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thanks for watching tech quickie click the subscribe button then enable notifications with the Bell icon so you won't miss any future videos it doesn't get much better than dunking an Oreo into milk it just adds a little something extra namely milk so maybe that's why Google went with the name Android Oreo for the eighth version of its mobile OS that it's rolling out dunking your smartphone into some exciting new features so then let's pull the newest version of Android apart and have a taste of what's inside I'll stop that now starting out is the significantly revamped notification system which you can now organize into channels the basic idea here is to group notifications by category and customize how your phone gets your attention on a per category basis for example if you're using a messaging app like Google Hangouts you can choose to only show some chatter from an unimportant group silently while telling your phone to vibrate light up and even override do not disturb when you get an angry ping from your boss asking where that next tech quickie script is and while we're on the subject of notifications Oreo offers iOS style notification badges that appear on app icons if they want your attention although you won't get a number showing how many notifications you have they will be drawn in different colors to match the app icon instead of that jarring lurid red that you always get on the iPhone here's another one if you've been using a Google pixel you've probably noticed how it uses round icons as opposed to the variety of shapes you might see on other Android devices with Oreo app developers can now create adaptive icons that your device will automatically adjust into a circle square or rounded circular square looking thing depending on your system settings another big visual change is picture-in-picture that's right the feature that was once a huge selling point for sports fans looking to invest big-screen TV for the living room is now coming to your pocket the goal is to enable users to carry on let's say a voice chat for example while looking up something pertinent in the background sadly but maybe unsurprisingly though you'll need to shellow for YouTube read if you want to watch youtube videos with the feature but the changes to Oreo aren't all visual one of the most notable under the hood improvements is to battery life management Google is promising again but no really it's a lot better this time but although the effectiveness of these power improvements remains to be seen one thing we are sure of is Oreos ability to automatically re-enable your Wi-Fi if you're close to an own network keeping you from burning through your data if you turned it off to avoid stupid pop-ups about joining cat lady house Wi-Fi when you were out and about last but not least if you're an instant messaging aficionado Android stock emojis don't look like weird blobs anymore so there's that though at the same time Google also apparently decided to use a blob like octopus as a version mascot anyway Android Oreo is available for these pixel and Nexus devices and non-google phones and tablets we'll be getting it in the coming months no word yet though on whether we'll be getting a double stuffed revision that has twice the features and twice the regret do you ever find yourself needing to control two computers at once well synergy is the solution for you it's a software tool that lets you use one keyboard and mouse with multiple computers and the craziest thing about it is that it even works across different operating systems including Windows Mac OS and Linux features include clipboard sharing and dragging and dropping files between the computers custom hotkeys and more it's available in both basic and pro versions with the latter including SSL encryption to secure the data sent between computers and synergy is offering a 50% discount to tech quickie viewers all you got to do is click on the in the video description to check it out so thanks for watching guys dislike like leave a comment with suggestions check out our other channels and subscribe