In this post, we will cover a feature that will add more depth and meaning to your presentations. We will show you how to make the background transparent in PowerPoint on iPhone and Mac. Make Background Transparent in PowerPoint on iPhone First, let us show how you can add transparency to your background image on PowerPoint using your iPhone. This feature is helpful when you want to add text that complements an image in your slide....

Let’s take a brief look at the reason behind this and how you can manage colors in Photoshop for optimal printing results. Explaining Color Data The first thing you need to know is that when it comes to color data, what an application delivers to a printer and what the printer driver expects to receive are two different things. The reason for this is that when you command an app to print something, most computer applications don’t print directly to the printer, but instead they hand the data to the printer driver software, which is already installed by default on the printer....

This includes your BMI (Body Mass Index), muscle fat, skeletal mass, etc. If you want to know more about your health, you can use this feature to make the best of your smartwatch. Here’s how you can measure your body composition accurately and get all your vital metrics right on your wrist with Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 or the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. How to Measure Body Composition Using the Galaxy Watch 4 Measuring your body composition using the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic is straightforward....

But what if you can’t send it? Or rather you didn’t have to? Well if you’re running Android 4.4.2 KitKat or higher (tested on Lollipop) there are two ways to do this. One is by using a Chrome app for PC or Mac and the other by using Chromecast connected to a TV. Uses for Mirroring Android Phones to PC or TV Show photos and videos on the big screenDon’t need to send content anywhereEasy interaction with the content....

At least, not by default. This can be annoying since you wouldn’t want to lose out on all your data on the watch every time you switch to a new phone. It’s a pain to set everything up from scratch. Thankfully, there’s a neat little workaround for this issue. This trick will let you pair your Wear OS smartwatch with a new phone without a factory reset. What Is the Factory Reset Issue on Wear OS While Pairing With a New Phone A Wear OS smartwatch pairs with the Wear OS app from the Google Play Store....

Step 3: Play any song and open the track info menu. Step 4: Tap on the cast icon in the top-right corner. Step 5: Select AirPlay and check supported devices from the pop-up menu. Step 6: Select your HomePod under the ‘Speakers & TVs’ menu and enjoy songs with a better sound experience. Step 1: Check the iOS music player on the lock screen. Step 2: Tap the AirPlay icon in the bottom-right corner and select your HomePod from the following menu....

Thanks to lossless audio, cross-platform availability, and tight integration with Apple devices, the company’s music streaming service remains the preferred choice for many. The app also supports Alexa to play tracks via voice commands. Set Apple Music as the Default Music Streaming Service You can use Alexa mobile apps or the web version to change the default music streaming service. Let’s use mobile apps first and move to the web....

It is great that these operating systems have considered our security (and privacy) to this extent. Unfortunately there is a possibility that these permissions can be used against you for malicious purposes. Certain apps may indeed be spying on you and collecting your information against your will, among other malicious activities. There are steps that you can take to mitigate against this possibility however. These are what we will be exploring in the context of both iOS and Android....

While uploading a photo, WhatsApp automatically optimizes it for web by reducing its resolution but, unfortunately, there was no such option compress video. The tool simply gives you an error and leaves you on your own to find a solution. Sure there are many Windows based free video converters for the job, but I was in no mood to transfer the files between the devices using a cable or over the Wi-Fi....

It is important for you to understand that restarting Discord and restarting the Discord server are two different things. In this article, we will take you through restarting Discord on Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS. But before we begin with the steps, let’s understand the circumstances under which you may have to restart Discord. When Should You Restart Discord If you are a Discord user, you would know how glitchy Discord can be sometimes....

The annoying part here is that even after you have completed your research on wireless routers, it will still keep showing you ads related to it. So, to get rid of these targeted ads you need to specifically delete history related to wireless routers. But, while doing so, you might want some links to stay in the history because they are useful (You can bookmark them too). To do so, you need to selectively delete history by not harming other useful links....

However, sometimes a few simple but important features of the iPhone go completely under the radar, even though they can be really useful and original. One such feature is the iPhone’s alarm function, which can be found inside the native Clock app. Usually, some people don’t even know it is there, and those who know think of it as just another alarm with the same set of annoying preset sounds....

I was quite impressed by the presentations and talks by various HP executives, and hence when they proposed that they’d like to send me a review unit of one of their new generation printers, I readily agreed. We haven’t had a lot of posts so far on printers so I thought this will be a good opportunity to put up some articles starting right from the basics of setting up and installing a printer to more advanced posts....

If you have previously used document sharing in Google docs, you will find sharing on Google Drive more or less similar. The interface is simple, minimalist and easy in approach. So let’s see how you can share your files on Google Drive with others. File Sharing in Google Drive Step 1: Open your Google Drive account and upload the files you want to share using Google Drive. If the files are already uploaded to your account, select them and click the Share icon at the top....

One can always use the internet as a mode of transfer using apps like WhatsApp or Bump, but why waste bandwidth, no? And what about videos that usually have gigantic file sizes? So today I am going to talk about an alternative using which you can share photos and videos between these devices over Wi-Fi, even without an access point to connect to nearby. Sharing Photos or Videos Using PhotoSync First, we will see how we can transfer photos from one device to another when both of them are connected to the same Wi-Fi connection....

Fortunately, displaying file extensions on the desktop version of OneDrive is super-easy, and also on Android. While OneDrive for iOS doesn’t make things that convenient, you should be still able to look up file extensions with a bit of an effort. So without any further ado, let’s see how you can do that. On Desktop OneDrive offers no built-in means to enable file extensions on the desktop. But since it’s fully integrated with Windows, you can use File Explorer’s native functionality to display extensions instead....

rows and columns of a data set on an Excel sheet? I am sure that all Excel users have come across such a requirement. The question is how do you go about doing it? Do you put in manual effort to reshuffle the data or is there a trick available to do that? Yes, there is one and we are going to see that today. The feature is called transpose and is available as a special paste option....

How to Use a Google Nest Device as a Bluetooth Speaker Of course, you can always ask Google Assistant on a Nest device to play your favorite songs from any streaming service. However, if your Nest speaker can’t connect to Wi-Fi or if you want to play some offline tracks, voice recordings, or even take a call on a loudspeaker, using the Nest device as a Bluetooth speaker makes a lot of sense....

Google’s Location History was launched with Latitude, but little did we know about it back then. But now, even though Latitude has become a thing of the past, the location history still stands. If you carry an Android device and while configuring the smartphone, if you chose to share your location data, you are in for the service. For iOS users, if they have installed the Google Search app and confirmed to location sharing, they’re in....

Most iCloud Keychain alternatives such as 1Password and LastPass already offer 2FA support in their apps. It’s nice to see Apple boarding the 2FA train as well. We tested the setup on iPhone and iPad, running iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, respectively. Interestingly, iCloud Keychain 2FA is missing from the latest macOS 12.0 Monterey. How Does iCloud Keychain Two-Factor Authentication Work As you may already know, iCloud Keychain is a part of the Passwords menu in the iPhone and iPad....