day feature. It lets users share photos and videos to a story within the Messenger app adding filters and stickers. You can comment on them and stories last for around 24 hours. Users can use built-in privacy features, something which differentiates from Snapchat and Instagram. Since, I don’t like Messenger or Facebook that much, I refuse to use these stories. So yeah, enjoy the stories if you like to. 😛

Ever since the whatsapp stories came up, people haven’t been happy with it. Due to a lot of complaints from the users, whatapp is bringing back the text status. The new ‘Status’ update does not let users keep a text-based status and also not for anymore than 24 hours, similar to snapchat. The removal of the earliar feature is a disadvantage for some people as they sometimes like to keep informative statuses. For example “Studying for exams, don’t contact me. ” and many others. I myself was not amused by this feature on whatsapp. So whatsapp is bringing it back except this time this feature would be called tagline. So let’s see how this goes now. The tagline feature has arrived in Windows phone 2.17.82 and whatsapp beta for iOS 2.17.6.21, it is soon expected in Android devices as well. 

Hello everyone, I hope ya all are doing fine, this is my first post in 2017, lol. But I am back now. Ok this blog post is actually about the lame whatsapp update. Snapchat has been one of the most fun and amazing social network by far now, so now whatsapp has copied its idea too.  First it was possible to write statuses on whatsapp but now you can’t. It has become like snapchat, there is something like whatsapp story on it now. You can take photos, use emojis, edit photos and the stories disappear after 24 hours which is just like snapchat. It’s possible to set up privacy like let only a few of yours contacts to see your story. If you haven’t noticed, the options of gifs has also been included in whatsapp which is a good feature but I am not really fond of the stories feature.  Peace love and unity 😀

One of the most beautiful phone by google is “Pixel.” I can say that because I have actually checked that phone out and it seemed amazing even though I don’t own it. This phone has the highest rated smartphone camera, a battery that lasts all day, unlimited storage for all your photos and videos and the first phone which has google assistant built in. It has 12.3 MP for sharp, crisp images, large 1.55 pixels for great shots in the light and f/2.0 Aperture for bright, even photos. 

It combines hardware and software made by Google which includes all your favorite Google apps. It has a seamless glass aluminium body. With the pixel imprint, the phone gets unlocked quickly with just a swipe down on the finger print scanner. It has a brilliant 5.0 AMOLED screen with true blacks and 16.77 million colors. It gets up to 7 hours of battery life in just 15 minutes. The OS in it is “Android Noughat. 7.0.” In short, it’s a great phone if you are a die hard Android phone, go for it and buy it. 😀