Smartphone Wi-Fi keeps disconnecting during transfers When yoursmartphonedecides that your Wi-Fi link isn’t good enough and automatically goes looking for a better connection it can cause your connection to drop out. Here’s what to do when smartphone Wi-Fi keeps disconnecting during transfers. (See also:best smartphones.) QUESTION I’ve used an Eye-Fi card to transfer photos from a camera to my phone as I take them, so I can upload them directly to Facebook and Instagram....

Toshiba Kira-101 review Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The Toshiba Kira cannot approach the outstanding battery life of its Apple rivals. It does manages to combine good overall speed and a high-resolution display with a truly ultraportable design. That’s a difficult trick to pull off, and it makes the Kira one of the most attractive Windows Ultrabooks currently available. By its own admission, Toshiba is quite happy to focus on the ‘value’ end of the market and its recently unveiled spring line-up did feature a preponderance of budget 15-inch and 17-inchlaptops....

Google details its ambitious Project Ara modular smartphone For a potentially revolutionary smartphone, it wasn’t the best start. “We did crack the screen, and the phone doesn’t quite boot,” said Paul Eremenko, head of Google’s Project Ara, as he presented an engineering prototype of the first Project Ara phone during a webcast developer event in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday. Ara is an ambitious idea: a basic exoskeleton into which standard-sized modules can be connected to produce a completely personalized smartphone....

How to adjust skin tone in Photoshop This tutorial by one of our favourite photographers, Tigz Rice, covers how you can use Color Range selections in Photoshop to specifically select skin tones from your image – and then use this remove or reduce red hues from your model’s skin. While redness can be caused by a number of natural factors, this is also a particularly handy technique for reducing the results of fake tan, which often appears as orangey-red in photographs....

Garmin Vivofit review Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The Vivofit is a great activity tracker, but there’s still some work to be done on the software side of things. Also Consider the Polar Loop. Garmin is no stranger to the fitness game. In fact, we’re only surprised how long the company has waited before dipping its toes into the waters of theactivity trackerscene. The new Vivofit is available on its own or with a heart-rate monitor....