sharing those huge video files among them privately via torrents . However, there has to be a download time associated with everything and that’s what I can’t stand when I wish to watch the videos. So, I devised a mechanism to get rid of the waiting period. Sounds interesting? Read on if you are a torrent freak. You do not have to change the way you download things. What you can actually do is to manage them remotely....

block unnecessary calls and SMS on our Android smartphone , but the way WhatsApp is gaining popularity, it seems it’ll soon become the de facto way of communication over a phone instead of calls or texts. The cool thing about it is that one can also use it to quickly share images or videos , or even voice for that matter. But WhatsApp is no remedy for people who piss you off....

The methods and their respective settings for both Android and iOS smartphones remain the same. So you can follow the same steps for both of them. Let’s begin. 1. Mute Someone on WeChat Blocking someone is not subtle. It is one of the unwritten and unsaid rules of the internet — you don’t block someone unless they cross a line of sorts. So let’s begin with the Mute feature. Meet Mr....

The Apple Watch and other smartwatches have tried to remedy smartphone addiction across the globe, but it’s still too early to really tell if they’ve done anything. So in the meantime, try downloading just one more app: Moment for iOS. The tool analyzes how often you and your family use your smartphones, tracks your habits and provides ways to attempt to break the addictive usage patterns. Track Phone and App Usage Moment is a freemium app, so it’s free to download but you’ll have to pay to access additional features....

While you can access all the files, folders, and directories on your Mac via Finder, you must have observed that each time you click on the Finder icon, a specific folder opens inside a new Finder window. This folder is persistent which means each time you open up a new Finder window, you will see the same folder. It’s time consuming if the default folder isn’t something you use frequently....

With Gmail’s language setting, you can switch how Gmail appears in a language of your choice. Gmail also offers language-specific input tools for you to type in different languages. To change your Gmail display language and input tool, here are the steps to follow. How to Change Your Gmail Display Language If you in a country that is largely English-speaking, the display language on your Gmail will be English. However, if you want to change your display language, here’s what you should do....

Gadgets are simple mini desktop applications which provide useful information right on top of our desktop wallpaper. One may use these gadgets to work with frequently used things like clock, media player, CPU usage monitor, RSS reader etc. With the FB Explorer gadget, you can check for notifications on Facebook, have a look on friend activity, comment and like items in your news feed and much more right from the gadget....

Much like any other social platform, Reddit tracks and collects user’s data stored in your account. Everything stays up until you voluntarily delete your account history or the account itself. So, let’s take a deep dive and understand how to delete Reddit search history. But first things first! Tip: If privacy is a concern, you can also browse Reddit anonymously without being tracked. What You Need to Know Before Clearing Reddit Search History There are multiple reasons why you might want to remove your Reddit search history....

browsers , when using Facebook , or when we’re on our mobile phones . Traces of private information can linger around indefinitely if it’s not manually removed. There are many tools out there that clear passwords and other private data but another issue arises apart from this, like when data isn’t entirely removed from a drive. A hacker can still obtain old data even if you’ve deleted it. One such tool to ensure no traces are left behind after deleting private data is called Privazer....

These features allow users to make additional notes or provide context for words in the body of a document. Footnotes and endnotes also help provide references or further comments on different parts of the main text body. However, you’ll need to use them to enhance the reliability of the text in the body. To insert them in a Word document, here’s what you should do: Insert Footnotes and Endnotes in Word The footnote appears on the bottom of the page, which provides refererence, while an endnote is listed at the end of the paper on separate pages....

an email signature . It’s actually a good practice when it comes to email correspondence. What’s not a good practice however is to type the signature line every time you create a new mail. Rather, you should set a signature as default and it would appear with each mail of yours. Almost all email services have this as an option. And today we are going to see how to create and use the same on MS Outlook....

An average office worker sends dozens of emails every day. You can convert each email in the opportunity to market yourself and your business in those individual emails you send, every single day. Many people treat their email signature like an afterthought or stick with whatever comes by default on Gmail/Outlook or third-party email apps. In such cases, you are marketing these apps and services and not yourself, which makes for a real missed opportunity....

GIMP is the free photo-manipulation tool available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Though it has been around for a while, it lacks the shape crop feature. However, that doesn’t mean you cannot achieve the same in it. All you need to do is follow a workaround. You can then crop images in any shape. In this tutorial, we will tell you how to crop a picture into a circular shape in GIMP....

Speaking of customization, Microsoft gives you the option to change the look of your mouse cursor on Windows 11. Whether you’re just bored of the generic cursor or you want it to be more prominent and easily visible, you can change the look of the cursor with just a few clicks. Here’s how you can customize the mouse cursor on your Windows 11 PC. How to Change the Color and Size of the Mouse Cursor There are a few default cursor options in Windows 11 if you want to change the way mouse pointer looks....

The Notification Center on Mac combines all the data from various apps and stores them in a single place. You can also add Apple’s built-in widgets or third-party ones with different sizes. You can even use Notification Center to turn on your Mac’s Do Not Disturb mode. Access Notification Center on Mac Notification Center lives on the right side of the Mac. There are two of ways to access it easily on Mac....

Don’t worry. We shall help you in doing that. Currently, when you are trying to delete the photo from the Google Photos app, you must be surprised to find out that the photo gets deleted from iPhone and eventually iCloud too. Right? All you want to do is delete all pictures from Google Photos but not from iCloud. In other words, you want to unlink Google Photos and iCloud. Let’s see how to do that by understanding the working of these two services first....

You might like notifications from a particular website, but if they’ve suddenly started to bombard you with it, then it’s time to shut them up from your end. These tricks can also be used to manage desktop notifications in case you’ve accidentally granted a site permission to push notifications to your browser and wish to revoke it. Chrome users can choose whether they want to deny notification access to all the websites or to specific ones but Firefox users don’t enjoy this liberty....

Personal Renamer is an awesome tool which can be used to batch rename files easily. It is different from other renaming tools because you can also set it to monitor a specific folder for a specific time interval. If you move any file to that folder, it automatically renames it according to the values you’ve set. Here is a step by step guide to use this tool. Download and install Personal Renamer on your computer....

It’s the only smartwatch in Android land to run the latest version of Wear OS with Samsung’s One UI Watch. While it has many health tracking abilities, it misses some important features based on your region. For example, Blood Pressure monitoring isn’t available on the Galaxy Watch 4 in the US region at the time of writing in April 2022. Thankfully, there is a workaround for this issue. If you have a Galaxy Watch 4 or Galaxy Watch 4 Classic, here’s how you can enable the Blood Pressure feature (and ECG too if it’s not available in your region)....

In Windows 8, Microsoft has introduced the feature of fast startup (fast boot) which can boot up Windows in 1/10th time as compared to earlier versions and disabled the option to hibernate from the default power options. Fast boot is a great feature but it does not save an active session as the hibernate option did. If you are missing the Hibernate option in Windows 8 and would like to enable it, here’s how it’s done....