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Ten Amazon Shopping Tips and Tricks You Must Know

Admin July 22, 2016

“There are two kinds of companies: Those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second”- Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon

Is your favorite lipstick out of stock? Is a particular item not available for sale in your country?

Nothing to fear as Amazon practically has you covered. The company’s vast inventory makes it possible for it to be a goldmine for anything and everything. If you cannot find a particular item in your local retail store, chances are Amazon has it in stock making online shopping the perfect alternative for shoppers who prefer the convenience as well as the accessibility. Despite its popularity, there are many tips, tricks and a handful of shopping hacks that even the most seasoned shoppers are unaware of. Though Amazon may be a jungle, albeit in a metaphorical sense, some areas of the website are still vastly unexplored, and this article will assist you in navigating these uncharted paths by providing some tips and tricks.

1) Prime Benefits

If you routinely shop at Amazon, then you should sign up for Amazon Prime, which provides a free two-day shipping to the contiguous U.S. As shipping can get notoriously exorbitant, this can sweeten the deal for you and make your shopping endeavors hassle-free and much more affordable. Apart from the free shipping, you get access to more than a million songs for free via Prime Music, more than five hundred thousand e-books in the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library, more than forty thousand videos and TV shows and half-hour head starts on select lightning deals.

2) Do not pay for shipping

If you are not a prime member, having your purchased items shipped for free is still possible. Do this by ordering $35 or more of eligible items.

3) Make a Wish

Amazon’s wish list functions like a bridal registry for just about anyone and functions roughly the same way. It allows users to select whatever items they want and desire to receive on any special occasions.

4) Personal Amazon Shoppers

Sometimes, we just do not have to scour Amazon’s websites for hours just to find the best deals. This is what sites like Jungle Deals and Steals, Online Price Alerts and The Tracktor are for. They do the dirty work for us and find services such as deal alerts, notable price drops and price tracking depending on the site.

5) Pay the lowest price

Suppose you are ready to check out your order, but are unsure if you are getting the best price. If this is the case, use the PriceJump tool at Savings.com. Simple paste the Amazon URL and the tool will compare the cost with the price tags at other online merchants.

6) Discounts for individuals with tots

One laudable feature Amazon has is Amazon Mom, a membership with advantageous perks for people with kids. This membership gives members twenty percent off diapers, a fifteen percent discount for completing a baby registry and discounts and deals from time to time.

7) Discounts for students

Students are not left out either and as Amazon offers a membership catering to students’ needs which is free for six months. A caveat, though, after six months the student will automatically be enrolled in Prime.

8) Do not pay retail

Amazon has its own coupons or similarly, if you do not want to pay the retail price, you can simply type “Amazon” into the search boxes of sites such as Savings.com, RetailMeNot, and FatWallet.com. These websites offer you percent-off, free shipping, and free-gift-with-purchase codes.

9) Money back guarantee

If you bought an item from Amazon, which goes on sale within a week from your date of purchase, you could get the difference refunded. However, if you are just feeling buyer’s remorse, you can utilize Amazon’s generous return policy. Consider that this does not cover every single item (The site indicates many can be returned not all).

10) Gold Box Deals offer discounts

These include heavily discounted deals all over the site plus lightning sales that expire within an hour or two. One caveat: It can get rather addicting to checking out this part of Amazon though so check at your own risk.

Author Bio:

Abbeygail is a techie woman and wants to be always updated with the growing technology today. She is also freelance writer and blogger for MyOptimind, a company in the Philippines that develops mobile app, SEO and web design company Cebu. Aside from being techie and a blogger, she also loves to travel in different places especially in her country.

REVEALED : ANDROID N (Nougat) Latest Feature Review

Admin July 03, 2016

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Android Nougat discharge date

Instead of hold up until Google I/O 2016, Google chose to amaze all of us by discharging the main Android N designer review on March 9, two entire months sooner than anticipated. The Android N sneak peak went live for the Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 9 (Wi-Fi and LTE), Nexus Player and Pixel C on the Android Developers site. The main beta discharge hopeful showed up amid Google I/O on May 18, 2016.

The last Android 7.0 Nougat discharge date has been affirmed for Q3, 2016, giving Google until September 30 to follow through on its course of events. This implies the Nexus 6P (2016) and Nexus 5X (2016) – or whatever they will be called for the current year – will come somewhat sooner than anticipated as well, as the new form of Android is constantly displayed close by new Nexus gadgets.

The Nexus 4 was declared on October 29, the Nexus 5 on October 31, the Nexus 6 on October 15, the Nexus 5X and 6P on September 29. So we may even see the current year's Nexuses prior in September instead of the end of the month if the logically prior declaration dates are anything to pass by.

The last Android 7.0 discharge will be restricted to Nexus gadgets at first and advance toward other producer gadgets and bearer systems over the accompanying six months or somewhere in the vicinity. You can download the Android N review underneath and streak it on a perfect gadget at this moment however make sure to counsel the rundown of known issues first. Google is endeavoring to adhere to a month to month upgrade plan for the Android Nougat sneak peaks.

Android N will be Android 7.0

We've beforehand said how every one of the checks in the screenshots at I/O were set to 7:00 – Google's typical method for letting us know what the following Android variant number will be. All things considered, we've now essentially had Android 7.0 affirmed: on the off chance that you turn on Demo Mode in the Android N review 4 you'll see that the time is set to 7:00 also.

As of late utilized emoji expelled from Google Keyboard

This isn't precisely noteworthy news, yet as you likely acknowledge, we're currently at the cleaning and adjusting phase of Android N, so the progressions we see are going to get less provocative the nearer we get the chance to go time. In Dev Preview 3, as of late utilized emoji would show up as a part of the recommended word field of the image tab in the Google Keyboard. In Dev Preview 4 you'll need to empower that choice in the console settings: the default express no more shows emoji.

Dull Theme gone once more, Night Mode remains

We have no clue what's happening with Google and Android's Dark Theme. It initially showed up back in the Android M designer reviews yet never made it to Marshmallow legitimate. It then reemerged in Android N with different noteworthy headways yet is presently gone, once more.

Google has said that Night Mode and the Dark Theme are "far-fetched" to make it into the last Android 7.0 discharge, yet that it hasn't discounted them completely. Clearly, neither one of the features met Google's execution benchmarks. In Dev Preview 3, Dark Theme is gone, however Night Mode stays in the Quick Settings.

Google giveth and Google taketh away. Generally as we lose the adored Dark Theme for Android overall, we pick up topics for the Google Keyboard in Android N. Rendition 5.1 of Google Keyboard includes a cluster of beautiful theming choices, including the capacity to set your own particular picture foundation.

More changes to multitasking

Multitasking in Android N is a passionate rollercoaster of extents likened to the Dark Theme. The main Dev Preview had a cluster of new multitasking choices (see underneath), some of which were evacuated in Dev Preview 2. In Dev Preview 3 things change once more. Application exchanging between your two latest applications by twofold tapping the multitasking catch remains (thank sky), however the quantity of applications will be diminished to seven.

The "Unmistakable All" catch at the highest point of the card stack has strangely exchanged sides: from left in Preview 2 to right in sneak peak 3. Dispatching multi-window mode in the recents rundown is currently enacted by long-squeezing an application and dragging it up as opposed to left in Dev Preview 2. You can at present empower a swipe-up signal on the recents catch to dispatch multi-window mode in the System UI Tuner settings.

Other new stuff in Android N (Dev Preview 3)

As said over, the Android N Developer Preview 3 is more about calibrating likely Android 7.0 components and evacuating those unrealistic to make the cut. Unfortunately for enthusiasts of the Dark Theme and Night Mode, Launcher Shortcuts, progressed multitasking easy routes, those offbeat new organizer symbols or the screen catch in video mode, it would appear that these elements may not make the cut.

Multi-window mode

The primary authority Android N highlight to be affirmed was multi-window mode, with the affirmation coming, indefinitely enough, by means of a Reddit AMA with the Pixel C group a couple of months back. Amid the exchange, Andrew Bowers affirmed that "split screen is in progress" and with the arrival of Android N designer review 1, we can now see precisely how Android 7.0 split screen mode will look.

Good applications (engineers should include support for split screen mode separately) can be opened up one next to the other in Android N and resized with a portable slider. You can move and customize content between split screen windows and go full screen by dragging the slider the distance to the edge.

Engineers will have the capacity to set a base size for their application windows yet you'll have a fundamentally the same as multitasking background to what you as of now find on numerous OEM gadgets. There's additionally another photo in-picture mode for Android TV that works simply like minimized video in YouTube.

Upgraded Doze Mode

As anticipated, the loved and admired Marshmallow highlight, Doze Mode, has likewise been enhanced in Android N. Rest now highlights a two-level framework. The primary works at whatever point the screen has been off for some time, whether your telephone is stationary or not. This implies you can now appreciate the advantages of Doze Mode at whatever time your telephone is not being utilized, notwithstanding when it is in your pocket or knapsack. The other layer of Doze Mode fills in as some time recently, yet with some more upgrades. At the point when your telephone is lying still, it will enter a more profound hibernation mode, conceding system and other action until broadly divided out "support" windows before slipping back to rest.

One element that is not formally part of the Android N engineer review at this moment is freestyle window mode. As an informal part of an engineer review for an Android form that won't arrive formally until six months from now, it is a long way from prepared for prime time, yet it works basically as you'd anticipate that it will. You can dispatch different applications at the one time, resize them and move them around the screen anyway you like. Move and customize content is likewise bolstered in freestyle window mode.

Update: study the RhonzNET review of the Android N -